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Permalink Reply by Jessica Apple on January 29, 2010 at 1:38pm

Hi Annora,

One of my favorite breakfasts is an omelet with this salad http://asweetlife.org/a-sweet-life-staff/recipes/meal-type/breakfas... and a slice of whole grain bread.

I snack on nuts in between meals, and often I will have an apple and cottage cheese if I'm hungry between meals.

Permalink Reply by Annora on January 30, 2010 at 4:36am

Not 100 percent. He is 80% raw and I am doing whole grains. He takes wheatgrass in the morning and a shot of E3Live in the afternoon. I would love for him to do 100% raw, hopefully I can ease him more into it as we go along.

Permalink Reply by Desdemona on February 22, 2010 at 6:06pm

Hi Annora,

I am 90% Raw.

My basic meal plan consist of this

Breakfast:
* Smoothie (chard/kale + apple + banana + cinnamon + spirulina + chia seeds +1 L water)
The smoothie ingredients will change day-to-day, but that is the basics (1 dark green for sure)
OR
1 apple sliced with almond butter smoothed on it and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Lunch:
Usually lasts night dinner :]
Might be a salad with hemp seeds or almonds
OR
carrot soup with sesame seed snaps

Dinner:
Pad Tai with ice cream (frozen banana blended with strawberries or mango and almond milk)
OR
marinated portobello mushrooms with broccoli cranberry salad.

Snacks:
carrots, planteen chips, figs, pecans, celery with almond butter, carrot cake, energy balls etc..

My meals changed daily, but that is the raw basics

Permalink Reply by Susan Levanduski on February 28, 2010 at 9:27am

Hi
I am into green smoothies. I am reading Victoria Boutenko's book about it, it is fascinating! I usually have 3 a day, 4 hours apart (they just happen to hold me about 4 hours) and then a large blended salad for dinner. Roger Haeske has some great recipes for Savory Veggie Stews. They are expensive but worth it. Victoria Boutenko, as well as Doug Graham, author of the 80-10-10" diet, recommend at least a pound of dark leafy greens per day. When I first started on raw I wasn't doing enough greens. Since I have added them I feel a sort of euphoria every day that I haven't felt since I was a child. I have also been able to drop most of my medicine, especially the antidepressants I was on for 12 years!
My new favorite green smoothie is: 3 bananas, 6 frozen strawberries, 3 cups water, a little stevia and a big bunch of Kale. I chop the kale up because a friend told me kale can be tough on your blender. It turns this horrible brown color (green and red make brown!) but it is really good.
I also do 3-4 bananas, a pear, 2 big bunches of raw spinach, 3 cups of water, and a little stevia. This one is my favorite.
You can experiment with different greens, they're all good. You are actually supposed to do as large a variety of greens as you can.
I started going to a farmers market nearby to get my produce, as organic produce is more expensive, and commercially grown greens are soaked with pestiicides and have half the nutrients. I realize there are many who are under snow now, and can't get to a farmers market, but spring is coming! It's just around the corner!
Good luck to you!

Permalink Reply by Annora on March 1, 2010 at 7:35am

Thank you! I love reading stories like yours. I think we could all use a little "euphoria". Sounds wonderful!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Susan Levanduski on March 1, 2010 at 8:08am

You're welcome! Enjoy!

Permalink Reply by madhuram on May 12, 2010 at 12:33pm

Hi, I'm on raw diet just few days, but what I eat is:
Morning: spelt sprouts with water, coconut oil, 2-3 greens, dandelion leaves, hemp seeds, and some strawberries or blueberries, all nicely blended together to make a smoothie. On the top I mix some sunflower sprouts or mung beans, cinnamon, and a bit of sweetner (agave, or the natural sweetener called stevia )
Lunch: green juice from bitter melon or fenugreek leaves with carrot and rhubarb, sometimes with some fruits like apple
Dinner: salad of any kind with avocado, sometimes blended greens with tomato, pepper, onion, garlic, cucumber, water and some black pepper on the top, very nice raw soup.
As a treat I have 1 teaspoon of coconut butter with cinnamon and some nuts (walnuts, almonds or pine nuts ) and coco powder with stevia sweetener.
Enjoy
Madhuram

Permalink Reply by spirit7 on December 19, 2010 at 8:54am

Hello Annora,

I love pancakes and that was something I had to give up until I found almond meal! Now I make a pancake with 1/4 cup of almond meal, 2 tbs of flax (use the golden ground, best taste from Bob's Red Mill), 1 egg or egg substitute, cinnamon and almond milk. Mix and cook, I sometimes add nuts or blueberries and I can get my pancake fix, top off with berries or sugar-free low carb syrup (Vermont Brand). I sometimes have some veggie sausage if I am really hungry. As the winters are very cold in New England, I need a hot breakfast! You can also make this into a hot breakfast cereal without the egg/substitute and syrup. I use flavored stevia if I want it a bit sweet, they have toffee flavored and vanilla creme (VItacost has it for a good price)

For lunch I like the black bean burgers for lunch topped with some salsa and salad. And for dinner I have been again opting for warm foods. Dreamfields pasta is low carb and very good with a veggie sauce and side salad. I usually stir fry the veggies just using water at a med-high heat, stirring regularly, gives the veggies a nice flavor. Iuse the spaghetti sauce sparingly or make my own

I keep experimenting with foods but Cafe Gratitude in CA has a wonderful cookbook for raw foods and many of the desserts are low-glycemic and made w/o sugar and have worked well for me. I have a sweet tooth and they are satisfying. The food there is fabulous. I just try to make the right choice for low-carb, low glycemic and no sugar. My numbers have gotten better since I am eating more vegan/raw. About 80% because sometimes the hot wings (which I make myself) call to me!

 

Permalink Reply by Donna Heun on March 4, 2011 at 7:28pm

I am new to raw foods and am looking into it more. I make a cereal for breakfast with berries, apple or pear and coconut, chopped nuts and flax seed meal. Add some almond milk and it holds me for hours. I make green smoothies with kale, collards, cilantro, parsley, cucumber, tomatoes, berries, or apples, and flax seed meal. Ingredients always vary and they are all yummy. For a treat I have made "cookies" from almond butter, chopped nuts, cocoa powder, stevia and flax seed meal. Raw vegan brownies are made with 1 c. dates or figs, 1 c. walnuts or pecans and 1/4 c. cocoa powder processed in food processor. Press into a pan. Frosting is 2 avacados, 1/4 c. maple syrup, 2Tbsp. coconut oil, 1/4 c. cocoa powder. Place in freezer for an hour and you have wonderful brownies! Hope this gives you some ideas.

Permalink Reply by CathyE on May 2, 2011 at 2:31am

Hi all - this is a great thread, thanks so much for many delicious sounding ideas. I have been 80%ish raw just for 3 weeks, & I'm loving it. I have just been diagnosed with "likely" Crohns disease/ulcerative colitis (doctors still not sure) so this has been a wake up call for me as type 1 diabetes plus colitis = my auto immune system clearly not a happy bunny.

Anyway, just wanted to ask people about smoothies v juices - I noticed that most if not all of the suggestions were for the former. Yet the raw food course I attended recommended juices as the way to ensure you get enough greens inside you - obviously smoothies still have all the pulp & fibre so you get full up. I guess, though, that for diabetics smoothies are better as the sugars kick in more slowly than with juice. Any thoughts?

Finally, my suggestion for delicious, easy, satisfying breakfast: mix 1/2 cup chia seeds with 1 1/4 cup nut milk, tsp yacon syrup (better than agave), some orange zest, some ground cardamom seeds, some vanilla extract. Leave for 15-20 mins. Add some chopped pecans & pear (or other fruit). Yum! (chia seeds are about 50g carb/100g)