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When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade!

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In our house you either love them or hate them. Well, actually I think we all love them. And we are fortunate enough that we have a tree to give us a ton of them! Since we live in the San Joaquin Valley, and the way the weather has been for the past couple of years that means we have a few crops all year round! Even though I like lemons I have to be very careful making lemonade as not to burn the lining of my stomach off… but since lemons are so good for you, I just can’t help myself sometimes. I wanted to share one of my favorite recipes for a yummy summertime lemonade and the benefits of lemons.

Lemonade

Home grown Organic Lemons

Benefits of Lemons

  • Lemons help cure issues related to indigestion and constipation .
  • Eases the pain of sunburns.
  • Lemon juice can help with colds and fever by causing the body to increase perspiration.
  • Lemon juice can give hair a great shine including reducing the amount of dandruff.
  • Lastly, and most importantly, lemon can help reduce weight when combined with warm water and honey. since lemons are jam-packed with Vitamin C, it is able to increase liver function and increase metabolism.

Lemonade

 

Bee Sweet Lemonade
Serves 6
A cool & tasty summertime lemonade!
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Prep Time
20 min
Prep Time
20 min
Ingredients
  1. 1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (approximately 4 large lemons)
  2. 1 cup warm water
  3. 1/4 - 1/2 cup Raw Honey (local preferably)
  4. 4-6 cups cold water
Instructions
  1. Squeezed juice from approximately 4 large lemons, will yield 1 cup juice, set aside.
  2. Combine Honey & 1 cup warm water in saucepan and bring to a boil.
  3. Once Honey and water are cooled, pour into pitcher, adding lemon juice and cool water.
  4. Chill 1-2 hours or serve over ice.
Notes
  1. Tip: Depending on the honey you use, it can have a very powerful taste. If you have a cold, I would recommend using 1/2 cups honey. The lemonade will have a very honey taste, but you will still be able to taste the lemonade.
  2. Note: This is a very strong lemonade mixture, if you are not used to drinking real, pure lemonade, add 6 cups of water instead of 4, as the acidity may be too hard on your stomach.
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Healthy Raw Honey

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Do you know that raw honey and the honey you buy at the store are completely different? Of course the main difference is that the honey purchased on the store shelf has been pasteurized. You may be asking, “Well what’s wrong with that? Milk is pasteurized too.”

Unfortunately for honey and your health pasteurization is a very bad thing. The pasteurization process destroys vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants and other nutrients through the high heating process. At this point the honey becomes just as pad as refined sugar. 

healthy raw honey

So what makes raw honey so great? 

Healthy Benefits

Raw Honey has anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties.

Blood Sugar Even though honey is a simple sugar, it actually has the right amount of fructose and glucose that helps regulate sugar levels.

Probiotic Some honey have large amounts of friendly bacteria including several species of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria.

Cancer Prevention It’s possible with the flavonoids and anti-oxidants that honey contains it can help reduce the risk of some cancers and heart disease.

 

 Today we are happy to be participating in the 2015 A to Z Challenge. Today we are celebrating the letter “H”!

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Photo Credit: Flicker – Thien Gretchen (honey jar)