Indian-Spiced Quick Oats - By Superfoodie Christa Collie

Gluten Free, Nut Free, Soy Free, Corn Free, Vegan!

This recipe is so versatile feel free to use whatever you have in your pantry and to fine tune to your eclectic or traditional tastes. It can make for a great side dish, main or next day lunch! However you use it...enjoy!

Ingredients:1/2 cup Mum's Original Quick Flake Oats (gf)
1 cup boiling water
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp Mum's Original Premium White Chia Seeds
1 tbsp Mum's Original Slow Roasted Hemp Hearts
Pinch Mum's Original Himalayan Rock Salt
Few dashes dulse flakes w/ garlic
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tbsp Mum's Original Goji Berries or currants
1 tbsp Mum's Original Delores Hemp Hearts
splash non-dairy milk 

Directions:1. Mix together all dry ingredients in a small bowl.
2. Stir in boiling water and coconut oil until everything is wet and not clumpy
3. Cover bowl and let stand for 5 minutes
4. Top with goji berries and Delores hemp hearts and non-dairy milk (as much or as little as you like)
5. Feel free to add in some curry seasoning, hot sauce  or garam masala to taste. Enjoy!

About our Superfoodie:

Christa is a plant-based food lover and aspiring nutritionist. Since her diagnosis of Celiac Disease 11 years ago, she has slowly discovered how foods, especially superfoods, have an immense impact on healing the body naturally. A loving wife of over 11 years, she makes Calgary her home, and the mountains her playground. You can find more about Christa’s  journey and passion for health and well-being at her blog here.

Berry Chia Pudding

This berry chia pudding is easy to make and full of vitamins, protein and anti-oxidants while bursting with berry flavors. Great as a pudding or fun as a popsicle, this one is sure to please everyone!

• 3/4 cup water
• 5 Tablespoons Mum's Original Premium White Wholeseed Chia 
• 2 cups washed blueberries
• 1 cup washed raspberries
• 1/3 cup Mum's Original Delores Hemp Hearts
• 3 Tablespoons Mum's Original Banana Powder
• 1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil (optional)
• 3 Tablespoon Mum's Original Coconut Sugar or 2 tablepoons raw honey
• 1 teaspoon Mum's Original Cacao Powder
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

1. Add chia and water, stir and soak for 20 minutes.
2. Once soaked, blend chia mix with all other ingredients in a high speed food processor until mixed well (2-3 min). Blend  longer for greater smoothness. Makes about 2 cups.

TURN THESE INTO FROZEN CHERRY CHIA POPSICLES:

1. Make berry chia pudding as above.
2. Take 12 cherries and gently split down middle and remove pit.
3. In an ice cube tray, place a teaspoon of berry chia pudding at bottom of each ice cube spot. Add in cherry and fill pudding to top of ice cube tray.
4. Place a small miniature wooden popsicle stick (or piece of wooden skewer) into cherry center.
5. Place in freezer for 3 hours. Remove, run back under hot water and pop out. Kids will love them!

Choco-Strawberry Chia Jam

Gluten Free, Nut Free, Soy Free, Corn Free, Vegan (option), WFM ‘Health Starts Here’ approved!

This jam is an excellent summer go-to for amazing flavors of local and ripe fruit. By adding in the live and raw Mum's Original Whole Seed Chia and the super anti-oxidant rich Mum's Original Cacao Powder, the jam goes from a nice-to-have to a must-have for an incredible source of super-sweet health.

Ingredients:

• 5 cups washed & chopped strawberries (approx 900g or 32oz)
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 cup raw honey (or 1 cup Mum’s Original Coconut sugar)
• 4 tablespoons Mum’s Original White Whole Seed Chia
• 1 tablespoon Mum’s Original Cacao Powder

Directions:

1. Prepare 4 small mason jars with lids washed and cleaned, place in a cook pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and then turn to low heat.
2. Place strawberries and lemon juice in a large pot.  Place on stove top and turn heat to medium/high. Cook for 6-8 minutes, while heating up mash the strawberries with a potato masher.
3. Add honey stir in and turn to high, keep stirring and bring to a hard boil (meaning that mixture will not subside when you stir it). Keep at a hard boil for one minute and continue stirring. 
4. Turn heat down to low, add chia, vanilla and cacao powder. Simmer for 15 minutes or until desired consistency.
5. Take each mason jar and remove from water, carefully add in jam mixture to mason jar. Cover with lid and lightly tighten lid. Repeat until jam all bottled.
6. Wait 10 minutes and the gently tighten each lid by hand.
7. Place in fridge – will keep up to 7 days.

Superhero(seed) Chia for scrumptious skin!

A true superhero(seed) for your skin! Packed full of free radical eating antioxidants, these super seeds fight off toxins that speed up the aging process.  Helping save you from wrinkles and fine lines!

Chia seeds contain 3 times more the antioxidant content of blueberries and are so easily incorporated into your diet, to help ward off aging and toxins whether your 16 or 60! It’s never too early or late to start.

Chia can absorb up to 14 times its weight in water – an excellent tool for soaking up those nasty environmental toxins, toxins that speed up the aging process, along with ridding the body gently of free radicals to prevent damage to our supple skin.[1]

The vitamin and mineral content found in Chia is also extremely beneficial for skin health. Its content provides the necessary nutrients needed to sustain natural elasticity in our skin– something we lose when we age and cant produce anymore. By feeding our body with the nutrients needed to maintain skin elasticity through our daily diet– we maintain supple skin and can help ourselves look radiant and youthful even in our later years!

It’s only natural that every now and then we crave some kind of sweet treat. However, did you know that by caving in to these cravings on a regular basis actually will speed up the process of aging, making the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles appear sooner? I think we can speak for everyone here and safely say wrinkles will never be welcomed and thank goodness there is a solution to help delay the appearance of those fine lines! Chia seeds expanding super powers keep you feeling full for longer, helping reduce cravings and therefore helping to slow down the aging process.  By adding in Chia daily, you’re helping fight off aging – take that, wrinkles!

Not only are Chia seeds beneficial for your skin from the inside, they can also be used in homemade beauty products to help smooth out rough patches and maintain healthy, soft skin. Try making a super face mask jam packed full off essential fatty acids by blending some ground Chia in with an avocado. Let this mixture sit for one minute on your skin before washing off in the shower and be sure to concentrate more on rougher areas, for noticeably softer, smoother skin sooner!

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22505880

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