. . . For Adding Extra Nutrients to Your Favorite Comfort Foods
- Add finely chopped kale, spinach or chard to mac ’n’ cheese or scalloped potatoes.
- Serve your pasta meals on a bed of mixed greens.
- Blanch or steam fresh veggies (carrots, greens, squash, turnips), purée and then add to your favorite pasta sauce. This works especially well in tomato-based sauces like marinara.
- Add blanched or raw greens to smoothies and blend well.
- Use cooked spaghetti squash, blanched zucchini or other winter squashes as noodles with your favorite pasta sauce. To hide them, you can mix them with traditional noodles.
- Add ground chia, ground psyllium husk or a good prebiotic fiber to smoothies, salads, sauces, baked goods, etc., to specifi cally feed your microbiome. My favorite brands include Garden of Life Dr. Formulated Organic Fiber Prebiotic; Hyperbiotics Prebiotic; Prebiotin; Pinnaclife Prebiotic Fiber; and Bulletproof Innerfuel Prebiotic.
- Start your kids off young! Feed them loads of complex flavors from your own plate to develop their palate for diverse flavors and a taste for good nutrients.
. . . For Eating to Please Your Gut Bugs
Many dieticians and nutritionists are recommending that clients eat for gut health these days. In the past 10 years, we have learned a lot about the human gut microbiome— the collection of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that live in our guts and help us process food into nutrients that will feed our cells and make us healthy and strong. Eating for our gut means consuming both probiotics and prebiotics. Just a few teaspoons a day can help build a healthy gut.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
Before becoming a publisher/editor, Tami Chu used her first masters degree in special education to teach middle school and her second masters degree in holistic nutrition to teach nutrition classes in her community. She finds that her current job utilizes every skill she has ever acquired.
