Have You Priced Fresh Produce Lately?

Have you priced fresh produce lately? A 3-pound bag of citrus will set you back $7 or $8. You'll pay two bucks for a small head of broccoli... over $3 a pound for grapes... a whopping $4 for a skimpy little package of organic romaine... alfalfa sprouts, $4 for a few ounces.

And yet, if you head for your local fast food joint, you can feast like a king from the dollar menu. A family of four can fill up for under $12.

Does that seem right to you?

The reason you can eat so cheaply from the fast food menu is because corn and soy are major ingredients. And corn and soy are heavily subsidized by the government. Food manufacturers can buy corn and soy for less than it costs to grow them. Then they make pseudo-foods out of it, like high fructose corn syrup, and put it in everything. There's corn in your soda, in the "milk" shake, in the hamburger bun, in the secret sauce on the burger, in the breading on the chicken nuggets, and more. Soy is almost as ubiquitous.

But it's all poor quality. In fact, many people would say it's not even real food. It's been pummeled, processed, engineered, and resembles nothing your great-grandparents ate.

Where are the subsidies for healthy foods? For vegetables? For fruit? It's great that Michelle Obama has planted a White House vegetable garden... but that hasn't translated into any meaningful change in the farm bill.

Subsidized fast food, laden with high fructose corn syrup and GMO soy, is bad enough. We'll never get healthy eating it. Yes, people should exercise personal responsibility. But all the subsidy dollars pushed into corn and soy, and all the advertising dollars spent to get you to the drive-through window, have had an unmistakable effect on the culture.

Each day, 50 million Americans eat at a fast food restaurant. Almost half the population eats fast food once a week. One in five eats a fast food meal at least twice per week.

Remember when you were little, and going out for fast food was a rare treat? A really big deal? My, how times have changed.

We now live in a culture where we're actually trained to expect fast food, on demand, 24/7. We've been trained to not think ahead, not plan ahead, not worry about where our next meal will come from. Instead, we're told all we need to do is just hop in the car and head for the golden arches, where a hot, tasty meal will be waiting for us.

We're like sheep being led to the slaughter.

Because if it isn't the slow death of diabetes and heart disease, it will be the quick (but not quick enough) death of starvation when there's a catastrophic event and fast food is suddenly not available.

It's been said that civilization is just nine meals from anarchy. When there isn't that hot meal waiting... when stressed people get hungry... things can get real ugly, real fast.

What good are those food subsidies then?

In any kind of emergency - a natural disaster, a prolonged grid outage - those food subsidies aren't worth a darn. In fact, depending on food subsidies is extremely risky... to your health and to your very survival.

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In a perfect world, we'd all be growing our own vegetable gardens. But when you're working all hours of the day and night just to make ends meet... or juggling work and school from dawn to dusk... it's just too easy to fill up on cheap, fast, government-subsidized fast food, and the consequences be damned.

Unless you have your very own low-maintenance countertop survival garden, that is.

I'm talking about the Sprout Sampler Kit, a complete package that contains everything you need to grow your own sprouts fast. You get a wide-mouth sprouting jar and lid, complete instructions, and one pack each of seeds for sprouting: wheat, green lentils, fenugreek, green peas, black-eyed peas, radishes, alfalfa, mung beans, garbanzo beans, and broccoli.

Growing sprouts requires, literally, just seconds per day of your time. You "plant" them one day, and just days later, they're ready to eat. Include them in sandwiches, salads, soups, and more.

But here's the best thing about sprouts: they're one of the most nutrient-dense foods you can eat.

Almost no other food will help you thrive the way sprouts do. In fact, you could say that sprouts are the true "happy meal." That's because home-grown sprouts are superfoods. They're packed with essential vitamins like A, B, C, E, and K. They contain essential minerals like potassium, phosphorus, and iron. They have essential macronutrients like protein, fiber, and carbohydrates. But best of all, they contain important newly discovered nutrients like the enzyme sulphoraphane, linoleic acid, amino acids, and coenzyme Q-10.

This nutrient density isn't just a nice benefit. It's essential for survival... whether you are trying to survive the daily grind, or need to survive a major catastrophic event.

In fact, the nutrients in the foods from your countertop survival garden mean the difference between surviving and thriving. Home-grown sprouts help to support:

• robust health
• boundless energy
• superior stamina
• mental clarity
• stress relief

And while sprouting supplies should be part of everyone's emergency supplies - for extended power outages, natural disasters, or even complete societal collapse - sprouts are just as important on a day-to-day, non-emergency basis.

The Sprout Sampler Kit helps you to survive--and thrive--in 4 important ways.

#1: Home sprouting combats insanely high produce prices at the grocery store. You'll pay just pennies to grow what would cost you big dollars at the store.

#2: Homegrown sprouts are an ideal emergency food. In any kind of emergency, you need food that sustains you, helps combat stress, and protects your health. Sprouts are ideal; you can grow them year round, in small spaces, and even without light. And they grow fast.

#3: Sprouts give you superior nutrients. Bite for bite, calorie for calorie, there's no other fruit or vegetable that will give you more nutrient density than sprouts.

#4: Growing your own sprouts mean you avoid huge food poisoning outbreaks. Commercially grown sprouts are linked to large food poisoning epidemics. Since 1996, there have been over 30 outbreaks of food poisoning in the U.S. linked to sprouts. In Europe last summer, over 4000 people were sickened (900 of them with the life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome) and 50 died from E coli infested sprouts.

The Sprout Sampler Kit was designed for people who are interested in all the benefits of sprouting, but aren't quite ready to commit to our larger Survival Sprout Bank. If you want to give sprouting a try... or if you're single or have a very small household... the Sprout Sampler Kit is perfect for you.

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Sincerely,

Bill Heid, President
Solutions From Science

P.S. If you enjoy a fast food now and then, it's not my intention to heap guilt on you. But why not try this: get yourself a Sprout Sampler Kit and start adding sprouts to your daily meals. You'll immediately be adding a wealth of nutrients to your diet. And when an emergency comes along and you need a fast source of fresh, nutrient-dense food, you'll be a pro at sprouting!