Want a sandwich? Try a nori roll :)

If eating raw means lots of salad and dessert for you, remember your friendly sea veggies. It's ideal to get some seaweed into your body everyday. Seaweeds provide you with...

MINERALS: this is what you're made of!

POLYSACCHARIDES: highly complex sugars which are essential for longevity. Daniel Vitalis, the superfood elixir guru, calls them "computer chips" for the immune system which "activate the longevity code in cells."

GLYCONUTRIENTS: Recently discovered. David Wolfe describes them as "elastic proteins." These are also a sugar, but a bitter sugar. Seaweed is the only food that contains all 8 glyconutrients. Many health experts see the study of glyconutrients as an integral part of the future of medicine.

Here's David Wolfe with some powerful information about seaweed:



David mentions 4 seaweeds in particular that will give you all 8 glyconutrients. These are Kelp, Dulse, Nori, and Sea Lettuce. Stock your cupboard with these seaweeds and you always have a nutritious snack or tasty condiment.

Nori is the wrapper for sushi and is readily available. It's generally toasted, so look out for the kind that isn't toasted if you want to stay raw. You can find nori as sheets or as flakes. If you buy the sheets, you can put anything on it that you would normally put on a sandwich, roll it up, and presto! I usually add lettuce or salad greens, tomato, zucchini, and nut/seed pate. You could also add sprouts, or use tofu if you just want to be vegan and not raw.

Here's a simple and delicious way to incorporate the 4 seaweeds into your lifestyle.


Not-Just-Nori Roll




Toss a salad of mixed greens and dress with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, sea salt, and pepper. Add shreds of dulse, and sprinkle with Kelp powder and Sea Lettuce flakes.

Set a piece of nori out on a DRY, clean surface (becomes wilted and hard to work with if it gets wet). Put a nice mound of salad across the middle of the seaweed so that it looks like a green French flag (the salad is the middle stripe).

Lay slices of tomato, zucchini, or whatever other veggies you crave across the top of the salad. The put 4 or 5 tablespoons of nut/seed pate on top of the veggies. Try to make your placement of veggies and pate even across the seaweed so that you get equal amounts of all ingredients in each nori roll that you slice.

Take the bottom of the nori and fold it over the veggies as you tuck all of the filling under with your fingertips. Continue to roll until you have a cylinder of stuffed-nori goodness. You can seal your nori roll with liquid by rubbing a left-over piece of tomato or a lemon wedge at the end of the nori sheet just before you finish rolling. Gently cut 5 or 6 pieces with serrated knife. Keep a wet towel handy for wiping the knife between slices if you want to stay neat and tidy with each slice.

Here's a recipe for a Sunflower Seed Pate. It's great for Nori Rolls, Lettuce Wraps, or with a crudite.

Meaty Sunflower Seed Pate:
1 cup sunflower seeds, soaked and drained
3/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked and drained
1 garlic clove
2 tsp salt
1 tsp each of chili power, ground cumin, and curry powder
1/2 cup of irish moss gel (very easy to make and a recipe is easy to find on the internet)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp black pepper

Blend until smooth in a food processor.

ENJOY!