Hey Low Crap Foodies – its time to stand up for health and stop big agribusiness from taking over our food!

You can get tons of information at the free Food Revolution Summit hosted by bestselling author John Robbins (Diet for a New America, Food Revolution.) John will be interviewing 21 amazing leaders in movements for healthy, sustainable, humane and delicious food.

From April 28-May 6, 2012 there will be three interviews broadcast daily that you can access by phone or internet. You’ll get cutting edge disease-beating, health-activating, age-reversing information. These tools can help you and your family thrive and with those newly awakened brains cells make a real difference in the way our food industry operates.

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Lawsuit Alleges Frito-Lay’s GMO Snacks Aren’t “Natural”

OMG! Really? I thought corn chips grew on trees ….

Frito-Lay chips not “all natural”: lawsuit

Lawsuit Alleges Frito-Lay’s GMO Snacks Aren’t “Natural”.

Today I was craving creamy, spicy Hummus Dip. When I realized I didn’t have a couple of the key ingredients on hand, rather than being disappointed, I decided to experiment and came up with a pretty amazing product.

I was out of fresh lemons and tahini, so I substituted apple cider vinegar for the fresh lemon juice and almond butter for the tahini. The resulting dip, Hummus 2.0, is delicious!

Hummus 2.0 is:
- Diabetic Friendly
- Detox Friendly
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- High Fiber

Ingredients
1½ cup cooked chickpeas
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons almond butter
1 – 2 cloves peeled garlic
½ tsp sea salt
2 – 3 tablespoons olive oil
¼ teaspoon cayenne powder (more or less to taste)
¼ to ½ cup water (or liquid from chickpeas if using canned ones)

Directions
1. Put smallest amount of all ingredients into blender
2. Turn blender on low and slowly increase speed, using plunger to keep food in blades
3. Add more water if required to keep the hummus in a dip like consistency
4. Turn blender to high for 30 seconds, and then turn off
5. Taste and add more garlic and/or cayenne to suit taste
6. Blend again until smooth and creamy
7. Enjoy as a dip for cut veggies, nuts, crackers, etc
Can be stored in fridge for several days.

Regular Detoxing

The Wild Rose 12 Day Detox is a great way to ‘reset’ you diet and give your digestive system a thorough clearing out. You can do the detox 2 – 4 times per year. Schedule your cleanses with the changing of the seasons.

There are plenty of cleanses on the market, so whether you do the Wild Rose 12 Day Detox, a juice cleanse or simply eliminate flour, dairy and sugar from your diet for a couple of weeks, you and your body will benefit.

Next Steps

After a cleanse is complete, note how you are feeling: more energy, fewer headaches, better sleep, clear thinking … whatever it is for you.

As you reintroduce foods, take note of how each makes you feel. If you get any symptoms after eating reintroduced foods, such as blood sugar imbalances, mood swings, sluggishness, headaches, insomnia … you could have an intolerance for that food and should respect your body’s warning signals and take that food out of your diet completely.

12 days is just long enough to start and maintain new habits, so go ahead and embrace the new you!

Congratulations! This is the last day! You made it!

Remember:
- keep taking the CL Liquid as usual until it is gone
- ease back into your regular diet slowly
- allow yourself to have a new ‘normal’ diet … perhaps leaving out bread, or pasta, or refined sugar
- write down how you are feeling right now, date it and note that you are on Day 12 of a 12 Day Cleanse

Tomorrow we’ll talk about what to do next … but just for today bask in the feelings of a job well done!

Don’t stop yet!

Sometimes people feel that those last couple of days don’t matter, but really if you’ve come this far why stop now? Why not gain the benefit of the full program and stick with it for a couple more days.

Your likely feeling pretty good by now: more energy, less aches, pains and bloating and those cravings have become all but a faded memory. Maybe your weight has shifted just enough that your clothes are feeling comfortable again.

Look back at the past couple of weeks and realize just how far you came. Sure there may have been some uncomfortable moments, and maybe you had an episode of feeling different as your friends were eating detox no-no food while you gracefully and confidently made more healthful lunch choices.

Did you notice that about an hour after that lunch you were alert and energized, while your friends were feeling bloated and foggy?

So become your own best guardian, and hang in there! You’ll be glad you did.

New Comfort Food

If you completed yesterday exercise, you have already given some thought into the foods that you missed and didn’t miss during this cleanse. This is a very important exercise because it helps reshape the way you think about food, and may have even pointed out some of the foods that you eat simply out of habit or convenience.

So lets expand on that simple exercise from yesterday.

1. What three detox friendly foods have come to be your new favourite comfort foods?
2. If these three foods were to continue to be your new favourite comfort foods, what three not-so-healthy habit foods are you willing to remove from your regular diet?

A new ‘normal’

Its time to start thinking about how you are going to ease back into ‘normal’ eating habits … and if your ‘normal’ has perhaps changed during the course of the cleanse.

Here’s a little exercise to help:

1. Take some time today to write down all the foods that you miss and can’t wait to eat again.
2. Categorize the foods on your list as being ‘single ingredient foods’ and ‘multi-ingredient foods’.
3. Plan on leaving the ‘multi-ingredient’ foods off your plate for at least another week.
4. If there was a food in your diet before the cleanse that you don’t really miss, then don’t bring it back into your diet.

Example:
1. Foods missed are: cheese, oranges, bread, muffins, cookies, ice cream, raisons, honey, beer, ketcup
2. Single Ingredient Foods: oranges, raisons, honey. Multi-ingredient Foods: cheese, muffins, cookies, ice cream, beer. Don’t miss at all: bread, ketcup.
3. The first week off the cleanse, re-introduce the single ingredient foods that you miss, and leave out the multi-ingredient foods that you miss until at least the second week off the cleanse.
4. Leave bread and ketcup out of your diet, or only eat occasionally.

Past the halfway mark and Bonus Recipe

Well past the halfway mark, and closing in on the last few days of this detox. Cravings have subsided. Energy levels are returning to normal.

You may even at times ‘forget’ you are on a detox program.

Its important to see it through the full 12 days, for its these last few days that your body and mind start to think that this lifestyle is ‘normal’ or at least a new normal. The body has an amazing ability to adapt, and what at first seemed so foreign (like living without bread) now seems completely natural.

If your not there yet, have faith that you will get there. Health improvements begin when we stop fighting with ourselves and allow our actual nutritional needs to dictate what we eat, rather than our taste buds and habits.

Hang in there. Health and longevity await!

Bonus Recipe from the Wild Rose D-tox Cookbook

Kale, Corn and Beet Salad

Serves 4. Cook the beets the day before while preparing for another meal. To easily peel the beets, press their skin with your thumb under water once they are cool enough to handle.

4 cups kale leaves, finely sliced
2 medium cooked beets
1 cup corn kernels, fresh, canned or frozen
1 tsp tarragon leaves
¼ tsp salt
Pinch pepper
¼ cup Basic Oil and Lemon Dressing, (see previous post).

• Steam kale, with lid partially uncovered, for 3 – 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, peel, quarter and slice beets and place in a medium bowl.
• Add corn, tarragon, salt, pepper, dressing and toss.
• Enjoy!