This is a breakfast I truly enjoy making as well as eating. This delicious meal comprises of a large salad with a variety of veggies, fruit and hemp hearts, a glass of filtered water with fresh lemon squeezed into it, and a cup of warm organic tea.

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I start with fresh organic veggies and the selection for this morning’s salad includes: romaine lettuce, fresh spinach, bean sprouts, radishes, carrots, celery and vine sweet mini peppers. I don’t eat tomatoes, cucumbers or raw green/red/yellow peppers, but they would be wonderful in the salad if you liked them. I try to change it up when I make the salad so that I don’t get tired of eating the same combination all the time.

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The next step is optional. I like to add a little meat because I’m a type O blood type, O- to be exact, which makes me one of the universal blood donors and I need to get my iron from meats because when I try to do a full veggie diet I end up heading towards the anemic end of the pendulum which then prevents me from donating blood. Of course, I can correct this with a meal of cooked liver and onions, but I’d rather prevent having to cook and eat liver by adding meat to my diet on a more regular basis. Sometimes I add tuna like in this picture and other times it’s a hard boiled or cooked egg (no oil), or a small piece of grilled chicken or steak. Fortunately, living in Vermont, I am able to find very good quality cuts of meats at the food co-ops or the little mom and pop locations and I do try to shop locally.

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Now I add my salsa. I prefer to make it myself or find organic. I figure this helps to make up for my dislike of tomatoes and gets them in my diet so a lot of things I eat get a bit of salsa added to them.

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Then I add some organic yogurt.

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Here comes the fruit. This time I added 3 organic dried plums that I cut up into little bite size pieces. I change up the fruit every time I eat this salad. Any kind of fruit you like would work.

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Now, the pièce de résistance is the hemp hearts! The energy from hemp hearts (shelled hemp seeds) will fuel you for the whole day! I use Healing Source‘s hemp hearts and buy them by the case of nine 1 pound pails.

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Now here you have an energy filled breakfast that is not only packed with nutrition, but also tastes delicious to eat. This meal/diet is not for everyone. I am not a nutritionist and do not claim to know anything about nutrition in any kind of a professional sense. Always check with your primary care provider before doing any kind of meal as a diet plan.

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