Healthy Breakfast Recipes + 5 Superfood Powder Blends
Many of us experience busy mornings, juggling personal preparations with the needs of our children and other responsibilities. But it’s important to make time for breakfast, to give your body something substantial to solidly start your day. By making blends ahead of time, you can quickly and easily nourish yourself with either a hearty oatmeal blend or a lighter chia blend, topped with nuts. You
can also mix and match my “power powder” herbal blends according to your seasonal needs and individual constitution. Have fun, create something delicious in bulk, and store it in a big jar to easily and quickly satisfy your daily breakfast needs!
Healthy Breakfast Recipes: Power Powder Blends
Trying to get everyone in the family out the door with everything they need on a busy morning can be challenging. It’s hard, when you’re trying to juggle so many balls at once, to make time for a healthy breakfast. Happily, our friend Jiling Lin has some great ideas that you can make ahead so you and the ones you love can start your day with something substantial to feed your body and mind. Jiling Lin has created 3 Power Powder blends to add to your food and beverage creations. These powder blends are delicious and easy ways to incorporate herbalism into your daily life. Feel free to mix and match herbal powders according to your seasonal needs and individual constitution. Have fun, create something delicious in bulk, and store it in a big jar to easily satisfy your daily breakfast needs!
Healthy Breakfast Recipes: Powerhouse Oatmeal
Trying to get everyone in the family out the door with everything they need on a busy morning can be challenging. It’s hard, when you’re trying to juggle so many balls at once, to make time for a healthy breakfast. Happily, our friend Jiling Lin has some great ideas that you can make ahead so you and the ones you love can start your day with something substantial to feed your body and mind. It all begins with an oat or chia blend that you can customize to your tastes—add nutritious herbal powders, nuts, seeds, and more. Create your favorite blends in bulk and store them in jars for a super easy, delicious get-up-and-go breakfast!
Homemade After-Dinner Digestif Lozenges
This is the time of year when we start thinking about heartier winter eating and festive holiday meals. Yum, right?! But we know that the shift to winter—not just the food, but also changes in our routine, less sun and exercise, the stressors of the holidays, etc.—impacts our digestive function. Healthy digestive functioning is key to wellness. Fortunately, we have time to get ahead of this seasonal dietary and energy flux that can throw our normal balance off-kilter. We’re going to walk you through the steps to make easy homemade after-dinner digestif lozenges! We invite you to also read our blog to learn more about the three herbal actions that are especially helpful: bitters, aromatics, and demulcents and to get even more recipes to make ahead so you can support your gut through the cold months.
Digestion-Supporting Cordial Recipe for the Holidays
Although many people think of cordials—also known as liqueurs—as cocktail ingredients, they can also be potent and delicious digestifs. DIY cordials can be simple with just two or three ingredients or you can make them more complex by blending bitter and aromatic botanicals to delight your nose and palate. Either way, they are one of the easiest herbal recipes you can make: put herbs in a jar, add neutral spirits, shake it now and again, and wait. That’s it. And when you make a cordial with digestion-supporting herbs and spices, you turn this delicious little liqueur into a highly effective digestif. Best of all, we’ve got just enough time to make a cordial for the winter holidays! To get you started, here’s a festive midwinter cordial recipe that is the perfect finish to a hearty cold-weather meal when you’re relaxing in the company of your favorite people.
Why You Should Grow Lemon Balm in Your Garden
Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is one of the best herbal allies to grow and form a deep relationship with. Join us as clinical herbalist, field botanist, and nutrition educator, Shana Lipner Grover, shares the uses and benefits of lemon balm, and why sometimes the best medicine is just sitting with the plant. She will also teach us about other plants that pair well with lemon balm and how taking it over time helps us to reap the most benefit.
Shana was a student of award-winning author Michael Moore and also one of Mountain Rose Herbs’ favorite herbalists, Howie Brounstein. Today, she is the director and primary educator of Sage Country Herbs School of Botanical Studies in San Diego, CA.
You can learn more about Shana and the Sage Country Herbs School by visiting htpps://www.SageCountryHerbs.com or by following her on Instagram @sagecountryherbs
