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Carob adds a sweet taste to brownies vaguely similar to chocolate. Unlike chocolate, carob has no caffeine nor theobromine, but it does have calcium and other nutrients. If you are sensitive to chocolate, carob is a healthy substitute. I also add ginger and stevia for flavor. Brownies – without sugar, dairy, and wheat
Chocolate chia pudding This recipe has only four ingredients – chia seeds, water, cacao powder, and pure stevia. It is better to use real cacao. Chia seeds absorb water. If you add about four times the volume of the seeds as water and then wait twenty minutes, you have a pudding. You can also blend …
Bean ragout (A) There are many possible variations of beans with vegetables. For example, you could substitute lentils for beans. Bhavana Patil, from Harihar, a small town in Karnataka, India, publishes her list of healthy lentil and bean recipes on her blog, Indian Veggie Delight. My healthy vegan friend Francis gave me this recipe for …
Rice pilaf (A) My healthy vegan friend Francis gave me this recipe. He often cooks himself rice with vegetables, starting with camargue rice, red rice from the Camargue region of France. This rice may have certain nutrients or minerals that make it particularly nutritious for him and popular with many others. Beware that white (refined) …
Oatmeal (A) This recipe includes oats, healthy nuts or seeds, and spices. This recipe is not strict. You can vary the ingredients. For example, you could substitute: buckwheat, millet, or quinoa for the oats, flax seeds, hemp seeds, walnuts, or almonds for the pumpkin seeds, cinnamon for the ginger or clove, and good-quality raw honey …
Omelet (or sauté) (O) This recipe includes mushrooms, onions, and either eggs, fish, beef, liver, or turkey, sautéed in coconut oil or butter, with spices added, such as fenugreek, cumin, coriander, cayenne, and garlic. It requires little or no water, and it can be quick and easy to clean up. Both the onions and the …
Steamed vegetables Many people can digest raw, leafy vegetables, such as spinach, chard, kale, and celery. Root vegetables or starchy vegetables, such as broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, beets, parsnips, and turnips, are much easier for many people to digest, if they are cooked, either boiled with soup, baked, stir-fried, or steamed. If you steam …
A green smoothie can be a starter or a full meal. You can make a green smoothie for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The green vegetables, such as spinach, chard, or kale, have chlorophyll, which is the “blood” of the plant. Magnesium, which is at the center of chlorophyll. makes the chlorophyll green in a similar …
