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reds! A veritable smoothie rainbow.

    The key is to have a couple of cups of green leaves (that are well packed) in each serving! The amount may increase or decrease because there are other green vegies that you may add that are beneficial.
    For example if I am adding a stalk of celery, then the recipe may just call for 1-1.5 cups of greens. If I am adding herbs such as cilantro (coriander) or mint or parsley they may just add to the amount of greens. I often substitute a ¼ to a ½ cup of broccoli florets. A recipe may ask you to add in a handful of sprouts.

    Our Obsession With Food And The ‘Best Way To Cook It’!
    The world seems to revolve on the joy and fun of putting ingredients together. “Masterchef” style television shows pitting cooking prowess skills of amateurs head to head. Sometimes it seems the more detailed and the more steps you put food through, the more revered the result will be.
    It’s great news that there is a movement against the scarily growing fast-food lifestyle. It’s not at all large enough, if you ask me. It’s going to take quite some time before the results of any healthy changes are obvious in our western cultures.
    Some people are now subscribing to a ‘slow food’ philosophy, taking their time in the preparation and eating of their fare.
    Probably the most popular new(ish) food movement is the Raw Food Movement!

    Raw Food You Ask?
    I do LOVE raw food and I do also eat amounts of cooked food. Eating raw food, as my family does in increasing amounts, is not only delicious it makes us feel vibrant, energetic and healthy.
    But with children, unless you’ve started out with superlative habits, convincing your child(ren) that MOSTLY raw food is the way to go can be downright challenging.
    There is a tremendous amount of evidence, both real and anecdotal which shows that plant-based foods and especially those that aren’t cooked are the elixir of life. Ha, a bold claim. But frankly, we are talking some amazing effects on the human body.
    Put simply: Green smoothies help you consume more raw foods – EFFORTLESSLY!
    In almost every case plant-based and raw foods have more nutrients for your system. In other words the body has a greater chance of assimilating all the goodness in the food. You see, cooking processes that use heat above about 115 degrees Fahrenheit (c 46 degrees Celsius) are responsible for making changes in the nutrients, often completely inactivating them.
    There also seems to be quite a backlash against the mis-information that we are constantly fed by the big wheels of business; pharmaceutical, marketing, food companies and governments.
    People (once they’ve had some kind of awakening) want to return to the simplicity of wholefoods, natural medicine, or even better, using food as the first port of call for healing conditions and diseases and in doing so maintaining health.
    Ah yes! Raw food. It does seem logical that eating fresh fruit and vegetables in their raw uncooked state in most cases is going to deliver the cleanest, most nutritious form of nourishment for the body and soul!
    Contrast that with those recipes designed to hide ground up vegetables in cooked meals to trick the children. Zucchini cake - I mean, really? Delicious, maybe, but what purpose does it serve (in most cases) but to subdue people into a false sense of security.
    Most often the nutrition has, in all intents and purposes completely left its origin and that vegetable has now just become a ‘filler’. And pssst I have been guilty of disguising vegies in certain meals. Fortunately with green smoothies, it’s just easier and there’s nothing to hide – and the nutrition is there. It’s a win-win-win situation.
    I am not a raw food evangelist and this book is not at all political.
    Raw Food Waiver
    I think it’s worth issuing you a waiver here: While cooking food can kill enzymes and nullify the nutrition, there are foods which IF you choose to eat them, really MUST be cooked.
    Some foods