Hemp Picnic Recipes In Honor of Hemp History Week Prep Time: 8 minutes Servings: 2-3 (double the recipe to serve four) Salad Ingredients 1 head butter lettuce 1 large beet 2 tbsp hemp seeds ¼ cup feta cheese Dressing 3 radishes 1 tbsp hemp seeds ¼ cup organic grapeseed oil Juice of 1 lemon 1 garlic [...]
Hemp Picnic Recipes In Honor of Hemp History Week * Dehydrator needed Prep time: 30 minutes to make, 14 hours to dehydrate Servings: 11 cookies Ingredients 1 cup raw shelled hemp seeds 1 cup raw walnuts 2 apples 1 pear 1 cup dried fruit mix of choice (I used SuperBerry Symphony from Essential [...]
Good Nutrition is one of the most important steps for recovery after a race or training session. In LA YOGA's MarchYogi Food feature, we asked some noted athletes and food experts to share their favorite smoothie and shake recipes. Blythe Metz shared her Chia Banana Breakfast Shake: Ingredients: 1). 1 scoop Growing Naturals Vanilla Protein 2). [...]
Good Nutrition is one of the most important steps for recovery after a race or training session. In LA YOGA's MarchYogi Food feature, we asked some noted athletes and food experts to share their favorite smoothie and shake recipes. Blythe Metz shared her Chocolate Chia Shake: Ingredients: 1). 1 scoop Chocolate Protein 2). 1 scoop Powdered [...]
Raw Chocolate Ice Cream (Easiest recipe ever, best chocolate ice cream ever!) Prep time: 3 min Yield: 2 servings Ingredients: 4 bananas peeled, broken up, and frozen ¼ cup rice milk or freshly made almond milk 2 Tbsp raw cacao powder Directions: Simply combine frozen bananas with rice milk and raw cacao powder in blender [...]
Chocolate Honey Salt Scrub ~ bath recipe Raw chocolate is a nourishing ingredient for beauty treatments. Use this Chocolate Honey Salt Scrub once or twice a week for glowing skin. The chocolate scrub allows the powerful Vitamin C and skin-building minerals to be directly absorbed. It fills the shower or bath with the decadent aroma [...]
Health benefits of our Valentine’s indulgence Our perception of chocolate has taken a complete 180-degree turn since my childhood, when my mom used to advise, “Don’t eat chocolate, your skin will break out.” As our collective awareness has progressed, we have come to understand that the ingredients that are often commercially mixed in with chocolate, [...]
Hemp in the Kitchen Beyond stereotypes—hemp is a nutritious superfood. George Washington said it best, “Oh, the mighty hemp seed; sow it everywhere.” Our forefathers reaped the financial and industrial harvest of this versatile crop used for fuel, food, clothing, building materials, skin care products, biodegradable plastics, paper, and more. It wasn’t until 1937 [...]
The Chia Seed: A New, Old and Raw Alternative By Blythe Metz Photos by Carla Cummings http://home.earthlink.net/~carlacummings/ The chia seed is an exceptionally nutritious and versatile food. This small black seed, made famous in the 1980s by the Chia Pet, tops the charts for foods with high levels of bioavailable omega 3 fatty acids, fiber, protein, [...]