Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because you are breaking the fast your body has been in for the hours you have been sleeping. Your body craves nutrition but usually we give it junk in the form of sugary cereals, breads, muffins, bagels, donuts, pasteurized juices and fatty bacon. What is the alternative you ask as you think of your living food challenge breakfast, well here are some choices.
The simplest choice is what God gave Adam and Eve-- whole fruits. If I’m rushed or on the road, I always grab organic apples, organic bananas and a home made trail mix of our unsulfured pesticide free raisins, raw almonds and cacao nibs (for an iron boost). Naomi’s breakfast on the other hand would please the senses of the most critical artiste. Her fruit bowl is beautifully peeled and diced and right now consists of seasonal, organic fruit such as kiwi, pomegranate, orange, tangerine, pink and yellow grapefruit, apples. etc. She dresses the beautiful medley with soaked buckwheat groats and hemp seeds (hemp is a complete protein unlike animal proteins) etc.
I also prefer the indian breakfast of pinnees or “snow balls” You can watch the video at http://www.showmethecurry.tv/Tara+Hamilton+makes+Snowballs+on+Central+Valley. The recipe is very simple using half a pound of organic raw almonds, 1 pound of our unsulfured, moist, juicy raisins and the juice of one lemon. You roll these in coconut and they look like snow balls. You refridgerate them and they have a delicous firm texture. They stay good in the fridge all week and you don’t need to refridgerate them so they’re great for road trips too.
What to drink is the next question. The drink of champions is the water of a young coconut. We buy ours at the Asian market at First and Olive. We buy them by the case and ask them to take it out of the freezer at the back because the taste difference is night and day between those and the ones sitting out for who knows how long. This video shows you how to open this coconut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfo5BYR9yE0. My favorite part is the meat afterwards.
Another good option is orange juice which you may be able to glean from a neigbors yard who doesn’t spray chemicals. We are also blessed to live very close to an organic raw milk dairy, Organic Pastures. My husband says that their dairy doesn’t stink of manure like the mud cows standing ankle deep in their own manure at most dairies, it smells like a regular farm just like his uncles farm many years ago in Canada. Even if you are lactose intolerant you can digest raw milk. My kids love this stuff and it keeps them healthy Lastly, if you crave your caffeine, make a cold press coffee. Simply coarse grind organic coffee beans in a food processor. Add them to a quart mason jar and fill with pure unchlorinated water. Cover and leave overnight. Next morning you have a strong espresso that you can add one or two ounces of to boiling water. This makes you an alkaline cup of coffee rather than an acidic one. The coffee can sit on the counter for weeks. By not refridgerating it, you don’t cool down your coffee too much when you add the espresso to your boiling water (don't microwave it, boil on the stove).
Start shopping for your breakfast of champions! (Buyer beware, the raw almonds at Whole Foods are still pasteurized, USDA allows pasteurized almonds to be labelled raw”.
Your in food and health,
Tara Hamilton
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