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Power-Up with Home-Grown Sprouts

20/8/2012

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Sprouts are probably the best food you can have and I personally have sprouts as the backbone of my diet (i.e. every meal for me is large portion of sprouts with other fresh foods on the side/mixed in).

Sprouts are full of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and complete proteins. They are also biogenic – meaning they transfer their life energy directly to you.

When the sprout seeds are sprouted their plant hormones are activated, their starches are broken down into easily assimilated vegetable sugars, their proteins are broken down into easily assimilated amino acids, and their fats are broken down into soluble fatty acids.

Sprouts are alkalising, life-generating, revitalising, and full of energy, and I simply can’t recommend them highly enough.

You can buy sprouts already grown from the shop, but I think it’s much better to maintain a home-grown crop.

A.Vogel make a really good sprouting “greenhouse” in which you can grow your own sprouts at home. They also do a really good selection of seed mixes. Depending on the seed mix you use the sprouts will take about 3-5 days to grow. All you have to do is put the seeds on the sprouting tray and pour water through the greenhouse twice a day. Then once they’ve grown pluck them from the tray and store them in your fridge (they’ll keep for a few days).

I started off with a single greenhouse and would sprinkle the sprouts on top of my meals, but when I realised the healing and energising power of the sprouts I quickly invested in a second greenhouse and promoted the sprouts from garnish/topping status right up to diet-staple level.

With 2 greenhouses on the go you’ll have enough sprouts to live on like a cow lives on grass! Don’t worry if you don’t eat them all either. You can blend the excess sprouts into soups and sauces and smoothies, or give them/sell them to friends (and it’s always better to have too much than not enough).

The seed mixes I’m particularly fond of and recommend are (from the A. Vogel range): Fitness Mix, Strong Aromatic Mix, Mild Aromatic Mix and Broccoli. All of these will take just 3 days to come through, except for broccoli which takes 5.

The A. Vogel greenhouses I use have 3-tiers so what I like to do is plant a new crop each day (i.e. have a 24 hour lag behind each tray) and that way I have a fresh harvest on rotation every day.

You can get these sprouters (a.k.a. germinators) online and they’re less than £20 each including delivery. The seed packets are just over £1 each and contain about a tray-and-half of seeds. By growing 2 trays simultaneously I get though about 10 seed packs per week which costs about £10 - £12 which, when you look at the price of a lot of organic produce in the shops, I believe is very good value especially when you take into account the home-grown organic freshness and the high level of quality nutrients involved.
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A. Vogel Germinator

Fitness Mix Seeds
Strong Aromatic Mix Seeds
Mild Aromatic Mix Seeds

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Green Juice Power

18/7/2012

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Green juices are one of the best ways of getting large amounts of natural, clean energy and easily and naturally assimilated vitamins and minerals into your system.

Drinking green juice is also a great way to power-up with the light energy of the sun, which is the largest energy source in our solar system.

The power of the juice comes from the chlorophyll which is stored in the plant's green colour (I call this the Plant's Blood). Chlorophyll absorbs the energy of the sunlight, and when juiced that glowing, pure energy is liberated into the drink for you to enjoy too.

Chlorophyll also has a very similar structure to blood, and the blood is the foundation upon which the body is built and maintained. So, healthy, strong, clean blood means a healthy, strong, clean body.

By drinking green juice regulary you'll be taking good care of the foundation of your physical health which will in turn have a strong positive effect on your mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions as well i.e. well-being is promoted all round.

Green Juice Recipe

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Green Juice Concentrate diluted approx 5-6 times
This is my prefered combination ingrediants for a green juice:

Broccoli - 3-4 heads (1 handful approx.)
Cucumber - 3-4 inches approx.
Spinach - 1 handful
Celery - 2 sticks
Ginger - 1 inch (can be quite strong so adjust to taste)
Himalayan Salt - 1 pinch

This should yield between 150ml-300ml ml of concentrated juice. Some people like to drink it straight, but I personally prefer to dilute between 5-10 times with water up to between 600ml-750ml depending on how much water I need.

You may wish to use less ingrediants so that the juice isn't quite so intense. Either way experiment until you find the recipe that suits you best.

Extra Ingredients

Parsley's very rich in minerals (and is delicious too), so add some if you have any.
Green Pepper will add a creamier texture and will add more liquid to the concentrate.
Kale also has a lot of beneficial deep green.

Juice Routine

At least one juice a day will keep a steady inflow of quality energy and nutrients into your system. A juice first thing in the morning is a good time to drink because it'll neutralise any toxins released during the night. It'll also give you a uplifting boost of internal sunlight to help start the day.

It can be easy to fall out of a juice routine so I make a commitment to myself to have at least one a day (usually first thing in the morning).

Sometimes I up my juice quota and commit to say 2 or 3 a day for a week or a 10 day period
(I once went through a period of 3-a-day - first thing, lunch, and before bed - every day for 5 months. It took a bit of discipline, but my health, happiness and well-being went through the roof as a result).

Recommended Juicers

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MagiMix Le Duo Centrifugal Juicer
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Greenstar Twin-Gear Masticating Juicer
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