by natalia | Apr 23, 2021 | Books, Eating, Green-centric Diet, Health Foods
Natalia’s Favourite Raw Salad
INGREDIENTS
4 generous handfuls baby romaine lettuce and/or baby spinach
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
3 ounces raw goat cheddar, grated (Alta Dena is a good brand)
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
Stevia to taste
1 tablespoon diced fresh garlic
Fresh herbs (optional)
METHOD
Toss all the ingredients together in a large bowl and serve. You can season the salad with fresh herbs such as basil, oregano, rosemary, or chives, or grated beet, for a more gourmet flavor, but it is simply delicious on its own.
SERVINGS
2-4 servings
Recipe from Forever Beautiful by Natalia Rose
by natalia | Apr 14, 2021 | Courses, Detox, Health Foods
3 TIPS TO KEEP ON TRACK WITH YOUR DETOX
- Do the best you can in the situation you are in.
You may have to compromise; just make the highest choice for yourself you can under the circumstances. If you can’t get juice one day, have a salad instead.
If you can’t get a good salad, eat the cleanest cooked vegetables you can get. If the choice is white rice or fish, have the fish. If the choice is steak or a baked potato, have the potato (even topped with a little butter).
Eat mindfully, even if it’s not perfect, and resist the urge to overeat and throw all your hard work away. One “off” meal here and there, surrounded by deep greens juiced and chewed, will still bring tremendous results.
- As soon as you are able, douse your systems with wheatgrass juice and sprouts and you will neutralize your compromises.
Keep moving forward. Don’t look back and dwell in any way on the adjustments you had to make.
Be proud of yourself for navigating it as well as you did under the circumstances.
- Travel with as much as you can to ensure you won’t have too many of these compromised days.
Take frozen wheatgrass, frozen juices and dehydrated seaweed salads you can reconstitute.
Do some recon work beforehand to find organic markets for produce once you get where you are going.
I always ask hotels to put a refrigerator in my room so I can fill it with my produce goodies!
FROM: The Packaged Extremely Green Detox, Course from the Natalia Rose Institute
by natalia | Apr 13, 2021 | Courses, Green-centric Diet, Health Foods, Juicing
EXTREME GREEN LEMONADE
(makes 1-2 servings)
INGREDIENTS
1 head romaine lettuce
1 head celery
1 cucumber
5 to 6 stalks kale (any type)
1-2 whole organic lemons (you don’t have to peel it)
1 to 2 tablespoons fresh ginger (optional)
METHOD
Process the vegetables through the juicer by admitting one vegetable at a time through the mouth of the juicer.
FROM: The Packaged Extremely Green Detox, Course from Natalia Rose Institute
by natalia | Apr 5, 2021 | Books, Detox 4 Women, Health Foods, Recipes
Raw tomato soup topped with shredded raw goat cheese
Pure bliss!
INGREDIENTS
5 Roma or Holland tomatoes, diced
4 sun-dried tomatoes, soaked in warm water until soft and diced
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, chopped
1 clove garlic, diced
2 tablespoons fresh oregano, finely chopped
1/2 cup raw cheddar-style goat cheese, shredded
Sea salt and fresh pepper to taste
METHOD
In a large bowl, mix together all of the ingredients except the shredded cheese. Distribute evenly into soup bowls and top with shredded cheese. Serve at room temperature or slightly warmed.
SERVINGS 2
Recipe from Detox 4 Women by Natalia Rose
by natalia | Apr 3, 2021 | Books, Health Foods, Recipes
THAI CARROT SOUP
(makes 4 servings)
INGREDIENTS
15 carrots, cut into 1 to 2-inch slices
32 ounces Pacific vegetable broth
2 tablespoons lemongrass
1 small Spanish onion, chopped
3 tablespoons curry (or to taste)
3 tablespoons Spike
1 tablespoon minced ginger
2 to 3 cloves garlic
Fresh cilantro
METHOD
Place the carrots, broth, lemongrass, and onion into a soup pot. Bring to a boil and simmer until the carrots are medium-soft (you should be able to pierce with a fork). Let it cool. Put small batches (about 2 cups at a time) of the mixture into your blender and purée. Once it’s all puréed, add the curry, Spike, ginger, and garlic until it suits your taste. Serve with fresh cilantro.
FROM: The Packaged Extremely Green Detox
by natalia | Apr 1, 2021 | Books, Health & Wellness, Health Foods
Intelligent Cleansing
Cooked foods and non-vegan foods are not the enemy: just as all raw or vegan foods are not fit for cleansing. It’s not as “black-and-white” as raw vs. cooked, or vegan vs. meat eater.
Intelligent cleansing is much more of a tapestry of what is good for our physiology, while also balanced for our emotions and yet also convenient for our lifestyle.
Yes, raw fruits and vegetables are the purest food for man, but knowing what we know about women today, we know that a woman fed exclusively on raw fruits and vegetables would bloat up and awaken waste that she could not pass fully on her own, and possibly arouse symptoms that would make her terribly uncomfortable.
Our bodies are more compromised and we have more addictions and social pressures around food. All of this must be tempered with what we know about cleansing for it to be of real, lasting effect. Including fish and goat cheese may not be pure foods but that’s okay. We need less-than-pure foods to intelligently cleanse in today’s world and in today’s body.
When it comes to detoxification, cooked vegetables, fish, and raw cheeses can be much more helpful than the common raw or vegan diet for several reasons.
(1) By incorporating some cooked and non-vegan foods, the body is prevented from over cleansing. The raw fruits and vegetables magnetize the acid waste out of the cells with their rich alkalinity, high enzyme content, and hydration. If we were to eat raw, water-containing fruits and vegetables exclusively at every meal we would be “awakening” copious amounts of waste at every meal. This would overwhelm the bowel and make detox an untenable experience riddled with cleansing symptoms and much reabsorbed waste. (When waste is not eliminated after a few days of awakening, it recirculates in the body and becomes reabsorbed into the tissues.)
(2) These high-quality, non-raw-vegan choices are easier to digest than many raw-vegan foods, and
(3) These foods provide enjoyment and stimulation without feeding yeast.
Cooked foods, which are usually shunned in detox and raw-diet programs, are actually a help and not a hindrance when cleansing. The cooked food helps slow the cleanse to the perfect degree for maximum waste elimination without reabsorption. I cannot count the number of raw food women who have come to me for help after months of trying to be all raw. The raw food propaganda out there is very alluring. But without intelligent transition and bowel cleansing, it is a disaster for women.
Extract from Detox 4 Women by Natalia Rose
