Sprucing up your meals with a delicious boost of flavor while helping you avoid chemical additives found in store bought spices! These simple to make homemade seasoning blends will add great flavor to your food, help fight cancer and other disease, and save you money too!
1. Salt Reduction Seasoning Spice Blend
This salt reduction seasoning blend quickly adds flavor and has sweet and salty tones that make your taste buds happy. These spices have been shown to reduce cancer, inflammation, and anxiety.
Soy powder helps reduce the damaging effects of salt and kelp helps to ensure you get some iodine in your diet. Many people now use non-iodized forms of salt (sea salt, kosher). Iodine was added by government health agencies many years ago to help prevent thyroid complications.
Add these ingredients to a shaker and place it on your table to replace the unhealthy white table salt.
INGREDIENTS
1 tablespoon dried basil
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon parsley flakes
1 teaspoon nutritional yeast
1-2 teaspoons ground black pepper
2 teaspoons onion powder
1/2 teaspoon natural sea salt, adjust to taste/health
1 teaspoons soy powder or dried soybeans, optional
1 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/4 teaspoon kelp powder
1/8 – 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
PREPARATION
Combine all ingredients and place in a shaker to add healthy nutrients and flavor to any meal.
2. Taco Seasoning
On busy evenings, taco seasoning is great to have on hand for whipping up quick, healthy tacos using whatever vegetables you might have sitting in your refrigerator. Add seasoned vegetables to a tortilla or simply place them over greens as a taco salad. Most store bought options are way too high in salt.
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup hot chili powder
3 tablespoons paprika
1 tablespoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons onion powder
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1-2 teaspoons salt, optional, to taste/health
1 tablespoon organic soy powder to help buffer
PREPARATION
- Combine all ingredients.
- Label and save as a spice.
- See Tempeh or Legume Tacos in Eat Grass Kick Ass, Plant Based Done Right book or create your own.
Download the Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Book for these recipes and much more!