The beginning of any new apartment can be very difficult. It requires planning, preparation, and a path to stay focused on your goal and not lose control of yourself. On top of that, a new diet means you have to learn new habits and break old ones. Sometimes eating requires a complete overhaul of your current eating habits, sometimes it doesn’t. What is most difficult about many diets is not remaining what not to eat, but remaining what to eat. Many people give up on a diet because they simply don’t know what to replace junk food with, or they quickly get bored when they know a few good things. You all know the variety of diets, the flavor of life.
There is no other raw food in the diet. I can tell you how many times I wanted to leave because I just couldn’t figure out what to do and my teeth are sick. I finally got a raw cook diet and reached out to an online forum for some recipe ideas to get me going.
In any diet change, I recommend that you start slowly. Replace your daily snack with fresh fruit for a week, then switch to replacing soda or coffee with fresh juice and smoothies. and so on. Going cold turkey makes it that much more difficult to stick with it, so just move slowly. Here are 4 very simple recipes you can try to get you started.
Fruit Medley Cereal:
2-3 strawberries
1 half of blueberries;
1 half a box of raspberries
1 kiwi, diced
Milk:
1 banana
½. Add banana and coconut-milk (or water) until you get the thickness of milk. Pour the milk over the berries and enjoy. Adjust the amount of liquid to your desired thickness. I like my little fat.
Sweet Summer Afternoon
1 cup fresh orange juice (usually about three oranges)
1 cup fresh cantaloupe or melon juice
1 cup of fresh spinach
Ice (optional)
Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Add ice if you want a consistency similar to Jamba juice.
Green Salad Lunch:
1 cup spinach, torn
cup of diced tomatoes
sliced cucumbers
Cultivate:
1 cup fresh cilantro
a glass of fresh lime juice
1 small clove of garlic
Press the salt
1 cup of oil
Prepare the salad and lightly toss it in a bowl. Blend the cilantro and garlic in a food processor, then blend in the oil and lime juice. It helps to store it in a separate container and put it on the salad before you eat it.
Preferably Fettuccine Alfredo
Noodles:
3 Zucchini, peeled
Use a vegetable peeler to cut the length of the zucchini into long, flat fettuccine-type noodles, until you reach the middle with the seeds. Leave the center or use in another recipe.
Alfredo Sauce:
1 cup macadamia nuts (soak overnight)
1/4 c walnuts (soaked overnight)
1/4 cup cold pressed oil
2 tsp salt
2 cloves of garlic
2 tsp fresh ground pepper
Watery sauce consistency
Mix all the ingredients in a food processor or high power blender. Pour the sauce over the noodles.
* You may also want to add 1-2 mushrooms, sliced and sautéed in garlic, basil and light olive oil. Put them on top of your fettuccini or stir them into a sauce.
Even replacing 3 dinners at night with raw meals is a great start. Once you get used to the preparation and start to see weight loss, you can move to replacing the breakfast. However you decide to start, there is plenty of help online or at your local bookstore to help you stick with it!
