Hi everyone, I am keen on increasing the amount of raw food that I eat. So far, I am making grated salads with combinations of some or one of swede, carrot, beetroot, cauliflower or cabbage. I then pour over a dressing I make. Any food combinations and recipes would be extremely helpful. To make it a little difficult I can only eat the veges I grow as you can rarely buy organic veges or fruit in the small town where I live.
Thank you for your attention.
Katherine
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Hi Glen and Steven, thank you for your reply. I love the idea of eating sprouts. I grew buckwheat last year, for palatability I think I will have to unhull it before I sprout it. Very interesting. I am very keen to get as much goodness out of my tomatoes as possible. Apparently Lycopene is very good for cancer patients and Oxheart has the highest quantity of this. I read about this research in the Tree Croppers magazine. I will have to eat half of my tomatoes cooked and the other half raw to cover all bases.
Katherine
Angie Gibbons > Katherine LucasMarch 24, 2010 at 1:00am
Hi
Try making fermented tomato sauce with your Oxheart tomatos this will let you get the best out of them.
Angie
Thank you Glen. I shall use both of your dressing recipes. By the way I did hear on the radio the other day that red and orange vegetables need to be accompanied with a fat to help the body extract the nutrients from them. Also read ages ago that the lypcene (I don't think I have the word correct) in tomatoes is best available if the tomato is cooked.
Lycopene itself may (MAY) be more bioavailable when a tomato is cooked, but many thousands of other important nutrients that the tomato also contains are definately less bioavailable when it's cooked! Vitamins B & C, and many many other little-known but very-beneficial phytonutrients, are destroyed by heat, This is one of the important things that Ive learned during my past 10 years of research and living a raw food "diet" (lifestyle).
I have found that there is a vast learning curve when it comes to nutrition, and a lifestyle which provides optimal wellness. Generally I take most recommendations ( even those of the professionals ) with a grain of salt. Research all you can and keep an open mind I reckon. The concept of cooking the tomatoes for extra benifit, sounds to me like another half cocked conclusion based on very specific, exclusive data.
Something that I am getting into in a big way now days is sprouting. I grow wheatgrass, pea greens, lentil greens, buckwheat greens, and mung, lentil and a bunch of other sprouts for eating whole. I find the greens to be a yummy, nutritious and cheap home grown vege to bulk up any salad with.
Thank you Glen. I shall use both of your dressing recipes.
By the way I did hear on the radio the other day that red and orange vegetables need to be accompanied with a fat to help the body extract the nutrients from them. Also read ages ago that the lypcene (I don't think I have the word correct) in tomatoes is best available if the tomato is cooked.
My own diet has constantly evolved as I have learned more about health, and subsequently so has my recipe book. I have found that you can make salads out of practically anything, and you can find out what you like / dislike through trying it out. Generally speaking, I think that the more you have in a salad the nicer it gets. A sure fire winning salad dressing is 1/2 cider vinegar, 1/3 tamari sauce and then toasted sesame oil to taste.
I now generally use avocado, orange juice and garlic blended up as my dressing.
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Katherine
Try making fermented tomato sauce with your Oxheart tomatos this will let you get the best out of them.
Angie
Lycopene itself may (MAY) be more bioavailable when a tomato is cooked, but many thousands of other important nutrients that the tomato also contains are definately less bioavailable when it's cooked! Vitamins B & C, and many many other little-known but very-beneficial phytonutrients, are destroyed by heat, This is one of the important things that Ive learned during my past 10 years of research and living a raw food "diet" (lifestyle).
Something that I am getting into in a big way now days is sprouting. I grow wheatgrass, pea greens, lentil greens, buckwheat greens, and mung, lentil and a bunch of other sprouts for eating whole. I find the greens to be a yummy, nutritious and cheap home grown vege to bulk up any salad with.
By the way I did hear on the radio the other day that red and orange vegetables need to be accompanied with a fat to help the body extract the nutrients from them. Also read ages ago that the lypcene (I don't think I have the word correct) in tomatoes is best available if the tomato is cooked.
My own diet has constantly evolved as I have learned more about health, and subsequently so has my recipe book. I have found that you can make salads out of practically anything, and you can find out what you like / dislike through trying it out. Generally speaking, I think that the more you have in a salad the nicer it gets. A sure fire winning salad dressing is 1/2 cider vinegar, 1/3 tamari sauce and then toasted sesame oil to taste.
I now generally use avocado, orange juice and garlic blended up as my dressing.