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Chicken and dumplings with brocolli and jello for dessert. Tomorrow my son comes over..maybe we should have some grilled fish (I will have shrimp) 
Raw veggie soup for me tonight. It sounds blah, but it's actually very good. Prolly not as good as Fudgey's orange chicken (a favorite of mine) though.
Sea, what is raw veggie soup?
Does that just mean you make it fresh, and it's not from a can?
Hi ValleyGirl,
A raw veggie soup is just taking a certain yummy combo of veggies and throwing them into a VitaMix to grind them into slushy consistency. It's a way to get all your req'd srvgs of veggies in for the day - the lazy way, LOL. For example, here are my two favorite recipes:
AvoRadoColada Shake
1/3 English cucumber
juice from 1/2 lg ruby red grapefruit
The meat and water of one young Thai coconut
1 avocado
1 c. fresh organic spinach
1 scoop SuperGreens powder
1 tsp raw green stevia powder
1/2 tsp vanilla flavoring
1/2 tsp coconut flavoring
8-10 ince cubes
Grassoup
2 English cucumbers, juiced (in juicer w/all pulp strained out)
1 young Thai coconut (incl the coconut water)
3/4 - 1 c. Fresh Silky Almond Milk
2 tsp. fresh dill, cut in short lengths (and pressed on the counter w/the flat edge of a knife to crush and expose the flavor)
You pretty much have to have the VitaMix or the GreenStar to do it, though, b/c of the power it takes to moosh it all up. Ah, they are heavenly - better than going to a juice bar. I could drink the Grassoup all day long.
A raw veggie soup is just taking a certain yummy combo of veggies and throwing them into a VitaMix to grind them into slushy consistency. It's a way to get all your req'd srvgs of veggies in for the day - the lazy way, LOL. For example, here are my two favorite recipes:
AvoRadoColada Shake
1/3 English cucumber
juice from 1/2 lg ruby red grapefruit
The meat and water of one young Thai coconut
1 avocado
1 c. fresh organic spinach
1 scoop SuperGreens powder
1 tsp raw green stevia powder
1/2 tsp vanilla flavoring
1/2 tsp coconut flavoring
8-10 ince cubes
Grassoup
2 English cucumbers, juiced (in juicer w/all pulp strained out)
1 young Thai coconut (incl the coconut water)
3/4 - 1 c. Fresh Silky Almond Milk
2 tsp. fresh dill, cut in short lengths (and pressed on the counter w/the flat edge of a knife to crush and expose the flavor)
You pretty much have to have the VitaMix or the GreenStar to do it, though, b/c of the power it takes to moosh it all up. Ah, they are heavenly - better than going to a juice bar. I could drink the Grassoup all day long.
I would have rather had Applebee's version but......this one comes kind of close to it
Well...ummm.....don't think I could do that. Great that you can, very healthy.
I am making this for Easter! I have the peeps already..need the choclate. It looks like fun!
We had a nice big salad with blackened grouper on it and fresh grated parmesan cheese.It was really yummy.
Not all raw, Nevada, but about 70 percent for now. I don't want a lot of detox symptoms showing up since I have ultra-sensitive skin, so I'm taking it very slowly. To go raw, a year to make the transition is not unreasonable nor uncommon. When I quit smoking, I battled acne for several months. They weren't just a casual zit, they were actually small cysts that never came to a head. Dry skin brushing and facial steaming helped a lot but dint clear it up 100 percent. Had to buy and wear makeup on my face.
Breakfast for me is fruits on a bed of shredded lettuce; lunch is my salad/raw soup; dinner is my cooked veggies meal (grain foods added). I do eat fish or chicken every other day, but can't eat any starches with my flesh foods b/c of the improper food combining. All snacks are raw veggies sticks. This is something I just started with, so we'll see how long I can go w/o my wine and margaritas, LOL. I decided not to do any more fasting for a while until my body naturally sloughs off the built-up baddies in my system.
When I used to frequently visit LV, there was a Downtown casino that served the best chicken gumbo I've ever tasted. I mostly hung out on the Strip, but I always took the bus Downtown to eat the gumbo. I think the secret to the jambalaya is adding file powder. McCormick brand used to supply a creole seasoning that was pretty good too.
Breakfast for me is fruits on a bed of shredded lettuce; lunch is my salad/raw soup; dinner is my cooked veggies meal (grain foods added). I do eat fish or chicken every other day, but can't eat any starches with my flesh foods b/c of the improper food combining. All snacks are raw veggies sticks. This is something I just started with, so we'll see how long I can go w/o my wine and margaritas, LOL. I decided not to do any more fasting for a while until my body naturally sloughs off the built-up baddies in my system.
When I used to frequently visit LV, there was a Downtown casino that served the best chicken gumbo I've ever tasted. I mostly hung out on the Strip, but I always took the bus Downtown to eat the gumbo. I think the secret to the jambalaya is adding file powder. McCormick brand used to supply a creole seasoning that was pretty good too.
Okay, Sea...another question...
what do you mean by improper food combining?
Sorry for bugging, but inquiring minds and all...
what do you mean by improper food combining?
Sorry for bugging, but inquiring minds and all...
Advanced nutritional health centers around continually cleansing the body out. For example, fruit is a quick exit food - 20 min. before exit. Meat is a slow exit food - several hours. If you eat fruit for dessert after a meat meal, the fruit cannot exit. It sits in your stomach and ferments for hours. Not the end of the world, but that's why some ppl experience indigestion and other gastro-related probs.
The thing most ppl don't like about proper food combining is that you're not supposed to eat starches with meat. So there goes the hamburger, calzone, burrito, spaghetti and pizza (frown).
IOW, When you eat meat, your stomach sends the message for the digesting enzyme pepsin (initiates protein digestion). Then when you eat a starch with it, the stomach sends out an alkaline medium to digest it. The acid and alkaline substances neutralize each other, so digestion is hindered and causes fermentation. And that's what makes ppl gassy and bloated.
Source: The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose (amazon.com)
The thing most ppl don't like about proper food combining is that you're not supposed to eat starches with meat. So there goes the hamburger, calzone, burrito, spaghetti and pizza (frown).
IOW, When you eat meat, your stomach sends the message for the digesting enzyme pepsin (initiates protein digestion). Then when you eat a starch with it, the stomach sends out an alkaline medium to digest it. The acid and alkaline substances neutralize each other, so digestion is hindered and causes fermentation. And that's what makes ppl gassy and bloated.
Source: The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose (amazon.com)
OMG! That explains A LOT! I am constantly sooooo bloated (and burping) and I hail from the old "A meal has to have a meat, starch, veggie, salad, and dessert" line of thought.
I had recently discovered the "eat fruit first, on an empty stomach" gem (makes perfect sense) but never knew about the "meat & starch" battle that I put myself through at least twice a day
Just recently made the decision to go "brown" with regard to breads, pasta, grains, etc.
I had recently discovered the "eat fruit first, on an empty stomach" gem (makes perfect sense) but never knew about the "meat & starch" battle that I put myself through at least twice a day
Just recently made the decision to go "brown" with regard to breads, pasta, grains, etc.
You don't have to go without. You can make small adjustments along the way. If you want to break rules of combining, do it for your evening meal, then your tummy will be flat and your breath fresh around co-workers. Also, you won't have the feeling of being deprived. In this case, you'll still be having it, but just at a later time of the day.
At night when you have an improperly combined meal, your system has the benefit of being at rest while it expends the enormous amount of energy for trying to cope with the combination of various digestive enzymes to cleanse and repair.
At night when you have an improperly combined meal, your system has the benefit of being at rest while it expends the enormous amount of energy for trying to cope with the combination of various digestive enzymes to cleanse and repair.
Unfortunately for me, I have really bad acid-reflux and indigestion at night. Maybe it's all those "improper combinations" LOL!!!
I'm gonna try this. Thanks, Sea! I always enjoy reading your "healthy posts"...and I usually learn something along the way And you're so much nicer than those 2 mean girls that wrote "Skinny B--ch" 
I tried reading that book (great concept, but those girls were mean to me!)
I'm gonna try this. Thanks, Sea! I always enjoy reading your "healthy posts"...and I usually learn something along the way
And you're so much nicer than those 2 mean girls that wrote "Skinny B--ch" I tried reading that book (great concept, but those girls were mean to me!)
You're welcome, and thank you for the compliment. Just make an attitude adjustment that you're not going to go without or punish yourself - you're just going to try something new and different for 3 or 4 days. That's how I made it with trading cigarettes for vaping.
Sea, This forum has stopped growing and could use a boost. Maybe a few posts by you would help.
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Oh wow, they're even doing wild fermentation over there. I love kombucha. Sure, I'll take a look, but I gotta go pretty quick. Have to finish up some amazon.com stuff - reviews and stuff. I'll definitely join up tomorrow. Thanks for the link, Mary Kay.
Seabrook, my sister-in-law makes kombucha. I remember the first time I saw it, I was rummaging around on a shelf in her closet looking for an umbrella and came upon some large glass jars (something like bug pickle jars) with cloth covering them. I lifted up the cloth and thought "what the $##!@^%????". It looked like pickled brains......... as if she were some mad scientist or something!
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