Day after Thanksgiving Feasting
It is so wonderful to feel great and ready to go the day after Thanksgiving feasting! Yesterday I enjoyed my splurge of a raw apple cranberry pie and had no desire for anything else.
The day after holidays, so many, many times, I have felt gross, guilty, and gained weight. Even after vast quantities of food I struggled with overwhelming cravings to eat, eat, and eat some more. They say a fat person is a starving person. That was true for me. Today, all I've eaten this morning is an apple and it is almost noon and I'm not hungry! Maybe in half an hour or so I'll be ready for a delicious fresh green vege juice.
The ideal raw food diet so satisfies all my nutritional needs. What a revelation for me that cooked food triggers overeating. I'm SO happy I'm not a foodaholic any more.
Jenny jennysilliman@juno.com
Cliff and Jenny Silliman, Sequim, WA
Dan 21 Val 19 Dave 17 Mike 13 Josh 11 Steve 6 Luke 4
Peter Stanford, born March 27, 2003
Thursday, November 27, 2003
"Thanksgiving Feasting on Sweets--Fruit!"
Dear Health Seekers,
Today I lost another pound. That makes a total of 48 pounds I have lost since July 10th when I started eating all raw food and daily exercising with a "power walk" video. I've gone down 3 sizes, from a 20 down to a size 14. No more "big lady" clothes for me! I've still got twenty pounds to go or so, but hey, I am ON MY WAY. What an answer to prayer the raw food diet has been to me! I am full of thanks giving to the Lord today.
Day to day I eat pretty simply. I just eat a lot of fresh, raw fruit, some nuts and seeds, juice a couple of vege juices with my Champion juicer and then have a huge supper salad every night. Some have called me boring. However, as a homeschooling mother of 8, I am too busy to try many of these fancy raw recipes. Also I have begun this new regime and it is working and I feel grrrreat--so I'm just sticking to it like gorilla glue. I have been all raw for four and a half months!
For Thanksgiving, however, I decided to have a little fun and make a yummy raw dessert. Yes, I decided to splurge! I made up a delectable raw apple cranberry pie. Here is the recipe:
Raw Apple Cranberry Pie
Juice a sweet apple or two with a juicer. Set aside juice. Chop a half a cup of dates finely in a food processor. In a coffee grinder, grind a cup of whole almonds. Mix the ground almonds and dates together and stir in 1 Tablespoon of fresh apple juice. Add another Tablespoon of apple juice if needed to moisten enough to form a ball of "dough." Press this "pie crust" into a small bowl or saucer. Peel and slice very thinly a half of a granny smith apple. Chop up the rest of it into little pieces. Layer some of the little pieces on the crust to fill the pie nicely and then arrange slices over that in a spiral. Juice a half cup of fresh cranberries. Mix the apple pulp with the cranberry pulp and 1 Tablespoon sweet apple juice. Plop a little of this chopped cranberry in the middle of the spiral of apples and some around the sides. Pour remaining apple juice over the whole "pie" and WHA-LA!!! You've got yourself a raw apple-cranberry pie!
Click on the link above to see a photo of me and my raw pie.
Fruit and carbs have gotten a bad rap. Our bodies need carbs more than anything else. God designed our muscle cells and brains to run on carbohydrates. Carbohydrate-rich foods, such as fruit, when consumed in their natural, raw state, are low in calories and high in fiber compared with fatty foods, processed foods, or animal products.
Fruit even has protein in it! Did you know a banana contains about 3.5 percent protein, almost the same as mother's milk?
Sugar corrupts the taste buds. When I got off sugar I noticed that I liked eating fruit again. I began to notice a variety of subtle sweet flavors in various raw nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables. If you can "lick the sugar habit," you can enjoy raw foods and they become a taste treat sensation!
God in his marvelous creativity designed fruit perfectly to appeal to our senses. When I think of fruit I think of the sweetness of the taste, the beauty of the shapes and colors, the tangy smells, the crunchy, slurpy sounds and the crisp and juicy textures as you eat it. Besides all that fruit is GOOD for you with hundreds of nourishing phytonutrients. Isn't fruit an awesome food?
Contact me: jennysilliman@juno.com
Dear Health Seekers,
Today I lost another pound. That makes a total of 48 pounds I have lost since July 10th when I started eating all raw food and daily exercising with a "power walk" video. I've gone down 3 sizes, from a 20 down to a size 14. No more "big lady" clothes for me! I've still got twenty pounds to go or so, but hey, I am ON MY WAY. What an answer to prayer the raw food diet has been to me! I am full of thanks giving to the Lord today.
Day to day I eat pretty simply. I just eat a lot of fresh, raw fruit, some nuts and seeds, juice a couple of vege juices with my Champion juicer and then have a huge supper salad every night. Some have called me boring. However, as a homeschooling mother of 8, I am too busy to try many of these fancy raw recipes. Also I have begun this new regime and it is working and I feel grrrreat--so I'm just sticking to it like gorilla glue. I have been all raw for four and a half months!
For Thanksgiving, however, I decided to have a little fun and make a yummy raw dessert. Yes, I decided to splurge! I made up a delectable raw apple cranberry pie. Here is the recipe:
Raw Apple Cranberry Pie
Juice a sweet apple or two with a juicer. Set aside juice. Chop a half a cup of dates finely in a food processor. In a coffee grinder, grind a cup of whole almonds. Mix the ground almonds and dates together and stir in 1 Tablespoon of fresh apple juice. Add another Tablespoon of apple juice if needed to moisten enough to form a ball of "dough." Press this "pie crust" into a small bowl or saucer. Peel and slice very thinly a half of a granny smith apple. Chop up the rest of it into little pieces. Layer some of the little pieces on the crust to fill the pie nicely and then arrange slices over that in a spiral. Juice a half cup of fresh cranberries. Mix the apple pulp with the cranberry pulp and 1 Tablespoon sweet apple juice. Plop a little of this chopped cranberry in the middle of the spiral of apples and some around the sides. Pour remaining apple juice over the whole "pie" and WHA-LA!!! You've got yourself a raw apple-cranberry pie!
Click on the link above to see a photo of me and my raw pie.
Fruit and carbs have gotten a bad rap. Our bodies need carbs more than anything else. God designed our muscle cells and brains to run on carbohydrates. Carbohydrate-rich foods, such as fruit, when consumed in their natural, raw state, are low in calories and high in fiber compared with fatty foods, processed foods, or animal products.
Fruit even has protein in it! Did you know a banana contains about 3.5 percent protein, almost the same as mother's milk?
Sugar corrupts the taste buds. When I got off sugar I noticed that I liked eating fruit again. I began to notice a variety of subtle sweet flavors in various raw nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables. If you can "lick the sugar habit," you can enjoy raw foods and they become a taste treat sensation!
God in his marvelous creativity designed fruit perfectly to appeal to our senses. When I think of fruit I think of the sweetness of the taste, the beauty of the shapes and colors, the tangy smells, the crunchy, slurpy sounds and the crisp and juicy textures as you eat it. Besides all that fruit is GOOD for you with hundreds of nourishing phytonutrients. Isn't fruit an awesome food?
Contact me: jennysilliman@juno.com
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