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Showing posts with label raw food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raw food. Show all posts

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Raw Food Recipes

Even though raw and live food is highly conducive to health, it is human nature to become bored with the same kind of food item taken over and over again. Food recipes remove the monotony of same food taken day and night. They lend variety and change and make the food more acceptable, interesting and tasty. Making and testing recipes with raw foods can be a good and creative pastime. Moreover in a combination of a variety of fruits and vegetables in a food recipe, the items complement each other by providing the required nutrients which a single food item may not provide in sufficient measure. Creative raw food recipes satisfy the palate, increase the appetite and provide ample nutrition.

Vegetable Salad

A vegetable salad consisting of as many items as you like can be made out of all varieties of leafy greens such as romaine, endive, spinach
cabbage, shredded mushrooms, sliced carrots, grated or sliced bell peppers, all colors zucchini, grated green beans, finely sliced tomatoes, chopped cucumbers, sliced sprouts, all kinds beets, grated celery and so on.

Non-starchy Vegetable Salad

Friday, October 8, 2010

Raw Food Recipes - Delicious Breakfast Cereal

Today I want to tell you about a really delicious breakfast cereal that I make for myself several times a week. It's amazing and it's all raw. The reason I want to share this with you is because a lot of cereals out there; packaged and processed cereals, even though they say they are healthy, they're really not! When you look at the list of ingredients, usually the ingredients include gluctose-fructose or high fructose corn syrup, wheat, gluten, colourings, or any number of things that you don't want to put into your body. All of these things cause irritation in the body and they are not something you want to consume, especially on a daily basis.

If you see commercials for healthy cereals, I urge you to really think about what they are trying to sell to you. What I want to share with you today is how you can prepare an unbelievable cereal that is raw and takes literally under 5 minutes to prepare. It is full of whole foods that are going to nourish you throughout the day and get your day started off as best as possible. A lot of people say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but I'm not too sure that I necessarily agree. Every meal is important. Your health is important.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Reviews of Top Raw Food Recipe Books For Families

1. Rawvolution

Matt Amsden has written and illustrated this very inspiring yet simple to use recipe book. It contains highly useful information, such as 'Stocking Your Kitchen', which details not only the basic equipment needed, but also basic ingredients for making raw food preparation easy. 'How To Eat Raw While Traveling' is fantastic for school and work with recipes for foods the raw foodist can proudly take anywhere. Examples are Veggie Cakes, Felafel and Onion Bread.

2. Eating Without Heating. Favorite Recipes from Teens Who Love Raw Food.

Sergei and Valya Boutenko are the teenage children of the famed raw Boutenko family. Clearly, they love eating raw and have beautifully put together their favourite raw recipes. Examples are Italian Rawsage, Nori Rolls and Sergei's Amazing Truffles. Both teenagers and parents will find this book a real treat to have.

3. Green For Life.

4 Raw Vegetable Diet Resources to Help You Create Tasty Raw Food Recipes

If you've tried hundreds of diets before with no success, the raw food diet may be the last one you attempt. This natural way of eating helps you to burn fat at a faster rate, gives you much more energy, improves your concentration, and can even help to boost your mood. Here are some of the best places to find raw vegetable diet resources.

If you live near an organic grocery store or farmer's market, you'll want to check these locations often for the freshest fruits and vegetables to add to your raw food diet. Locations like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market have great raw food pie crusts and pastas that you can use for dinner or dessert, as well as exotic fruits and vegetables that you can eat raw to get the daily amount of fruits and vegetables that you need for healthy skin, hair, and bones. You can also shop at your local grocery store for these items. Check out the Natural Foods section of your local supermarket to find varieties of nuts and seeds that you can use for new recipes or to eat alone as healthy snack.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

4 Raw Food Recipes to Get You Started Today

By far the hardest thing about going raw is figuring out what to eat on a meal-to-meal basis. Even with all the free raw resources available, I know it's still difficult to go raw.

We live in a cooked food world and eating raw just seems so difficult...even preposterous!

The best thing I can do for you is to give you some recipes to get started, raw recipes that are not only tasty and satisfying, but HEALTHY.

Check out this entire day's worth of low fat, high fruit raw vegan recipes!

Breakfast: Banana Blueberry Bonanza

Ingredients:


Thursday, September 30, 2010

Raw Foods recipes-the 5 biggest mistakes you must avoid when you try Raw Food recipes

Test new raw food 's prescription can be exciting and disappointing if you do not hear any warnings. Read the instructions below to save both time and money. I learned the hard way, hopefully, you don't have to do the same.
The 5 most common raw recipe mistakes:
1. Not having Fresh Nuts. Nothing destroys a recipe that rancid nuts. Surprising nuts go bad, lend an antiquated, bitter taste to the recipe.Taste of nuts before adding them to your recipe. Nuts in your local health food store may not be the most recent. Consider ordering nuts online for better results.