Hello Everyone . . . I've just returned from a long book tour on the California coast - for my new book "Raw Energy" - in which I gave many talks and raw food demonstrations at several independent book stores such as Warwick's in La Jolla and Copperfield's in Sebastopol. I also did a live television bit for San Diego Living and an internet video for www.organicauthority.com. My visit to the Real Goods store in Hopland allowed me to travel through wine country - which was extraordinarily green. Apparently, California has had quite a bit of rain thus the countryside looked more like the emerald hills of Ireland rather than the normally golden hills of California.
I have to recommend one restaurant, in particular, to those of you visiting San Diego . . . "Miguel's" in Point Loma. If it's a nice day, make sure to ask for a table on the second floor open-air porch! Miguel's offers true Mexican fare at its finest! If you enjoy shrimp ceviche, theirs is spectacular . . . delicate raw shrimp marinated in fresh lime juice and green chili sauce . . . superb - as is their taco salad.
The topic today is raw food snacks. To prevent weight gain and keep energy up and your mood and blood sugar stable, aim for two or three 150- to 250- calorie snacks per day, depending on your activity level. Here are some delicious energy bites and drinks all under 200 calories - they're all nutrient-dense and filling, plus there's no need to worry about consuming unhealthy fats or refined ingredients!
1. 2 small celery ribs, each stuffed with 1 tablespoon raw almond butter
2. 1 small apple and 1/4 cup raisins or currants
3. 10 to 15 raw almonds, hazelnuts, or pecans
4. small plate of carrot sticks, bell pepper strips, celery sticks, radishes, and cucumber slices with
1/3 cup guacamole dip
5. 2 cups fresh or frozen strawberries or berries drizzled with raw honey
6. 1 cup freshly made raw almond milk and 1 large dried fig
7. quick banana smoothie: 1/2 frozen banana blended with 1 cup fresh, raw almond milk and
dash of cinnamon or nutmeg powder
8. small handful of unsulfured, dried fruit: cherries, apples, apricots, pineapple, or mangoes
9. 8-ounce glass of fresh carrot or apple-ginger juice - put your juicer to work for your health!
10. 1/4 cup of your favorite raw trail mix
11. 2 or 3 small fresh fruit kabobs
12. half an avocado with a squeeze of lemon juice and sprinkling of sea salt & dried basil
13. 2 cups freshly made gazpacho
14. 1 tablespoon raw tahini (sesame seed butter) or raw almond butter and 1 tablespoon raw
honey swirled together
NOTE: The above article was written by Stephanie Tourles, lic. holistic esthetician, herbalist, nutritionist, author, and raw foods enthusiast. It was adapted from her latest book, Raw Energy, (Storey Publishing, 2009). The information is true and complete to the best of her knowledge. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of Ms. Tourles. She disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. It is for educational purposes only.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
The Benefits of Raw Food Snacks - Part 2
Hello Again - This blog will feature "Part 2" of the introduction material (begun with the previous blog) written in my newly released "Raw Energy" book. I hope that after reading this, it will inspire you to want to read the entire book and try some of my raw snack recipes. In future blogs, I will be discussing - more indepth - the importance of consuming raw foods in your daily diet.
Part 2 starts here . . .
"What is the real health difference between my raw snacks and ubiquitous commercial snacks? Most conventional snacks are made with processed, refined, nutritionally empty ingredients with a sprinkling of preservatives and synthetic flavorings and a heavy-handed complement of white sugar and sodium. Yes, consuming them will indeed give you a real, albeit temporary, energy lift when you need it most. But because they are not created from whole foods consisting of unprocessed proteins, essential fats, and complex carbohydrates, that digest slowly and feed your body with sustained vitamin-and mineral-rich pep, but instead are made of refined ingredients, stripped of their former life-giving elements, they will cause your blood sugar to spike. Within an hour or so, the opposite happens: your blood sugar plummets, and low blood sugar means low energy, a cranky attitude, and a hankering for even more junk. By consistently consuming these types of snack foods, day in and day out, you may have unknowingly jumped into an unhealthy eating cycle replete with unstable energy, a raging appetite, poor health and mood, and a less-than-radiant appearance.
It's time to hop off that merry-go-round of poor snacking choices. The recipes in Raw Energy are chock-full of nutrients and long-term energy boosters that taste so incredibly good, you'll wonder why you haven't been snacking this way all along. These raw snacks meet your body's nutrient quota, trigger your natural appetite-regulating hormones, and won't leave you wanting more. We tend not to overeat the foods that satisfy on all levels.
The basic goal of this book is simple: to introduce you to a new way of snacking healthfully in the raw. The snack recipes in this book eliminate the negatives and accentuate the positive aspects of snacking, helping to maximize vigor, vitality, beauty, physical stamina, and endurance at every stage of life. These family-and friend-tested recipes will aid in the achievement of the utmost nature has to offer: total, resilient, whole-body health, with eyes that sparkle, hair that is lustrous, skin that is fresh, glowing, moist, and smooth, nails that are strong, bodily organs that function well and work in harmony with each other, and - best of all benefits, as far as I'm concerned - mental and physical energy to spare. The road to health can be paved with wonderful freshness, new taste sensations, vibrant colors, and delectable flavors that make your taste buds dance and your spirits soar.
Anyone who is still a bit dubious or isn't sure about the taste excitement of whole, raw snack foods will swallow his or her skepticism with the first bite of my Creamy Carob Freezer Fudge or sip of my Papaya Sunset Soup. So, turn the pages and absorb a bit of information about the fresh world of raw foods and the importance of regular snacking. Learn how to stock your kitchen with the best raw ingredients and essential food-processing equipment and gadgets, and read the primer on learning how to "uncook". Then, jump right in, find a recipe that piques your interest, get your hands messy, and be prepared to enjoy some luscious snacks in the raw. The recipes are relatively simple to concoct, yet exciting on both visual and taste-satisfying levels. Once you get the knack of cooking in the raw, I hope you will be inspired to tap in to your own inner creativity in tweaking these recipes to suit your own personal tastes and dietary needs.
NOTE: The above article was derived from the book, Raw Energy, by Stephanie Tourles, Storey Publishing, 2009. The information is true and complete to the best of the author's knowledge. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of the author. Ms. Tourles disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. It is for educational purposes only.
Part 2 starts here . . .
"What is the real health difference between my raw snacks and ubiquitous commercial snacks? Most conventional snacks are made with processed, refined, nutritionally empty ingredients with a sprinkling of preservatives and synthetic flavorings and a heavy-handed complement of white sugar and sodium. Yes, consuming them will indeed give you a real, albeit temporary, energy lift when you need it most. But because they are not created from whole foods consisting of unprocessed proteins, essential fats, and complex carbohydrates, that digest slowly and feed your body with sustained vitamin-and mineral-rich pep, but instead are made of refined ingredients, stripped of their former life-giving elements, they will cause your blood sugar to spike. Within an hour or so, the opposite happens: your blood sugar plummets, and low blood sugar means low energy, a cranky attitude, and a hankering for even more junk. By consistently consuming these types of snack foods, day in and day out, you may have unknowingly jumped into an unhealthy eating cycle replete with unstable energy, a raging appetite, poor health and mood, and a less-than-radiant appearance.
It's time to hop off that merry-go-round of poor snacking choices. The recipes in Raw Energy are chock-full of nutrients and long-term energy boosters that taste so incredibly good, you'll wonder why you haven't been snacking this way all along. These raw snacks meet your body's nutrient quota, trigger your natural appetite-regulating hormones, and won't leave you wanting more. We tend not to overeat the foods that satisfy on all levels.
The basic goal of this book is simple: to introduce you to a new way of snacking healthfully in the raw. The snack recipes in this book eliminate the negatives and accentuate the positive aspects of snacking, helping to maximize vigor, vitality, beauty, physical stamina, and endurance at every stage of life. These family-and friend-tested recipes will aid in the achievement of the utmost nature has to offer: total, resilient, whole-body health, with eyes that sparkle, hair that is lustrous, skin that is fresh, glowing, moist, and smooth, nails that are strong, bodily organs that function well and work in harmony with each other, and - best of all benefits, as far as I'm concerned - mental and physical energy to spare. The road to health can be paved with wonderful freshness, new taste sensations, vibrant colors, and delectable flavors that make your taste buds dance and your spirits soar.
Anyone who is still a bit dubious or isn't sure about the taste excitement of whole, raw snack foods will swallow his or her skepticism with the first bite of my Creamy Carob Freezer Fudge or sip of my Papaya Sunset Soup. So, turn the pages and absorb a bit of information about the fresh world of raw foods and the importance of regular snacking. Learn how to stock your kitchen with the best raw ingredients and essential food-processing equipment and gadgets, and read the primer on learning how to "uncook". Then, jump right in, find a recipe that piques your interest, get your hands messy, and be prepared to enjoy some luscious snacks in the raw. The recipes are relatively simple to concoct, yet exciting on both visual and taste-satisfying levels. Once you get the knack of cooking in the raw, I hope you will be inspired to tap in to your own inner creativity in tweaking these recipes to suit your own personal tastes and dietary needs.
NOTE: The above article was derived from the book, Raw Energy, by Stephanie Tourles, Storey Publishing, 2009. The information is true and complete to the best of the author's knowledge. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of the author. Ms. Tourles disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. It is for educational purposes only.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Raw Energy - Part 1
Hello Everyone . . . Right now, I'm on the road, smack in the middle of my book tour for my latest book, "Raw Energy". I'm traveling throughout the country giving talks and doing raw food prep demonstrations and speaking to all manner of people who are interested in the raw food movement and what energizing, pure raw food can do towards helping to heal their bodies and rev up their energy levels.
"Raw Energy" was published in late December 2009 and is an introductory book into the world of raw foods. It is not a "militant" raw foodist book that will try to convert you to a 100% raw food diet and persecute you if you don't eat all raw, but rather, it is a book that will encourage you to integrate more raw, luscious, whole foods into your diet. It presents to you124 recipes for raw food snacks that range from juices, nut milks, smoothies, trail mixes, raw cereals and fruit parfaits, veggie chips and dips, to frozen fruit creams, chilled fruit soups, dehydrated energy bars, and raw confections (including raw fudge!!).
"Raw Energy" will also describe for you the equipment essentials necessary for making raw food creations, teach you how to "uncook", and will introduce you to raw food recipe ingredients and a few more exotic ingredients, such as raw cocoa, raw carob, spirulina, raw soy sauce, bee pollen, plus others.
I'm going to begin this Part-1 by writing, verbatim, the introduction of my book. I want you to see just how exciting and potentially delicious the addition of more raw foods - in the form of snack foods - into your diet can be. Here we go . . .
THE BENEFITS OF RAW SNACKS
"Raw Energy" was written especially for those of you seeking healthful and dramatically different alternatives to empty-calorie snack foods such as doughnuts, muffins, white-flour bagels, vending machine junk, processed cookies, cakes, candy, crackers, and chips, fast-food milkshakes, artifically flavored milk drinks, and pasteurized canned and bottled juices - not to mention so-called energy bars that frequently contain refined fruit syrups and high-fructose corn syrup.
The methodology of food preparation in "Raw Energy" represents a huge departure from the way most Americans cook. My aim with this book is to introduce you to a new realm of food preparation: uncooking! I hope to educate and make you, my health-conscious readers, aware that raw snacks can be far more satisfying than conventional snacks while providing deep, sustained, "get-up-and-go" power and promoting health, vitality, and good looks - as they tantalize the taste buds. The all-raw-ingredient recipes are easy to make, delicioius, and delightful to the eye and palate. And better still, they are highly nutrient-dense and enzymatically potent: raw foods retain their naturally occurring enzymes, which typically make them easier on the digestive system than cooked foods. These energy treats consist of real, whole foods, and are completely unheated and uncooked, as is each individual ingredient. Unlike most "no-bake" cookbooks published to date, "Raw Energy" recipes contain no sugar, fruit juice concentrate, jams or jellies, marshmallows or fluff, corn syrup, chocolate syrup, flour, dairy products, refined salt, candy pieces, toasted or roasted ingredients, malt sugar, chocolate or butterscotch chips, sulfured dried fruit, or hydrogenated fats. They DO contain raw nuts and seeds, raw unprocessed honey, raw nut butters, unsulfured dried fruits and coconut, raw oats, raw carob and raw cocoa (yes, raw cocoa powder does exist), freshly extracted juices, nut milks, and all types of fresh and frozen fruit. I even use raw sweet potatoes and zucchini to create sinfully delicious, crispy, dehydrated vegetable chips. These snacks are good for your body (nutrition and taste), mind (no guilt), and soul (satisfying).
I'll stop here this week. Next time, I'll pick up with, "What is the real health difference between my raw snacks and ubiquitous commercial snacks?" . . .
NOTE: This article / blog was written by Stephanie Tourles and taken from her new book, "Raw Energy", Storey Publishing, 2009. The information given is true and complete to the best of the author's knowledge. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of the author. The author disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. It is for educational purposes only.
"Raw Energy" was published in late December 2009 and is an introductory book into the world of raw foods. It is not a "militant" raw foodist book that will try to convert you to a 100% raw food diet and persecute you if you don't eat all raw, but rather, it is a book that will encourage you to integrate more raw, luscious, whole foods into your diet. It presents to you124 recipes for raw food snacks that range from juices, nut milks, smoothies, trail mixes, raw cereals and fruit parfaits, veggie chips and dips, to frozen fruit creams, chilled fruit soups, dehydrated energy bars, and raw confections (including raw fudge!!).
"Raw Energy" will also describe for you the equipment essentials necessary for making raw food creations, teach you how to "uncook", and will introduce you to raw food recipe ingredients and a few more exotic ingredients, such as raw cocoa, raw carob, spirulina, raw soy sauce, bee pollen, plus others.
I'm going to begin this Part-1 by writing, verbatim, the introduction of my book. I want you to see just how exciting and potentially delicious the addition of more raw foods - in the form of snack foods - into your diet can be. Here we go . . .
THE BENEFITS OF RAW SNACKS
"Raw Energy" was written especially for those of you seeking healthful and dramatically different alternatives to empty-calorie snack foods such as doughnuts, muffins, white-flour bagels, vending machine junk, processed cookies, cakes, candy, crackers, and chips, fast-food milkshakes, artifically flavored milk drinks, and pasteurized canned and bottled juices - not to mention so-called energy bars that frequently contain refined fruit syrups and high-fructose corn syrup.
The methodology of food preparation in "Raw Energy" represents a huge departure from the way most Americans cook. My aim with this book is to introduce you to a new realm of food preparation: uncooking! I hope to educate and make you, my health-conscious readers, aware that raw snacks can be far more satisfying than conventional snacks while providing deep, sustained, "get-up-and-go" power and promoting health, vitality, and good looks - as they tantalize the taste buds. The all-raw-ingredient recipes are easy to make, delicioius, and delightful to the eye and palate. And better still, they are highly nutrient-dense and enzymatically potent: raw foods retain their naturally occurring enzymes, which typically make them easier on the digestive system than cooked foods. These energy treats consist of real, whole foods, and are completely unheated and uncooked, as is each individual ingredient. Unlike most "no-bake" cookbooks published to date, "Raw Energy" recipes contain no sugar, fruit juice concentrate, jams or jellies, marshmallows or fluff, corn syrup, chocolate syrup, flour, dairy products, refined salt, candy pieces, toasted or roasted ingredients, malt sugar, chocolate or butterscotch chips, sulfured dried fruit, or hydrogenated fats. They DO contain raw nuts and seeds, raw unprocessed honey, raw nut butters, unsulfured dried fruits and coconut, raw oats, raw carob and raw cocoa (yes, raw cocoa powder does exist), freshly extracted juices, nut milks, and all types of fresh and frozen fruit. I even use raw sweet potatoes and zucchini to create sinfully delicious, crispy, dehydrated vegetable chips. These snacks are good for your body (nutrition and taste), mind (no guilt), and soul (satisfying).
I'll stop here this week. Next time, I'll pick up with, "What is the real health difference between my raw snacks and ubiquitous commercial snacks?" . . .
NOTE: This article / blog was written by Stephanie Tourles and taken from her new book, "Raw Energy", Storey Publishing, 2009. The information given is true and complete to the best of the author's knowledge. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of the author. The author disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. It is for educational purposes only.
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