What are your top daily raw food menu's?

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Permalink Reply by Finnegan Kelley on April 19, 2009 at 6:40pm

Simplicity is key! Smoothies, sweet salads, savoury salads, zucchini pastas, soups... Most of what you eat you should be able to make in a few minutes or you'll drive yourself crazy. When I was transitioning I would make dehydrated chips and freezer brownies (cacao and coconut oil) over the weekend and pack them for snacks during the week. Get a few recipe books or bookmark a few online recipes that sound good and try them when you have time to do all the prep work.

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Permalink Reply by yemango on April 19, 2009 at 7:09pm

yes to zucchini pasta.........its so easy. we have a benrinner (?) japanese slicer with the medium toothed-attachment - i found this makes the zucchini *exactly* the same size/texture as pasta. or as close as it comes (dont make cappelini, cause it will get all soggy and wet. i just take handfulls of fresh basil, olive oil, spices, pine or hemp seeds, garlic or shallot, a little white miso - and toss the zucchini. its my FAVE thing with some olives over salad greens. you can also add soaked sun-dried tomatoes and a date to make a red sauce.

i also love the easy sushi roll - raw nori sheet, mashed avocado, with benrinner julienned cucumber and carrot. and a little white miso for flavor.

i also love to make a guacamole with slices of cucumber as the chips.

banana "split" with raw almond butter

green smoothie! (if i dont want to mess the kitchen!)

each salad i make only has 2-3 veggie toppings and one nut or seed, to make each original. sometimes i made an oil/lemon/thyme dressing, other times a tomato-ey dressing, other times a rich tahini/miso/shoyu dressing. i vary it up then a salad is never boring.

raw porridge (adapted from cafe gratitude): blend nut milk on slow chop with some dates, apple, and pecans...then in the bowl i add chia seeds and let it sit for a while to let them expand...add berries and banana slices and cinnamon on top. its our breakfast every day a green juice is not.

i highly recommend the cafe gratitude book - i think its easier than the fancy ones (Raw Food Real World or Julianos, or RAW by Roxanne) and also yummy, not just soaked prunes in a jar :)

one thing Terces from Cafe Gratitude mentions is that raw can be like "kitchen farming"...you are always soaking or sprouting or dehydrating something today that will be eaten tomorrow.

i often soak cashews or almonds overnight even if i have no clue what im having tomorrow...the almonds can be made into milk, and if not i just air dry or dehydrate with spices. the cashews i usually make into a cheeze/pate there is a good recipe for that in cafe gratitude. cashew hummus with some cut up veggies is also a great meal.

also, maybe yuo want to challenge yourself to have a meal consisting entirely of bananas, or a watermelon in its entirely. its pretty amazing enjoying a meal solely on fruit :) ! and how wonderful it makes you feel! especially in the sunshine!

i also sprout a lot of buckwheat/sunflower seed and make crackers out of that.

good luck!

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Permalink Reply by lynnettetim on April 20, 2009 at 7:14pm

thank you, that sounds great!

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Permalink Reply by Marianna on April 19, 2009 at 8:20pm

Keep it simple.

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Permalink Reply by peanut on April 19, 2009 at 9:07pm

Simple day:
breakfast: green smoothie (greens, berries, spoonful of spirulina)
snack: berries or fruit
lunch: big ol' massaged kale salad
snack: bell peppers, carrots, avocado
dinner: arugula or light green salad, marinated mushrooms or green beans, raw cookie or a few nuts

It's pretty easy! The trick is giving yourself some treats. Homemade lemonade (lemons, water, agave) is a nice extra if your palate gets bored. Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by MOTH on April 19, 2009 at 9:52pm

I like doing 1 fruit per day

I had 33 bananas today :-)

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Permalink Reply by lynnettetim on April 20, 2009 at 7:13pm

wow cinnamon/vanilla bean smoothies sound good. what do you put in them?

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