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Eating For Energy-Trying Something New-Benefits

August 2nd, 2010

FreshFruitSmoothieTrying something new using the “Eating For Energy“ book as become common-place in our home.

When you eat for the right reasons, the food combinations become a game for good health. “How can I get the best drink with the most benefits”, is fun to play and very good tasting. If your lifestyle is fast paced and you always want foods that taste great, don’t be afraid, everything smoothie you make will seem better than the last.

Taste buds seem to improve as our energy level increases. Funny things happen in your mind. It is as though your body cravings search for really healthy foods. Therefore your energy levels are forever increasing.

Here is a new smoothie Pierrette invented this morning: the ingredients are the following

  1. 1/2 Fresh pineapple
  2. 1 pear(pealed and cubed)
  3. 2 bananas(medium size) use fresh or frozen
  4. 2 Tablespoon of ground flax seeds
  5. 1 small slice of Ginger(fresh)
  6. 1 cup of water/ice-Depends on how cold you like your smoothie

Directions: Put all the ingredients together in your high speed blender and let it go. Yields 2 x 14 oz glasses of incredible colors and aroma.

We have juiced pineapple and pear before and found it great but Pierrette wanted to add bananas and make a smoothie.mmm Wait till you taste this.

After you have had this drink just go to Google, yes right on top, and search for the benefits of each ingredient. You will be amazed at all the nutrition you get.

Remember, fruits act as cleansers and vegetables are builders.

Drinks like this take less then 10 minutes to prepare, you can mix and match with what you have in your refrigerator and you can leave the dishes in the sink till you get home(or dishwasher).

Off to work now, just had to let you know. Let me know how long the energy level sustains you after having a great drink like this compared to your normal breakfast.

Eating For Energy is all about saving time to give you quality time for you.

Pierre  & Pierrette Trudel: from http://www.theequest.com

Thee Quest For Perfect health

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Energy Diet Secrets

July 29th, 2010

So you’ve been on an energy-boosting diet as of late, and people are beginning to notice. They can see that you’re losing weight, but gaining strength and endurance. You’re no longer the mopey, quiet and tired person you were just a few scant weeks ago. Today, you’re full of pep and vigor, and of course, the people around you want to know how you did it. What is your secret?

Now, your energy diet is no big secret – it is all about selecting the right foods to give your body the energy that it needs to thrive all day long. But people aren’t going to believe you when you tell them that. Just eating the right foods? That’s boring, and anyone could do it. But you are the only one who seems to have mastered it – so clearly, you know something they don’t know. You hold the secret to eating for energy, and they want to know what it is. So, what can you tell people who want to know your energy diet secrets, but won’t be satisfied with the truth?

What you give them is the truth with a heaping helping of fancy and sexy. No lies – just overblown statements about your amazing diet plan.

For instance, telling people that you are cutting back on processed sugars is not going to wow them. Sure, we all know that those glucose/fructose enriched foods are bad for us, but people want to hear your fancy answer for what you could possibly replace the sweets with (and no, going without something sweet is simply not an option – it’s practically cheating).

What you can tell them is that the world of fruit has some amazing sweets waiting for them, but a proper energy diet won’t simply ask you to down bowl after bowl of boring mixed fruits. No, you can tell them about the exciting variety of smoothies available for people who eat for energy; you can share your recipes for all-raw, one-ingredient frozen banana ice cream; and you can wow them with information about how strawberries are calorie negative, meaning they actually use up more calories to consume, digest and pass than they provide as fuel, and how this helps your body to learn to burn it’s own fuel reserves – your fat.

Another important area for eating for energy is hydration, but no one wants to hear about how you should be drinking so many glasses of water every day. Instead, you can tell them about your super-hydrating watermelon smoothies; impress them with your abstinence from the diuretic effects of caffeine; and tell them how you can jazz up a glass of water with citrus, without adding a lot of empty calories.

And when your friends want to hear about where you’re getting all of your new, raw energy from, they don’t want to hear about how simple it is to tailor the energy diet plan to their own likes and dislikes; they want to be told that what you are doing takes effort and intellect, but with a little coaching, they too could be on the path to eating healthier, and gaining more energy.

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Eating for Energy Recipe of the Week: Alkalizing Cucumber Soup

May 26th, 2010

Hello beautiful people! This week’s Eating for Energy recipe of the week is Alkalizing Cucumber Soup. I decided to start with a soup recipe because I’ve never tried a raw soup before. I’ve always suspected that I wouldn’t like them, and I finally had a reason to test that theory. Plus, I had all the ingredients on hand, and it looked pretty easy.

Ingredients:

  • Avocado
  • Cucumber, peeled and chopped
  • Chopped fresh dill
  • Lemon juice
  • Dulse flakes

(For recommended amounts see Eating for Energy page 234. Sorry, but I can’t divulge all of Yuri’s secrets!)

Makes two servings.

The directions say to throw everything into a blender and blend until smooth and creamy. I had my doubts about how well avocado would do in my blender, but I figured I’d just follow the directions to start with and adjust if needed. So, I threw everything into the blender and turned it on low. Sure enough, the blades created a vertical tunnel. All the ingredients got pushed to the sides and just sat there.

So, I transferred everything to my mini food processor. This worked better, but not great. It took longer than expected and left the cucumbers chunky.

Using the amounts of ingredients recommended in the book, I ended up with a goo closer to the consistency of a dip than a soup, so I added more lemon juice, altogether about twice as much lemon juice as recommended.

The end result was a delightful minty green colored soup with dark purple flecks. Very pretty. (I would have taken a picture, but that’s not my forte, and it probably would have done more harm than good.)

Taste Test

Now, comes the most important part: the taste test!

In a word: pleasant.

I didn’t have very high hopes for this recipe after it took so much longer to make than I expected. I thought it would take about 10 minutes to just throw it all into a blender and blend it up, but it took more like 50 minutes. I originally thought it would be not great but good enough to make when I needed something quick, and since it wasn’t so quick …

However, I was pleasantly surprised. It has a very light, refreshing taste and goes down easy. I thought the dill would overpower the cucumber, but no. My daughter Ali liked it even more than I did, which is surprising since she doesn’t like cucumbers. The aftertaste is the best part. After I got done with it, I didn’t drink any water for quite some time because I didn’t want to wash the lingering taste away.

My 8-year-old son Michael said, “Yuck! … but it goes away quickly.” Meaning, he didn’t like it, but that was easy to deal with because it didn’t stick around in his mouth for a long time.

Lessons Learned

Changes I will make next time:

  • Use a mini food processor, not a blender.
  • Mash avocado up by hand.
  • Process cucumber by itself first. Then, add all other ingredients.
  • Use more dulse flakes to make it a little saltier.
  • Maybe add a bit of water to thin it out just a little more.

Conclusions

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

I will definitely make this again, and with these changes, I expect it will take only 10 minutes to make.

Next week, Blueberry Morning. See you next week!

– Terri

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3 Raw Food Recipes for the Summer

May 16th, 2010

23_popsic_lgWith the return of beautiful summer weather, many of us begin to put away the last remaining items that we use regularly during the winter.

The big bulky sweaters return to the back of the closet; the winter tires come off the family car; the mittens and scarves are stored away and replaced with light hats to keep the sun off our heads. One other area of de-winterization, even for non raw food enthusiasts, tends to be in their diet.

During those cold winter months, we crave those hot foods to fill our bellies and warm our insides. Big, thick and steaming soups, hot meat pies straight from the oven, and mugs of hot chocolate are all the rage as the weather rages below freezing outside. But in the summer months, we tend to put away those hot foods in favor of cool salads, iced teas and other cold items intended to chill us out as the mercury climbs. We do this without any thought towards using more raw food recipes.

One of the most obvious summer foods is one that you can use for any number of easy raw food recipes – the watermelon. This enormous fruit may be mostly water, but the juicy flavors are synonymous with sunshine and picnics.

And while the temptation may be there to simply split the fruit open and feast on it by the slice, there is much more than can be done with watermelon in the summer. One great dish for raw food enthusiasts and those simply seeking an apres-sun dish is the delicious watermelon soup.

Served chilled, this dish is great for the evenings, just before the sun goes down. All you have to do is combine the flesh of a good sized melon in a food processor with a small amount of ginger to taste, the juice of a medium lime, and a few leaves of mint. Blend until smooth, adding cold water as needed, depending on the consistency you desire. Strain if you like, or serve as is, garnished with an extra mint leaf.

Another great summer raw treat comes from the huge selection of green smoothie recipes that can be found online. Green smoothies give you all of the energy you need, in a cool refreshing drink. For optimum results, process a handful of spinach or kale with a medium orange, a touch of lemon zest, a bit of raw honey, a glass of cold water, a half cup of ice and half of a cucumber. This delicious drink will serve you well as a breakfast, or a patio sipper on a scorching hot day.

Another summer favorite is the simple popsicle, but many of the store-bought options are loaded with processed sugars and artificial colors. For a healthier raw version, try mixing together your favorite smoothie – maybe a delicious banana-strawberry smoothie – and freezing your own treats on a stick.

This way, you will know exactly what wonderful foods you are eating, know that you are not resorting to sugars to provide flavors, and you can customize your frozen desserts and have a different flavor every single day!

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Eating for Energy Recipes

April 3rd, 2010

Do you own a cook book these days? Most of us can remember from our childhood, when our parents owned a whole shelf full of cook books, with everything from baking for the holidays to recipes for the slow cooker to that tacky 70’s version with all of the fondues and gelatinous salads included.

But in the modern era, the shelf that used to hold the cook books is now, more often than not, used to hold the microwave. Recipes, if we use them at all, tend to be ones that come right off the box of ingredients, or are replaced wholesale by a slew of fast food menus.

But if you want to eat for energy, maybe it’s time to consider updating your recipe collection. Eating for energy can be a little harder if you don’t plan ahead, and if you try to just “throw something together” at the last minute. That sort of disorganization can lead straight into some very unhealthy – and energy-draining – meal selections.

So, where can you find the best recipes if you want to truly eat for energy? Sure, you can try your local bookstore, for one. The science of food is progressing at an amazing pace, and you should be able to find dozens of how-to books and old-fashioned cook books, albeit with new and exciting ways to prepare a meal. The only downside to a trip to your local book store is that they tend to frown on you bringing along some ingredients, and trying out a recipe or two right there in the store.

So, before you go browsing for books, take a quick look online, and see if you can find some reviews from other people who have read – and tried – the recipes.

But while you are online, there are two other things you might want to take a look for.

There are some great e-books online about eating for energy, so don’t be afraid to read the web sites that sell the books, and see if you find yourself nodding as you read the description. If you do, there’s a chance that the recipes they offer might be a good fit for you. Many times, these e-books can provide newer and less mainstream ideas than a traditionally published book.

Another option is to look into many of the online communities devoted to nutrition and particularly eating for energy. There will usually be a conversation, or “thread”, devoted to sharing recipes – you may find some that are highly unusual, but incredibly effective, and downright delicious! And be sure to share the raw food recipes and ideas that you’ve found with your new health-conscious online friends in exchange.

The key to eating for energy is planning, and recipes are a big part of that. Effective recipe collections will allow you to utilize your favourite energy-giving food items in new and interesting ways, and that will ensure that you don’t get bored, but don’t have to subject yourself to foods that you despise, either. So grab yourself some recipe cards, and start collecting and sharing your ideas.

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