(Suitable for all levels of cooking ability)
INGREDIENTS
Meat of 2 young coconuts
1½ cups coconut water
1 cup butternut or pumpkin cubes (about 1-inch cubes)
8 organic dates or 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
1 pinch nutmeg, cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
METHOD
Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high until smooth. Enjoy!
SERVINGS 4
Recipe from The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose
In order to begin to understand emotional eating, we must discuss social conditioning, which was once a very little-known term but is becoming more widely used among today’s conscious youth.
Social conditioning refers to the norms that we have inherited practically from birth; they are so much a part of the fabric of our culture that it can feel strange to question them. But here’s what we need to understand: these norms are intimately connected with the act of emotional eating.
Social conditioning at large has compromised our sanity, but socially conditioned eating specifically has given rise to all of our eating disorders—from relatively mild expressions to full-blown cases. If it were not for social conditioning, we would not have eating disorders.
Only civilized people have eating disorders. But why is this so?
In the answer to this question lies the solution for emotional eating.
Pondering this question in light of all my personal and professional experience, logic, and intuition has led me to the conclusion that our stresses, anxieties, regrets, primal childhood experiences, repressed emotions, and blocked creativity are all symptoms of our social wiring. Our way of life constricts us, limits us, and emotionally poisons us.
With all due respect to our society’s merits, among them are some devastating drawbacks. I remain hopeful that we may become innovative enough to take the best of civilization and leave behind the rest—that which does not serve our evolving well.
In the meantime, though, the social blueprint that we are asked to accept renders us physically and emotionally handicapped.
– From Emotional Eating SOS by Natalia Rose
INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 garlic cloves chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
3 large ball peppers, cored, seeded, and chopped
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon harissa paste
4 cups All-Purpose Vegetable Stock (see page 92 of The Fresh Energy Cookbook) or water
Kosher salt and black pepper to taste
METHOD
Heat a large saucepan over medium heat and add the olive oil. Add the garlic, onion and red bell peppers.
Cook slowly until the onions are translucent (about 8 minutes)
Stir in the tomato paste and harissa.
Add the vegetable stock or water and bring to the boil.
Turn down the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
Puree the soup using an immersion blender or in batches in a blender or food processor.
Season with salt and pepper as desired.
SERVES 4
Recipe from The Fresh Energy Cookbook, by Natalia Rose and Doris Choi
This is off the charts delicious!
Micro greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, pitted calamata olives & spring onions in a dressing of Dijon mustard, lemon juice & liquid stevia.
Toss well. It’s beyond!
in loving service,
Natalia
So many wonderful, well-meaning people encouraging high fruit intake veganism, however…
Just remember that fruit is NOT what it was hundreds of years ago. Today’s fruit is a hybridized candy and it feeds pathogens like you don’t want to know.
Just about everyone is riddled with fungus like candida (yeah, sounds like “candy” right?!) and parasites.
Unless you were raised on a desert island & birthed by the natives of that island, you’ve got to be very careful around fruit. There’s true fruit which grows wildly (not farmed/domesticated). True fruit is naturally very low in sugar and very small in size. And then there is modern fruit which, even if organic, is simply akin to mainlining sugar.
Give it some thought: imagine you are a human petri-dish. Think about what modern fruit does inside your body when it meets with putrefaction and ferments the whole time it is going through your intestinal tract. What is the chemical result?
A high-fruit diet is a nice idea in theory but it’s not the reality. Green-centric, cleansers! Stay Green-centric and find peace with simple, non-sweet vegetables as your foundation (ideally 85-90% of your intake). Watch the nuts, legumes, grains and vegan substitute foods, and all the ornate raw food treats too, vegans & raw foodists. Sorry, but I’m here to help you restore and become powerful, not tell you tales.
in loving service,
Natalia
INGREDIENTS
2 unpeeled zucchini, grated
2 unpeeled summer squash, grated
2 large carrots, grated
1 head broccoli, cut into florets
1 cup shiitake mushrooms, whole or sliced
1 cup organic marinara sauce
4 ounces raw cheddar-style goat cheese, grated
METHOD
SERVINGS
Makes 2 servings
Recipe from Forever Beautiful by Natalia Rose
