Naturopathic Clinic
This requires a supply of frozen fresh fruit, cut into chunks.
Peel bananas and place whole or in pieces on a tray and freeze. Cut other fruits into chunks and freeze on trays. Freeze whole strawberries, mulberries or blueberries, even figs.
Once frozen the fruit can be bagged or put into a freezer containor.
- Make 1-2 cups of almond milk (or any nut milk, but almond has the mildest taste, allowing the flavours of the fruit to come through.) Add a little extra sweetener because things don’t taste so sweet when frozen. Leave your nut milk in the blender once you have made it.
- Turn the blender on, and slowly add in your frozen fruit chunks until you have a soft mass that will not blend in any more fruit.
- Scoop out of the blender and eat straight away.
- Depending on the fruit that you add, you may need to increase the sweetener before adding in the frozen fruit.
Almond Ice Cream
Experimentation will produce creations that by far excel the chemical laden commercial ice-creams, full of fat, flavours, sugar, gums and preservatives.
Frozen foods, while delicious, should not be eaten in large quantity, or too regularly. Very cold food shocks your stomach, and has to be warmed up to enable digestion. For this reason, avoid eating frozen foods after meals or other foods. Eat them slowly and alone, and allow time for digestion. This way, you keep your stomach happy as well as your palate!
Some delicious flavour combinations for healthy ice cream or smoothies are:
Cashew and apricot
Peach and almond
Sunflower seed, carob and ginger
Sesame seed and banana
Almond milk, banana and vanilla
Brazil nut milk with cacao, dates, and cinnamon
