We got a TON of questions from yesterday’s show about coconut kefir…
So today, I recruited a friend to help me answer some questions. He’s a fellow smoothie lover… you’ll see… 
Here are some of the questions that I discuss…
- If bacteria does grow in the kefer, is it obvious?
- What’s in Kefir starter? Is it suitable for vegans?
- What are the benefits of coconut kefir?
- What is the refrigerator shelf-life of coconut kefir?
- Can you use the very young jelly coconuts to make kefir?
- How much probiotics do you have to use for kefir?
- I wonder if I could use some of that as a starter for coconut Kefir?
- Is is anything like Rejuvelac, without the wheat berry sprouts?
Take a look…
Your question of the day: Do you eat smoothies for breakfast?
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Live Awesome!
Kev
8:10 pm on July 24th, 2009
Very seldom do I have anything else but smoothies for breakfast.
8:11 pm on July 24th, 2009
Cute- smoothies are my favorite breakfast. Love to blend blueberries, fresh mint, greens powder, coconut oil and tocotrenols.
8:17 pm on July 24th, 2009
Check out kefirlady.com and Dom’s Kefir at http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html You get a full detail on live water kefir and milk kefir grains. I highly recomemend live kefir grains over a starter. You online buy the live grains once and they keep growing and producing more.
8:32 pm on July 24th, 2009
Is kefir starter vegan ? Coconut is, of course, vegan. So are bacteria! You may like to think of them as little animals. In fact, leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723) referred to bacteria as animalcules. Scientists, however, categorize bacteria as PLANTS.
8:42 pm on July 24th, 2009
Breakfast is when I do eat green smoothies although every once in while I will have some leftover in the evening.
That little boy is so cute and smart.
9:04 pm on July 24th, 2009
Thanks for answering my question!
9:24 pm on July 24th, 2009
OMG Lyle is a SUPERSTAR– keep adding the link to his show– My 3 year old (and I) LOVE Todd Parr– I cant wait to get the Love Book– how did they get such a cool intro? The LYleShow ROCKS!
I have been inspired by all of the renegade health show talk about smoothies to try to cut back on my high fat trail mix breakfast by having a green smoothie every other day. Its been so refreshing, especially when I make it early and can stick it in the freezer until it is a little like a slushy– YUM! You guys taught me how to keep it simple and not put like everything I had in the kitchen in it and they are so much better!
Thanks…..you guys are so great, when are u coming to NY?????
9:25 pm on July 24th, 2009
I have a green smoothie every morning and sometimes I make an extra one to bring to work. They don’t always taste great, but I always feel good afterward.
9:25 pm on July 24th, 2009
Every day. This is the one thing I can get my SAD husband to eat. (My husband is GREAT, it his diet that is SAD) We use kale and spirulina to alkalize and we both are enjoying beaucoup benefits.
Lyle is fun. I will go check out his website.
9:33 pm on July 24th, 2009
Kevin,
Take a backseat, Kevin, and give Lyle the microphone!! He is a winner, smart, healthy, good looking and an excellent speaker. I look forward to hearing more from him in the future. You go, Lyle!!!
Smoothies for breakfast? Not always, but yes. Or for lunch. And, oh, yes, sometimes for dinner.
9:36 pm on July 24th, 2009
Wow,
Just had this question with folks yesterday about kefir starter, thanks!
Yes every morning and sometimes afternoon smoothie, it is why I am still raw!! Especially the microalgae and kelp every day, keeps me free of cravings, lots of alkalizing low glycemic minerals and vegan protein, yay!!
Here is my Wild! green liver decongesting recipe
Delicious high protein low glycemic alkalizing oxygenating hydrating RAW! Daily Smoothie idea for breakfast or snack:
4-6 cups or 4-6 large leaves of kale (or other dark green leafy vegetable (wild greens best!)
FILL!! the blender with greens!)
1-2 bananas or 4-6 soaked dates, prunes
1-2 cup blueberries and or strawberries
Chlorella and or Spirulina powder (1 tsp – 2 tbsp, start small (1/4 tsp) with chlorella if just starting)
1 tsp Kelp powder
1 tsp Reishi Powder
1/2 cup soaked raw almonds/cashews (optional)
Fill after all ingredients added to 2/3 level with healthy water.
Blend on pulse, slow then high speed for at least 30 seconds, until thoroughly smoothied.
Drink as soon as possible, ideally immediately.
Besides Kale good choices are lamb’s quarters, nettles, wild lettuce, plantain, dandelion leaves, chard, arugula, water cress, spinach, etc.
The overall high greens keeps the entire mix low glycemic stabilizing blood sugar and keeps me totally satiated til way past noon. Doing this every morning for two years made my raw transition way easier this past Feb. And my first colonic my colonhydotherapist was amazed, said it looked like I had been getting them every month for years. All from the smoothies……
Kev, Jelly nuts is what they call young coconuts down on my farm in Belize. Just like the Eskimo have 100 names for ice and snow, the Kekchi Maya have nine differentiated stages of coconuts!!
Come down for the 35 day Maya Mountain Raw “Good Medicine” Healing Retreat in Feb 2011, details forthcoming……
9:37 pm on July 24th, 2009
Yes Smoothie everyday.
What is the biggest difference between kefir and kombucha?
9:37 pm on July 24th, 2009
I have a smoothie EVERY morning. It is the best way to wake up.
9:49 pm on July 24th, 2009
Yes!
9:49 pm on July 24th, 2009
This was too cute, and that says something because I do NOT like children generally.
And heck yeah, green smoothie everyday, except for Sundays when I let myself have just a fruit smoothie with cacao thrown in there
It’s especially good with a couple of frozen bananas!! YUM!
9:52 pm on July 24th, 2009
Cute show! I love my smoothies and have had one every morning for about 15 years. I also have one for dinner if I want a change from my usual salad.
10:09 pm on July 24th, 2009
Where are you guys that you’ve got sweatshirts on? Must have left Southern Oregon!
10:16 pm on July 24th, 2009
Smoothies everyday once or twice a day.
I had the same idea as Steve: made me think of Kombusha which i absolutly love. I guess it’s just a different kind of good bacteria.
10:42 pm on July 24th, 2009
I prefer my blue/green algae spirolina drink first thing in the morning to clean out and prep my intestine… then I do a green smoothy for lunch with another snack on the side.. then my main meal of the day at 3 pm and thats pretty well my regimen right now.. works great for me.
11:42 pm on July 24th, 2009
I drink green juice for brekkie: celery, cuke, lemon and ginger – refreshing!
Does the kefir eat up all the sugar in the coco water making it ok for low-glycemic diets i.e. Rainbow Green Phase 1?
11:55 pm on July 24th, 2009
omg – too cute! Love to see what our future smarties will act/look like! Thank the parents for such a responsibility to under take!
umm….breakfast…..mostly berries and buckwheat with alomond milk……smoothies for lunch and sometimes dinners as a main coarse!
you guys rock!
12:00 am on July 25th, 2009
Thanks for answering my question about young jelly coconuts! I guess I can’t use them since they are so young they aren’t sweet yet, more grassy tasting.
I do smoothies for lunch rather than breakfast since I don’t want the loud blender to wake up the house. Love smoothies.
12:18 am on July 25th, 2009
I can’t wait to hear how to use my kefir starter and make yogurt. Did I miss it?
I LOVE smoothies for breakfast and snacks. I need to get more creative with them since reading these posts!!
12:29 am on July 25th, 2009
Yes, everyday, almost without fail! I take my smoothie a half hour after my shot of wheatgrass juice!!!
1:26 am on July 25th, 2009
Definitely green smoothie every morning. I use a tablespoon or two of VitaMineral Green, natural vitamin C powder, some sunflower sprouts and green leaf of some kind (kale, chard, romaine, spinach), 1 banana and blueberries or strawberries, 1 T flax oil and sometimes MSM powder or Maca. Yummy!
3:54 am on July 25th, 2009
Hi from Berlin!
I loooove to drink and make smoothies for breakfast!
Had one this morning with raspberries, papaya, banana and yellow watermelon (hybridation from watermelon and pineapple) YUMMYYY!!!
By the way TY for all the great support by your videos/tutorials!
Best regards!
5:50 am on July 25th, 2009
What a great kid. Lyle is so cute!
Yes I have a smoothie for breakfast most days.My favourite is watermelon and spinach with greens powder and camu camu berry powder.
8:22 am on July 25th, 2009
Yes I do and they fill me up! I get my kids to drink them and sometimes my husband. I don’t think i put in as much greens as everyone else, but we’re getting there!
Lyle, we watched your show and it was great! My 4 year old daughter loved it and we watched all of them. I am going to send the link to some teachers I know.
9:03 am on July 25th, 2009
What about the GRAINS vs STARTER question…any thoughts?
And YES – smoothies, smoothies, smoothies! I would probably wither away with out my Vita-Mix;)
9:14 am on July 25th, 2009
Thanks for answering my question!
I’m gonna try to add some fermented cashews and maybe crack open a pro-biotic capsule to add to the mix..
One important issue though!
As far as I know, and according to “Dr. T”, from:
http://www.ecopolitan.com/doctor-t
“Digestion destroys probiotics”, which means you won’t get the benefits of these good bacteria because they won’t survive the stomach juices..(unlike when you swallow a capsule, like the ones Dr Mercola sells, which are supposedly designed to survive the stomach juices and reach the gut safely..)
any clarifications would be much appreciated…
9:45 am on July 25th, 2009
I rarely have a smoothie for breakfast. For one thing, I get up early and if I used the VitaMix that early, I would wake up my kids and for sure lose my morning “sanity time.” And that’s a risk I just can’t take.
I prefer to have a nice green smoothie everyday after I do my run to replace nutrients and electrolytes. I make my post-workout smoothie using coconut water, frozen bananas and Vitamineral Green with some other fresh fruit thrown in.
11:53 am on July 25th, 2009
I have a green smoothie pretty much every moornings. Sometimes I’ll skip a day or so, but I’m fairly consistent with it.
In fact, I am drinking one as I watch today’s video: thick slice of papaya, one big banana, big handful of spinach, bleuberries, spirulina, weathgrass, cayenne… hmmm.
1:52 pm on July 25th, 2009
every day and now so does my hubby, some greens mostly spinach, about a cup of frozen fruit or bananas and coconut water or filtered water and maybe some spiralina and flax oil. the best start to any day…
3:14 pm on July 25th, 2009
I often have a smoothie for breakfast. Not a big fan of green smoothies with sweet fruit, though I often include non-sweet fruit with my greens & sprouts (tomato, ripe sweet or hot peppers, cucumber, bitter melon, green papaya, green mango, occasionally olive), and love a little avocado in it for creaminess. I love them both, green or sweet, but not a big fan of them together. Same thing with juice; I don’t even like carrot or beet in my veggie juice. Just my taste.
OT, Micah, modern classification systems (3, 5, or 6 “kingdoms” have bacteria separate from plants and animals. Systems have changed!
Health and peace to all. Off to the kitchen to make live mango pudding & live hazelnut/red pepper pate for rawvioli filling (salt-massaged thin slices of pattypan squash). The live marinara’s already made.
4:15 pm on July 25th, 2009
Yes I have smoothies in the morning.
right now I am having fruit smoothies but
later when a lot of fruit goes out of season
I will be having green ones with bananas
and apples!
Go Raw Yea!!!!
4:36 pm on July 25th, 2009
love it….rejuvelac … i dont think i can say it three times either…haha…cute and smart lil Lyle!
here is a recipe for rejuvelac with Dr. Ann Wigmor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3FaCpHAxE
(beautiful testimony) you can check out her web site at
http://annwigmore.com/
10:28 pm on July 25th, 2009
yes – canteloupe + seeds strawberries fresh figs oatmeal yoghourt soaked sunflower pumpkin hemp or chia seeds flax oil dulse handful of whatever fresh greens i have – parsley cilantro mesclun greens….
being in a hot climate smoothies work great throughout the day whatever fresh fruit is best with whatever fresh greens – evening a raw vegetable soup made creamy with soaked walnuts or other nuts seasonings like ginger chile miso over sprouted and lightly cooked grain –
the k tec blender has made anything possible….and inspiration from listening to your daily offerings as well as all the other great links u have provided….blessings and gratitude!
2:30 am on July 26th, 2009
weird, my previous post didn’t get published..
I’ll repeat my question in short:
Doesn’t the digestion destroy the good bacteria before it gets to the guts?
when it’s in capsule form, it is supposed to be protected and designed to reach the guts safely, but when you remove the capsule and just add it to the mix, I’m not sure whether you still get the benefits..
9:08 am on July 26th, 2009
Great show Kevin & Lyle.
I have a smoothie for breakfast every day. 95% of the time it is a green smoothie.
Although, sometimes I’m not hungry until around 11am. But, since it is my first meal of the day, I still call it breakfast.
I love making too much smoothie, and then having extra for lunch too.
11:09 am on July 26th, 2009
We have our green smoothies for dinner..hubby and 2 young kids (they request them!!). By that time of day, it’s hard to get my kids to ‘eat’, so we do them at night and have some other ’snack’ with it. Surprisingly, (to me, anyway) my hubby prefers a lighter dinner too.
)) You do great stuff guys, THANKS!
11:19 am on July 26th, 2009
YES EVERY MORNING
12:27 pm on July 26th, 2009
how does one join your facebook ? i saw it recently on your show and have only just joined myself – hoping to find more raw fooders to share!
7:07 pm on July 26th, 2009
Hello there,
You bet I have a fruit and green smoothy for breakfast or lunch , anytime actually , tap into what I am wanting and there you go ..What an absolute sweety pie Kyle.
My 10 year old boy and I thought this was great ..Great job !.
In health and Happiness
Sherry H
8:31 pm on July 26th, 2009
I almost always have a smoothie for breakfast and a lot of times that’s what I have for lunch too.
9:31 pm on July 26th, 2009
Yes, I have a green smoothie every day for breakfast unless we run out of bananas and forget to go shopping the night before
10:15 pm on July 26th, 2009
I have been having Kevin’s chia porridge for breakfast these past couple of weeks, since he described it. Love it — it helps stabilize blood sugar/blood pressure. Smoothies have been mostly lunch fare for me, 2 or 3 times a week. Then green juice mid afternoon.
Thanks to Andy for his delicious sounding smoothie recipe.
You’re a cutie, Lyle.
11:11 pm on July 26th, 2009
Hi Kevin,
I made some coconut kefir yesterday (waiting for it to be ready) however whole foods didn’t have body ecology kefir starter so i used yogourmet kefir starter, is that ok?
the ingredients are:
lactic bacteria and yeasts and skim milk powder.
Should it not have the skim milk powder in it? will that go bad/rotten as its sitting at room temperature for 36 hours?
thanks.
tyron
1:25 am on July 27th, 2009
hi! there was a link on this page the other day… I can not find it now , but it was for a recipe on how to make rejuvalac? (not sure of spelling) anyway if you know how to make this drink can you please share – and why did you take off recipe comment to that??? can i share a recipe on this link??? i see there are a few people that share and not all get removed!!!
5:45 am on July 27th, 2009
Yep, smoothies most mornings for me, sometimes if it’s early and I dont want to wake the house and cannot be bothered taking the vita mix out to the garage, I will make Chia seed porridge with almond milk, goji berries, sultanas and bee pollen or raw honey! Yummo!!!
1:02 pm on July 27th, 2009
Yes! Brown rice protein smootie with green powder, blueberries, and either peaches or strawberries. Sometimes I substitute with hemp protein.
I crave them after my morning runs!
1:51 pm on July 27th, 2009
I am so HAPPY to read all these wonderful “smoothie” replies. You people rock! Eating greens, veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds is such a gift! There is such joy in our meals!!! PS Bill, how do you prepare the chia seeds for the porridge???
PSS I love this website Kevin!
8:34 pm on July 30th, 2009
I have banana-cacao smoothies for breakfast almost every day. YUMZA!
6:52 pm on July 31st, 2009
I’m a recent convert & loving it! I have had gut issues ever since Vietnam & various MDs have had me on a range of medications including Prilosec for the past 20 years. Researching the Internet led me to some frightening information & a decision to somehow get off the stuff. Enter Kevin & Smoothies. I now commence my day by juicing a raw potato & incl Chia & Flax seed soaked overnight, add a little Vanilla essence, 1/2 tspn Turmeric, tspn Barley Grass powder, a little Himalayan salt, Black Pepper then blend. I actually drink/eat down the entire potato rather than juice only. I’m more than happy to be able to say my new approach to diet with smoothies is working & I have not taken Prilosec for over six weeks!
7:21 pm on July 31st, 2009
What a cutie. No, I always have green juice till noon. I feel like maybe I should start having smoothies for dinner though.