Simple, quick and easy raw food recipes with Paul Nison

Preparing raw food is not difficult. You don't need to cook, bake or do other difficult things. With some creativity, you can come up with the most delicious dishes.

Here Paul Nison shows you how to make a very simple, basic raw food recipe. Quick and easy to make. He calls it blended salad. Some call it energy soup or a blended smoothie.

Basic ingredients:
1 avocado
1/2 cucumber
1 stalk of celery
1 tomato
handful of greens or several handfuls of greens, like spinach
1 clove of garlic
seasalt to taste

You can also add lemon, orange juice, edible flowers, fennel or sea vegetables for a change. Experiment with sea vegetables, they are very healthy.

Preparing raw food is the fastest and easiest way to prepare food!

Broccoli with tahini dip sauce, a great raw food snack

This snack is great, if you sit down in the afternoon or evening and want to eat something healthy, that is easy to make. You can also serve it on parties.

Serves two

Ingredients:
½ - 1 small head of broccoli

For the dip sauce:
4 tablespoons raw tahini
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon lemon
½ teaspoon salt

Cut the broccoli into florets.
Mix all the ingredients for the dip sauce with a spoon.

Sit down, relax and enjoy your broccoli and tahini snack.
You can also add radishes, carrot-, cucumber- and bell pepper sticks.

If you add some dehydrated crackers or sprouted Essene bread, you have a whole meal.

Raw food kids Blake Clement and Tom Watkins about their lifestyle

Last Wednesday Esmé and I, from Raw Food Europe, interviewed Blake Clement (10) and Tom Watkins (11). Blake is the youngest son of Anna Maria and Brian Clement. He has always lived on a raw living food diet. Tom is a Dutch boy, with an English father, who eats raw food since 5 years. This week there was a documentary on Dutch television about Tom's life, called "Rauw". The other boy is Julan (8), a friend of Tom. He is Dutch and can't express himself so well in English.

We asked the boys about their life. What they eat during the day. What they do, when they go to friends. If their friends eat at their house. What food they like best. What they think of the raw food diet.

It's great to see, how these energetic and intelligent boys react. Just like any other kid. They hardly seem to realize that they live differently. Blake tells that other children think "he is cool" and want to be like him. I can imagine, he is happy, healthy, energetic and travels all over the world with his parents. That is pretty "cool" for a boys his age.

Watch these raw food kids, as they tell the raw food story from a kids perspective.

Anna Maria Clement: living food diet for cancer, diabetes, obesity

Last Wednesday Anna Maria PhD, NMD and Brian Clement PhD, NMD were in the Netherlands for a lecture and interview with Raw Food Europe. This video is the first part of the lecture, in which Anna Maria explains why and how the raw living food diet works.

Together with her husband Brian Clement, she runs the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida. Brian and Anna Maria have over 35 years experience in health and nutrition and coach very sick people from all over the world. They have good results with cancer, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Together with leading universities in the US, Brian and Anna Maria Clement do research on diet and health. They contribute highly to modern scientific insights about nutrition. A plant based diet (preferably 80% raw) turns out the be the best diet for health and longevity.

Brian and Anna Maria Clement on fruits, sprouts and weeds

Last wednesday Esmé and I interviewed Brian Clement and Anna Maria Clement in Amsterdam.
We asked: "What is the best food to eat, if you don't want to eat 100% raw".
Brian’s answer (from a scientific background) is remarkable.
It is very important not to eat too much fruit. Many people eat massive amounts of fruit and fruit sugars in their raw food diet. There are different reasons, why to avoid this.
Sprouts, greens and weeds are much healthier.
If you do want to add other foods to these sprouts, greens and weeds, it is best to add some cooked vegetables or grains like millet, quinoa, buckwheat and amaranth (up to 20% of your diet, when you are healthy).

Raw Food Carving: how to make a radish rat

Great to garnish your dishes, especially for kids.

Rawfood teacher David Wolfe went to Chinese restaurants

Last September Esmé and I, from Raw Food Europe, interviewed David Wolfe in Antwerpen. On this video David Wolfe confesses his greatest sin: he went to Chinese restaurants in the middle of the night. Why? Watch this new video and enjoy the greatest confession ever!

Beautiful Carrot-Orange-Dill "Gentle Touch" Smoothie

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This beautiful orange smoothie has a very gentle taste. The combination is surprising.
You need a juicer to make carrot-orange juice. This juice is the basis for your smoothie.

Serves 2

Ingredients:
2 large carrots
2 oranges, peeled
1 avocado
handful fresh dill
2 teaspoons lemon

Wash or peel the carrots. I prefer peeling, because they taste better this way.
Juice the carrots and oranges and pour this juice into your blender.
Add the avocado, dill and lemon juice.
Blend until smooth and creamy.
Garnish with some lemon and dill.

This smoothie has a mild dreamy taste. It’s great as an aperitif.

Oat and almond sprout milk, recipes for delicious sprout milks

Thomas E. Billings

Oat Sprout Milk - Special Version
The following makes around 3 cups of delicious oat and almond milk.

Start with: a little more than 1/4 cup dry sprouting oats, and, optionally, 1/8 cup Lundberg Farms Wehani rice. Soak 12 hours, then sprout for 1.5 days. Separately, soak 15-20 almonds for 12 hours, then sprout for 1.0 days (should be ready about same time as oat sprouts).

Rinse oat (/rice) sprouts, put in blender with 2 cups good quality water, blend. Best to add 1 cup water, blend on medium for 30 seconds or so, then add second cup of water and blend on high for another 30-45 seconds. Now strain the blended liquid through a steel mesh strainer and/or cheesecloth (or similar). Discard hull pulp, rinse blender clean, put base milk back in blender. **

Peel the sprouted almonds (might blanch first with warm water), rinse, put almonds in blender. Add 1 tablespoon of raw honey (or other sweetener, optional) to blender. Now add flavoring, one of: vanilla bean (about 1/2 inch or so), cardamom seed (decorticated or powder, 1/4 tsp), or cinnamon (1 rounded tsp). Run blender on medium speed for a few seconds to mix/grind, then turn down to low speed and let blender run for 5+ minutes to homogenize. (The almonds are not strained out but retained in the milk for full flavor and nutrition.)

Note that the recipe up to ** is the basic milk recipe; can use recipe, substituting other types of grains, seeds, or nuts for the rice, to yield other types of oat sprout milk. Sprouting/soaking details will vary with grain, seed, or nut used in place of the rice.

I found this article at www.chetday.com. It's published on the blog with permission. Thanks!

Stop malnutrition with spirulina "the food of the future"

The bluegreen algae spirulina is an ancient food, that people have always eaten all over the world. Spirulina was the main source of protein in Pre-Columbian Mexico for thousands of years. It contains 60% protein.
Spirulina can play a very important role in solving malnutrition, especially under children.
It is cheap to produce and grows best in warm climates, where you find most malnutrition. Spirulina is considered "the food of the future".

The superfood chlorella for energy, weight loss and longevity

Chlorella is a single cell algae. It contains all the nutrients you need, has strong detoxification properties and stimulates the friendly bacteria in your body. Chlorella is a whole food, not an extract or concentrate. In Japan people eat more chlorella, than people in the West vitamin C. Chlorella builds energy, helps with weight loss and is considered to be a longevity food.
The algae was discovered back in 1898. Now it is grown in big ponds filled with purified water.

Raw food lessons for kids: put a little sunshine in your mouth

Put a little sunshine in your mouth.



I like to eat spples and bananas.

A new episode in the series Raw Food Lessons for Kids.
Adults, you can skip this or ... enjoy it!

Happy and Healthy Easter!

David Wolfe and Tim Van Orden: protein sources in the raw vegan diet

How do you get your protein, if you eat a raw vegan diet? This is a question, we raw get all the time. In these video's, you get the answers of two raw food experts.

David Wolfe gives an overview of some foods in the raw food diet that are rich in protein: spirulina, seaweeds in general, seeds, nuts, bee pollen and vegetables. The protein in the raw food diet is highly absorbable, so you don't need as much protein as western nutritionists tell you.

Tim Van Orden has a somewhat different approach, which I think is very interesting.
You don't need protein, you need amino acids. Raw food is filled with amino acids in the
form of enzymes. Enzymes are nothing else than complex chains of animo acids.
Although Tim doesn't get enough protein according to western theory, he is 15 pounds overweight as an athlete, all muscle tissue. How is that possible? Watch these interesting videos.

Raw Art Video - Beautiful Food - Watermelon Carving

Watching the beautiful video is like watching a mandala being made.
It is a meditation by itself. So beautiful and inspiring.
I feel like making one myself right away.
Isn't this the best raw food dish, you could serve on a party?

Here are some more videos to get going yourself!