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raweater
04-17-2008, 05:25 PM
I found since I started working out seriously a few months ago and need 4000+ calories/day my cooked food % seems to have gone up, in fact I'm having at least one cooked meal a day (but can still maintain close to 90% raw as I eat 7-10 meals per day).

With summer just around the corner I won't be able to stand cooked food (in summer I'm about 95-99% raw, with that 1-5% cooked being when people drag me to restaurants) so I'd like to find new quick filling meals.

Since I eat 7-10 meals a day they obviously must be quick to make as I don't want to spend my life in the kitchen.

Some of my current easy high calorie favorites are:
-Salad with 900 calories of walnuts to make a 1000 calorie salad
-Ice cream, any flavor, I can easily eat 1500 calories of this at once
-Smoothies
-Raw energy bars
-Nuts

Here are some of the cooked things I eat, maybe you can help find me better raw versions, I'll explain why I don't like the raw versions of these in parenthesis:
-Pasta (cooked pasta: 600-700 calories, zucchini pasta: 0, or close to, does not meet my energy needs at all, making nut meat balls helps but then the recipe is too complex to do regularly)
-Buritos (don't like using salad as a wrapper, rice paper gets gooey and tastes weird, any other way of eating the contents of a raw burito?)
-Pizza (have yet to find crust/cheese recipes I really like that's also easy to make, the ones I like are too hard to make and the ones that are easy to make I don't like, obviously)

I just got an idea, I'll look for cooked fajitas (just the bread wrappers) at the grocery store, and if by miracle they have one that's not loaded with toxic chemicals (the grain flour will still be toxic but it will be a relatively small amount), I may start making 90% raw buritoes, it will be better than the 0% raw buritoes I eat now. I highly doubt they will have fajitas without toxic chemicals in them though, maybe the health food store next time I go.

Thanks for any suggestions

juliebove
04-17-2008, 05:30 PM
I think you mean tortillas, not fajitas. I have seen raw tortilla recipes but I haven't tried them and the corn chips I tried weren't to my liking.

Have you tried the onion bread? I like it made into sandwiches with Swiss nut cheese, lettuce and tomato.

raweater
04-17-2008, 05:31 PM
I did try the onion bread, in fact I made some a few days ago.

Did you say swiss nut cheese? Do you have the recipe?

Thanks

raweater
04-17-2008, 06:34 PM
As I had guessed, ALL tortillas were loaded with toxic chemicals, so I passed.

raweater
04-18-2008, 08:57 PM
I went to the health food store today in part to see if they had fajitas breads that aren't loaded with toxic chemicals. They had none in the bread section but as I got in line at the cash I saw something that looked like fajitas breads in the refrigerated section. I got out of line to check and sure enough that was it! Wheat, kamut or spelt fajitas style breads. I got the kamut ones and they are great! My (now only 90% raw) buritoes are finally better than cooked ones! Not only that, they are easily 500 calories each (rather than 300 for the frozen ones I buy) and they cost a tiny fraction of the price to make.

I wish I could find a raw fajitas bread recipe, but that may be hard to do as it must remain flexible.

Even if I find no raw recipe, I'll keep using these cooked kamut breads. I'd rather eat 90% raw buritoes than 0% raw ones.

kaybee
04-19-2008, 04:44 PM
Nori sheets?

OR, maybe look for the EZEKIAL sprouted tortillas? they have both a corn tortilla and a grain one. not raw but at least pure and sprouted....

tinystrawberry
04-19-2008, 05:14 PM
i make tortilla wraps (that are flexible) out of corn, zucchini, and flax. they aren't high calorie, but you could add cashews to the recipe to fix that. and you can use walnut meat (walnuts, lemon, mexican spice- in food processor til' meaty texture)

earth_sista
04-19-2008, 07:38 PM
i would also suggest the ezekiel sprouted tortillas

raweater
04-20-2008, 01:00 PM
Thanks for the ezekiel sprouted bread suggestion! I think my grocery store has some in the frozen organic section! When I looked for the breads I looked everywhere but there!

I may also try to make flexible raw tortillas, I don't mind if the torillas are low calorie as I can easily put 500 calories in each. I would prefer to do them without corn, do you have the recipe? I can try to modify it.

Thanks