Materials
- Air Fryer
- Knife
- Cutting board
- Bowls
Ingredients + Some Bonus spice combos that aren’t in the YouTube Video
- Potatoes (Pick one)
- 1-2 Russet Potatoes
- 1 large Sweet Potatoes
- 1-2 Yukon Gold Potatoes
Variety 1:
- 4 medium Russet Potatoes
- Onion Powder
- Garlic Powder
- Thyme
- Cumin
Variety 2:
- 1 large Yukon Gold
- 1 Large Sweet Potato
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Onion Powder
- Garlic Powder
Variety 3:
- 3 medium sized Yukon Gold Potatoes
- Garlic Powder
- Thyme
- Chili Powder
Variety 4:
- 1 large sweet potato
- Cinnamon
- Pumpkin Pie Spice (Cinnamon, All Spice, Cloves, Ginger, Nutmeg)
Variety 5:
- 2 medium Russet Potatoes
- Garlic Pepper
- Chili Powder
- Oregano
- Minced Onion
- Cayenne Pepper
3 BONUSES
Variety 6
Spice mix from my cousin Erica: (Not shown in the videos, but it is so divine!)
- Onion Powder
- Garlic Powder
- Chili Powder
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Cayenne or crushed red pepper for some heat
Variety 7
Asian Stir Fried inspired by when I made a stir fry with Bok Choy. I’m not sure how the coconut aminos will do but I’m trying it!
- Ginger
- Coconut Aminos
- Minced Onion
- Garlic Powder
Variety 8
The taco-inspired dish could be divine as well! I found this one on AllRecipies.com.
- Chili Powder
- Cumin
- Salt (keep out if following a cleanse)
- Pepper
- Paprika
- Garlic Powder
- Onion Powder
- Red Pepper Flakes
- Oregano
Directions
All Varieties:
- Wash potatoes thoroughly. You can use a plant based soap if you’d like like 7th Generation. I also used a scrubby buddy in the video to clean the potatoes well.
- Cut the potatoes into ½ – 1 inch rounds.
- Wet the potatoes and dump out excess water to get the seasoning to stick.
- Put on seasoning.
- Mix well with your hands or with a spoon.
- Lay out the potatoes in the air fryer.
- Cook for 20 minutes at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Remove with an oven mitt and put into a bowl or container to eat on the way to work!
What Each Ingredient Does
From Life-Changing Foods and the MM Blog
Potatoes pgs. 158-161
Potatoes have been wrongly accused of being a disease-causing food when they are in fact healing if you don’t have them with a ton of fat, oil, butter, and cheese. The reason potatoes have got a bad rap is because of the oil, fat, and butter that are usually added to the potato in the traditional diet. The fat combined with the carbs is the true cause of insulin resistance and a bad A1C count. It is the fat, not the potato! Potatoes are naturally fat-free!
The skin of the potato can be red, brown, gold, blue, or purple, and is filled with amino acids, proteins, and phytochemicals. Potatoes both inside and out “draw some of the highest concentration of macro and trace minerals from the earth.” (p159).
They are high in potassium, vitamin B6, and amino acids. One bioavailable amino acid is Lysine which is a “powerful weapon against cancers, liver disease, inflammation, and the viruses such as Epstein Barr and shingles. These viruses are responsible for many autoimmune conditions.
MM also mentions in Liver Rescue that Lysine creates a smoke screen in the liver so the viruses can’t see and the liver’s immune system can then start attacking the virus; it helps the liver a lot.
They are antiviral and antifungal which helps with strengthening kidneys, soothing nerves, and the digestive tract, and reverse Crohn’s, colitis, IBS, or peptic ulcers.
They have nutritional cofactors, and bioactive compounds that keep us healthy and help with stress. Potatoes can also keep us grounded and centered because they are a brain food. The potato can spring to life when you put it on the counter in a cup of water. This is a powerful potato!
I wonder if he says more on potatoes being a brain food in Brain Saver! I’m still reading it.
Emotional Support
Potatoes reorient us and ground us. They offer these things especially if we are feeling troubled or adrift in our lives. They can calm down a consuming ego and ignite the humble confidence within. They can help calm toxic emotions that can keep us from getting to our goals. They can help us feel grateful for our experiences and help us make grounding and stable decisions.
Spiritual Support
Potatoes are so grounding because of the way they grow. They grow in clusters and have a large network, kind of like an extended family. They come in large numbers kind of like a large family of loved ones fighting for us!
The potato is a great food to turn to when you feel like the underdog and overlooked. It can help you energetically feel grounded and like you belong. So much of us is beneath the surface, and we are supported and witnessed, and we deserve to “unearth our true nature and share it with the world!” (p160).
Tips
Seek out organic if possible due to their absorbing nature when they grow. The best way to prepare the potato to keep all the nutrients intake is to steam them. You can batch steam them and pull them from the fridge to add to recipes throughout the week.
Put a raw potato directly on a cold sore for relief.
You can put a potato on the kitchen counter or somewhere else in the home to help absorb negative effects of signals from wireless internet, cell signals, and EMF. They can also soak up and neutralize negative emotional energy we can pick up through the day and bring home to us. If you leave a potato out, don’t eat it and toss it after 5-7 days.
Potatoes can also help support and sustain happy emotions from a celebratory event like a wedding or special occasion. Be sure to include them on the menu for these things!
Onions
Leeks, chives, ramps, scallions, red onions, yellow onions, white onions, shallots, and other alliums are nature’s antibiotics. The sulfur in them makes them antibiotic. If onions cause you discomfort when you eat them, you could have a large number of unproductive bacteria in your digestive tract that the onions help eliminate. That die-off can result in an upset stomach.
They help kill unproductive bacteria throughout the entire body which also helps the body produce B12. People dealing with SIBO will benefit from adding this to their diets in a large way!
If you are sensitive to onions’ cleansing power, try adding them to the diet slowly and increasing them over time.
The sulfur in potatoes also pulls out radiation from the body. It also pulls out viruses, pesticides, herbicides, and toxic heavy metals. It also alleviates joint pain and repairs connective tissue and tendons. The sulfur also slows iron loss in the body.
Onions are high in trace minerals zinc, manganese, iodine, and selenium. They rejuvenate the skin and protect the lungs.
Onions can help with shortening flus and breaks up mucus from stool and soothe the intestinal tract. Onions are medicine against pathogens of all sorts.
Emotional Support
Onions purge anger from the body. They “loosen up resentment, fury, vexation, and disappointment so you can be free to live your life.” (p153)
Spiritual Support
Onions help us appreciate people who work hard to alleviate a problem but mistakenly get the blame, like a parent pointing out how to fix homework for a child. Onions get the blame for bad breath when in fact they are helping the breath by eliminating bad bacteria. “The next time you’re in a situation where you’re quick to point a finger, keep in mind the plight of the onion, and take a moment to analyze every angle.” (p154).
Tips
Don’t soak the onions because that lessens the medicinal qualities. If you do decide to eat an unhealthy item; be sure to put raw onion on it to counter the bad.
When ordering out at restaurants, order things with onions to avoid picking up viruses. When picking onions at the market, make sure they are firm and not sprouting green. If they have fresh greens from them because they were just picked, this is different and they are very beneficial.
To break up sinus congestion, cut an onion into a bowl of hot water and put a towel over your head and the bowl to breathe in the steam. This will help break up the congestion and mucus.
Onions eaten daily can increase the circulation of the body and help with cold hands and feet.
Garlic
Garlic is antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-mold, anti-parasitic, and rich in phytochemical allicin, a sulfur compound that prevents disease.
Bad bacteria run on a positive charge, draining us of energy because humans run on a negative charge. Garlic helps kill the positively charged bacteria in the gut and helps the negatively charged bacteria in the intestinal tract and gut. Garlic has anti-pathogenic properties that run on a positive charge. This likeness rids the body of positively charged pathogens.
“It can help fight colds, flues, strep throat, pneumonia-causing bacteria, and viral-related cancers. It also extracts heavy metals in the colon and gives you a powerful immune boost.” (p194)
Emotional Support
Turn to garlic when you need protection and shelter, especially when starting new things or being exposed to new things.
Spiritual Support
When garlic is harvested, it needs time to rest in the garden bed to build its immune system from all the things that attack plants when they grow. They get strength through the growing season and can pass that on to us. We need to take a cue from garlic and take time to rest and be away from pathogens so we can prepare for our growing season. (p195).
Tips
Garlic is best consumed raw. Try mixing it into dips and dressings to get it into your diet. Try to get one clove a day of fresh raw garlic to get medicine and protect yourself from pathogens. If you feel like you are getting sick, mash a clove into a banana or ½ of an avocado or some cooked potato. Do this three times a day and consume it to feel better.
Aromatic Herbs (Oregano, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme)
Poses high levels of minerals and disease-fighting phytochemical compounds. They release an antifungal compound through their roots that earthworms love. The earthworms help fertilize and aerate the soil as they eat this compound helping the wild plants thrive.
Oregano is antibacterial. Oregano oil is also antibacterial and effective against E.coli and ringworm. Oregano can help fight H. pylori, Streptococcus and E. coli which minimizes SIBO.
Rosemary is also antibacterial and can help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria like Streptococcus and much more.
Sage fights fungus. It can also remove heavy metals from the intestinal tract.
Thyme is antiviral and can fight viruses that are in the herpetic family that cause neurological symptoms. Thyme can cross the blood-brain barrier which can help it attack viruses that have started to attack the brain or spinal cord which results in neurological symptoms.
Emotional Support
These herbs can help level you out. They “break the cycle of feeling consistently overstimulated, so that you can take what comes on more of an even keel”, especially during stressful times. (p183).
Spiritual Support
These herbs help us connect with our most essential selves. They have been around since the beginning of humankind and have adapted with us through the ages. They help remind us who or what is there in our lives to connect us to ourselves. (p183)
Tips
Add these herbs to your daily cooking to get them in your arsenal. Try using essential oils of these herbs to help clean the mind, body, and soul. For example, you can add rosemary essential oil to a bath to purify it.
Cumin
Cumin helps with many digestive issues. It also helps the body assimilate nutrients. It has anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties. It helps the liver and kidney function better which helps the body detox in general. It helps with most body systems and fights many pathogens when you are sick. If you are pregnant, it can help with morning sickness. If you are breastfeeding, it can strengthen milk production.
You can add cumin seeds or powder into warm water to make tea. You can also mix the powder in an oil to make a topical cream to put on boils and sores. You can also add it to dishes as a spice as I do with potatoes! It’s so good!
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes feed good bacteria in the digestive tract. They starve unproductive bacteria and mold that hang out there. They enhance the body’s production of B12 because they get rid of these bad things. It reduces megacolon that can happen from bad bacteria and helps prevent the narrowing of the intestinal tract that can happen with Chron’s and colitis.
They have MANY vitamins and minerals including carotenoids and beta-carotene and lycopene. The phytochemicals are very powerful and can help your skin look sun-kissed if you eat enough of them.
The lycopene and amino acids present in sweet potatoes help pull out radiation from the body. The phytochemicals prevent cancer. They help regulate hair growth by making it grow and inhibiting it where you don’t want it to grow.
The sweet potatoes are phytoestrogenic which rids the body of unusable and destructive estrogen. This estrogen interferes with the body’s hormone function. They come from plastics, pharmaceuticals, food, and environmental toxins, and the body produces more estrogen than it needs due to eating estrogen-producing foods.
The excess estrogen sits in the organs and inhibits the endocrine system from working at its full capacity. The phytoestrogenic qualities help rid the body of excess estrogen and make way for the good stuff!
They help with insomnia and other sleeping disorders because the form of glucose they provide stimulates neurotransmitters to make glycine, dopamine, GABA, and serotonin. All of these neurotransmitters help you sleep better.
Emotional Support
Sweet potatoes are the ultimate comfort food and can help us block out the world around us in hard times. This can make us feel safe and soothed like “you are getting a hug even if no one’s there to give you one, so that you can draw up the strength to deal with hard times.” (p176)
Spiritual Support
We tend to overindulge in the sweet potato by adding butter, sweet cream and more to it for traditional recipes. The sweet potato bubbles up and drips down the sides on its very own because of how sweet it naturally is!
Sweet potatoes help us appreciate the gifts we have received where we think it isn’t enough. It teaches us to look at where we are adding unnecessary toppings in life.
Tips
Try to eat one sweet potato a day to get the most benefit! If you crave creaminess with the potato, try adding avocado instead of butter.
Cook the sweet potato in bulk by either steaming or baking them and store them in the fridge. Add the sweet potatoes in salads to help the body assimilate nutrients even better from the salad. You can also have a few bites of a sweet potato in the middle of the night to help you sleep if you can’t sleep well.
Rubbing raw sweet potato on a scar can help it heal and reduce scar tissue. Instead of using cucumbers under the eye; try steamed sweet potatoes to bring back a youthful look!
Eat a sweet potato if you are sunburned to recover faster. If you have a lot of scar tissue in the body from surgeries then eat two sweet potatoes daily for one week. Then eat 1 sweet potato daily for three weeks. Repeat until scar tissue improves.
If you are going to watch a scary movie or action-packed film, eat a sweet potato beforehand to support your adrenals.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a very high antioxidant more potent than other fruits and vegetables. It has Vitamins A, B-complex, and minerals such as chromium, iron, zinc, and calcium. It can help with diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, indigestion, flatulence, and arthritis.
It can help shorten the duration of the flu and eliminate congestion and mucus from the body. It is also very beneficial for the circulatory system. It can reduce inflammation in the body, stop yeast infections, candida, and menstrual cramps.
It has anti-cancer properties. It also has pain-relieving antiseptic properties used in dental work.
Ginger
Ginger helps the body relax by going into the organs and muscles and calming them down. If you suffer from sleep apnea, adrenal fatigue, or acid reflux then try to have a cup of ginger tea that will relax you for up to 12 hours.
It soothes and relaxes throat muscles, relieves tension headaches, and helps flush out lactic acid caused by exercise and stress.
Ginger has more than 60 trace minerals, over 30 amino acids, and more than 500 enzymes and coenzymes that all work together to create antispasmodic properties of ginger. It is an antiviral, anti-parasitic, and antibacterial.
It can reconstruct DNA, help you deal with stress, and enhance the body’s production of B12.
Emotional Support
Ginger can help you speak your truth by aiding in relaxing muscles to help them work correctly.
Spiritual Support
Ginger teaches us that we don’t have to react to every little thing throughout our days. Ginger can help cleanse our souls of wounds and damage without us having to do anything; just let ginger be!
Tips
You can use the same pieces of ginger throughout the day in the same cup of tea. Drinking ginger tea increases its medicinal effects by 50 percent. Consume ginger when making big life decisions. Drink ginger tea to enhance the bath’s healing power.
Parsley
This herb has all the elements of the other aromatic herbs, but it was listed on its own in Life Changing Foods because of its power to alkalize the body. The mineral salts in parsley help make it alkalizing. It can help alkalize all systems in the body rather than just one or two especially if you consume it in your daily routine. These properties help drive our acidity; and diseases such as cancer thrive in an acidic environment.
It is an all-pathogen fighter and can pull out herbicides and pesticides. It has B vitamins including folic acid, traces of B12 coenzymes and vitamins A, C, and K. it is remineralizing from the trace minerals including magnesium, sulfur, iron, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, chromium, selenium, iodine, and calcium. It can also help the adrenals.
Emotional Support
Parsley can help you balance your state of mind and being. If you feel like people around you or you are on an emotional roller coaster, offer them some parsley.
Spiritual Support
Parsley teaches us to not ignore things that could ultimately help us. People miss out on these health benefits because they don’t like the taste. When people don’t like the taste they tend to stay away from it.
Cayenne Pepper
Cayenne pepper can provide pain relief from migraines, nausea, sore throats, sinus infections, heartburn, hemorrhoids, stomachaches, toothaches, and nerve/joint/muscle pain. It is high in vitamin C and beta-carotene which helps remedy viral exposure.
It also boosts circulation and increases cardio ability. It also regulates blood pressure. It can help your body create hydrochloric acid in the stomach, rebuild stomach tissue, and help with proper digestion and nutrient assimilation.
It stimulates peristaltic motion in the small intestine which helps our bodies with digestion. I looked up what Peristaltic motion was because I wasn’t sure. I found an article about it on the Cleveland Clinic website. They say the Peristaltic motion is the “wave-like movement of the muscles that line the gastrointestinal tract.” It moves the food through the digestive system.
It can destroy worms and parasites in the gut and protect against dysentery which can protect you when traveling abroad. It is a metabolic booster that aids the body in burning excess amounts of fat. It is an anti-inflammatory that also helps decrease bloating and swelling.
It can also help alleviate depression. You can make a Cayenne cream and apply it directly to the skin that may be suffering from pain from shingles, arthritis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, or surgery. It can also help with itchy skin conditions like psoriasis.
You can also add Cayenne to food as a spice or take a supplement.
I searched up Cayenne cream on the web and there are several companies that make some!
Cloves
Cloves have been used for centuries to treat digestive and respiratory problems. They contain Vitamins A, C, K, and B-complex. They contain minerals such as manganese, iron, selenium, potassium, and magnesium. They are antiseptic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and anesthetic which helps heal many things.
Digestion:
It helps with the digestive tract by alleviating indigestion, gas, constipation, bloating, nausea, and countering the effects of nerve pain. They can be used to disinfect gums, teeth, kidneys, liver, skin and bronchial tubes.
Clove Oil is a natural pain reliever and can help numb gums. It is beneficial for the circulatory system and can prevent blood clots by inhibiting platelets.
Clove Essential Oil is a decongestant that can be used as a vaporizer or aromatherapy machine to disinfect the air. It can help with sinusitis, tuberculosis, bronchitis, asthma, colds, and coughs.
You can enjoy cloves in many traditional cuisines as well as extracts, tinctures, teas, topical oil, capsules, and creams.
More Resources & References
- Life-Changing Foods book by Anthony William
- Liver Rescue by Anthony William (Hot Peppers)
- MM Blog on Cayenne Pepper
- MM Blog about Cloves
- MM Blog Cumin
- MM blog Cinnamon
- All about Peristalic Motion from the Clevland Clinic
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