The old saying "You are what you eat" is only partly true. It requires a great deal more than just food to create a healthy body. By including herbs in your cooking you will provide many benefits to your overall wellbeing, and in addition help to promote inner body health.
The regular use of herbs will add vitamins and minerals to your diet, replace salt as a flavouring agent, help to prevent flatulence and promote better digestion of food, and transform a good plain meal into a gastronomic delight. Herbs can help to bridge the gap between what our bodies need and what vitamins and minerals they are in fact getting. You should add fresh herbs to your dishes, however, some herbs are not always available fresh throughout the year, in which case dried herbs will suffice.
You can also replace salt in your diet with the following herbal substitute. However, like all condiments it should still be used with discrimination so it doesn't overpower.
To make your natural salt substitute, mix together one tablespoon each of the following dried herbs: ground celery seeds, thyme, oregano, roasted and ground sesame seeds, ground garlic, parsley, ground coriander and ground paprika. Reduce the combined ingredients to a powder in a blender or by rubbing through a fine wire sieve. You can add 10 parts of mild Brewers yeast flakes if you wish to boost the vitamin B content, and for those who find it hard to give up that salty taste in their food add one tablespoon of dried kelp. Store for no longer than 12 months.
To help maintain energy levels, this delicious throw together salad is quick and simple to make.
For variety and interest, use different types of lettuce. To this add lots of watercress, alfalfa and red clover sprouts, chives, parsley, and very young dandelion leaves torn into about 25-millimetre bits. An old dandelion leaf will have a bitter taste and should be avoided. Finish creating your salad by adding smaller amounts of basil, dill, lemon balm and nasturtium leaves, with a very small garnish of mint, oregano and lemon thyme. Just before serving, you can toss the salad in wine vinegar! Better still, use one of the many herb vinegars now available.
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