THURSDAY BASICS: Add Nettle to Meals

Welcome to Thursday. This week’s throwback blog arms you with an idea on how to get to Level 400 of Holistic Nutrition: add in the nettle. For the love of all body parts + systems, won’t you?

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THURSDAY BASICS: Batch Cook.

This week's Thursday Basics idea is one that I have implemented in my weekly approach to making meals an easier and more attainable task, and has evolved over time. In the last six or seven years, I have slowly winnowed out packaged and prepared foods from our family's regimen and have been aiming for more and more whole foods from scratch. It all started with my few years of working in the kitchen at my daughter's school, helping to prepare the school's hot lunches. Batch cooking is really at the heart of making meals for large groups, and some of these tenets can be taken into your own kitchen, albeit on a much smaller scale.

Let me save you that five years' of ruminating I did, and skip to the good part. BATCH COOKING ON THE WEEKEND. In do-able chunks.

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THURSDAY BASICS: soak seeds for smoothies

This post is for those early birds who are regular consumers of smoothies come morning time. This next in the series of #mondayhealthbasics goes over some basic easy steps you can take in order to make that smoothie really count and nourish you from head to toe. Today's tip will ensure you are better able to digest your morning elixir, and what kinds of things to add in order to make that breakfast smoothie sustain you for longer periods.  

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