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Food recap and some missteps

Posted by jelle on August 15, 2011 3 comments

It’s been almost two weeks again since my last post, and there were some days my healthy raw diet wasnâ€™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 havenâ€™t found there sweet spot yet. I seems I still donâ€™t like nori sheets.

I switched to white cabbage with non-raw HeinzÂ 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…

Weekly food recap

Posted by jelle on July 16, 2011 No comments

Sunday evening

These babies are red currant also known as aalbessen in Dutch. They are quite common this time of year and are locally grown and organic. I used to really hate them because they have a lot of small seeds that get stuck between your teeth. However the vita-mix will pulverise almost all seeds and when adding a few hands of frozen strawberries it made a nice fresh smoothie.
The resulting red currant strawberry smoothie

Monday

Late breakfast waited until I got hungry, as you see all whole fruits, no blending and no green smoothie.
OK, this one is kind of special, it is a vegetable stew, I make these when I am in a hurry and about to exercise, these little monsters consist of all vegetables and small bit of agave syrup, honey, maple syrup or other natural sweetener. The food combining is perfect and allows me to eat this 800g vegetable stew and go out running only 10 minutes later and have enough energy for a few hours with high intensity training without any stomach issues. The vita-mix with its tamper is perfect for making this stew, and I dare you to find an other way to get so much vegetables into one meal and make it tasty enough to repeat it weekly!

Tuesday

Some water, two bananas hand of frozen blueberries and a few frozen cherries, I have a few of these smoothies every week.
Got some ripe kiwi’s for lunch.
And some melons a few hours later.
This was a post workout recovery drink with soaked almonds and sun warrior chocolate protein, I am still searching for a tasty good combined protein drink….

Wednesday

Blended some apples with a topping of cinnamon.
Experimented some more by trying to create carrot-zucchini-pancakes based on the recipe of sueintraining. I replaced the egg with tofu but maybe this was not such a good idea… I got a lot of zucchini (courgette) so I am trying to find as much interesting recipes :)The resulting mixture that went into the frying pan with some sesame oil, I also tried them with coconut oil.
The resulting pancakes, they look pretty good, but I found them tasting a bit to much after the flour.

Thursday

Breakfast and later the mango for lunch.
The ingredients for my vegetable stew minus the agave syrup I also used.
And an other fast vegetable stew before heading of for a group running session. It was really pouring rain, so we where completely soaked but it was a wonderful training.
The ingredients for my post workout recovery drink. I am trying to find some vegetable/protein combo that taste good. This was definitely not it :D
The resulting tomato sun warrior vanilla protein drink. (not so tasteful..)

Friday

A bunch of tangerines as breakfast.
Lunch a zucchini, cucumber, tomatoes, curly lettuce and peanut butter spread roll. It was correct food combining and no bread, and it tasted pretty good.
Same thing from a different angle.
I made an other variation for dinner only with a raw nori sheet and with some non raw/organic Heinz sandwich spread natural.
Received my stock resupply with some special hard to get ingredients!