Ellen and I were cruising Whole Foods last week looking for a crunchy snack we were told about by a friend that was actually good for us.  Most crunchy snacks, even those in the health section of the store, are toxic because most are fried in oil.  As soon as you heat oil up it goes rancid.  And expose that hot oil to starches (like corn, rice, wheat, potato, even vegetables) causes it to form carcinogenic compounds.  Alternatively, chips that are baked are usually pure starch which turns to sugar within minutes of being eaten.

So what were these amazing healthy crunchy snacks?... Kale Chips.  Yeah, that sounds disgusting.  But in truth, if you like the bitter flavor of kale they are not bad.  Some people love bitters as it fits their constitutional type.  Here we have whole leaves of kale dusted in ground cashews, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, red pepper, and salt and then dried at a low temperature until crisp... pretty darn healthy.  Then I looked at the price - almost $7 for 3 ounces!

So I said "Hey, how hard can this be?  I have fresh chard growing in my garden, cashews and nutritional yeast in the cupboard, and sea salt on the stove."  Plus my chard is not bitter.  Since I hate bitter as that is not my constitutional type, I figured creating my own chips at a fraction of the cost without the bitterness had to be a win.

Pick (or purchase) 15 - 20 nice chard leaves
Wash and dry them well
Grind up 2/3 cup cashews in the blender
Add 11/2 Tbs. Nutritional Yeast powder
½ tsp. sea salt and grind till a fine powder

Juice a couple lemons and one at a time brush the chard leaves with the lemon juice then dust with your cashew mixture.  Arrange the leaves on your food dehydrator trays (of course you have a food dehydrator - if not here are a couple links) and dry till crispy.

P.S.  I actually tried making kale chips yesterday because Ellen likes the stronger taste.  The ones I made did not taste bitter and were really good.  The dried curly kale was so crunchy it melted in my mouth like cotton candy.   I have also tried dredging tomato slices in the same coating mix and drying them - fantastic.

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Flax Seed Crackers

Around the house and at the office, we're always looking for nutritious, low carbohydrate snack-y foods to eat. It's hard to replicate the satisfying crunch of a chip or flour-filled cracker, but these seed crackers are good contenders and healthy to boot. Reading through the recipe below might sound labor intensive, but it really doesn't take up a lot of time. It's just a few small things here and there to get the prep work going and isn't any harder than whipping up a batch of cookies. They go great with dips and herbed yogurt cheese . Give it a try!

 

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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Chiropractor

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