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Stay cool, hydrated, and properly nourished this summer with this delicious easy recipe.
NingXia Red & Essential Oil Electrolyte Drink
2 oz. Ningxia Red Juice
16 ounces purified water
20 drops Young Living Mineral Essence
1 drop Young Living Lemon essential oil
1 drop Young Living Peppermint essential oil
1 teaspoon Young Living Blue Agave
Mix together in bottle to take with you in the cooler. Sip on this nutritious electrolyte beverage rather than dehydrating soft drinks and alcohol.
I recommend only using therapeutic-grade Young Living Essential Oils in cooking or for ingestion, others including 100% Pure Organic are of lower quality and not recommended for internal use.
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Learn more about:
NingXia Red (fact Sheet) (NingXia Red Vs. Energy Drinks)
Lemon Essential Oil (fact sheet) (The Sunny-Side of Lemon Oil)
Peppermint Essential Oil (fact sheet) (Keep Cool with Peppermint)
Blue Agave (A Low Glycemic Sweetener – tastes wonderful!)
More Cooking with Essential Oils Recipes:
Lemon Herb Vinaigrette with Essential Oil
Tips for Cooking with Young Living Essential Oils
DISCLAIMER: Information found on this website refers solely to products from Young Living Essential Oils and is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Young Living uses only therapeutic grade oils. Perfume grade or poor quality oils may possibly be harmful due to unknown additives and poor plant or distillation conditions.
by Catherine Ebling, RN, BSN
All the talk of the last decade has been about avoiding the sun and avoiding skin cancer. We slather ourselves with sunscreen full of chemicals and think we are doing the right and prudent thing. After all, who wants prematurely aging skin and melanomas?
Now many health advocates are questioning the safety of total sun avoidance, and study after study now point to the importance of sun exposure and vitamin D. A lack of sunlight can put you at risk for a vitamin D deficiency, and increase your susceptibility to a number of diseases-many of them life-threatening.
Enjoy summer sun safely.
So the dangers of skin cancer and sunscreen versus the benefits of the sun and vitamin D, leave the average American confused about the contradictory messages. Avoiding the sun altogether will protect the skin from aging and some skin cancers, but lead to deficits in vitamin D, which leads to other serious health issues including cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and depression, to name just a few. Where is the happy medium? Read the rest of this entry »
Looking for a delicious recipe for all of those ‘green’ tomatoes? Try this, it’s delicious!
Fried Green Tomatoes with Thyme Essential Oil
6 large green tomatoes
1 tsp. paprika
1/2 C. blue cornmeal
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1 C. rice or goat milk
1 TBS. fresh parsley, finely chopped
1 drop Young Lliving Thyme essential oil
1 tsp. olive oil
Mix all ingredients (except tomatoes, milk, and olive oil). Dip sliced tomatoes in milk. Coat with cornmeal mixture. Cook in a sauté pan with olive oil until tomatoes are crisp on the outside. Makes 6 servings.
I only recommend Young Living Essential Oils for cooking and ingesting.
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DISCLAIMER: Information found on this website refers solely to products from Young Living Essential Oils and is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Young Living uses only therapeutic grade oils. Perfume grade or poor quality oils may possibly be harmful due to unknown additives and poor plant or distillation conditions.
Since the age of 12, upon hearing Ralph Nader on the radio (mid 1960s) speaking about pesticides and processing of our food I took on what would be a lifelong hobby for me – keeping up on what exactly is happening with our food. When I heard Ralph Nader speaking on my nifty little Panasonic clock radio that day it forever changed the way I see government, the FDA, USDA, and a host of others who I had, up until then, naively believed were agencies and people looking out for us, looking out for “our” health and well-being.
I was shocked! I could hardly wrap my young brain around “why” the people who did have control, say so over what happens, and what doesn’t, were not even interested in protecting “us” from things that can make us sick, diseased, and cause us to die prematurely. As children, I believe we need to know that we are being protected in the right ways, not some of this silly type of protection that’s so common today (which oftentimes seems so superficial compared to what should be done). Read the rest of this entry »
This recipe is absolutely the best!
Lemon Herb Vinaigrette with Young Living Essential Oils
Juice of 3 fresh lemons
Zest of one lemon
1 cup of Extra Virgin Olive oil
2 T of Shallot, minced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 drop Young Living Essential Oil (you may use Peppermint, Orange, Dill, Basil, Rosemary, Sage, Mountain Savory, Thyme)
Salt and Pepper
Fresh Parsley (or herb of choice that complements) optional
1 – 2 TBLS of Young Living Blue Agave to taste
In the order of the ingredients list, add them to your mixing bowl, being sure to stir well. Drizzle on tossed green salad. Delicious!!!
I only recommend using Young Living Essential Oils for cooking and ingesting.
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More recipes for cooking with Young Living essential oils:
Fried Green Tomatoes with Thyme Essential Oil
DISCLAIMER: Information found on this website refers solely to products from Young Living Essential Oils and is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Young Living uses only therapeutic grade oils. Perfume grade or poor quality oils may possibly be harmful due to unknown additives and poor plant or distillation conditions.
I’ve never seen this cut of steak, Flatiron, anywhere except at US Wellness Meats – which is where we buy all of our meats. If you don’t have a local source for grass-fed meats, try these guys – excellent! Grass-fed makes a HUGE difference in flavor and greatly enhances nutritional value. The Flat Iron Steaks are very reasonable too!
Grilled Flatiron Steaks with Thyme Marinade
2 Flatiron steaks (17 ounces)
2 TBS. olive oil
1 drop Young Living Thyme or Rosemary essential oil
1 tsp. fresh parsley
2 garlic cloves (crushed)
1/4 cup cabernet sauvignon wine
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
generous amount fresh ground pepper
celtic sea salt to taste
Mix all ingredients thoroughly and marinate flatirons for one hour.
For maximum tenderness:
Grill over hot coals for a short 4 minutes per side.
Or, grill low and slow (on a lower heat) for 45-60 minutes.
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I only recommend Young Living essential oils for cooking and ingesting.
Other recipes for cooking with Young Living essential oils:
Fried Green Tomatoes with Thyme Essential Oil
DISCLAIMER: Information found on this website refers solely to products from Young Living Essential Oils and is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Young Living uses only therapeutic grade oils. Perfume grade or poor quality oils may possibly be harmful due to unknown additives and poor plant or distillation conditions.
This beverage recipe was inspired by a previous Young Living Convention. NingXia Red is an excellent choice for those seeking a beverage that is super nutritious and amazingly high in antioxidants (learn more about NingXia Red).
NingXia Red
NingXia Red Slushy Recipe
Crushed Ice
Fresh Strawberries
1 -2 oz. NingXia Red Juice
Blue Agave to taste (learn more about Blue Agave)
1 drop of Young Living Tangerine essential oil (per 2 cups for zing)
Puree strawberries, mix in equal portion of crushed ice, add tangerine oil. Enjoy.
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More recipes for cooking with Young Living essential oils:
My Vanilla-Wolfberry (Goji berry) Granola Recipe
Fact: 70 percent of all food in the USA is, IS, Genetically Modified (GM).
Are you part of the 2/3 of the population think they have never eaten GMO food?
Take my survey: are you eating GM foods?
Since the introduction of GM crops in the United States, more than 120 million pounds of additional pesticides have been used. 85 percent of all GM seeds are engineered for herbicide tolerance, most of these being Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” cotton, corn, soy, and canola seeds. This allows plants to withstand the significant amounts of pesticides being sprayed on them, in effect promoting pesticide use.
This particular variety of GM crop (Roundup Ready) became so popular because it allows farmers to spray Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide directly onto their fields without harming the crops. As you might imagine, the use of Roundup herbicide has increased dramatically since the GM Roundup Ready crops were introduced — a double win for Monsanto.
Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety, says, “what’s remarkable about this is that these are the scientists working inside the FDA and when the political appointee’s at the top said ‘no testing, no labeling’ they say where is your science, why didn’t you listen to our science? Now, that means that these foods have gone out without the testing, without asking are these foods toxic? Are these foods causing new allergens? They’re out there in our fields, they’re out there in our super markets, going out into markets around the world without testing being done.” Read the rest of this entry »
This is excellent! So much better tasting than bottled pop. Using Agave as the sweetener makes this beverage low-glycemic too.
Italian Vanilla Cream Soda
1/2 a tall glass of natural, sparkling water
Tiny splash of *vanilla extract (1/4 tsp. or less)
1/2 TBS. Blue Agave (learn more about Blue Agave nectar)
1/2 a glass of fresh raw milk (goat or cow) (raw milk contains enzymes)
Fill a tall glass halfway full of natural, sparkling water. Add a tiny splash of vanilla extract. Add Agave. Stir well, but slowly to avoid quick fizzing up and overflowing glass. Slowly, in stages, top off with raw milk and stir gently.
* May use cherry juice concentrate in place of vanilla extract, depending on personal taste.
More recipes:
Tips for Cooking with Young Living Essential Oils
Being concentrated, an organic, pure therapeutic-grade essential oil contains virtually all of the plants healing nutrients, oxygenating molecules, amino acid precursors, coenzyme A factors, trace minerals, enzymes, vitamins, hormones and more. And because they are concentrated, a properly distilled essential oil is from 50 to 70 times more therapeutically potent than the fresh or dried herbs or plants they are derived from.
Cooking with Essential Oils
Essential oils are more potent than dried and fresh herbs. Unlike dried herbs, which lose up to 90% of their healing nutrients and oxygen molecules during the drying process, therapeutic-grade Young Living Essential Oils do not. Best of all, 100% pure, organic, therapeutic-grade A Essential Oils are available through Young Living Essential Oils and are safe for cooking, dietary supplementation, and other home use. Read the rest of this entry »
When we talk about skin, we usually think about the epithelium, the covering of our bodies. But skin can also be the endothelium, which is the “skin” that lines our arteries and they’re essentially the same type of cells that do the same things. And, when they’re injured they secrete pretty much the same chemicals.
Vitruvian Man: Then and Now
Our bodies, containing some ten trillion cells, has to coordinate their communication and when there is a breakdown in that coordination things can go awry and cause disease – it’s always the communication that needs to be corrected, i.e., the fixing of the instructions is what we want to deal with ultimately.
If our external skin, heart, arteries, kidneys, brain, etc. are related and can produce the symptoms of the underlying disease of aging, it’s good to take a look at the mechanisms that have to do with nutrition and what we allow our bodies to be exposed to. Aging can be slowed down. Studies over the past ten years in many different species of animals have shown that the rate of aging can reduce the rate of aging by 10, 20 and up to 400% – amazing! And, we know that this is done through nutrition, mechanisms that relate to insulin, leptin, and nutrition.The symptoms of aging are wrinkled skin, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, etc. all of which are related to the rate of aging.
The OCA (Organic Consumer’s Association) web forum is an online community of like-minded people sharing thoughts about the wide variety of topics you regularly read about in Organic Bytes or on the OCA website. The web forum now has over 4,500 members and nearly 10,000 posts. One of those recent posts was from a user named Tedalan on Silk Soy Milk Packaging Scam:
“I was very involved in the creation of Silk Organic Soymilk when it was first designed and manufactured. Steve Demos was very committed to Silk being Non-GMO, Organic and Vegan. Suddenly, when buying Silk at Whole Foods, I discovered that none of the Silk flavors in half gallon containers were certified organic. The cartons look exactly the same as before with the exception/removal of the USDA Organic Seal and the word “organic” before soybeans in the nutritional panel.
This is a very sneaky way for a manufacturer to discontinue Non-GMO Organic soybeans in the manufacture of thier product. I also wonder why Whole Foods continues to sell this product without a “warning sign”. Tedalan
Related articles:
Little Surprises in Our Foods – Excitotoxins
An alkaline environment in the body is hostile to fungi (and I might also add, hostile to many types of cancer), which require acidity to survive and thrive. Lowered yeast and fungus (read more about Vaginal Yeast and Fungus at the end of this article) populations translate into lower levels of body-damaging, disease-inducing mycotoxins. Some of the most common varieties of pathogenic bacteria, yeast, and fungi that live in the intestines are inactive. However, when the body is weakened by illness, stress, and excess acidity caused by stress, these bacteria become harmful and active, changing into an invasive mycelic form.
The importance of alkalinity to health is something we all might consider paying more attention to – it alone can mean a better quality of health, or a poor quality of health. As the liver’s filtered ability becomes impaired the blood becomes increasing acidic, unfriendly bacteria and fungi that populate our intestinal tracts thrive in an acid environment and are responsible for secreting mycotoxins, which are the root cause of many debilitating human conditions. In fact, many researchers believe that most diseases can be linked to blood and intestinal acidity, which contributes to an acid-based yeast and fungus dominance.
What is and how do we create the ideal pH? Read the rest of this entry »
Allergies, degenerative and infectious diseases are related in their causes, a supressed immune system. In Nancy Appleton’s work she discovered that such immune system suppressions can occur with many of the foods that are ubiquitous in our modern diet, of which the chief culprit is sugar. She also found out that stress allowed to fester into distress has similar effects on our health.
I'm distressed about our food - make them STOP!!!
For many eating any foods that are normally good for you with an abusive food like sugar may eventually cause you to be allergic to that food. The doctor tells a story of her unhealthy youth where she would pop into a hamburger stand and get onion rings with a chocolate shake. Until Nancy Appleton started applying the principles of homeostasis and mineral balance to her own life, she couldn’t have told you why even raw onions made her nose run, her joints ache and parts of her body swelled up. The sugar in the chocolate shake and the fried fat of the onion rings were such an assault on her immune system that her body classified onions as a foreign invader thus creating a food allergy. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes, that’s right you can use Young Living’s essential oils in cooking! How is it possible that can we ingest an essential oil? This is what sets Young Living apart from all the other essential oil companies, superb purity – not the 100% Pure you see written on essential oil labels in the health food stores, 100% pure means absolutely nothing in regards to how pure an essential oil is (the word has been so abused that it’s meaningless in the world of aromatherapy).
Young Living essential oils can actually be used in cooking and as a dietary supplement as part of your wellness program. So, enjoy our recipes and eating your Young Living oils!
Cranberry-Orange Muffins with YL Essential Oils
1 c. dried cranberries
2 large eggs
c. fresh orange juice
2 c. rice flour
¼ c Young Living Blue Agave
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. grated orange zest
¼ tsp. fine salt
6 drops Young Living orange essential oil
½ c. almond milk
½ c. butter
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. In a saucepan, combine the cranberries and orange juice and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Turn off heat and let cool. With an electric mixer, mix agave, orange zest, orange oil and butter until smooth. Add eggs and mix well. Fold in 1 cup of flour, baking powder, and salt.
Next, stir in milk and add remaining cup of flour. Gently fold cranberries into mixture. Lightly coat a 12-muffin tin with butter or line with paper baking cups. Put a heaping tablespoon into each tin/cup. Bake for about 10–15 minutes or until just barely golden brown. Serve warm with agave-butter. Makes 24.
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More recipes and cooking ideas using essential oils:
Home-made Cranberry Sauce with YL Essential Oils
Goji Berry (wolfberry) Smoothie
My Vanilla-Wolfberry Granola Recipe
Basil and Mountain Savory Garlic Bread with YL Essential Oils
Essential Oil Seasoned Baked Potato Wedges
A REAL Veggie Burger Recipe!!!
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