Food recipes

Bare Minimum Menu

Bare Minimum Menu

Ingredients:
2 servings of smoothies with protein powder
2 cups of Commonweal’s Most Nourishing and Healing Tea
2 cups of green tea or any variation on green tea in this book

Directions:
Regular Menu
Here’s a list of recipes that might work well during the week of chemotherapy
treatment. All are easy to digest, comforting, nourishing, and full of the vitamins and
minerals your body needs to heal. This is a perfect reference list to give to friends and
family who offer to cook for you during this time.
Soups: Bella’s Carrot, Orange, and Fennel Soup, Chicken Magic Mineral Broth,
Chicken Vegetable Soup with Ginger Meatballs, Creamy Broccoli and Potato Soup,
Magic Mineral Broth, Pasture Beef Bone Broth, Spiced Sweet Potato Soup, Summer’s
Best Zucchini Soup, Thai It Up Chicken Soup
Vegetables: Hungarian Roasted Root Vegetable Potpie, Mashed Cinnamon Butternut
Squash, Purple Peruvian Smashed Potatoes
Protein-Building Foods: Cozy Comfy Chicken and Rice, Easy Eggs in a Cup, Nana’s
Egg Salad, Poached Eggs with Basil Lemon Drizzle
Anytime Foods: Best Oatmeal Ever, Black Bean Hummus, Cannellini Bean Dip with
Kalamata Olives, Catherine’s Magic Green Tea Rice, Creamy Millet, Creamy
Polenta, Creamiest Buckwheat, Curried Hummus, Curried Hummus and Vegetable
Pinwheels, Edamame Avocado Dip with Wasabi , Maple-Glazed Walnuts, Navy Bean
and Sun-Dried Tomato Dip, Quinoa Pilaf, Rice Paper Moo-Shu Rolls, Spiced Toasted
Almonds
Tonics and Elixirs: Annemarie’s Calming Kudzu Elixir, Cantaloupe Granita with
Mint, Chocolate Banana Smoothie, Cinnamon Ginger Tea, Commonweal’s Most
Nourishing and Healing Tea, Ginger Peppermint Green Tea, Green Tea Ginger
Lemonade, Mango Coconut Smoothie, Mouthwatering Watermelon Granita, Papaya
Pineapple Smoothie, Peach Ginger Smoothie, Pineapple Ginger Smoothie, Triple
Berry Smoothie
Sweet Bites: Chocolate Tapioca Pudding Coconut Rice Pudding, Great Pumpkin
Custard, Strawberries with Mango Coconut “Sabayon”
Hearty Appetite Menu
If you’re lucky to have a voracious appetite, eat up! Here’s a list of additional foods
that are beneficial during treatment.
Soups: Italian White Bean Soup, Minestrone, Velvety Red Lentil Dahl
Vegetables: Basil Broccoli, Warm and Toasty Cumin Carrots
Protein-Building Foods: Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry with Cashews, Middle
Eastern Chickpea Burgers (with Tomato Mint Chutney or Sweet and Savory Yogurt) ,
My Family’s Favorite Chicken, Orange Ginger Roasted Chicken
Anytime Foods: Orange Pistachio Couscous
Dollops of Yum!: Sweet and Savory Yogurt, Tomato Mint Chutney
Sweet Bites: Almond Muffin Mania, Triple Ginger Snap Cookies with Pecans
One Week after Chemotherapy
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