Food: Nutrition Education
Give your kids a brain boost and immune boost with these easy, fun and fabulous recipes.
What do kids need most at school? Not the latest comic hero backpack--they need enhanced brain function, energy and a fortified immune system.
So, how do we accomplish this? Give them foods rich in antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids, and foods that will help maintain normal insulin levels throughout the day for sustained energy and mental clarity.
The NingXia Wolfberry
A National Treasure
Your family is sure to fall in love with these simple recipes that feature the wolfberry, the most nutrient dense food, yet discovered.Wolfberries are off the charts for a number of things: antioxidant rich carotenoids, beta carotene, vitamin C, essential fatty acids, B-complex vitamins, vitamin E, polysaccharides, and more.
Ningxia Red is a popular health tonic because it is packed with antioxidant power and whole foods that support brain function and liver function, proper vision, and healthy skin.
Ningxia Red Sunrise Smoothie
Enjoy this delicious, powerful, medicinal smoothie anytime.INGREDIENTS
2 c. chilled, unsweetened rice, almond or hemp milk
1 c. frozen mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, marionberries)
1 banana or kiwi (peeled)
1/4 c. chilled Ningxia Red juice (shake well)
1/2 c. organic, low-fat, kefir or yogurt
Optional:
1 - 2 Tbs. Blue Agave (or organic honey, to taste)
2 Scoops Power Meal or Balance Complete
2-3 drops orange or lemon therapeutic grade essential oil
DIRECTIONS
In a blender, combine all ingredients and puree for 30 seconds. Makes 5 cups. Savor every drop!
Strawberry Ningxia Red Smoothie
INGREDIENTS4 oz. Ningxia Red juice
1 c fresh strawberries (whole) or 1 banana
1 cup coconut milk (Zico)
1 scoop Power Meal (Young Living)
1 drop cinnamon bark essential oil (Young Living)
1 teaspoon Blue Agave (to taste)
DIRECTIONS
In a blender, combine all ingredients and puree for 30 seconds. Makes 2 1/2 cups.
The Good News: Although coconut water is low in sugar, it imparts a lovely sweetness to this dairy-free smoothie.
Wolfberry Granola Snack
Try this snack for sustained immune defense.INGREDIENTS
3 c. 6-grain flakes, multigrain flakes or muesli
1 c. unsweetened shredded coconut
1/2 c. brown rice flour
1/2 c. whole oat flour
1/2 c. wolfberries, dried
1/2 c. raw cashew pieces
1/2 c. chopped raw pecans
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. xanthan gum
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
small pinch freshly grated nutmeg
1/3 c. + 1 Tbs. organic Blue Agave
1 cube + 2 Tbs. organic butter
2 generous Tbs. organic honey
3 Tbs. soy milk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Combine all dry ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer with paddle attachment. Combine wet ingredients in a small saucepan and heat on low, stirring often, until butter is completely melted. Then, pour heated wet ingredients over dry and mix on low speed until well combined.
Spread into a large, lightly oiled, jellyroll pan to about a centimeter in height. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown over all. Let cool completely. Break into bite size pieces.
Balance Complete Pancakes + Wolfberry Orange Syrup
Perfect weekend breakfast.INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 c spelt flour
1/4 c Young Living Balance Complete
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1 egg
1 1/2 c almond milk
3 Tbsp. almond oil, walnut oil, or coconut oil (preferably Fresh Shores)
1 Tbsp. Young Living Blue Agave
DIRECTIONS
Mix dry ingredients and set aside. Gently whisk egg, almond milk, oil, and Blue Agave in a separate bowl. Add liquid mixture to dry ingredients and stir until well mixed.
On a hot, lightly greased (butter or olive oil spray) griddle or skillet, pour 1/8 - 1/4 cup batter and gently spread. Cook over medium heat 1-2 minutes each side. (Pancakes will have darker caramel color due to the spelt flour and Balance Complete.)
Syrup
INGREDIENTS
1 c water
1 c Young Living dried wolfberries
1/4 c Young Living Blue Agave
5 drops Young Living orange oil
DIRECTIONS
Bring water to a boil. Add wolfberries and boil for about 2 minutes or until wolfberries are soggy. Remove from heat and discard wolfberries. Add Blue Agave to the wolfberry water and mix well. Add orange oil and stir.
Makes 12 pancakes and 1 cup of syrup.
Wolfberry Apricot Oatmeal
Kids love this oatmeal.INGREDIENTS
3 c. water
1/2 c. frozen (unsweetened) apple juice concentrate, thawed
1/2 c. dried apricots, chopped finely
1/4 c. dried wolfberries
1 1/2 c. old fashioned or quick cooking rolled oats
DIRECTIONS
Bring water and apple juice concentrate to a boil. Add oats, apricots, and wolfberries; simmer until most of the liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat and cover; let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
Makes 2 servings.
Wolfberry-Broccoli Salad
INGREDIENTS8 slices of vegetarian bacon
1/2 red onion, sliced
1 c. slivered almonds
2 medium sized heads of broccoli chopped
1 1/2 c. dried wolfberries
1/4 c. Young Living Blue Agave
1/4 c. vinegar
3/4 c. mayonnaise
Salt and pepper
DIRECTIONS
Cook vegetarian bacon as directed on packaging. Allow to cool and then crumble. Put sliced onion, bacon, almonds, broccoli, and wolfberries in a bowl. In a blender bottle, place Blue Agave, vinegar, and mayonnaise and shake until well mixed. Pour over salad mixture and toss. Chill and serve.
Ningxia Red Creamsicles
Quick and Delicious
INGREDIENTS1 c Ningxia Red
1 c vanilla yogurt
1 c fresh or frozen fruit (pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, etc.)
DIRECTIONS
Blend ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour into popsicle molds and freeze according to mold directions, about 4 hours.
Makes 6
Wolfberry Chocolate Cake
A Delectable Superfood
INGREDIENTS2/3 c virgin coconut oil/butter (Fresh Shores)
2/3 c raw chocolate powder
1/2 c wolfberries (Young Living)
1/2 c Balance Complete (Young Living) or lucuma
3 t. Blue Agave nectar (Young Living)
sunflower or hemp seeds (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Boil water and remove from the stove. Put the coconut oil/butter in another dish and place it in the boiling water (A Bain Marie).
Soak the wolfberries for 20 minutes and the add to the melted coconut oil.
Add the remaining ingredients and blend the mixture. Put the cake in a dish and smooth over. Refrigerate for a couple of hours before serving, if you can wait that long.
Presto, you have a cake that is amazingly fabulous and good for you. Now, with this raw cake, you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Ingredients offered online at Young Living and Amazon.
Wolfberry Wassail
Warms from the Inside Out
INGREDIENTS3 c. water
1 c. Young Living dried wolfberries
3 Tbsp. Young Living Blue Agave
5 drops lemon essential Oil*
5 drops orange essential oil*
2 drops cinnamon bark essential oil*
*Be sure your essential oil is pure and suitable for ingestion. I use Young Living's therapeutic-grade essential oils.
DIRECTIONS
In a saucepan, combine water and wolfberries. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and boil for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Using a sieve, drain the wolfberries from the water, returning the water back to the saucepan. Add Blue Agave to water and mix well. Add lemon, orange, and cinnamon oils. Serve hot. Makes 2 1/2 cups.
Wolfberry Power Snacks
These chewy, tart berries have a hunger-curbing edge over other fruit: 18 amino acids, which make them a surprising source of protein, says chef Sarah Krieger, R.D., spokeswoman in St. Petersburg, Florida, for the American Dietetic Association. (They also have more beta-carotene than carrots.) Snack on them mid-afternoon to stay satisfied until dinner. The calorie cost? Only 35 per tablespoon.Here are a few ideas for in-between meal snacks.
Wolfberry Trail Mix
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup of dried wolfberries
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup raw walnuts, raw almonds, or raw cashews (any combination)
DIRECTIONS
Mix together and keep in an airtight jar.
Snack = 1/2 cup
MORE Snack Ideas:
Wolfberry Creme
For dessert, pour 1/4 cup boiling water into a bowl with 2 tbsp dried berries; let sit 10 minutes. Drain, then spoon over 1/2 cup lowfat vanilla frozen yogurt. Add a sliced banana, if desired.
Great Books on Amazon
Discovery of the Ultimate Superfood: How the Ningxia Wolfberry And 4 Other Foods Help Combat Heart Disease, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Diabetes And More
This book is highly motivating when it comes to the powerfulness of the NingXia Wolfberry. Dr. Young, Dr. Lawrence and Marc Schreuder, PhD. dissect this berry very well. This book has been able to help me in my endeavors as a nutritional educator to understand the exact breakdown of the wolfberry and the breakdown of other vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Then to compare them beside each other just gives a whole new light on the term "ultimate superfood". I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone looking for understanding on the breakdown of the wolfberry in comparison to other essential nutrients.
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Coconut Water for Health and Healing
Coconut water is a powerhouse of nutrition. Unlike other beverages, it is completely compatible with the human body, in so much that it can be infused directly into the bloodstream. Coconut water's unique nutritional profile gives it the power to balance body chemistry, ward off disease, fight cancer, and retard aging.
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Chakra Foods for Optimum Health: A Guide to the Foods That Can Improve Your Energy, Inspire Creative Changes, Open Your Heart, and Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit
Readers will learn how the body's energy centers, or chakras, contribute to the physical, emotional, and spiritual well being of each person. And, how the food you eat can diminish, maintain, or improve the resonance of the chakras. The book also provides plenty of dietary guidelines and tasty recipes that help readers make real changes. I highly recommend it.
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Vibrational Healing Through the Chakras: With Light, Color, Sound, Crystals, and Aromatherapy
This book describes in great detail how the chakra system is influenced by light, color, sound, crystals and Aromatherapy. When you read it, it seems like a "connect the dots" effect. It gives you a good understanding how our physical & emotional body is influenced by our environment. I can only recommend this read!
Release Date: 03/01/2006
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Wise Concoctions: Natural Elixers and Tonics for Health and Energy
Finally, someone has put together a handsome and lively collection of good-tasting, easy-to-make beverages, both hot and cold, that keep you healthy when you are, and help get you back to health when you're not. Cold remedies, sore throat elixirs, aphrodisiacs, you name it, it's here.
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Low Calorie Natural Sweetener Delights
Looking for a sweetener you can feel good about? Tantalize your sweet tooth with Blue Agave or Stevia extract.Blue Agave is a fabulous all natural sweetener for your baking needs. It is pressed from the heart of the blue agave cactus. Blue Agave has a glycemic index of 11 (e.g. table sugar is 146) and is about 50 percent sweeter than sugar; when consumed it raises the blood sugar level slowly with no dramatic increases. Best of all, it tastes delicious and is less expensive than maple syrup.
Stevia Extract is a non-sugar liquid extract from the leaf of the plant. It is thirty times sweeter than sugar and has a glycemic index of zero, which will not raise the blood sugar levels at all.
How to Make any Smoothie Better
For a quick vegan breakfast or brunch with staying power, a slimming smoothie can be made in a blender in a couple of minutes with just three ingredients:two cups pure water (or almond milk)
two scoops of Balance Complete
one banana or one cored and quartered unpeeled apple, pear, or peach
The fruit adds a bit of natural fiber and sweetness while the blender produces just the right consistency for this delicious, dairy-free, protein-packed meal on the go.
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- KimGiancaterino KimGiancaterino Dec 5, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
- We like to drink exotic fruit juices like Goji and Mangosteen, so I'll have to give Wolfberry a try. Welcome to Culinary Favorites From A to Z.
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- Faye Durham Faye Durham Jun 1, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
- Hi Richen,
Thanks so much for your comments.
We have so much in common.
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- RinchenChodron RinchenChodron Jun 1, 2008 @ 9:38 am
- Great recipes. I love this juice.
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