What's Your "Must Have" Ingredients?

[RawPaw]

I started going raw a few weeks ago, but I'm left with an empty kitchen now.

I only have veggies, flax seeds, agave nectar and apple cider vinegar (I hate the taste of vinegar, but it does me well to have a spoonful in the morning). I also juice carrots...about a pint a day with an apple. I want to do wheatgrass.

What's your top 5 "must have" ingredients? Especially for unhealthy bachelor/musicians.

[RawPaw]

Lame quotations placement on the title, BTW.

[bodaflower]

I always always have apples...usually some bananas too, greens for salads (my salads usually consist of greens, onions, carrots, sometimes celery and maybe pine nuts and usually some sort of cheese)

I also usually have some nuts on hand , flax seeds, and then some other types of fruit ; right now i have blueberries (except my family ate all of them....) raspberries bananas apples, and i used to have plums and peaches but they were conventional and not very good at all

oh, and cacao and for smoothies i always have spirulina and maca

[Veganforlife]

A variety of greens and fruits for my green smoothies. Those are my MUST haves (along with the spirulina, Alissa's green food powder, maca powder and ground flax seed).

[beppa66]

Um, let's see:
sun dried tomatoes, rasins, dried cranberries, pine nuts, ceyanne pepper, honey, oats, dried shredded coconut, olive oil, liquid smoke, wheat grass (frozen), fresh & frozen fruits, avacados, basil, cilantro (fresh), jalepenos, onions, and one otherload supply of bananas. Alissa provides a pretty handy shopping list in her book p63.

[RawPaw]

Hmmm...a shopping list. I'll have to check out the book. A butt-load of bananas as a staple for smoothies. Good idea.

Green food powder?

I need to get a processor.

[barose]

Besides the normal staples: fruit, nuts, veggies and lots of greens, I like:

Lemons (I have a Meyer lemon tree and I still have to buy lemons!)
Spirluna
Dates - I get them fresh at the farmers markets
Raw ACV
Raw cocoa (powder and nibs)
Virgin olive oil (organic when I can find it)
Coconut oil
Vanilla extract (it’s not raw)
Vanilla beans
Nori and other sea veggies
Various organic spices

[Veganforlife]

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Green food powder?

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Yep, Alissa sells it. Good stuff

[raw_danceruk]

My staples are banana's by the case load

then Kale

Avacado

Various variety of tomato

Citrus fruits-- orange, grapefruit, blood oranges

all these things can be eaten in mono, are cheap, tasty and can be eaten anywhere anytime and anyplace with 0 preparation, just how I like it!! :D

[RawPaw]

Another post about a butt-load of bananas. Is it healthy eating that many? Hmmm. I do eat at least one a day.

[Veganforlife]

Another post about a butt-load of bananas. Is it healthy eating that many? Hmmm. I do eat at least one a day.

Why wouldn't it be? Some days I crave about 6 oranges and eat them all at once! Do you have Alissa's book and DVD?

[barose]

Another post about a butt-load of bananas. Is it healthy eating that many? Hmmm. I do eat at least one a day.

If it feels good to you...

Personally, I cant eat 1/2 of banana down.

[RawPaw]

Veganforlife,

I just bought a recipe book, so maybe later I'll check out Allisa's. I keep thinking that fruits are desserts instead of entrees. I have much deprogramming to do.

[raw_danceruk]

I hated hated banana when I was eating a Rubbishey vegetarian diet

Somehow eating 4 banana's after a run and a feast of 6 oranges for tea seems so much more energising than my old diet of vegetarian jelly and diet coke..eek!! :eek:

wheras with raw..esp mono eating...Its cheap..energising and clean!! :D

[barose]

But if you're new to raw, mono eating may not be the best way to go at first.

[RawVegan4Health]

I can't seem to manage if I am out of bananas, spinach or cashews.

[JAusten]

If I don't have a ripe avocado it's not going to be a good day.

[dreamrawalwz]

Tomatoes, spinach, romaine, and celery

[Azura Skye]

I'm happiest when there are juicy ingredients in the house = celery, cuke and ginger.

But for my essential list it has to be:
Avocado,
Apple,
Dried Apricots,
and Tahini. - with out Tahini I do go a bit mad!

[billyne]

oranges! i love them! oh and garlic, spinach, and cilantro.

[lalakis]

I loveeeeee juicy fruits!

Grocery list:

cantaloupe
watermelon
grapes
cherries
granny smith apples!!! love em
spinach
mixed greens
tomato
cauliflower
avocado
banana
and some kind of raw nut, usually cashews

I also have extra virgin olive oil and apple cider vinegar on hand.

[garden granny]

must have:
bananas at all times
frozen fruits (cherries, strawberries, peaches)
romaine lettuce
lemons
dates
almonds

[RawVee]

Young coconuts. I buy about 6 or 8 at a time. Yuuummmy.

[billyne]

Young coconuts. I buy about 6 or 8 at a time. Yuuummmy.

you too? man..i love those (and so does my english bulldog.lol). i wish there was an asian market close to me so i could buy them for cheap.

[sherahtaylor]

Lately...pineapple! It's been curing my sweet tooth - I salivate thinking of the wedges sitting in my fridge, just waiting to be eaten. It tastes divine when it's cold on a hot day, full of delicious juicy sweetness! Maybe it's a pregnancy thing, LOL!

[Eilene]

I have to have...

Bananas...HAVE to have in my home
Dates...HAVE to have in my home
Pink Lady apples
Frozen fruits
Spinach
Kale
Romaine & baby greens
Maca
Alissa's Green Powder
Almonds, Pecans, Walnuts

[amyambro1]

AVOCADOS
lots of greens
a variety of fruit (bananas, peaches, apples, plums, etc)
almonds

[RawVee]

you too? man..i love those (and so does my english bulldog.lol). i wish there was an asian market close to me so i could buy them for cheap.

I love the Asian market, especially for that reason--cheap durian and young coconuts. :)

You have to take a pic of your bulldog with a coconut. :) Oh, btw, if you dry out your coconut husks, and you happen to have a fireplace, they make great firewood.