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sensational salads

• Use sprouts instead of croutons in soups.
Sensational Salad • Add them to any salad recipe you enjoy. If the sprouts are

too large, chop them up into smaller pieces. You’ll never
Explosion know they’re in there.
• Make a romaine lettuce wrap (see recipe on p. 275),
or take any green leafy vegetable, and load it up with sprouting
imple, classic salads…energizing salads…bright and BRING ON THE SPROUTS sprouts.
Svibrant salads…salads with fruit, nuts, and every raw Of all raw foods available, sprouts offer the highest level • Juice sprouts for an energy-boosting drink. You may tips:
ingredient imaginable… We’re witnessing an era of an of nutrition. Sprouts—considered “superfoods”—are seeds, combine them with other juices, such as cucumber and
unprecedented sensational salad explosion. Salad has be- beans, legumes, nuts, and grains that have been germi- celery. • Purchase only high-quality,
come a go-to item that everyone craves, whether at a lav- nated (soaked in water) and have just begun to grow. They • Skip the lettuce and make sprouts the bulk of your salad. untreated, sproutable organic
ish buffet, as a yummy, healthful addition to an everyday are truly “living foods” since they continue growing and the • Any time you eat crackers, eat sprouts with them to fa- seeds.
meal, or as a meal in itself. The colors, the flavors—and nutrients keep on multiplying right up to the moment they cilitate digestion. • Rinse sprouts more frequently
who doesn’t love the crunch that accompanies a beauti- are eaten. They are raw, natural, unprocessed foods that • Try sprouts in your sandwiches, or with avocado, tuna, or in dry weather. Once they dry
ful salad? have their enzymes, vitamins, and minerals intact. Therefore scrambled eggs. out, the seeds are ruined.
Whether one is watching one’s waistline or not, salads sprouts are not only the freshest foods available, but they’re In this chapter, you’ll find several delicious, chock-full- • All sprouts do better wrapped
have a universal appeal. A salad can brighten a meal, en- also the most energy-rich, nutrient-packed, and life-giving of-nutrients sprout salads. Because if you want more vital- or kept in the dark until they
liven a meal, or be a meal. So, bring on the greens! foods you can consume. ity, eat sprouts. are ready to green.
Sprouts are chock-full of nutrients. When any plant be-
RAW FOODS gins to grow, it will start with a little sprout. Hashem be- • Sprouting time will depend
Raw foods are plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, stows this young plant with lots of nutrients because a on the temperature. Warmth
and herbs that contain high levels of nutrition. They of- whole new plant or tree must grow from it. Therefore, when will make the sprouts shoot up
fer the body unsurpassed vitality that can’t be gained eaten, sprouts provide an abundance of oxygen, antioxi- faster.
from cooked, canned, processed, or frozen foods. Fresh dants, helpful enzymes, vitamins, and minerals that were • Eat sprouts with the seeds at-
produce also possesses significantly higher levels of fiber, not present in the original seed. tached.
a necessary component of a healthy diet. An additional • To attain all the benefits of
benefit is that the nutrients packed in raw foods are more HOW TO INCORPORATE MORE SPROUTS sprouts, sprouts should be
readily absorbed by the body than even vitamins and IN YOUR DAILY DIET consumed raw. If cooking is
supplements. Sprouting is by far the least expensive and easiest way desired, don’t overcook, since
There is an abundance of variety when it comes to veg- to get incredible nutrition (see p. 136 for tips on how to their crispness will disappear.
etables. It goes way beyond the standard romaine or ice- grow sprouts). The importance of sprouts in a daily diet are Cooking time should be only
berg lettuce. Colors, flavors, and nutrients abound. When not to be underestimated! If you’re having trouble eating long enough to remove the raw
choosing your vegetables, keep in mind the differences your sprouts or just want new ways to enjoy them, try some flavor.
between the various kinds. of these suggestions:

102 HEALTHY EVER AFTER Berry Sauce (p. 394) or fresh berries. and lightly browned. Top with Cook until the waffles are crisp the batter into the waffle maker. Heat the iron. Pour ½–¾ cup of iron with nonstick cooking spray. until smooth. uids to the dry ingredients and stir ter or oil, and vanilla. Add the liq- milk or milk substitute, water, but- namon. sugar, salt, baking soda, and cin- 3. Lightly coat the inside of a waffle 2. In a separate bowl, mix the eggs, 1. I

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