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A Healthy Strawberry Milkshake? Who Knew ...

You may remember my recent exposé of fast food restaurant strawberry milkshakes. In that video, I promised to show you how to make your own healthy, raw, strawberry milk shake. Today, as promised, I'll show you how.

So, get ready for a knock-your-socks-off-good Strawberry Milkshake.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup slightly-defrosted, organic strawberries
  • 1 fresh, organic egg
  • ¾ teaspoon raw honey
  • 1½ raw organic milk (approx, or to cover)

Preparation:

  1. Place strawberries in quart-sized, class measuring cup, or similar container.
  2. Add egg, to make it lovely and creamy.
  3. Add honey.
  4. Add raw milk.
  5. Whiz up with immersion blender until nice and creamy.
  6. (Alternatively, you may use a regular, standing blender)

It's incredibly easy! Here we have our lovely, scrummy-licious, raw, strawberry milkshake.

You can see, from scratch, this is done in under a minute, even quicker than it takes the person at the fast food joint to serve their milkshakes out of the dispenser!. And it's incredibly healthy.

This recipe is ideal for a carb type, and would be a perfect dessert for them.

If you're a protein type like I am, an even better milkshake for you would be blueberries, some raw cream (Yummy. Sounds good already!) and about half of a green-tipped banana. Just whiz that all together. You could add a bit of raw honey in there as well. But if you protein types can do without it, it's better. The less sugar, the better, for a protein type, and truly, it's sweet enough on its own.

I hope you enjoy both of these incredibly tasty recipes.





 
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Posted On Jul 11, 2007
I just made a similar milk shake tonight but with blueberries.  It was fantastic.

On the raw milk issue, I visited the McAfee farm earlier this summer and Mark was excited about a study that was just released with possible evidence that raw milk alleviates asthma.  We are in the asthma capital of the world and there are actually a lot of local stories of relief from asthma with raw milk.  Here's more about the "farm milk and asthma" study and then there's the exclusive milk diet that some people use.

Amanda

 
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Posted On Jul 11, 2007
Amanda- I bet the study will show the raw milk DOES help asthma. My little one has only had one asthma attack since I started him on raw milk last winter. What a relief for a Mom that just can't give daily doses of steroids or singluar to a three year old!!! (or any age child to be honest)


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Posted On Jul 12, 2007
Amanda,
I have enjoyed reading your blog entries at your web site and look forward to the release of your new book.

I have personal experience with raw milk. I have been consuming raw milk (1-1/2 gal/week), cream, butter, and cottage cheese since only late April of this year. Already I have seen remarkable improvements in two degenerative conditions that I have--hypertension and ASTHMA. I have had asthma as an adult for about 30 years (am now 60), and have had to use medication every day all this time, until I started the raw dairy. Since about June 1st, I have not used the steroid inhaler at all, and only occasionally use the rescue inhaler (albuterol) when my chest feels a little tight. So, yes, in my case, raw dairy has definitely alleviated the severity of my asthma. I hope that within a few months (with some additional "tweaks" to my diet) that all my symptoms will be gone. BTW, there are plenty of asthmatic people here in central Maryland (near Baltimore)--bad air quality from Spring through Fall on the warm and hot days, not to mention the bad diets.   :-))

I ordered a hand immersion blender from Amazon and just received it the other day. Now I am looking forward to having a breakfast smoothie just about every day--raw milk with yogurt or kefir and cream, 2 raw eggs, Whey Healthier protein mix (just received this the other day from the Mercola store), small amount of frozen berries and banana slices,  and 2 tbsp ground flax seeds (to add more omega-3 fat and fiber). Yu-u-u-m-m-m-e-e-e!


Amanda Rose
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Posted On Jul 12, 2007
Thanks for the feedback Lynn.

You guys would be interested in knowing that there are plans to do raw milk/asthma studies here.  Mark McAfee at Organic Pastures mentioned it last time I was at the dairy.  I don't know the timeline or who is involved, but the local stories are so encouraging (like yours are) that rigorous studies would be fantastic.  The farm milk study I linked to is only suggestive that raw milk may be protective. It did not have good enough data on the milk to know if it was kept raw after being obtained from the farm.

And speaking of raw milk (because I rarely run out of things to say about it), I have what is probably the last remaining gallon of milk from the September 2006 recall of Organic Pastures raw milk. My plan has been to put it on eBay and though that would be memorable and cause me hours of entertainment, an industry legal type just suggested to me that it is a really bad idea.  Maybe I'll send it to Dr Mercola as a holiday gift.

Amanda

 
 
 
Posted On Jul 12, 2007
Milk shakes are good for the health. I'm just excited to try raw milk.

 
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Posted On Jul 12, 2007
Raw milk...taste's like the milk I was raised on...wonderful! Not all states alow farmers to sell raw milk. Did a search and founfd a farm in Ct...I live in NYS and even though I have to drive for 1/2 hr to get there it's worth it.


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Posted On Jul 12, 2007
I'm interested that Lucy used a raw whole egg. I have avoided the use of raw eggs for two reasons: 1) the salmonella issue, as even organic eggs are susceptible to having it INSIDE the shell and 2) I was told by a health care practitioner I trust that raw egg white made the B-vitamin BIOTIN unavailable in the body. Perhaps these are no longer considerations. Otherwise it sounds delicious. Those with milk allergy could use coconut oil.

 
 
 
Posted On Jul 12, 2007
Ice cream--no additives, no preservatives, no sugur, no hormones.  Ingredients- organic frozen fruit, organic half and half.
Implements--glass and spoon.

I find the discussions on the different sugurs to be very educational and alarming.  Why not consider adding no sugur to your food? My idea on this is that when you remove the overload of stimulation, the taste buds respond by becoming more sensitive.  The natural sweetness, if the food is sweet, will be or become very satisfying.

So put the frozen fruit ( I usually use a medley of berries for their anti-oxigent benefits and lower carbohydrate content) in a glass.  Cover with half and half.  Stir with a spoon breaking the fruit up (You should work for your food--a little anyway.)  The mixture turns solid.  And I am a very happy camper. Simple. Sweet. Cheaper than the Store Bought.  Free of many evils.  And I don't have to debate which sugur is the best or least harmful for me.

 
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Posted On Jul 13, 2007
My kids love fresh milkshakes.  If you freeze your fruit especially the bananas (best to peel them first before you freeze them), it will thicken up your milkshake.  The banans ususally make the milshake sweet enough that you do not need to add any sweetner.

 
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Posted On Jul 13, 2007
I have questions about the raw egg-what about the dangers of salminela? Or does adding a raw egg to milkshakes and the like actually provide good benefits?

 
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