Sprouted hummus tastes awesome and it’s good for you. It’s a double win. I made a batch the other day and have posted my recipe below. Feel free to make all the adjustments you want based on how you like your hummus. Whatever you do though, I really recommend switching in the sprouted garbanzo beans for the canned ones. You retain some extra nutrition, the texture is lighter and fluffier, and the sprouts give the flavor an extra dimension of complexity.
What you need:
2 Cups of Sprouted Garbanzo Beans
3 Tablespoons of Tahini
2 Cloves of Garlic (minced)
3 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
1/2 Teaspoon of Salt
Juice of 1 Lemon
Simple Directions:
1. Mix everything in a food processor.
2. Eat it.
I ate it with some homemade pita which was surprisingly easy to make. I recommend giving it a shot.
October 31, 2009
By growing and eating your own sprouts, you get a nutritious meal with a side of cold hard cash piled higher than a pastrami sandwich from the Carnegie Deli. To demonstrate, I put together a little comparison for you. I decided to compare sprouts with some lunch items. This is when I would be more likely to eat a bowl of sprouts as a meal and I figured it would make for a more realistic comparison.
To figure out the sprout cost, I started with a 10 lb bag of seeds for about $32.00. This is about 20 cups of dry seeds (give or take). To make 1 cup of sprouts, you need about ¼ cup of dry seeds. With the help of some basic math, you can figure a bowl of sprouts setting you back about 40 cents. You can buy yourself some sprouts by clicking here.
So check it out…
Sprouts: $0.40
Subway’s $5 Foot-Long: $5.00
Burger-Centric, Fast-Food Value Meal: $5.00 (approximation)
Arby’s 5 for $5 Special: $5.00
Little Caesars Hot-N-Ready Pizza: $5.00
From a lunch perspective, sprouts can save you about $4.60 per day. This translates to the following yearly savings based on how many days per week you eat sprouts for lunch.
1 Day: $239.20
2 Days: $478.40
3 Days: $717.60
4 Days: $956.80
5 Days: $1196.00 (damn!)
What’s that you say? Ramen is cheaper? Well, at about 30 cents a bag, you would be correct. And you could probably slurp up a bowl of ramen every day for lunch for a full year and live to tell about it. By the end of that year, that would net you an extra 26 bucks to go blow at the track. But, that comes at quite a cost. You miss out on all that great nutrition.
So there you have it. Every time you eat sprouts, you win at life a little bit more.
Do you have some hot money saving tips that rival the one given above? Spread the word in the comments section below.
October 27, 2009
