Gary's Extra Healthy Muesli Recipe

Ingredients
(Adjust quantities of each according to taste) Buy your dried fruit and nuts from a source that guarantees their freshness to avoid eating rancid nuts or moldy fruit and make only enough of this recipe to last a few weeks.

• Raw rolled oats
• Crushed walnuts
• Slivered almonds
• Pumpkin seeds
• Sunflower seeds
• Pine nuts
• Add any other affordable nuts
• Chopped dates
• Chopped prunes
• Chopped apricots
• Raisins/sultanas
• Lecithin granules
• Wheat germ
• Honey - a small amount to taste. As it is a sugar, keep to a minimum.

Process

• Warm the honey until it is flowing freely and mix into the rolled oats.
• Next, add and thoroughly mix all of the other ingredients so that you have a mix that is approximately 50% rolled oats and the rest made up of the nuts, dried fruits and other ingredients
• If you like, you can separately roast the rolled oats and even some of the nuts

Use

• Served with fruit and home made yoghurt, a plate of this muesli supplies everything needed to get you going first thing in the morning and for several hours thereafter.
• Add a dessert spoon of Waihi Bush flax oil just before eating.
• You can also make it into porridge, which is even more nutritious and warming - very tempting in the winter.
• Mix it up the night before and soak overnight in water (about as much water as oats). It then takes only about 5 mins to simmer into porridge in the morning (add as much water again before cooking).
• Use it as a quick snack during those extra busy times or between meals when feeling peckish.
• Use as a substitute for junk foods like ice-cream and sweets

Constipated?

Have an extra bowl or two during the day!

Note: Some experts recommend that nuts and grains be soaked overnight to neutralise the enzymes that inhibit the release of some of their nutrients. I quite like doing this (When I remember!) mostly because it brings out the taste of the nuts and dried fruits - yummy, yummy!

If you are consitpated, try this recipe

Constipation is a very common problem that can lead to serious health problems, yet the prevention and alleviation of constipation is very simple. There is never any need to resort to expensive and potentially hazardous medications that may deplete your body of already low levels of nutrients. The solution is a combination of diet and resetting your daily biorhythms.

Here is a sure-fire plan for relief:

• Go to bed and get out of bed the same time daily, including weekends.
• Go for a brisk walk each morning before breakfast.
• Go to the toilet at exactly the same time every morning
• Have a good helping of my muesli recipe for breakfast.
• Have at least three pieces of fresh fuits daily.
• Have leafy vegetables and root crops like carrots daily.
• Have less refined foods, including less sugar and flour products.
• eat your main meals at exactly the same time every day, including weekends and holidays
• At night, before going to bed, have 2-3 New Zealand Kiwi Fruit and one dessert spoon of delicious Waihi Bush flaxseed Oil.
• Keep this pattern of of behaviour going as best you can when travelling.

Within a week or so, you will find that your body has reset its rhythms of digestion and elimination so that they happen liek clockwork. Keep this pattern of

Medications

Many kinds of medications - be they for the heart, circulation, cholesterol, mood stabilisation or for reducing pain or inflammation - may affect digestion and the motility of the intestines. Even common aspirin can seriously affect the digestive tract. If you are taking medications on a regular basis, please discuss their potential effects on digestion and elimination with your doctor. In many cases, there is a natural alternative.