Broccoli Salad

Ingredients:
6 cups organic broccoli
2 cups scallions/spring onions
2 cups celery
1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds soaked and dehydrated
1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds soaked and dehydrated
1 cup organic blanched almonds chopped up into slithers

Dressing
1 cup raw vegan mayonnaise
2 1/2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt
2 1/2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
2 1/2 Tbsp agave nectar

Preparation:
Chop up the broccoli, celery, and spring onions into small bite size pieces.

Pulse the almonds in the food processor or cut into slithers.

Throw the dressing ingredients into your blender and blend until smooth and creamy.

Toss through half of the dressing and then add gradually until dressed for your success! YUM!

Super Slaw

Ingredients:
1/2 organic red cabbage
1/2 organic white cabbage
2 bunches continental flat leaf parsley
1 bunch organic kale
2 – 4 organic carrots
8 – 12 green spring onions

Dressing
1 cup cold pressed extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup raw cashews soaked for about 4 hours
1/8 cup of fresh lemon juice or more to taste
4 cloves garlic
a pinch of Celtic sea salt

Preparation:
Chop up the vegetables individually in your food processor and toss in a salad bowl.

Blend the dressing in your high speed blender and toss through the vegetables.

Add in more lemon juice, olive oil and sea salt to taste to reach your perfect blend.

Serve on its own, or serve with boiled organic eggs or other clean protein.

This salad will keep for a few days in the fridge. Serves 4-6

Raw chips

Raw chips and salsa, another idea from Dawn. I have been hungry for chips and salsa and this would be perfect.

Raw food snack ideas

). Take shredded carrots and raisins and roll them up in lettuce leaves.

2). Take apple slices or chunks and sprinkle some cinnamon on them. Add raisins to the mixture for a different variety.

3.) Take cherry tomatoes (or tomatoes cut up), wrap them up in lettuce leaves for a quick snack.

4.) Take strawberries, cut them in half, take spinach leaves and wrap the strawberry in it.

5). Take an orange. Slice it up. Take spinach and wrap the orange it in. You can also slice up a banana and wrap a spinach leaf around the slices.

6). Take a few bananas and mash them really well, spread on celery sticks. Feel free to add a dash of cinnomon to the banana mash if desired.

7). Slice some peaches up. Then, cut open a coconut. In a blender, add the coconut water and the coconut 'meat' (which can be taken out with a spoon or melon baller). Blend the coconut meat and water up. Drizzle on top of your peaches for your very own 'peaches and cream' treat. :-)

8). Take bananas and wrap them in collard greens.

9). Raw Stuffed Red Peppers:— 1 head of Cauliflower, broken up into florets— 5 cloves of Garlic, freshly peeled— 1 bunch of fresh Chives, lightly chopped— Corn on the cob, 2 cups worth, cut straight off the cob— Extra Veggies you have on hand that need to be eaten— 4 Red Peppers, tops cut off & centers hollowed out— OPTIONAL: Sea Salt, Avocado— 1) Lightly blend cauliflower florets and garlic cloves together in a food processor until the consistency and appearance is something along the lines of couscous or quinoa.— 2) Add the freshly chopped chives, and lightly mix in food processor just until chives are evenly distributed.— 3) Transfer to a bowl, and with a mixing spoon mix in the 2 cups of corn, as well as any other extra veggies you have on hand which need to be eaten, and any of the optional ingredients that you might want to add.— 4) Scoop resulting mixture into the 4 hollowed out red peppers.— 5) Serve and enjoy!

10). Raw Vegan Donut Holes:
1 lb. of pitted dates, 2 cups of dry shredded coconut, tad bit of sea salt to taste.
In a food processor blend till everything is mixed together.
It will create a sticky dough. Roll into balls (donut holes), then roll in some dry shredded coconut and enjoy!

I found these ideas over at A plains gal's quest for truth:

http://biblegirl1999.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-09-03T17%3A08%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=7

She has lost over 100 lbs on a raw food diet and her husband more than 50lbs. Isnt that great? We have been on something a bit similar, my daughter Mollie has lost 10 lbs so far. I wanted to print all the things I find that might help us with our own quest to loose weight.

Free Book

Go to this site to request a free advance copy of the Full Plate Diet book. I received my copy yesterday and its great. Its all about adding fiber to your diet and not just bran either:http://www.fullplatedietbeta.org/index.php

The web site has a fun area where you can see how much fiber you are getting. You drag the food to your plate and the fiber bar goes up. Its fun to see how making different choices can really change the amount of fiber you are getting. I had fun making different plates of food to see which would be better for me. I am going to try this concept.n It makes sense.

Diet

Once again I am starting a diet. I was going to go raw, but I do like cooked food too. I want to lose weight but I don't want to suffer. I think that's not possible.
Tomorrow my new treadmill will be delivered. Yippee. It will take a while to work up to a good work out because I am so out of shape. The girls need more exercise too.
I think we will try to eat as much raw as possible, and once in a while some meat. It will be a process to give up meat.
When you live and were raised in cattle country its hard to imagine no meat. Everyone looks at the vegetarians like they are nuts. We will see how this works. The one thing I know for sure it will include lots of veggies and fruits.
We made veggie burgers for lunch and they were yummy. Recipe will be posted on tuesday for kitchen tip tuesday.