Living Foods for Vibrant Health

Living Foods refer to a variety of foods & beverages that promote good digestion, maximum absorption of nutrients, organ detoxification & blood purification.  Including living foods in your diet can slow down aging, reverse disease, calm stress, and give you vital energy & appreciation for all those wonderful life experiences you desire.
Living Foods are Delicious & great to add to Special Diets: Gluten, Dairy, Soy Free.

This 5 week course will likely be offered again in the Spring and Fall of 2012.

We gather together in a kitchen, learn about and prepare living foods, and then share a grand meal together.

Week 1: Intro to Living Foods: Nutrition, digestion, the range of Living Foods. Expand your repetoire of delicious raw salads using seasonal produce. Dinner Menu: Salads

Week 2:  Growing Greens: Start your own bed of sunflower greens and wheatgrass. Wheatgrass detoxifies, helping the body heal from disease, injury & toxicity; young shoots are tops in nutritional content & are blended in soups. Dinner: Green Soup.

Week 3: Sprouting Grains, Seeds & Nuts: Learn the benefits of sprouting and how to incorporate these nutritious foods into a variety of meals & snacks. We will make a Live Breakfast gRawnola, high in protein, vitamins & energy.  Dinner: Veggie Nut tacos 

Week 4: Fermented Beverages - Kefir, Rejuvelac & Kombucha: Learn about a variety of fermented beverages - their benefits and how to make them.  You will learn how to make cashew cheese & a simple rejuvelac from cabbage.  Dinner: Cashew Cheese, veggies, crackers.

Week 5: Fermented Foods - Cultured Veggies. Learn how to make cultured veggies, which aid in digestion & serve as antioxidants in combination with other foods. Dinner: Living Burgers