The lemon juice drink.

Fig.1 Starting the day with a warm lemon juice drink, lemon juice as we know, has an alkalising effect on the body and that combined with the warm water is a very gentle cleansing cycle to begin the day with. My method is to fill a thermos with 2 cups of warm filtered water, (I have a Wellness water filter see Wellness Water Filter). Add the juice of one lemon, or as I do to save time and effort, when I purchase a bag of lemons I juice enough of them to fill up 1 or 2 ice trays, if you have an ice tray with a lid, then that is good, if you don't just empty them the next day into a plastic container with a lid, and then just add one ice cube to your thermos of warm water, or if you'd like to do the same during the day or add to your water bottle, then you may need to get a tray that has small blocks of ice so they will easily fit into your water bottle.

Anyway this gives me two large mugs which I slowly drink on my balcony listening to the noises of the morning. Now I am ready for that wonderful yummy breakfast that I spent 3 minutes preparing the night before.

Pre-soaked muesli.

The advantages of doing this are largely two fold. One it means that in the morning, when time is short, your breakfast is ready to go, zero preparation required, but more importantly, the soaking process combined with the yogurt, pre-digests the dried fruit and oats making all these beautiful substances much easier for your body to assimilate ie digest.

It is a two-day cycle every evening you add what has been soaking overnight and during the day in the fridge, into a bowl and cover with a plate, this way your meal is ready to eat straight away and has risen to room temperature during the evening. At the same time you wash the container from the fridge add the new ingredients and return it to the fridge. Fig.5

The Ingredients.

Fig.2 & 3 1/3 cup(100ml) of fine rolled oats; 4 chopped dates(cut into small pieces, I use a pair of scissors); 2 dessert spoons of currants;  1 dessertspoon of Goji berries; 2 dessert spoons of ground Linseed(Flax) which has been premixed with Mangosteen powder and stored in the fridge. I now also add Cranberries and dried Mango pieces, these all add a beautiful sweetness to the mix, once they have been soaked for two days, and just melt in your mouth, it also means that you do not need to add any concentrated sweetener like honey or sugar. The ground up Linseed, increases the consistency and adds a lovely nutty flavour, and of course the Flaxseed has the highest content of Omega-3.

Dates (which surprisingly, also have a high alkalising effect on the body), these I just buy from wherever I can get them the cheapest, I do not bother to buy organic dates, they are very expensive and I do not believe that in this case they are worth the extra expense, but of course that is your choice.

You can now purchase sun-dried Black currants and Goji berries at the supermarket which is what I do. The oats I use are the Demeter brand which is organic and I get the fine rolled type, not "Quick oats". I also purchase organic Linseed (see our seed section). With the Linseed there seems to be three varieties golden brown, dark brown and very dark brown, I find the dark brown to have the nicest flavour.

Fig.4 shows a couple of dessertspoons of Omega-3 Magic that I have already premixed please see Omega 3 Magic, if you do not wish to make this up then just use yoghurt I use the the Jalna biodynamic full cream yogurt which also contains organic honey. If you have a dairy intolerance, adding the juice of half a lemon, will assist the pre-digestion process in a similar way.

Fig.5 shows the bowl of breakfast ready to be eaten the next morning, and the new breakfast, now having filtered water added to it and gently mixed with a spoon, ready to go into the fridge for the following day, to start its pre-digestion phase.