How nutritious is our food?

Wow!  I went to a local Thrive Life event last night.  Here's something I learned which will be beneficial to everyone.  Most fruits and vegetables we find at even the healthiest stores are picked before they are fully ripened on the vine, usually about 2 weeks.  The most important time for fruits and vegetables to develop their full nutritional value is in the LAST 2 weeks of ripening.  

So, what this means is that what we see in the store does not have full nutritional value because it wasn't allowed to ripen properly on the vine.  Not only that, but here's what's even more interesting:  just like the human body which does not get "fed" and therefore begins to "break down" when it is not fed, fruits and vegetables which are picked "early" begin to "break down" from the time they are picked, trying to "stay alive", and thus are "eating" their own nutrients.  So, those green bananas that are traveling by truck or boat, first, do not have their full nutritional value to begin with, and second, are losing nutritional value during the time they are being transported to stores and each day they sit in the store.

This is where Thrive fruits and vegetables are completely different and more nutritional than any other you can find:  they are picked at the peak of ripeness and flash frozen within 2-4 hours and then freeze-dried to lock in nutrients.  So, when you open a can of Thrive fruits or vegetables and rehydrate them, you are eating fresh from the vine picked products, which have all the nutritional value in them and which retain that nutritional value as they are stored properly for up to a year!  An unopened can of bananas can be opened 20 years from now and will have the same nutritional value as it did when it was picked, flash frozen and freeze-dried 20 years earlier!  This is a game-changer for nutrition, and I am shifting even more of my grocery budget to Thrive products to have in my "home store" to use every day so that my family is getting the proper nutritional value from our fruits and vegetables.

If you want to get your family set up with nutritious food, then click on this link.

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Crock-pot chicken quinoa soup recipe

We've had the "crud" in our house this winter, so I've been experimenting with a number of different chicken soup recipes.  This one is simmering right now!

Chicken Quinoa Soup (Crock Pot)

• 1 large onion, diced  (I used my Thrive FD chopped onions)
• 2 cloves garlic
• 6-8 stalks celery, diced (I used my Thrive FD celery)
• 6-8 carrots, diced (I used my Thrive dehydrated carrots)
• 2 chicken breasts, diced (I used fresh, but the Thrive FD diced chicken would be even better...no chopping!)
• 1 T Cajun spice seasoning
• 1 t smoked paprika
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/4 C dried split peas (I used yellow, but green is fine)  (I used my Thrive green peas instead)
• 1/2 C quinoa, rinsed (I used my Thrive quinoa)
• 6 C low-sodium chicken broth (I used my Thrive Vegetable chicken broth)
• 2 C water
• salt and pepper to taste

I will post pictures after it's finished!