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14 years ago
frances
I agree with Jodi. An emotional preoccupation with food can as easily become a preoccupation with what you aren't eating as with what you are. A commitment to not eat for days can start to consume your focus and willpower until it becomes a large part of how you define yourself. That can lead to either continuing the fast to where it becomes unhealthy, or to massive self-recrimination when you do
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
Pineapples can be very problematic, especially if you're buying ones that have been shipped a long way. They pick them when they aren't fully ripe - so they will endure the shipping It seems like when they do finally ripen off of the plant, more acid remains than you'll find in pineapples that have been picked ripe.
Living in a colder climate, all of my pineapples are like this, and I'm forced
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
There is a measurable though inconsistent health benefit to believing you are going to be healthy. A person eating a turkey sandwich with perfect faith that it will make them healthier will have slightly better results than someone else eating an exact sandwich. This difference (the placebo effect) is usually comparatively short-term, and even the short-term effectiveness is usually limited.
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Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
Mislu, That's very true. Packaged goods are usually much better about warnings regarding nuts than they are about dairy. This is mostly because vegans are largely considered silly for their concerns while it is widely understood how deadly a peanut allergy can be. I consider myself lucky and blessed not to have allergies, let alone dangerous ones. A cousin of mine died of a peanut allergy when he
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
Hey, Paul.
You're conflating censorship and the first amendment. Your description of the first amendment is good, but calling something censorship is not a claim that the first amendment does or should apply, or that the censorship is illegal. Most censorship is completely legal, and much of it is entirely laudable. If Bryan were deleting messages promoting child porn web sites then we would
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
Mislu Wrote:
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> I remember seeing something about most cashews not
> really being raw.
Most shelled cashews have been machine shelled, and apparently there is a worrisome amount of heat involved in that process. I really don't know how much. I have recently seen hand-shelled cashews being sold, but you pay a premium for all that h
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
The sooner you drink your blended beverages, the better, but you can't always finish them up as soon as they're ready. I bring blended smoothies to work all the time. The risk with keeping your blended concoctions around is that they will oxidize over time. You may notice that the surface of your blended salad may start to turn a little browner after several hours. One of my strategies for minimi
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
frances
I have noticed that the fact that this is a raw board doesn't generally forbid discussion of cooked food, and whether and when cooked food might ever be appropriate. It does seem to mean that debate on the vegan question is completely disallowed.
I appreciate the debates about raw foods, and reading this forum helps to shore up my own certainty that the raw path is better. Because the other di
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
39. Re: wine
Many raw foodists drink wine, while many others choose to avoid all alcohol. I usually avoid it, but do make exceptions for family gatherings. Many raw foodists drift naturally away from alcohol over time, and I have found that to be true myself.
Wine and beer aren't pasteurized after fermentation, so they are more raw than distilled alcoholic beverages. Most wines have added sugar, which is n
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
It's certainly possible to eat too many bananas (too much of anything is too much), but three bananas in a day is not close to being a problem for most people. Unless you're having a negative reaction to the bananas, I wouldn't worry. A second banana in your morning smoothie might make it a little more filling! This time of year, apples are another important calorie staple for me.
Raw foods ca
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
What to freeze and when is a fairly large question. Nothing, not even fruit, will be as good after freezing as it was fresh. As you know, most fruit will freeze better than most veggies. That's because vegetable cells are usually less flexible and are more likely to rupture when their internal water freezes and expands. Blanching helps to soften the cells so they are more flexible.
It stands
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
frances
I think you'll be very happy with your decision. I know I'm very glad I chose my Omega 8006.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
A juicer like the Greenstar can replace some of the grinding behavior of a food processor, but I wouldn't consider it to be close to a replacement for a real food processor. If you haven't worked with a food processor in the past, I would suggest searching youtube for "food processor". There are quite a few demo videos that can familiarize you with what to expect a food processor to do.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
communitybuilder Wrote:
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> He thought you had to have a beard to be a genius.
Hmmm. As a woman, I'm a little miffed. Anyway, I thought you had to have a beard to be a prophet.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
45. Re: Lemon Juice
Lemon juice can slow oxidation. That's why I always squeeze a little lemon or lime over chopped apples or avocados that I'm not using immediately, but it's not an actual preservative (as I understand the word anyway).
Salt, as Tamukha said, is a preservative. The more salt you use, the more effective it is. This is a dangerous strategy to extend too far, obviously.
Fermented foods, like vin
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
frances
People have been breeding plants for as almost as long as we've been planting them. We take the examples with traits we like, good taste, quick growing, bigger size, whatever. We breed these examples and see what we get. After enough plant-generations the original plant can be radically altered. The article you linked to points out that this process is indispensable if we're to produce the amount
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
I consider my food processor to be an important part of my raw kitchen, even beside my high speed blender. The high speed blender is capable of some very impressive feats, but it's not as well suited to chopping and mixing in low-liquid situations as the blender.
Here's one of my favorite food processor recipes. This is my best standby for bringing a dish to events with non-raw non-vegetarian
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
Both the Vitamix and Champion juicer are specialty items, so you can sometimes find them in stores, but they aren't always easy to find. I think my aunt bought her Vitamix at Costco in St Louis, but I don't know whether it's an item they regularly carry.
In addition to regular kitchen stores, you could try calling restaurant equipment supply stores in your area. Restaurant owners are more like
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
Many people find it hard to get enough calories on a more-veg-less-fruit diet, or else they depend heavily on fats. There's no real consensus on how important carb/protein/fat balance is on a raw diet, so you are free to decide how worried to be.
If you're having negative reactions to large amounts of fruit, then it makes sense to experiment. Another possibility might be to simplify your fruit
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
There are a lot of great juicers out there, and this type of question tends to bring a flood of enthusiastic responses.
I use the Omega 8006, a single-auger juicer, and I think it's great. It fits your requirement of quality and easy cleaning. It will juice just about anything, including wheatgrass. I would recommend it without reservations, though I haven't experimented with as many different
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
Like in conventional cooking, oil prevents things from sticking together. You can either oil the sheet before you add your fruit, or just struggle with peeling of the dehydrated food. I generally don't oil my sheets. Since the sheets are flexible I'm able to peel the food off one way or the other, then scrub the sheets clean. Oiling might be particularly important if you're making something fragi
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
frances
For me it was corn. As long as it's really fresh, picked within a day, usually, it's way better raw than cooked on the cob. The season for corn where I am isn't very long, but it is lovely. My favorite thing is to buy a cob at the farmers market on Saturday and eat it as my first food of the day while I do my week's shopping. I sometimes get jealous looks or comments from people who think they ha
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
FinallyFeelingBetter, I don't have any particular recipe. The cilantro is a strong enough flavor that I don't feel the need to use particularly interesting or expensive fruit combinations.
Common ingredients for me would be 2-3 cups water, 2 bunches cilantro, 2-3 small-medium apples, 1-2 bananas, 1 brazil nut, 1-2 T flax seeds. The brazil nut and flax seeds are just nutritional boosters. I mig
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
jamesdbll Wrote:
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> Grab a copy of the China Study if you havn't
> already. It has some really convincing evidence
> that fiber is extremely important. I agree that
> there is a time and place for juicing, even
> exclusively as in a feast, but we need fiber to
> bind toxins for removal.
I'm not an expert on the
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
I would refrigerate them, and try not to let them sit around many days. Completely dry crackers will last a long time without refrigeration, but I imagine that your patties are still a little juicy. It's hard to say how long they should last. Oil, sugar and salt are all preservatives, so fatty or salty burgers might last longer. It sounds like your burgers aren't as fatty as they could be (that's
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
frances
56. Re: How To Eat
Hi Mello,
As you continue to read around, I'm sure you'll find quite a few comments from people who have lost quite a bit of weight and made huge strides in their personal energy and health while eating fairly high-fat raw food diets, e.g. 2-3 avocados a day. If a higher fat raw diet is what you feel drawn to right now, then don't feel conflicted about it (or try not to feel conflicted). Where
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
I also try to buy produce with little or no packaging. At the grocery store, the bin sticker or rubber band bunches are good, but I prefer to skip the two-fruits-in-a-styrofoam-tray ridiculousness. Food that comes in plastic bags is not always avoidable. If the bags are sturdy enough, I try to reuse them around the house before they eventually get tossed.
At my grocery store I can shop into an
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
The association between wealth and eating meat is not an American phenomenon. Meat is much more expensive to produce than vegetables, and we live in a world where starvation has been a major risk for the poor in most societies throughout history. Those who can feed themselves at all are doing okay, but those who can eat meat regularly clearly have wealth to spare.
The modern American situation
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
My mother is in the same boat as Debbie. She could never stand food that had any cilantro in it, but somehow that reaction got mellowed, so she doesn't mind it much anymore. She's hardly a cilantro-lover, but she doesn't have the same strong reaction to it that she once did.
For myself, I have always loved the stuff. Two whole bunches of cilantro is one of my favorite green components for smoo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
My food processor is a pretty nice one my mother bought me. It's more likely to produce nut meal than nut butter. I use that feature to make pie crusts. I crush the nuts (usually almonds) into meal, then add fresh or soaked dates and process until I have a heavy dough, which I press into my pie plate. Easy-peasy. I'd be impressed if there's a food processor that will make spreadable butter, but I
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