Seeds of Rebellion! ™
a recipe for feeling good
The History of Seeds of Rebellion
When I was 17 and leaving home, my mother, Poly- Ash, invented this stuff to help me get proper nutrition. She sent me a half-pound box of it every week for about a year. (Thanks, Mother. In paradisum, deducant te angeli.) I named it Seeds of Rebellion because it made me feel so good, and wrote a song about it which I sang in a coffee house called The Last Exit in San Francisco. The song was a flop because everybody in there was on drugs. They thought I was talking about revolution and they were too tired.
Get yourself a little electric coffee or seed mill.
I recently wore out yet another one and went shopping. I found my
very favorite one of all time at WalMart. It is called Custom Grind, by Hamilton
Beach. It is well worth the few extra dollars it costs. Take it home and label it in permanent marker: THE UN-COFFEE GRINDER. This will help you to remember not to use it for coffee. Show it to everyone in the house, especially the coffee drinkers, and growl, "See this?" Make it known that it is worth their life to use it for coffee. (If anyone reading this doesn't understand that I am joking about that, please immediately exit this page and go to
barney.com, where you will not need to do any critical thinking.)
Next, get a supply of the following. Amounts are for a starter supply to see if you like the stuff.
4 ounces each (all whole, raw and unsalted, please)
chia seed (here's why it's the backbone of the mix)
unhulled brown or black sesame seed (health value)
sunflower seed (health value)
flax seed (health value)
pumpkin seed (health value)
poppy seed (optional)
hemp seed (optional)
rice bran,
aka rice polish (optional)
bee pollen (optional)
8 ounces each
date sugar (this is dried, ground dates)(optional)**
almonds (raw, shelled)
1 ounce each (whole leaf if possible)
alfalfa leaf
dried nettles
How to make it
Take a 1/2 cup measure and place one measure each of all the seeds (I am actually using 2 measures of chia now),
one-third of a measure of rice bran and bee pollen if you are using them, 2 measures each of dates and almonds, and one measure each of the alfalfa and nettle leaves, in a bowl and stir well. Keep it in the refrigerator. To use, place 2-3 tablespoons in your UNCOFFEE mill. Grind until almonds are finely chopped. Some almonds may not want to. Eat them.
I recommend grinding
right before serving, because when you grind a seed it begins to lose food value within 5-10 minutes. Use an ounce (2 T) or more over fresh fruit, cereal, or yogurt, or mix with a tiny amount of honey and nut butter and coat with coconut for a pickup snack. Don't cook it! The value is in the raw state. Eat some Seeds of Rebellion every day and you'll feel like changing the world. It's sort of a greenish gray when ground; don't let the color put you off ~ it's pretty good stuff. You can vary the amounts to suit your tastes, but I recommend using some of all the basics.
Sterilized hemp seed is available at some health food stores.
Notes
* You probably won't be able to find the chia seed in your local store. You can get chia seed wholesale from
Menu 4 Life.
There are other sources on the internet now, as the tremendous food value of
chia is rediscovered.
More
interesting info on chia
here.
More omega-3 than flax!!
Sources
I buy
chia from Menu4life, 10 lbs at a time. I get the nettles and alfalfa, c/s (cut
and sifted), by the pound from
www.herbalcom.com,
which is a fantastic resource for all kinds of fascinating stuff. Most of the
other seeds, almonds and rice polish come from the health food store, but for
some reason the unhulled sesame is hard to come by. I found a 1-lb bag of lovely
black sesame in the oriental section of my local wholesale grocer, Cash and
Carry.
Please
note: I have decided to stop selling Seeds of Rebellion for now. There is just
too much on my plate to continue doing this. I'm not going to have it made and
packaged, because I think it should be made up fresh per order.
**
Sweeteners: Stevia leaf, to taste, can be substituted for date sugar if you like. Be careful! It's extremely sweet! The white powder stevia extract is even sweeter!
PS: I don't use the date sugar any more because Hubby is a diabetic. We decided
we didn't like stevia any more either. We switched to xylitol, which is a sugar
but processed differently by the body so it is diabetic-safe. I get it from
www.epicdental.com.
There is another new diabetic-safe sweetener out there called erythritol, but it
is very expensive and I haven't tried it.
A note about poppy seed: Poppy seed is a food, NOT a drug. However, it is related in a distant way to the source of opiates. Eating poppy seeds, even a dozen of them, can cause you to fail a drug screen. If you are going for a drug screen and you know you have had poppy seeds, be sure to tell this to the nurse or technician and make them write it on the paper!
My personal feeling is this: I like poppy seed and feel it is an important food source. I do use it
sometimes in the Seeds of Rebellion and I am NOT going to be intimidated about it. I write on any job application where there is a drug screen, that I eat poppy seeds on a regular basis. No one has the right to tell me that I may not eat them, and if I fail a drug screen because of poppy seeds (I don't use drugs so there would be no other reason) I will get a lawyer. But then, I have rather strong feelings on the subject of personal rights. To each his own.
Enjoy!
Nancy Adams,
LMT
email me!!
Note: "Seeds of Rebellion" is a trademark, and the text on this page copyright 2007 by Nancy Adams,
LMT. No reproduction except for personal use without written permission.
The "health value" of some of the seeds are links to a
fantastic site I found when I wanted to update this page and give more information as to WHY all those things are in the Seeds of Rebellion.
this page updated July 18, 2007
Note: You can get to the QUACK Center home page by
clicking here. Check back often to see the latest outrage!!
Necessary Disclaimer: Your use of this recipe and Seeds of Rebellion is solely your own decision and Nancy Adams,
LMT, specifically denies any responsibility for your feeling better as a result. LOL
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