Recipes and information to help you eat healthier

Garden Vegetable Soup

Since I haven’t gotten around to making any raw soups yet, I thought I’d go in search of a video recipe, and I found a good one. Garden Vegetable Soup, by Jennifer Cornbleet. It looks and sounds delicious. I actually have enough of the ingredients to try one myself tomorrow. They are not so different than a green smoothie, except in the seasonings. Jennifer talks about the 6 basic components of a raw soup in the video, I love the way she breaks it down so simply, it gives me a much better foundation to work from when I create my own. I’m really good at creating delicious cooked soups, but raw soups seemed a bit daunting. Not any more Read more »

Listen in on The Women’s International Health Summit, free

Today is International Women’s day, and in celebration of women, and how far we have come, there’s a very special event that starts tonight at 8pm Eastern time. It’s called W.I.S.H. – Women’s International Summit for Health. It happens online, and you’re invited to attend. For free. Even if you’re a guy

This is an amazing opportunity to listen to some of the top speakers and thought leaders in the fields of health, fitness, spirituality, relationships, abundance (Law of Attraction) and more. In all there are 40 speakers, spread over 10 days. So every day you’ll have 24 hours to listen to that days speakers.

The thing I really like about this one is that the range of speakers presents a truly diverse, and holistic approach to health. I’ve signed up already! I hope you take the opportunity to as well. I attend a few of these events.

So who’s on the agenda? Well, you could just go see for yourself, click on anyone’s photo to find out a bit more about them. But there are lots of the top advocates in the field of food/nutrition, health as well as spirituality, fitness, relationships, money, beauty, family and more. Here are some of the speakers just in the area of food and health:

• David “Avocado” Wolfe: one of the world’s leading authorities on nutrition, raw food advocate, author and founder of the non-profit Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (www.ftpf.org) whose goal is to plant 18 billion fruit trees on planet Earth.
• Victoria Boutenko: author, inventor of green smoothies, raw food advocate who healed her family of diabetes, asthma and other serious health problems.
• Donna Gates: nutritional consultant, author and lecturer who has helped thousands of people overcome candidiasis and other immune system disorders, probiotics advocate.
• Rory Freedman: author of the bestseller Skinny Bitch and vegan animal rights activist.
• Jules Dervaes: founder of the modern urban homestead movement, educating and inspiring millions of people to pursue a more sustainable way of life.
• Dr Joseph Mercola: bestselling author, founder of the massively popular mercola.com founder of world-renowned Natural Health Center where tens of thousands have come to be treated with his multi-disciplinary natural approach to health.

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Marinated Portobello Mushrooms

I absolutely love mushrooms cooked, but can’t stand them raw. So when I decided to start eating more raw food, I was missing my mushrooms! Or having to eat them cooked. I’ve tried a few different raw vegan recipes featuring mushrooms, like stuffed mushrooms, and while it was better than eating them plain (yuck), I still didn’t really love them. I figured my best chance for creating a raw mushroom dish that I loved was to use my dehydrator.

If you want to eat a raw vegan diet, but you still love the taste of cooked food, a dehydrator will save you. Keep the temperature setting at 115 degrees F or below, and you won’t destroy any of the important enzymes in raw food, but the warmth is enough to change the texture and taste of the food, similar to cooking at higher temperatures. In the case of mushrooms, these are every bit as delicious as sauteed mushrooms. Read more »

Sunflower Walnut Pate – TuNo

I love this pate, it’s so tasty, nutritious and versatile. It can be used in sandwiches and wraps, as a spread or dip or simply drop a scoop on top of a green salad. It’s also called TuNo because it tastes and looks very similar to tuna salad, but it’s vegan, in fact it’s a super-healthy raw vegan dish. Now if you’re one of those vegetarians or vegans who hates the taste and smell of tuna, you’ll still love this no fishy taste or smell. I suspect what most people really love about tuna salad is more to do with the added ingredients than with the tuna itself. But the tuna provides a vehicle and texture that holds it all together and gives you that high-protein full feeling. Well, the walnuts and sunflower seeds do the same in this case, and the taste really comes from the spices and other added ingredients.

Great dish to serve to your non-vegan friends – see how many of them can guess that it’s not actually tuna. Read more »

Fruity Chia Pudding

This healthy, filling, yummy dessert is quick to make as long as you remember to start the chia seeds soaking in advance. If you start the chia seeds soaking in the morning you can have your pudding for dinner.

The bee pollen and camu camu powder give an extra nutritional boost to this pudding. I’ll often eat this as a meal on it’s own. It’s great to have for breakfast because I find it really lasts me through the day without being too heavy and filling.

Chia is very sustaining and great for endurance. So this is my favorite breakfast if I have a lot of physical work to do in the garden or if I’m going on a bushwalk for the day.

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The Health Benefits of Goji Berries

Goji berries (Lycium barbarum) are the most nutritionally dense fruit on Earth. They are a member of the nightshade family (Solonaceae), which contains many other common vegetables such as potato, sweet potato, tomato, eggplant, and pepper, as well as some poisonous plants like belladonna and deadly nightshade. Native to the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet and Mongolia, the goji berry is now grown in many other countries as well.

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Walking Gratitude Meditation

I know this has nothing to do with food, but it’s something that I feel is so important to health and well being that I just have to share it with you. I’ve just come across this beautiful technique for bringing yourself back to the present moment, connecting with your body and expressing gratitude for the things in your life that you’re grateful for. The great thing is that this isn’t something that you have to make time for, you just work it into what you already do during the day. You can do it while your taking a shower, washing the dishes, walking from your car to the store. Any time you’re moving and doing things that don’t require a lot of conscious thought.

It’s called a Walking Gratitude Meditation, but you don’t have to be walking, just moving in some way.
Read the full article: Regain Inner Peace When You’re Busy: Walking Gratitude Meditation

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