April 17

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Raw Breakfast and Lunch Recipe Ideas – Raw for 1/2 Day

Breakfast? Lunch? Cover these Raw Breakfast and Lunch Ideas and you’re set with Raw for 1/2 Day as part of your daily routine. It’s easy and quick to prepare and you can take them away as well on the go for the rest of the day.

Because it’s spring time so the big “Bolshoi” breakfast is back in the garden! (For some reason I started calling this fruit bowl like this last summer and it never went away) Perfection. Fruit is best eaten in the morning. It takes very little energy to digest so you don’t experience any drop after eating. And it is really filling, especially if you mix some chia pudding. I couldn’t even finish this bowl.

Breakfast

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What’s in it?

Chopped papaya, strawberries, rhubarb and banana on a bed of chia seeds with almond milk(let to soak for 30 minutes while showering and getting ready). Sprinkled with coconut flakes, cinnamon, seeds and cacao nibs. 

What about lunch? 

Depending on the amount of effort you do in a day it can be more consistent or lighter. A salad can be pimped up in many ways (this is one of the aspects we touch on during the Raw Foods for Everyday Beginners Class and full on at the Pimp My Salad workshop at the Retreat )

If you’re someone who likes chucking everything in a bowl and mixing it up that’s great. I am one of those. However, I do like simpler combinations that complement each other and where you can taste each individual ingredients and its flavours. 

Here’s a very tasty example. 

Lunch

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What’s in it?

Thinly sliced chicory, spinach, tomato and chopped coriander with hummus as dressing. You could either make your own(it’s basically cooked/sprouted chickpeas, garlic, tahini, olive oil, salt and lemon) or get one on the go and mix it up with your salad. Quantities depend on your appetite and needs. You can pair this with steamed sweet potato for more carbs or steamed brown rice/quinoa or millet. 

If you like slightly bitter herbs you’ll fall for this! I love how chicory’s bitter taste is complimented by the sweet cherry tomatoes and the creamy hummus. 

Also, bitter foods help stimulate the liver to produce bile, which is needed for optimum digestion and emulsifies fats and renders nutrients — especially fat-soluble ones such as vitamins A, D, E and K. So mix the bitters up with complementing foods (sweeter or sour) and enjoy a pretty healthy workout for you liver. 

Now you’re left just with dinner – your choice – and if you mix a green smoothie in between, you’re set for a living nourishing daily 50-70% chunk of your diet. 

What’s your favourite mix – whether breakfast or lunch? 

Share below 🙂 

 

To you thriving health,

Denisa xxo


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breakfast, fruit salad, raw food, raw for a day, salad


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