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Warm Spiced Quinoa Cereal
Breakfast
Warm Spiced Quinoa Cereal

Quinoa is a delicious protein-rich grain that dates back to the time of the Incas. Combined here with pungent spices that will increase your agni, (digestive fire) this warming dish will be sure to satisfy and give you endurance to being your day!

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Breakfast
Stewed Spiced Fruit

Ayurveda considers stewed fruit a golden food. Apples and pears are easy to digest and help to create ojas or radiance. Most sweet juicy fruits are excellent cleansers; in fact, they help you empty out those piled-up toxins within the system. A great way to start your day! I like

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Breakfast
Carrot Subji

Carrots have many ayurvedic qualities – sweet, bitter, pungent, heating, light, sharp. You won’t regret adding them regularly to your meals as they are beneficial for your immune system, lower your risk of cancer, help to balance body weight, regulate blood pressure, and are known to reduce heart disease. Because

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Spicy Thai Braised Kale Tofu
Dinner
Spicy Thai Braised Kale + Tofu

This recipe was adapted from one of my favorite books, Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. His concept is all about living a nutritarian lifestyle based on consuming nutrient-dense, natural plant foods, eating few, if any animal products, and eating no foods that are completely empty of nutrients or

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Ginger Lemon Tonic Tea
Beverage
Ginger Lemon Tonic Tea

Ginger is one of the main ingredients in an Ayurvedic diet. It is used in most recipes and is known for its incredible abilities to help stimulate our digestion. It is a Sattvic spice and is known in Ayurveda as “universal medicine”. Dry ginger is hotter than fresh. It is

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Beverage
CCF Purifying Tea

CCF tea, Cumin, Coriander, and Fennel is one of the simplest and most famous Ayurvedic formulas. It contains a blend of carminative herbs that cleanses the lymph, and dispels gas, bloating, and heartburn. It aids in the digestion and assimilation of nutrients while calming and soothing an upset tummy. It

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Christina Vargas

Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, Educator, Herbalist, Certified Yoga & iRest Instructor, Marma Therapist, and Ayurvedic Postpartum Caregiver, APC

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