I have had this title in mind FOREVER: “5 Meals With 5 Ingredients”. But…it’s not working out. I don’t have enough recipes to write about, but I DID develop a method to my meal madness lately that I am happy to share. Since Chris and I moved, he has been leaving earlier and coming home later. Since my commute to work is almost exactly the same distance it was before I moved, I have been cooking most days. I am a planner, so before we moved I was mentally preparing myself to go from cooking NEVER to cooking most of the time. And honestly, it hasn’t been as hard as I thought.…
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Raw Fettuccine Alfredo Recipe
I’ve had a few requests for this on Facebook, so I thought I’d post it here for a permanent link. For the record, I am not a proponent of low carb diets. That is a discussion for another post. (But look at all the LONG TERM thought leaders for the low carb diets: what do they look like? Look at the LONG TERM high carb vegans: what do they look like? I’m just sayin’.) Having said that, this meal is low carb. I eat it after I’ve gotten enough calories for the day, because it’s a pretty low calories meal. Ingredients Sauce: 1/4 cup pine nuts 2 chopped cloves of…
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What I Have Been Eating on a Raw Food Diet and How I Feel. Day 20ish
What I Have Been Eating on a Raw Food Diet Day 10 Breakfast/lunch: 96oz orange juice. 1300 calories Lunch/Pre-dinner: 12oz dates. 960 calories Dinner: Restaurant salad- spring mix, artichoke, apple, avocado, pecans, and ? I also ate a couple bites of Chris’s cooked appetizer and included this as one of my two cooked meals for this week Total calories: 2,535 Ratio: (carbs:fat:protein): 88:6:6 Sleep: 6 hours Exercise: 100 squats Day 11 Breakfast: 60 oz juice. 837 calories Lunch: salad bar at whole foods- raisins, mango cucumber salad, cabbage salad, cantalouple, coconut water, a few walnut pieces. ~500 calories Snack: 12oz dates. 1020 Dinner: Chipotle salad- lettuce, corn, tomato, guacamole. Added…
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Raw Chocolate Cheesecake! Recipe and Benefits of Dates and Cacao
By: Melanie Masterson Many raw desserts use dates and cacao. Two foods that many people don’t know much about. But, both are considered superfoods and packed full of nutrition. Plus, they are versatile and can be made into scrumptious raw desserts. This blog has a recipe for raw chocolate “cheese” cake which is one of the best uses for dates and cacao. Dates! Dates are packed with nutrition and are great for binding and sweetening desserts. The recipe in this blog uses dates to bind the raw crust and adds the sweetness to the crust. One little known fact about dates is they are a great source of iron. Many…
