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Food recap update and juicing with a vita-mix

Hi fellows, I had a really great week and made some big learning steps in my healthy living learning process. I will post more about them in my next post where I will be reviewing a great new book I bought.

I am experiencing some cravings for fatty foods (nuts and seeds) especially in the evenings, but I am working on this, by eating some fruits after dinner and after 18:00, I am trying to find a balance there. My cravings for bread have gone away! Yeah!

I’ve been doing experiments with a nut-bag for draining and blending vegetables with my vita-mix, and I am loving it :) I’m now taking in a lot vegetables that I would otherwise not eat that often and not in these quantities (like raw beet roots, raw cabbage, raw zucchini)

New goodies and some dehydrated nuts and crackers, I really love the spices on those nuts, but they probably aren’t that healthy…

My attempt at broccoli soup, but it tasted horrible ;( I had to add a lot of vegetable broth to make it more tasteful… I am not going to make this again anytime soon!

The result, looks a bit weird, but I don’t judge foods anymore on appearance, since blended vegetables or vegetable stews also don’t look appealing but are very healthy and can be delicious too.

Post-workout smoothie with sunwariour protein chocolate powder, with water and four dates blended, tasted pretty good.

Nom Nom Nom melon, just scoop it with a spoon ;)

Banana, blueberry with a few cherries smoothie, my returning favourite.

Wednesday refill :)

Big salad with nuts and seeds.

Frozen bananas with walnuts, carob, cacao and vanilla raw agave syrup. Mixed in the magimix until smooth. Makes a very delicious meal. Had this for lunch :) Sadly frozen/cold foods should be taken very moderate, due to digestion issues and intestinal flora damages.

I mixed some of the sauce through the mixture to make a chocolate ice cream look.

It’s going to be salad week ;) this time with the dehydrated and spiced nuts I bought.

My weekly apple sauce with nothing else then blended apples.

Look an other salad O_o

And a variation of my chocolate ice cream this time with a cup frozen and a cup of fresh strawberries, without any carob nibs.

Loving the magimix :)

And the delicious result.

And an other big salad with some steamed zucchini. I really like zucchini steamed. Some steamed vegetables can be a very good completion to a mostly raw diet!

Starting to experiment with making juices with my vita-mix blender and a nut bag for straining, so we see the pulp on the left and the juice on the right. It is amazing how much vegetables you can juice and the taste is very different when juiced. It seems almost sweet to me. I added a bit of lemon juice in this batch.

Pears to be blended and strained.

Very good! I see it oxidized very soon or it may be the seeds that where also blended.

One of my favourite Mexican mix meals :)

So good!

My precious mango’s!

About one litre of vegetable juice, with only one beet root, turning it all red!

Fruit refill :) See those small mango’s on the right, They are the best mango’s I ever tasted!

And a picture of the refrigerator, more home-grown vegetables where incoming from our garden.

Making my own invented salad dressing, with avocado, mustard, one tp agave nectar and water. (the salt and black pepper should be avoided next time)

It was a very good first attempt, next time a little bit less water.

About one litre of fresh orange juice with lots of pulp. I love this stuff, but oranges are acid-fruits and I try to eat them only two times a week.

Vegetable juice, lots of spinach so very green :)

One tb of walnut butter and sunwarior chocolate flavoured protein powder as post-workout smoothie. (this was on a Thursday evening)

About eight large apples blended with some cinnamon agave syrup as post-workout lunch after doing a nice sunny 16km Saturday morning run. Training went pretty good considering a small annoying right hip injury. Next duration training I will try to get up to the 18km or 20km, so almost half a marathon (we are getting there)!

And again a salad :)

Freaking amount of vegetable juice with one beetroot (no its not animal blood). Is one litre of vegetable juice to much as a meal? Is that overeating?

And finally my salad dinner of this evening with some steamed, just freshly picked organic zucchini.

I am only eating vegetables as dinner in the evening, so fill in the missing pictures with lots of fresh delicious fruits for breakfasts and lunches :D Furthermore no missteps this week.

Have a good one folks :)

Food recap of two weeks

Since this a rather large recap I am leaving out the days when the food was prepared, to save myself some time :D I have been experimenting with some raw dishes, and some of them where good but some of them didn’t taste so well, so I have added a raking to them ;-). The experiments are from a nice Dutch raw food recipe book I bought.

Blended some apples with only 1/4 cup of water to get the blending started.

Love the tamper and power of the vita-mix.

Some cinnamon and you got a delicious apple treat.

Yellow and green kiwi’s as breakfast.

One of my favourite fruits, mango’s!!

Resupplying my fruit stock with fruits from the local market.

One of my favourite smoothies, a banana with blueberries smoothie.

The ingredients for my fettucini alfredo experiment, needed something to use my organic zucchini.

The resulting fettucini alfredo, the first few bites where all right, but I soon had enough of it….
I will not make this again, rating it solid 5! Thankfully our family dog that was staying over did like it!

I am not completely sure what kind of melon this was, i think it was a Hami melon? Does somebody know?

Lovely nectarines! Yum!

My experiment to make fennel soup! Lots of fun to make, by using the vita-mix to heat the soup!

The first part blending the base ingredients. That needed to be filtered with a nut-bag.

The resulting creamy damping soup

Added the final pieces of vegetables and the result was quite good and very very filling! I am rating it a 7. It was also very healthy. But the food combining wasn’t that great, it noticed during exercising later that evening that it was quite heavy on the stomach.

Fresh applesauce

And a bannana blueberry smoothie again with a few cherries.

The resulting smoothie!

I just love mono meals of fruit :)

The ingredients of my raw cauliflower curry experiment!

Trying out the new magimix :)

So the original recipe wanted my to place the dish for a hour in a dehydrator… but I don’t have one of those yet. I thought I just steam the cauliflower for five minutes before using it. However It seems I really don’t like raw cauliflower…. :( and I ended up placing the dish in the oven at 150 degrees… bye bye enzymes ;(

However the resuling this did still taste to much after raw cauliflower. I did eat the dish (the dog also had a few…). I am rating it a 5,5. Maybe somebody knows how to eat raw cauliflower….? I am not making this again for the time being :)

Whole oranges, since the vita-mix will take care of the seeds. I have read that the seeds of oranges contain about the same amount of minerals as the juice!

I like the fruit meat so I blend on a low speed :)

Kiwi’s as breakfast :D

A fresh whole pineapple, I experimented blending it with the hard part of the pineapple.

However it seems I don’t like blended pineapple, maybe to much oxidation of the high speed blending.

Ingreditens for my savory vegetable stew, that I like to take before exercising. I will digest perfectly.

Doesn’t look like much, but It gives loads of energy and fills perfectly.

Mono meal with mandarin!

And an other fruit resupply, The green stuff are sea vegetables grown in our own country, you can eat them raw! But it tasted a bit salty, It may be a healthy source for sodium since the plant did the absorption.

We got red plums!

Frozen bananas with fresh strawberries, made into an icy smoothie.

Post workout protein smoothie with sunwarrior chocolate protein.

Fresh strawberries, couldn’t resist them :)

Ingredients for my second attempt of fennel soup!

The reaming ingredients after straining the first with a nut-bag.

Delicious warm fennel soup! I am raking it a solid 8! Very fun to make and eat.

Ingredients for my mexican mix experiment!

The hot sauce made with the magimix.

Everything mixed! This tasted very well and with all the colours it also looked nice. I am rating it a 8,5, definitely going to recreate this dish.

I forgot to make the first picture of all the ingredients, but I am experimenting making a raw spinach pie! The picture is the magimix result for the crust.

The remaining ingredients.

Topping of raw rawmesan.

The magimix result of the spinach filling.

Filling everything up!

And the final topping. Had to rest the dish for one hour in the refrigerator.

Look great, tasted some what different. The bottom was almost made completely of cashew nuts so very fat and filling. The filling had a bit to much lemon juice. But in a span of three days the complete thing was gone. It seems It tasted way better when I was hungry :D since then I could eat a good part of it, but as soon as I was somewhat filled, the taste wasn’t that great any more. Maybe something special…..I don’t know yet. I may recreate this dish with less lemon juice and other nuts… I currently rank the dish a 6.

So that was my recap, lots of pictures :D Hope you liked it and maybe inspired you to-do your own experimenting.