It’s been almost two weeks again since my last post, and there were some days my healthy raw diet wasn’t that raw or healthy at all… I did have very good workouts and last Saturday I had a 12km four time three phase hill run (high heartbeat) where I went to my physical max. and took out every bit of energy I had. It felt very great. Until later that day when I was unable to refill my energy supply with fruits and I (my body) decided to take an early nap to preserve itself and woke up the next day :)
I been trying to only eat when I feel hungry since this is much better for, well everything in our body, but I’m still having trouble to feel de difference between hunger and appetite, and I just take the food I have lying around :) So my best self defence against unhealthy foods are to not have them lying around. Therefore am also trying to clean/eat my non-raw food supplies that are stocked in all the kitchen cabinets, it seems to take forever!
So I will post a bunch of pictures again of some of the food I’ve been taking I experimented with the raw recipe book I’ve also been using in the last two posts.
My weekly Wednesday fruit resupply, those days will automatic become the best day in the week, don’t you just love buying fruit from a market stand totally packed with all the delicious fruits you can eat!
I am trying a recipie with beetroot with apple. It required some ingredients called applediksap some sort of concentrated apple juice that I don’t have. I did have apple cider vinegar, what a strong smell that stuff has…
Using the magimix slider and the vita-mix for the dressing.
Healthy and raw, the apple cider has a strong flavor that you may need to get used to..
Love a good melon :)
I had a bag with peanuts lying around and wanted to try-out the vita-mix! Peanuts are beans and not nuts! and are considered to be not that healthy, so try to avoid them. I still have two jars of Calve peanut butter, and I used to consider them as one of my favourite foods… The vita-mix did a perfect job!
Apricots,red plums and a nectarine.
Fresh oranges. I wonder why I didn’t take a picture of the resulting smoothie :)
Spinach mousse made with the magimix. It tasted quite good with lemon, sundried tomatoes, walnuts and edelgistvlokken (Dutch) don’t know the English translation :)
Ingredients for the Thai salad with miso dressing.
The dressing also needed 1/2 cups of mirin and I didn’t have that… I also didn’t come up with some alternative? But the dressing ended up way to strong and thick..
The salad with sesame seeds on top.
Fresh pineapple.
More red plums.
Two apricots, two nectarines and two peaches.
And a lovely melon.
Wednesday fruit resupply :)
This time also a picture of the vegetables! Our family allotment garden is running out of vegetables.. So I needed to buy some. Not all of the vegetables are form the market, some are still organic from the family garden.
Making fresh apple mousse with some bananas.
The best!
I am making the fennel soup again as I also did the last few weeks. I just like playing with the vita-mix.
It’s pretty good and very filling.
Fresh mandarins.
I just love good mango’s. Yari my cat did not like :D
Blending fresh oranges again, I don’t set the speed higher then position five so there is pulp and little oxidation.
It takes amazingly little time to drink that much oranges :)
A new attempt at using some nori sheets.
Sadly I haven’t found there sweet spot yet. I seems I still don’t like nori sheets.
I switched to white cabbage with non-raw Heinz sandwich spread as dressing…. I still had to eat something, since I had a interval running training 30 minutes later… I really wonder if our digestive system is supposed to handle raw cabbage? I had gasses for the whole next day…
The pictures isn’t that good, the cabbage leave and the tauge bean sprouts weren’t that dark.
Post workout protein smoothie:
1x tablespoon of almond flour or meal (or handful of 12H soaked almonds)
1x tablespoon of almond butter
1x cup of water (filtered when desired)
1x scoop of Sun Warrior vanilla raw rice protein
10 drops of stevia fluid (after own taste)
The key here is food combining and timing, no fruits and no starch with protein. The smoothie is best taken as the last meal before sleeping (about one hour before) and as post workout smoothie. It will digest in about +4 hours during sleep and help refill the amino acid pool.
The best fresh cherries there are.
And a strawberry banana smoothie with some added natural sweetener.
Just the best.
Cooked meal as one of my missteps this week. I had a cauliflower lying around and didn’t want to eat it raw, I also had some other pre-packed mixes lying and replaced the needed chicken with the cauliflower and made some curry cauliflower dish with rice. I have a sweet spot for curry…
don’t see cooked foods as a misstep! it’s a learning curve, and transitioning to all or even high raw will take time, and trial and error :). focus on how the cooked meals made you feel and work from there. for example, i ate a cooked curry two night ago and felt heavy and bloated and got a headache… i dont want to eliminate cooked foods alltoghether so its figuring out what works for my body :)
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Your right, the cooked food aren’t a real misstep, last week there was also some meat and fish involved and the consumption of meat is starting to really bother me (both physical as mentally) ;( Now I am just wondering if that cooked curry was shortly after your three day juice fast? And it’s all a nice journey to a high raw diet with lots of trial and error!
Haha, I wish I lived with you, so I could eat all those tasty meals! So much fruit and vegetables, it would be a paradise for me :D