The big issue to confront when attempting a raw food diet is to sort out what to eat. The easy option food-preparation-wise is the Dr Doug Graham 80/10/10 approach: eat lots of fresh fruit, some greens and a small amount of fat; the more natural and unprocessed your food, the better, no messy, time consuming preparation, just peel if necessary and eat. For all it’s benefits, not even many raw purists can consistently sustain an 80/10/10 diet never mind Wannabe Rawbes like you and me who have been brought up on a tasty variety of cooked food (and I’m not just talking about battered fish and chips). For most of us, to jump straight into this extreme approach can quickly lead back to eating lots of nutrient deficient, but seemingly more satisfying food of the cooked and fried variety (what are you satisfying – stomach, mouth or head?).
Raw Vegan Feast
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23rd June 6pm – Cherrybrook
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A Raw Treat!
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Wish there was somewhere to go out for a raw meal? Well, if you fancy a raw brunch on the weekend, head over to Taste Organics at Crows Nest where Maya, assisted by her friends Christie and Mishae, has opened Sydney’s first raw vegan weekend café on the terrace of the store.
What a treat to sit down to genuine raw food that you haven’t had to prepare yourself!
A case of mistaken identity
Although it can be ground into flower and used like a cereal, this pseudocereal is not part of the wheat family and is actually not a grain at all. The name 'buckwheat' or 'beech wheat' comes from its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut and the fact that it can be used like wheat.
Coconut Oil, the Good Fat?
Most people
enjoy eating coconut in one form or another. It adds another dimension to
sweets and can also be used in savory dishes to add richness and depth to the
flavour.
Consume quantities at your own peril; eat unsaturated vegetable oils instead. This is the kind of warning that tends to come from most conventional health circles. But there are many, including doctors, who say coconut oil is good for you and an abundance of articles can be found praising its health benefits.
How can two such polarized positions exist? And, how can we judge who is right?
Kids in a Candy (Fruit) Store
Raw Retreat July, 2009 - Point Wolstoncroft
by Joy Mozzi
As a child visiting grandparents in England, we used to visit the lolly shop on the corner…….a paradise of glass jars filled with rainbows, all shapes and sizes. Sticky, sugary, syrupy, gummy, rock hard inorganic substances, artificial colours, toffee that glued itself to teeth, peppermints that eroded the enamel, sugars that left you thirsty, fake sickly sweet smells, tummies that ended up nauseous. Hmmm, I think my tastes have changed somewhat.
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Kitchen elves -some of the fresh produce - Nicole, Sienna & Sarah |
Standing next to the boxes and boxes of fresh organic fruits and vegetables at our retreat created waves of pleasure and anticipation. Dragon fruit! Oh my, what a treat! Tons of them just for us and lemonades, juicy sweet lemons cross between a lemon and a mandarin. Pineapples, tropical delights, plump juicy tomatoes and sweet oranges, shiny green zucchini, a box of kiwi fruit, avocadoes, salad greens, baby capsicums, bananas, medjool dates, fresh macadamia nuts still in their outer shell. Sigh, such bliss - Raw Food Heaven.
Reflections in an Enchanted Garden
- Permaculture Raw Feast July 14th, 2009
Once upon a time, there was an ordinary patch of ground surrounding an ordinary townhouse and then Lucinda moved in.
Mirror mirror on the hedge who is the fairest veg of all? Hanging pots, trailing vines, mandalas, flags, trickling water features, ponds of shiny new water ready for frogs and lizards – all flowing together in an enchanted garden.
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Hanging pots, trellis, vines |
Mirror mirror on the wall… |
Mirrors reflect the sun, radiating warmth into shady corners where plants bask in the glow. While not necessarily a permaculture principle the plants seem to thrive on the reflected warmth. A dozen or more mirrors placed in specific positions around the garden create a fairytale effect like Alice in Wonderland through the looking glass. Our own reflections looked back at us from a hedge, ‘windows’ into another dimension.
