Blueberry Banana Bliss (BBB) !!!

Quick recipe, you can make it in the morning before you go to work and it only takes like 5 minutes to make (what an easy lunch!!) This sucker packs in 1300 calories around, depending on how many bananas you use!

Ingredients:
10-15 Bananas (depending on the size, usually max 12 will fit in here haha)
2-3 cups ORGANIC blueberries (conventional blueberries are sprayed with many pesticides, please do not use!)


Blend & Drink


Food combination: GOOD (no stomach upsets)


Sending <3 to everyone!

Massaged Kale & Zucchini Entreé

Sorry for not posting a recipe lately, been extremely busy with prepping for final exams and wrapping up my thesis. BUT I came up with this recipe a couple weeks ago, I love it so much. You can leave out the zucchini if you like (that's how I used to eat it) but I just like the extra macronutrients that the zucchini gives you, and it also gives it more weight. 

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Ingredients:

1 Bunch Kale

1/3-1/4 Avocado (ripe!)

1 Lemon, juiced

Black pepper (optional)

Himalayan salt (optional - I do not use, but I know some of you still eat salt)

Rip kale off thick stems, and break into small pieces (or just rip off, stick in a bowl, then take a LARGE pair of scissors and cut kale - this is the easiest way!)

Take avocado and lemon & massage the kale - this will help pre-digest it for our stomachs, and make chewing easier. Kale is a very tough lettuce, and massaging it will break down the fibers to make it much softer.

Now, you can add in whatever you please. Here is what I added:

-1/3 of a red cabbage, shredded

-2 LARGE carrots, shredded (not pictured, but pictured below)

-3 mangoes, finely chopped

-3 celery stalks

-Mini red/yellow/orange peppers (5)

-Vegetable-peeler sliced zucchini (2)

Here is what it looks like with zucchini (this image does not include peppers or mango, I actually made this recipe again a few days later and didn't have mango or peppers, but you get the idea of what zucchini looks like in it)

Gently toss all ingredients together and chow down (don't forget to CHEW!)

Better Food Combining Chart

I talked about food combining in a post about a month ago, however I found a great picture that will help you understand what you should combine and what you should not combine in terms of fruit. Celery and leafy greens go great with fruit, however starchy carbs like potatoes, rice, etc. do not go all that well (the fruit will ferment with the starch and cause stomach upset or some other problem)

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Salad Variety - Mango Avocado Tomato Delight

So I will from time to time show you different things I put in my salads. I don't eat the same thing every day of course, I like to change it up. I find that mango, tomato and avocado are one of THE BEST combinations in the whole world (I'm convinced). The flavour and texture of the three is pretty incredible.

Salad Contents: 
- Romaine (1 head)
- Loose leaf lettuce (the kind you can buy in containers, I like to mix mine up)
- Mango (2-3)
- Tomato (4)
- 1/4-1/3 of an avocado


Mix together and enjoy!


As for Salad DRESSING recipes, I know that everyone has desperate problems with salad dressings, here is a list of the common ones I make:
- Squeezed orange juice & Dill
- Squeezed orange juice & Organic strawberries
- Squeezed orange juice & mango
- Tomato & strawberries
- Red pepper (organic - 1), Zucchini (1/2), Apple (2), little bit of lemon (1 tbsp), sesame seeds (2 tsp), red onion (1 tbsp) blended (add some water to get desired consistency - you may add salt if you consume it!)
- Many more! Use your imagination! ^_^

Pineapple Spinach delight

Here is something I randomly thought up of a few nights ago. I really enjoyed the combination of the food items, and again, there is nothing combined that shouldn't be. 

Ingredients:
Base:
- Spiralized zucchini & beets


Sauce:
Bunch of spinach
1 cup pineapple (or more, depending on what you like)
Carrots
Tomatoes
BLEND THIS IN MIXER


Garnish with parsley & jerusalem artichoke shreds


Enjoi <3

Mango Curry & Noodles

Alright! Here it is! My special mango curry recipe. This recipe involves the spice curry, which technically is not 80-10-10, and you WILL sweat out the curry, but to have this once or twice a year as a treat will not kill you :) Or if you really love the curry sweat smell then go ahead and eat it all the time (hehe)


Recipe:
Base: 
- Zucchini noodles (sliced/spiralized - its up to you!)
- Romaine, one head, chopped


Sauce:
- About 1 cup chopped fresh mango or thawed frozen mango
- 1/2 cup fresh young thai coconut water
- 1/4 cup white coconut meat
- Little bit of lemon grass
- 2 tbsp. lime juice
- 1/2-1tsp curry (depending on how much you like)
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- Whip together in a blender (can add dates for more sweetness if desired)


Pour sauce over noodles and romaine and there you are!

Raw Vegan Low-fat Lasagna - YUMM!

This recipe takes a little longer (or it doesn't have to if you don't want to spend time making it perfect - haha). I find that most of the raw vegan lasagna's out there are PACKED with so many nuts and seeds (too fatty) - although fats are good for you in moderation, you shouldn't eat them in high quantities. In the wild, we wouldn't have access to pre-cracked nuts and seeds, and would have to literally crawl in the trees to obtain the nuts, which would take effort, and then we would have to crack the nuts which would take some time. It would probably take around 10 minutes just to get up the tree, get the nut, get into the nut and eat the edible portion inside. Nowadays we can go to the grocery store, pick up pounds of pre-cracked nuts and eat as we please - not very sensible :\

So here it is, a tried & true yummy tasting raw vegan lasagna that is LOW fat and amazing tasting!

Ingredients:

- As many zucchini as you please (I used 3) - peeled with a vegetable peeler, to make thick wide strips

- Loose organic spinach

- Organic cremini (or white) mushrooms

Tomato sauce:

Tomatoes

Fresh oregano & basil to taste

little bit of squeezed orange & lemon

 ---> Pureé all of this in a blender

"cheese" sauce:

2 tbsp sunflower seeds soaked for 8 hrs

1 tbsp pumpkin seeds soaked for 8 hrs

Left over zucchini from above pieces

lemon

 ---> pureé all of this in a blender

Then, start layering! Start with strips of zucchini, followed by cheese sauce, tomato sauce, spinach and mushroom, and continue layering in this way. And voila!

Doesn't it look pretty?? I haven't had this in about a month, I think its time again! I had fun eating it ^_^

BEST LOW-FAT VEGAN SALSA!!!

Hello lovelies - today I am going to share with you a beautiful salsa that can be used to stuff "lettuce taco's" with, or used as a dip for "zucchini chips" or any other kind of vegetable you can think of that is dip-savvy. 

Ingredients:

- 5-8 Roma Tomatoes, seeds removed & chopped (the inner part of the tomato that is wet should be removed - I just eat it while I'm preparing this)
- 1 Green onion (scallions), chopped
- Red Onion (like 2 tbsp), finely chopped
- 1/2 lime squeezed
- Tad bit of cumin (pinch)
- Cilantro, finely chopped (1/4 cup)
- You can add sea salt, but since I do not eat salt I didn't add it (and it still tasted amazing)
- Mix, let sit over the day, or for 1 hr to incorporate flavours, and SERVE!!


(I put a slice of avocado on top to make it look pretty!)

Yummy Fruit Salad - Proper Food Combining

 I want to talk to you today about FOOD combining! It is so important to properly combine your food. For example, you should not combine acid fruits with sweet fruits, but BOTH acid and sweet fruits can be combined with sub-acid fruits. If these are not properly combined, it can lead to digestive distress (gas, bloating, pain). There are many food combining charts on the internet! Just go on google and type in "Food combining chart"

For example, here is a fruit salad recipe I recently made. Very tasty!


Apples
Oranges
Blueberries


Mix up and eat. I would NOT put a sweet fruit in this such as a banana or dates. That would not be good :)