 Of course, I know I didn't tell anybody I was going live today, but welcome everybody I Am in the middle of my kitchen Basically making my food for the day a lot of you know that I Do my food prep in the morning, but I'm off to a late start So a very late start so I figured I was I would show you what I was actually doing this morning And this is just gonna be really quick because I think that a lot of people one of the things they miss is things that are crunchy or chewy or They you know don't want to eat salad all the time or if they're eating salad all the time They would just like another alternative to something So I want to share that with you what I'm making So what I did was as I had a pineapple that was if I didn't use it in the next day Probably 24 hours. It probably would have gone rotten So I was like I really am not in the mood to eat pineapple today. So what can I do with it? So what I did was I got my good old trusty. Hey everybody anybody who has joined me I got my good old trusty mandolin and I can put this particular mandolin down in the description box if you are interested in it But you do not need a mandolin Hey, Georgia. Welcome. You do not need a mandolin to do what I'm about to do All you need is a sharp knife and a cutting board. I just happen to Have a mandolin and that's why I'm using it It does make things easier, but you don't need a mandolin to Make what I'm getting ready to show you All right, and thank you so much for saying that I appreciate that and oh also anybody who is interested in the 90-day walk To freedom from from five words group coaching program. I do still have spots available There's a link down in the description box where you can sign up Fill out an application get on my calendar this week. We start next Monday So do that if you are interested. So here is what I have Do you see that? These are pineapple triangles and they are on a dehydrator tray and so When these are actually dehydrated and done and dried they are going to be crispy like chips like You put your hand in the bag and Put them in your mouth put them between your teeth they will crunch like chips now You can dehydrate them to up to the point where they are just chewy But you can also dehydrate them to where they are crunchy like chips and so I have a nine tray Excalibur Dehydrator I've had it since 2007. So it's really old. It's actually broken The heating element on it does not work. So all it has is cold air going through the Dehydrator so like you could dehydrate these in like 10 hours, but for me This is probably going to take about 24 hours, which I don't care. I'm Preparing beforehand. I'll eat them in a day or so but One day I'll get a new dehydrator whenever that happens But this is a way for you to have something crunchy That is one of the things that people Complain about the most is like they they can't Stand doing the the the lifestyle because there's nothing crunchy. This is how you do it You don't have to just use Pineapple you can use apples you can use kiwi you can use you can do strawberries you can do whatever kind of fruit you want you can even Do vegetables like you can do cucumbers or zucchini chips or Like butternut squash or Whatever it is that you want to do now There's another thing that you can do with this in particular is if you wanted it to taste a certain way So I'm just having plain Pineapple chips, but you could I could say you wanted some some smoky Pineapple chips that might sound a little crazy to some people, but say you wanted that you can put some smoked paprika on your Pineapple chips and whenever they came out they would have a sweet and smoky flavor so you would just need to need to Really just experiment to see what you like, but the one thing that I can say about Doing dehydrated chips is it doesn't take very long. It took me like five minutes to chop My pineapple would not even this is only half of the pineapple so it probably took like two minutes to like really Slice it and put it on the dehydrator tray and all I'm doing is sticking the dehyde Sticking this tray in the dehydrator and the dehydrator does its work. I don't have to do anything else The other thing you can make is kale chips. You can Make some kale I mean chop up some kale And then season it the way you want and then put it in your dehydrator So what I'll do is I'll put the link to my dehydrator down in the description box along with my mandolin So you can see what I actually use when I do this. So the other thing that I did this morning Is I made some crackers. So I did not actually show I mean I've are those the batter is already in the Dehydrator, so I'll go and it's my I keep my dehydrator in my dining room So I will show you what it is But I didn't write down the recipe because I was just kind of playing with it but I the the bulk of the recipe is celery pulp from my celery juice from yesterday And I had a three quarters of a red onion And I had Hey there, can me welcome? And then I had a half of a green pepper So I took the pulp from the celery juice from yesterday and I had the onion and the Green pepper and I chopped that up real good in the in my food processor which took like 30 seconds and I mixed it up in a bowl and then I put some raisins in it for some sweetness And I put whatever seasonings. I think I put like garlic powder onion powder Chipotle pepper and I put some dill weed in there But you can put whatever you want in there Like if you've got Italian seasoning you can put whatever you want and see I'm I'm not doing salt So what I did was Because I used some of this Walka may and this is just a seed weed. It's got plenty of minerals in it You can get iodine from it all that good stuff And lots of calcium A little tiny bit of iron in it, but I'm using this As my salt substitute and plus since I'm using the celery pulp It's kind of doesn't really need any salt So really what you want to capture when you're trying to make the crackers is the salty component And I'll put a link to this down in the description box as well the salty component the spicy component You can put some lemon in there. That's one thing that I didn't put in there Lemon will give it like the sour component. It will just kind of pull all the flavors together And you know just mix it up and then put it on a dehydrator tray So I don't have that much battery in my phone right now. And that's what I'm recording on So I'm gonna see if I can take you because my phone is plugged in at the countertop Let's see if I can take you into the dining room so you can see what my dehydrated Crackers look like it's I just put them in there so they're nowhere near dehydrated But I just want to show you what they look like so that you can You know get get an idea of what you can do When you make crackers and the point also the other thing that I am trying not to do is to put fat in the crackers like you'll if you if you google or put in in YouTube if you say Dehydrated crackers how to make dehydrated crackers And what you'll find is a lot of recipes that have lots of chia seeds in them or flax seeds or some kind of seed And when you do that if you're trying to heal your body and you're trying to Um detox you don't want to eat a lot of fat So I try not to put any fat in the crackers if I can if I can help it That way if I want to eat like a good amount of them I don't have to worry about how much fat is in the crackers So that's one thing that I wanted to keep like just to make sure that I told you So the other day I was experimenting. This is the first time I made crackers out of A celery pulp and when I made them they were absolutely delicious And the texture that they were was you know those trisket crackers That you could get I think the bisco make some or whatever now they don't taste like Nabisco crackers because nabisco crackers. Hey there. How you doing? Um Then the bisco crackers have You know chemicals in them and flour and wheat and all that stuff so My crackers didn't taste like that, but they tasted delicious They just had the texture of the of the trisket and I don't know I used to eat those all the time when I was a little girl So that was that was a great You know That was a great experience for the crackers to turn out that way So let me take you into the dining room and show you Oops. Whoops. Whoops. Sorry. Whoops I need to tighten that up. Okay. Let me take you into the dining room and show you my um Let's see my dehydrator. I'm turning the thing around Okay, so here's my my um dehydrator So here is my cracker And so that's what it looks like raw And so when it's done what I'm going to do is just Um, just break them up and I have another tray with a small amount on and so the other thing that you can do And I did do this with some of my celery crackers that I made the other day Give me a second. Let me put this back One thing that you can do is you can um actually make wraps You can make wraps from the crackers so What happens is is you want to catch them in the dehydrator before They get crispy like when they still have a bend to them and take them out of dehydrator and just fill them with whatever it is you want to put in there like um your Your lettuce tomato your avocado your um Onions whatever it is that you like to put put in your wraps carrots roasted vegetables whatever you like to put in your wrap and then you just have this wrap there that is You know just kind of flexible and you eat it I'm going to try and and do some of that because if you're doing a lot of juicing and some people say Well, what do you do with the pulp now really quite frankly? I really don't care about throwing away pulp all the time like it doesn't matter The point the reason that I bought the vegetables in the first place was So that I could Excuse me get the juice out of them. So that never bothered me But I'm eating more and more raw these days. And so sometimes when you eat raw like that It's hard to stay raw because you're like you want texture So one way to get texture is by making some dehydrated crackers or dehydrated bread or something like that You can make and also if you have if you haven't already seen i'm making dehydrated Pineapple slices. I'm still contemplating whether or not I'm going to cut up that whole pineapple and make another tray of Pineapples But this Right here you can you can dehydrate it. And if you're just now coming in you can dehydrate it until It's chewy. So if you want like a chewy candy like I used to eat Um, what are those things sour patch kids? I know they're terrible I see sour patch kids. So you you can dehydrate pineapple or whatever kind of fruit you want To right before it gets crispy and and it's chewy. So you can kind of mimic that that feel Or you can wait, you know dehydrate them until they're crunchy and then you get that crunchy feel that you're looking for So hopefully this has been helpful and don't forget My battery is dying y'all. I'm gonna have to go But um, don't forget that My I do still have my um 90 day um Walk to freedom from fibrous group coaching program I still have spots if you're interested There's a link down in the description box Where you can apply to work with me. We are starting next Monday. I have open slots I've cleared my calendar this after this week so that I could talk talk to people in the afternoon if you want to join So anyway, I love y'all and if because if nobody told you that they love you today Chelsea in North Carolina does love you very much and I will talk to you all soon. So see you next time. Bye. Bye