The Cheapest Health Food

I’ve written before about how much I love sprouts.  They’re about as close to a perfect food as you can get, as far as nutrition goes, and most of them are pretty tasty as well.  I eat small amounts of sprouts on sandwiches and salads, but by far the majority of the sprouts we grow end up in our green smoothies.  It’s a lot easier to just blend them into a drink, so that’s what I do.

On Saturday, my husband went to a local store that sells bulk sprout seeds.  He got a pound of mung beans, a pound of alfalfa sprout seeds, a pound of broccoli sprout seeds, and four ounces of fenugreek seeds.  The total came to $33.  I use about an ounce of seeds to grow a quart of sprouts (within a few days the jar is completely full of sprouts).  So the seeds my husband bought us should make about 50 jars of sprouts.  That works out to 66 cents a quart for fresh, homegrown sprouts.  Maybe not the cheapest food ever, if you count stuff like ramen noodles.  But I can’t think of a less expensive food that’s as nutritious as sprouts.  Or as quick and easy to grow.  So if you’re feeling the crunch at the grocery store, buy a bag of sprout seeds.  If you don’t like the taste, just blend them up with fruit or something that you do like.  Your health and your wallet will thank you.

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