Guest guest Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 thought this would be of interest. She always includes a raw recipe Wild Success® News and Updates Welcome to the new format for my newsletter. Let me know what you love about it. Let me know what else you would like to see. Food Eat better, spend less. Just last night a woman I met told me this is her desire. Not much is in season right now, so how can you save? Growing sprouts is a cheap way to get quality food that you know is fresh. Instead of paying $1.59 for a tub of alfalfa sprouts, grow your own for only PENNIES! There are many methods: a jar and old knee high or piece of cheesecloth and elastic band; sprouting jars sold in markets; sprout bags (my favorite and easiest to use); trays; or self-watering sprouters. You don't need soil or a lot of time or sunshine. I grow alfalfa, green pea, mung bean, broccoli, radish, lentil and chick pea sprouts. A lot of people want to eat organic and think it's expensive. Make choices. Buying conventional fruit with a hard skin, such as citrus fruit (oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes) or bananas is fine. I also buy conventional avocados and pineapples. Foods with thin skins are worth buying organic. This list would include apples, berries, pears, and cucumbers. It's probably best to buy organic root crops, too, since most of the nutrients are near the skin and you'll want to wash the vegetables and eat the skin rather than peel them. Buy root vegetables when they're on sale and then store them in your refrigerator or basement (you've heard of root cellars, right?) or your garage. If you're still thinking that you don't have time or know what to do, consider preparing meals ahead of time and making life easier. Right now you're probably spending less time outside and more time inside. Come late Sunday afternoon, why not turn on some music and choose to play in the kitchen? If you spend a little time chopping hard vegetables such as green or yellow zucchini, celery, radishes, carrots and onions, your salad is almost all made! Store them in an air-tight container and they will keep for 3-4 days. That's most of the week! All you need to do is add greens and you've got a salad! Beats paying $5 a day for lettuce and tomato, doesn't it? An alternative is to speed them through the food processor, add a little nut butter or mayonnaise (or favorite substitute) and mix. Then wrap the filling in nori (flat seaweed sheets) or a collard leaf or romaine lettuce. Nori and collard wraps will last about 2 days when stored in an airtight container. They taste even better if you sing while rolling them ;-) Life Balance Winter...hibernation...a great time to make observations about yourself. There are three key areas that greatly affect your happiness: confidence, curiosity, and relationship. Notice the areas of your life where you feel hesitant to try something new. These areas are probably where you are missing confidence. Rate your confidence on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is completely confident. Is your hesitance related to an ability that is missing or your willingness to try something new? Abilities can be learned. Willingness is something to explore internally. Play the what-if game. What will happen if you give up sugar? Make a list of everything you think will happen. "I can't eat mom's brownies or participate in the office birthday parties or bear baking cupcakes for my child's playgroup. I'll have to read labels on food. I can't eat out. I can't go to the coffeeshop with my friends anymore." Notice how some of these items are food related and some are social? Are they all true? Social situations merely call for strategies and building habits to increase comfort and confidence. Create a vision for what this situation would look like if you were successful. Embracing a strong vision will create strong motivation. What are you curious about? What do you love to learn about? Where do you spend countless hours and lose yourself? Is it doing puzzles or reading about how they are developed or the history of puzzles or famous puzzlers or creating puzzles? "Puzzles" is the subject area - it's great to keep a running list of interest areas. The descriptions are what aspect you enjoy discovering. Discovery keeps your mind sharp, keeps you entertained and happy and gives you interesting conversation-starters. As you work through post-holiday bills and consider your finances in this challenging time, think about your relationship with money. If money was a person, how would you describe the relationship? Are you close friends? Are you domineering or a victim? Do you communicate openly or covertly? Is your relationship boring and staid or do you keep it fresh and learn something new about your partner? Take some time to write down how you would describe this relationship to your best friend. Then consider (and write) how you wish the relationship would be. What can you do to change this relationship and make it healthier? After you've explored your relationship with money, consider applying this strategy to other areas of your life: career, fun (yes, many people ask me to coach them to have more fun in their lives), home, email, exercise. Energy Continuing our exploration of the chakra system, we look at the solar plexus today. This is sometimes called the third chakra. This chakra emanates from the area about two inches above the belly button and behind the stomach in both the front and the back of the body. It's associated with the ego, how you appear in the world and thinking. When your solar plexus chakra is compromised, you may feel anger, despair, loneliness, competitiveness, domineering and flaring emotions. You might not be taking very good care of yourself. When your solar plexus chakra is balanced and activated, you feel comfortable with yourself. Life feels balanced and you know your place in relation to other people and to the world. The solar plexus chakra is associated with the color yellow and may correspond to the stomach, lower back, liver, gall bladder, pancreas and spleen. If you feel that your solar plexus chakra is off balance, rest your hand on your belly and breath into your belly. Really notice the movement. It is best to do this with closed eyes. Gently rubbing your belly in a clockwise motion can be helpful. You may want to wear yellow clothes-not too bright, more like a golden yellow. Eat yellow foods (golden apples, bananas, grapefruit and grains such as quinoa). If you have a meditation practice, you may wish to burn a yellow candle while meditating or gently sniff a mixture of cinnamon and ginger. You might want to drink warm tea: cinnamon, ginger or peppermint. Contents News and updates Food Life Balance Energy Recipe Client Quote Classes Sprout Happy! Learn sprouting and how you can grow live, organic food in your kitchen for just pennies. See -- the FreshLife Sprouter -- hemp-flax bags -- plastic trays, and -- jar sprouting in action. Sunday, Jan 25 10:30 am -12:30 pm. $40 check or $45 paypal. Register with paypal here or call for address to send a check (301-816-0752). Raw Kitchen Learn how to create extra space in your kitchen and fit sprouting into your lifestyle. See and try a -- wheatgrass juicer -- Champion juicer -- Vitamix blender -- Magic Bullet -- spirooli and other gadgets. Sunday, Feb 8 10:30 am - noon. $45 check or $50 paypal. Register with paypal here or call for address to send a check (301-816-0752) Recipe Sprouted Quinoa Salad 1 cup quinoa, soaked 2-3 hours and drained. 1 cup, each, diced celery, carrot, cucumber, tomato ½ cup, each, radish, onion, parsley Mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, a table spoon of olive oil and a dash of salt. You can buy quinoa in the bulk bins or find it packaged near rice and other grains. When you soak the quinoa, they will develop little tails. If you soak longer that's okay, too. The key is to cover the dry grain with more water than it takes to cover it (since the grain will absorb the water). After draining the quinoa, add the chopped veggies. Leave out anything that doesn't appeal to you. Add other favorites - maybe an olive or three. Mix the lemon juice, olive oil and salt, pour over the salad and toss well. Yum! This can eaten at room temperature or warmed slightly if you prefer. If you enjoyed reading this newsletter, please consider forwarding it to a friend. If you received this from a friend, you can sign up for your own copy! Client Quote "Sharon, in her endless wisdom, has a unique gift of expanding minds, shaking things up, offering fresh perspective, and lending insights--Sharon's insight is genius, with a twist of humor and spunk!" ~ Katherine Pritchett, Feng Shui Consultant, Healer For personal consultation about eating habits, lifestyle coaching, or energy balancing, please call Sharon at 301-816-0752 to set up an appointment. And create a Wildly Successful day for yourself ;-) Wild Success, 11915 Parklawn Drive, North Bethesda, MD 20852, USA To or change r options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?7JysbBwMtMwcrOxs7BystEa0LEzMzMxsjA== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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