Alive
Simple Salad
An Eat The Rainbow Recipe

Alive Simple Salad

by | Nov 8, 2019 | Eat The Rainbow, Recipe | 0 comments

Time

Prep: 5 Min

Cook: 0 Min

Ready-To-Eat: 5 Min

Diet

Vegan

Gluten Free

Grain Free

Makes

2 Full Bowls

Ingredients

  • 1-2 whole – Carrots
  • 1 – Red pepper
  • 1/2 – cucumber
  • 1 handful – arugula
  • 1 handful – spinach
  • 1 handful – sunflower sprouts
  • 1⁄2 – fresh lemon
  • 2 tbsp – extra virgin ~ cold pressed, ideally first pressed Greek Olive Oil
  • 1 tsp – Himalayan salt

Instructions

Cut up veggies in whatever shape your heart desires, then add to a bowl, or two. Add the olive oil, squeeze lemon on top, and salt: toss, and lastly add sprouts on top. IF you save this as a meal prep cover up, or put in a BPA free container in fridge. Typically depending on condition of veggies will store in fridge for 1-3 days.

Nutritional Benefits

Carrots

High in Vitamin A & Beta carotene, From Carrots, red pepper and spinach: Vitamin A; beta carotene the vegetable source of vitamin A: is free radical damage​.

Lemon

High in Vitamin C which is an essential vitamin for life, without vitamin C people in the past especially out to sea would get scabies. The vitamin C from the lemon also enhanced the HCl in the stomach. HCl is the acidity the stomach needs to break down food in the large and then finally the small intestine.

Vitamin C helps fight common colds, and flus. It aids in boosting the immune system and is a precursor to building your elasticity/collagen which is the second most abundant substance in the body after water. Also the lemon creates a more acidity to the food, which enhances the absorption of calcium and iron to be extracted from the food (particularly from the arugula and spinach in this simple salad: which are naturally good sources of plant based calcium and iron)

Sprouts

Lecithin found in the sprouts enhances memory, and brain function. Also supports the liver and kidneys (the detoxifying organs) to stay optimal health by binding fat and cholesterol to water.

Himalayan Salt

Iodine is found in the himalayan salt. unrefined himilayan salt contains the essential mineral iodine, it is found in smaller amounts in food and in our soil so it is very important to get it from the sources that still contain it particularly for thyroid health!

Greek Olive Oil

Mono-Unsaturated good fat is found in extra virgin, cold pressed, first pressed Greek olive oil. Greek olive oil tends to be pure and derived from sources that are free of impurities, from olive trees on the side of hills, valleys and mountains from areas of Greece with less pollution, on a fat-soluble vitamin that acts as a powerful antioxidant in the body. It plays a critical role in maintaining vision, neurological function, healthy glowing skin and more. It is a powerful antioxidant, involved in reducing inflammation through fighting patches of land that have been used over and over rotated with care on pure rich soil full of nutrients. The cold and first pressed: is where the most nutrients from the olive oil is found. Mediterranian communities have lived with this amazing cold pressed, first pressed olive oil in their diet for many generations, we see the optimal health reflect particularly in their beautiful skin.

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There are different schools of thought in regards to the nutritional value of eating food raw, or cooked. From my CSNN nutrition school, it was expressed from numerous sources that a traditional nutritionist standpoint is most often said for most people to find optimal health it is advised: to eat 70% raw and 30% cooked, steamed, or stir fried food. It is believed that the raw foods provide more enzymes in their raw food states.

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Food journal exercise

Keep a food journal for a minimum of one week. The food journal is a commitment to your health. This drive and discipline to optimal health may give you back in return an invaluable deepening into what YOU need which includes via food. It is an opportunity to delve into your holistic, sustainable, abundant intentions and actions ?

Advised: How to do the food journal experiment

Step 1:

It is recommended: write down each food you eat, for the duration of min one week.

Step 2:

Next, after EACH food and/or meal you eat: write down HOW you feel right after you eat

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  • Mental clarity
  • IF you notice anything about your digestion

Step 3:

Make another column in your food journal for HOW you feel 30mins AFTER you have eaten that specific food or meal. Keep in mind: The key is to leave as much room as you can to write your first and second impressions for each section. It is imperative you are open and honest with yourself on this journey, this process is all FOR YOU!

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