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Healthy Breakfast Choices

May 5, 2010 By javajoba 4 Comments

My favorite Breakfast: Oatmeal, and I don’t mean oatmeal out of a package or cardboard box. The taste of fresh organic oatmeal is so much better than anything prepackaged and it is simple to prepare. Can you boil water?

Some Oatmeal ideas

  1. My #1 choice: raisins and apples sliced up into small bite size chunks.
  2. Bananas and peanut butter. The heat really brings out the flavors
  3. Pouched egg, protein
  4. Mixed fruit, right now blueberrys are in season
  5. Be creative, it’s hard to create bad oatmeal

Some other addition for oatmeal: Wheat bran, butter or coconut butter, flax-seed meal, and for sweetners, I like maple syrup or honey (lots of trace minerals). What’s your favorite way to make Breakfast?

My best morning tea, today
Green tea with squeezes from a lemon and some honey. This is easy & fast to make, but there are plenty of benefits. Green tea has plenty of great qualities including properties that help with weight loss. Lemons have plenty of health rich nutrients including cancer fighting carotenoids and flavonoids. Lemons will also help the stomach to shrink so you will eat less during the day.  Raw honey also has lots of healthy properties.

This green tea recipe is a great way to start the day. I usually wait about 20+ minutes before eating breakfast.

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Green Tea Mints

May 15, 2008 By javajoba Leave a Comment

I’ve been eating these green tea breath mints for the last 6 months or so, and really like them. No sugar, I don’t think there’s too much caffeine and they taste good. The label says 3 drops equals about 1 cup of green tea.

Breath Mint Flavors
The 3 flavors are light no menthol. Not what you would expect from a breath mint.

  1. Lemongrass:
  2. Orginal:
  3. Pear: This is lght and delacate but refreshing

No sugar: The two sweeteners for this product are sorbitol and xylitol.

What others are saying:

Sencha Naturals Green Tea Mints contain a unique blend of organically grown teas, botanicals and mint oils to leave your mouth feeling refreshed and clean.

The benefits of green tea have long been know: slows aging reduced cancer risk and even helps with weight loss.

Love Green Tea and don’t have time to brew a cup? Sencha Green Tea Mint is for you. Tried one and could not forget the refreshing taste that made me feel like a mountain springs in Japan soothing my soul.

Each loose-leaf mint imparts a fresh, nuanced taste created with organically grown, certified Fair Trade green tea. Sencha Naturals products help inhibit bad breath, boost the immune system, reduce cancer risk, slow the aging process, and help prevent heart disease.

These irresistible pastel mints strongly infused with organic sencha, a green tea, are shaped like tea leaves. Sencha Naturals in Los Angeles makes them in three flavors: plain, cooling lemon grass and sweet pear, all sugar-free.

Mints in the shape of tea leaves and taste great and are refreshing. Made from a blend of organic green tea are known to help inhibit the root causes of bad breath.

And they taste very good. They’re a all-natural, so you get that benefit. It goes along with the organic trend.

Unlike mints that merely mask bad breath, these inhibit oral bacteria with their blend of green tea and other supporting herbal extracts.

Ingredients

Blend – Organic Green Tea Extract, Organic Jasmine, Sweet Fennel, Tea Tree Oil,
Natural Flavors, Turmeric, Lo Han Guo. Other Ingredients – Sorbitol, Xylitol, Calcium Stearate.

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Japanese Green Tea

February 17, 2008 By javajoba 2 Comments

Japanese Green Tea

This is my everyday Green Tea. Not only a great price, but a pretty good taste as well. Each tea bag is individually warped so it’s easy to take to work.

This Japanese Green tea is made up of 2 different types of green tea., Sencha and Matcha.

Sencha Green Tea: Hunter green, needle like leaves mark the Sencha, which brews up to a delicate green liquor that is both grassy sweet and astringent

Matcha Green Tea is a powdered green tea made from pulverizing the highest quality gyokuro tea into a fine powder.

I picked this up at Costco and it has the Kirkland brand name.

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