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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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Dr. Brian Clement has been carrying on the work of Dr. Ann Wigmore – the importance of raw and living foods, wheatgrass, algae, and sprouts. I found his talk to be very inspiring, albeit somewhat harsh at times. Going to a natural health show was an excellent follow-up and we went with a fistful of dollars and some lofty goals. Originally, I had the idea in mind of paying for a succession of body-work treatments, but instead, I exercised my consumerism and picked up a wheatgrass sprouting kit, a juicer, and a plethora of treats. My partner bought the best gift a lady could ever hope to receive: a Vita-Mix blender. Now there are no excuses!

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I lied. I do have one final excuse: the lack of a food dehydrator…