What no packaging?

This week there is a new store that doesn’t use any packaging at all… Rutger wants to know what would be detrimental in packaging and why they would want to do that!

*update, this was obviously a few years ago!  There are more and more stores like this and I think that is great.  See if you can seek out the ones where they actually make the products on site, further reducing packaging rather than just taking packaged food and putting it in bulk bins (yup it’s a thing).  Talk to you in the comments.

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Pomegranate Masala Parfait Tutorial

Last week I had the idea to enter the 5 in 5 Hot Raw Chef contest. I managed to get the ingredients down to 5 but couldn’t get the time down to 5 at all. So rather than submitting a fast-forwarded video where I sound like a chipmunk I decided to turn this into a tutorial for you. This is a really great parfait for holidays, whichever holidays you may be celebrating.  Whichever time of year.  Pomegranate has so many benefits to our Bifidobacteria with its phytonutrients.  Did you know that our digestive bacteria actually produce something called ellagic acid from pomegranate (also available as an extract) and this ellagic acid has been shown to improve heart health, decrease obesity and improve prostate health?  And of course so many probiotics in here!  I also do a bit of a tutorial on what is essential in a yogurt starter.  Please feel free to make it sweeter or add less black pepper for a less feisty parfait if that suits you better.

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Food for Mood

Let’s take a broad look at some essential nutrients for emotional wellbeing. This will be the last instalment of Dealing with the Downs focusing on depression. In this video we talk about some key nutrients that are statistically very low in our modern society and how that may affect our states of mind.

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