Nourishing Spoon

If you ever run out of nut milk or organic milk and don't have time to soak the almonds, fret not for those hemp seeds in your freezer/fridge can come to the rescue.  It takes less than a minute to prepare fresh, purely delicious homemade hemp milk. 1 cup hemp seeds 3 cups filtered water 2 medjool dates (pitted) - optional pinch salt 1 tsp vanilla extract Put all the ingredients in a powerful blender (I use a Vitamix) and let it run for 45 seconds.  Skip the dates and salt if you are watching your sugar or sodium in take.  If you want it sweeter, add more dates or some coconut/palm sugar.  Pour into a glass bottle and store in the refrigerator.  For a creamier, thicker consistency, add less water. Consume within 2 days.  To prepare chocolate hemp milk, add 2 tablespoons of raw cacao.  Enjoy! Tip:   Add hemp seeds to your list of must have "pantry" items. Click here to find ou...

Couple of years ago I was told that I was allergic to casein.  (Casein is a protein found in milk.)  How was I going to survive?  No more cheese, frozen yogurt or chocolate milkshakes?  How could that be?  Where was I going to get my calcium from? When I was a little girl, my mom used to force me to drink hot milk every morning before I left for school.  Yuck! Gross!  In the winter she used to add a raw egg to the hot milk for more protein and to make me stronger to fight the nasty germs so I wouldn't get sick - I could have died before the germs!  Why didn't I find out about this allergy when I was younger?  Could have been spared the tummy aches, coughing and all the spilled milk!  So many children are lactose intolerant. You can get plenty of calcium from almonds, broccoli, chia and sesame seeds.  Definitely better options, true?  These days milk is full of hormones, etc. Little girls are...