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You're sick and tired of being sick and tired. You know that you should "eat healthy," but with so many voices out there, what does "eating healthy" even mean?

Every day you have new resolve to eat right, but with a fast-food joint on every corner, and that darn vending machine at work, the day gets away from you. A Diet Coke, Doritos, apple fritters, Big Macs . . . they're fast, easy, and cheap. But you know your body and mind are paying the price.

It's time to right the course. Robyn Openshaw has sifted through the vast body of dietary counsel competing for your attention. What is truly worth your time and energy is presented, in a way anyone can follow, in the course 12 Steps to Whole Foods.

In the course of a year, you can adopt the habits that took the author 16 years to learn, experiment with, and adopt into daily practice–for optimal weight, health, and energy!

The focus of this course is on natural, unrefined and unprocessed foods, with a strong emphasis on plant foods, 60-80 percent raw. You'll learn lots of new and exciting ways to use foods that used to nourish mankind for thousands of years before there was a McDonald's on every corner! Those foods include, in this order:

Greens
Vegetables
Fruits
Legumes
Whole grains
Nuts
Seeds
Small amounts of unrefined oils, sweeteners, and seasonings

It's a life change anyone can make!

The course includes well over 550 recipes and everything you need to know, to enjoy a lifestyle eating the world's most nutritious foods–easily, inexpensively, and deliciously. It's a life change anyone can make! In the 12 Steps to Whole Foods: The Complete Course, you save $57 on the entire suite of information products on GreenSmoothieGirl.com:

A printed manual with all 12 steps, giving you a condensed education that you would have to read 20+ books to obtain. The course also has over 175 recipes, fully indexed (so you can easily look up recipes that use ingredients you have on hand). Each step has time- and money-saving tips. The introduction and appendices give lots of information about getting kids and spouses on board, learning what's true and false in nutrition, understanding kitchen tools and high-nutrition ingredients (and where to get them), and much more. ($79.95 value)

A journal to keep track of your health benefits you notice through each step, making your whole-food adventure a scientific experiment ($10 value)

Audio files corresponding to the topics covered in each step, for your listening pleasure on the ride to work, to discuss and reinforce what's in each step in the manual ($30 value)

28 demo videos by Robyn to explain key concepts for each step and demonstrate recipes ($30 value)

Four bonus recipe collections: Jump Start (Robyn's favorite everyday recipes), 101 Healthy Lunch ideas, 230 Green Smoothies, Healthy Holiday Recipes (375 additional recipes, $42 value)

Robyn's book The Green Smoothies Diet ($14.95 value)

A sample or two of Robyn’s favorite nutrition products

Access to the 12 Steps blog to ask questions and get support from other 12 Steppers (priceless) 

$207+ value for only $149.95

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Testimonials

Here's what people are saying about how 12 Steps to Whole Foods has changed their lives:

Two years ago, illness and disease brought my life to a grinding halt. The medical community could not explain my symptoms nor could they offer me relief from my pain. I began to read books on natural healing and discovered the underlying truth that I needed to revamp my diet. I stumbled upon a GreenSmoothieGirl video on YouTube and discovered 12 Steps to Whole Foods shortly thereafter on the GSG website. What an amazing experience that was! Within a few short months, I was able to completely revolutionize my nutritional world. Wow!!

The 12 step program is a well researched, easy to read guide on eating well with lots of great suggestions on how to save time and money. Since implementing this program, I feel so confident about nutritionally meeting the needs of my family. Every chapter has fabulous recipes and challenging nutritional content. It charts a clear, achievable course for people who want to eat well but just don't know how.

Since living the GreenSmoothieGirl diet, I have healed my metabolism. I weigh 20 pounds less and have dropped from a size 6 to a size 0 (who knew that size even existed!). I finally feel comfortable with my weight and how my clothes fit. My diet has become the foundation to my healing program and the improvement in my health has been remarkable in the last two years. I have way more energy and am excited about how my health will continue to improve.

I greatly appreciate the information in the 12 step program; it is well balanced and integrates time-tested traditional ways of eating with the latest research on healthy eating. Thank you for being a calm, reassuring voice that encourages us to make lifelong change. It's not about products or gimmicks. It works for moms on tight budgets who stand as nutritional gatekeepers to the home. It worked for me and now my family is reaping the many, many benefits of whole foods!

Thank you!
Darlene U., Canada

I have LOVED 12 Steps! The book is very informational and easy to understand and implement. I did tackle a couple habits at once since I already had the green smoothie drinking part down as well as some others. The biggest thing I want to comment on are the recipes. Recipes are KEY to success and you need GOOD tasting recipes to make transitions like these. Robyn's recipes are FANTASTIC! I have yet to try any that we did not love and now use as a family favorite consecutively. Whenever I am "experimenting" with new recipes my hubby gets nervous, but if I tell him it's a 12 Step recipe he calms down and doesn't worry since there's not one he hasn't loved. I really like that I can count on the recipes being tasty since I've read/owned many, many health books with crap recipes in them. BLAH! These are great!

Another thing I wanted to mention about the recipes I've enjoyed is that we eat gluten, dairy, egg, and soy free and a huge majority of the recipes are naturally free of these things. There are still plenty of worthwhile recipes in the collections having these restrictions that make it worth the purchase. I have shared 12 Steps with family and friends. My aunt bought the program and has loved it, and I have several other friends who are slowly making their way (they do green smoothies now–hooray!).

I love that Robyn has broken it into 12 Steps and if you can add them into your life you will be so much healthier and happier!

Laura T., Utah

The 12 Steps program doesn't focus on the DON'Ts. You already know that white flour, white sugar, and other processed foods are bad for you. You probably know that cutting back dairy and meat, replacing them with legumes and whole grains, would help your health.

What the course does is teach you the DO's. How you can have a positive experience with whole foods. Robyn doesn't beat people up about their food choices—she nurtures them into a healthier and happier place.

These are the 12 steps:

1.Bye-Bye, Stimulants—Hello Green Smoothies

2.Making Salad the Star

3.Dressing Up Your Salad

4.Avoiding Bad Fats, Enjoying Good Fats

5.Reaping a Gardener's Rewards

6.Making Plant-Based Main Dishes

7.Sprouting and Dehydrating

8.Preserving Raw Foods with Natural Probiotics

9.Replacing White Flour with Whole Grains

10.Starting Your Morning Off Right

11.Creating Delicious Whole-Food Treats

12.Achieving an Alkaline Inner Terrain

Each chapter has tips on saving money and time!

In addition to a digest of the very best practices in nutrition, Robyn has developed over 175 recipes so you can replace your low-nutrition family favorites with high-nutrition, new favorites. Anyone can do the 12 Steps program, and each chapter has tips on saving money and time. A whole-foods lifestyle doesn't have to be expensive. And you don't have to be a slave to the kitchen. Robyn shows you how each minute spent in the kitchen, though, yields two minutes of increased energy and vitality!

Get your Complete Course here.

If you want the course but are willing to live without the DVDs, CDs, journal, recipe collections, and book (The Green Smoothies Diet), you can purchase the printed manual only:

Get your 12 Steps (printed manual only) here.

And one other option lets you get the digital download version of the manual, least expensively: Get your digital 12 Steps to Whole Foods manual here. If you previously bought the digital download of 12 Steps (the only form it was available in for two years), you can get $39.95 off the purchase price of the complete course, or the printed manual only, by entering the name of the last recipe in Ch. 7, as your coupon code. (Please do this only if you purchased previously.)

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Here's more about what people are saying about 12 Steps to Whole Foods:

We are eating whole foods, including green smoothies, and feeling really good! I feel really good because my family is not eating any sugar, MSG, or preservatives.

My children ask before they eat things at relatives' homes if they have these things in them!

My husband does irrigation work in central WA and so he is out in public every day, we go to town once a week, and so far none of us have gotten sick. I am praying it stays that way!

We really like the Almond Joy Fudge from Ch. 4, and my brother in law, whose wife is against anything I make (won't eat it), told me he would pay me to make it for him!!

I made the Teriyaki Almonds for a camping trip in October and everyone gobbled them up! Some of them are going in on the Raw Almond group buy with us!

I like to make the whole wheat tortillas (Ch. 6) and fill them with different things like hummus, guacamole, and fresh veggies. For supper last night we had them as enchiladas, with brown rice, olives, salsa (homemade, canned), onions and homemade enchilada sauce. YUM!

We like Mexican food so I have made the Taco Lentils a lot (Ch. 6), which are especially good added to Taco Soup. I am even experimenting with converting sugar and white flour recipes (Ch. 11)–so far so good!

Early on in March we had a going away party for a friend of ours, he is allergic to dairy and so I made the ice cream in Ch. 11–YUM YUM! He really liked it and so did everyone else.

I made the Choc Chip Zucchini cookies for our camping trip and they were yum! I like to read Robyn's blog because she does the research for me and I don't have work as hard to find things out! I still do a ton of research though. I like how it is all comprehensive in one spot. That way I don't have to remember where I read it and it is easy to find.

I tell everyone about it, especially when they have health issues. Anyone who talks to me very long has heard of green smoothies. And some have tasted them. Anyone who eats at our house eats salad, whole food, and homemade salad dressing.

I have had little red bumps on my upper arms my whole life. Since I have not been eating any dairy they are gone. My husband's chronic bad breath in the mornings is gone.

I wanted to try lactic fermentations (Ch. 9) next. Love the dehydrator ideas (Ch. 7) and I am constantly learning new ways to use mine.

I really like the 12 Step blog for support. It's nice to have somewhere to go and know that everyone eats this way and has the same problems with skeptics. It is great to know that we are not alone. GreenSmoothieGirl.com is a great place to ask questions and get answers.

Thank you, thank you!
Beth W., Washington

I always considered myself a healthy eater and a good cook. I had been on Weight Watchers for 2 years and was almost to my desired weight, so I thought the foods I was preparing for my husband and children were healthy. Our dinner meals consisted of a medium serving of a white meat such as chicken, or lower fat ground beef in some form, a side of fresh or frozen vegetables, and a salad of lettuce and tomatoes with regular dressing and croutons.

However, in 2001, my husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He also had asthma, tons of allergies, and high blood pressure. He had suffered from these ailments all of his life and fought colds, bronchitis, and pneumonia every winter. If we had gone ahead with the doctor's advice to remove the prostate, the operation alone would probably have killed him. Instead, I asked my husband if he was ready to try the "green diet." When I'd told him about healthy eating before, his reaction was immediate, "That diet would kill me, I'm allergic to all of those vegetables!!" Now, with cancer looming, he said, "Well, if I'm going to die anyway, I might as well die trying something."

In one month of eating mostly vegetables and drinking a green drink, he lost 40 pounds, stopped using his asthma inhalers, never went back to the doctor for allergy shots, and stopped using almost all of his medications. After a year of healing many illnesses, he is now enjoying the best health he has ever had in his life. The doctor who treated his cancer was very concerned with my husband's choice to avoid surgery and told him that he would die within 10 years. He recently saw a new specialist in the area where we now live who could find no sign of the cancer and told him to never come back to see him! He said, "There is no proof that diet can cure cancer, but whatever you are doing, keep doing it!" It has been over seven years since the original diagnosis.

I discovered the GreenSmoothieGirl.com site while searching for new recipes and ideas for meals. I ordered the 12 Step plan for the recipes. I have found the book be to very informative and wish that I had raised my children in this way. We began drinking green smoothies this summer, and now my husband complains if I don't make time to prepare them!

Last week I made the Chocolate Beet cake (Ch. 11) for a church dinner. It was entered in a dessert competition. Unfortunately, the highly sugared desserts won, but I had one lady who asked for the recipe and was excited to try it. She couldn't believe it had beets in it! I also made a batch of the candied almonds for my father's birthday gift. He has always loved dates and nuts, so this was a perfect gift for him! (I couldn't stop eating them!)

Christine W., Washington