Dear Friends,

The question I have been hearing most often from my two grandchildren lately is “Can we make a popsicle?” Indeed, there is nothing better on hot summer days for children of all ages. Here is a recipe for you. Popsicle forms may be purchased on Amazon.com or at local kitchen supply stores.

Step 1. Place blueberries or any other fruit chunks into the popsicle forms.

Step 2. Fill the popsicle forms with fresh juice.
While in this picture you see apple juice, our favorite is orange juice.

 

Step 3. Snap the popsicle stems into place and put in a freezer for twelve hours or longer.

Step 4. Briefly run popsicles under warm water for easier popsicle extraction.
Step 5. Enjoy!

 

Sergei’s New Book

Wild Edibles: A Practical Guide to Foraging, with Easy Identification of 60 Edible Plants and 67 Recipes

Dear friends,

If you’ve been following our weekly newsletters, you know how much we value foraged greens. Now, we are happy to announce that Sergei’s new book “Wild Edibles” will be out in two months. And this is the official pre-sale!

“Wild Edibles” is written in an inviting style and makes foraging accessible to people of all ages. It is illustrated with over 300 color photos and contains 67 recipes. Whether you live in the United States or abroad, Sergei’s book expands on the most common wild edibles found worldwide.

If you pre-order Sergei’s new book, you will receive FREE shipping within the US (in all other countries standard shipping applies). You will also receive a bonus hard copy of Sergei’s DVD “The Miracle of Greens” ($19.95) to further inspire you to attain wild health.

The first 100 people who pre-order “Wild Edibles,” will receive an autographed copy.

The price of this book is $19.95

Pre-order “Wild Edibles” by Clicking Here

All orders will be shipped on July 15th, 2013.

Dear Friends,

During the past winter we have been sharing special winter fruits with our little ones; cherimoyas, pomegranates, papayas, mandarins, and of course, prickly (cactus) pears. In the following 1-minute video my grandson Nic shows how to prepare and enjoy this nutritious fruit.

I feel so happy about how my two grandchildren make healthy food choices in their everyday lives. Yesterday, on the way from a swimming lesson, when I handed 5-year-old Lily her snack, she opened it and said with a smile, “Ah, prickly pears!”

If served in the right manner and at the right moment, healthy snacks become helpful in developing your children’s health. I wish I had the knowledge I have now from the very beginning of my parenting years. To help others, I put all of my acquired tips in my new e-book “Healthy Snacks & Fun School Lunches for Children.”

24 pages
45 color photos
Price $2.99 Instant download

To Order, Click Here

Dear Friends,

If you are tired of stringy avocados, sour grapefruits, and flavorless peaches, then you will love the Quality Produce App. This tool will help you choose the ripest, sweetest, and freshest produce every time without fail!

Having this app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch will inspire you to sink your teeth into some of the world’s most delicious edible treasures. We have worked hard to compile this ultra user-friendly app, filling it with clear images and hundreds of useful tips that will take the guessing out of shopping. Use the Quality Produce app right in the store to become an expert in no time. With the audio function, just plug in your headphones and listen while you peruse the produce section.

Android phones do not provide sufficient memory, so we won’t be able to create this app for them. Maybe someone in your family owns an iPhone or iPad that you can use if you do not have one yourself.

Valya based her recommendations on 19 years of personal experience shopping and preparing food from quality produce. She provided lots of useful tips in this app.

You may learn more about this app here:

http://www.iosnoops.com/appinfo/quality-produce-for-iphone-and-ipad/613581716

We appreciate your sincere comments and ratings so please feel free to leave a comment about this app on iTunes when you purchase it. Thank you!

 

Meet the Athletes for Sergei’s Documentary

Sergei has started shooting his feature film about the effect of green smoothie consumption on performance of hardcore, endurance athletes. Watch this short clip for an introduction to the athletes that will be participating in this amazing experiment:

 

Stinging nettles is more nutritious than most greens in the store. Compared to spinach, it has 29x the amount of calcium, 14x the amount of iron, 8x the amount of magnesium, and 4x the amount of potassium. See what you get from just one cup of stinging nettles ¹:

Mineral Content
Serving Size: 1 cup (89g or 3.1 oz)
—————-	————–	———
	Amount	RDI%
Protein	2.4119g	5%
Calcium	428.09 mg	43%
Iron	1.4596 mg	8%
Magnesium	50.73 mg	13%
Phosphorus	63.19 mg	6%
Potassium	297.26 mg	6%
Zinc	0.3026 mg	2%
Copper	0.06764 mg	3%
Manganese	0.69331 mg	35%

On this photo you may see nettles growing in our yard. Prior to last summer we were unsuccessful, trying to grow nettles from seeds. Last summer Valya bought two small stinging nettle plants at the farmers market and planted them in our garden. Now they are producing abundantly.

Today my family is living on green smoothies made out of nettles, mangos and water. The recipe is depicted on the next photo.

Often people ask if nettle smoothie stings. No, it doesn’t. You may use gloves or a plastic bag to pick nettles. You can also use scissors to cut them right into the blender. As soon as you blend them they don’t sting any more.

Nettle smoothie is fragrant and refreshing. We hope you can find a patch of nettles too and join us for a cup of green goodness.

Update on Sergei’s Kickstarter Project

 

Less than two weeks left:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sergeiboutenko/powered-by-green-smoothies-feature-film

¹ http://skipthepie.org/ethnic-foods/stinging-nettles-blanched-northern-plains-indians

Dear Friends,

Once, when I was ten years old, my father told me that the best gifts are the gifts we give ourselves. I didn’t believe him. “It cannot be so”, I thought. On my next birthday my father invited me to go to the mountains to pick wild strawberries and blueberries so that my mother could prepare a jam from them for the winter.

We left early in the morning even before the buses started running and walked all the way from our apartment to the forest and hiked all day long with a short break for lunch. We found lots of berries and gorged on them until our mouths became sore from eating them.

We returned home in the late afternoon carrying lots of berries. My father brought a large bucket and I carried a smaller container, approximately three liters (3 quarts) in size. I was tired and proud of all my accomplishments, helping family and being able to work all day. I remember how my father explained that we covered about sixteen kilometers (10 miles) that day. My father and I returned home just in time for a special supper my mother prepared for my birthday. The food seemed to be super tasty. My parents presented me with some toy; I don’t remember now what it was. At the table father asked me if I had a good birthday. “I had the best birthday!” I replied, feeling deeply happy inside. I finally understood what my father had meant about the gifts we give ourselves.

Since then, I have always tried to gift myself in this way on special occasions. I enjoyed jumping in a ice-cold rivers on New Eve’s Days, finishing books by my birthday, participated in races, and even fasting on water on Mother’s Day.

Naturally, I encouraged my three children to adopt this way of celebrating and they love doing so. Today, November 27, Sergei is celebrating his 28th birthday. He has created a new song, and has put together a new funny video clip to go with it. Enjoy!

If you like the song you may purchase the audio for 99c Here

 

Green Smoothie iPhone App Update

Coincidentally, today we have posted an update to the Green Smoothies App making it version 4.0. We included the ability to rotate the screen, it now has native support for iPad. We have further improved this program and made it compatible with the new IOS version 6 and iPhone 5/iPad 4 devices.
If you own this app please update it.
You may find more information Here.