Yes, I'm Vegan. No, I can't eat gluten anymore. No, I don't eat eggs or fish or drink milk. No, I'm not starving, and neither is my awesome mostly vegan kiddo.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Questing for Seaweed
This morning, after T.V. and I went to the gym, we went to our favorite health food store to look for sea vegetables. Now, it's true, I don't like seaweed, unless it's nori on an inside out roll. But I have been doing some reading on hypothyroidism because I believe I have many of the symptoms. Yesterday, I found a thread on one of the RAW forums about a lady who cured her hypothyroidism with her RAW diet - she was on medication for 6 years, and 11 months after going RAW, she went off her meds. So anyway, she said she takes sea vegetables every day for the iodine, and I went questing for iodine-rich seaweed.
One of the nice ladies there said that arame is the least objectionable (she said yummiest, or something like that, but I'm not going that far) so I grabbed a bag of Emerald Cove Organic Pacific Arame, even though the bag doesn't list any specifics about iodine.
Then I noticed a bag of Eden Mekabu (Wakame Sea Vegetable Sporophyll). No one at the store had tried it, but one teaspoon has 60% of the RDA for iodine!
When I got home, I opened the Mekabu and smelled it, and was relieved that nothing obviously fishy jumped out at me. I made a smoothie of 2 celery stalks, 2 smallish bananas, about 1/4 cup of raspberries and a teaspoon or two of the mekabu - and it tasted just like the smoothie normally does! RELIEF. So now I'll be incorporating more seaweed into my foods.
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5 comments:
I must be weird, because I actually enjoy the taste of seaweed! I would have no problem throwing into salads or even eating it straight up as a snack. I'm glad you found a way to consume it without really focusing on the flavor. I hope it helps you with your symptoms :)
Ooh! Good to know! I hate HATE HATE the taste of seaweed, or at least it seems you have a similar tolerance level with the inside-out roll thing. But I'm really glad to hear you had a good experience with the wekabu as I'd like to start adding seaweed to my diet, too.
Jessie - Not weird - lots of people do!
swell - the mekabu seems fine! i didn't rehydrate it first - i don't know if that matters.
Good for you for adding seaweed to your diet! Fishy smoothies ROCK!
I'm going to try some of this Mekabu since my kelp is a wee bit too fishy for my smoothies :)
I gotta try that stuff.
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