These are some of favorite recipes! If you have a great recipe you’d like to share, please email it to Tamie!

Please visit Tamie’s Favorite Recipes – Breakfast, Dinner, Something Sweet and More!

• Garbanzo Bean Flatbread Pizza – Pizza tonight? Very simple to make this crust and put your favorite topping on, and bake!
• Switchel Drink – Easy to make “good for your health” drink! All you need is ACV, lemon, honey, ginger and water
• Quinoa Blueberry Pancakes and 3 min. tutorial (youtube).
• Sweet Garlic Lime Sauce – goes with everything – salad, chicken, fish! Make sure you use gluten free fish sauce and substitute monk fruits, raw honey or high quality maple syrup instead of using agave or sugar either white or brown.

 

Juicing and Smoothies
Warm Beverages
Fermented Foods

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Juicing and Smoothies

You can load up on fruits and vegetable easily, every morning, by making fresh juice or a smoothie. Juicing is one of the best ways to cleanse your body. Juicing not only delivers the best nutrition to your system, it helps flush out old toxins in the body. You do not need to prepare by cutting ingredients and cleaning is quick. Juicing is very healthy meal alternative. It is great for your liver (detox), boosts immunity and energy level, clears your mind, induces less cravings for sugar, and keeps you in good shape! (Tamie’s Tip: Whether you make juice or smoothie, make sure you add 1-2 tsp of oil, such as flaxseed, coconut, or olive oil. Adding healthy fat will do wonders for your body!)

I make one quart of juice in the morning in preparation for a very long work day. This is two days per week in my case. I need to maintain the good energy level (and the sense of humor) until the end of my work day. Otherwise it is not fair to my evening patients coming for their treatment. Please try different variation to make your own juicing combo. .

Remember – lemon is the most alkaline food, beets are the best blood mover, ginger is the immune booster and stomach soother. For women who want to get pregnant, carrots make a great juice during the follicular phase (after the period and before ovulation / during the stimulation phase on IUI and IVF). You can also add a 1/2 teaspoonful of powder wheatgrass (if you have not taken already) to the carrot mixture to boost your immune system.

Juice Recipes

I discovered juicing is easy using Breville Juicer JE98XL or Vitamix blender (this is the most powerful blender in the market. Costco has the best deal). Please google to find the best deal.

(Tamie’s Tip: I would not recommend you to drink kale juice every single morning.The reason is non-cooked fresh kale has goitrogenic properties to cause hypo and hyperthyroidism. I see sub-per hypothyroidism patients come with adrenal exhaustion in my clinic everyday. If Kale and other cruciferous vegetalbes are cooked, it can mitigate this risk. I encourage you to eat cruciferous vegetables but it will be wise to eat with non-goitrogenic vegetables like cucumbers, beets, celery, parsley, zucchini and carrots. If you love to drink this juice, and you are a womean, please do not forget to add 5 stalks of celery!)

Dr. Oz’s green juice:

• 2 cups spinach
• 1/2 cucumber
• 1/4 head of celery
• 1/2 bunch parsley
• 1 bunch mint
• 3 carrots
• 2 apples
• 1/4 orange
• 1/4 lime
• 1/4 lemon
• 1/4 pineapple

Quick and Tasty Variations:

• carrot, apple and ginger
• apple, beet, carrot (Red Blood Cell Booster !)
• apple, beet, carrot, celery, kale and wheatgrass
• cucumber, celery, kale, lemon and ginger
• lemon, apple, honey
• lemon, spirulina, honey and water to dilute
• ginger, lemon, maple syrup with crushed ice as a lemonade
• carrot apple, ginger spirulina, cayenne, garlic, apple cider vinegar and honey

Smoothie Recipes

If you’re feeling like something a little more substantial, try blending a smoothie. The night before, put all of your vegetables and fruits into the bag store in refrigerator over night and put all powder and oils into the blender container. In the morning, blend with almond or coconut milk before going to work. (Tamie’s Tip: I mix mine with homemade Kefir which contain naturally occuring probiotics!) For a blender, I recommend Nutribullet – it’s nice and easy to make smoothie in the morning to go. Cleaning is super easy.

 

Tamie’s Energy Boosting Morning Ready-to-go Green Smoothie-add following items and blend for 15 seconds:

You can pick vegetables and fruits from following:

• organic celery (2) -*Make sure you get organic!!!*
• organic cucumber (1/2)
• organic baby spinach (1/2 cup)
• organic baby kales (1 cup) – *Make sure you get organic!!!*
• banana (1/2)
• organic romaine lettuce (2)
• organic lemon (1/2)
• apple (1/4-1/2) -*Make sure you get organic!!!*
• Avocado (1/4)
• frozen blueberries (1/4 cup) -* Costco always has the one from Maine*

PLUS following seeds, powder, and liquid: (* Spirulina soaks up fluid!!! Please drink plenty water after drinking this smoothie*)

• organic raw maca root powder (1 tsp)
• organic ground flax seeds (1 heap tsp) -* not flax meal. You buy seeds and grind with coffee grinder*
• organic ground chia seeds (1 heap tsp)
• organic hemp seeds (1 heap tsp)
• barley, wheat and alfalfa grass (make sure it does not cross contaminated with wheat) (1 tsp)
• 2 capsules of wheatgrass
• spirulina powder (1 tsp)
• (* Do not forget this !) 2 tsp of organic coconuts oil or MCT oil
• 5 drops of stevia for sweetness.
• Cinnamon (1/4 tsp – I prefer Ceylon Cinnamon – it will prevent your blood sugar goes high)
• Protein powder – Hemp with Fiber – I use this company and mix with the following (#1, #2 or #3) powder – 1 scoop total
• Protein powder – I like these two brands #1 , #2 or #3.This smoothie definitely gives you a lot of energy and you will not get hungry for 3-4 hours because it has oil. Good for you!
• Almond milk (or other milk) up to “max” line or 1 serving.
• Chocolate Sunflower Smoothie

Juice & Smoothie Articles

• Here’s 4 minutes video about “”The Most Common Juicing Mistakes“.
• Search “Rich Roll“ on youtube. He uses Vitamix blender to make his ultraman power mix every day.
• Know your substitues
• Learn about nutritional benefits of good foods to eat (and juice) and Scott’s experience
• Documentary film – “Fat, sick, nealy dead” – all about juicing. If you are taking a lot of pills everyday, definitely watch this movie.
• How does the fasting affect on the body ? Stage 1 (1st and 2nd day of fasting) to the stage 5 (breaking the fast).
• Great recipes and many suggestions for how to maintain good health.
• Plant Powered Living.com for great recipes
• Reboot Your Life.com for recipes, nutrition advise from experts.
• Try this smoothie – yummy and good for joint and muscle pain !

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Warm Beverages

Anti-Inflammatory Milk Tea

• 1/2 can of coconut milk (Natural Value brand is BPA, Guar gum free, very clean product and tastes good!)
• 1 heap tsp of turmeric powder
• 1 heap tsp of finely grounded fresh ginger
• 1 heap tsp of ceylon cinnamon powder (ceylon cinnamon is able to keep your glucose level nice and steady all day long)

Mix all ingredients into a saucepan on medium-low heat for a few minutes, until warmed through. If desired, add your favorite sweeter.

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Fermented Foods

Fermented foods are a natural anti-inflammatory; they also aid in promoting good gut flora. Kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, and yogurt are the top four fermented foods. Sourdough bread (though not technically a fermented food once baked) uses a fermented starter to proof the dough, which makes it more easily digestible and good for your gut flora!

Visit this blog post to learn how to make your own fermented foods!