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Greens Are Good for Us Recipes

The very simplest place to start with getting greens into our diet is to eat one big salad each day and make sure it is filled with mostly greens.  

Greens are full of vitamins A, K, D, and E which are fat soluble. To absorb these vitamins make sure to add a teaspoon of dietary fat, such as butter, olive or coconut oil, nuts, cheese or salad dressing. This will make sure your body absorbs all of the vitamins in the greens. Vitamin K helps calcium and phosphorus bind onto the bone protein matrix.

  Greens
 MIXED SUMMER GREEN SALAD Greens 

Ingredients:
1 handful, Spinach
1 handful, Arugula
½ head, Red Leaf Lettuce
½  head, Green Leafy Lettuce
1 medium bunch of Parsley
3 Celery pieces, chopped
1 medium Cucumber, sliced in rounds
¼ cup pine nuts

Directions:
1.  Mix greens together in a bowl.
2. Top with celery, cucumber and pine nuts.
3. Serve with Mint salad dressing.

TIP:  If you are planning on this lasting for the next day, do not mix the cucumber in.  Put it in a bowl on the side and add to each serving of salad.  A mix of the basic ingredients without the cucumber will last 3 days in the fridge.

 Here is a salad dressing with greens already in it!  This is a refreshing tasty dressing with a little mint flavour.

LEMON-MINT SALAD DRESSING

olive oil
Ingredients:
1 ¼ cups olive oil
¼ cup lemon juice
2 tbsp. fresh mint (or 2 tsp. dried)
Salt to taste
Few drops of stevia

Directions:
1.  Blend all ingredients.
2.  Add salt to taste and stevia to taste and re-blend.

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Vegan Salad Dresssings

TAHINI DRESSING
 
I love this dressing for it's simplicity but mostly because it gives me a creamy dressing that is vegan.
 
lemons
 
Ingredients:
10 tbsp. Tahini
5 tbsp. lemon juice
1 ½ tsp. Braggs and mixed herbs
or ½ tsp salt and ½ tsp curry powder
7 – 10 tbsp. water
 
Directions:
  1. Mix 1 tablespoon of lemon juice at a time with Tahini in a jar.
  2. Add soya sauce and enough water till creamy.
  3. Season with favorite herbs.
  4. Serve on top of fresh green salad of lettuce or watercress.
TOMATO DRESSING
 
This is a very light dressing…excellent for those wanting a low fat dressing.
 
tomato
 
Ingredients:
3 tbsp. olive oil
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tomato
1 tbsp. fresh basil (or ½ tsp. dried)
1 tbsp. fresh chives (or 1/2 tsp. dried)                    
Few drops of stevia or a little honey
Braggs to taste

Directions:
  1. Put in all ingredients in a blender and blend till smooth. 
  2. Add Braggs and stevia to taste. 

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