 Hey y'all welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I am coming at you with another What I Eat in a Day video and I will be sure to add all of the ingredients for each one of the recipes down in the description box below this video. And I am so glad that you landed on my channel. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Chelsea Knudsen. I'm a certified holistic health coach and I coach women on how to heal naturally from female related conditions using food as medicine. Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode. So let's get started. I am going to start with making my first juice of the day and this is going to be just a plain celery juice. I have started to absolutely love celery juice. It is so hydrating and so healing and so alkalinizing for the body. If you are struggling with any type of female related issues adding plain celery juice is going to help tremendously. And the other thing that it does is it helps with cravings. So if you're having cravings for all kinds of different foods then celery juice is an excellent addition to your diet. So I'm just slicing off the ends of this celery and then I'm going to rinse it and then I'm going to run it through my juicer. Then I remembered I have to slice the celery up into small pieces because I have to use my old juicer and my old juicer does not do well with celery. I dropped my green star on the floor when my husband dropped it and broke it and we had to send it into the company in order to get it repaired. So I'm having to slice the celery into small pieces so that it doesn't jam up my old juicer. It's the only thing that my old juicer does not do well is celery and that is the champion juicer. So I'm slicing this and as once I get it sliced I'm going to run these vegetables through the juicer. Also if you're interested in this knife I will put a link down in the description box so you can get it. I absolutely love this knife. It cuts very well and when you're on this lifestyle you have to make sure you have good kitchen tools or it makes things take longer and it frustrates you. So here's my good old trusty champion juicer. I'm putting the celery through the juicer and I'm just going to get all that juice out. Two heads of celery makes about a liter of juice and for me that costs four dollars. One tip that I have for you is that when you are trying to find containers to store your juice use glass. And what I typically do is the old juice containers from the good quality juices. I save them and that's what I use for my juices or I'll use mason jars. Those are the two that I use but I actually like these better. Now it's time for some tea. Today I'm going to have some hibiscus tea. I love hibiscus tea. It's very flavorful. It has a trillion health benefits to it but one of the main ones is that it lowers cholesterol. It helps with weight loss. It helps lower blood pressure. It helps with female reproductive issues. And look at my fancy cup y'all. I absolutely love this cup and the reason I love it is because I like to buy my teas in bulk and if you want this hibiscus tea I will leave it down in the description box so you can purchase this one that I buy all the time. But it saves money to buy tea in bulk. So this cup what it does is you just have a big cup. It holds almost two cups of water and it has a little insert where you put your tea leaves. You put the tea leaves in there and then you pour your water into your cup and then it has this little lid that you put on top and you let your tea steep for a while. You know five, ten, fifteen minutes. However long you like your tea to steep and then you remove the lid and then you remove the insert and then you sit the insert inside the lid to catch any additional water that might be dripping out and then you can drink your tea at your leisure. So now it's time to make some more juice. This is one of my favorite juice recipes for female reproductive health. It is so healing. Beet, apple, lemon. Beet, apple, lemon. So one beet I usually like to use a larger beet than this but this is all they had at the store so I like to buy really large beets and then four large apples and then the biggest lemon you can find. You can even put more than one lemon in the juice but what happens is this combination you will literally feel it in your body doing work. You will like I have, there have been times when I've drank this juice and I could just feel it go straight to my reproductive system to heal. I think that there is something magical about this juice so I try to drink it as often as possible. One of the things that makes it taste really good is just adding the lemon because it tones down the taste of the beet if you don't really like beet and also the apples help with digestion and it helps with moving sludge out of your body and sludge is just toxic waste out of your body but this is a fabulous juice for all reproductive issues. I have gotten lots of healing in my body from using this particular juice and I hope that you will try it. So look at this juice it is so nice and rich and red and flavorful oh my goodness it's so good and just that recipe that beet the four apples and the lemon actually made one liter of juice so that's pretty cheap that was like maybe two or three dollars depending on how cheap you got your apples because beets they don't weigh very much they don't cost very much so don't tell me that you cannot juice cheaply because you can't it really just depends on what you're juicing and if you think about all the other things that you buy like the junkie foods that you buy and you stop buying that stuff and you actually put your money into the healthy foods and plan well you will it won't be more expensive if you just go to the store randomly and just shop and shop and just throw things in your cart without a plan and yeah you're going to spend too much money so guess what this is it's actually a melon and it looks like honeydew melon but it is not this is called a cassava melon and i cut this up the other day and it was a lot of fruit so we couldn't finish it also i am just having some for lunch i'm having a big bowl of it actually i'm ending up putting this whole bowl in there i should have just taken the saran wrap off of the bowl and just eat it from and eating it from from this bowl because um really i just ended up eating this whole thing so it was really good it was this is probably really a snack portion i have had more in my refrigerator i probably could have eaten more but um this was satisfying i would say if you can get your hands on a cassava melon this summer it is worth it so it sort of tastes like honeydew watermelon and cantaloupe mixed together that's what it tastes like so if you are interested um you can find them at pretty much any natural foods store maybe even like um asian markets or mexican markets things like that may carry them i'm not sure but i saw it at Whole Foods and it was five dollars for this great big melon so i grabbed a hold of it and i absolutely loved it for my for this meal okay so y'all see what i'm doing it's time for my big big salad that i'm making and just remember all of the ingredients that i'm using are going to be down in the description box so that you can replicate this recipe and make it your own so the the first thing i'm doing is i'm ripping the leaves off of this head of green leaf lettuce and i'm sticking it in my salad spinner you guys can look down in the description box for the salad spinners that i recommend in my amazon store if you're interested but you can use whatever kind of lettuce you want i just happen to like green leaf lettuce i like romaine lettuce and i like soft butter lettuce those are my favorite lettuces and so the other thing to remember is that when you are making salads for the first time you're probably not going to like them but look at salad like it's medicine and keep on eating them eat them eat them every day eat a salad every day eat a salad or every other day eat a salad whatever you've got to do and eventually you will start to crave the salads and don't put a whole bunch of nasty salad dressing from the grocery store on your salads i'm going to show you how to make a nice salad dressing that is low fat and good for healing in this particular video so like i said all the ingredients are down in the description box below but let's get that salad rinsed off and let's get it in the bowl i am making this salad for two people me and kenny and this is one head of lettuce and this head of lettuce cost me a dollar and fifty cents and i'm gonna start with a nice ripe tomato i'm gonna cut it in half and then chop it into chunks smaller chunks not tiny chunks but smaller chunks but you can do whatever you want you can do wedges you can do whatever you want with your tomato just make sure that when you are cutting tomatoes you have a nice sharp knife because if you don't um it's gonna be difficult to cut the tomatoes i am using my serrated knife that comes with the set of the with the chef knife and this this is one of the knives that comes with it so um again the link is down in the description box if you would like to check this knife out you got it on amazon i got the butcher block and a few of the knives in some kitchen shears with it and i'm absolutely loving it next i'm going to add some carrots these are pre shredded carrots that i got from the grocery store love them i don't have the mess with cutting them or shredding them but i don't have a problem doing that either because it only takes a few seconds to do that about a minute to cut up carrots blueberries i love blueberries in my salad look at the color of those blueberries though like they are absolutely amazing for your health like they are the full of antioxidants and they build your immune system so if you're concerned about your immune your immunity this year with the covid and everything going on pal blueberries in your solid every day when you make it or some kind of berry so i had a little bit of leftover avocado that i needed to get rid of so this is a half of an avocado that i'm going to add to the salad also if you see a little bit of brown on your avocado don't worry about it just scrape it off and use it if it's really brown and hard then you probably need to get rid of that avocado but this little bit doesn't bother me next we have some red cabbage love red cabbage in my salad because it adds some crunch and it's a cruciferous vegetable and it helps move excess estrogen out of the body so this is one of the reasons why i use cabbage sometimes in my salads and i've got some red onion red onion is really good raw in your salad so many nutrients and red onions onions in general but i particularly prefer the color in the red onions um so try to get red onions in your food every day if you're making a salad plus there's lots of flavor that comes along with um red onions as well i like to chop mine up finely because whenever they're too chunky they can be overpowering in the salad so i like to cut them up small so i can distribute them all over the salad same thing with the red cabbage i like to cut it up small so i can distribute it throughout the salad so i don't get these big hunk and pieces throughout um the salad i like to distribute the flavors all throughout and then once we've got that all chopped up you just add it to the salad i wish i could have done this in real time it really doesn't take that long to make these salads and if you've been watching my youtube channel for any length of time you will have seen me make salads in real time and you will find that it doesn't take very long to make salads it it takes less time to make salads than sometimes putting together a whole standard american dinner a standard american diet dinner um each day so don't use that as an excuse and as you practice your cutting skills you will get faster and faster and that's one of the reasons why it is such a good idea to have a good knife next i'm going to add some cucumbers from small amount i'm just going to sprinkle them on top i'm going to chop them um small put them on the salad to add some additional crunch and last but not least i'm going to show you how to make this asian hemp seed dressing that is so easy and so tasty it's low in fat but it packs a big flavor punch and i'm adding some hemp seeds two tablespoons of hemp seeds then two tablespoons of coconut aminos then i've got two tablespoons of water then you eyeball it with your garlic i put probably about a half a teaspoon of garlic i really like garlic i'm a garlic lover so um that's what i will put in there the you could even put more in there or you could leave it out completely you put onion powder in instead if you wanted to and then i've got some red pepper flakes and really you need a little bit of spice but if you don't like spicy foods leave it out i could have put more than this in but the key with dressings is you want to tantalize all the taste in the flavor the sour the sweet the salty and the savory and then i've got one tablespoon of raw honey you can use dates in here so i'm using my try best personal blender i love this blender i've had it for at least 10 11 years and i use it all the time for my salad dressings it is a great investment try best is an excellent company it's the same company that makes the green star juicer so you blend it and blend it and blend it until it is absolutely smooth it's got a perfect consistency it is it is not too thick not too thin and this is what i'm gonna have on my salad and it tastes great i didn't have to add any other seasonings so as you all know i work from home so i can make this stuff and put it in my refrigerator for my work day but if i worked outside of the home i would take all of these things and i would put them in my lunch bag and i would take them to work with me so if you work outside of the home do that for yourself it will benefit you greatly but i would love to know what you think of this video what kinds of recipes you would like to see going forward and if you like this video please give it a thumbs up share it with a friend comment below and thank you so much for watching and until next time y'all take care