Peel, wash, and cut into dice the artichokes, potatoes, and onion. Cook them until tender in 1 quart of water with the butter and seasoning. When the vegetables are tender rub them through a sieve. Return the liquid to the saucepan, add the milk, and boil the soup up again. Add water if the soup is too thick. Serve with Allinson plain rusks, or small dice of bread fried crisp in butter or vege-butter.

1 lb. each of artichokes and potatoes,
1 Spanish onion,
1 oz. of butter,
1 pint of milk,
and pepper and salt to taste.

Peel, wash, and cut into dice the artichokes, potatoes, and onion. Cook them until tender in 1 quart of water with the butter and seasoning. When the vegetables are tender rub them through a sieve. Return the liquid to the saucepan, add the milk, and boil the soup up again. Add water if the soup is too thick. Serve with Allinson plain rusks, or small dice of bread fried crisp in butter or vege-butter.

1 lb. each of artichokes and potatoes,
1 Spanish onion,
1 oz. of butter,
1 pint of milk,
and pepper and salt to taste.

Peel, wash, and cut into dice the artichokes, potatoes, and onion. Cook them until tender in 1 quart of water with the butter and seasoning. When the vegetables are tender rub them through a sieve. Return the liquid to the saucepan, add the milk, and boil the soup up again. Add water if the soup is too thick. Serve with Allinson plain rusks, or small dice of bread fried crisp in butter or vege-butter.

Here’s what I’ve learned so far:

1. A whole and natural raw food diet means one full of dehydrated, processed, powdered, and packaged foods.

2. Eating multiple avocados containing over 70% of calories from fat in one day is totally cool and even healthy!

3. Satisfying my sweet tooth means concocting recipes full of fat, cacao, and refined raw sweeteners.  Just eat sweet fruit, pshaw!

4. A raw food diet is the most nutritionally dense diet around.  That’s why we need lots of supplementation, DUH!

5. Every raw recipe must: a) take hours to prepare and b) rival all my cooked food favorites in fat and salt content.

6. Fiber is super important for digestion, which is why we should get rid of it all by juicing our food!

7. Food combining, Schmood combining.

8. As long as I stay raw, I can spend as much time lounging around the house as I want.  SWEET!

9. We can get all the nutrition we need from ridiculously small amounts of food as long as we chew each bite for hours on end.

10. I’ll be able to spend as much time as I want being lazy by sleeping less and less each night.

11. There’s no way I’m getting all the vitamins and nutrients I need if I’m not spending an arm and a leg on supplements and superfoods.

12. The more water we shoot up our butts with a tube, the better.

All this without indigestion, crazy cooked food cravings, and overall poor health!

Wow, who would have thunk it? :roll’s eyes:

In all seriousness, I have a few choice words for all the raw food gurus out there promoting (and supposedly following) these Hollywood “raw” diets of supplements, condiments, stimulants, irritants, fats and grass.

A Message to the Raw Food Gurus

I refuse to name names, but you know who you are…

Shame on you for promoting unsustainable diets.  Shame on you for encouraging severe calorie restriction.  Shame on you for ignoring exercise, sunshine, and restful sleep as necessary components for long term health.  Shame on you for basing your dietary actions on faulty science and poor reasoning and encouraging people to follow the path you set out.

And DOUBLY shame on you for claiming to support a whole, plant-based diet and then pushing naïve newcomers to pay you EXORBITANT amounts of money on “necessary” foods like dried sea algae, bee vomit, and royal jelly.

You are all helping to turn these well-meaning newbies into scrawny, lazy binge eaters.  And the ones who know enough to see through the bull are simply thumbing their noses at raw veganism for good.

Shame, shame, SHAME on all of you!

Just the Facts, Ma’am

If you really want to go raw and be healthy, you don’t need to pay out the rear end for supplements, superfoods, or hydro-colonics.

If you *really* want to see phenomenal results, here’s what it takes:

1. Adopt a species appropriate diet, i.e. a low fat, high fruit raw vegan diet composed of lots of fruit, moderate greens and non-sweet fruits, and limited fat.

2. Adopt a solid exercise routine. Move your body EVERYDAY for AT LEAST 1 full hour.

3. Get adequate sleep. If you wake up groggy, you need more sleep.

4. Get adequate sunshine. About 15-30 mins a day should do ya.

Would you look at that?  Solid, common sense, PRACTICAL information that you can put to use RIGHT NOW and you didn’t have to pay me a single penny!

When starting out on a raw food diet it will be prudent to get some perspective as to where you stand right now. First and foremost, don’t just accept the hype surrounding raw food diets and just jump into it. Rather take it slowly and easily and incorporate a raw food diet into your daily life. So here are the most important things that you should know when starting out on a raw food diet:

a. Raw food is rich in dietary fiber: This is almost critically important to maintaining a good digestive system, in fact every stomach related problems from stomach burns to gastritis, constipation and even appendicitis.

b. Raw food is high in caretenoids like beta-carotene which is extremely important in protecting you against cancer and other life threatening ailments.

c. You can eat as much as you like and still not get fat.

d. It can help you conquer obesity and help you stay slim.

e. It can boost your body’s natural defenses against colds, flu, measles etc.

Clearly even just incorporating a raw vegan food diet in bits can yield more benefits that you can enjoy. The biggest fact that will most probably stop you is the “routine” that you have become acclimatized to. You know the old 3 meals a day routine that is so common everywhere. While being an office goer might warrant the need to have three meals a day (although by no means necessary) you should try to have little “snacks” or “mini-meals” several times a day. Eat only as much as you feel like. The biggest problem with the three meal routine is that people end up literally stuffing themselves as they wont get to eat for many hours.

Try some raw recipes and see what works for you, in the end only you have to gain and there is absolutely nothing to lose.

A little-known fact about dried apricots that eating it is a great way of eating 5-9 fruits a day!

Introducing the “Stuffed Apricots in Syrup” – which is a famous Turkish delight and it can be a perfect dessert to satisfy your sugar cravings without ruining your diet plan. Unlike other desserts, the aromatic and enticing warm, spicy-sweet taste is perfected by cardamom pods – an aromatic spice originated from south India and Sri Lanka, and it is commonly used to treat respiratory problems and has anti-inflammatory properties and reducing muscle spasms.

Besides that, you’ll be able to enjoy the rich cheese taste filling – that is made from paneer or ricotta cheese, almonds and cardamom.

If you are looking for a low-sugar dessert which does not take much time to prepare, here’s what you need:

10 large dried apricots that are perfectly slit 50 g of paneer or ricotta cheese, grated very finely ½ teaspoon of cardamom powder 5-6 almonds, coarsely chopped 125 g of sugar 250 ml of water 2-3 cardamom pods Some rose petals to garnish

Once you have prepared the ingredients above, here’s how you start making this “Stuffed Apricots in Syrup” dessert:

In order to make syrup, heat the water and the sugar and the cardamom pods in a pan and stir until the sugar dissolves. Then, carefully remove the pan from heat and add in the apricots and leave it to cool.

The filling is simply easy to prepare. All you have to do is mix together cheese, almonds and cardamom powder.

Remove the apricots from syrup and fill the slit with cheese mixture. Return to the syrup and chill to serve. Garnish with rose petals and orange zest.

Since this dessert is simple and need less time to prepare, start rewarding yourself a good taste of “Stuffed Apricots in Syrup” or you can share it among your family and friends. You’ll be excited to hear compliments about your unique healthy and nutritious Turkish dessert delight!