LifeSpring's vegetarian deli
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Check out LifeSpring's vegetarian deli for healthy options in the Minocqua area.Breakfast
Muesli
Developed by the Swiss, Muesli is a healthful high-energy breakfast cereal made of organic oats, nuts and your choice of dried dates or figs served with the best yogurt on the planet – organic C.C.’s Jersey Cream.
Granola
Organic strawberry, raspberry or blueberries and cream granola served with your choice of yogurt, milk or soy milk.Oatmeal
This warm, organic home-style favorite is served with cream and brown sugar.Westi Waffles
Named for the Volkswagen Westphalia van, these whole-grain waffles are topped with butter, your choice of pears or dried cranberries, pecans and Wisconsin maple syrup.Lunch
Bowl o’ beans
Experience our most-popular, healthiest deli item. Sprouted mung beans and sweet lentils are mixed with spicy refried beans, home-grown rosemary and basil, red wine vinegar, Bragg’s Amino Acids and grape seed oil and served with a side of delicious organic blue corn chips.
Spicy bean and cheese quesadilla
A veggie wrap filled with spicy refried beans, sprouted mung beans and lentils, tomato and organic pepper jack cheese, served with your choice of Muir Glenn organic mild black bean and corn, medium garlic cilantro or hot salsa. Shhhhh! The secret to the extra tasty, crispy tortilla is a massage of grape seed oil.Vegetarian pizza
Finnish flat bread topped with spinach, sprouted beans, red onion, tomato, olive oil, Bragg’s Amino Acids, tahini, red wine vinegar, organic Parmesan and plenty o’ garlic and toasted to golden crispy goodness.Hummus sandwhich
A whole-wheat pita sliced in half and filled with spicy hummus, veggies and bean sprouts and topped with oil and Bragg's Amino Acids. Served with a side of organic lettuce, balsamic vinegar and oil.Pesto panini
Panini flatbread spread with garden-fresh basil pesto, red onion, tomatoes, olive oil and Parmesan. While basil is in season only.Cool treats
Banana Nirvana
Loaded with potassium, our Banana Nirvana is good when you need an energy kick. A delicious alternative to ice cream, we put frozen bananas through the Champion Juicer and top the creamy soft serve-like result with Ghirardelli chocolate sauce and blackberry syrup. Honest. It’s not ice cream.Rainbow Nirvana
This Nirvana adds frozen strawberries, raspberries and blueberries to the smooth banana experience, and is also topped with Ghirardelli chocolate.
All-fruit smoothies
How can something so healthy taste so good? Our smoothies are made with real fruit (choose a combination of bananas, raspberries, peaches, blueberries and strawberries), C.C.'s Jersey Cream vanilla yogurt and two fruit juices. Ahhhh.Cold beverages
Frappuccino, mochaccino, iced green mint chlorophyll tea topped with a sprig of fresh organic mint in the summer, iced black tea, iced yerba mate (infused with the flavors of lavender, ginger-peach, chai or passion berry and sweetened just a bit with our home-grown organic stevia), raspberry lemonade spritzer, ginger spritzer, Natural Brew root beer, ginseng cola, vanilla cream soda or outrageous ginger ale, Italian sodas or iced espresso drinks.Warmer-uppers
Mellow, high quality Sapawa chai, sweeter Big Train chai, spicy Mexican hot chocolate and a wide variety of teas, yerba mates and warm espresso drinks.A few words about the health benefits of sprouts
LifeSpring uses sprouted mung beans and lentils in several of its menu items, including the bowl o’ beans, because they are an extremely healthy, economical food source.
The historical use of sprouted seeds and grains is impressive. Chinese nobles, 5,000 years ago, ate sprouts for healing and rejuvenation. In Chinese medicine, bean sprouts are considered to be a yin, or cooling, food.During World War II, when the United States was concerned about a possible meat shortage, the scientific community advised the president that the consumption of germinated seeds was the best and cheapest alternative to proteins in meat.
Sprouts are easily grown and 100-percent organic. Just add clean water, and four days later you will have a fully grown, crispy, tasty vegetable. Germination does not require soil, fertilizers or pesticides.
Sprouts are a complete protein that is rich in vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The increase of vitamin content in sprouts during the sprouting period is tremendous – up to 4,000 percent. These natural vitamin complexes contain valuable food components not found in synthetic vitamins, such as sulphoraphanes and isoflavones which work against toxins, resist cell mutation and invigorate the body's immune system.
Because sprouts are a living food, they will continue to grow and increase in vitamin content even after you harvest them. Other vegetables begin to lose their vitamin content as soon as they are picked.
Sprouts are also a good source of live, active enzymes. Digestive enzymes help us assimilate proteins, carbohydrates and fat. Although they play this vital role, our capacity to make them is limited. If we do not get enzymes with our daily food intake, our body's digestive enzymes will carry the complete load, depleting this limited resource. Sprouts are an excellent way to replenish your body.
How to sprout beans
1.Place one part beans to one part water in a canning jar2.Soak for 24 hours
3.Place in a tupperware container with the lid on loosely and rinse twice daily in a colander for three days as the sprouts grow
4.Refrigerate up to five days while sprouts remain sweet/crunchy