Raw Food Diet and Recipes

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Generally as a society we tend to learn our eating habits from our friends and parents, and cooking food has always been a part of this for most people it would seem now that raw food is getting quite a lot of attention.

Is it really because that is how we were meant to eat food, even though our ancestors probably had fire. I dare say they weren’t that bothered about cooking their food under heat. They may have constructed or used some sort of crude spit for cocking their meat. But would they have necessarily bothered to cook their vegetables?

Why do people who eat raw food seem to lose weight very quickly rather than those who don’t eat raw food, we are led to believe that it’s to do with the enzymes in the raw food which tend become lost in the cooking process.

I haven’t really posted a lot about raw food so thought it would be a good idea to do so, and kick off with some raw food recipes as a starting point and post more articles about raw food because it does seem a popular topic.

So here are the recipes:

Breakfast

Fruit and nut muesli

Ingredients

1x apple

1x almonds

1x hazelnuts

1x coconut chips

1x brazil nuts

1x coconut chips

1x raisins

1x dates

1x blueberries

1x banana

Method

Peel and slice banana, remove the core from the apple and cut into chunks, remove the stones from the dates and chop up, slice almonds brazil nuts and almonds either use a knife or a food processor if you have one. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix together serve with semi-skimmed milk or rice milk, add some fruit if desired eg blueberries raspberries.

Lunch

Bell pepper salad

Ingredients

1x gojo berries

1x half a avocado

1x some mixed lettuce or iceburg lettuce

1x spring onion

1x half a lemon

2x two bell peppers

Method

Wash all the Ingredients, put the lettuce leaves on a plate cut the advacodo in half remove the fleshy part from it, chop up the spring onion remove the roots, cut the stalk from the peppers, and cut them in half and slice into pieces. Put it all on a plate including the gojo berries add the juice from the squeezed lemon and serve.

Tea or late lunch

Chilli pepper soup

Ingredients

1x 6 tomatoes

1x 2 garlic cloves

1x coriander leaves

1x half a chili pepper

1x two tablespoons of olive oil

1x basil leaves

1x table spoon of balsamic vinegar

1x ¼ teaspoon of tropical peppercorns

1x half a red onion or a white one

1x four ice cubes

Method

Wash ingredients prior to eating

Remove outer skin from the tomatoes, skin the lemon and half a onion, remove the seeds from the green pepper,put all the ingredients in a blender and mix until done, crush the ice and blend it briefly,and serve, this is served cold.

Recipes source http://www.rawfoodrecipes.co.uk

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