Sprouting!

[Non]

yea this is a very interesting and important discussion.

But how did the ancients get around digest all that fiber rich foods ie grasses?

[MysticTree]

Chewing and sucking then spitting out the fibres perhaps.

[delmar]

Chewing and sucking then spitting out the fibres perhaps.

Sure, just keep a big ol chaw of grass in your cheek like chewing tobacco! When the juice is all gone put it in the trash and grab another chaw! Now that you mention it, I actually might try that with some clover and mint.

[Living Food]

Since l have been having a tray of chia greens each day (balancing the omega 6's to 3's), for the first time in my life, l no longer feel the cold when it gets to zero outside. Everyone else is cold, but l feel bulletproof. l have always been a cold person, but no more....all since the chia greens. AMAZING!

Very interesting; I have never heard of omega-3s having that kind of effect, although I have heard that they speed up metabolism (something to do with increased permeability of cell walls I think...it's been a while), and I know that native people living in the coldest climates got massive amounts of omega-3s in their diets, so maybe there is something to that. On the other hand, it could be some other factor in the chia greens, as they are a very powerful food. I look forward to seeing where this goes.

Sure, just keep a big ol chaw of grass in your cheek like chewing tobacco! When the juice is all gone put it in the trash and grab another chaw! Now that you mention it, I actually might try that with some clover and mint.

That makes sense with clover, as he fiber is somewhat hard to digest...I would just eat the mint though, as far as I know there is no problem digesting it (mint actually improves digestion). Better yet would be to juice the clover and mint.

When the juice is all gone put it in the trash

*mock horror* Surely you'd at least compost it? Weeds make some of the best compost anyway...

[Non]

yea I thought the iodine in the fish (or algae) might keep people warm.

But omega 3? Hm. well the fish that live in the deep cold sea. And w/o sunlight, but then again their bodies are different from ours.

Also, according to TCM principles chia is warming.. I dont know about flax but I am more partial to it being more "cooling".

[michigan roman]

i chew on wheat grass like that all the time when working in garden / yard

the grass last long as you want as the fibers so tough , you can chew on it long time

and it tastes good too

[phak-i-tu]

Sprouting is the practice of germinating seeds to be eaten either raw or cooked. They are a convenient way to have fresh vegetables for salads, or otherwise, in any season and can be germinated at home or produced industrially. They are a prominent ingredient of the raw food diet and common in Eastern Asian cuisine. Sprouting is also applied on a large scale to barley as a part of the malting process. A potential downside to consuming raw sprouts is that the process of germinating seeds can also be conducive to harmful bacterial growth.

Whence comes this pronouncement? Next time you bring in a copy-and-paste, put some quote marks and a link - so we know what site to laugh at.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Preventing winter time disasters
Growing soil based greens can be a disaster if the trays don't have numerous holes through the bottom of them, especially for sunflower and buckwheat greens. Sunflower greens are really tricky because it is a very thirsty plant and needs to be watered at least twice a day because the surface of the soil becomes dry quite quickly. lf the surface is neglected for even a day the sunflower greens will wilt (flop) and are often non recoverable, so the trick is to keep the top of the soil moist so they remain vibrant. BUT...the problem is that constant watering means that all the water sinks to the bottom of the trays and the roots become waterlogged and the sunflower and buckwheat start to rot (especially sunflower because that soil green requires the most water out of any sprout). During summer one can get away with using trays with no holes, but when growing outside winter time disaster will always happen (see below).

Sunflower greens disaster because the tray is grown outside during winter with no holes in the bottom


So what you need to do is drill many holes in the bottom of a serving tray like this:


Then you place the tray with holes on top of another tray, but put some pegs or pieces of light wood in the other tray so the holed tray leaves room for drainage. (The brown spots is just where the dirt has fallen through from the other tray, don't worry about that)


Again...slip the sunflower greens (planted on the tray with holes) over the tray without holes (the tray with the wood or pegs in it)



to be continued............

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

The top tray will be slightly raised as in this example of pea shoot greens:


Then what you do is place the trays in a dark place and put a third tray (a weighted tray with soil in it) on top of the other two so the sunflower seeds are weighed down, this ensures that the roots anchor in to the soil properly so they grow well. See: first is the tray with pegs, then the sunflower greens, and then an old soil tray on top to weigh it all down. This is the best way to grow sunflower greens.


With wheatgrass, pea shoot greens and buckwheat, the top soil tray (the weighted tray) needs to be much lighter.

This is how all soil based greens should look like when you are finished (three rows of trays...the top tray is an old tray of dead sunflower greens that weights it all down. Whether it's a tray of books or soil or dead sunflower greens, it is all good):

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Only some of the jar based sprouts l have growing: chickpea, alfalfa, lentil, sunflower, rye, fenugreek, millet and sesame. Many of the sprouts aren't even in the picture because they are either sprouting tray sprouts (green peas and nuts) or are seeds placed straight onto trays like chia. Various jars of sprouts inside also that aren't in the picture, and also some on the back lawn.

l grow these all in the dark, but the alfalfa, fenugreek, broccoli [and other green sprouts] gets transferred outside in the final day or two before eating/juicing.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Top quality sproutarian daytime meals that are the healthiest you can possibly get. A raw vegan diet done almost at it's absolute best!

Breakfast
RYE GRASS JUICE



continued............

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Lunch
CHIA SEED JUICE


PEA SHOOT JUICE,


WALNUT SPROUT MILK


FENUGREEK SPROUT JUICE (two liter container full)


(the green sprouted drinks made 500ml of juice, + the ryegrass makes about 200 ml. The diet still falls short today because l didn't have enough sunflower greens to do another 300 ml of green juice). Brian Clement recommends at least 750 ml of cold pressed sprout juice (mainly made from sunflower, pea shoot greens and occasionally some buckwheat {most potent greens}) and about 120 ml of grass juice for someone healthy, and even more green juice for someone who is sick. And no, l won't be over alkaline because l have good amounts of sea vegetables and sprouted nuts. And when Brian recommends cold pressed juice, he doesn't mean juice from a fasting working Champion juicer.

E3 Live

Bacterial soil based B12 supplement

Digestive enzymes


Dinner will consist of chlorella, sea vegetables, digestive enzymes, lentil sprouts and chickpea sprouts.

[MysticTree]

Those wooden draining racks are handy aren't they. I also found that a saucepan stand my mother gave me is very good for draining jars.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Those wooden draining racks are handy aren't they.

l love them. The best draining racks l have ever bought. l need to buy some more.

Still, another problem with the jar method is that it is not as hygienic as the tray method. Bacteria can build up on the wood racks and on the nylon mesh l use for sprouting. l used to use gauze (easy to clean) but l would always get dozens of little insects in my jars during warmer months, so now l use three to four layers of muslin mesh over the jars (see the blue and light tan muslin mesh compared with the dark coloured gauze). lt's amazing how little insects could go through such small holes in the muslin (the bugs are bigger than the holes, but they must squeeze through), so l had to put multiple layers over each jar.

[delmar]

Mr R Do you grow anything outside in the ground? If not, is it just because you don't have the space to do so, or is there another reason?