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15 years ago
frances
I don't have raw restaurants in my area, so that removes the temptation to pay other people to prepare my food. Before raw, I rarely went out to eat, but I did often save time by buying lunch at work, etc... That sort of thing is more expensive than we sometimes want to admit to ourselves.
It's easy to spend a fortune on raw food, but even in northern climates it's possible to do it at reasona
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
pakd4fun Wrote:
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> When I see
> other people prepare cooked meals I wonder how any
> one can say raw meals are difficult. I spend
> about 1/4 (probably less) of the time preparing
> food than I did when we were a mostly cooked
> family.
I'm with you there. I've always enjoyed cooking, but now that I am making raw
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> Omega Products, Inc. has very strict Quality
> Control. I remember in the past they had problems
> with a
> new juicer, and didn't release it until it met the
>
> Omega Quality standards....WY
Well, that's good news. I had a worry that Omega might cut corners trying to ramp up productio
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
frances
Different types of kale are likely to be more nutritionally similar than say, kale and spinach are, but there are no rules. Different natural coloration in your food actually represents some good nutritional variance, so you have that going for you.
I would say you should enjoy your kale as long as you are enjoying your kale. If it begins to seem less appetizing over time, this may be your sys
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
125. Re: Coconut Oil
For substitutions, I think that it depends on the recipe and what flavors would suit it well. Do you have access to any raw nut oils? As a fallback, a good cold-pressed olive oil goes with just about anything.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
I don't know. Other places are still accepting back orders, I doubt that any definitive statement has been issued that the new units aren't coming. EverythingKitchens is still predicting mid-May.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
frances
The sprouted and dehydrated recipes do take a lot of forethought. Eating raw food doesn't really have to take a lot of time, though. The food starts out raw, right? When I'm busy, the best recipes are the ones that just take a little chopping or blending. Some of the celebrity raw food cookbooks include too many of the more time consuming recipes, but with seven books you should probably be able
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
California is one of the few places in the country where you can readily buy raw almonds. As I understand it, they will be pasteurized by law, even if labeled "raw", unless you buy them from the actual farmer. Farmers markets can be a great resource.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Hey, Sapphire! That photo thread brings back memories. We should start a new photo thread. Most of the photos in the early part of this one are broken links now, so it's not as friendly to the new people.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
My smoothies often put people off too, especially if they're green or brown. When I'm making an extra effort not to make people uncomfortable, like at a family function, I mix the smoothie with an eye toward non-threatening colors. My fruity smoothie is easier to accept if it's bright red or orange, even yellow. At these times I either leave out the greens, or I use ones that aren't actually gree
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
frances
I use a food processor regularly, but not for smoothies. As a rule, a food processor will work better with drier things. If you give it something as wet as a smoothie to process, you'll probably end up with quite a mess. I use my food processor for grinding nuts and/or seeds into crusts and doughs, and for mixing pestos, patés and other thick sauces. Thin sauces and liquids are probably not a go
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
frances
Fenugreek sprouts have a nice, licorice flavor. You can sprout them until they've just developed a tail and are still mostly seed, or let them go several days until they're a leafy green sprout. The flavor is not too mild, so you might want to make a small batch as a salad additive the first time and see what you think.
I've had good luck with fenugreek sold as a spice (not as a seed) still be
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
133. Re: cherimoyas
5 grams isn't that unusual for a fruit of that size, is it?
I love cherimoyas, too. I haven't had them much. They don't ship well, and I don't live in a cherimoya part of the world.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
134. Re: Dried fruits
My least favorite dried fruit has been blueberries. Maybe it's just the particular supplier where I shop, but the dried blueberries are pretty flavorless.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
pakd4fun Wrote:
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> I seriously would love to have that sprout picture
> really large above my bed!!!
If you want the full resolution original you can have it, but just don't tell me anything about what you do with it in the bedroom!
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
If a society does condone eating maggots, I don't see that as marring their moral fiber as a society. I guess it's because I can't conjure any sympathy for the maggots. After all, they show less self-awareness than most plants. My personal reason for not eating maggots is the same as my reason for not drinking urine. I don't think it's evil, it just sets off my "eww" meter.
Still off
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
I agree, Debbie, about the limitations of online communication. I've heard disagreeing numbers about how much human communication is non-verbal, and I don't really understand what it means to apply a number to that. How do you count a "communication", anyway? Still, non-verbal communication is a big part of how humans relate, and text-only communication loses a lot. Some of the things w
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
This lack of focus is not uncommon for web forums, regardless of the topic or the community involved. Particularly, when really difficult questions are proposed, you are bound to get a lot of responses that talk around the central question. People who are unwilling to respond to the question without knowing the answer tend not to participate, and in the end this is not a customer-service forum. T
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Oh, wow! Mustard greens are terrible in a green smoothie. A lot of greens' flavors are really emphasized by the blending. What you might have barely noted as a spicy leaf in a green salad becomes a biological weapon in a smoothie! I hope you hadn't put any valuable ingredients in there.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
140. Re: Dried fruits
Dried fruits will never get back to their original level of hydration. They will soak up water and get softer, but not that much.
One of my favorite dried fruit recipes is a golden raisin syrup that I learned from a YouTube video. Soak the golden raisins until they're somewhat soft (an hour should be plenty). Then put them in a blender with just enough water to blend. The resulting syrup is r
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
I'm using the new T5 grow lights, which are very efficient and produce very little heat. They're probably not as efficient as the LED lights, but I don't know how close they are. I like that the light they produce looks more natural to the human eye, so my plants look more "normal". I would be interested to see if anyone has done a compare-and-contrast between LED and T5 grow lights. Mo
Forum: Sprouting and Organic Gardening 15 years ago
frances
Swiss chard. I don't know why, but I've never been able to develop a taste for it.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
The organic melons haven't shown up here yet, but I bought a conventional cantaloupe yesterday. I'm looking forward to being able to juice watermelon rind again this year!
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
There's a soup recipe in Rawvolution where the liquid base is daikon radish juice. It's a faux chicken-noodle soup. It's not my favorite recipe of Matt Amsden's, but it's interesting and the daikon juice has an interesting flavor.
Maybe daikon isn't the most potent, but it might be easier to take in quantity.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
I find that sometimes you just have to get something imported. That said, I like to go berry picking in the summer and stock my freezer with quart bags of different things. It really adds some fund and variety to a dull winter diet when I can pull out a bag of blueberries, raspberries, or tart cherries once in a while. I dehydrate during the summer too, but I don't enjoy the dehydrated foods as m
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Where I live we don't have any cashew or almond trees, but I was recently in California where I had an opportunity to buy some raw almonds at a farmers market and to have a discussion with the grower.
I bought some which had been shelled, and some still in the shell. The ones in the shell had no processing at all, and the farmer advised me that most almonds that are sold in the shell have been
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
frances
If you're concerned that you aren't getting enough protein, try adding lots of sprouts to your smoothies. Sprouts are very healthy, extremely vibrant foods, which are all high in protein. Greens are very high in protein too. For example, spinach gets the majority of its calories from protein, and most of the rest are fiber:
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
It can be really hard if you live in a climate with cold winters. For myself, living in rural New York, I eat a lot of hothouse grown foods, imported foods, and things that I've frozen or dehydrated during the summer. Sprouts are a great way to produce high quality food throughout the winter.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Thanks, Omega.
We don't see them often in New York State, but I'll be traveling to California and Florida this month, and will keep an eye out for one. (I'm not really sure where they grow.)
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Suvine, once it starts peeling itself, how long do you wait to eat it? I live in NY, and I've only had one monstera deliciosa. I wasn't sure how long to wait because it didn't seem like it would fully peel before it spoiled. I stopped waiting because the exposed part of the fruit was starting to turn brown.
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