Would appreciate your thoughts

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I'm starting a nutrition and wellness blog, and I'm wondering what topics interest people. If you'd please share with me your questions, concerns, even gripes regarding foods, nutrition in general, specific health concerns or anything else regarding health, if I address that in the blog I'll also print it here so you can read it. If you prefer to pm me rather than post here that works, too. My creds are that I'm AFPA (American Fitness Professionals and Associates) certified in Nutrition and Wellness, I'm also certified in herbology, am a Master Gardener specializing in organic growing, and have studied and lived this subject matter for more than two decades. However, if you have questions outside these particular topics, I'd still like to hear them because I'm happy to research new topics.

Thanks so much!
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If you toss a handful of kale into a smoothie and blend until smooth you don't taste it at all, but you still reap the benefits. Also, I like to chop it fine fine or tear into small pieces and mash it into organic mashed potatoes. Additionally, it will stir into any tomato based dish, like warm up tomato sauce and then wilt you chopped kale into it and pour it over your whole grain pasta, or work it into a lasgna or onto a pizza. And yes, it would work in a cassarole.

Here's a yummy soup recipe from the book. You could definitely add more kale to this recipe. I mostly had it in there for flavor, but two to three times that would work, as well:

SPRING PEA SOUP

Prep time: Under 15 minutes
Cook time: Under 15 minutes
Ready in: If using a stick blender or standard blender with a glass pitcher, you’ll can have this soup complete in 30 minutes. If, however, you are using a food processor with a plastic bowl, to avoid putting hot food in plastic, add ½ hour of cooling time (in the fridge) and 5 additional minutes to reheat the pureed soup over medium heat.

2 stalks of organic celery
2 medium organic potatoes
2 cups frozen peas
2 large or 4 small kale leaves, with stems
2 tablespoons organic tamari
½ teaspoon better salt
2 tablespoons extra virgin coconut oil
2 cups filtered water

Over high heat, in a large saucepan add filtered water and sea salt.

While water comes to a boil, pull the green leafy part of the kale from the stems and put greens aside to be added later. Chop stems into 1 inch pieces.

Cut organic (so we don’t have to peel) potatoes into 1 inch pieces.

Cut organic celery into 1 inch pieces.

Add all cut vegetables and frozen peas to boiling water, bring back to boil and reduce heat to medium low and allow to cook until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. I always think it’s good to taste on to be sure they are fully cooked. It will generally take about 10 minutes, but the shape of your pot and the temperature of your burner can cause cook times to vary.

Chop or tear kale leaves into 1-2 inch pieces.

When veggies are cooked, remove from heat and add organic tamari, oil, and kale leaves.

Puree until smooth: If using a stick blender you can puree soup right in the pot. If using a standard blender with a glass pitcher, be sure the instructions for the blender say it is made for hot foods. Otherwise, it’s safer to put the soup in the fridge for ½ hour or the freezer for a shorter time and puree in a food processor or blender later. It doesn’t have to be completely cold in order to be safe to blend in a plastic blender or food processor, but not warmer than lukewarm. It’s always crucial to avoid putting hot foods in contact with plastic, as the plastic toxins can leach into the food. To reheat your soup once it’s pureed, heat on a medium low heat stirring every minute or two until hot.

Your soup is done! Enjoy!

OldFashionGal said:

You mentioned "even gripes regarding foods" and I think one of my biggest ones is that too many people either don't know what GMOs are OR they really believe they are all safe. People should at least do a lot of searching even if they want to search on both sides of the issues and then see if they still believe they are totally safe with no risk. I have read a lot at Dr. Mercola's website on GMOs as well as other sites. Even if someone thinks they are safe they shouldn't have any problem with wanting it labeled for those that don't think they are safe.

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I'm so with you on that, OldFashionedGal. The big companies have spent much more money to keep from having to label GMOs than they would have spent in changing their packaging to so the public could know what their buying. If there's nothing to hide, why hide it? I'll definitely address the GMO issue on the blog. I'm getting it up and functioning as quickly as I can. It turns out, blogging is easy. Setting up a blog, not so much. Thanks for helping get the GMO issue out there.