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  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Simply Sprout Beans

    by Melanie Albert, Nutrition and food expert, author and speaker, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC, Phoenix, AZ

    A New View of Healthy Eating: Today’s Motivational Card

    Simply Sprout Beans

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    A New View of Healthy Eating: Try mung beans

    Awesome First Sprouting Experience. It was a year ago when I really started to sprout beans, while taking the Professional Plant-based Culinary Course with Rouxbe. I was in Florida visiting my parents and we decided to experiment with all kinds of organic beans (mung, adzuki, green lentils) and a few seeds (sunflower and broccoli). We ended up sprouting about 12 quart jars of beans in a week and harvested so much we shared with neighbors.

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    First bean and seed Sprouting Experience: Exceeded our expectations.

    Popular Mung Beans. Today, our focus is mung beans, which are the most widely eaten sprout on our planet. The sprouting process releases dormant enzymes that make the beans more easily digestible and in some cases, even more nutritious.

    Eat Mung Beans Raw or Cooked. Mung beans, a great plant-protein, are very easy and fun to sprout, and can be eaten raw or cooked. Raw mung beans add a nice crunch on top a salad, avocado salsa, or hummus. And can be cooked for added protein in a veggie stir-fry or soup, and have been used in many Chinese dishes for centuries.

    6 Simple Steps to Sprout Mung Beans
    1. Soak ¼ cup mung beans in a few cups of water for 8-12 hours out of direct sunlight
    2. Rinse beans and place them in a wide mouth quart Mason jar with a wire lid
    3. Rinse beans with water 2-4 times a day
    4. After each rinsing, rest jar on a slant, so any extra water can drain
    5. Harvest beans 2-5 days
    6. Enjoy raw or cooked!

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  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Avocado Salsa Day!

    by Melanie Albert, Nutrition and food expert, author and speaker, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    Today my 89 year old Dad chose our card from “A New View of Healthy Eating, 55-Card Deck.”

     Avocado Salsa Day

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    Fortunately, we have a few organic avocados, fresh garlic, dehydrated local Arizona tomatoes in our home as a base for our avocado salsa.

    With intuitive cooking, making avocado salsa is so simple:

    Intuitive Recipe Guide

    • Squeeze ripe avocado into bowl.
    • Squeeze ¼ fresh lemon and dash of sea salt on avocado and massage the avocado.
    • Add an herb: chopped cilantro or basil.
    • Add-in your favorite veggies, such as rainbow carrots, cucumbers, green onions.
    • Mix in extras: Olives, sprouted mung beans.

    I’ll being going to the Sunseed Coop in Cape Canaveral, FL, to see what extras are available and will make my batch of avocado salsa this evening.

    Look forward to seeing photos of your creative avocado salsas on Facebook.

    Available Now: “A New View of Healthy Eating, 55-Card Deck.”

  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Eat What You Love

    by Melanie Albert, Food and nutrition expert, author, speaker, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC.

    Our card today from my new “A New View of Healthy Eating, A 55-Card Deck”:

    Eat What You Love

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    A New View of Healthy Eating, A 55-Card Deck: Eat What You Love

    I was very excited about his message today, as I have one of my favorite foods in my home right now, organic dark chocolate, which I will definitely enjoy.

    To me, the message around this card is to give ourselves permission to eat and enjoy foods that we may have deprived ourselves from eating in our past or even today.

    I invite you, right now, to grab a piece of paper and pencil and do the following exercise:

    • Step 1: Write down all of the foods that you absolutely love. Be creative. Write down all of the foods, even from spices, to olive oil, to fruits, to veggies, to snacks, to beverages.
    • Step 2: Now, draw a circle around 5 of those foods that you generally deprive yourself of. That is, you love the food, but you do not eat that food.
    • Step 3: Draw another circle around one of those 5 foods that you commit to eat this week. Choose your food that you will, right now, give yourself unconditional permission to eat. Unconditional permission to eat with joy!
    • Step 4: Say out loud with passion: “I love my life and I give myself unconditional permission to eat_________________” (fill in your food)
    • Step 5: Go out and purchase your food or go out to a restaurant and enjoy your food with a friend.
    • Step 6: Share your experiences with us on Facebook. Would love to see your photos of you enjoying your “eat what you love food” and how this experience was for you.

    Often when we do this “eat what you love” exercise in classes and workshops, people give themselves permission to eat chocolate cake. Pizza is always on the top of the list. Many love ice cream. Do you relate?

    Have fun and really enjoy your food this week!

     

  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Try a New Food

    by Melanie Albert, Author, Nutrition & food expert, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    Now that my new “A New View of Healthy Eating, A 55-Card Deck” is in my hands, I will be sharing a few cards with you each week. It is my intention to motivate you to take action around food in a positive way, with new ways to shop, new culinary skills, trying a new recipe, eating mindfully, or adding a little self care in your life.

    Today, our card is:  Try a New Food. Not all radishes are red.

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    A New View of Healthy Eating: Try a New Food

    In November, while shopping at a local Phoenix farmers market for a catering event for the non-profit, Mankind USA, there were many different colored radishes available, so I actually purchased all of them, from bright red, to white, to purple, to watermelon radish. I knew we would be roasting roots for the event, so I bought the rainbow of radishes. We also used the radishes raw for dipping in the amazing hummus. When eaten raw, radishes are often a little spicy and when roasted they become naturally sweet.

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    Not all Radishes are Red

    A farmers’ market is the perfect place to experiment with new foods, you have never tried before. Look for a food you do not recognize, ask the farmer about it, and they may also give you ideas on how to prepare it.

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    Look at the beautiful purple radish!

    I invite you to visit a farmers’ market or natural market, and buy one, just one, new-to-you fresh veggie. Come over to Facebook (www.Facebook.com/NewViewHealthyEating) and share a photo of your new veggie with us and how you prepare it. We can give you suggestions on how to prepare it.

    Most important, have fun and enjoy new, interesting food this week.

    The first printing of the new “A New View of Healthy Eating, A 55-Card Deck” is now available to purchase on our website: www.EXPNutrition.com

  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Philosophies: Part 1: Eat Real Whole Foods

    by Melanie Albert, Food & nutrition author and speaker, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC, Phoenix, AZ

    A New View of Healthy Eating begins with the food we choose to eat, and extends to our shopping, cooking and eating experiences.

    The key philosophies are:

    • Eat real whole foods
    • Shop local and in season
    • Enjoy intuitive shopping
    • Cook with intuition
    • Eat mindfully
    • Enjoy life
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    A New View of Healthy Eating: Eat real whole foods.

    Eat real whole foods. Eat foods that are in their natural form, as nature created them. Focus on plants, local, in-season foods. Focus on organic. When we eat real whole foods, we get more nutrition from the foods, we get all of the fiber from the foods, and we receive the energy from the Earth. When we focus on organic we choose to eat food that is “clean”, without pesticides or herbicides, and that are not genetically modified (not GMO).

    Real whole foods include: vegetables, fruit, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds, and wild salmon. It’s quite simple. The recommended foods in A New View of  Healthy Eating are primarily in alignment with an Anti-inflammatory way of eating as advocated by Andrew Weil, MD, the Mediterranean way of eating, and the Blue Zones, as researched by National Geographic, Dan Beuttner and his team.

    “Real whole foods are real. Think actual fruit, vegetables, fruits, grains in their whole from, like brown rice, beans such as garbanzo or lentils, nuts & seeds, and wild cold-water fish, like wild salmon.”  – Melanie Albert

    Your reflection: I invite you to think about the food you have been eating during in the past few days and share with us where you are with whole food eating at this point in time with your life. Come over to our new Facebook page www.facebook.com/newviewhealthyeating 

    BRAND NEW: AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE NOW: First edition of our new “A New View of Healthy Eating: A-55 Card Deck” with daily motivational tips, culinary techniques, recipes, shopping suggestions and self care.

  • A New View of Healthy Eating: A 55-Card Deck

    By Melanie Albert, Nutrition & Food Author & Speaker, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC, Phoenix, Arizona

    I’m very excited to announce the launch of my very first card deck, “A New View of Healthy Eating” A 55-Card Deck, as a companion to my Spring 2016 book. As some of you are aware I have been a little quiet during this Thanksgiving holiday to intently focus on creating this deck.

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    A New View of Healthy Eating Card Deck  Layout Ready to Print

    Order Today, November 29, 2015. I will be placing my initial order today, so if you are interested in receiving one of the very first decks, I will include your deck in my order. Expected arrival, December 9, 2015.

    Celebration Pot-Luck in Phoenix. For those of you who live in Arizona, purchase your Card Deck before December 31, 2015 and come to a special celebration pot-luck (with a new culinary experience) on January 9, 2016, 3-5pm at my home in Phoenix.

    The intention of the card deck’s daily motivational messages around food is to inspire you to approach the food you and your family eat, a little differently, that is, with a new view.

    A New View of Healthy Eating begins with the food we choose to eat, and extends to our shopping, cooking and eating experiences.

    A New View of Healthy Eating Philosophies

    • Eat real whole foods
    • Shop local & in season
    • Enjoy the process of intuitive shopping
    • Cook with culinary skills & your intuition
    • Eat mindfully

    55 Motivational Tips in Card Deck

    • Food Shopping
    • Simple Culinary Techniques
    • Whole Food Recipes
    • Nutrition
    • Mindful Eating

    When you receive your card deck, I invite you to intuitively choose a card every day and incorporate that one “new view of healthy eating” into your life.  And, share your experiences and food creations with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Experience.Nutrition.Now

    The ultimate goal is to enjoy food & life!