Raw Living: Detox Your Life and Eat the High Energy Way PDF
Preview Raw Living: Detox Your Life and Eat the High Energy Way
To Chris, Reuben, Ethan, Zachary, Alxxx, Shazzie, Evie and Dani, for loving me enough to let me have my cake and eat it. Published by Grub Street 4 Rainham Close, London SW11 6SS email: ■ Contents ■Foreword ■Introduction ■Conception and pregnancy ■Breastfeeding ■Children ■Children’s parties ■Husbands (and other partners) ■Aphrodisiacs ■Superfoods ■Supporting techniques ■The journey ■Sample menus ■Sprouting ■Kitchen notes ■Recipes ■ Dips ■ Pâtés and spreads ■ Dressings ■ Soups ■ Salads ■ Savouries ■ Pasta sauce ■ Biscuits and crackers ■ Extras ■ Puddings ■ Pies, tarts and cakes ■ Cookies ■ Sweets ■ Guest recipes ■ Resources and recommended reading ■ Foreword When Kate Wood’s first book, Eat Smart, Eat Raw, came out, I was so excited! Having read a dozen or so raw books from the USA, here was the UK’s first raw recipe book to include ingredients that I know, love and can find in the shops! Kate’s book was so practical, I actually used the recipes. What a revelation for me! Now, after seeing the recipes in her second book, I am so glad that Kate has done it again. I have a confession to make. Over the past year, I’ve been eating Kate’s food at every opportunity. OK, I have a further confession to make, I haven’t been making her recipes, she has. I’ve been loitering in her large sofa’d up kitchen and marvelling at the way she just presents me with a bowl, a smile and a question such as, ‘Would you like some spinach cakes?’ I enjoy the spinach cakes, I enjoy the company, and then I’m presented with a delicious pudding and the same smile as before. Her eldest son Reuben does the same, ‘I’ve made some sweetcorn and almond soup. Would you like some?’ Then he gently warms it and hands me a bowl, topped with crunchy bits. My daughter Evie wanders over to the dehydrator, which is always on, always making something. ‘I want a biscuit!’ She demands. Kate produces tomato crisps, biscuits and flapjacks for Evie to enjoy. This is the essence of Raw Living. It’s not just a collection of raw ingredients thrown together haphazardly. It’s a raw family’s gift destined to help us all create wonderful food choices for our families. Raw Living is for everyone. We all know we need more fruit, vegetables and raw foods in our diet. So many more of us are now listening to the cues that our bodies are giving us: ‘Be gentle with me, nourish me, love me, give me fresh air, snuggles and love, and I’ll give you the best life ever.’ We’re all waking up to the fact that lighter living in all ways is the only way that makes sense. No nutritionist ever said, ‘Eat more burgers and chips!’ Raw Living offers us so many ways in which to nourish ourselves, that our bodies can cross it off its list of things to remind us to do. Kate is the mother of three raw home-schooled boys. She’s an author of two books. She’s a company director, she has a shop and a cafe. She also likes to party! She manages to do all this because the foods she eats gives her the energy to do it. Raw Living is an infinite energy bank. Kate is a true example of a superbeing, and you can be too, just by eating her food. OK, you may not get to hang out in her kitchen, but you can eat Raw Living’s recipes - it’s surely the next best thing! Kate is also one of the leading lights in the Raw Chocolate Revolution. She’s created more delicious chocolates, cakes, biscuits and savouries than anyone else I know. Some of them are in this book, so if you can’t reach her shop, you can still experience them. Aren’t you lucky? So without further ado, all that remains to be said is: ‘Let them eat, Kate!’ Shazzie Author and managing director of Rawcreation Ltd ■ Introduction Healthy eating is officially ‘here’. It seems you can’t move these days for nutritionists advising you what to eat, celebrities endorsing a new diet regime, governments issuing strategies, or the media supplying alarming statistics. We are becoming a nation of people who take our health seriously, who want to eat the right things, who want to be slim, fit and youthful. We are realising that in some foods quality has deteriorated over the past fifty years, to the point where we can no longer get all the nutrients we need from it. And there are so many more stresses to contend with, which deplete our reserves: environmentally in the form of pollution, chemicals in the home, and electromagnetic radiation; and socially, in the fast-paced, high pressured lives so many of us live these days. If we do not look after ourselves properly, inevitably we become prey to one of the numerous symptoms of ill-health that affect us all; from general fatigue and muddle-headedness, through to asthma, eczema and psoriasis, all the way to cancer, heart disease and diabetes. But it can be very hard to bridge that gap between our good intentions and our day-to-day realities. You may have read half a dozen times now that you need to get lots of Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) to help prevent depression, but you’re still not really sure what to do with that bottle of flax oil at the back of your fridge. You’ve realised your children’s diet is low in minerals, but how do you get them to eat their greens? You’re ready to kick the Dairy Milk habit, but what are you going to replace it with? Or you may simply not have the time and energy to research thoroughly the new foods you should be eating to achieve vitality. That’s where Raw Living steps in. If you examine all the various nutritional theories and diet plans closely, all that advice has a lot in common. Jill says add a little ingredient X, Paul wants you to add supplement Y, and for Caroline, cutting out Z is the key. But break it down and they are all saying the same things:
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