In season, locally grown foods are always best.

Add some nuts, dark chocolate and coconut and you have a nice summer healthy snack recipe.

Substitute whatever ingredients you happen to have on hand.

Yes, I used apples in this recipe, which are not in season now, but the strawberries are. I used what I had on hand. I opened the frig and pulled out what I had. It would have been a notch better to use all fresh and locally grown fruits.

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Here are the ingredients for this healthy snack recipe:

• Fresh strawberries
• Half an apple ( or substitute some other locally grown in season fruit for better results)
• Almonds
• Brazil nuts
• Pumpkin seeds
• Cashew butter
• Seaweed like laver or dulse (optional)
• Organic, unsweetened coconut
• Dark chocolate

This would make a great food for a picnic or other summer outing. This delicious bowl of goodness makes a great snack or could even be an entire meal. It contains healthy fats from the nuts as well as some protein, fiber and carbs. A much better alternative to chips, candy bars or other junk foods.
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This smoothie recipe tastes really yummy and almost everyone is going to like it, even kids.

The bananas,  pineapple and mango make this smoothie actually taste great. You may not even notice the taste of spinach at all. This is one way to get a little bit of greens into someones diet.

People with blood sugar issues like diabetes, hypoglycemia, or other issues should be careful with this one, as it is sweet. Too much sugar is good for no-one, even if it is natural. This should be looked at more as a treat, than an everyday smoothie. It is still far and away better than a candy bar, ice cream cone or piece of cake.

Blend one up today and enjoy!

Ingredients

• Banana, frozen is good.
• Fresh mango
• Fresh pineapple, canned pineapple is nowhere near as good.
• Some water to help it blend
• A handful of spinach

Blend it up good, adding water to get the consistency you like. Feel free to substitute, or add other ingredients like apples or grapes, or kale.

I would love to hear about one of your smoothie recipes, please use the comment box below.

To add a little extra internal cleansing action to this or any smoothie, substitute 1 cup of chilled Iaso tea for an equal amount of water. Detoxification with herbal tea is one way to lose a few pounds in a hurry.

Nuts are great natural foods, a rich source of healthy fats and protein.

They are also typically low glycemic foods.

Stop to think for a moment how nuts are actually eaten in a truly natural environment.

Nuts are picked off the tree, then you have to crack the shell open. So you end up with just one nut in your mouth at a time.

So try it for fun, eat one nut at a time and chew until you get the consistency of nut butter, like almond butter of peanut butter. Your digestive system will thank you.

From an alkaline standpoint almonds are best. That doesn’t mean you should avoid other nuts. Just keep the diet balanced with up to 80% alkaline foods overall.

Here is another tip, nuts are most nutritious when eaten raw. You can search this site for other benefits of eating raw foods.

Nuts like almonds and fruit make a good alkaline breakfast.

For those who are into proper food combining, eat the fruit first and give it a few minutes before eating the nuts.

Why not start your day out with a good dose of vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and protein?

Some of my favorite nutritious nuts and seeds:

• Almonds (best alkaline)
• Cashews
• Walnuts (acidic, go easy)
• Pumpkin seeds
• Sunflower seeds
• Brazil nuts

For a great alkaline tea, that helps with weight loss and detoxification, check out Iaso tea. I drink it myself.

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Yes organic food can be more expensive.

And people are on tight budgets, especially with the recent condition of the economy.  It helps to know which foods are the worst offenders when it comes to pesticides, and which foods are cleaner.

This video will show you the “dirty dozen” . Those foods that are worst offenders, when it comes to chemical pesticide residue on the produce. Look for organic versions of these foods whenever possible or choose something different.

Then take a look at the  cleanest fruits and vegetables. These are the ones that are sprayed the least, or have the lowest toxic residue of pesticide. Maybe even not sprayed at all. These are the ones you can buy non-organic and not worry too much about it.

The Dirty Dozen – Buy These Organic or Choose Something Different

• Celery
• Peaches
• Strawberries
• Apples
• Blueberries
• Nectarines
• Bell Peppers
• Spinach
• Cherries
• Kale/Collard
• Greens
• Potatoes
• Grapes (Imported)

The Clean 15 Fruits and Vegetables

• Onions
• Avocado
• Sweet Corn
• Pineapple
• Mangos
• Sweet Peas
• Asparagus
• Kiwi
• Cabbage
• Eggplant
• Cantaloupe
• Watermelon
• Grapefruit
• Sweet Potato
• Honeydew
• Melon

This list if provided by the Environmental Working Group.

Check the video to learn about the criteria used to determine this list of foods contaminated by pesticides.

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Garden fresh vegetables make absolutely the best smoothies, and the most nutritious.

You can’t get any more locally grown, than your own yard.

This recipe even includes some edible flowers.

Ingredients for this Vegetable & Fruit Smoothie

• Stevia, natural sweetener
• Lettuce
• Lemongrass
• Calendula flowers
• African blue basil
• Mustard greens
• Mint
• Sage
• Beet greens
• Borage flowers
• Swiss chard
• celery
• Almonds
• Ginger root
• Blueberries
• Strawberries – locally grown
• Cucumber
• Protein powder
• Liquid vitamin

Almost all ingredients are organic. Be sure to start with some purified water in the blender. Add the harder ingredients first, almonds, ginger root, then add the more tender stuff.

Protein powder and liquid vitamin go in last.

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But the guy doing the video is probably a bit too extreme.

He is on a 100 percent vegan and low fat diet.

Humans need some fat to be healthy. It just needs to be the right kind of fat.

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Healthy fats are those that occur naturally in things like nuts, seeds, avocados, coconuts and grass fed beef.

A low fat, vegan diet may be a good cleansing diet on a temporary basis. A good alternative to a water fast for example, to clean out the body. But in the long run it may be unhealthy.

Personally I need to eat some meat to feel my best. I like to make sure it is organic and pasture raised as much as possible. I am all for eating a large amount of fresh, raw, organic vegetables and fruits. But a little healthy protein and fat is needed.

I have heard of people getting miraculous results from a low fat vegan diet. Only to get worse if they follow it for an extended period of time.  Watch out for a deficiency of essential fatty acids, amino acids (protein) and vitamin B12.

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My favorite way to clean up my insides is to drink an organic, cleansing herbal tea. It acts as a very gentle colon cleanse and helps to remove toxins from my body.

It is certainly better than cookies, candy bars, chips and other acid forming junk foods.

Check out what Brian Clement from the Hippocrates health institute has to say in this video.

Brian Clement on Three Essential Raw Foods #509

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224_McXDN70

Here are some points Brian makes in the video

• Fruit has been bred to contain up to 30 times more sugar than it did in the past.
• We should be ingesting food with significant protein
• Spouts are the best land-based source of nutrition
• Blue-green algae is a great food.
• Excess sugar can lead to disease
• Fruit is best when picked ripe

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One of my favorite ways to balance my pH is to drink an organic, cleansing herbal tea. It acts as a very gentle colon cleanse and helps to remove toxins from my body.

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It is kind of funny watching her drink this green smoothie.

It’s not too bad! With banana it actually tastes good.

Green Smoothie Taste Test

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABBQ1CLymC8

She even does the green mustache at the end. Got Greens?

We talked in some of our other posts about how to adjust the sweetness of a green smoothie, so you almost don’t even notice the vegetables. Adding fruit can give the green smoothie sweetness and flavor to mask the greens. It is a good place to get started, if you are new on the journey toward vibrant health. Down the road, you can bump up the greens and scale the fruit down some.

Another good way to move toward vibrant health is to drink Iaso, herbal tea. It helps to detox the body. The directions say, mix one quart of the tea concentrate, with 3 quarts of other liquid. The Iaso tea just mixed with water is not half bad. Or you can blend it with many other beverages like sweet tea, herbal tea, or add a little lemon and honey. Even with juice. Use your imagination. The point is, make it taste good so you actually consume it. Getting it into the body is the key to getting results. Start somewhere and work from there. Good luck on your journey toward Vibrant Health!

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