Dehydrator Fun

Burgers and Neat balls

Ken's Raw Creation

Wow!! I decided to make a salad with what I had in the house and it turned out amazing. The best raw dish yet. The only thing I had help with was the dressing. I am starting to see that raw food eating is about being creative and trying out combinations.

This salad was: lettuce, sweet corn, red pepper, cucumber, avocado, sunflower seeds, and homemade dressing.

Raw Stuffed Pepper

Really fresh tasting! The green pepper took some getting used too in that quantity. I would use red peppers next time. The stuffing is sunflower seeds, celery, and spices.

Green Juice

Kale and Banana. The first green juice I made had 1 banana, 1 Mango, and Kale. It was amazingly good. This one wasn't the same but OK.

Raw Lasagna

Pretty good. Made with pine nuts, zucchini, tomatoes. Very fresh tasting and satisfying.

Raw Pizza

WOW!!! This was awesome! What a great dish. Felt like I was eating the future of food. Very satisfying.

Recipe is this:

1 Portobello mushroom

Cheese:
Almonds
Cashews
Dried tomato
Italian spices
Salt
Oregano

Topping:

Avocado

Spinach

Salt

Red onion

Oregano

Raw Hummus

Raw Zucchini Hummus (yields over 3 cups; you can easily cut this recipe in half)

2 zucchini, chopped
½ cup lemon juice
1 tsp salt
1 ½ tsp cumin
1 cup raw tahini (the Artisana brand is nice; substitute regular tahini if you need to)
4 tbsp olive oil
½ cup raw sesame seeds

Raw Crackers

These are still drying. Made them a little too thick. Also, the dehydrator only has one flat tray not made of lattice. Oh well. Need to order more.

Dehydrator

Bought this for raw foods. Price was $64. I hope I use it often.

Pine Nut Salad

This is a test of raw recipes. My official raw start date is Monday 8.20.12. I will be juicing for breakfast and lunch and eating raw for dinner. I am excited to begin but nervous as well. I am not sure what all I will eat but we"ll see.

This recipe was pretty simple.  Basically 2 parts. Part one was Raw Pine Nuts, Fresh Basil, Salt and Pepper. Part two was fresh Tomatoes.

The alternative

Clean up

The major drawback to juicing.

Quote

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein

Book

Reading
Raw Awakening: Your Ultimate Guide to the Raw Food Diet by  Kristen Suzanne.

Juice

3 oranges
Kale
Spinach
Swiss Chard
Radishes
=
Awesome

Weight

At my heaviest I was at 274 lbs. The picture on the right is after being vegetarian for 4 months. Not sure what the weight was for the pic on the left. You can see what a difference juicing made. Now I am 250 lbs..

Raw Food

I started out by looking at a bumper sticker. It was a typical liberal one about eating healthy. I decided at that moment to become a vegetarian. That was over 6 months ago. Now I am starting a raw food diet. I have been juicing for 2 months and I feel pretty good. I have lost about 20 lbs. but want to reach my ideal weight, around 200 lbs.. I am interested to see if eating raw will give me more energy. I did a juice fast for 3 days and the energy I felt was amazing. I am not sure how to go about a raw lifestyle and I only have 2 recipes so far. One is hummus and the other is salad dressing, both raw. My goal is to be "high raw" not 100% raw.