Dinner

Nightshade and Gluten Free Spaghetti Squash Pasta

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I’ve am currently following a strict nightshade and gluten free diet as you may have guessed from all the recipes I’ve been posting. I’ve been cooking a lot more, as almost all processed food and food in restaurants have ingredients that I need to avoid. I’m still eating plenty of raw food, and trying to stay low-glycemic. As a result, I have been experimenting a lot in the kitchen. I’ve will continue to post my successful dishes, so everyone (myself included) can easily reference these recipes for their own use.

Nightshade and Gluten Free Spaghetti Squash Pasta
 
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 1 Spagetti Squash
  • 3 cloves of garlic fermented in kefir whey (if you only have fresh garlic just add 1 to 2 cloves)
  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp sachi inchi oil
  • 1 handful of fresh basil
  • (optional) season with himalayan sea salt and black pepper
Instructions
  1. Cut spagetti squash in half, scoop out seeds. Place halves on cookie sheet, skin side down and bake for 45 minutes to an hour.
  2. Scoop out strands, then set aside.
  3. In your blender, preferably a Vitamix, blend garlic, apple cider vinegar, fresh basil, sach inchi oil, salt and pepper.
  4. Add sauce to squash and mix together.

Soups

Easy Blended Vegetable Soup

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Easy Blended Vegetable Soup
 
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 1 celery stalk
  • half an onion
  • 3 carrots
  • 1 cup of bone broth (or water)
  • 1 tsp himalayan sea salt
  • 1 tsp of black pepper
Instructions
  1. Boil and steam ingredients in a pot. Water can be subsituted for bone broth if following a vegan diet.
  2. Once cooked, add ingredients to a blender. An immersion blender will also work.
  3. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Snacks

Gluten Free Brown Rice Crackers

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Whenever, I get my period I want saltines and ginger ale to calm my cramps. Since starting on a gluten and nightshade free diet, I wanted an alternative when that time of the month came again. I had leftover brown rice in the fridge, so I thought I would make my own rice crackers. Shameer picked up some ginger kombucha from Whole Foods, which I drank instead of ginger ale.

Gluten Free Brown Rice Crackers
 
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 2 cups of cooked brown rice
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 tsp himalayan sea salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Then I blended all the ingredients in my Vitamix.
  3. Place parchment paper over a cookie sheet
  4. Spread ingredients over parchment paper as thin as possible. Season with more salt if desired.
  5. minutes into baking using a knife to draw a line where you want to break the crackers, to make it easier to break apart later.
  6. Then bake until golden brown. For a quart of an inch it took 30 to 45 minutes, thicker areas took longer.

 

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Snacks

Easy Candied Almonds

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Unfortunately, this recipe turned out too good. This snack was seriously addicting. Whether you are craving sugar or salt or fat, this has it all. I intended this to be a healthier (not healthy) snack for the movies, or a unprocessed dessert after dinner, but I found myself snacking on this all the time. Did I mention I love to snack? Plus, it was ridiculously easy to make a ton in a short amount of time.

Easy Candied Almonds
 
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Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • Maple Syrup (preferably Organic and Grade B)
  • Almonds
  • Himalayan Sea Salt
Instructions
  1. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 250 degrees
  2. In a bowl mix maple syrup, almonds and sea salt. Then spread over parchment paper. Try to keep them all in a single layer . It doesn't have to be perfect, they break apart easily when done.
  3. Cooks in the oven for 20-30 minutes, or until maple syrup is dried.
  4. Break apart almonds that in clumps, and enjoy.
Sides

Paleo Sweet Potato and Coconut Biscuits

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These yummy paleo sweet potato and coconut biscuits will help curve sugar cravings for breakfast or dessert. I am loving coconut flour right now. It smells amazing, is great for grain-free paleo recipes and the fat from coconut is heat stable and ideal for cooking.

Paleo Sweet Potato and Coconut Biscuits
 
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Serves: 4-6
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  • 1 small sweet potato (around ¾ to 1 cup)
  • 6 tbsp of coconut flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp coconut oil
  • a pinch of himalayan sea salt
Instructions
  1. Bake sweet potato in oven until soft. 350 degrees is best for baking biscuits later.
  2. Mix eggs, coconut flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl. Then mix in the sweet potato and coconut oil.
  3. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper
  4. Spoon biscuits onto paper, it makes nine biscuits .
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.

Health & Wellness

Top Five Tips to Save Money When Eating Healthy

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1. Cook More

This is perhaps the most important rule. The less you eat out, where you don’t know the ingredients or the quality of your food, the better your health and the happier your wallet.

2 . Grow Food

I live in an apartment that doesn’t get much light, so this particularly hard for me to manage, but I’ve grown sprouts and kefir grains in my kitchen, which are both considered cheap superfoods. Every little bit helps cut costs.

3. Avoid Packages

Not only are packages wasteful, but they tend to contain processed food with too many ingredients. The bulk aisle has some great stuff, if you want something nonperishable. I tend to get my snacks for the movies here, which saves me a ton.

4. Make Your Own Ingredients

Make your own stock. I like to make bone broth. I’ve been using the tallow from the bone broth as my cooking oil, and it’s been saving me money on coconut oil. I get cheese, yogurt, and vinegar from my kefir. I also make my own spice blends with the help of a coffee grinder. Ferment your own soda, and then add it to your own sorbet or ice cream, made with a high speed blender. The possibilities are endless for delicious food made from scratch.

5. Eat Less Animal Products

High quality grass-fed meats, eggs, and milk are expensive. Wild caught fish more so. I’m not saying go vegan, but vegan meals tend to be cheaper. That said, don’t overindulge on the cheap carbohydrates, your health will suffer. Instead, try to eat more vegetables and salads.

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