What is this?? you ask. Breakfast!! I reply. Now you might be thinking that this Chef has gone off his rocker or that this is a huge amount to consume for the first meal of the day or that has to be the ugliest salad Chef Bataille has ever put together but the truth is that it is filled with Micro and Macro nutrients that many of us are lacking in our diets and no I do not eat all of this, I do run it all through my juicer and come up with something much more realistic and manageable. After running all this goodness through the juicer it comes out to be between 14-17 liquid ounces of raw nutrients from apple, kale, spinach,peach, blueberry, raspberry, carrots, ginger, fig, celery, broccoli, red pepper and anything else from the garden that I can cut up and run through the juicer. As I was juicing this morning I began thinking of ways to get more nutrients into the menu items for both banquets, daily menus and the meals I eat here at home. Duh!! you might be saying, but hold on, I do not run a Health food or Juice Bar establishment. There are many meats, chickens, fish and wild game that have met my grill as well as acres upon acres of fresh vegetables and fruits from the garden. Lets go back to juice for a moment, when we buy juice from the store unless it is fresh pressed it is filled with sugars and more than 40% of it raw nutrients are no longer a part of what we are consuming, that's right nearly half is gone.
I have always been nutrient conscience as well as nutrient ignorant and lazy, when we pop a vitamin in our mouths it is absorbed through the process it goes from mouth to ?? you know what I mean, the absorption of the vitamin is approx half, the rest gets expelled through various channels. sure it is way easier to take a pill and call it good rather than spend time juicing or going through trying to consume what our bodies and mind need on a daily basis to be as good as we can be on many many levels.
It is only as of late that I (re) began juicing after watching "FAT, SICK and NEARLY DEAD". I know a lot about nutrition, I know a lot about balance and how to be the best I can on many levels, but I became complacent. Sure I was eating right and exercising but the truth of it I felt off and watching the previously mentioned was a reminder of how good I felt and looked when I juiced daily, so out came the juicer and WOW, WOW, wow wow wow, in just four short days of adding a juice regiment, fresh juice that I fix with raw ingredients I have dumped 15 lbs and feel so much better. (had to add that little testimonial, jajaja!!)
To answer the question of how to add more raw nutrients to menus is simple and will cost more but adding goodness to a recipe and passing it on to a guest or guests is much more rewarding than putting a buck in my pocket.
Now where does this leave us??
It leaves us with coming up and fixing some of the Greatest recipes and addition to recipes, for my life, for your life for all of our life's, OK OK maybe I am a bit ambitious but it only means I care so stay tuned on how to tweak your recipes and fill them with LIFE!!
Until then..................................Oh I almost forgot, all that you see in the picture up top equals;
of GREATNESS!!
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