I've returned once again to Brendan Brazier's The Thrive Diet---this book is like a bad habit I just can't seem to avoid.  It took me a few months to pick it up again after getting so sick from eating hemp, and I still haven't touched almond butter again since I associate it with the hemp, but here I am.  I got it back out because I'm training for ( Read more... )

I started some sprouts a couple days ago, and I'm happy to report that the quinoa ones are absolutely DELICIOUS!  I poured them out of the jar and haphazardly tasted one, and then a few, and then a handful, and then put a whole ton in a bowl and mixed them with almond butter and banana because I couldn't stop eating them--and it was way better than ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm posting this as a caution to any of you who might want to try recipes from this book I've been raving about for the past few posts.

BE CAREFUL with the smoothies in there.  They include flax/hemp oil, a tablespoon combined, which you put in the smoothie.  Something in the smoothie made me very sick and I think it was the oil and not the ( Read more... )

My second recipe from The Thrive Diet.  I always love crackers, and even make homemade crackers, so I thought this might be a cool healthy version to make.  Apparently you're supposed to keep the leftovers in the fridge in an uncovered container.

1/4 c. chickpea flour
1/4 c. cooked or sprouted lentils (I used cooked because my sprouts haven't grown ( Read more... )

So I'm not much of a salad-eater, but I'm going to try, in accompaniment to some changes I'm making after reading The Thrive Diet.  This was a salad I made from that book tonight, and it was actually ALMOST filling as a meal in and of itself.  And it was good enough that I kind of want more.  I might make it again tomorrow.  If you hate salad, this ( Read more... )

I just got Brendan Brazier's book The Thrive Diet.  It's about eating a vegan whole foods diet.  I've always been kind of afraid of eating raw for a variety of reasons (not wanting to feel hungry, not wanting to give up cooking when I love cooked food, etc) but this book is kind of selling me on the benefits of whole foods.  His recipes allow ( Read more... )