#Organic Purple Sweet Potato Powder

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How To Make Cakes From Sweet Potato - Gardening & Growing Vegetables | O...

**How to Make Cakes from Sweet Potato - Gardening & Growing Vegetables | One Wish** If you love gardening, growing your own vegetables, and making delicious homemade dishes, this guide will take you through the entire process of making cakes from sweet potatoes. With just one wish—a desire to grow healthy, homegrown ingredients and turn them into tasty treats—you’ll experience the journey from soil to plate. ### Step 1: Growing Sweet Potatoes Before making sweet potato cakes, you’ll need to grow your own sweet potatoes. Here’s how: #### 1. **Choosing the Right Variety**   - There are several varieties of sweet potatoes, including those with orange, white, or purple flesh. Choose a variety suited to your climate and soil. Popular types include ‘Beauregard’ and ‘Covington.’ #### 2. **Preparing the Soil**   - Sweet potatoes prefer well-drained, sandy soil. If your soil is too heavy, consider mixing in organic matter to improve drainage.   - The soil pH should ideally be between 5.5 and 6.5. #### 3. **Planting**   - Sweet potatoes are typically grown from slips (sprouts from mature sweet potatoes). You can grow slips by placing a sweet potato in water and waiting for the shoots to develop.   - Plant the slips after the last frost, spacing them about 12 inches apart in rows 3 feet apart. #### 4. **Caring for the Plants**   - Water your sweet potatoes regularly, but be careful not to overwater as they don’t like soggy soil.   - Mulching will help conserve moisture and keep the weeds down. #### 5. **Harvesting**   - Sweet potatoes are typically ready to harvest 90 to 120 days after planting. Harvest when the vines begin to yellow.   - Cure the sweet potatoes by letting them dry in a warm, humid environment for 1-2 weeks. This helps enhance the flavor and sweetness. ### Step 2: Preparing the Sweet Potatoes for Cakes Once you’ve harvested your sweet potatoes, it’s time to prepare them for your cakes. #### 1. **Peeling and Boiling**   - Peel your sweet potatoes and cut them into chunks. Boil the chunks in water until they’re tender, which should take about 20 minutes. #### 2. **Mashing**   - Drain the boiled sweet potatoes and mash them until smooth. You can add a little butter or milk for creaminess. ### Step 3: Sweet Potato Cake Recipe Now that your sweet potatoes are ready, let’s make some delicious sweet potato cakes! #### **Ingredients**:   - 2 cups mashed sweet potatoes   - 1 cup all-purpose flour   - 1 teaspoon baking powder   - 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon   - 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg   - 1/2 cup sugar   - 1/2 cup milk   - 2 eggs   - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract   - 1/4 cup melted butter #### **Instructions**: 1. **Preheat the Oven**: Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and grease a cake pan. 2. **Mix the Dry Ingredients**: In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar. 3. **Combine the Wet Ingredients**: In another bowl, whisk together the mashed sweet potatoes, milk, eggs, vanilla extract, and melted butter. 4. **Mix Together**: Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, stirring until everything is well combined. 5. **Pour into Pan**: Pour the batter into the greased cake pan, spreading it evenly. 6. **Bake**: Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. 7. **Cool and Serve**: Let the cake cool for a few minutes before slicing and serving. You can enjoy it plain or topped with cream cheese frosting for added sweetness. ### Step 4: Optional Toppings Here are some ideas to elevate your sweet potato cake: - **Cream Cheese Frosting**: Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract for a creamy, tangy topping. - **Maple Syrup Drizzle**: For extra sweetness, drizzle maple syrup over the cake. - **Chopped Nuts

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How to do purple brown rice flour powder at home from Spa & Beauty Healthy on Vimeo.

Creating purple brown #rice flour is a delightful way to add a colorful twist to your culinary creations. While brown rice flour itself isn’t inherently purple, you can infuse it with a vibrant hue using natural ingredients. Let’s embark on this flavorful journey:

Select Your Ingredients: Begin by acquiring a package of organic brown rice. Opt for all-natural rice without preservatives or additives. A one-pound bag should suffice for larger quantities, but a smaller bag or canister will work if you only need a little flour. For the purple color, we’ll use purple sweet potatoes. These spuds lend a beautiful hue and a subtle sweetness. Prepare the Rice: Rinse the brown rice in cold water until it runs clear. This step ensures that the rice is clean and ready for processing. Spread the rinsed rice on a clean cloth or paper towel to dry completely. It must be dry to grind properly. Create Purple Rice Flour: Cut the purple sweet potatoes into chunks and steam or boil them until tender. Mash the cooked sweet potatoes into a smooth puree. Mix the sweet potato puree with the dried brown rice. The ratio depends on how intense you want the purple color. Start with a small amount and adjust as needed. Use a high-speed blender or food processor to blend the rice and sweet potato mixture. Pulse until you achieve a fine powder. Be patient and pause occasionally to prevent overheating the motor. Sift and Store: Sift the freshly ground purple brown rice flour through a fine-mesh sieve to remove any coarse particles. Transfer the flour to an airtight container. Store it in a cool, dry place. Now you have your homemade purple brown rice flour, ready to add a touch of color and nutrition to your recipes! Remember, this creative flour is not only visually appealing but also packed with nutrients. Experiment with it in pancakes, muffins, cookies, or savory dishes. Happy cooking

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Hearty Vegan Chili

Superfood Chili Ingredients:

*2 tablespoons avocado oil *1/2 medium red onion, chopped *2 small shallots, chopped *2 cloves garlic, pressed or minced * large red bell pepper, chopped *2 medium carrots, chopped *2 ribs celery, chopped *4 roma tomatoes , diced *Organic tomato sauce (Brand of choice: Pomi Tomato Sauce - 17.64 oz carton). I used the entire carton for this batch. *1 medium purple sweet potato (regular or white sweet potato optional) *1 small cauliflower chopped *2-3 teaspoons sea salt (add more based on your personal preference) *2 tablespoons organic chili powder *2 teaspoons organic smoked paprika *2 teaspoons organic cayenne pepper *2 teaspoons organic ground cumin *1 teaspoon dried oregano *1 can organic red kidney beans, rinsed and drained *1 can organic black beans, rinsed and drained ) *2 cups low sodium vegetable broth/stock or water *2-3 cups chopped Lacinato Kale (add 15-20 mins before you serve chili)

* Optional garnishes: chopped cilantro, sliced avocado, tortilla chips, vegan sour cream (brand of choice: Forager), or vegan shredded cheddar cheese (brand of choice: Violife Cheddar Cheese Shreds).

INSTRUCTIONS:

- Heat avocado oil in heavy-bottomed pot or crock pot over medium heat, warm the oil until shimmering. Add the chopped onion, garlic, bell pepper, carrot, celery.. Stir to combine and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender and the onion is translucent, about 2-3 minutes. -Add chili powder, cumin, smoked paprika, oregano, snd salt. Cook until fragrant while stirring constantly, about 1 minute. - Add the diced tomatoes and their juices, tomato sauce, broth, sweet potato, cauliflower, the drained black beans, kidney beans, and pinto beans.. Stir to combine and let the mixture come to a simmer. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally and reducing heat as necessary to maintain a gentle simmer for about 30-45 minutes if cooking on stove. You can simmer on low to medium heat in crock pot for 2-3 hours or until veggies are tender and stewed. Add the Kale a few mins 15-20 mins before you turn the heat off.

***Divide the mixture into individual bowls and serve with vegan garnishes of your choice. Can be stored in fridge up to 4 days or can also be frozen for longer storage. Enjoy!

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What TO Stock for An APOCALYPSE, PART THREE (Updated)

Right up there next to water, a top-priority post-apocalypse need will be FOOD.

  5.      THE FOOD you will need:

  Since most of us will be short on water, dried beans and other foods that require a lot of water for cooking may not work out too well. Dry beans also need a lot of cooking time, meaning more firewood or other fuel. Canned goods are a practical way to go (and most come with some liquid inside), though it would be hard to stock enough to last years. Plus, canned goods can get mighty unappetizing over time, and will eventually spoil.

  To survive well without getting malnourished, you’ll need protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and a little fat – the basic food groups, though meat and dairy aren’t essential. Unless you have your own well-guarded farm or hunting preserve, you can’t count on being able to eat meat. And if you’re growing your own food, in most cases you will get much more protein per acre by growing beans instead of animals. But chickens and milk goats can be very useful and will take up less space than other critters (though you’ll need to learn animal husbandry between now and the end of the modern world).

 Whole proteins are made up of eight essential amino acids. Most beans and nuts have seven of those acids, while most grains have only one. To get whole protein from beans or nuts, you need a companion grain to eat with them to make the protein complete. Think beans and rice, beans with tortillas, beans with cornbread, hummus with chips, peanut butter sandwiches (made with pancakes or biscuits cooked over an open fire).

  Soybeans have the full eight essential amino acids, but they take a lot of time and water to cook. My personal experience with them (which is extensive) is that they aren’t digestible unless they’ve been pressure-cooked for at least an hour, and pressure cookers can be dangerous and hard to come by. Soybean skins tend to plug up the vent holes. If the cooker isn’t removed from the fire immediately and the skin isn’t removed from the vent, the cooker could explode. People can get burned by the buildup of steam inside the cooker.

 Soybeans are a pain, BUT, if you need whole protein, they will provide it. The flavor is not the best, the texture can be off-putting, but they’re not bad in tortillas with salsa and fresh veggies. Once the beans are cooked, you can make decent patties out of them if you have anything to flavor them with. Some women, like me for instance, can’t eat soybeans when they’re pregnant, and soy allergies are serious issues for many. If you have a lot of water, you can make soybeans into soy milk and tofu. There’s also tempeh, the making of which is an artform.

   You can make milk out of lots of things these days: almonds, oats, rice, hemp (my fave). I don’t have a clue how to make these things, but I’m sure you can figure it out—if you get to googling while the internet still works.

In my novel, prepper Grandma Bea stocks barrels and bags of many kinds of beans, flours, oatmeal, rice, sugar, cooking oil, peanut butter, sugar, salt and pepper. She has cases of canned goods—mostly soup, chili, and stew—and cases of powdered milk and eggs.

 6.      GROWING FOOD

If you want to get serious about providing for long-term survival (or if you just want to live more sustainably), you will need to do more than stockpile food. You need to set yourself up with ways to grow it. Think garden beds full of rich soil, compost piles, bee hives for honey and pollination, fruit trees and vines, and ways to scare off the birds. And you need to stockpile seeds that suit your soil, drainage, and growing season, along with plenty of organic fertilizer and the tools and equipment to help it all grow. You’ll need to get creative about where and how to grow this food: in your suburban yard, inside in front of your windows, in pots and buckets and barrels, on rooftops and ledges, along fences, etc., etc.

     My main character, Bea, has fresh tomatoes, peppers, squash, greens, purple hull peas, and herbs growing in pots and in her garden. She has a second garden full of root veggies, and she has a bee hive installed in an exterior wall. A few neighbors have chickens. One family has some rabbits. When the neighbors finally get organized, Bea has plans for urban farming that involve building gardens and compost piles in yards and vacant lots, and later plowing up front yards for cornfields, and the neighborhood park to try growing winter wheat and other grains in the scorching Texas heat.

 7.      STORING & PRESERVIING FOOD

 In my novel, Bea has a root cellar full of root veggies: russet and sweet potatoes, carrots, garlic, and onions. Beets don’t grow so well in Texas as far as I know (meaning, I don’t actually know). Turnips are, well, turnips, but they last a long time in cool, dry storage. Parsnips, rutabagas, and Jerusalem artichokes are other good root veggies to grow and store.

Root cellars are awesome if you can keep them from filling with ground water. Being under the earth tends to keep the temperatures nice for storage of food with a long shelf-life, like root veggies and—for a lesser length of time—compact cabbages, pumpkins, and winter squash (butternut, acorn, etc.)

Though impractical when water is scarce, home canning is also a good way to store food. Many foods can be dried, which only requires water for cleaning before and after drying. Of course, you’ll need water to reconstitute most dried foods before you eat them, with dried fruit and jerky being the primary exception to this, and field corn, which can be ground into cornmeal.

On top of growing and preserving food, you also need to know how to preserve seed, since there will be no seed catalogues, no seed companies. The Seed Savers Exchange is one of many good resources for this: https://www.seedsavers.org/how-to-save-seeds.

Remember that you will also need biodiversity (more than one kind of seed for each veggie) to give you better odds that some types will survive a blight, fungus, or insect attack. And you need to protect your pollinators: bees, wasps, butterflies, etc. Know your bugs and learn to distinguish the helpful ones from the harmful ones. Crickets can be eaten (sorry, but you may need to know this someday).

  I could go on about food forever (I already have, lol), but going further would be beyond the scope of this blog. My advice is to get busy studying up.

If all else fails, you can follow the example of Mad Max in ROAD WARRIOR and chow down on yummy dog food.

   We may find ourselves eating this poor guy out of our backyard someday:

 To see how my unlikely apocalyptic hero, seventy-year-old Bea Crenshaw, shepherds her grandkids and neighbors through the aftermath of a solar pulse, check out IF DARKNESS TAKES US on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Takes-Brenda-Marie-Smith-ebook/dp/B07WK9BQHN or order it from your favorite indie bookstore:

The sequel, IF THE LIGHT SHOULD COME, will be out June 2021 from SFK Press.

 STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE INSTALLMENTS OF “WHAT TO STOCK FOR AN APOCALYPSE.”

NEXT UP: SOLAR & WIND POWER

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Colour Information Collected So Far

Red:

Sound: a loud explosion, the sirens of a fire engine or ambulance, an alarm, a heartbeat, drums

Taste: hot and spicy chillies, tangy peppers, sweet strawberries, sweet, intense, cherries,  blood, metallic,

Touch: standing outside in the sun and feeling its heat, burnt skin

Smell: burning cinnamon, fruity berries, roses

Emotion: feeling embarrassed and your cheeks are blushed, the overwhelming feeling of anger and aggression, the uncontrollable feeling of love and passion, when all your senses are alert, an urgent feeling, grabbing your attention to stop, feeling pain from bleeding, madness and out of control, emotions that make you act out of character

 Danger, anger, pain, embarrassed, passion, love, blushed, red cheeks, alert, urgent, attention, stop, aggression, sex, madness, action, energy

 Experience: They had me stand outside in the sun. They told me that the heat I was feeling is red. They explained that red is the colour of a burn, from heat, embarrassment, or even anger.

 Burn, heat, danger, anger, sun, blood, fire, hot, embarrassed, blushed, red cheeks, spicy, peppers, apples, chillies, strawberries, sweet, intense, cherries,  sirens, alarms, alert, urgent, attention, stop, sex, strength, aggression, madness, explosion, pain

 Orange:

Sound: Neutral, it is neither stop nor is it go, sounds like kids playing, having fun, giggling and laughter, birds tweeting, fire crackling,

Taste: sweet and tangy, tropical fruits and juices, cocktails in the sun, refreshing and light, oranges, crunchy carrots, pumpkins, citrus, peaches, passionfruit, mango, zesty, radiant, sweet potato

Touch: Warm, soft, an orange peel, stingy eyes,

Smell: flames, citrus, tangy, oranges, sun lotion, burning candles, incense,

Emotion: Twilight, as the night begins to draw in on a sunny day, excitement, enthusiasm, encouraging, always on your side, walking down a road and stepping on crunchy leaves as the leaves fall in autumn

Refreshing, sweet, tropical, sun, warm, comfort, content, security, frustration, oranges, fruits,

 Yellow:

Sound: Pulsating energy, Caribbean drums

Taste: Sour lemons, sweet bananas, citrus, creamy custard, butter, pineapple, pina colada, sorbet, tart, sweet icing on a cake

Touch: Banana skins, dry, fluffy chicks, sand, warm skin,

Smell: Flowers blossoming, fruity, the beach

Emotion: Feeling full of energy, you are happy, being friendly and kind, the feeling of cheer, being optimistic and confident, the prospect of new life, bright and intense, it’s intensity can lead to frustration and anxiety, extremely visible, grabs your attention, irritating, feels like summer,

 Lemons, banana, sour, citrus, sweet, nourishing, sun, bright, happy, friendliness, cheerfulness, optimism, confidence, anxiety

 Green:

Sound: Peace, the rainforest, a breeze, a frog croaking, parakeets tweeting in a bush, crunchy

Taste: Cold cucumbers, crunchy green beans, broccoli, soft peas, juicy apples, spinach, salad leaves, brussel sprouts, cabbage, herbs, basil, coriander, thyme, rosemary, olives, limes, bitter grapes

Touch: Holding soft leaves and wet grass, both smooth and crisp,

Smell: Fresh mint, clean air, musty, rotten, green is natural and can smell either good or bad, vegetables, herbal, freshly cut grass, toothpaste, mossy, foul

Emotion: Feeling alive, growth, feeling healthy and balanced, green is clean and encouraging, mother nature, feeling refreshed, suppleness, peace and harmony, feeling jealous or envious, restful, soothing, healing, decaying and poisonous, hydrated

 I held soft leaves and wet grass. They told me green felt like life. To this day it is still very much my favourite colour.

Alive, plants, smooth, suppleness, leaves, life, salad, lettuce, spinach, clean, crisp, earth, bitter, mint, fresh, healthy, balance, refreshment, harmony, environment, peace, disgusting, ew, rotten, zombie

 Blue:

Sound: The sounds of waves crashing, droplets running from a tap, the sound of rain against a window, a gushing waterfall, a river current, light and heavy, quiet and loud, soft and powerful

Taste: Sweet blueberries, artificial bubblegum, peppermint, salty, like the sea, briny

Touch: Running your hands through water, dipping into a pool, wet, laying your head on your pillow, denim

Smell: The dentist or the doctors, medical, men’s aftershave, the salty sea

Emotion: That omnipresent coolness you feel whilst swimming, feeling relaxed, blue is cool and light, feeling intelligent, feels like having a cold, a runny nose, feeling down, icy, distant, isolated, conservative and traditional, tranquillity, secure and orderly, lonely, masculine, unappetising, heavenly, emotional, inspirational

 Cool, water, light, clear, deep, wet, relaxing, waves, calm, nice, intelligence, coolness, serenity, logic, sky

They put my hands in their pool. They told me that that sensation I felt while swimming, that omnipresent coolness, that’s blue. Blue feels like relaxation.

 Purple:

Sound: Owls tweeting in a forest, magic, fictional children’s films, fantasy

Taste: Juicy plums, grapes, berries, parma violets sweets, aubergines

Touch: Velvet,

Smell: Lavender, musky and aromatic,

Emotion: Feeling luxurious, purple is mysterious and sometimes spooky, being aware of spirituality and your dreams, linked with royalty, imaginative, it is rare in nature so it is intriguing, exotic and artificial, regal, sensual, lush, peaceful, a deep daydream, wisdom, unearthly, evokes creativity, stimulates the body, a harmonious balance of awareness and peace, the feeling of escaping reality,

 Spiritual awareness, mystery, luxury, royalty, truth, dreams

 Pink:

Sound: noisy, little girl’s voices, people chatting, giggling

Taste: sweet, sugar, jelly beans, marshmallows, ice cream, lollipops, strawberries and cream, cupcakes, icing, doughnuts,

Touch: soft, fluffy things, light,

Smell: Women’s perfume, bubblegum, candy floss at a fair, smells cheap, fruity and sweet, floral, blossom

Emotion: feeling nurtured, pink is warm and comforting, feeling feminine, light hearted and bubbly, can regulate moods, youthful, good health, playfulness, the feeling of your first love,  innocent and cheerful,  caring and compassionate, the feeling of unconditional love, motherly love, considerate, the feeling that everything will go well and be okay, a sign of hope,  tender, intuitive, comfort, gentle, emotional, takes us back to our childhood, inexperience, naivety, lack of self-confidence and self-esteem

 Nurture, warmth, femininity, love

 White:

Sound: peace, silence, slow music, a piano

Taste: bland, flavourless, simple, vanilla, milk, cream, thick, white chocolate

Touch: can be soft, crisp, fluffy, smooth, snowflakes slowly falling on your face, icy cold, hard like diamonds

Smell: clean and pure, fresh linen, washing powder, soap, powdery, aquatic, lilies,

Emotion: heavenly, a feeling of clarity, innocence, feeling at peace, emptiness, loneliness,  can create space,  sterile, can feel empty and unfriendly, untouched, a blank canvas, a new beginning or fresh start, harmonious, safe, fresh, a feeling of concentration and focus, serious, the opposite of black, light

 Grey:

Sound: heavy rainfall, thunder,

Taste: bland and dull, beans and plain oatmeal, chalky

Touch: concrete, hard walls, dry surfaces, harsh to the skin, a sturdy road under your feet, cold, dead, stones, gravel, cold

Smell:

Emotion: dull, nothingness, it is futuristic, architectural, depression, boredom, feeling tired and lacking energy, has no personality, it is unattached and unresponsive, neutral, indecisive, emotionless, strong and steady, cool, a feeling of restraint, holding yourself back, it is exhausting and discouraging, formal, never captivating, mature and obliging, associated with old age, our hair turns grey, modest, hard working, being ill

 Concrete, walls, pavements, metal, hard, cool or hot, strong, sturdy, road, dead, storm, thunder, rain, sky, dark, depressing

 Brown:

Sound: sludging through mud

Taste: mushrooms, coffee, a rich chocolate cake, dry like toast, crumble, cookies, warm and nutty, cereal, wheat, caramel, chocolate, cashews, roast dinners, meat, pies and gravy, hot chocolate, tea

Touch: walking through mud, dirt, touching the bark of a tree, sandpaper, rough, dry, warm, solid like the earth

Smell: woody, coffee beans, the bark of a tree, landfill, bins, faeces, campfires, vanilla, smokey, decay, smells like baking cakes, cooking bread, food waste

Emotion: disliking something, feeling dirty and unclean, reliability, supportive, can feel cosy but can also feel dull, wholesome, the feeling of being full or bloated, comforting, secure, resilient, serious, duty and responsibility, honest and genuine, organic, the feeling of being outdoors,

 Earth, dead, dirt, crispy, reliability, support,

 Black:

Sound: the roar of engines, bass, screaming,

Taste: liquorice, dark chocolate, pepper, rich and intense, blackberries, charred food

Touch: smooth and hard,

Smell: coal, blown out flames, smoke

Emotion: feeling anxious, like the whole world is about to come crashing down, dark, depressed, gloomy, sad, misery, mourning, grieving, feeling hungry, clear winter nights, sophisticated and glamorous, menacing, oppressive, a feeling of dread, fear, the horrible feeling after having a nightmare, the opposite of white, dark

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Let’s talk sweet potatoes!

Sweet potatoes…. One of my favorite foods out there. How can one vegetable be so tasty and versatile, yet so amazingly good for you??? Sweet potatoes are an ancient vegetable and have been a staple in my ancestor’s diet for centuries, which is probably why I love them so much and why I find them easy to incorporate into my diet.

Now, I will be honest, I didn’t always run to the sweet potato. I do have a deep love for the white potato and would eat a baked potato, mashed potato, fried potato, or potato chip in a quick minute. But all of that changed when I was diagnosed with Endometriosis. My primary care doctor at the time, the last doctor I would have imagined, told me that I needed to make some dietary shifts to better help me navigate my life with endo. Big picture he suggested switching to a more Mediterranean diet and to eat more sweet potatoes. I looked at him crazy with that “huh” look on my face. I got the Mediterranean part, because I knew that the diet would provide me with good fiber, healthy fats and help to eliminate inflammation by ridding my system of toxins and other free radicals. But it also learned that it would help in hormone regulation, which plays a major role in the manifestation of the Endo. I then asked him even more about the sweet potatoes. So he proceeds to explain that sweet potatoes help in the removal of free radicals as well, and also help in the removal of heavy metals, which can cause the body to become sluggish. But the most important benefit of them all was that they help in the delivery and regulation of progesterone, which is very important the balance and functioning of the female reproductive system. If progesterone is off, the chances are the estrogen in the system is off as well, which results in all sorts of issues.  So by regulating the progesterone, then the estrogen can be better regulated and the ill effects of endometriosis can be minimized. Mind=Blown!

Just a quick snippet on endometriosis (had to take a moment to bring awareness to this disease), because it affects 1 out of every 10 women. Essentially, Endo is when the lining of your uterus grows primarily outside of the uterus, mostly in the pelvis attaching to other organs and structures but can grow and attach on any organ and cause extreme pain. It sadly takes years to decades for a woman to get diagnosed because the symptoms are brushed off or a doctor doesn’t believe us when we say something is wrong. Some of the symptoms of endometriosis include:

-          Nausea and vomiting

-          Dizziness

-          Weight gain

-          Heavy bleeding during your period

-          Bleeding between periods

-          Intense pain before, during and after your period

-          Cysts ( sometimes called chocolate cysts because they are blood filled and not easily visible on imaging)

-          Infertility

-          Trouble with bowel movements and digestion of food

- ��        Shortness of breath

-          Irregular heart beat

And these are just a few symptoms. Endometriosis has the capacity to affect literally EVERY ORGAN SYSTEM, thus causing a wide variety of issues.

That’s a lot right? I have a very odd and severe case—the growths are on my intestines and sciatic nerve, as well as all over my pelvis to include my round ligaments. During my last surgery, my surgeon tried to get as much as he could but he was limited because he didn’t want to leave me paralyzed or put me through having to get a colostomy bag because of how it was affecting my intestines .  Treating me medically has been difficult to treat due to my other health conditions. Which is why I was grateful for my doctor suggesting a different route to help ease my pain (sorry for the long detour, but I had to set up the whole picture for you!!) Food was one of the last resort options to be medicine for me. I knew it wouldn’t be easy for me to adjust to this new diet but this was my Hail Mary in the 4th quarter.

So just how great are sweet potatoes to your health??? Well, here are just a few benefits:

 -          They are loaded with vitamins and minerals!! One medium sweet potato contains high amounts of fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Manganese and Potassium among other nutrients. They also contain antioxidants which can help reduce the risk of certain cancers… awesome right??

-          They are full of fiber and an antioxidant that can promote the growth of healthy gut bacteria.

-          They support health vision.

-          Sweet potatoes contain compounds that fight inflammation on a cellular level. Purple sweet potatoes contain special phytonutrients that reduce inflammation of the brain and nerve tissues.

-          Sweet potatoes are slow burning starch that promotes the release of adiponectin, which is important to the modification of insulin, which means less blood sugar spikes.  (Simpleorganix, 2019) (Julson, 2019)

Sweet potatoes are a highly versatile food, and can be manipulated into a lot of different dishes. You can do sweet, savory or a combo of both. So incorporating this super food into your diet is very easy! Once I learned just how great this food is, I started searching for recipes outside of the traditional sweet potato casseroles or candied yams that we serve at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. I wanted to make things that gave me ALL the benefits of this great veggie. I learned through trial and error that the flavor of sweet potatoes goes really well with certain flavor profiles. My fave go to recipe is a baked kale, sweet potato and black bean dish served with brown rice. Here is the recipe (it is super, super easy!!!)

-          1 can black beans, drained and rinsed

-          2 bunches of kale, cut, washed and dried

-          1 large sweet potato, diced

-          ½ a red onion diced

-          Paprika

-          Salt

-          Pepper

-          Dried Oregano

-          Dried Basil

-          Cumin

-          Garlic ( 2 cloves fresh, or garlic powder, or the 1 tsp of the minced garlic in a jar)

-          3 tbsp of olive oil or canola oil

Preheat oven to 375. In a small bowl combine the paprika, salt, pepper, oregano, basil, cumin and garlic. Set aside. In a 9 by 13 baking dish (I use my pyrex dish) put your kale, beans, sweet potato and onion. Drizzle olive oil over the veggies then sprinkle the seasoning mixture over them. Toss the veggies around to coat with the oil and seasonings. Once well coated, even out in the dish and place in the oven to bake uncovered for about 20-25 minutes. You want the kale to be crispy and the sweet potatoes to be tender when poked with a fork.

You can eat it just like this or serve with brown rice or quinoa. I also like to top mine with feta cheese, which gives AMAZING flavor profile.

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20 Superfoods to Eat Now

There is no approved meaning of what certifies as a superfood, however health experts agree that these foods provide a high level of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and also phytonutrients (all-natural, disease-fighting chemicals). Below are a couple of scrumptious superfoods to start eating now!

Apples: Apples include soluble fiber which assists reduced cholesterol levels, and insoluble fiber for a healthy digestive system. This fruit is likewise a resource of the antioxidant quercetin, known for its anti-inflammatory properties.

Almonds: These nuts are high in heart-healthy monounsaturated fat. They are also a source for the trace minerals manganese as well as copper, which are necessary for energy production.

Avocados: Avocados contain 5 different kinds of anti-inflammatory nutrients. They are likewise rich in the carotenoids that we usually just associate with orange vegetables.

Barley: The nutritional fiber in hulled barley supports healthy and balanced microorganisms in the intestinal tract. It additionally contains selenium, a powerful antioxidant for the prevention of cancer as well as heart disease.

Beets: The betalins in beets are phytonutrients recognized to have antioxidant and anti-inflammation properties.

Black Beans: 3 various antioxidants, called anthocyanins, give black beans their dark color. These beans additionally contain kaempferol, one more anti-oxidant that reduces the threat for cardiovascular disease and also cancer.

Blueberries: Ranked as one of the leading food resources for antioxidants. Study reveals blueberries include at the very least 15 helpful phytonutrients.

Cinnamon: The essential oils in cinnamon bark have been found to minimize inflammation and also aid with managing blood sugar level. These oils are also anti-microbial, protecting against the development of unhealthy bacteria.

Garlic: Sulfur compounds in garlic can minimize the oxidative tension that leads to capillary damages. These compounds have actually additionally been found to decrease triglycerides, overall cholesterol degrees, and also blood pressure.

Kale: Researchers have determined over 45 flavonoids (a kind of phytonutrient) in kale. As a result, kale has actually been found to lower the threat of over 5 sorts of cancer cells, and also it sustains the body's natural detox system.

Lentils: Lentils are a great source of folate and magnesium, which assist to promote heart health and wellness. They are likewise loaded with fiber.

Oranges: Citrus fruits consist of vitamin C, yet oranges additionally include the phytonutrient herperidin that might reduce blood stress as well as cholesterol. Additionally, oranges consist of limonoids, which have actually been shown to shield versus 6 sorts of cancer.

Red Cabbage: Cabbage consists of a compound called sinigrin that has actually been linked to the prevention of bladder, colon, and also prostate cancers cells. Red cabbage has actually included benefit as a result of the existence of anthocyanins, which function as antioxidants that protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Sauerkraut: Fermented foods such as sauerkraut contain probiotics (live organisms in food as well as supplements that benefit wellness). Probiotics are connected with boosted food digestion as well as digestive health and wellness. Sauerkraut is likewise loaded with vitamins that might aid avoid infection.

Spinach: Researchers have actually determined over 12 flavonoids in spinach that are anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer. This leafy green is likewise loaded with the anti-oxidants, including vitamin C, vitamin A, beta-carotene, and also manganese.

Sweet Potatoes: Orange-flesh pleasant potatoes are rich in the antioxidant beta-carotene and also purple-flesh sweet potatoes contain the antioxidant anthocyanin. Research shows that wonderful potatoes assist with blood glucose regulation.

Tomatoes: The numerous phytonutrients in tomatoes are related to lowered complete cholesterol, reduced LDL-cholesterol, reduced triglycerides, and also a reduced threat of cancer cells. A lot more lately, the antioxidant, lycopene, has actually been linked to boosted bone health.

Turmeric: Established in curry powders and also yellow mustard, turmeric extract includes curcumin, which has been discovered to be as efficient for decreasing swelling as some non-prescription medications.

Walnuts: They are popular as a source of omega-3 fats, but walnuts likewise consist of phytonutrients that are rarely discovered in other foods. Walnuts have actually been located to safeguard versus heart illness, type 2 diabetic issues, as well as some cancers.

Yogurt: Like sauerkraut, yogurt is a fermented food. Yogurts which contain live and also energetic societies serve as probiotics, which might enhance intestinal tract problems such as lactose intolerance as well as cranky digestive tract disorder.

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Anthocyanin from Purple Potato Extract, Your Healthy Assistant!

Purple potato is also known as black potato, and its tuber flesh has a purple to dark purple color. In addition to the nutrients of ordinary potatoes, it is also rich in selenium and anthocyanins. Anthocyanins have a preventive and therapeutic effect on more than 100 diseases, and are known as the seventh most important nutrient after water, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Anthocyanins are the most direct, effective and safe free radical scavengers found in the scientific community to prevent diseases and maintain human health. The ability to scavenge free radicals is 20 times that of vitamin C and 50 times that of vitamin E. Purple potato is one of the main raw materials for anthocyanins. In recent years, purple potato has been very popular in the international and domestic markets, and its development prospects are very broad.

Purple Potato Powder

Purple potato can be processed into powder after peeling, drying and crushing. Being rich in nutrients, it is an excellent food processing raw material and can be used as the main ingredient of various kinds of cakes. Purple potato powder has abundant anthocyanins, dietary fiber, and also the highest selenium content among the food. It is believed that purple potato is not only nutritious, but also has many unique effects such as kidney-reinforcing, anti-aging, health care, disease prevention and treatment effect. Purple potato powder presents a fresh purple color after rehydration, and has a strong taste of baked potato. It is especially good for the eyes of people who have long faced the computer. Purple potato has a certain health care function from young stem to tuber, which is a preferred organic food with pollution-free and green benefits.

Nutritional Value of Purple Potato

Purple potato is announced rank first among the anti-cancer vegetable lists. It not only has the nutrient composition of ordinary sweet potato, but also has special health care functions. Purple potato is rich in nutrients such as proteins, starch, pectin, celluloses, amino acids, vitamins and various minerals, where the proteins and amino acids can be easily digested and absorbed by the human body. The vitamin A could enhance eyesight and skin mucosal epithelial cells and vitamin C allows the common synthesis of collagen protein and prevents scurvy. The content of lysine, copper, manganese, potassium and zinc is 3-8 times higher than that of ordinary sweet potato. Meanwhile, the content of anticancer iodine and selenium is 20 times higher than other sweet potatoes. Purple sweet potato is also rich in iron and anthocyanins that are natural powerful free radical scavengers.

Functions of Anthocyanin in Purple Potato Extract

Anthocyanin helps prevent a variety of free radical-related diseases, including cancer, heart disease, premature aging and arthritis and reduce the incidence of heart disease and stroke by preventing stress and platelet aggregation caused by smoking. It enhances the ability of immune system to fight carcinogens. Moreover, it could reduce the occurrence of colds and shorten the duration time. By resisting mutation function, it reduces the formation probability of carcinogenic factors. It has anti-inflammatory effects and thus can prevent inflammation including arthritis and swelling. It is also able to alleviate pollinosis and other allergies and enhance arterial, meridian and capillary elasticity. By maintains the normal flexibility of blood cells, it helps red blood cells pass through tiny capillaries, thereby enhancing blood circulation throughout the body, bringing immediate benefits to organs and systems in all parts of the body, and enhancing cell viability. It could prevent high blood pressure by relaxing blood vessels to promote blood circle and inhibiting angiotensin-converting enzyme released by the kidney. As a barrier to protect brain cells, it is capable of preventing the formation of amyloid β protein, glutamate toxicity and free radical attack, thereby preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Skin is smoothed and elasticized by its inhibition of elastase and collagenase, and skin damage due to excessive sun exposure is prevented from the inside and the outside. Anthocyanin also has anti-radiation effect. The anthocyanin color changes due to different pH values. Most anthocyanins have good light, heat and PH stability. Anthocyanins are indispensable for workers with long-term exposure to sunlight or in an electric radiation environment.

Medicinal Value of Purple Potato

Anti-cancer effect

Purple potato is rich in selenium and iron, which are essential elements for anti-fatigue, anti-aging and blood supplementation. In particular, selenium is called “anti-cancer king” and is easily absorbed by the body. It can be left in serum, repairing myocardium and enhancing immunity. It eliminates free radicals in the body, and inhibits the synthesis of DNA in cancer cells and the division and growth of cancer cells, thus preventing the occurrence of cancers such as stomach cancer and liver cancer.

Promote gastrointestinal motility

Purple potato is rich in cellulose that promotes gastrointestinal motility to clean up the mucus, gas and decay in the intestinal cavity, discharge toxic substances and carcinogens in the feces, thus keeping the stool clear. It also improves the digestive tract environment, and prevents the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases.

Help to lose weight

Eating purple potatoes will be beneficial for losing weight, building body, preventing sub-health, and detoxification. Each 100 grams of fresh purple potato contains only 0.2 grams of fat, producing 99 kilocalories of heat, making it a good low-fat, low-calorie food. At the same time, it can effectively prevent sugar from becoming fat.

Enhance immunity

Purple potato contains a lot of mucus protein to prevent the liver and kidney connective tissue from shrinking, thus improving the body’s immunity and preventing collagen disease. Minerals contained in purple potatoes play an important role in maintaining and regulating body functions as well as preventing osteoporosis.

Anti-oxidant effect

Purple potato has a good anti-oxidant effect. Frequent consumption of purple potato can fight aging, improve skin texture, and regulate endocrine.

Protect liver

Purple potato can protect the liver. Many men who often drink and smoke often have impatient temper. Purple potatoes can play a role in reducing liver fire and conditioning health for them.

Edible Tips

Purple potato contains oxidase, which is easy to produce gas. If you eat too much, you will feel bloating and abdominal tumbling, hiccup, and fart. Purple potato has a high content of sweet, and eating too much can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, which makes people feel heartburn. Purple potatoes should be cooked thoroughly before eating, because starch granules are difficult to digest without high temperature damage.

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The Big Salad | An All-Star-Anytime Plant Bonanza

I eat a lot of salad. It is a daily occurrence at Rue du Moulin. But not all salads are of the same calibre.  When I was younger, a salad was made of a bunch of iceberg lettuce leaves, a few slices of cucumbers, and a handful of cherry tomatoes drenched in one of Kraft’s 68 different kinds of salad dressings.  This salad, affectionately named after one of the best food moments in Seinfeld, is a next level salad.

In fact, if there are levels in salad-goodness, I would consider this the all-star.

Chock-a-block with:

Superfoods: like pomegranate, kale, lemons, yellow peppers, miso, and tomatoes. 

Organ cleansers: like green onions, daikon, grapes, and parsley

Nutrient-heavy satiating carbs: like sweet potato, beetroots, and cauliflower

A protein-rich creamy tahini dressing 

But really, where this packs in the goodness is just the abundance of flavour and supreme combination of textures. 

Also—it is basically everything free—no animal products, oil, sugar, gluten or nuts. 

Just beautiful and delicious plants.  For those of you who can’t imagine eating a salad and feeling full for hours later, give this one a whirl—it is not only a delight on the tongue, but will leave you satiated in a way a ham and cheese sandwich never could. 

Let’s get tossed! 

Ingredients: 

For the quick pickle

1/4 beetroot, finely diced

1/4 daikon, finely diced

3 tbsps parsley, diced

1 tbsp pomegranate seeds

1/2 a lemon

Salt

Add all the ingredients together in a bowl, drizzle with the lemon, and crack a lot of salt on top. Set aside for at least 10-15 minutes. You could also use vinegar and sugar, but this is a very simple, plant-y pickle. 

For the dressing

1/2 lemon

3 tbsps tahini

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp coconut sugar

1 tsp white miso paste

Chili, salt, and pepper

Water to thin

For the salad

1 small sweet potato, roasted, peeled, and chopped in pieces

1/3 cup curry roasted cauliflower (toss in curry spice, and roast for 30 min, leave to cool) 

1 packed cup of finely chopped kale

1/2 cup green leaf lettuce, chopped

1/4 of a medium yellow pepper, diced

1 green onion, finely sliced 

3-4 cherry tomatoes, quartered

7-10 red grapes, halved

pomegranate seeds for garnish

Putting it together

A salad is just a salad, right? 

Yes, but food should be beautiful. It should be a joy to look at, even it is just you eating it. Instead of slopping all the ingredients into a bowl and smearing sauce all over, take a moment to practice moritsuke, the Japanese art of plating—re-enchanting the world of the ordinary.

Step one: start by mixing those greens in the bottom of the bowl:

Step two:, arrange the vegetables in a colourful wheel on top of the green bed.  Note: don’t copy the colour wheel, but contrast colours to make them pop, like greens beside reds, and purples beside oranges. 

Step three: garnish with pomegranate seeds

For the dressing  Start by mixing the tahini and lemon together. It will get very thick, like butter. Add the white miso. 

Then add water until it is smooth and “drizzle-able.” 

When you’ve got a great creamy consistency, add coconut sugar, garlic and sugar. Stir together. Add salt and pepper to taste. (I like a lot of both.) 

Go ahead and drizzle that sauce all over that beautiful bed of colourful vegetables. Your salad is now looking gorgeous and ready to serve. 

Now, you can’t really eat it exactly like this, so just as you took pleasure in the creation, enjoy its destruction. Like a Buddhist Sand Mandala, gently stir all those gorgeous ingredients together, and dive in. 

(Still looks delicious even after it has been stirred together...yum.) 

Enjoy! 

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How to Plate Your Food Like a Pro: A Chef Shares Her Secrets

While you can easily toss a few sautéed sweet potatoes next to your cauliflower rice, a few tricks can transform it into a restaurant-quality dish. Seriously. 

Chef Ryan Ross, winner of Food Network’s Chopped, shares her essential tips to playing your homemade dishes like a pro. Perfect for when you’re feeling particularly fancy.

Using Kitchen Tools

I’m not big on kitchen gadgets that serve only one purpose. Avocado pitters, egg slicers, and garlic presses are a waste of space in my tiny kitchen. However, there are a few plating tools that I keep on hand for making my dishes beautiful. Most of them you likely have on hand.

Toothpicks

Use toothpicks to create cool swirls and zig-zags through creams and sauces on your soups, smoothie bowls, and plates.

Spoons

You, of course, have spoons in your kitchen. But did you know you can use spoons to scoop a sauce or purée on a plate, and then drag the back of the spoon through it for an artful swipe effect?

Pastry or Biscuit Cutter

You can use your round pastry cutter as a boundary and mold to layer terrines, veggies, greens, and the like.

Squeeze Bottles

Speed-pouring bottles are great when you have lots of oils, drizzles, and sauces to dress up your dishes. They are lightweight, offer precision and keep all of your options looking uniform and tidy. Label them with a little masking tape and a sharpie.

Vegetable Peeler

Use this common household gadget to create long ribbons from your carrots and summer squash. They’re pretty in a salad to add a pop of color. You can even use them to shave chocolate into delicate curls over your cakes, cupcakes, and other pastries.

Mandolin

Mandolins are the quickest and most uniform way to get paper-thin sliced fruits and veggies. We’re talking gorgeous, paper-thin raw beets, radishes, rainbow carrots.

Spiralizer

Spiralizers let you transform raw fruits and veggies into fanciful “noodles” to pile on top of your dishes. Swap them in for a healthy twist on pasta or add spiralized beets and carrots to your salads for a colorful pop of color.

Precision Tongs/Tweezers

You can purchase long, culinary precision tongs, or designate a pair of drugstore tongs to your kitchen. These come in handy when stacking, adjusting and plating teeny items on your dish. I also use regular tweezers to remove the pin bones out of fish filets.

Choosing the Right Dishware

Natural, plain and nondescript dishware are a good place to start.

Opt for a white dish, and you’re automatically working with a high-contrast, natural background. It’s great for plating most foods; a plain white plate can make even drab-looking food pop.

When plating lighter and brighter foods, use darker hues like wood or a dark, stony gray for contrast.

If you’re feeling creative, there are plenty of unorthodox options to play with. There’s fine china, crazy patterns, earthen and stoneware, wood planks, ceramic, cast iron, and slate boards. There are hundreds of shapes, sizes, platters, plates and bowls to choose from!

The Rule of Thirds vs. Central Plating

If you look at your dish like a clock, start by imagining your dinner guest seated at the 6 o’clock when served. Now that you are oriented with your dish, you can easily decide and delegate what goes where.

When serving a dinner party, I often ask my front of house staff to serve according to the clock. I will say things like, “The radish should be at the 3 o’clock.”

Most classic plating guides will have you regard your dish in thirds. Plating your focal point, usually your protein, a touch off-center, in either outer third of your plate, is considered most attractive.

The same goes for plating in odd numbers, like seven carrot batons instead of eight, or three slices of duck instead of two, and so on.

Salads and other composed items are quite striking when piled high and central on the dish.

Use moist foods as a base and anchor for the star of your plate, usually the protein. You can then use other components of your dish to scatter and lean against the stack you have already created.

If you are plating centrally, like with a leafy tall salad, go for minimal landscape garnishing; a few straying micro greens or petals can be pleasant on the plate beyond your salad, or a simple extra swirl of infused oil on the plate.

Artful elements like dots, swirls and swipes create more of a landscape plating. Using the rule of thirds for your plate can help you decide how, when, and where your embellishments belong so your dish doesn’t get away from you.

Garnishes

Microgreens, baby arugula and fresh herbage are a great garnish on most things savory, and even those that are sweet. Mint, basil, fennel fronds, and sweeter herbs like anise and hyssop have a big place in the dessert-garnishing world.

Colorful garnishes certainly elevate your dish. Plates with beige and brown foods are drab and muted, but adding pops of bright green herbs, or edible flower petals, are an awesome way to stand out!

On the other hand, don’t be afraid to go monochromatic. Peruvian purple potatoes garnished with micro-greens, purple skinned radish, purple basil, or blue-hued cornflowers can create a stunning effect.

Texture

Top off your dishes with seeds, nuts, sprouts and palatable hearty spices, powders, herbs, and salts.

My favorites include:

Hemp seeds

Chia seeds

Poppy seeds

Sesame seeds

Pink peppercorn

Aleppo pepper

Crushed nuts

Dried lavender

Dried calendula petals

Getting Creative

Every chef will have their own idea of what looks best, so use these tips as a guideline for the plating possibilities out there. Being creative sometimes means that you need to color outside of the lines, or find your own way and style.

Think about your fresh garnishes that may otherwise be scraps or compost that you naturally discard. These can be reinvented and used as a plating element.

These include:

Herb stems, blended into a sauce or infused in an oil or salt

Carrot top greens

Fruit and vegetable skins (opt for organic)

Chips, either fried or dehydrated, made from fruit and veggie scraps

Think outside of the box when preparing your garnishes – perhaps an applied method makes all the difference.

Tie a knot in your chives

Sear or grill your lemon wedge

Fry your basil leaves

Use this guide as inspiration to start plating your food in artful ways at home. Apply these tips at your next dinner party or on a weeknight when you need to spice things up!

(Read This Next: The Expert’s Guide on How to Cook Mouth-Watering Vegetables)

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What TO Stock for An APOCALYPSE, PART THREE

Right up there next to water, a top-priority need will be FOOD.

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 5.       THE FOOD you will need:

Since most of us will be short on water, dried beans and other foods that require lots of water for cooking may not work out too well. Dry beans also need a lot of cooking time, meaning more firewood or other fuel. Canned goods are a practical way to go (and most come with some liquid inside), though it would be hard to stock enough to last years. Plus, canned goods can get mighty unappetizing over time, and they will eventually spoil.

To survive well without getting malnourished, you’ll need protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and a little fat – the basic food groups, though meat and dairy aren’t essential. Unless you have your own well-guarded farm or hunting preserve, you can’t count on being able to eat meat. And if you’re growing your own food, in most cases you’ll get much more protein per acre by growing beans instead of animals. But chickens and milk goats can be very useful and will take up less space than other critters. You’ll need to learn some animal husbandry between now and the end of the modern world.

Whole proteins are made up of eight essential amino acids. Most beans and nuts have seven of those acids, while most grains have only one. To get whole protein from beans or nuts, you need a companion grain to eat with them, in order to make the protein complete. Think beans and rice, beans with tortillas, beans with cornbread, hummus and crackers, peanut butter sandwiches (made with pancakes or biscuits cooked over an open fire).

Soybeans have the full eight essential amino acids, but they take a ton of time and water to cook. My personal experience with them (which is extensive) is that they aren’t digestible unless they’ve been pressure-cooked for at least an hour, and pressure cookers can be dangerous and hard to come by. Soybean skins tend to plug up the vent holes. If the cooker isn’t removed from the fire immediately and the skin isn’t removed from the vent, the cooker could explode. People can get burned by the buildup of steam inside the cooker.

Soybeans are a pain in the ass (though probably less so than slaughtering meat). BUT, if you need whole protein, soybeans will provide it. The flavor’s not the best but it’s okay, the texture can be off-putting, but they’re not bad in tortillas with salsa and veggies. Once the beans are cooked, you can make decent patties out of them, if you have anything to flavor them with. Some women, like me for instance, can’t eat soybeans when they’re pregnant, and soy allergies are serious issues for many. If you have a lot of water, you can make soybeans into soy milk and tofu. There’s also tempeh, the making of which is an art-form.

You can make milk out of lots of things these days: almonds, oats, rice, hemp (my fave). I don’t have a clue how to make these things, but I’m sure you can figure it out—if you get to googling while the internet still works.

In my novel, prepper Grandma Bea stocks barrels and bags of many kinds of beans, flours, oatmeal, rice, cooking oil, peanut butter, coffee, salt and pepper. She has cases of canned goods—mostly soup, chili, and stew, and cases of powdered milk and eggs.

 6.       GROWING FOOD

If you want to get serious about providing for long-term survival (or if you just want to live more sustainably), you will need to do more than stockpile food. You need to set yourself up with ways to grow it. Think garden beds full of rich soil, compost piles, bee hives for honey, fruit trees and vines, and ways to scare off the birds and critters. And you need to stockpile seeds that suit your soil, drainage, and growing season, along with plenty of organic fertilizer and the tools and equipment to help it all grow. You’ll need to get creative about where and how to grow this food: in your suburban yard, inside in front of your windows, in pots and buckets and barrels, on rooftops and ledges, along fences, etc., etc.

  My main character, Bea, has fresh tomatoes, peppers, squash, greens, purple hull peas, and herbs growing in pots and in her garden. She has a second garden full of root veggies, and she has a bee hive installed in an exterior wall. A few neighbors have chickens. One family has some rabbits. When the neighbors finally get organized, Bea has plans for urban farming that involve building gardens and compost piles in yards and vacant lots, and later plowing up front yards for cornfields, plus the neighborhood park to try growing winter wheat and other grains in the scorching Texas heat.

7.       STORING & PRESERVING FOOD

In my novel, Bea has a root cellar full of root veggies: russet and sweet potatoes, carrots, garlic, and onions. Beets don’t grow so well in Texas as far as I know (meaning, I don’t actually know). Turnips are, well, turnips, but they last a long time in cool, dry storage. Parsnips, rutabagas, and Jerusalem artichokes are other good root veggies to grow and store.

Root cellars are awesome if you can keep them from filling with ground water. Being under the earth tends to keep the temperatures nice for storage of food with a long shelf-life, like root veggies and—for a lesser length of time—compact cabbages, pumpkins, and winter squash (butternut, acorn, etc.)

Though impractical when water is scarce, home canning is also a good way to store food. Many foods can be dried, which requires water only for cleaning before and after drying. Of course, you will need water to reconstitute most dried foods before you eat them, with dried fruit and jerky being the primary exception to this, and field corn, which can be ground into cornmeal.

On top of growing and preserving food, you also need to know how to preserve seed, since there will be no new seed catalogs, no seed companies. The Seed Savers Exchange is one of many good resources for this: https://www.seedsavers.org/how-to-save-seeds.

Remember that you’ll also need biodiversity (more than one kind of seed for each veggie) to give you better odds that some types will survive a blight, fungus, or insect attack. You need ways to deal with such problems with the things you have on hand. And you need to protect your pollinators: bees, wasps, butterflies, etc. Know your bugs and learn to distinguish the helpful ones from the harmful ones. Crickets can be eaten (sorry, but you may need to know this someday).

 I could go on about food forever (I already have, lol), but going further would be beyond the scope of this blog. My advice is to get busy studying up.

If all else fails, you can follow the example of Mad Max in ROAD WARRIOR and chow down on delicious cans of dog food.

We may find ourselves eating this poor guy out of our backyard someday:

STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE INSTALLMENTS OF “WHAT TO STOCK FOR AN APOCALYPSE.”

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Get in touch with the Symegaingredients and find a way to mix some of these pure ingredients to get the natural food coloring solution you want. Maybe try some saffron with a hint of beet powder. As talked about earlier in natural food coloring solutions, you should use blueberries to make food purple. But to achieve one of the alluringly vibrant purples purple yam sweet potato is your friend - Flavour solutions.

Symega Ingredients products cater to people with food allergies and intolerances. We suggest storing the product in the fridge or freezer to ensure stability in extreme temperatures and preserve color depth. Best before date information is information only and we recommend using your judgment as to whether you wish to use the product after its best before date. Other natural pink sources include strawberries, raspberries and pomegranates, which you should use whole or extract the juice from for color and flavor cakes, icings, dough’s, and fillings.

If you are a retailer interested in selling or using our products go to wholesale. There are so many eye catching colors to choose from, so let your creativity stuff run. If anyone has any creations they would like to share with us. For more information, please visit our site -https://symega.com/