The easiest strawberries ice cream ever, plus some reflections about food
Food is such an important thing. We really need to realize it. And the great thing about food is that it is relevant at any level:
it can make a huge difference in your body health,
it can help you realize what is important for you in life (how? You may ask. Well, I would say, when you start to create day by day the diet that fits perfectly for your body mind an soul, that makes you feel good, beautiful and happy, instead of following a given diet that is suggested from your family, your country’s tradition, or from your family doctor, then you can start to realize also what is important for you in life),
it is also fundamental in the environmental aspect of your foot print on the planet.
Those are some of the question that you may need to answer, and you need to find out why they are so compelling, too.
Do you eating meet? Do you know the foot print of a meat eater comparison to a vegan or a vegetarian? Are you consuming biological or natural food? Why is that necessary? Have you ever heard about seeds and about Monsanto? Do you mind where the food that is on your daily dinner table comes form? Are you aware of the power of the food and pharmacology holdings, and of their profit that comes directly form the food you consume, or the medicine you need to take after eating it, when you are sick?
The list of questions can go on and on like this, for hours.
I am writing about this topic because lately I am facing with a health problem, and guess where is a great deal of the solution for it? In the diet, of course.
My health issue regards my endometrium, which is a inner mucosal membrane in the uterus of women and of mammals in general. I draw a pic of it:
I had some polypus there, in the endometrium’s side, they look like small balls attach to the wall of it, my monthly cycle become so heavy I couldn’t go out from the house the first two days of menstrual period.
I have been operated and I had those two polypus removed, twice.
They don’t know what are the causes of it, why polypus grow, but generally their growth is connected with a hormonal unbalance, which I happened to have.
So, I started to read a lot about those kind of issues and I found out that they are not that uncommon as you may think: many women suffer from hormonal unbalance and connected pathologies.
I came across a book that I would suggest to ANY woman. The author, Lara Briden, is a natural doctor with more that twenty years of experience on the health of female hormonal issues, the book is called ‘Period Manual Repair: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods ’.
In this book she sustains that your period is your monthly card report about your general health, and we should regard to it as lucky aspect of being women.
In addition she says that your period:
should’ be longer than seven days
you should’T lose more that 80 ml of menstrual fluid
you should’t suffer of PMS.
Any of those symptoms mean something. For me this is such a imperative knowledge to have as woman, we need to be educated about our menstrual cycle, we need to be empowered about it.
So, this said (and read the book!) I will write about the strawberries ice cream.
Being able to make those ice-creams is such a gift for me. There is no sugar and no milk: just fruits. I did it with bananas of course, and I tried with strawberries: it was delicious.
You can add other ingredients, if you like. For example, you can add some extra natural sweetener like xylitol, or a squirt of lemon, some drops of vanilla extract…you choose! But I assure it is very satisfying also just as it is.
Ingredients (ice cream for two)
Time required: freezing time of the strawberries (about four hours, but I put them in the refrigerator for a night), 10 minutes for making the ice cream.
One big cup of fresh beautiful strawberries
(plus you can add some drops of lemon, a little bit of natural sweetener, vanilla extract, as you wish, it is your ice cream after all!)
Wash the strawberries very well in water with a drop of apple vinegar. Dry them and remove the stalk.
Slice them, put in a container and refrigerate completely (strawberries need to be hard)
Put them in a beaker, add very few water (start with 3 table spoons, then later you can add more, if needed) and blend them until you reach the consistency of an ice cream.
Put the ice cream in two cups and eat it with love and peace in your heart!
(Keep in mind that this ice cream will melt faster than usual ice cream :) )