I love nuts! I love nut butters! I love how easy it is to make any kind of nut butter using my new Vitamix! With the Alcat diet plan that we have been following now for almost 3 months, it is recommended that you follow a 4 day rotation diet plus eliminate all food intolerances that were found through the Alcat blood test. The idea behind a rotation diet is that the body can become over-sensitized to certain food components if it has to deal with them constantly, which is possibly how the intolerances developed in the first place. In order to avoid creating any new intolerances and to allow the gut to heal, the rotation diet is prescribed. This allows the body to metabolize the “safe” foods only infrequently making it less likely that the body will develop new intolerances to them.
So back to the nut butters! Each day of the rotation diet allows for 2-3 different nuts and seeds. While it is easy to find peanut butter, almond butter and cashew butter, it is not so easy to find walnut and hazelnut butter or macadamia and pumpkin seed butter. Actually, the best thing about making nut butters is that the combinations are endless!
This is my new favorite – macadamia and pumpkin seed butter. Oh it is so delicious! And so easy to make in the Vitamix! I have a Champion Juicer that I have used for years to make different nut butters, but honestly, using the vitamix was so much easier. I did not have to feed the nuts into the top of the juicer in small batches and wait for the juicer to grind them. Instead, a stuck all the nuts and seeds in the vitamix, turned it on, and voila! Nut butter! What fun! Mmmm, I think that nut butter is calling my name right now!
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