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Faith
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posted March 04, 2013 03:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Are there any healthy foods that you consistently eat, that come together quickly as meals or snacks?

For snacks, I tend to always have hummus and some kind of "healthy" chips on hand. But my main snack is apples and occasionally fresh popcorn. Sometimes I grate up a bunch of carrots and keep them in a pretty glass container in the fridge. Even my kids love these.

For meals, I usually have a few things I can throw together quickly. My family has different tastes than me, so I can't boast that these are family meals. Still they are easy, freeing me up to cook for the others.

1) I make big batches of granola. I usually add in chopped apples, almond milk, sunflower seeds and flax oil.

My Granola:

1/2 cup extra virgin coconut oil
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 cup chopped nuts and seeds
7 cups old fashioned rolled oats
pinch of salt
sprinkle of cinnamon

To make: Carefully melt coconut oil if it's solid, and add maple syrup. Set aside to cool.

Process nuts and seeds in food processor. Put in a big bowl with the oats, salt, and cinnamon. Add oil & syrup; stir to coat.

Spread on a cookie sheet with a rim. Push the granola in from the rim so it doesn't burn. Cook at 350 F for 10 minutes, stir and push granola away from the sides, cook another ten minutes. Then turn the oven off and let it toast in there a while.

2) Bean and Grain salad

Mix a rinsed can of beans with some cooked grains (I prefer brown rice or quinoa.) Add dressing (I like seasoned rice vinegar with Bragg's Liquid Aminos in equal amounts.) Add, if you like: diced cucumbers, diced marinated red peppers, thawed frozen corn, sliced scallions.

I often fill a bowl with chopped spinach, top it with this salad, then finish with goat cheese crumbles and some black pepper.

3) Brown Rice Tortilla, pesto sauce, sliced tomatoes, goat cheese pizza. Yum! =)

4) I make the following soup in a rather big batch, and it lasts about three days (makes three meals.) The recipe is adapted here from Ayurvedic Cooking for Westerners, by Amadea Morningstar (fave cookbook.) I eat this all the time:

1 tablespoon grated ginger
2 sliced scallions (white part)
1-2 garlic cloves

Put some oil, butter or ghee (I often use sesame oil) in a pan, and add the above ingredients. Then add:

3 cups mixed, diced vegetables of your choice
1 quart water

Bring that to a boil and add freshly ground pepper along with:

1/3 package pasta (I like quinoa pasta) ...or however much you like

-or-

1/3 cup split mung beans

-and/or-

tofu cubes

Bring to a boil again, turn heat down to low, and let simmer about 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, put in a bowl some soy sauce (or tamari or Bragg's) and hot sauce if you like, and a bit of toasted sesame oil if you have it on hand. I also add chopped greens of all sorts (cilantro, spinach, watercress, pre-cooked kale) and sliced scallion greens.

Add cooked soup to the bowl of fixins.

Now wasn't that good? =)

*****

And that's what I eat. I wrote more than I intended but I realized it would be hard to explain my diet without recipes.

Interested to hear about your choices. =)

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SunChild
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posted March 04, 2013 05:54 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Convenience? My specialty! Most food we eat is convenient and healthy. This is a list of our regular food items- no brainers and easy to keep the kids happy.

Organic Garlic Tofu (I eat it cold out of the bag, dipped in habanero sauce or tomato sauce for the kids) - we all must have nice breath lol

Hummus with rice crackers (the thin ones, I top mine with Harrissa)

Cut up veggies with hummus, the kids like yogurt dip)

Prunes, pitted, organic, room temperature.

Inca Berries (YYYUUUUM)

Mixed nut, I only eat brazil nuts, kids like cashews and almonds.

Pumpkin seed butter.

Cashew Cheese spread on flax seed crackers.

Cut up apples with almond butter, honey and cinnamon.

Homemade brown rice & Avocado Nori Rolls (convenient when I have precooked rice in the fridge- takes seconds to make.)

Gluten free flat bread (GF flour, sunflower oil, soy milk) rolled out and lightly browned on each side. I heat up some curry paste and coconut cream and make a dip.

Blanched Veggies with italian dressing.

Honey roasted macadamias.

Raw Vegan Rum Balls

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posted March 04, 2013 05:57 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I like your recipes Faith. Thanks for the ideas.

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Faith
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posted March 04, 2013 07:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank YOU for the ideas, too!

Questions, sorry if there are too many~

1)Do you buy or make the harissa, pumpkin seed butter, cashew cheese, rum balls?

Can you tell me what's in the rum balls? Can I get drunk from eating them? =)

(Sorry, all these planets transiting in Pisces are making me want to escape a bit.)

2) Do you eat the Brazil nuts...for the selenium?

3) I feel like a health-nut flunky for even asking this but, um...do you have to use toasted nori for the nori rolls? Because last time I checked at Whole Foods, toasted nori costs twice as much as untoasted!

$20 for 8 toasted nori sheets!

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Gluten free flat bread (GF flour, sunflower oil, soy milk) rolled out and lightly browned on each side. I heat up some curry paste and coconut cream and make a dip.

Yum! Is that like a tortilla that you make from scratch? I have a recipe I could try adapting with GF flour. I think I'll try that tomorrow...feel like experimenting lately.

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Faith
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posted March 06, 2013 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I just went to the health store and there, toasted and untoasted nori were the same price, $8 for 10. I don't know if Whole Foods is different or I was just confused.

I bought curry paste, came home & mixed it with coconut milk, warmed it up to make a sauce. 'Cut a brown rice tortilla into wedges and put them in the toaster oven at 350F for five minutes....dipped them in the sauce!

Loved it!! Thanks!

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posted March 06, 2013 09:51 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Faith: Thank YOU for the ideas, too!

Questions, sorry if there are too many~

1)Do you buy or make the harissa, pumpkin seed butter, cashew cheese, rum balls?


I buy the harissa, but I make the seed and nut butters with my blendtec, I occasionally make the rum balls but I prefer to the buy them.

I love this recipe for cashew cheese- http://girlonraw.com/2012/09/garlic-cashew-cheese-raw/

I found one with truffle oil in it, and OMG it was eaten in one day, cost me $10 for a little jar. It's cheaper to make.

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Can you tell me what's in the rum balls? Can I get drunk from eating them? =)


Yes and no...to the drunk question (depending on whether I am making adult only ones. ) I throw in cacao butter, cacao powder, coconut oil, agave syrup, or coconut sugar, cashews, raisins and walnuts into a blendtec with rum or cacao liqueur. The ingredients change from time to time depending on what I've got going on in the pantry- roll in coconut and voila.

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2) Do you eat the Brazil nuts...for the selenium?

Yes, but they are my favourite nut, I love the earthy taste.

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3) I feel like a health-nut flunky for even asking this but, um...do you have to use toasted nori for the nori rolls? Because last time I checked at Whole Foods, toasted nori costs twice as much as untoasted!

Yeah, I'm not really fussy, I just buy what I can get from a supermarket most of the time. I think it's toasted by the flavour though I used to be adamant about getting untoasted for a richer nutrient content.

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$20 for 8 toasted nori sheets!
No way! That is so wrong. I can by 8 nori rolls from a restaurant for that much!

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posted March 06, 2013 10:07 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Faith:
I just went to the health store and there, toasted and untoasted nori were the same price, $8 for 10. I don't know if Whole Foods is different or I was just confused.

I bought curry paste, came home & mixed it with coconut milk, warmed it up to make a sauce. 'Cut a brown rice tortilla into wedges and put them in the toaster oven at 350F for five minutes....dipped them in the sauce!

Loved it!! Thanks!


Very yummy, a curry fix that is still authentic but quicker and easier than slaving away in the kitchen. I'm drooling now thinking of it.

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posted March 07, 2013 03:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted March 07, 2013 06:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stawr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
guacamole!
peel an avocado, take out the pit. In a bowl mix avocado and salsa.

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posted March 08, 2013 11:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Avocvado is superfood. It is chock-full of goodies.

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Faith
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posted March 08, 2013 05:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
@SunChild~ thanks for the reply! I'll try that cashew cheese & keep rum balls in mind.

@Stawr~ Why did that never occur to me before? Avocado + salsa = guacamole!

'Will try it!

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posted March 09, 2013 10:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stawr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
whenever I'm hungry or want a healthy snack, guacamole saves the day.

but once ya start making your own, it's hard to go back to the pre made stuff at the store. It's just not the same.

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posted March 10, 2013 03:49 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Guac makes me want to break out the corn chips. *naughty

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posted December 29, 2020 11:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stawr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
hard boiled eggs
dates(I have them with yogurt in the morning)
microwave Indian food meals that are all GF

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posted December 29, 2020 12:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for vansio     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
vegetables (anything) *with avocado wrapped in nori

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posted February 05, 2021 08:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stawr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bag of mini cucumbers.
I love snacking on them. Easy to bring to work too.

Hash browns! I never get sick of eating them. Squirt on some ketchup and fry and egg and put it on top. And let the yolk and ketchup soak into the hash.

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posted February 06, 2021 12:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GalacticCoreExplosion     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I make my guac extra easy and convenient. I mix the avocado with apple cider vinegar (and spices).

I don't drink coffee because I'm sensitive to caffeine, but because I rather like the taste and smell, I store my reusable/washable mask in a mason jar with roasted arabica whole coffee beans, so that for the first few hours or so of work, I smell coffee pretty strongly. The nice thing is, as long as you close the lid tight, the same beans will last for awhile.

(BOOM, blowing minds one post/mind at a time).

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posted February 07, 2021 09:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MoonMystic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The hard boiled eggs are ok,,sliced cucumber with black pepper is a favorite.

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posted February 09, 2021 09:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stawr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
pickles

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