My Favorite Green Juice

I’ve read lots of recipes for green juice with different ingredients to get different benefits. The one that I’ve settled on for both health benefit and taste is listed below with pictures!

Cucumber

Carrot

Spinach

Parsley

Cilantro

Celery

Kale

Apple

I’m not listing amounts because this drink is really to taste. If you don’t like your juice very green use more carrot and apple. If you don’t need the juice sweet then use less carrot and apple. The amount of each I use depends on what I have in the refrigerator. My husband and I can drink this combination both very green with very little apple and carrot or sweetened with lots of juicy apples and sweet carrots.

I change the ingredients of my green juice depending on what I find in the grocery store that looks good. What I like most about juicing is that there is no limit to what you can juice. Most vegetable/fruit combinations can be used. Check out Youtube for some great ideas on what to juice and be healthy!

Raw Foods – What I’m eating

I’ve got a great salad and salad dressing recipe from my favorite raw food youtuber Dan the Life Regenerator.

This salad can be quickly prepared in a food processor.   This salad can be split between 2 people or for 1 person for a main meal for dinner.

SALAD

Romaine lettuce about 6 leaves

2 Radishes

1 Zucchini

1 cup Cauliflower

1 Red pepper

2 Carrotts

SALAD DRESSING – This is a great no fat salad dressing

4 Small tomatoes or 1 large

1 Orange skin peeled and cut into 4 pieces

2 Cloves garlic

Handful of Parsley.

Handful fresh Basil

Salt to taste

Blend all ingredients in a blender and pour over your salad!

Enjoy

Umm Ebraheem

What Do You Bring Home?

This is what I bring home from the grocery store and the farmer’s market!!!

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Raw Foods – What I’m eating

I found several different recipes on youtube for lettuce wraps and decided to make 2 different fillings.

 

For one I used cilantro, red onion, avocado, tomato, and corn.

 

For the other one I used zucchini, cucumber, carrot, avocado in julienned  strips, and alfa sprouts.

I was thrilled to use my new food processor to cut up my vegetables.

 

My husband and I enjoyed both of the wraps.  I added salt and pepper to the first one and used a raw “ranch” dressing on the second one. 

Before I started on a raw and living food diet I never ate avocados and now I’m really enjoying avocados both in sweet and savory dishes.

New Kitchen Appliance

My husband bought me a Cuisinart 7-cup professional food processor today.  I don’t know how I got along without this thing.  It does way more than I expected and I’m looking forward to being in the kitchen and working with my new appliance.  I don’t think the fun is going to wear out on this thing for a good long while!

Raw Foods – What I’m Eating

I get asked a lot about what recipes I’m using and what kinds of foods I’m eating.  Youtube is a great resource for raw food recipes and from there you can learn about the different kinds of raw food cook books.  What I’m finding is the simpler the better.  I don’t have a dehydrator and right now I’m not planning on getting one.  I like a few youtubers because they don’t use the dehydrator and make great recipes.  I’m still learning myself and feel I have a long way to go.  My husband and I are eating mostly salads and soups.  I have 2 soup recipes that I make on a regular basis and I just change up the vegetables that I put in my salads.  Another resource I found was my Everyday Food magazines.  In the summer and light editions there were several raw food recipes that I did not even realize were raw foods.  They are great vegetable side dishes that I turned into main courses.  Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting some of the recipes and sharing some of the cookbooks I’ve found helpful.

First up – Garden  Vegetable Soup