Eat the Rainbow Broccoli Salad
Spiritual Nutrition:
🤍 Crown (Spiritual Connection):
Sunflower & pumpkin seeds — calming nervous system support, mental stillness, and higher awareness
🟣 Third Eye (Intuition + Inner Vision):
Red onion — supports intuition, cognitive clarity, and energetic insight
💚 Heart (Emotional Harmony + Circulation):
Broccoli — supports cardiovascular function, detoxification, and emotional balance
💛 Solar Plexus (Confidence + Digestion):
Sharp cheddar — stimulates digestive fire, personal power, and metabolic heat
🔴 Root (Stability + Embodiment):
Apples & bacon — provide grounding, joy, and connection to the physical body
Nourishment Notes
This salad is a celebration of color, connection, and nutrient density. It’s built around the philosophy that nature knows what she’s doing—when you eat, you're not just feeding your body… you’re feeding your frequency.
In Ayurvedic tradition, balance comes from experiencing all six tastes—sweet, salty, sour, bitter, pungent, and astringent—in one meal. This dish naturally weaves in many of those notes: sweet apples, salty cheddar, tangy vinegar, pungent onion, bitter greens, and creamy fats.
Inspired by the work of Dr. Deanna Minich, the “eat the rainbow” approach reflects the truth that each color in food offers its own unique healing signature—supporting different organs, emotional states, and chakras. It's nature’s way of giving us a full-spectrum multivitamin—straight from the soil.
“When you sit before colorful, beautiful food that nature has created, it’s like nature’s art, nature’s palate. We take in those colors. They transform our bodies. And we have a connection to the people that grew those foods, to the land, to the water. It’s a beautiful, almost spiritual experience to take in food in that way.” – Deanna Minich, PhD
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Serves: 8 adults (as a side)
Ingredients
• Pasture-raised local bacon – 1 pack, preferably from a nearby farm or regenerative source
• Organic broccoli – 4 heads, cut into small bite-sized pieces (fresh and local if possible)
• Crisp seasonal apples – 2, diced (choose local, unsprayed varieties for best flavor and nutrients)
• Raw sunflower seeds – 1/3 cup (lightly toasted in olive oil and sea salt)
• Raw pumpkin seeds – 1/3 cup (organic or local when available)
• Sharp raw milk cheddar – 6 oz, freshly shredded (or use clean, grass-fed block cheese)
• Red onion – 1/2, finely diced (rich in polyphenols and purple pigments)
• Avocado oil mayo – 1 cup (or homemade with clean oils and no seed oils)
• Full-fat Greek yogurt – 1/3 cup (grass-fed if available, or local dairy)
• Apple cider vinegar – 2 tbsp
• Extra virgin olive oil – a drizzle (cold-pressed, ideally from a single origin)
• Sea salt & cracked pepper – to taste (mineral-rich salt like Celtic or Himalayan)
Method
Preheat your oven to 325°F and lay the bacon slices on a sheet pan. While they bake (about 16 minutes), prep the broccoli, apples, onion, and cheddar, adding each to a large bowl. Toast your seeds in a pan with olive oil and a pinch of salt until golden and fragrant—about 5 minutes—then let them cool. In a small bowl, whisk the mayo, yogurt, and vinegar with cracked pepper to make the dressing. Once the bacon is done, pat it dry and chop into small pieces. Add the seeds and bacon to the bowl, pour the dressing over, and toss well. Chill or serve right away.
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