Energy Soup

• Crunchy texture – grind in a food processor with little or no liquid, instead of blending.

 
• Sweet taste – more fresh fruit or soaked dried fruit, or raw honey, but vegans don't eat honey if they can find an alternative natural sweetener. When you blend only greens and fruit, then it's called a Green Smoothie – spinach leaves blended with 2-3 pears make a great Green Smoothie.

 
• Savory taste – I like garlic, beet (half or one small whole beetroot, a liver and blood strengthener) and Bragg's Liquid Aminos, ground together in a food processor. Bragg's is a machine food (not made by Mother Nature) so is not used at the Ann Wigmore Foundation but to me, if it makes the food taste good, let's add it! The main point is to get the nutrients into us.

 
• No spicy greens – if Energy Soup tastes horrid, go easy on the hot greens like cabbage, fenugreek, mustard and radish. The best greens are Sunflower – the seeds are so easy to buy at pet shops in any country (parrot seeds) and they grow to a lovely green leaf in the GoGreen Sprouter.

 
• No avocado – use another raw plant fat, such as raw nuts, especially almonds (cashews aren't raw) or raw seeds – flax, pumpkin, sesame or hulled sunflower.

 
• Soak and blend the nuts or seeds (blend in a little water just covering them) OR grind them in a $15 coffee-grinder, and add to your Soup. Don't soak longer than three hours because their minerals leach out in the soak water. I don't agree with 8-hour soaking to "activate the enzymes" – three hours is enough. If you soak longer (while you're at work or sleeping) then use the soak water as your blending base.

Whenever you're hungry, if you reach for one of these three raw foods – fat, fruit or green – your biochemistry comes into beautiful balance, you experience high energy and good health.

These days, now that I'm healed and no longer visit the dentist, often my Energy Soup will be as simple as greens-of-the-day from my GoGreen Automatic Sprouter, blended with lots of fruit in season, like a small papaya or half a watermelon. I love sweet!

When you're still healing (transitioning to raw foods) you need the other ingredients too.

I poured it into a couple of brown plastic hydrogen peroxide bottles (opaque to keep the light out – light triggers free-radical chain reactions in the Soup's fats) and drank one on my way to work, refrigerated the second at work and ate it at 11 a.m.

Brown glass containers are best, because oxygen can enter through plastic and oxidize the nutrients (alter their molecular structure).

For Energy Soup to work – help you get free of pain and lose weight – you must blend both greens and sprouts, fresh home-grown every day, on five days a week, for five weeks – preferably for a year.

The most powerful healers are wild weeds and the home-grown baby leafy greens – like alfalfa, broccoli, buckwheat greens, cabbage, clover, fenugreek, garlic, green pea shoots, kale, lettuce, mizuna, mustard, onion, radish, spinach, sunflower greens, turnip and watercress. Anything you see as a mature green, you can grow as a high-energy 5-day-old baby green in our GoGreen Automatic Sprouter. Use organic seeds only.

You need bean sprouts too because they're high in vitamins E and C, and have different minerals from greens – beans are rich in organic iron, zinc, phosphorus, sodium, sulfur and copper, while greens have boron, chlorine, iodine and silicon. Both greens and beans are good calcium, potassium, and magnesium sources – needed for our bones and muscles, nerve transmissions, and electrolyte balance.

Sprouted beans are the absolute best source of protein on earth. They’re higher in protein than cooked beans because the DNA in a sprout is busy making new proteins for the plant’s growth. These proteins are pre-digested into amino acids so they’re easy to absorb – no gas here! When healing, you need these proteins to build new tissue. Energy Soup re-builds and cleanses-detoxifies – see Chlorophyll Power.

You may crave sweet after the Energy Soup. It's high in protein as free-form amino acids. They're all jostling at the same time for absorption, big tryptophan gets pushed to the back, your brain signals for more, and simple sugars help tryptophan get through – one reason we add apple to the blend. Simple sugars shuttle all the smaller amino acids into your cells for use as energy, so tryptophan has a clear path.

At first after Energy Soup, I was miserably driven to my local baker for cream croissants – for 28 years I was a sugar junkie. But in one year that same Energy Soup chased my tormentor away. Miraculously, in a few weeks I saw light at the end of my tunnel, for the first time in my life.

Today for dessert, I eat home-made soya or almond yogurt with banana. Sometimes I add concentrated apple juice or home-made chocolate sauce to the soya yogurt. The marriage of tart and sweet twists your tongue in delight!

If you get the runs from Energy Soup, or nausea when you eat soon after, have small amounts over hours, not a lot all at once. Greens are the best colon cleanser! Refrigerate what you don’t eat at once, but finish it within five hours.

If you get muscle cramps, it may be a magnesium-calcium imbalance. Greens have both, but are higher in magnesium. Drink calcium-rich seed milks, with essential fats for brain and nerves – blend one-quarter cup of  soaked seeds with one cup of water, add sweetener while blending, e.g. banana or fresh dates.

Then two to four years is the average for most body-minds to re-balance completely.

The more you want to be free of pain, or lose weight, the more you should blend greens and sprouts, and eat fresh plant foods. Begin today to grow baby greens and bean sprouts at home. An automatic Sprouter does it all!

Give every cell in your body a chance to heal itself, and play the purest notes in your symphony.

Best time of day for Energy Soup is morning. It raises your metabolic rate, so you burn more calories through the day. The chlorophyll and enzymes help in your elimination cycle (4 a.m. to 12 noon).

Go for an Energy Soup 4-5 days a week. Anything – once a week – is better than nothing. Energy Soup creates a new body-mind, and new taste-buds. A NEW YOU.

My experience is – when we eat the love which flows in Nature’s fresh food, it's easier to experience True Love. We're balanced, whole, flowing, receptive.

Try it. You're special. You are loved.

Dr. Ann Wigmore's Energy Soup has three main ingredients: a fat, a sugar, and a chlorophyll food. 

Doctor Ann would feed this balanced recipe to some of her patients as their sole nutrition for 3 months and they would be healed of disease!”