Raw Food Recipes 2011

A raw food diet is not just good for you - it’s also good science! You don’t have to take our word for it, have ‘faith’ or trust the latest nutrition guru.

Science proves that cooking not only destroys nutrition and enzymes, but chemically changes foods from the substances needed for health into free-radicals and poisons that destroy our health!

On this website you’ll find out what happens when you eat raw, whole foods rather than cooked or prepared foods! You’ll see numerous references from scientific literature you can check out for yourself, as well as other useful perspectives about the concept I call "Whole Food, Whole Being, Whole Planet!TM”

Don’t give away responsibility for your health to the government, medical industry or food industry. Don't even take my word for it! Discover the facts for yourself -- start here today!

Here are the basics in a nutshell, though simplified for easy understanding. A raw foodist is someone that eats 75-100% live, nutritionally-dense organic uncooked and unprocessed food (and drinks pure, live water), enjoying delicious meals that optimize your health by alkalizing your body. At that rate your elimination system can get rid of the toxins created when you cook. But when you eat more cooked food you are consuming acidic toxins faster than your body can eliminate them so they back up, disrupting your body's delicate acid/alkaline balance, a major cause of excess weight and disease. Heating food above 118 degrees F. causes the chemical changes that create acidic toxins, including the carcinogens, mutagens and free-radicals associated with diseases like diabetes, arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Cooking also destroys the live enzymes that aid in digestion and health.

Your body is actually sort of an alkaline battery, running on electrons. All life-giving chemical reactions only happen when electrons or energy flows between atoms. Cooking or processing causes food to lose electrons - the source of the energy your body needs. Things that are healthy 'contribute" electrons/energy, and are called alkalizing or "reducing." Things that are unhealthy steal electrons/energy, and are called acidic or “oxidizing” (which means to burn up, rust, break down or decay).

Your body is designed to be alkaline, like the battery! Because the pH scale is logarythmic even a fraction of a point can create huge changes to health! One hydroxyl molecule (-OH) in 550 million is enough to make water conductive. In fact, most important processes in your body only work within a very narrow pH range. For example, if the pH of your blood falls to the low end of its normal range (~7.35-7.45), a .10 difference, it could reduce the oxygen levels in your blood by as much as 300%!

Two common myths are that eating raw is expensive and that it takes a lot of time to prepare. Nothing could be further from the truth! I am one of busiest people I know (mostly answering emails, calls and texts from my readers). But when you do it correctly, a raw food diet is actually one of the easiest, most convenient and most economical ways you can live! Remember, raw foodists eat mostly organic food, which is 80% to 300% more nutritionally dense (click for article on Organic Food) - loaded with available electrons/energy. As your body learns to absorb this additional nutrition and energy you'll be less hungry, getting more energy from what you do eat, and eat less. This ultimately can reduce your food costs, as well as your health care costs, far below what is was when you were eating empty calories filled with the acidic toxins. Raw, live food and water is the ultimate health care plan!

Round up Menu #1:
Stuffed Mushrooms
Green Salad
Angel Hair zucchini “pasta” with netballs and marinara sauce
Katy Joy Pie
Apple raspberry pie

Round up Menu #2
Carrot Salad
Green salad
Stuffed Anaheim peppers topped with guacamole and salsa
Fresh corn on the cob
Chocolate pudding topped with raspberries and mint leaves

Stuffed Mushrooms:
1 package of baby Bella mushrooms (hollow out)
Make your favorite pate, stuff, and dehydrate for 8 hours
I played around and used a few different kind of nuts, fresh herbs, olive oil, garlic, olives, sundried tomatoes, etc…it’s a fun experiment.
Transitioning to a raw food diet can be difficult, especially when you find yourself with cravings of former comfort foods, like cheese and milk and ice-cream. Fortunately, there are hundreds of raw food vegan recipes to satiate your dairy-desires that are simple and delicious. They encourage amazing nutrition, taste fantastic, and are super easy to make.

Dairy-Free Raw Cheese
Raw “cheese” can add delicious flavor and texture to your raw food vegan recipes. Most recipes require very few ingredients and utilize nuts and seeds as their base. Nuts such as almonds, cashews, and macadamia nuts have fantastic nutritional value! Almonds for example can help lower your LDL-cholesterol and reduce your risk of heart disease. They are rich in Manganese and Potassium, which is an important electrolyte involved in nerve transmission.

Raw cheese recipes can vary in complexity depending on what type of cheese you want to emulate. You will need some form of food processor or blender capable of mixing various nut bases while certain recipes may use a dehydrator to create “cheese” slices that can top sandwiches or raw burgers.
Our bodies respond very well to all that is fresh and vital and thrive when consuming these types of food. By increasing the amount of raw food that you eat you are actually opting for a feeling of increased well being. When you switch to a raw food diet, the raw food recipes are based on uncooked or unprocessed plant foods, preferably organic. These plant foods include a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, dried fruit, fresh juices and purified water.

The reason why you should switch to raw food recipes is because it is basically a vegetarian diet that promotes eating and drinking living foods. By consuming living foods and juices, you benefit from the maximum amount of fiber that can be found in a raw product. This fiber can be lost when the food is either processed or cooked. Raw foods are metabolized easier and are not as high in calories as the products consumed when following an average diet. The basic principle of a raw food diet is heating the foods up to 1160 F or about 460 C.