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Melissa is a former beauty queen, personal trainer and certified holistic health coach. Melissa founded Queen Bee Wellness to specialize her coaching practice towards Women's Wellness and Beauty. She helps women focus on finding their own natural beauty from a integrative approach of balancing Mind, Body and Soul. Melissa believes that what we put in our mind is just as important as the nourishing food we put in our bodies and products on our skin. She strives to coach women to balance a healthier body image, approach to wellness and authentic living. With her passion for a clean lifestyle, Queen Bee Wellness therapeutic skin care products were born- to help women enhance their natural glow, without causing harm to their health from chemical laden toxic products. Melissa's philosophy to real beauty is summarized in "Wellness is Beauty". Melissa resides on a 10 acre farm in Montgomery, Texas with her husband and teen aged children. In her spare time she is chief goat wrangler and milker of her "Queen Bee" herd of dairy goats at Three Goats Farm.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Nacho Cheesy Kale Chips

Need a replacement for chips and soda for your family....? Serve with an ice cold fizzy kombucha soda and you will have a hit!

 
 


Start with 2 large bunches/bags of Curly Kale or Tuscan Kale.Kale should be chopped or torn into no larger than 3" pcs (I also prefer to remove center rib/stem) If you dont have kale in your garden yet (mine is too small still) then you can purchase loose or bagged organic kale(like the Trader Joes brand), 4-6 Roma Tomatoes, 4-6 Garlic Cloves, juice of 2 limes, 1/2 cup Braggs Nutritional Yeast, 1 Tbsp Sea Salt, 1/4 cup cold pressed olive oil, 2 tsp Cumin, 1/2 tsp cayenne, 2 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp onion powder. Place all ingredients, except kale, in your vitamix or blender and blend until all mixed.




Now pour mixture over kale and mix well by hand until all peices are well coated. Place loosely onto dehydrator screen (or you can also use oven setting on LOW at 180-200, with oven door cracked) and dehydrate (sun bake)at 105-110 degrees, until crispy! You can play around with the ingredients and acheieve different flavors in the coating. IF you would like a thicker richer cheesy flavor add soaked raw cashews to you coating mixture.
These are addicting and trust me no one can eat just one........ ~ Enjoy!




2 comments:

  1. What temperature do you use on the dehydrator and for how long? I would imagine you use a lower temperature using the dehydrator than if you do them in the oven. Love these recipes!

    To your health!

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  2. I am sorry....I should have mentioned that I use a setting at 105-110 to maintain the nutritious enzymes in the kale :-) I will update!

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