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
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