Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

March 3, 2015

Let's Talk Salt

Hello Wonderful Beings,

Lately I have doing a lot of research and answering a bunch of emails helping individuals substitute certain foods that can make a big impact on their healthy lifestyle. Just recently I met up with a young lady who is a mother at the grocery store and we actually did grocery shopping together. I saw what she was picking up and she took notes on what I was picking up. This blog post is to help you start your transition in the grocery store. If you don't buy the bad stuff you just can't cook with bad stuff, right? We made a few changes to her grocery list and I have left those details below:

We started with salt on this trip to the grocery store. Substituting table salt with Himalayan salt (the pink salt) can be beneficial to your health. Mike Adams, the infamous Health Ranger, explains that Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt contains the full complement of minerals and trace elements “just like Mother Earth intended.” It is an unrefined, unprocessed raw salt mined by hand from salt caves that formed 250 million years ago as ocean salt settled into geologic pockets. It is stone-ground, which apparently doesn’t count as “processing.” Table salt is bad stuff, you see, since it was processed to remove all the good stuff and then they had to replace the iodine because people who ate it started to get goiters. Of course "No Salt" may be the ultimate best way but being realistic when you must have the taste try going for the pink one.

Milk was a major topic during this grocery trip because we both are mothers and want our children to drink what they are suppose to drink. I replaced cow milk for nut milk a few years back and I am happy I did. When I started to try other kinds of milk my daughters showed more love towards hemp milk and almond milk. Hemp milk is so good and so expensive so on a regular intake we get almond milk. Milk without the upset stomach is why I love almond milk and of course way more health benefits than cow milk. No hormones, preservatives or additives, blah blah blah. We hate those things and wouldn't dare feeding them to our children, right?

I also expressed how much chocolate almond milk satisfied my soul when I get that urge for something sweet. Instead of a piece of cake I pour a tall dark glass of chocolate almond milk and I don't feel guilty at all. Delish!!

....and lastly we added Organic Green Tea from China to her beverage lifestyle. This tea is also  new to my lifestyle so I was excited to share it with her on this trip to the grocery store together.

 I have found that during the winter season with the snow and freezing weather it is hard to drink as much water as I use to drink living in the Sunshine State where it is hot all the time. So having a cup of green tea and not adding anything to it adds even more value to my life than just the water alone and it keeps me warm. I am happy I found this alternative and I found this pack of 100 tea bag at Walmart for under $5.00. 

To sum up about Organic Green Tea, here are just a few medical conditions in which drinking green tea is reputed to be helpful:
  • cancer
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • high cholesterol levels
  • cardiovascular disease
  • infection
  • impaired immune function


     Thanks for always finding my blog posts informative and interesting. Keep your emails coming my way, your questions are never too big or small. I love the well being of all man kind so when I find something helpful for our lives I will test it out and then share if I find it worth sharing. Love you all! 
    #LeBlu 


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February 7, 2015

Yoga for FREE

Hello Loves!

This will be quick. I have decided not to return to my yoga class at the local YMCA. I just couldn't keep up and I didn't know if I was doing it right or not. Also, I wanted to practice my yoga as the sun rises and the commute to the gym just wasn't on my side. I am also not the type to enjoy exercising so yoga & weight lifting is my goal to shed some pounds, get balanced & toned.

So, I found this app..

I had been looking for a good app that would allow me to take my time and catch on while also feeling like I was doing it right. Let's just say 60 minutes in and I was soak and wet but feeling so good. My husband said he could feel the stretchiness in my legs later that night..if you know what I mean.. lol..

Sharing this app with you hoping you love it and use it just as much as I do! Enjoy!

It's called Simply Yoga and it's FREE!!



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February 4, 2015

Eat What You Find

Hello Loves!!! Namaste

The prices of food is still rising making it so hard to eat clean on a budget. I have found a way that helps my family out and I would like to share it with you. My motto is "Eat What You Find"or eat what's on sale.

Today in my local market Hass Avocado were on sale 4 for $5. Still expensive to me but I'll take it.
They were very ripe so I only got 3 of them. I already had 2 at home from my last grocery shop. Well let me tell you what I do with these good boys:
  1.  Put 1/2 of 1 in a smoothie. I either go chocolate almond milk, frozen & ripe strawberries & avocado or I put it in with my berry smoothie (orange juice, avocado, frozen blueberries, raspberries, and kiwi).
  2.  Spread Hass Avocado on toast, for a rich and velvety, cholesterol-free topping.
  3.  Even one avocado can make a great snack with chips or veggie sticks. Diced or mashed Hass Avocados make one fantastic dip.
  4. Make hair conditioner. Mash up an avocado and add your favorite oil and blend/mix until there are no lumps. Put on hair and cover with shower cap. This natural protein treatment will strengthen, as well as moisturize your hair.  
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Kale sprouts on sale at our local market. Sprouts are never on sale, I guess people here don't eat much sprouts. Sprouts are excellent and I cant say excellent loud enough. I add them to my lunch sandwiches, my salads and soups and fried rice. Broccoli sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, kale sprouts and anything sprouted is wonderful for your body. Adding sprouts to your daily diet will be the best thing ever!!! 
 They contain less calories compared to other snacks, and are excellent sources of vitamin K, C, fiber, and other essential minerals. Sprouts are considered to be very healthy, as they have a rich source of protein, anti-oxidants and other vitamins. Sprouting can be done with various vegetables and legumes. They are extremely easy to make them at home, as we just add some water to soak the sprouts for at least 6 hours. As sprouts are nutrient-dense, they provide various health benefits.
Also know like most foods there are risks when eating raw:
  • Buy only fresh sprouts that have been kept properly refrigerated. 
  • Do not buy sprouts that have a musty smell or slimy appearance. 
  • At home, refrigerate sprouts at 40° F or below—in a clean refrigerator.
  • Wash your hands properly before handling raw sprouts.
  • Rinse sprouts thoroughly under running water before use. 
  • If you decide to cook sprouts, it can help reduce the risk of food poisoning. Toss them into soups, stews or stir fries near the end of the cooking process—or oven roast until crisp and browned. 
Now for a drink that has been satisfying to our home lately (I do not allow sodas in the house). Once in a while, and I mean once in a long while I'll let my girls get a soda but Barely.. So when I picked these Sparkling Flavored Waters up, the house went wild!!!
In the picture above are the brands we like. The ICE to the right we have been drinking on a regular basis, the one on the left is new so I cant tell you how it taste but this month the Fruit2O was on sale and not the ICE. If you have decided to give up soda then this is a better substitute. Remember we substitute we don't just go without. This drink has 0 calories, 0 sugar but it gives that fizz like a soda and it comes in all flavors like peach, strawberry and even orange mango. I was so happy to discover these little drinks and they were only $1.00

...and lastly but not least I got this little baby for only .99 cents. Primrose Plant.

We all should have fresh herbs and plants around us. Especially with food being so expensive we all should be growing something we eat if not everything. Start off somewhere. I have garlic already that I grow and aloe and now primrose.  
  • Eating the flowers, seeds, leaves, or roots of Evening Primrose provides the same health benefits as taking commercial oil preparations, and as such, if you have Evening Primrose in the garden, you should definitely come up with creative ways to serve it at mealtime!
  • Externally, the leaves, stems,  and roots can be boiled in water for a tea that is very nourishing for the skin and is effective for use in treatment of acne, dry skin, rashes, itchiness, and for overall skin health in general.
  • Without becoming too technical, the common Evening Primrose plant contains a high concentration of a fatty acid called GLA, and this fatty acid is largely responsible for the remarkable healing properties of the plant. In fact, Evening Primrose contains one of the highest concentrations known of this important substance and only a few other plants contain it at all.  This makes Evening Primrose an important medicinal herb.
*As everything compare new things to your own health and see if its best for you.



So that's it for today. I hope I have inspired you to think different about shopping and eating clean. It is extremely important that we control how we eat for the better. What if all the stores ran out of food?? Can you still eat & feed your family? What's in your cabinets and what are you growing? Love ya'll


#LeBlu

My morning breakfast smoothie!!! I went chocolate almond milk, strawberry and avocado. I always add chia seeds and cocoa powder to my smoothies. Today I put some maca powder to balance my hormones after my menstrual cycle. I also used chocolate almond milk that wholefoods had on sale for $1.99 a carton. I bought 20 cartons and they are great because they store in the cabinet easily. Enjoy eating clean!!!

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January 27, 2015

Get Your Mind Right 1st! #CleanEating

Hello Loves. (NAMASTE)

As some of you have requested this entry will be focusing on things in this world that forced me to start Clean Living, Clean Eating & Clean Loving. So many things have changed in our world since the beginning of time and it is so easy to drift with the dirty wind.

( I use clean and dirty to explain right and wrong in this post but remember my right may not be your right and my wrong may not be your wrong but if it sounds right & it feels right then it is right for you) #ToEachItsOwn

I can remember being in my neon-green painted room at my mother's house on 10/10/2010. My husband and I were separated that year and I had decided to change my life for the better. You know when something drastic in your life happens and you're like "Fux this *ish, I'm about to bounce back better than ever!" yup, I was standing in-front of the mirror looking fly in my bathing suit taking selfies with my t-mobile sidekick #Throwback. During that time I was spending most of my weekends at the beach "cleansing" as we would say. I guess I had an epiphany on that day.. (a manifestation of a divine or supernatural being) I woke up and said I would change my life and not eat meat. That vegetarian phase lasted for 3 years and then I fell into a money depression and had to eat accordingly but I never lost sight of the truth. #HowCanI

The epiphany was cool but the cause of the epiphany was more like a paradigm shift (a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions). We all have these shifts so it is important that you understand the meaning of them. See...on the night before 10/10/2010 I watched this documentary about food and how the animals are raised and injected with all these harmful substances. How our bodies were deteriorating from eating these processed foods and how the animals were being killed. "Are you serious?".. So my brain made the decision to eat clean before my stomach could even agree with it. Mind Over Matter made the change easy for me. That means the change can come easy for anyone with the right understanding.

Below will be the studies of this post. I have done research to find the easiest and inexpensive way to change your mind for the better. These are only a few key tips but with all of your continued questions and comments we will expose a lot of truth on this blog. I have been through these same point of views and I also have been studying my own findings and theories. You are here because you are serious about changing, you see exactly what a dirty lifestyle has done for our lives from the past to now and you know it is time.

Again, you will not be alone in this journey. I genuinely you to win. Money is cool, but Wealth and Health is for eternity!!

**Please read through this entire post before going to the links I have provided for you. Everything I talk about is relevant to life and what you have been searching for. With that being said, please don't cut my teachings short. Teaching is my art, my creativity and like Badu said, "I'm sensitive about my *ish!" LOL.

  • So first, I suggest you watch Food, Inc. I have searched the Internet for links to this video and I have found Amazon to be the cheapest for instant rental $2.99. But if you have good 'ol Netflix then it's on there. Also, the director of Food, Inc sat down and did a review on the film, and I found that on YouTube for you here.. 
  •  Then I think you should take a break and reflect on yourself and what you have consumed today. Remember, eating clean is not about completely changing everything you eat. You DO NOT want to do that because everything takes time. Please remember this. I am not a health care professional so I can only speak from my studies and my examples from my life and the lives around me. Moderation is the key. 
  •  Now that you have viewed and reviewed the bullet points above, I think it would be good for you to see someone practicing healthy eating. The documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is a great film. Again, you can find this on Netflix or $3.99 on amazon for rent. I really enjoyed this film the most because "Joe" was extremely obese and he was suffering from many illnesses. He heard that his illness could be reversed with a balanced nutritional diet and exercise and he committed to it. He reversed his illnesses and he looks amazing today. Remember that every illness/disease can be reversed!
  • Last but not least watch Earthlings. Now this film is about everything. This is like "The Wake Up Call". Keep an open mind and an open heart when you watch this film and never, ever judge. There is so much information to process when you see this film, it's not just about food. Some things will be like "duh" and something will have you like "WOW!". I have found this one for you on YouTube here.. 
  OK, I think those 4 bullet points above are the beginning to your conscious journey. This is the start and it will take months or even years for the full effect of your learning to become apart of you fully, but like everything there has to be a start.

In my next blog post I will list 10 things you should be changing in your kitchen. There are some things that you may cook with now that may be harming you in the long run. I will have the prices of the items and reasons for erasing these items from your eating life. As always, share your wealth and tell someone you love about my blogspot. I am passionate about teaching. I have been teaching since before I even knew I was a good teacher so I know teaching is my destiny..

-#LeBlu

Never too young & never too old. #CleanEating #CleanLiving


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"There are so many puzzle pieces to this picture perfect life..start collecting your pieces now!" -Dominique Le Blu
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January 3, 2014

2014 is here..WTF are you doing?!?

What's good??

The count down for 2014 seemed more hype than 2013 to me. People held back from posting New Year Resolutions and just got right to the point. NEW YEAR, SAME SHIT!! "Exactly!"

So the question is: WTF are you going to do this year? How much closer are you going to get to your dreams?!? And to be honest I want you all to reach your #HigherHeights and achieve everything you desire but the reality is, most of you will just fall in the trans of not doing more than you did in 2013 and that sucks. DON'T LET 2014 PASS YOU BY.. Own it and conquer your deepest desires or you can just wait for 2015.. Shrug

-Le Blu
 Www.NicoBluMiami.com 
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