My dad, who suffers from heart disease, was told to “eat more meat” by his GP as a response to his iron deficiency! And when he went into hospital last year for stent operations there was not a single vegan option on the Coronary Care Unit menu. I complained to the hospital but they ignored me. This is madness! Support and share Plant Based Health Professionals‘ campaign to get meat off hospital menus: Give Bacon The Boot!
Thank you 🙂
I’ve always loved cucumbers but if it’s possible, now I love them even more 😀
I even grew some of my own this year – I got a bumper crop from just 2 plants and they are absolutely scrumptious 😀 ❤ ❤ ❤
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We are not fully raw; we still enjoy cooked potatoes, and lentils; we have rolled oats for breakfast; we eat tofu. But we do include as much raw as we can in our diet and it makes us feel great. Energised. I love juicing fruits and greens and making them into ice pops. I love frozen bananas instead of shop-bought ice cream. I love raw, and semi-raw cakes and treats which contain no sugar or added sweetener, and no gluten, are actually good for me, and yet make me feel indulgent as they are superior in taste and feel-good factor to traditional sugar-laden sweets. I am excited about all the new things I have learned this year about raw foods and how good they make me feel and I am grateful to so many people who have shared their experiences so that I can learn more.
One of these people is Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram, better known as FullyRawKristina
This lady is a positive inspiration, and though many of us may not be in a position to live as she does – such large quantities organic fresh produce are very expensive – we can each do as much as we can within our own means and feel better for it. For example, I have found that when I tried to be fully raw I got too skinny and simply wasn’t eating enough. Now that I compromise by adding cooked potatoes and lentils, for example, to my raw fruit and veggies, I feel great, am back to my normal weight and still getting a very nutritious diet. I love this video because Kristina encourages us to look at her example, and take from it what works for us. It’s all about experimenting until we get it right and being our own best, our own happiest, in our own way.
I used to love these
Many years ago I used to love these – choc-ices and Wall’s Feasts – but I hadn’t given them a thought for ages until my friend passed on a brilliant idea she got from The Raw Chocolate Company. I realise now that this is not a new idea, but it’s a good one so here it is:
Get a couple of ripe bananas,
some cashews, or whatever nuts you fancy,
and some raw chocolate.
Plus you’ll need some lolly sticks or chop sticks or similar.
Soak the nuts overnight or at least for a few hours, then rinse them and spread them out to dry on a clean tea towel for an hour or so. When they’re a bit dryer you can put them through a food processor so that they’re finely chopped.
Melt the chocolate.
Carefully peel the bananas and chop them in half. Then lay them on a sheet of eco-friendly parchment paper and stick lolly sticks into them like so.
By the way, if you don’t have any chocolate or nuts you can just freeze the bananas at this stage and you’ll have a delicious ‘ice-cream’ lolly as it is.
However, if do you want the choc-ice, continue as follows:
Put the melted chocolate and the chopped nuts on separate plates;
then roll a banana in the melted chocolate,
and then in the nuts.
And pretty soon you should have a plate of nutty choc-ices to be. Put them in the freezer for a couple of hours or more.
Et voila! Simply scrumptious nutty banana choc-ices! Perfectly healthy – have as many as you like – and absolutely delicious!
You may be vegan, you may be raw, but you’ll never miss out on choc-ices again!
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When I was a young child
An omnivore diet I ate.
I wasn’t very adventurous,
The same few things appeared on my plate.
I liked to eat egg, chips and beans,
Or sometimes sausage and mash.
Occasionally I’d have fish fingers and peas,
Or maybe corned beef hash.
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I didn’t like many vegetables,
Only peas, baked beans and carrots.
No one could make me eat my greens,
I’d never even heard of shallots.
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My range of fruit went as far as apples,
Bananas, an orange at Christmas.
I preferred to eat biscuits and cakes and bread,
Peanuts and crisps, not citrus.
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When I went veggie I ate lots more eggs
And cheese instead of the flesh foods.
Fat and more fat, cholesterol and fat,
But rarely increased the plant foods.
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Now that I’m vegan, when they say to me,
“My goodness, what do you eat?”
I take a deep breath as I smile to myself
And happily repeat:
“I eat lettuce and spinach and onions and leeks,
Mushrooms and cabbage and beetroot;
Tomatoes and chard and purslane and sprouts,
Alfalfa and clover and bean shoots.”
“I eat mangos and apricots, pineapples and pears,
Almonds, sultanas and cashews;
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries,
Dates, prunes, avocados.”
My diet today is the most varied it’s been
Ever before in my lifetime.
High nutrition I get from my living food,
Not to mention the taste which is sublime!
Raw Vegan Chocolate Mousse Cake
Raw vegan chocolate cake with ganache frosting
Raw vegan pizza from skinnylimits.com
Raw vegan lasagne
Violet's Vegan Comics 