Many years ago, I received a wake up call about my life, health, spirit and where on earth I wanted to be (and who I wanted to be) at the end of the road...and as a result of that wake up call, I made a lot of changes over the course of a few short years.
In fact, to say that not one aspect of my life was the same (except for my partner and my children) would be an understatement. However, one of the most significant changes that we made was to give up coffee and all caffeine in fact. It has proved to be such a wise decision in the long term.
In it's place (I would subscribe to the thinking that if you remove something, you replace it with something far better) we hunted and searched for a drink that we could enjoy in the same way, but would not have the action of a drug on our detoxing bodies.
We tried many things of course, nut coffees, chicory, barley cup and a host of other mixtures and concoctions - some good and others not so great. Finally, we found pure roasted dandelion root, the kind that you have to grind yourself and then make into coffee.
Actually the first dandelion coffee we bought sat in the cupboard for about 6 months or so before we finally got around to giving it a try. But first we had to figure out how to use it. There were no instructions on the package telling us to grind it first, for example.
Through trial and error, we soon got the dandelion coffee where we wanted it and were hooked. I have long compared it to a cross between chocolate and coffee in taste and smell - it is bitter like coffee, rich and full bodied and each batch you get might taste slightly different.
We also use the grounds twice in a French press and add chicory to the mixture for the second pass through hot water. I like my coffee with goat's milk and we make it strong - everyone in the family enjoys it, with my daughter drinking it since she was a baby.
Perhaps the most important thing here is that this is a herb and therefore confers all the benefits of plant life in every precious drop. Dandelion is good for the liver, encourages detox, aids digestion, helps gut ailments, encourages bowel health as well as being known as a prebiotic or having components which feed beneficial gut bacteria. And this is just the beginning!
If you have been drinking your coffee while your adrenal glands scream from hyper stimulation and your body shuts down with an ever increasing toxin load, try switching to dandelion coffee. Our ancestors have been drinking it for millennia and, as we are finding out, they were not far wrong in their tastes.
Cheers
April
In it's place (I would subscribe to the thinking that if you remove something, you replace it with something far better) we hunted and searched for a drink that we could enjoy in the same way, but would not have the action of a drug on our detoxing bodies.
We tried many things of course, nut coffees, chicory, barley cup and a host of other mixtures and concoctions - some good and others not so great. Finally, we found pure roasted dandelion root, the kind that you have to grind yourself and then make into coffee.
Actually the first dandelion coffee we bought sat in the cupboard for about 6 months or so before we finally got around to giving it a try. But first we had to figure out how to use it. There were no instructions on the package telling us to grind it first, for example.
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| Dandelion coffee ground - just for a few seconds |
We also use the grounds twice in a French press and add chicory to the mixture for the second pass through hot water. I like my coffee with goat's milk and we make it strong - everyone in the family enjoys it, with my daughter drinking it since she was a baby.
Perhaps the most important thing here is that this is a herb and therefore confers all the benefits of plant life in every precious drop. Dandelion is good for the liver, encourages detox, aids digestion, helps gut ailments, encourages bowel health as well as being known as a prebiotic or having components which feed beneficial gut bacteria. And this is just the beginning!
If you have been drinking your coffee while your adrenal glands scream from hyper stimulation and your body shuts down with an ever increasing toxin load, try switching to dandelion coffee. Our ancestors have been drinking it for millennia and, as we are finding out, they were not far wrong in their tastes.
Cheers
April
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| Coconut balls and dandelion coffee with milk |
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