Foods that Heal-Re-Train your taste buds

There was a time in my life when I actually thought fast food was yummy.  It was a treat to me to stop by and get some greasy fries and a juicy (really just fat) hamburger.  It was kind of a craving.  Well, it didn't happen overnight, but I no longer crave or even want that type of food.  And if I do happen upon this sub standard food (not really food as it contains 0 energy), I feel ill.  And this is not out of guilt.  My body just knows the difference between real food and not real food.

How did I do this.  A little by intention, but mostly by just eating well.  The more I ate meals with real nutrition, the less I wanted that chicken Mc'nugget.  Speaking of, don't you just love how the fast food restaurants are all offering the dollar menu.  I think it is conspiracy to get people hooked and definitely appeals to the people with not alot of change in their pocket.  Let's face it, it fills you up.  But the problem is, that it doesn't ultimately satisfy.   At least from my experience, when I eat well-food filled with energy, I am satisfied and have more energy.

I want to share a simple meal I made last night and boy was it yummy.  I made some veggie patties.  I didn''t follow a recipe, I just went with taste and consistency.  Here's my recipe:

• 1 can of organic chickpeas (you could soak some dried ones yourself if you want)
• 1 can of organic black beans (I suggest using the can- I soaked black beans for two days and still couldn't get them to be soft)
• Rice-about 1 cup dried to make two cups prepared
• 1/2 onion chopped
• Seasoned with sea salt, pinch cayenne pepper, cumin to taste
• Parsley chopped
• 3 eggs
• Powdered oatmeal-you can use flour or anything you like to soak up the liquid

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Top with Cukes, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Avocado ect.

I mixed all the ingredients together except the powdered oatmeal.  Squished and mashed the ingredients then added enough powdered oatmeal to hold the patty together.  Then simply fried them in sunflower oil on low to medium heat.  SUPER DELICIOUS.  This makes about 8 patties, so I froze  of them.  I hope I remember them:)

Hope you like this recipe!  Don't be anxious about changing, just take baby steps and you will naturally change because your body will feel and love the difference.

Love y'all

Zenjen

Aloe Vera for Digestive and Immune support and brain function

Simple Everyday Life Changes for  Optimal Health.

Since I started studying natural health 6 years ago, I have always been interested in supporting my body with the full range of nutrition with simple everyday foods that are readily available and meets the common pocket book.   This series of blogs will contain highlights of such foods leaving you to do more research if desired.  As some of you know, I own a naturally pure skincare line called Zenjenskin.  Many of the suggestions on what you can take internally works well topically as well supporting my passion that beauty is from the inside out.  Our first topic is about Glyconutrients found in Aloe Vera.

Glyco What?  Well even though you may not have heard of it, we ingest some glyconutrients every day as they are essential to the needs of every cell in our bodies.  Unfortunately, most of us don’t get enough of them leaving our bodies depleted.  For example, today, it would take 53 peaches to give you the nutritive value that a single peach gave you in 1950.  Partly because our soils are depleted and partly because our diet has changed from eating lots of nutritionally based foods to fast food.

What is a Glyconutrient?

Glyconutrients are polysaccharides found in mushrooms, breast milk, some plant gums, sea brown algae, and aloe Vera.  Polysaccharides are involved in the everyday process of cell to cell communication- the thing that happens so our cells will live on.  Um, this is where those of you interested can do some research on your ownJ   Since we are not all mushroom, brown algae, plant gum and breast milk consumers; we are going to focus on ALOE VERA.   

Aloe Vera has been known for centuries for its healing powers of wounds, burns, the prevention of infection, and taken internally, it is a great support for digestion (having prebiotic effects), immune support and optimal brain function.   You only have to slather a bit of aloe Vera on you to know that it is cooling and soothing and will quickly calm a burn.  Hmmm, didn’t know about the brain function.  You can be sure I will be taking more of that.

There are over 150 nutritional ingredients in Aloe Vera working all together in a synergistic way to create healing and health giving benefits. The ten main areas of chemical constituents of Aloe Vera include: amino acids, anthraquinones, enzymes, minerals, vitamins, lignins, monosaccharide, polysaccharides, salicylic acid, saponins, and sterols.   Another mouth full more those who like to do research-anyone?   What is most impressive to me is that it takes 22 amino acids to build protein, our bodies produces all of them except 8 called essential amino acids.  Aloe Vera has those 8 essential Amino Acids.  Kudos to you Aloe!!!

How to apply this to everyday life?

This is what I do.  When I am filling up my water bottle with purified water, I put a tablespoon of aloe Vera in it.   Simple-done.   Told you it would be simple.  Please buy organic, it is reasonably priced.

Topically, Aloe Vera is nutritional, soothing and calming and for those reasons, it is the base of all my skin care products.  You can check out my website at www.zenjenskin.com or follow me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/zenjenskin for more information about the healing powers of plants and food.