My Experience with a Three-Day Raw Detox
On Thursday morning, I decided that, with a long weekend coming up, it was a good opportunity for me to do a three-day raw detox. My husband was starting a full-fledged juice-fast at the same time, so I’d just have to make something for the kids to eat while coming up with delicious raw-detox meals for me. My motivation came from a) the presence in our house of Natalia Rose’s The Raw Food Detox Diet, which I’d been reading with great enthusiasm the past week or so, b) a desire to get off the weight-loss plateau I’d found myself on the past month, and c) an interest in...
Read MoreWatermelon Smoothies – Delicious and SO Refreshing!
If you’ve been to this site before, you probably already know that I’m a big fan of Green Smoothies – I’ve been having them for breakfast pretty much every day for the past several years. For a long time, I pretty much settled on one recipe that I had all the time. But the past several months I’ve been playing with variations. This morning I found myself looking at a watermelon that we bought about a week ago. Hmm – what might a smoothie taste like that started with watermelon? I tried it out, and the answer is – AMAZING! I love the flavor of...
Read MoreVitamix – a Kitchen Tool You’ll Use Daily
If you’re like me, you’ve probably got an assortment of very cool, almost completely unused kitchen tools and appliances. There are SO MANY available, and all seem like such a good idea at the time! The ice-cream maker. The waffle iron. The indoor grill. The fondue pot. The sandwich machine. The pizza stones. The slow-cooker. The pressure cooker. The food processor. The dehydrator. The juicer… OK – I actually DO use some of these pretty often – I’m a big fan of the pressure cooker (at least once or twice a week in the winter; less often in summer). And we...
Read More5 Ways to Transition to a Raw Diet
“It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet” anthropologist Margaret Mead Switching from a cooked-food diet to a raw-food diet can be challenging – it requires a great deal of commitment and planning, as well as a willingness to educate oneself. Luckily, it has been done, many times over, and so it is possible to save a lot of time and effort by taking advantage of the learnings of those who have gone before you. There are many approaches that may be taken. 1) You may be so driven to make the change that you are prepared to make it ‘cold...
Read MoreLooking to Lose Weight? Try a Cleansing Green Smoothie
Several months ago, I posted my favorite Green Smoothie recipe, and people have been very enthusiastic about it! Since then, I attended a Raw Food workshop, and was told that leaving out the concentrated fats and proteins (almonds and flaxseed, in this case) would turn my smoothie into a low-fat, easily-digested and highly cleansing drink, appropriate for daily consumption during a 10 day detox, for example. I was fairly certain that I would get hungry well before lunchtime with these revised smoothies, but decided to give it a shot. I doubled the amount of greens, berries, and water, left...
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