Lifestyle

Sharing 40 years combined experience as vegans, and a lifetime interest in health…

Almond Milk

Homemade Almond Milk Recipe  Vegan. Nut-Milk. Keeps for 2-3 Days Ingredients: 1x Cup Raw Almonds 4x cups Filtered Water Optional: pinch of pink Himalayan Salt (to taste and prolong life) Kitchen Tech:  Blender Nutmilk bag or cheesecloth, sieve Methodology: Homemade Almond Milk   Soak the almonds. Place the raw almonds in a bowl and cover …

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Beware the Anti-Nutrient…

Food Combining & Maximising the Goodness The term ‘Activated’ is used a lot today. Simply put activated seeds are seed that have been soaked then dried. Many nuts, seeds, grain, pulses, legumes etc, have a naturally occurring substance called Phytic-acid. Phytic-acid is a mineral inhibitor, it literally blocks absorption of iron, zinc and calcium… and …

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I’m Still Hungry

Vegan Nutrient: The Big and the Small Macro nutrients are the big pieces like protein, carbohydrate, fat… Micro nutrients are the small things, the vitamins, minerals, enzymes… Amino-acids are ‘micro-nutrient’ that come from protein, a ‘macro-nutrient’, (not all micro nutrient come from macro nutrient), proteins break down into amino acids to become absorbed by the …

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