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Hi Everyone and Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful caring mothers out there. We work tirelessly everyday to provide the best we can for our children and to give them the best nutrition this world has to offer!!! We work hard to raise them with the right values and to give them the right information and guidance about choosing whole plant-based food nutrition and why it is important to eat right and not give in to the SUGAR BOWL!!!! We want only the best for our children and to not see them grow up to be obese and full of diseases caused by processed foods and sugar.
My Hat is off to all of you who work so hard for your children!! I know that I, myself, have given up alot of my own free time to spend with my daughter Samantha, teaching her how to cook and how to choose the right foods to make her grow up to be strong and healthy. I even have her reading the labels in the grocery store!! Peoples head just turn when they hear an 8 year old read a label on a food product and say to me, ” Oh mom, this has 24 grams of sugar per serving. We can’t have this one!! I have her reading the fiber,sodium,and sugar grams on each label for me so that she can understand why I say no to soda pop and store bought cookies, frozen pancakes, non organic pasta sauce etc. Even some organic products have too much sugar so have to be careful what you choose. Always read the labels on all products.
I wanted to share with you my new venture with cultured raw vegetables and why it is important to consume them. I have made about 4 batches of the raw cultured cabbage and carrot vegetables and I have to tell you that I totally enjoy eating this everyday.
I got the basic recipe out of Kimberley Snyders book, “ The Beauty Detox Solution ” and have added my own twist on it as well.
In Kimberleys book, she writes about the benefits of consuming cultured vegetable before each meal to aid in digestion and to help with cleansing. She calls it her Probiotic and Enzyme Salad.
This is what she writes: Probiotic & Enzyme Salad is composed of raw, cultured vegetables that have been chopped and left in airtight glass containers at room temperature for several days. This allows the beneficial lactobacilli and enzymes that are already naturally present in the vegetables to flourish, creating a food that is extremely rich in probiotics ( friendly bacteria), enzymes and minerals. It is really raw sauerkraut. Commercial sauerkraut is loaded with refined salt and pateurized to high temperatures, which destroys its important benefits. Raw sauerkraut is a powerful source of probiotics and enzymes – two essentials for healthy digestion, improved beauty energy and ongoing cleansing.
Kimberley goes on to say that she is now convinced that raw, cultured vegetables are among the most important foods of our modern day. As they are powerful, extremely helpful weapons to clean out sludge, and to look younger and more radiant.
Raw cultured vegetables are teaming with potent friendly bacteria and enzymes. It helps digest other foods that are eaten with it, faster, freeing up energy. She also goes on to say that it helps to reduce sugar cravings for sweets and helps us lose weight as well.
Here is Kimberley’s Recipe:
Probiotic and Enzyme Salad ( yields approx. 12 cups )
You will need four 24 – ounce clean glass jars that have been sterilized .
Base Ingredients
1 medium head green cabbage, shredded in a food processor or finely sliced by hand
Leave 6 of the large outer leaves to the side, intact
Liquid Brine Mixture
4 cups water
4 inches gingerroot,peeled and grated
1 Tbs. unpasteurized miso paste
Directions
Place the shredded cabbage in a large mixing bowl. Blend the liquid brine in a VitaMix blender and pour over the shredded cabbage. Mix very well. Pack the mixture into the glass jars. Use a wooden spoon to really pack the mixture in tightly ( Don’t want air pockets) Leave 2 inches of room at the top of the jars so the salad has room to expand. Fold a few of the outer cabbage leaves into very tight rolls and place them on top of the mixture to fill that 2 inch space. Tightly close the jars.
Leave the jars in your pantry for 5 days. Be sure room temp is about 65 to 70 degrees.After 5 days, remove the outer cabbage leaves and discard. Move the jars to the refrigerator( which slows down the fermentation process). Bubbling is a good sign that healthy probiotics are teeming.
Unveil your Probiotic and Enzyme Salad and enjoy at least 1/2 cup at denner every night, and also at lunch, when possible. Once the seal is broken on the jar, the salad will keep in the fridge for up to 1 month.
My Twist to this Recipe
1 medium green cabbage
1 small red cabbage
5 peeled and grated carrots
(all organic)
Brine Mixture is the same except I add 1 tsp of celtic sea salt
When I first tryed this, I kind of didn’t like it but once I had it a time or two, I quite enjoy having it at every meal. I enjoy my version a little better as it has salt and carrots and vibrant color!
I hope you like experimenting with new foods as much as I do. It is very rewarding.
Hope you all had a wonderful Mothers Day!!
Clinkin still with greens.
Carrie
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Interesting! How much of this salad does one need to eat before a meal? And is that once a day or at every meal?
yeah, Carrie! Will print this out and try it. Thanks so much, Anna
I did something similar to this last week! But I didn’t use miso. I used apple cider vinegar and sea salt and it turned nicely after a few days. Made an excellent coleslaw!
I’ll have to look but I’m assuming the miso I have in my fridge from the Asian grocery is pasteurized. Where do you get yours, Carrie?
Thx,
Anna
Hi Christine,
You only need about 1/2 cup or the raw slaw with your dinner meal( I like to eat it before my main meal because then I fill up on that and then don’t eat as much of everything else
) I do however, eat 1/2 cup of this before eating my large green salad at lunch as I want to get as much of the healthy enzymes and friendly bacteria built up in my system to help with elimination of toxins. Kimberley says you can eat it once or twice a day with your meal or just before. I hope this helps.
Thanks for reading my post and if you try this, let me know how it turns out for you.
Carrie
Hi Melanie,
I love apple cider vinegar especially mixed with a pinch of celtic salt and grapeseed oil on my green salads. Brings out the flavor so much more!! I was thinking of trying it with the apple cider vinegar. I will try this next batch. Thanks, how much did you add for your batch?
Carrie
Hi Anna,
Thanks for reading my post. How are you? You will love this one when you try it. It is messy and alittle work but well worth it!!
I bought my unpasturized miso in the health food store in the fridge section. I don’t have a whole foods store here where I live in Canada but I bet they carry it. Just a quick question for you, is whole foods quite expensive and is there another chain of healthy organic supermarkets in the states that you would recommend. I hope to visit one while we are vacationing down into California for 5 weeks in July/Aug. 
Thanks Anna,
Also, have you ever had a live blood cell analysis done? I am having this done on thursday afternoon to see if my inner body is healing and if I still have any issues to take care of.
Take care and clinkin along with ya!!!
Carrie
Hi Carrie,
I am doing great. It’s a wonderful, busy time of year (probably for all of us!)
No, I haven’t had a live blood cell analysis but would love to hear how you feel about it after you get it done. I did pick up the book from the library (beauty detox) and am interested in reading it. The cabbage salad really interests me and I can’t wait to make it but will get a ‘healthier’ miso next time I’m at Whole Foods. I am lucky that I live right down the street from a Whole Foods and a Trader Joe’s — not quite the same but both excellent. I like the bulk foods and produce at Whole Foods but do a lot of shopping at Trader Joe’s. If you can find a TJ’s when you’re here in the States, I would recommend that. It has a lot of great products. Whole Foods would be good to look at their bulk foods, though and specialty product. Thanks for your wonderful posts!! I’m busy trying to start up a garden(s) but love to touch base with you and the gang here. I can’t wait to use my vitamin and dehydrator on all my summer produce. This Monday, I’m going to a raw foods cooking class which will be a lot of fun:) Cheers, Anna
@ Carrie: Thanks for your guidance; will give the slaw a try. As for health food stores: before I travel I do web searches to try to find health food stores near wherever I’m going. Which part of California will you be visiting It’s a pretty big state (it takes about 15-16 hours to drive the length of CA and about 4-5 hours to drive with width) some parts will have LOTS of choices and some parts will have none. We were very lucky last month visiting Vancouver; there was a Whole Foods about 10 minutes from our hotel. I’ll help you any way I can.
Hi Christine,
Thanks so much! I appreciate the help
We will be traveling down the southern part of the oregon coast and then into northern coastal California. Making our way through San Francisco and down to Anaheim where we will be playing and staying at Disney land for 9 days. Then we are headed to San Diego for a couple to do Sea World, San Diego Zoo, and what ever else we can fit in. (Oh, forgot Knotsberry farms by disneyland as well 
) We are traveling with 5 people in a moterhome and we are not towing a vehicle so have to hoof it or trolley it or taxi it etc to wherever we want to go once we are parked. I want to definitely take in some local farmers markets while we are in San Diego (been checking them out online as well as whole foods locations thanks) and I would like to visit a U pick orchard so we can pick some orange, lemons or grapefruit right off of the trees. We obviously don`t have that up here in Canada so would like to do this with the family and taste the difference instead of from our local supermarket. My husband couldn`t care less ( he is still a non health food person 
) but he will stop I think because he knows it is important to me!!!
If you know of any great organic orchards in and around anaheim or san diego zoo area or any great farmers markets that are close to disneyland area that you have tryed, would sure appreciate the review or recommendations!!
As for the cultured veggies, I have now made my fourth batch and it has turned out well too. I really have been enjoying them. Hungary for Change on Facebook just talked about the important of cultured veggies and the importance of probiotic foods in our diets. Check them out on face book!!
Thanks for wanting to help! Well appreciated!!! Can`t wait to leave. We start our adventure on June 29th thru to Aug 8th.
Carrie
Hi Anna,
Well went for my live blood analysis on thursday and I have discovered that I still have much work to do.
Who am I kidding! What I have done to my body for the first 44 years isnt going to disappear after eating (mostly) properly for that last year and a half)!!! VERY, VERY, INTERESTING!!!! Will definitely be following up on it to see if my condition changes over the next few months.
Apparently, the reason why I probably dont feel as well as I should( I did feel lots of energy at first but now has kind of dwindled, even tho I am still juicing,smoothying,80% raw, you know ) is because I have a proteing linkage in my red blood cells. You can google this under live blood analysis and look up protein linkage to see what it looks like.
I have too much undigested protein and some fats causing my blood cells to stick together and it also shows that I am low in oxygen in my blood as well.There was a small sign that I have a bit of liver stress. She says this is probably caused by not digesting proteins and then the liver has to try and filter it through. Well holly smokes!!! I bet my regular doctor wouldnt have come up with that in an hours visit!! I would have been put through numerous, pain staking tests to probably not finding anything wrong. Then to just diagnose me with being stressed or the start of the change of life.
My blood analysis also showed that I need to relax a bit more and go with the flow and not be so GOT TO GET THIS DONE kind of attitude. My blood cell walls are very tight( hard to discribe) and she could read them well.
I am now taking Protease, a protein enzyme for digesting proteins. Heres hoping this works
I am also on a herbal cocktail to try and flush things thru to get my bowels working better again.
I will keep you posted on how I feel on this. I recommend you research this first and if you are curious, then by all means, go give it a try and see what your blood has to say
I am pleased with the results because it gives me some answers of why my bowels dont work as well as they should and why I am not losing any weight.
Until later my friend,
Carrie
Carrie, thanks so much for the info. You are so proactive about your health and quality of life that I’m sure you’ll get yourself to a place where you’re feeling great soon. It’s hard sometimes because we don’t really know that we’re not supposed to feel as tired or run down as we do (I don’t think I am anywhere near where I could be health-wise). There’s always so much to learn in this process. Thanks for turning me on to that beauty detox book. I’m interested in the cultured cabbage and at the farm market last week, I ran into a great vendor who sells all raw and vegan food and they sold a wonderful big (glass, ball jar) of cultured cabbage ‘starter’. It’s been sitting on my kitchen counter for several days and I’ve been taking a little out to put on my salads. The person who makes the starters is also an acupuncturist and herbalist (chinese medicine is his focus, I believe). Very cool stuff and I’m looking forward to enjoying this jar and then starting a new jar of my own recipe with the leftover juice). Life just points us in certain directions when the time is right and we’re ready for the info. I also took an interesting raw foods info/cooking class earlier this week and it was a lot of fun to see the energy she shared with us and great info.
Here’s to you, Carrie:)
Anna