What's For Lunch? Organic Kale Salad- Spectacular!

What's for lunch? Crisp Organic Kale Salad! 

Here's what you'll need! 

• Finely Chopped Young Kale
• Tomato
• Thinly Sliced Cucumber
• Drizzle of Hemp & Herb Dressing
• Light Sprinkle of Parmesan
• Sprinkle of Ground Flax & Pumpkin Seeds for Crunch!
• Add Feta Cheese to beef it up a bit if you like! ;)

Benefits of these foods include Calcium from the Kale & antioxidants from the tomatoes- especially home grown!

Selecting Young Kale will ensure a better flavor. Young Kale are the smaller leaves, they are more delicate & less bitter.

There are digestive benefits from the Apple Cider Vinegar, Hemp oil & herbs in the dressing. Ground flax provides additional fiber & Pumpkin Seeds are naturally anti-parasitic (gets rid of parasites). It's delicious without the cheese but with it- downright spectacular! Happy Summer! 

Enjoy!

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Modern Hippie Hemp & Herb Salad Dressing

Here's what you need!

• 1 cup Nutiva Hemp Seed Oil 
• ½ cup Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar 
• 1 tbsp ground rosemary
• 1 tbsp ground oregano
• 1 tbsp ground sage
• ½ cup chopped onion
• 3 cloves of garlic chopped
• ¼ packet of powdered stevia
• ½ tsp himalayan pink salt or sea salt (salt more if desired)
• 10 drops of organic orange essential oil (optional)
• Best flavor after dressing has steeped in herbs for 3 days

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Homemade Hemp Oil & Herb Dressing

There are more than a few ways to make homemade salad dressing.  You can keep it really simple and start with apple cider vinegar and hemp or flax oil.  I prefer flax oil because it has a nice profile of Omega Fatty Acids 3,6 and 9.  This is my personal favorite brand (Nutiva) and best price to buy it.  I use apple cider vinegar by Braggs.  There are several options out there for Apple Cider Vinegar but always look for a brand that says, "with the mother" on the label.  Sounds a little weird but it basically means that it's unfiltered and that it will contain strands of beneficial bacterias and enzymes, the "living" part of the venegar that makes it so beneficial to you.  This is great for anyone with digestive issues like acid reflux or indigestion of any kind too. 

So Oil and Vinegar are the 2 basic components;  But what do you want to flavor your oil and vinegar with?  Well you can't go wrong with the following herbs:

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