What happens after a new-age Vancouver-bound vegetarian gal finally starts to detox with a handsome Guelph-based spiritually-minded vegan? Sparks fly, sprouts shoot, and wheatgrass grows!
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Sprouts are delicious and nutritious – although I would rate them higher on the nutritious scale than the delicious scale. John and I recently attended a sprouting workshop. It was educational and fun. The two of us were dubbed the “remedial sprouters”. Apparently you are only supposed to use 2 Tbsp of seeds, not an entire bag. And apparently Jar Sprouting is the “easiest” method, and someone we managed to flunk at it by putting too many seeds in the jar. We did, however, manage to produce a very large amount of mung bean sprouts on our own, although I have been scolded repeatedly to wait until they were quite long to eat them. Lucky for me, they actually have a higher nutritional content when they are smaller and therefore I won’t get my hand slapped every time I go near the trays!
The workshop was informative, and the “green juice” and dinner were… nutritious. I wish I could use the word “delicious” here again, but I cannot lie. No matter how hard I try, I find the taste of “green juice” (varied greens, herbs, sprouts) to be less than tasty. I drink it because it’s good for me. The dinner was enjoyable, but I felt like an animal grazing in the pasture and I was left craving something sweet in a terrible way.
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Sometimes I feel as though I am something of a fraud because I try to eat healthy, and yet I will honestly say that I do not take pleasure in many of things I consume. What I do take pleasure in is the energetic and happy way that I feel, and the way that my skin is starting to glow. Is this worth chewing cud? Sometimes I have my doubts, but the majority of my neurons scream yes.
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First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading article here today. I will make sure i visit this site once a day so i can learn more.
Atleast you are honest! I actually enjoy the green taste….maybe I should have been a cow?
Great blog!
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