Wheatgrass: Step By Step Instructions on How to Grow Your Own

Wheatgrass: Step By Step Instructions on How to Grow Your Own

Wheatgrass juice is a powerful detoxifier and floods the body with vitamins and minerals.  Many consider it to be one of nature’s finest medicines!

Wheatgrass is Liquid Sunshine… here are the steps to growing your own:

  • Purchase hard winter wheat in the bulk section of your local natural foods store or online. 
  • Soak 2 cups of the wheat seed in unfiltered water for 8 – 12 hours or overnight.
  • Sprout the seeds in a jar for 20 hours, rinsing well and draining 3 times a day.wheatgrasssprouting
  • Spread 3/4 inch of organic potting mix in a planting tray with holes in the bottom.wheatgrass tray
  • Spread the sprouted seeds evenly over the potting mix.spreadingseeds

 

  • Water the seeds/soil until water just begins to drip out the holes in the bottom of the tray. Allow this water to drain, and place another empty tray on top of the tray with seeds. This provides darkness to allow the seeds to begin to grow into grass.

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  • Place the covered tray in an area of your home that has indirect sunlight.
  • Water twice a day… just until the tray begins to drip.
  • After a day or 2, remove the top tray allowing the grow to grow and begin to green.wheatgrass2days

 

  • Cut and juice your wheatgrass when it is 6 or 7 inches tall (6 or 7 days).

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Wheatgrass has so many benefits!

  • Contains all minerals known to man and vitamins A, B-complex, C, E and K
  • Is a complete source of protein
  • Is a great source of chlorophyll
  • Stimulates your thyroid
  • Boosts metabolism
  • Alkalizes your body
  • Gives you energy
  • And so much more!

Why Sprouts? They are a Living Food!

Growing sprouts is easy! There are many reasons to grow your own Living Food.

Growing Your Own Living Foods
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Sprouts are the most nutritious living food on the planet!

Sprouts and young greens are up to 30 times more nutritious than the best organic vegetables because they are young plants. The life force of this growing food is transferred to your body when you eat them.  During this time in the plant’s life, they have more nutrients than any other stage of growth. These young plants are also very east to digest because of their high enzyme content.

Certain B vitamins increase 1200 percent during the germination process.

Sprouting unleashes vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that were dormant in the seed. This is what makes the young plant so nutrient dense and easy to digest. In addition to B vitamins, the sprout also contains an abundance of antioxidants that stop DNA destruction, protecting us from cellular aging and breakdown.

Certain sprouts have also been shown to fight cancer and reduce cholesterol.

Broccoli sprouts have been proven to fight all types of cancers including pancreatic and colon cancers. They are high in sulforaphane, proven to boost cell enzymes that protect against molecular damage from cancer causing chemicals. In order to reduce your colon cancer risk by 50%, you would need to eat at least 2 pounds of broccoli a week. However, fresh broccoli sprouts are much more potent, allowing you to eat much lower quantities with the same result.

Click on this link to sign up for the next Living Foods Workshop at Living Arts Wellness. At our classes you will learn to:

  1. Determine the difference between raw foods and Living Foods.
  2. Integrate Living Foods into every meal!
  3. Grow greens and sprout at home.
  4. Ferment and culture, creating probiotic foods.
  5. Transform the way that you look at and prepare meals!

Rawmazing Non-Dairy Holiday Cheese

Pumpkin Seed Cranberry “Cheese” Log with Thyme 

  •  2 cups cashews, soaked at least 6 hours
  • 1/2 cup filtered water
  • juice from 1/2 lemon
  • probiotic capsules (use the probiotic powder, discard the capsules)
  • 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
  • 1 clove garlic, finely minced
  • 2 teaspoons thyme
  • 1/4 teaspoon himalayan salt
  • couple grinds cracked pepper
  • 1 cup dried cranberries, divided
  • 1 cup pumpkin seeds, divided
  • 1/2 cup pecans, chopped

1. Combine soaked cashews, water, lemon juice and probiotic capsules in high-speed blender. Blend until smooth

2. Line a strainer with cheese cloth, spoon cashew mixture into the cheesecloth, cover and let sit out overnight.

3. Put cashew mixture into bowl. Stir in yeast, thyme, garlic, salt and pepper, 1/2 cup of the dried cranberries and 1/2 of the pumpkin seeds.

4. Cover and place in refrigerator for one day to set up. 

5. Chop remaining 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, 1/2 cup dried cranberries and pecans. Mix together.

6. Shape “cheese” into a log and roll in pecan mixture. 

You can refrigerate this for a few days in advance or freeze it for up to a month. 

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Spicy Carrot Soup

I love this fall carrot soup recipe! It’s vegan, its’ raw, and it’s fabulous!

Spicy Carrot Soup

4 cups carrot juice
1 avocado
1/3 cup young Thai coconut pulp
2 tbs coconut sugar
pinch of red pepper
1 tsp. grated fresh ginger
1 clove garlic
1/4 tsp sea salt

Blend all until smooth. Add a swirl of coconut cream (young Thai coconut blended with a little water and a splash of lemon juice).

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Plant Based Foods are the "Holy Grail"

Health Through Healthful Living, Celeste Magnuson, CT, NCMBT

 

The result of a plant-based lifestyle is simply health through healthful living!


Einstein laid the groundwork for nearly all natural health care models when he showed the world that everything, including the human body, at its most fundamental level, is vibrating energy that follows natural laws.  Health is the result of cooperating with these natural laws of our being, and science supports the premise that there are no nutrients in animal-based foods that are not better obtained by plant-based foods.

Many people believe that humans are vegetarian by nature, or design, though many of us are omnivorous in practice, eating both plants and animals. There are some clues that would lead us to believe that we are biologically vegetarians, including the facts that we have a relatively long digestive tract, through which meat tends to putrefy before leaving, and we lack claws and fangs to tear up meat.

Animal based foods offer a feast of casein protein, saturated fat, and free radical damage while being devoid of the protective effects of antioxidants, complex carbohydrates and fiber. In contrast to plant proteins, that contain the essential amino acids needed for the functional and structural components of our bodies, animal protein contains casein, a dangerous, toxic, highly carcinogenic substance. Casein is to cancer what cholesterol is to heart disease. Meats are also among the most toxic of naturally occurring foods due to the pesticide concentrations stored in the tissues.  The levels of concentration are often 10-15 times more than that in plant tissues.

Complex carbohydrates, once defamed by fad diets, are back in vogue. Considered to be the healthiest of foods, complex carbs, in their unprocessed, natural, unrefined state, give us essential vitamins, minerals and energy. Additionally, the fiber content of those foods does far more than ease physical elimination. Fiber plays a vital role in ridding the body of harmful, toxic, and carcinogenic substances, as well as excess hormones. Elevated hormone levels increase cancer risk. Fiber binds with these substances in the intestine and flushes them out of the body, thus preventing a vicious cycle of recirculation of harmful substances in the bloodstream.

The role of antioxidants is a miraculous dance between us and all of nature. The cancer fighting properties in plants, antioxidants, protect plants against highly oxidating chemicals as a result of photosynthesis. Those benefits come to us when we consume antioxidant rich foods such as colorful fruits and vegetables. The carotenoid family of antioxidants are identified by their color. The yellow/oranges of squash and carrots give us beta carotene, and the reds of tomatoes and watermelon give powerful lycopene. Other antioxidants are colorless as in the micronutrients, Vitamins C and E. These antioxidants stand guard over our cells and, like piranhas, attack the free radicals that are intent on damaging cell DNA. Once again, plant based foods offer protection.

Plant based foods are the holy grail. Their chemical and biological composition creates a symphony of sustainability, proper functioning, and internal healing that is in direct contrast to the stresses and illnesses placed on the body by animal based foods.

The alternative health movement that is currently gaining great momentum is the “raw food movement”. This raw, plant-based lifestyle simply doesn’t drain the body of energy like cooked and processed food and enables the body to have more energy for healing and maintaining health.  It also frees up energy to aid in the elimination of toxins that have been stored. Plant food doesn’t heal the body, it simply provides what the body needs to heal itself! 

Living Arts Wellness is offering a 3 – day juice fast and cleanse monthly. The cost is $325 and includes 6 – 12 ounce juices per day, cleanse guidance, and 2 colon hydrotherapy sessions. Call 970.472.0995 to reserve your cleanse now… limited to 15 participants for each monthly cleanse.

The Rejuvenating Effect of Juice Fasting

Fasting has been used throughout history for the purpose of healing disease and for rejuvenation and revitalization. Many fast regularly, not to cure any particular disease, but because it is an effective way to cleanse the body of accumulated wastes, boost the immune system, and rejuvenate all organs. 

Fasting will not leave you depleted or weakened. The opposite is true for juice fasting. After a fast, you should feel stronger and energized; any health conditions you have should be noticeably improved and mental capacity increased. Many notice that they look and feel younger after a fast.
The proven benefits of intermittent fasting include:
1. Normalizing you insulin activity
2. Lowering triglyceride levels
3. Improving biomarkers of disease
4. Reducing inflammation and lowering free radical damage
5. Preserving and enhancing memory function and learning

Juice fasting can help you to harness the natural healing power in your body by eliminating toxins and cellular debris. It also retrains your taste buds and helps to eliminate cravings for processed foods. 

Are you interested in cleansing, taking that first step toward a healthier lifestyle, or beginning to rid yourself of a psychological addiction to food? A juice cleanse is a great way to jumpstart a lifestyle change! 

We offer a 3-day juice fast / cleanse at Living Arts Wellness in conjunction with Wunderjuice (www.wunderjuice.com):

Call 970.472.0995 to reserve your juice fast/cleanse package… limited to 15 participants and begins 5/13/14

Option 1: 6-12 oz Juices, Cleansing Water, and 2 Colonics= $315

#1: Colon- 8 oz Apple Juice 
#2: Colon- PH balanced & Alkalized h2o infused with phytonutrients & minerals 
#3: Liver- Dandelion, Cucumber, Lemon & Ginger  
#4: Blood- Beet, Cucumber, Celery & Lemon 
#5: Immune- Romaine, Mint, Lemon, Ginger, Cucumber
#6: (Anti) Inflame- Turmeric, Spinach, Watercress, Cucumber, Lemon 

Option 2: 7-12 oz Juices & Cleansing Water, and 2 Colonics = $325

#1: Detox- Sweet Veg Juice (kale, cucumber, romaine, lemon, ginger, apple & pear)
#2: Colon- PH balanced & Alkalized h2o infused with phytonutrients & minerals 
#3: Liver- Dandelion, Cucumber, Lemon & Ginger  
#4: Blood- Beet, Cucumber, Celery & Lemon 
#5: Immune- Romaine, Mint, Lemon, Ginger, Cucumber
#6: (Anti) Inflame- Turmeric, Spinach, Watercress, Cucumber, Lemon 
#7: Dinner-Veggie Juice (kale, cucumber, romaine, lemon, ginger & carrot) 

Delivery: We would love to deliver to your home or office for a $5 daily fee or you may pick up at Living Arts Wellness each day.

Cleanse Schedule:
3 days priorcolonic session at Living Arts Wellness, drink at least 64 ounces of water, and eliminate processed foods

During the cleanse… start your day with 16 ounces of lemon water, drink 6 juices per day at 2 hour intervals, and eat raw veggies if you must eat, and receive your second colonic session

After… we will provide a list of suggested foods for the 3 days post-cleanse

This may be your chance to:

1. Take control of your health
2. Begin to eliminate food addictions
3. Detoxify your mind and body
4. Eliminate disease

Are You Sick and Tire of Feeling Sick and Tired?

Learn how the Living Foods Lifestyle can help you gain more energy, vitality and health!

It takes effort and energy for our systems to process raw materials into nutrients that the body can use for growth, repair, and regeneration. Part of this process is isolating the useful products from the useless, or even harmful ones found in food or produced by the digestive process. Most of us don’t even realize how much energy it takes to process and divest the food we eat. Ease of digestion becomes particularly important when there is illness or poor health. The body’s resources are being strained to their limits already in an attempt to restore or simply maintain health.

The extra burden of a difficult to digest meal can be very harmful in such situations, especially if the meal doesn’t even provide the full complement of nutrients needed by the body in its strained state, or even worse, introduces more toxins which the body must work to eliminate. And, even when the body is healthy, it only makes sense that if less effort is required for digesting, then there will be more energy available for other purposes.

The Living Foods Lifestyle was developed to provide foods that are most easily digested and to provide the most nourishment possible. Register for our upcoming Living Foods Lifestyle workshopswhere you will learn a lifestyle of vitality and health! 

  1. Young Greens… Buckwheat and sunflower greens top all other greens for nutritional content, ease of digestion and flavor.
  2. Sprouted Nuts and Seeds… Sprouts are the most complete and nutritional of all foods tested including vitamins, minerals, proteins and enzymes. They also are regenerative to the body because of high concentrations of RNA, DNA and proteins.
  3. Cultured and Fermented Preparations… Beneficial bacteria are desperately needed to maintain health. Antibiotics, chlorinated water and antibacterial soaps destroy our beneficial flora. These foods are also rich in enzymes and vitamins.
  4. Wheatgrass Juice… A complete food because it contains every amino acid, vitamin, and mineral necessary for human nutrition.
  5. Blended foods are broken down into a form ready for digestion, easing the work load of the stomach and small intestines. Learn to blend for maximal absorption!
  6. Cleanse by eating loadsof greens at every meal and using enemas and colonics!
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Living Foods Workshops at Living Arts Wellness

Please Call to Register… Class size limited

When: March 19th through May 14th

Where: Living Arts Wellness, 500 South Whitcomb Street, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521

Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm

Cost: $300 (Includes all foods, instruction and written materials)

March 19 Introduction to Living Foods… This workshop will give you an overview of the nutritional system of Dr. Ann Wigmore. You will be given a manual, and we will discuss the digestive process and value of Living Foods. Come hungry because there will be delicious energy soup!

April 2 Growing Greens and Grasses… Young sunflower greens are mainly used for blending into energy soup. Baby shoots top all other greens for nutritional content and ease of digestion. Living Foods and wheatgrass go hand in hand. Wheatgrass is used to help the body heal itself in cases of disease, injury and toxicity. During this class, you will learn to grow both sunflower greens and wheatgrass… all materials provided.

April 16 Energy Soup!… The Living Foods lifestyle consists of more than just eating raw foods. The most important type of food preparation used in this lifestyle is blending. Blending breaks food down into a form ready for digestion, easing the load of the stomach and small intestines and allowing maximal absorption. And, greens and sprouts contain lots of fiber, and are often difficult to ingest in large quantities unless blended. This provides a concentrated source of nutrition than simple salads.

April 30 Fermented Foods… Learn to make rejuvelac and seed cheese. These fermented foods aid in digestion and serve as antioxidants when combined with other foods.

May 7 Sprouted Cereal… Cereals provide concentrated calories, protein, and high levels of B vitamins. Learn to soak, sprout, and dehydrate buckwheat and grains to make delicious, nutritious, and easily digested cereals!

May 14 Raw Luck!… We will gather for a raw potluck and will learn to make nut milks and a gourmet, raw dessert… Raspberry Pistachio Ice cream Pie! During this final meeting, we will talk about using living foods as a lifestyle and the benefits of using it as a cleanse.

Living Foods Workshop: Fermented Foods

Fermented Foods:

Our guts serve as our second brain. A healthy gut means a healthy mood.Most physical and mental disease begins in our digestive system. Learning how to promote a gut with healthy intestinal flora you will help you to achieve and maintain wellness.

Learn to ferment your own foods. In this workshop we will cover fermented vegetables, cultured coconut water and rejuvelac. Materials included. This is the second workshop of a series of Living Foods Workshops.

The class will run January 8, 2014

Cost: $40.00

Schedule online or call 970.472.0995 to register. We will be taking 8 students.

 

Growing Greens and Grasses Workshop Nov 13th 2013

Learn to grow your own wheatgrass and sunflower greens and sprout nuts and seeds. All materials included, and you will take a tray of wheatgrass and sunflower greens to grow at home. This is the beginning of a series of Living Foods Workshops including fermenting and culturing foods, making energy soup, and dehydrating.

 
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Schedule online at online or call 970.472.0995 to register. We will be taking 10 students, $25 November 13th 6:00 – 7:15 pm

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