Question:
What kind of nutritious food
should I be storing up for emergency disasters?
Answer:
You should focus on storing up healthy food from three basic whole food groups.
According to Dr. Paavo Airola, world-renown nutritionist, the optimum diet for superior health should be made up primarily of three basic whole food groups. These foods are universally adaptable and will supply adequate amounts of all the nutrients required for the maintenance of optimum health, including high-quality proteins in sufficient amounts. It is important to eat healthy and create your daily menu from foods of these three key food groups that are indigenous to your area and grown locally (on organic farms whenever possible). Make sure that your diet is composed of a variety of fresh whole foods from these three food groups.
#1. Grains, Legumes, Beans, Seeds, and Nuts - This is the most important and potent health-building food group of all. The good nutrition of these foods is unsurpassed because they contain the secret of life itself - the germ! The germ is the reproductive power and spark of life in all seeds, and it is essential to life, health, and reproductive ability. This food group contains all of the essential nutrients for human growth and maintenance of health. Even though all grains and seeds are beneficial, it is best to predominantly eat those that your ancestors ate and those that are grown locally.
Contrary to what you may have heard, buckwheat, almonds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and peanuts all contain complete proteins, which are comparable in biological quality value to animal proteins. This food group is also the best natural source of essential unsaturated fatty acids, which are necessary to maintain health. The vitamin content (especially vitamin E and the B-complex vitamins) of this food group is unsurpassed. Grains, nuts, and seeds are also a treasure chest of minerals and trace elements. Minerals also help balance the body chemistry, especially regarding alkalinity and acidity. This group also contains pacifarins, which increase the body's natural resistance to physical ailments. And finally, whole grains, legumes, beans, and seeds provide the body with necessary fiber and roughage content. This is critical to avoiding all kinds of colon and intestinal tract problems that currently plague our nation as a result of refined and processed foods.
The best grains to eat are buckwheat, oats, millet, and brown rice. Most other grains are beneficial, but be careful with wheat because it is one of the most common allergens today. These grains can be eaten daily in the form of cereal, porridge, breads, pancakes, soups, etc. or sprouted. Cooking grains or sprouting them actually helps release the vital minerals by breaking down the mineral-phytin bond so that minerals can be assimilated in the intestinal tract. The best seeds are flax seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds, and pumpkin seeds. Beware of sunflower seeds because they are extremely vulnerable to rancidity. The best nuts are almonds and hazelnuts. Do NOT buy roasted nuts and seeds because the high heat renders them carcinogenic. Always and only eat fresh raw nuts and seeds, including raw almond butter and raw peanut butter.
#2. Vegetables - This is the next most important food group to incorporate into your daily diet. Vegetables are a rich source of minerals, vitamins, and enzymes. Most green leafy vegetables also contain the highest quality complete proteins. Some vegetables, such as green beans, squash, yams, and potatoes, should be steamed or baked. However, most vegetables should be eaten RAW in the form of a daily salad. A few exceptions would be spinach and chard, which contain too much toxic oxalic acid, and asparagus. Cabbage-family vegetables should be either cooked or prepared in lactic-acid-fermented form. Garlic and onions are powerful health-promoting vegetables and should be part of your diet. Other excellent vegetables are Jerusalem artichokes, horse radish, black radish, celery root, and parsley. Be sure to also include root vegetables in your diet such as carrots, potatoes, beets, turnips, parsnips, and yams. Potatoes are extremely nutritious and are best baked or steamed. Keep in mind that potatoes must be kept in dark storage because a highly toxic chemical, solanine, develops when they are exposed to light. Also, be sure to remove the "eyes" (sprouts) of the potato before cooking.
#3. Fruits - Fruits are a powerful source of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, as well as easily digestible fruit sugars. In addition, they are an excellent cleansing food for breakfast, and they can be eaten between meals, but not with meals. It is best to eat fruits RAW, fresh, and in season, because they lose their vitamin content quickly. It is also beneficial to eat sun-dried fruits, but they must be unsulfured and preferably organically grown. Avoid all dried fruits with sulfur preservatives. The best sun-dried fruits to eat are raisins, figs, apricots, and currants. Now, two cautions about eating fruit: eat fruit in moderation and eat fruit on an empty stomach, by itself. Eating too much fruit will put too much sugar into your blood stream, and eating fruit with other foods will cause them to putrefy in your system and lead to poor digestion.
FOOD STORAGE OF THESE 3 MOST IMPORTANT FOOD GROUPS
The first group of grains, legumes, beans, seeds, and nuts can be easily stored in glass jars or metal containers. The grains and legumes can be easily cooked in water. The beans and seeds can be sprouted and then eaten raw. And raw nuts and seeds can be eaten as they are.
Question: How do I best store up on fruits and vegetables which are so important?
Answer: There are several things you can do to store up fruits and vegetables.
First, you can store up sun dried or dehydrated fruits and vegetables in glass jars or vacuum sealed in plastic bags. These will provide you with a lot of nutrition and take no cooking, and they are naturally preserved by being properly dehydrated. Remember to avoid buying "sulpher preserved" dry fruit.
Second, you can keep a supply of several bags of potatoes and other root vegetables in a dark cool place. Just remember to periodically replace them (maybe every 4 months for potatoes and yams and every 6 months for squash). It's surprising how long potatoes, yams, and squash will keep if they are stored properly. I would suggest storing some potatoes, sweet potatoes, various kinds of squash, and yams. All of these can be cooked during a disaster by wrapping them in foil and putting them near a fire to bake.
Third, if you have the space and time, grow produce in your own garden. Be sure to plant plenty of root vegetables, along with other nutritious greens. If you have food in the ground, you'll be better prepared to survive a disaster.
Fourth, make or buy some healthy organic pickled vegetables or lactic acid fermented foods such as sauerkraut which are very healthy for you. Fermented cabbage is very nutritious and can be stored in glass jars for easy use.
Fifth, there is one other way to store up nutritious fruits and vegetables that I'd like to recommend. Find yourself a product like The Feast, by Uri International, that uses an InstaFresh low heat dehydrating proprietary process to take fresh and mostly organic high quality fruits and vegetables, turn them into a juice, and then in 30 seconds, turns them into an InstaFresh juice powder without ever going over 98 degrees. These live whole food based InstaFresh juice powders preserve the nutritional properties of the fresh produce without preservatives and without pasteurization. They have a shelf stability and long-term shelf-life of two years. In addition, it takes less than 30 seconds to mix them with water and drink them, and they actually taste great! Believe me, my kids love them and yours will too. The nutritional value of these InstaFresh juice powders is unsurpassed by anything else in the marketplace.
Here are several of Uri's live whole food based InstaFresh juice powders to consider.
"The Feast" contains 70+ live nutrient dense concentrates from fresh live whole foods, including 30 antioxidant rich fruits & berries, 30 powerful greens and vegetables, 11 nutrient dense seeds, nuts, and sprouts, 83+ active enzymes & fulvic mineral blend, and 22 resilient living probiotics. It is literally the most powerful, nutrient dense live whole food nutritional product on the market today. It provides a quality, quantity, and variety of ingredients that is superior to sythetic, pasteurized, or preserved liquid and powder supplements. The proprietary low-temperature drying process concentrates live whole foods and fresh, raw juices into nutrient dense, great tasting, juice powders for the ultimate in all natural convenient nutrition.
"Beyond Berries" is a supreme blend of nature's most nutrient rich fruits and berries. It contains 15 antioxidant rich fruits and berries, 11 active enzymes & fulvic mineral blend, and 22 resilient living probiotics. It has a typical ORAC value (antioxidant value) of 4,140 per serving. It also includes such super fruits and berries as noni fruit, mangosteen, wolfberry-goji, acai berry, blueberry, pomegranate, cranberry, and 8 others. One jar makes approx. 180 fluid ounces of juice.
"Multi Meal" is a nutrient packed high-quality meal replacement that provides protein, amino acids, enzymes, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals in sufficient quantities. All you have to do is just add water, mix, and drink, and it comes in three delicious flavors - chocolate, vanilla, and orange. Multi Meal provides 20 grams of protein per serving.
In order to meet your nutritional needs during a time of disaster, I would strongly recommend storing up some of these long-term shelf-life Uri International live whole food based InstaFresh juice powders for you and your family. I consider them the most nutrient dense low heat dehydrated survival food available on the market, and I wouldn't be caught without them. All you'll need to do is to remember to store plenty of water and have some mixer cups to shake them up in.
Simply try these live whole food based InstaFresh juice powders for 90 days, and Uri is so sure you'll be absolutely convinced they are the most powerful and effective nutritional products you have ever tried, that they back it up with their ironclad, risk free 90-day money-back guarantee! If you're not 100% satisfied for any reason, you will be refunded 100% of the purchase price. Experience the results for yourself. There is absolutely no risk whatsoever on your part. Quite simply, the products prove themselves!
If you'd like more information on these incredibly healthy juice powders, check out the following two websites:
URI Live Whole Food Based InstaFresh Juice Powders - www.LiveSuperJuice.com
URI Nutritional Products
Daily Quote: "There is a great deal of truth in the saying that man becomes what he eats. Healthy foods = healthy body. Unhealthy foods = unhealthy body." - Gandhi
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