The Raw Food Solution

My husband and I are fortunate to have been blessed with a visit from Genki Sudo this week. For those of you who don’t know Genki he is a famous martial artist in Japan who has now retired and is concentrating on starting his career in the music business. He took time out from his [...]

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As a child I loved strawberry ice-creams and fast-food joint thick-shakes. Little did I know then what the ingredients were and what they were doing to my body! With the aim to recreate the same taste in a healthier form I came up with this very simple but even more [...]

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This drink is delicious, refreshing and super-healthy. You can’t help but feel so much better for drinking it, even if you’re not used to drinking a lot of greens.

This recipe makes about 1 litre, and is the perfect drink to wake you up first thing in the morning or to [...]

Raw Cashew Cheese

As discussed in an earlier article, soaking and re-hydrating nuts makes them easier on your digestive process. When you are making a raw food product like cashew cheese, pre-soaking the nuts also makes them softer, allowing for easier blending in the food processor or Cuisinart. There is a bit of planning involved with [...]

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As promised in my previous post about raw food in South Africa, I asked my friend Beryn Daniel, author of Rawlicious: Delicious Raw Recipes for Radiant Health, if she would be willing to share the recipe for the delicious soup I enjoyed at her home in Cape Town.

So here [...]

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Complex combinations of food and raw food recipes are time consuming to prepare and extremely difficult to digest, so I choose to keep my diet very simple. I enjoy a low-fat, raw vegan diet consisting mostly of monomeals, so the following meal plan may seem a bit bland for you. [...]

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This is truly a tip-top cocktail that will make you feel suitably refreshed from the inside out and raring to go.

I highly recommend this one, especially if you’ve steered clear of juicing beets in the past (because they’re rather pungent to say the least!). The addition of the sweet fruit [...]

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This smoothie recipe is a twist on my favourite classic green smoothie of mango and spinach. This one, which makes about 3 pints, has a much “deeper” flavour with many layers and really is something quite special. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 bag spinach
1 cup pure water
1 ripe mango (medium sized)
1/4 ripe pineapple [...]

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Today I want to tell you about a really delicious breakfast cereal that I make for myself several times a week. It’s amazing and it’s all raw. The reason I want to share this with you is because a lot of cereals out there; packaged and processed cereals, even though they [...]

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Here’s a simple and yummy sweet treat you can make REALLY quickly and that will stand you in good stead for those times where you just want something sweet to much on that’s not fruit or raw chocolate…

Ingredients:

* 1 cup tahini
* 1 cup raisins
* ½ teaspoon of vanilla essence OR [...]