Positively Peachy!

My husband and I went peach picking today. He did anyway. I stood and watched as the June bugs swirled around him. A good friend of ours invited us to glean peaches from her abundant peach tree. We are very grateful. 

Peaches have been known as a food that is easy to assimilate and can be used to regulate the bowels. They have an alkalizing effect to the blood stream and help eliminate toxins from the body. I have read that the dried peach is more alkalizing than the fresh. I think I will be drying some soon!

It is best to pick the peaches ripe on the tree because they don't contain the necessary starches to assist with the sweetening process after picked. Sadly, as you can see in this picture, we picked a few green peaches.

Full of Goodness Meat Loaf

I love cooking with vegetables! This is a wonderful veggie meatloaf that I make using turkey burger, extra firm tofu, LOTS of celery and carrots, and any other vegetables I may have in my fridge. The following is a suggested base recipe for you to use in making this healthy and delicious dinner dish:

1. One pound ground turkey

2. One or two packages extra firm tofu, drained

3. One stalk of chopped celery

4. Four or five medium sized carrots. You can see that I have my carrots soaking in a water bath. I use my alkaline water to get any pesticides off my vegetables before I cook with them. I also soak them in a little of the more acid pH water to kill any germs.

5. One yellow onion, finely chopped.

6. Parsley, sea salt and onion powder for seasoning. 

I mix all the ingredients together and bake in a lightly oiled baking pan, cooking it in the over at 375 for about one hour and until the sides are crispy. Take it out and let it cool before cutting, if you can wait that long. 

Did you know that celery and onions are good alkaline foods? According to Bernard Jensen in "Foods That Heal", the Ancient Oriental people gathered wild celery and brewed it as a medicinal  herb for stomach troubles. Jensen also tells us that Alexander the Great gave onions to his troupes to promote valor. Try mixing some carrot tops into your recipes. They are a little bitter, but they are packed full of potassium.

Apricot Puree

My husband is a true gleaner! If he sees fruit trees in the neighborhood with ripe fruit not being used, he will go to that persons home and ask if he can pick the fruit. One year he brought home so many apricots that we filled our little deep freeze. I like sauces, apple sauce, peach sauce, and apricot sauce. This batch turned out to be more of a puree than a sauce, but it was delicious. According to Bernard Jensen, author of "Foods That Heal", apricots are high on the alkaline list, a good summer cleanser and laxative, and they contain cobalt which may assist with anemia challenges. The apricot is mostly grown it the Western United States with California growing 97% of the commercial crop.

After washing my apricots I cook them in a pot with a little water

and some raw sugar or honey. You can do stevia as well. 

I put the cooked apricots in my steamer and squish the pulp through

the tiny holes with a potato smasher so that it is the consistency of a sauce or puree. 

I like to add some of my essential oils, either lemon or orange.

I only use Young Living Therapeutic Grade oils. They add

a delicious flavor!

The finished product! Isn't it pretty?

Eating Veggies Really IS Good for You!

I have done a lot of experimenting with my own body's natural alkaline balance and have found out the following:

1. Good water is a must! I drink the Kangen water by Enagic. I love my machine so much that I have become an Independent distributor and sell them. The Kangen machine is a water ionizer. It takes the tap water that we have going through 3 filters under our sink, runs it over several medical grade titanium plates, ionizes the water so that when it comes out the spout it is alkaline. The word "Kangen" means back to origin. The water becomes alkaline the way it use to be before the earth was polluted. There are still places in the world, places which boast of healing waters, that have this alkaline based water. The first thing I put in my body in the morning is 32 ounces of 9.5 pH water.

2. I eat my heaviest protein based meal at lunch. When I eat my meats or proteins earlier in the day and only eat vegetables or fruits in the evenings, I almost always wake up with a balanced pH. I check my first urination in the mornings to see where I am in my alkalinity. There are pH strips you can purchase to do this. Some people check their saliva. I use the liquid indicator that I purchase from Enagic. When I eat my vegetables and raw foods in the evenings, my morning pH is usually at 7.4. Perfect!

3. Too many acid foods such as beef, chicken, peanuts, refined sugars, and pasta's, even brown rice pasta's, make my body go more acid. A good rule of thumb for me is to eat at least 90% plant based foods and only 10% animal based foods. This is not always easy for me to do, I love meat, but I feel better when I do it!

4. Limit stress! Yep, limit your stress. How do I limit my stress? I schedule my time and allow private quiet time for myself. I am in charge of my life and what I do is usually of my choosing. If I feel that I don't have a say about all the "to do's" that come my way, things need to get done, I tell myself that I have a choice in how I feel about those things. I choose my path, I choose how I feel about my path. I can be mad, or glad. The other day I was shopping with my daughter and accidentally kicked over part of a display of aluminum drinking containers. They fell all over the floor and boy did they clatter when they fell! I remember thinking to myself, ugh, I am so embarrassed. And then I broke out laughing!!! Stressed? At first, for a spit second. Then the laughter replaced my stress with cheer, everyone in line laughed with me and someone said, "Don't worry, it has happened to a lot of people."

5. Eat fiber and keep your bowels functioning properly. I love the book by Bernard Jensen titled "Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care". Do you understand the function of your bowels? Most of us don't. I eat at least 20 grams of fiber each day from psyllium seed husk and the rest from whole grains such as brown rice, vegetables and fruits.

Here is a sample of one of our favorite evening meals. It's just a plate of raw vegetables and dip. I don't eat dairy so I make this tasty dip by taking some mayonnaise and unsweetened Almond milk, original flavor, equal portions, and add a touch of garlic salt and 1 to 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes. I whisk it until smooth and have a tasty dip I can eat. Even my husband likes it! In this photo I put a little mango sauce on the side. The crackers are brown rice with seaweed. Warning, an acquired taste is necessary for some to eat the crackers.