I found a few Asian Home Gourmet seasoning packets in the import section of Carrefour supermarket. There’s a lot of different Thai, Indonesian, and Singaporean seasonings and some of them are gluten/wheat-free!
My favorite one is the Thai Red Curry. At Carrefour, each packet costs about 12 RMB. In the U.S., you can get them from Amazon.com or direct from Asian Home Gourmet for a little less than $2 USD.
Ingredients: soyabean oil, garlic, cayenne pepper, shallots, lemongrass, sugar, natural shrimp, fish, fish sauce (anchovy extract, salt, sugar), galangal, salt, pineapple juice, kaffir lime peel, natural herbs and spices
Just read an article that tells the secrets about bleached, white flour that most people probably didn’t know.
Summary:
Not only is white flour not healthy for you, it is bad for you.
Refining food destroys nutrients, so white flour is just sugar — empty calories.
The process of bleaching flour using chlorine oxide produces alloxan, which [...]
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Beta-carotene, the form of vitamin A found in carrots, is known to be a strong cancer-fighting agent. From the book Juice Fasting & Detoxification, a cup of carrot juice contains the following nutrients:
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Last week, I joined Bio Farm’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and started receiving weekly basket of organic vegetables. For 99 RMB ($15 USD) per week, I get a lot of organic vegetables delivered to my house!
I received my second basket today and the vegetables are different from last week’s. This week’s basket includes:
organic purple [...]
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When I was in the U.S., I picked up this book called “Juice Fasting & Detoxification” by Steve Meyerowitz. The book talks about the benefits of fasting and detoxification. There are many different ways to fast, and a liquid fast, also called liquitarianism is one of them. Liquitarianism is a diet based on drinking only [...]
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I’ve been doing some research regarding body (urine and saliva) pH and how our pH level affects our health. Research has shown that there’s a direct link between our body pH level and the likelihood (or after the fact) of developing degenerative diseases like cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, etc…
pH (potential of hydrogen) is [...]
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I came across this online organic shop (www.organicshoppe.com.cn) that sells and delivers organic food in Shanghai. The Chinese name of this store is called 家里购物. The actual store in in Jing An district.
The place also sells and delivers organic vegetable baskets.
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Recently, I bought an Omega Juicer 8003 from the U.S. If you buy direct from Omega, you can get the 220/240 volt model for the same price as the 120V model, which is only $229 USD.
If the machine was sold in China, it would have been at least double or almost triple that price! [...]
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