What do you eat on a weekly basis?

[robh]

I am fairly new to eating raw (about 2 months). I am gathering some ideas from the posts I see on this forum, but I find my options are still pretty limited.

Can you all post specifically what you eat on a weekly basis? If you're eating something that requires a recipe, please post the recipe or the source.

I am hoping the resulting list serves as a guide for me and other newcomers.

Thanks in advance. :eat

[qwerty988]

In a typical week I consume:


- many green smoothies.

- cashew milk shakes -- usually just cashews and water blended, then add bananas, agave, vanilla, ice, cinnamon..... yum!

- massaged kale salad. This is a technique of "massaging" oil (or dressing or mashed avocado) into the kale to soften it and change the texture so it's more like cooked. There are many youtube videos demonstrating this technique. It's YUMMY!!!! I usually add sprouts and grated beets and carrots. The dressing I use is EVOO + ACV + agave + soy sauce + nutritional yeast.

- nut pate. The ones i usually make are Alissa's mock salmon or a simple walnut-curry-cumin-carrot-celery-garlic-soy-sauce pureed in the food processor.

- Zucchini noodles. Requires a spiralizer. I have them with just EVOO, pepper, parsley and sundried tomatoes. Or with marinated mushrooms and a cheezy sauce. Sauce can be just nutritional yeast, or more elaborate cashew based (cashews, 1/2 red pepper, onion wedge, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, whipped up in blender.)

- Raw soups. Natasha's Spicy Tomato and cream of mushroom are my current favorites (check out demonstrations of both on youtube.) Also I like "blended-salad soup": a few tomatoes, a cuke, 1/2 avocado, jalapeno, garlic, spinach or kale all blended and gently warmed. I usually add nutritional yeast, soy sauce, cumin, curry to this.

- mixed lettuce/veggie salad if I have a dressing I'm excited about. Currenly hot on orange-EVOO-salt-garlic-tomato-celery all blended.

- non-greens salad if I'm craving something rich: chopped avocado, tomato, carrot and cucumber in a big bowl drizzled with salt and EVOO.... so good!

- Guacamole and flax crackers. Or tomato slices on flax crackers drizzled with salt and EVOO. Or two flax crackers, spread with avocado, and sandwiched between a mound of sprouts for a big sprout sandwich.

This is typical for me in the course of a week. Sometimes I make kale chips and eggplant jerky in the dehydrator. But usually I have at least one smoothie and one salad a day.

Instant desserts: from the Rawtarian website I make her instant fudge and instant halvah recipes. I also just started making avocado chocolate pudding. (avocado, cacao powder, vanilla and agave pureed in food processor.... amazing!!!)


Great thread -- I'm really looking forward to getting some great ideas from everyone else!

EDIT: Here's the recipe for the creamy mushroom soup:

1 cup water
2 cups mushrooms
1/3 of an onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup cashews
1/4 of an avocado
1/2 tsp salt

Whir everything in high-power blender until warm and creamy! Top with fresh black pepper, YUM......!!!!!

[robh]

Thanks so much qwerty. That post alone will keep me checking out new stuff out for a while. The cheezy sauce and all the avocado dishes really have my interest peaked. I will be finding out what nutritional yeast is, and where to get some!

I look forward to what others have to post here, also.

edit: (for anyone else reading)

Natasha's Spicy Tomato Soup:

1 half red bell pepper (seeds and pith removed)
1 stalk celery
7 roma tomatoes (green stems removed)
1/2 cucumber (skin and seeds removed)
3 cloves garlic
3 tablespoons of EVOO
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/8th teaspoon organic cyan pepper

You just blend it all up, it seems.

[Living Food]

Sprouts. For concentrated calories I eat lentil sprouts, pea sprouts, mung bean sprouts, adzuki bean sprouts, sesame seed sprouts, sunflower seed sprouts, barley sprouts, buckwheat sprouts, quinoa sprouts, and nut sprouts. For real nutrition I eat chia + flax greens, sunflower greens, pea shoots, radish, alfalfa, and clover sprouts, various weeds, and the cereal grasses (wheat, barley, rye, oat, kamut and spelt). I also eat broccoli, allium, and many other sprouts, but those tend to be more expensive and harder to obtain. It's actually pretty cheap, and I believe that it is the best diet possible. You'll feel absolutely amazing if you do it long-term. Generally I just eat huge sprout salads, although I also blend them and juice nearly all of the greens. When I eat the salads, I also include lots of fermented veggies to maximize absorption and digestibility. I also eat plenty of fruit, but only in season and straight off the plant - I love harvesting wild blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, pokeberries, and wineberries, as well as eating fruit from my small (but growing) orchard.

It may not taste like cooked food, but you'll get used to it if you stick with it, and you'll feel so great that you don't want to go back to any other way of eating. Most people just opt to include sprouts as a small percentage of their diet, but I prefer my way :D

[robh]

*Bump*

Anyone else care to share what they are eating?

[survivalcavefood]

Every delicious foods....

[Traceyraw]

SPINACH Orange smoothies.
Almond butter/honey with veggies dipped.
grapes, bananas, Dates.
Nori wraps with veggies.
Green juices.
Carrot/orange juice
guacamole
salsa
flax crackers.
chia seed pudding.

[Dent de Lion]

BREAKFASTS:
A pineapple OR a few mangoes OR a quart of berries OR a few cups of grapes OR a half watermelon (etc.)

LUNCHES:
A quart of dates OR 5-8 bananas OR a bunch of grapes OR a strawberry-banana smoothie (5 bananas + 1 package strawberries) (etc)

DINNERS:
A tomato/grape/celery/parsley salad OR dates OR citrus OR grapes OR a green salad OR seaweed salad OR seaweed soup OR dried seaweed


This is generally what my meals are like. Between meals, I often have apples, water kefir, or kombucha.

[tolondontoparis]

Sprouts. For concentrated calories I eat lentil sprouts, pea sprouts, mung bean sprouts, adzuki bean sprouts, sesame seed sprouts, sunflower seed sprouts, barley sprouts, buckwheat sprouts, quinoa sprouts, and nut sprouts. For real nutrition I eat chia + flax greens, sunflower greens, pea shoots, radish, alfalfa, and clover sprouts, various weeds, and the cereal grasses (wheat, barley, rye, oat, kamut and spelt). I also eat broccoli, allium, and many other sprouts, but those tend to be more expensive and harder to obtain. It's actually pretty cheap, and I believe that it is the best diet possible. You'll feel absolutely amazing if you do it long-term. Generally I just eat huge sprout salads, although I also blend them and juice nearly all of the greens. When I eat the salads, I also include lots of fermented veggies to maximize absorption and digestibility. I also eat plenty of fruit, but only in season and straight off the plant - I love harvesting wild blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, pokeberries, and wineberries, as well as eating fruit from my small (but growing) orchard.

It may not taste like cooked food, but you'll get used to it if you stick with it, and you'll feel so great that you don't want to go back to any other way of eating. Most people just opt to include sprouts as a small percentage of their diet, but I prefer my way :D

I have a question about sprouting. I have gotten my green lentils to sprout, but when I bite into one, it tastes terrible! It still has the dry bean taste.

[Living Food]

I have a question about sprouting. I have gotten my green lentils to sprout, but when I bite into one, it tastes terrible! It still has the dry bean taste.

hmmm...how long did you sprout it for? Did you keep it in the dark until the last day (if not, that's why they taste bad)?

[tolondontoparis]

how come they have to stay in the dark? They have long tails but taste terrible, unless that is what they taste like?

[Living Food]

Exposing them to daylight makes them tough and fibrous, instead of juicy and delicious (subjective).

Answers to all possible questions on sprouting:

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?64973-Sprouting!&highlight=sprouting%21

I'd explain more, but have other things to do - that thread should answer all of your questions.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Most of what i'll eat today. Probably won't even need that much.

*sesame seed sprouts
*lentil sprouts
*chickpea sprouts
*rye grass
*sunflower greens (it's getting colder now, so they are harder to fully sprout)
*AFA blue-green algae
*Spirulina blue-green al;gae
*Chlorella green algae
*Kelp
*digestive enzymes
*B12

(the gold containers are from Hippocrates Health lnstitute...great products!!!).

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l started the day with rye grass juice and had some apples about 30 minutes after.

l have many different varieties of sprouts and sea vegetables, but this is todays food.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

They have long tails but taste terrible, unless that is what they taste like?

lt's probably because you are used to eating much weaker foods like green vegetables. lf you keep eating alfalfa and lentils your taste buds will adjust and green vegetable juices will taste like water almost.


Sprouts. For concentrated calories I eat lentil sprouts, pea sprouts, mung bean sprouts, adzuki bean sprouts, sesame seed sprouts, sunflower seed sprouts, barley sprouts, buckwheat sprouts, quinoa sprouts, and nut sprouts. For real nutrition I eat chia + flax greens, sunflower greens, pea shoots, radish, alfalfa, and clover sprouts, various weeds, and the cereal grasses (wheat, barley, rye, oat, kamut and spelt). I also eat broccoli, allium, and many other sprouts, but those tend to be more expensive and harder to obtain. It's actually pretty cheap, and I believe that it is the best diet possible. You'll feel absolutely amazing if you do it long-term. Generally I just eat huge sprout salads, although I also blend them and juice nearly all of the greens. When I eat the salads, I also include lots of fermented veggies to maximize absorption and digestibility. I also eat plenty of fruit, but only in season and straight off the plant - I love harvesting wild blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, pokeberries, and wineberries, as well as eating fruit from my small (but growing) orchard.

It may not taste like cooked food, but you'll get used to it if you stick with it, and you'll feel so great that you don't want to go back to any other way of eating. Most people just opt to include sprouts as a small percentage of their diet, but I prefer my way :D

l am so glad you are eating and drinking these types of things. lt IS really the way to go in this day and age.

Eating the sesame and sunflower seed sprouts really fills you up and their is a pleasant nutty flavour to them. Yum yum yum. The sea weeds are nice too. So are the green drinks. lt's all good. You don't need to get hungry on raw, no way! My stomach is nice and satisfied now and i'm off to meditate.

l pick up some hazel nuts and chestnuts for sprouting next week.

[qwerty988]

It's probably because you are used to eating much weaker foods like green vegetables. lf you keep eating alfalfa and lentils your taste buds will adjust and green vegetable juices will taste like water almost.

l am so glad you are eating and drinking these types of things. lt IS really the way to go in this day and age.

Eating the sesame and sunflower seed sprouts really fills you up and their is a pleasant nutty flavour to them. Yum yum yum. The sea weeds are nice too. So are the green drinks. lt's all good. You don't need to get hungry on raw, no way!


There's no need to be hungry on raw food if you follow Alissa's philosophy and eat WHATEVER you want, as long as it's raw! I NEVER go hungry and love eating a delicious and varied raw diet Alissa's way. :heart:

[Traceyraw]

Mr. Raw do you have cats. ?? Evertime I sprout its hard to keep my cats out of it.

[Living Food]

Grow some cat grass and leave it out in the open for them to nibble on, then put your sprouts elsewhere. I share my sprouts and micro-greens with my animals, and they've never been in better health.

Note to everyone reading this - animals intuitively know what's good for them. If they're desperate to eat sprouts, don't you think you should be doing the same?