My Rawfood Lifestyle

Welcome to My Raw food Lifestyle. In this blog, I shared the edible inspirations from my playtime in the kitchen, and my deep love for whole foods.

The thing about eating healthy, raw and green is, you don’t really have to be a very skilled “chef” to do it. With a little creativity, you could make wonders. I juice, blend, sprout, ferment, marinate, activate, freeze, shape, chop, process, grate, spiralise, roll, dip, mix and dehydrate, raw food is scrumptious and fun to make. I am posting few of my healthy memories in this blog. 

Lovely Fruits and Nuts:

Deliciously Nutritious Figs, Oranges and Grapes:

It's all because of the TOPPINGS! Try a variety of Nuts, Seeds, and Super foods in all juices and smoothies:

Allow your weekly purchases to determine your meals for the week. This will provide variety and nutritional balances. I prefer buying organic vegetables. 

 Eating a variety of food ensures you're getting a wide array of nutrients. I got these leafy vegetables from San Jose Farmers Market. 

 Supreme Pleasures: Chilled Fruit Cubes:

Varieties of leaves (Swiss chard especially), Roots, Veggies and Fruits:

Mango, Pineapple:

Juicing: It all starts with getting a good juicer. This is my Breville juicer. My Sweetheart in kitchen.

Breville centrifugal juicers offer the benefit of speed. They are extremely fast. You can make a lot of juice in just a few minutes. They are powerful and relatively easy to clean. I use this juicer in US.

I generally juice with USHA juicer/mixer/grinder when I live in India. Both juicers work extremely great.

If you've never juiced before, don't start out with a bunch of veggies--it might be too strong and you'll be done before you've started. According to "juicing experts", the body wants a ratio of 3:1 veggies: fruit (sugar-wise). 

Cucumbers are the best base because they provide a lot of juice and are mild. Try only that with a fruit like apple initially, for the first few times and then add celery, then add kale a few days later. Then your taste buds will get used to it and you can start mixing with other things. Remember, carrots and beets are actually considering high sugar and fall into a fruit category. But better to juice mainly fruits if you just can't juice veggies than to do nothing at all.

If you find veggie too bitter, add a bit of lemon juice and it will cut the bitterness
You can juice leafy greens, but to extract the most juice, bunch it together and put it in with another more "sturdy" veggie, like celery, carrots, etc.

Fruit Fiesta: Papaya, Jack fruit, Pineapple, Ice Apple, Cantaloupe, Apples, Guava and Grapes

Meet the King of all fruits: Yum Mangoes: Delicious mouth watering Mango Concentrate/Puree: 

Colorful fruits n veggies before juicing: Grape fruits, Red cabbage, Red apples, Green apples, Celery and Carrots

Fresh Mint Leaves:

Fresh Green leaves getting ready for juicing:  

Varieties of Citrus fruits with Apples:

Divine Fruit : Jack Fruit:  Intensely Sweet and delicious

We all know that getting enough variety in our diet is paramount to good health - more variety means more trace minerals and unique plant phyto-compounds which help to protect our cells in powerful ways.

I believe it’s worth trying new things and doing whatever it takes to prepare the healthiest and most vibrant, fresh and healing food for our families.

Mango Chia Pudding:

Watermelon Juice in Pineapple Cup:

Mango Madness Drink:

 Sapota (e) Smoothie (Chickoo): Sapotes are the most amazingly delicious dessert like fruit. This variety has an exceptionally sweet, malty flavor.

Sapota (Chicku) Dates n Nuts smoothie (I also love Sapota Nutella smoothie) Vs

Sapota Banana Yogurt cream with Cardamom n Almonds:

Figgie Peach Smoothies: Juicing/Blending is more fun when you have someone to share it with, and this recipe will make anyone in instant juice lover!

Super Drinks for Super Health:

Carrot Juice, Sweet Melon Juice, Tomato Juice, Beetroot and Apple juice:

 Grape Juice, Papaya Juice, Pineapple Juice, Cantaloupe Juice, Guava Juice

Here’s my recipe for green juice: my version of greens

 1 lb rainbow kale

3 hearts of romaine

1 lb mixed greens

2 bunches parsley

6 lemons

4 inches ginger

6 hearts celery (it is pretty salty!!)

11 cucumbers

Fresh basil and mint leaves from my personal herb stash 

For an extra boost, add in Spirulina, Chlorella, Moringa, Vita mineral Green, Barley grass juice powder, or your favorite green super food foods

Purple Passion: Apple and Red Cabbage Juice: There’s something about the blast of fresh flavor and bountiful phytonutrition that keeps me coming back for more and making even larger and more diverse combinations of fruit and vegetable juice.

Mango Lassi: Whether for breakfast, lunch, or any time, this refreshing drink, is sure to cool you off and fill your tummy. It's absolutely delicious, and it literally takes no more than 5 minutes to prepare!

Wheatgrass Juice: 
                         

Sugarcane Juice:
                                 

It is such a very beautiful and good fortune to be able to enjoy fresh fruits and roots on your plate. They have true beauty and you can enjoy them mindfully.

Tomato Salad:

Fuel up with real food & make magic happen!
Radish, beets, carrots, kiwi, tomato, beets, onions chakras during my salad preparations:

                                  

Nutrition Diva: Black Cherries 
When we think about high-antioxidant, health-promoting fruits, sometimes Black Cherries are overlooked. Cherries are an excellent food that benefits the heart, brain, and joints, and may even prevent tumor growth and improve the quality of sleep – enjoy them when they are in season!

                              

Sweet, Sour n Juicy Red Plum:

Drink for flat stomach: Ginger Turmeric Cucumber Lemonade:
A Low-calorie food like cucumbers helps you lower your calorie intake to shed pounds..
Ginger will fire up metabolism, prevent constipation and melt unwanted belly fat
Lemon has Ascorbic acid that boosts proper digestion. Its pepsin component helps you benefit more from proteins by burning fat
Curcumin in Turmeric increases Thermogenesis and hence leads to great fat burn.

                               

I see another way to live with Food, to play, to mix and match. I appreciate the beautiful food Mother Earth provides and all of the Nature that surrounds Everyday

                                

Nuts and raisins are a couple of the most nutrient-dense foods around. Each serving packs in plenty of vitamins, minerals, carbs, protein and healthy fats, making them staple trail mix ingredients and perfect on-the-go snacks

                                        

Green Sunrise: Start your day with fresh green smoothies or juices

                                      

Home made Pizza: In process of Making Ultimate Raw Vegan Pizza: Toppings include tomatoes, red bell peppers, beets, corns, sesame seeds, barley seeds, coriander leaves, mint leaves, onions, carrots, spices and few sauces. 

Mangoes.. Mangoes everywhere. Mango Dal, Mango Pickle, Mango pulihora, Mango juice, Mango Panna, Mango Shake, Mango Shrikand, Mango icecream, Ripe Mango, Raw Mango...List goes on
                             

                         

Varieties of Nuts with Grapes:

                         

Ready for juicing: Liquid nutrition gives instant energy

Artichokes Love: One of my favorite plate meals: 

Ice Apple(Thati Munjalu):  In India, one of the fruits you will find on every street corner during summer is the ice apple. The flesh of the nungu fruit is similar to litchi in texture and the taste is similar to fresh coconut.

The more simple your foods are the better you will digest, utilize, absorb and eliminate them and in turn the clearer your mind will be. 

Mung Sprouts Salad: Eat sprouted mung beans everyday in the morning and within 4 weeks you will see that your hairfall has reduced and immune system is improved along with several other health benefits.

Making sprouts with mung beans is easy and fast. During sprouting, the trypsin inhibitors, which are commonly present in the raw pulses and delay their digestibility, are also inactivated.

The vitamins -A, B-Complex and C increase rapidly during germination. In mong sprouts the vitamin A content increases by 285%, thiamine by 208%, and riboflavin by an astounding 515% and niacin by 256% and finally Ascorbic acid by 600%. When the seeds sprout, shoots appear earlier than roots. The sprouts are maximally nutritious, if consumed before the roots start emerging. It works wonders."

Sprouts are: a snack, great in stir fry, salads, for tortilla insides, unexpected on pizzas, a powerful juice source, a friend of soup, necessary on sandwiches and the breakfast of champions!
Have fun. Experiment time

Happy Smiling Carrot: 

Pomegranates are a beautiful fruit, with shiny red “jewels, "called arils, inside containing sweet juicy nectar surrounding a white seed in the middle. 

There’s nothing like fresh berries in the summer. Try them in this refreshing salad, which has an entire day’s worth of vitamin C.

 

I love papaya and I use them in my green smoothies every chance I get. Their uniquely tropical flavor blends well with other fruits from the region such as pineapple, banana and cantaloupe.

Cantaloupe:  Beauty Fruit.

Variety is important even if it's just the color of the vegetable.

Colorful Fruit Bowl: I’ve been absolutely addicted to this happy bowl of explosive flavor bliss.

Try whole bowl of fruit varieties. I am sure you will soon forget an apple a day

Delicious Sapotas: 

Fruit Love:
   

Green Peas, Corns and Fruits:

Explore: There is so much variety even just between colors and types.  

                         

Green Juice added to Carrot juice:

No matter where life takes you, never forget your roots! 

                                My 24 karat's Gold <3... Sorry!!! It's 25 Pounds Carrots :)

Coconut water is an ideal drink for weight loss. It is low in calories and easy on the stomach. In fact, this light and refreshing drink contains various bioactive enzymes that aid digestion and boost fat metabolism. Plus, coconut water is rich in potassium, which helps balance out sodium.

                                                       

Get Fruits and Vegetables in your life HOWEVER it works for you. I encourage everyone to eat more vegetables, fruits, sprouts, seeds and less junk food. Wishing you get to enjoy the goodness of taking in vegetables/fruits for your beautiful body! 

Best to you all! :)