Raw Facts & Tips
Raw Facts & Tips |
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For problem fruit flies: This worked really well for me. Take a couple of glasses or cups. Fill them with about an inch of apple ciger vinegar. Then take any piece of paper, make a funnel, and put it in the glass so it touches the sides, and hangs just above the apple cider vinegar. Put them in various places around the kitchen or wherever you have the problem.The fruit flies are drawn to it, fly in and can't get out. The ones that don't fall into the vinegar are trapped between the small part of the funnel and the glass. You can just take the glass and empy it outside. I had LOTS of fruit flies a few years ago due to some bad bananas and within about a week and a half, they were all gone. I even put a cup on the pantry shelf. FYI,, when you empty the fruit flies, you don't need new apple cider vinegar. - Susan
Here's a great site on fasting. Click here. They tell you what happens during a fast, teach you the proper way to start and end a fast and prepare you for how you will fell during the fast, both physically and mentally. - Amy I have a tip for making salads a little different:
Put your greens in the food processor along with some avocado. Pulse
until the greens are chopped very finely. Makes a great base for piling
on other veggies and you don't need much dressing since the lettuce is
creamy. Plus, you can eat large amounts of greens and it doesn't feel
like you're chewing your cud. You can also put your salad in the blender with a some lemon juice,
salad dressing and/or water. This produces more of a soup (like
gazpacho). My elderly parents rarely eat salad because it's too hard to
chew but since I've given them this tip they're eating these blended
salads every day. My dad says he really notices a difference. How to Make Your Potato Chips a Golden Color : Here's a list of good sources of iron Whole grains * wheat * millet * oats * brown rice * Legumes * lima beans * soybeans * dried beans and peas * kidney beans Seeds *almonds *Brazil nuts Dried fruits * prunes * raisins * apricots * Vegetables * broccoli * spinach * kale * collards * asparagus * dandelion greens - from emailer, Alan Schechner Want to know how to open an avocado, click here. Want to know the difference between Celtic Sea Salt, regular Sea Salt and Table Salt? Click here. Want to know how to make Rejuvelac? Click here. Can't afford a dehydrator right now? Click here to learn to make your own. Also click here to see a picture of one that Raw foodist, Antonia, made herself. If you bought a dehydrator without a timer, you can go to your local hardware store and purchase an appliance timer (make sure you get one that is meant to shut off appliances and is 24 hours). You can plug it into the wall, plug your dehydrator into the timer and set it to shut off the dehydrator at whatever time you want. To learn how to open a mango, click here For all the information you could want to know about dehydrating, click here. If you want to know how to open a Durian, click here. If you want to find a Raw food Yahoo! Discussion Group for the sharing of support, wisdom, and even local raw food event information, click here. If you have a problem with fungus gnats in your wheatgrass, place a bottle in the area of your wheatgrass, add some apple cider vinegar to the bottle (don't
need too much), make a paper funnel for the opening of the bottle. The fungus gnats will be drawn to go into the bottle and won't be able to get out.
For all the information you could possibly want to know about sprouting, click the sites below: If you are fighting cooked food addiction, take one positive action today: Inventing your own recipes: Experiment! Trying to give up coffee, but not quite there yet? I've heard Teeccino is a great way to wean yourself off of coffee (this is not really raw, but this is one step
toward freedom from caffeine - a step in the right direction). Click here for more information. I found that if you are only making a one portion size of nut pate, it is easier to use a manual crank cheese grater with a rotating drum than it is
to use and clean an entire food processor. Body clock/plan (a good rule of thumb)
To see the 12 Steps of Raw Food, click here. Raw Quote: "[You don't] realize what a prison SAD is until someone enlightens you to see the bars surrounding you." To learn how to sprout your own wheatgrass, click here. - Sprout People You can make your own sprouting lids, for an inexpensive way to make your own fresh sprouts. Click here to learn how. - Dale Wing, His Healing Ways Dry skin is an indication of poor circulation, which means a poor metabolism. (Dry skin brushing, eating raw and drinking lots of water are the cure.) Click here or here for more information about dry skin brushing. - Source unknown If you are an overall healthy eater (ie mostly raw) and you have a "slip" you will not gain the weight you have lost or lose the health you have gained. If you are an overall unhealthy eater (ie mostly cooked crap) and you eat a salad, you will not lose the weight you have gained or gain the health you have lost. - Source unknown Always eat fruit on an empty stomach; wait 3 ours after a salad meal. Best is fruit in the morning. - Rene Beresford, Coordinator of the Fruitarian Raw Food Network It's hard to know what type of juicer to buy, so for a thorough comparison of the various types of low RPM juicers, click here. - Discount Juicers For the best banana chips, use bananas
that you might otherwise throw away, really ripe, brown is fine. These
will produce the sweetest chips. To learn how to open a young Thai coconut, click here or here. |
