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Thank Heaven for Hemp

November 1, 2008 – 12:22 pm

For the soy-sensitive vegan (it aggravates my eczema), Hemp is the holy grail.  I don’t know what I would do without it.  Drink yucky rice-milk? — bleh!  Hempmilk is nutty and creamy and goes great in coffee and smoothies, and even bakes well.  Hemp protein powder also works great in my morning smoothie, to give me an extra boost of 13g of protein per serving, and 8 g of fiber, as well as omega-3’s to boot! Hemp oil makes great salad dressing, and hemp seeds make great topping. And it has all 10 necessary amino acids, a complete protein! …sustainable to grow, doesn’t require pesticides, and the rest of the plant (we eat the seeds) can be used to make all kinds of things from sandals, to fabric, to paper.  I love finding the perfect solution to a problem.

Now if the silly US government would just allow us to grow it….