Natural Body Care Week! Wahoozle gazoozles! Lots of posts coming up this week and be sure to get your copy of the new tutorial when it is available on Wednesday. Purchase before 6pm on Wednesday and get super savings on a sweet package of goodies. Be quick! Fun times! And not too late to sign up for Tuesday’s webinar on Immune Health and Food Sensitivities.
Kale chips for healthy skin? Hey-ha-ha-hey now? That’s right my sista and brotha-friends. It’s all fine and nice to bathe in organ cleansing detox herbs, to soak in the goodness of coconut oil through the pours and bounce on a trampoline to shake and shimmy out the toxins. Let me tell you that no amount of bouncing, soaking or moisturizing is going to clean up your complexion if you’re still eating crappola.
Now, obviously in the tutorial coming out tomorrow, (Wahoozles once again!) I go into much more deets about the hair and skin feeding nutrients and foods we need but here is a little preview to tantalize your tastebuds and organs of elimination/detox pathways.
Nutrients For Healthy Skin
- Fluids: Fluids are essential as they help moisturize the skin as well as flush out toxins and waste.
- Essential Fatty Acids: Help with cell repair and regeneration, wound healing
- Antioxidants: Antioxidants are a great line of defense against cellular damage caused by free radicals.
- Iron: A deficiency in iron brings anemia, and this shows up in our bodies as a pale complexion and dark circles under the eyes.
- Vitamin A: It keeps our skin supple and is vital for the health of our eyes and hair.Vitamin C
- Vitamin C: Essential for the production of collagen (the elastic tissue in our skin. The decline in collagen is part of what makes us wrinkly as we age).
- Vitamin E: Powerful action against the damage of free radicals. Vitamin E helps our skin retain its moisture.
- Vitamin B Complex: Help our bodies to metabolize our food and convert it to energy, also important for the metabolism of our skin- to keep it fresh and lively!
- Selenium: Helps protect from free radical damage and from dryness.
- Zinc: Vital to the immune system and to skin health. Zinc helps us to manufacture collagen and speeds up healing. A deficiency produces stretch marks, a dull complexion, white spots on fingernails, dandruff and icky blemishes.
Wait a second… Are you seeing what I’m seeing? Yep. That is pretty much the full spectrum of nutrients. I’ll connect the dots for you. We can drink coffee and alcohol which depletes our body of these nutrients, eat nutrient deficient processed food, lay out in the sun, breathe bad air and use $400 creams laced with gold and the breath of Aneglina Jolie’s unborn child (I assume she’s pregnant but isn’t she always), or eat good whole unprocessed foods. So I could have essentially posted any old whole foods based recipe up here and claimed it good for skin health and it would have been right. But instead I’ll share another fave kale chipper.
So you can have nachos and cheese, or cheeseless cheesy kale chips. Or I could ask, how old and beaten do you want your face to look?
To recap:
- Way One: Lemon and Olive Oil
- Way Two: Asian Spiced
- Way Three: Macro-Japan
Way 4: Nacho Cheeseless Kale Chips
1 Head of Kale, washed, dried and torn into bite size pieces
Marinade
1/2 lemon, juiced
2 Tbs tamari
1/4 cup tahini or sesame seeds
3 Tbs nutritional yeast
sea salt and cayenne to taste
- Place all marinade ingredients in a blender or food processor and process until smooth. Add water as needed just in order to blend. Remember- you will be drying this out again after so you want to avoid doing this as much as you can.
- With your hands, mix together the marinade, massaging gently.
- Transfer to dehydrator rack or parchment lined baking sheet
- Stick in your dehydrator on medium-high setting or in your oven on its lowest temperature with the oven door left slightly open
- In the dehydrator it will take about 4-5 hours for them to reach the perfect crunchiness. Drying times will vary in an oven.
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Hi Meghan!
Your editor is spying on you…
The chips above look awesome. In step 2 of the instructions you say to “mix together the kale, NORI and marinade”. There’s no nori in the ingredients; is there? I could be missing something – it is early here. Either way, could you let us know how much nori you used? I’m sure the chips would be awesome without, but now that you’ve mentioned nori I’d kinda like to try them with.
Back to my editing.
Gaaaaad you’re good Laurie!
Kale chips are a MUST! You even managed to photograph them well… they are so so so DELICIOUS, but not the most photogenic of snacks.
Julie! I thought my photos were nice. Wish you lived closer. I’d bring you samples and get you to snap a few while I was there!
Ohh yay! I LOVE kale chips! Thanks for sharing your ideas with us! I’m going to try out the Nacho Cheeseless kale chips!
Chef Veronica
i love kale and nutritional yeast, so i’m super excited to try these. a quick question…how long will these store for? can i make a whole dehydrator full of kale chips, store them in an airtight container and leave them for a week? (or two?) Thanks!
I am officially in love with your kale chips series. We’re selling kale chips at work (so so good but SO SO overpriced) and I’m now itching to make some cheeseless yet cheezy kale chip krissssps.
Hi! Just stumbled across your blog. I love everything about it! I added you to my feed. Kale chips are the best. I’ll have to try this recipe some time
<3 Alex
I just made this marinade, with a bit of apple cider and pepper, for my broccoli salad just now — à la broc ‘n cheeze!
It was super delicious. I also added some garam masala and turmeric. As you know, turmeric has excellent anti-inflammatory properties, and renders the concoction a really glorious golden yellow–almost like real cheddar! 
What a great idea!
I have made a version of this but added some soaked and blended cashews…. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm delish~!
I had to dehydrate them a bit longer… but they were soo zesty and wonderful!
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These look so great! I wish I had a dehydrator. Wonder if I could make them in my gas oven with just the pilot light?
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These kale chips are so delicious. The tahini-nooch marinade coats the leaves so nicely. I ate the whole bowl in one sitting.
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