This simple and delicious black bean tahini dip is abundant in calcium, folate (folic acid), manganese, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, and vitamin B1.

This dip is also rich in healthy protein, including an amino acid called tryptophan. Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that is helpful for promoting restful sleep and good nervous system health.

Ingredients:

• 1 can organic black beans drained and rinsed
• 1/4 cup tahini
• 3 cloves garlic, roughly sliced
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon or lime juice
• 1/2 cup water
• Sea salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:

Combine black beans, tahini, garlic, lemon or lime juice, and water in a food processor or a strong blender and puree until smooth. Season with sea salt and pepper, to taste. Try serving this rich and delicious black bean and tahini dip with a platter of fresh vegetables and/or healthy crackers.

Get the recipe here. 

You can buy  Organic Flax Cold Milled Ground Golden Flax Seed or make it it your self in the blender.

Gluten Free Sandwich Wrap, Gluten Free Pancakes

When I gave up wheat the Flax Seed Bread in the Wheat Belly book because a big part of my diet.  I shared the recipe with a my friend Dolores who came up with two great modifications listed below.

Wheat Belly Flax Seed Wrap Recipe

• 3 tablespoons ground flaxseeds
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• Pinch of sea salt
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 large egg

Dolores’ Flax Seed Pancake

• 3 tablespoons ground flaxseeds
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon  Cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon  Steiva
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 large egg
• cranraisins

There is no flour. The cake is made with carrot pulp, dates, walnots, spices and raisins. The frosting is made with cashews and dates.  See recipe here.

INGREDIENTS:

• 3/4-1 Cup  cups cooked quinoa
• 1/4 cup  hummus
• 2 teaspoon  tomato paste
• 1 tablespoon  ground flaxseed
• 1 1/2 tablespoon water
• 1  teaspoon worcheshire
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2  tablespoon  chickpea flour
• Salt & pepper to taste
• 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil

DIRECTIONS:

Mix water and flax seed. Combine other ingredients. Form the mixture into patties or balls. and cook for about 5-6 minutes on each side, until browned and firm.

I recently read  Wheat Belly and gave up wheat.  The wheat in our food is NOT the wheat in Bible times or even the wheat grandma ate. Today’s genetically modified wheat is as almost as bad as sugar–big time appetite stimulate.  Once I gave up the wheat my life changed drastically. I am no longer hungry.  I lost 8 pounds the first week effortlessly.

I post my daily food menu at the end of each day and recipes and encourage others too post also.  I’ll be posting wheat free, plant focused recipes on this blog.

This is fellowship and prayer focused more than diet focused. Any nutritional program is welcome. These are a few food plans the group members are using:

• Dr. Axe’s Healing Diet
• Wheat Bellly Diet
• The Daniel Fast
• Dr. Joel Furhman’s “Eat to Live”
• The Lord’s Table
• Gerson Therapy
• Paleo Diet

What the Group Members Will Do

1. Pray for one another daily
2. Share your eating plan.
3. Each day post what you ate and how much you exercised (optional)
4. Encourage, share burdens, etc.
5. Share recipes, books, links, etc.

My Food Plan

I created my food plan based on Dr. Axe’s Healing Food Plan and Green Smoothies.

Dr Axe’s Healing Food Plan

Dr Axe is my doctor. My long term goal is to stay on Dr. Axe’s Healing Plan (plant based, whole organic food plan). Here he explain we need to ask Why we want to get healthy.

Why vs. What from Dr. Josh Axe on Vimeo.

Dr Axe recommends going on a Daniel Fast to detox and to reverse heart disease (which I have).

• The Best Way to Detox
• You Body is a Garbage Bucket
• Reversing Heart Disease (Video)

The Daniel Fast is so much more than food! Fasting should be a regular part of a Christian’s life. Christians not only need to study and pray, but also need to fast to fortify and maintain a close relationship with God.

Fasting helps us seek God’s righteousness, His wisdom, His will, and His strength in a world that is overcome with evil. God commands Christians to fast, and true Christians will desire to fast for God’s righteousness in their lives.

Green Smoothies

Did you know you if you consume 5 servings of fruits and 3 vegetables each day you cut your chance of heart disease and cancer by a whopping 75%!! A green smoothie is a delicious drink made with green leafy vegetables and fruit. With one green smoothie you can consume 5-8 servings of fruits and vegetables!

Transform Your Kitchen-Episode #8-Kale Shake from Dr. Josh Axe on Vimeo.

I have been drinking a daily kale or spinach Green Smoothie since May. I will continue drinking Green Smoothies however during the 21 Day Daniel Fast time I will use more veggies and less fruit to aim for PH Balance. The PH Balance has a great recipe with avocados, cucumbers, and lime that tastes like a Lime Slurpee. Read more about Green Smoothies here.

PH Balanced Miracle

Daniel was eating a PH Balanced Diet 4000 years before the PH Balance was discovered to be the healthiest eating plan. Disease thrives in acidity. Disease cannot grow in a PH Balanced body.

Many of our beverages and foods today are very acidic, fast foods, sodas, coffee, etc. So as a result of poor diets, degraded food, water, and air, consequently we’ve become too acidic. Research has shown that the body in an alkaline state doesn’t support bacterial growth, viral growth, nor cancer growth.

Since I have health issues but I will be choosing the most alkaline foods from the far right on this PH chart. I will aim to balance each meal with 80% alkaline to 20% acidic to help my body heal.

You can read more about the PH Balanced Diet here. This site has wonderful recipes listed here.

Books

Our Group Prayer

Facebook has a place where we can print out all the members photos and names. I have asked each member to print this list out and hang it on their refrigerator as a prayer list.

• Ask God to bless us and give us wisdom as we prepare our homes and pantries for the fast.
• Pray we will follow His plan, grow closer to Him and learn to take care of these temples He has given us.
• Ask God to guide us through His Holy Spirit guide us every step of the way as we enter into this experience of fasting.
• Ask that He will remind us of our complete dependence on Him and His grace.
• Ask that this discipline of fasting will help us to grow in love, patience, humility, generosity, and compassion for others.
• Ask that He will open our eyes to His ways and His will.
• Thank Him that He is answering all these request for each of us.

Click Eating God’s Way to join our group. Hope to see you there!

Ingredients

• 1 butternut squash (sold already diced and bagged in many produced departments.)
• 1 large onion
• 1 ripe tomato
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 can vegetable stock
• 1 can coconut milk
• 1-2 teaspoons curry powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional, or more, to taste)
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2-3 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 2-3 tablespoons olive oil

Pre-cut Butternut Squash

Optional ideas:

1. Add some rice or black beans when blending is complete.
2. For  chunkier soup add additional diced tomato, celery, or whatever vegetables you have on hand.
3. Add 1/2 cup apple juice for Apple Butternut Squash soup.
4. Garnish a dollop of sour cream and chives on top before serving.

Pre-Made Butternut Squash Soup from V8

If you don’t have enough time to cook butternut squash soup you can purchase a healthy version from V8 available in most grocery stores. No artificial flavors. No preservatives. Just the delicious, vibrant taste of a full serving of vegetables with the nutritional goodness that goes along with it.

Even available online through Amazon.

Try it you will love it!

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Before and after with the puppies.

Hummus is made of garbanzo beans. Studies show people consume less food overall when the diet was supplemented with garbanzo beans.

Health Benefits of Cucumbers

I eat one to two cucumbers each day. The cucumber contains alkaline-forming minerals and is an excellent source of vitamin C and A (anti-oxidants), folate, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, silica, sulfur, and lesser amounts of vitamin B complex, sodium, calcium, phosphorus and chlorine.

The alkalinity of the minerals in cucumber juice effectively helps in regulating the body’s blood pH, neutralizing acidity.  The juice is also soothing for the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Cucumbers can help regulate blood pressure because of its minerals and traces of sodium. The high amount of vitamin C
and anti-oxidants in cucumber makes it an important ingredient in many beauty creams for treating eczema, psoriasis, acne, etc.

Health Benefits of the Avocado

1. It protects cholesterol related heart diseases. It reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
2. It is used both in prevention and treatment of prostate and breast cancers. Scientists have proved that a toxin in avocado kills the cancer cells. So-called toxin has a great effect on the tissues, particularly heart muscle tissues.
3. Avocado includes necessary minerals like potassium, calcium, vitamin C and K, folic acid, copper, sodium and dietary fibers. These are used to provide the mineral necessity of the body. People who live in hot climates have great mineral and water loss. So, avocado is suggested strongly by the medicals.
4. Oleic acid in avocado can be used to lower cholesterol level in the blood.
5. Potassium in avocado regulates pressure of blood.
6. Sodium reduces the risk of high blood pressure and stoke.
7. It improves the ability of the body to absorb carotenoids.
8. Avocado is used to help people who have sexual problems.
9. It is a good antioxidant.
10. It can be used in the treatment of skin disorders.
11. It is used to heal people who suffer from digestive and circulatory problems.

Health Benefits of Hummus

Whole foods reports, “een valued for their fiber content. Two cups provide the entire Daily Value! But the research news on garbanzos and fiber has recently taken us one step further by suggesting that the fiber benefits of garbanzo beans may go beyond the fiber benefits of other foods. In a recent study, two groups of participants received about 28 grams of fiber per day. But the two groups were very different in terms of their food sources for fiber. One group received dietary fiber primarily from garbanzo beans. The other group obtained dietary fiber from entirely different sources. The garbanzo bean group had better blood fat regulation, including lower levels of LDL-cholesterol, total cholesterol, and triglycerides.” See full article here.

Besides garbanzo beans hummus has Garlic and lemon juice, which are filled with antioxidants that reduce oxidative stress in the body. They also work to improve immune functions and fight of bacteria and viruses.