Helping dh with feeling full or lack of it

[rainbowgirl]

I have never posted. My problem is I have too many questions, and have a problem starting. As I go to sleep, I word them all in my brain, but haven't got up enough gumption to post them.

Anyway, I am on the third day ALL RAW!!!! Before that was transition. I saw the good it could do, but couldn't stop eating sad. Then I started to feel better whenever I ate raw, and loved the feeling in my mouth, belly, body, of LIVING FOOD!

Anyway, I'm hooked, and dh is very very interested. He has liked everything he ate. I kinda made it all up, but that's the fun of raw.

My kids ate all the very fancy tasting banana pineapple strawberry ice cream that was such a treat today.

One of my questions is: My husband has a higher metabolism than me. We shared a beautiful lettuce wrap platter the other day, with radishes, orange pepper, tomatoes, garbanzo sprouts, cilantro, wakame or arame (i forget), and cauliflower rice. I made a nice dip, and we also had some tahina. THe cooked food I had made for him laid uneaten to the side.

But later that night, he felt a need for some brown rice, some grilled veggies, with a little tahina on top. I felt a need for an orange. Different strokes for different folks.

He is not fat, about 5 foot 8 and 150, with thick bone structure.

He would like to be raw, or mostly raw. He says he prefers it to cooked foods.

He works a very long day and a very long commute and we have lots of kids. Having energy is a big deal. He really only eats a good home meal once a day. He prefers to have a light breakfast.

I can see a bento box in the future, but for now, he eats a veggie meal (cooked) at work, breakfast is green tea, nuts and raisins or dates and maybe some gluten free pancakes(whole family are celiacs) with organic date syrup.

How can I help him to be full, what ideas for serving husbands? OR is this a transition thing. If someone is not going to be one hundre percent raw (he may not), how can I help him in this aspect

The dessert thing was easier. I made some cakes with just bananas, apples, flaxseed, and raisins, layered with thin slices of apples (spiced it up) and it was beautiful and so good. I'm finding the dinner thing harder.........

FYI: I don't have a blender or food dehydrator yet, hopefully soon. And my food processor doesn't slice or shred (i lost the thingy after i turned raw!!!) So, give me any ideas, that I can do now and in the future, hopefully.

Thankfully,

Rainbowgirl

[DavidZaneMason]

-All you can do is be a good example. He'll fall into line. Provide tons of great raw food and healthy alternatives in your home. Make suggestions for his lunch. Things like cut fruit and veggies, salads, nut mixes, etc. Dried fruit/nut mixes always make a good transitional food. Although apples, grapes, bananas and the like make great snacks, there are some great transitional cooked food snacks like hot-air popped popcorn, frozen fruit bars, home-made granola, etc. What do you think?

-David Z. Mason

[rainbowgirl]

He wants to be as full as he is b4 raw, but he eats very little.

A small salad plate is all he eats, otherwise he feels full.

Grazing throughout the day doesn't work too great with his work, so he arrives starved, but his stomach can't do more than a small portion.

I guess I need to fix him bento like snacks, push the fruit and dips, and maybe make a few nice desserts in addition to the dinners.

Maybe there are some more filling dinners that may be enjoyed in transition time. My dh is from south america and likes traditional soups with a protein source and vegetables in broth, rice, and a salad, and small beans on the side. His family regularly eats a fruit salad instead of dinner(like one day a week). His brother does so every night. He can't eat a big breakfast.

So the large meal of the day is being replaced by my lighter raw fare......hmmmmmm.......maybe I should get a dehydrator next (i was thinking the blender first)?

Any very filling husband pleasing recipes??????

[RawFoodieMom]

Make sure there are lots of raw snacks around. Do you have a dehydrator or can you get one?

- Then you could make up oatmeal cookies (very filling), raw granolas, fruit leathers, etc, that will quickly satisify his hunger and he can go to the kitchen and grab whenever he needs to.

- Then you could also make onion bread which I've found to be a great thing coming off of SAD, my hubby said yesterday he needed something more solid for lunch today so I made another batch last night, we hadn't had it in a couple of weeks. So he took some this morning, it's very filling! You can store it in the freezer, and when the need comes for something dense, you can just pop it in the dehydrator until it's thawed, etc...

- Put a fruit bowl out where it will be well seen with already washed apples, grapes, and whatever other fruits you like so they can be grabbed whenever with no prep needed.

- I agree with David, make up some nut/dried fruit mixes for quick snacks

- RAW BROWNIES... also filling, and a great thing for those sweet attacks, or in my case, chocoholic attacks.

:)

If I think of more I'll post again... ;)

Debra

[RawFoodieMom]

Oh, and don't forget... You can also have those desserts you like for DINNER if you want!!!! :D

Debra

[Morn]

I think it is important to have a blender, and at least at food processor on this diet. This would help you out a great deal. Also I would order Alissa's book if you don't have it or get a raw cookbook to get ideas from that. However, that being said I would make him up a trailmix of raw nuts, seeds, dried fruit, etc. This will help him to have something to graze on throughout the day and not be so hungry at night. I also like the refried bean recipe. It is very filling. I would also try to make a waldorf salad recipe. Any thing with nuts in it will help fill him up more. I also like making raw grawnola with oatgroats (but you need a dehydrator for that one).

Refried beans- Very filling!
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Two cups of raw sunflower seeds, soaked overnight, which then = about four cups.
1/2 cup flax seed oil
3 Tbls. of raw nut butter ( I used almond, try tahini)
1 tsp. sea salt
3 tsp. cumin (key ingredient, don't even try it without!)
2 tsp. chili powder
1 Tbls. raw apple cider vinegar (with the mother)

Throw it all in the food processer, adding a bit of water as you go along until it is all smooth.
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Waldorf Salad

Salad dressing blend all together:

1/2 cup of raw tahini
3 dates soaked
1 cup of water
2 tablespoons of raw honey
2 tablespoons of dried onion
2 tablespoons of braggs liquid aminos
2 tablespoons of dried dill
1/4 cup of lemon juice
1/4 cup of orange juice

Slice up the following:

2-3 apples
1 1/2 cups of grapes
3 stalks of celery
1 cup of raw sunflower seeds
1 1/2 cups of walnuts
(optional 1/2 cup of Jicama) I don't use

[rainbowgirl]

These are great ideas. I am going to sit and peruse them over and over.

Two quick questions, I'm sure I"ll have more....

Rawroodiemom:Dh and the kids are all celiac, and can't have any gluten products. The breads, what grains are they made usually made of?

Morn:Now sunflower seeds in the refried beans, is this like the thing in the shell you give the birds or munch on? Or is it supposed to be shelled, hulled, or however you say it?

I know I said two qs, but here's a third, Morn, are there any subs for the flax oil?

oh, and one last one, what can you sub for braggs liquid aminos.....I never have bought any, what does it do to a recipe(salty, yeasty???)

BTW< DH had a real nice zucchini roll thing tonight. I cut the zucchini long wise very thin, little salt and lemon and then took garbanzo sprouts, tahina, cumin, salt, hot pepper, and lemon and blended it with a little water until it was ricotta cheese texture. I dehydrated some arame somewhere in there. THen I food processed a tomatoe and cuke and spiced it. I had some cauliflower rice with onion too.

I took the zucchini slice, put the "cheese" on it in the middle portion, then a little salsa, a tiny bit of "rice", with arame on top and wrapped it around it. Very pretty. He had three for a snack and said they were AWESOME!

Thanks,

Rainbowgirl

[shine72]

Rainbowgirl - My dh and I were just talking along those lines. He said I should probably start tripling the amount of avocados I buy to help keep him satisfied (after we move, he'll only be eatind SAD outside of the house). Nuts and seeds can be filling too! I found the blueberry cheesecake VERY filling and so did dh. Make sure there are plenty of fresh fruits and veggies (prepare them ahead of time) available for him to snack on.

HTH!

Sunshine :D

[RawFoodieMom]

Rawroodiemom:Dh and the kids are all celiac, and can't have any gluten products. The breads, what grains are they made usually made of?


The onion bread is just onions, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, olive oil and nama shoyu (which is what a lot of raw foodists use now instead of Braggs, it's basically a raw soy sauce). You can find the onion bread recipe here:

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1005&highlight=onion+bread+fabulous

Mediterranean Almond Bread is almond pulp, flax meal, and some fruit and veggie ingredients plus spices... here's the link the recipe on Chef Russell's blog:

http://therawchef.blogs.com/russell_james/2006/03/the_best_thing_.html

I don't think any of those ingredients for the 2 breads have gluten do they? I honestly don't know much about gluten-free. Flax doesn't, does it? :confused:

Debra

[dreamrawalwz]

All good suggestions. You're new, so you may not have heard this before, but the feeling of "full" on SAD isn't how you're supposed to feel. Is he actually HUNGRY, satisfied (physically), or just wanting more to eat without necessarily needing it? I hope I'm making some sort of sense. You all are transitioning now from my understanding, so it may take some time for his body to adjust to the feeling "full" that raw gives you. Raw leaves your light and not heavy or bloated as SAD or even "healthy" cooked does. It takes some time, you'll get used to it and learn to enjoy it :)

I suggest avocados, bananas, nuts, and seeds to help satisfies his need. Sometimes recipies can help with the transition.

[Morn]

Morn:Now sunflower seeds in the refried beans, is this like the thing in the shell you give the birds or munch on? Or is it supposed to be shelled, hulled, or however you say it?

I know I said two qs, but here's a third, Morn, are there any subs for the flax oil?

oh, and one last one, what can you sub for braggs liquid aminos.....I never have bought any, what does it do to a recipe(salty, yeasty???)Thanks,

Rainbowgirl


Yes sunflower seeds are the things in the shell but you can buy them raw and shelled/hulled. They are pretty easy to find.

I would substitute olive oil for the flax oil and try that.

You can substitute Nama Shoyu for Braggs. It tastes like soy sauce but better and healthier!

[rainbowgirl]

Thank you all for your help.....

I had seen recipes with sprouted grains (other than buckwheat), and backed off the bread recipes (and obviously I don't have a dehydrator, so I kinda skip thru those anyway).

The flax, I do know, I make a non dehydrated desert with that and fruit.

I'm not totally new, but I tend to eat lighter fare, salads, sprouts, monoeat, and got over the feeling of not being full fairly quick, once I got up to 80 percent raw (i did a transition period). I am now one hundred percent raw and have no probs with feeling full.

Dh however is not probably going to eat raw all the time, (just like he doesn't eat totally on his celiac diet all the time, even tho he's supposed to)so he's not going to get over the feeling of being full.........so I will have to start making some more filling meals for him.....and have only a few bites cause I prefer to go lighter!

I have never seen avocados here, tho I know dh likes them. Any good subs for it in recipes?

AND, the nama shoyu (?), my kids are severely allergic to soy and they eat my raw food......could I mix up something to replace it? Any ideas?

We have a lot of allergies here and are used to adjusting what to put into recipes.

Rainbow Girl

[elian]

Hi Rainbow Girl,

Nama Shoyu is salty. You could replace it with salt and water or celery ground up and water.

Good luck on the heavier meals for hubby. I'm pregnant and have this same need to (that's why I read this post to get more ideas).

Elian

[Damzlfly]

I would NOT use nama shoyu if your whole family has celiacs. From the internet: " Raw Organic Nama Shoyu or Unpasteurized Raw Soy Sauce is an essential ingredient for all your savory (and even some sweet) Rawganique dishes--it gives them that indefinable extra something that's truly special. Nama Shoyu is manufactured by Ohsawa, the most trusted name in macrobiotics. It is their best-selling product. (Note: Nama Shoyu contains wheat.)

I have celiacs too, and I know Braggs does not have wheat in it. It tastes like soy sauce too...I just looked at the Braggs site and it is made from soybeans "Ingredients: Our Bragg Liquid Aminos are made from health-giving, NON-GMO soybeans and purified water. They are an excellent, healthy, gourmet replacement for Tamari and Soy Sauce. Not fermented or heated and Gluten-Free"

So as both your kids are allergic to soy, neither one of those options will work for you. I suggest you try celery juice for that little salty flavour, or some celtic sea salt and water for a salty marinade.

I would also try a rawzagne for Dh too, I haven't made one yet as I live on my own and don't want to waste it, but I'm sure that would do the trick. I have Alissa's book if you want to email me, i can fire off the recipe to you. I think you would need a dehydrator for this, but I'm not 100&#37; sure (haven't looked that closely at the recipe). betcha he would love it...and he can take the leftovers to work!