What to do with sprouts?

[Guest guest]

I recently started eating sprouts because they are really healthy, but

I just don't like them. I have been blending them into green

smoothies so I can't taste them and that has worked well. Does anyone

have any ideas or recipes to disguise the taste? If I had more ideas

on what to do with them, it would really make it easier. I do like

sunflower sprouts but I haven't been able to get them from the sprout

guy I go to and have not attempted to sprout them myself yet.

 

Thanks,

Susanne

[Guest guest]

> I recently started eating sprouts because they are really healthy,

but

> I just don't like them.

 

What kind are you eating? Alfalfa? Other kinds? I like alfalfa, but I

can taste them in my smoothie from a mile away and I don't like that.

Sunflower are excellent, and easy to grow! Sprouts are so important,

good for you! Erica

[Guest guest]

Erica,

 

I have only had clover and sunflower. Can sprouts be juiced? I was

thinking it would be a great way to disguise the taste.

 

Susanne

 

rawfood , " Erica " <schoolofrawk wrote:

>

>

> > I recently started eating sprouts because they are really healthy,

> but

> > I just don't like them.

>

> What kind are you eating? Alfalfa? Other kinds? I like alfalfa, but

I

> can taste them in my smoothie from a mile away and I don't like

that.

> Sunflower are excellent, and easy to grow! Sprouts are so important,

> good for you! Erica

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Suzanne,

 

I don't like clover sprouts or sunflower sprouts either. But I find pea sprouts

sweet and

delicious. And I've always loved alfalfa. In small doses, that is. When I was

about 3 I used

to stuff my mouth full of it and call it " cow food " . And home-sprouted red

lentils are

simply my favorite food ever. Some raw foodists follow some philosophy that

says all

legumes are toxic, but I prefer to follow my instincts, and this has helped me

enormously

to regain my health.

 

I recommend you try several different varieties of sprouts before deciding you

don't like

any of them! They vary widely! But I do agree with Elchanan on this point: don't

eat what

tastes bad to you in its whole raw state. Ideally, eat what tastes good to you

in its whole

raw state--notice this eliminates the option of pizza, because it is neither

whole nor raw--

or if you can afford to, financially and health-wise (you're not currently in

severe health

crisis), go for a gradual transition with plenty of raw gourmet alternatives.

Ideal or not, it's

better than pizza and ice cream, right? Congratulate yourself! Enjoy yourself!

 

If you feed yourself foods you don't like because you think they're " healthy "

you risk

creating an unconscious association in your mind between " health " or " raw foods "

and

negative feelings, which could severely backfire on you down the line.

 

Your body has a great way of telling you what it needs and when it needs it:

taste! But it

doesn't work so well when it gets confused by blending to disguise taste. Make

discovering new raw/whole tastes a fun and pleasurable game, not a duty to

health, and

that way you won't be neglecting your spirit, which also needs TLC!

 

Sprouted peas and love,

 

-Storm

 

 

 

> " susanneca799 " <susanne wrote:

> I have only had clover and sunflower. Can sprouts be juiced? I was

> thinking it would be a great way to disguise the taste.

>

> Susanne

>

> rawfood , " Erica " <schoolofrawk@> wrote:

> >

> >

> > > I recently started eating sprouts because they are really healthy,

> > but

> > > I just don't like them.

> >

> > What kind are you eating? Alfalfa? Other kinds? I like alfalfa, but

> I

> > can taste them in my smoothie from a mile away and I don't like

> that.

> > Sunflower are excellent, and easy to grow! Sprouts are so important,

> > good for you! Erica

> >

>