Please note I am going on leave so my next post will be at the end of August.
I am seriously thinking about becoming a raw food vegan. So I have been surfing the web for ideas and came across Karen Knowler's website The Raw Food Coach .Karen has been on a raw food diet for over 14 years and has been teaching, writing and coaching professionally on the subject for almost nine years.
On her website you will find lots of information to get you started, free recipes (like her wonderful dairy-free Real Chocolate Ice Cream) and a weekly ezine Successfully Raw. She also has many informative books which you can purchase, runs courses in England and has an online 30 day support group.
Those that wish to earn via their blog or website can also join Karen's Affiliate Program and if you are very interested in the subject and would like to make it your career, she also runs a Raw Coach training program. .
You will find it well worth while to visit her website and blog.
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Sweetballs is this week's recipe in the Successfully Raw ezine:
Karen states: I'm not generally one for eating or recommending others eat dried fruits and nuts in any great amount, but sometimes, just sometimes, a girl (or guy) has just got to have it. The following recipe was quite literally "thrown together" one lunchtime this week when, after eating a lovely fresh salad, I felt I wanted something sweet and just that little but more "substantial". The following recipe is what I came up with - it's a winner!
Ingredients
* Half a cup of finely grated coconut
* 1 handful of macadamia nuts
* 2 handfuls of almonds
* 1 handful of dried apricots
* 1 handful of raisins
(See, I told you I just threw it together!)
Directions
1) Simply pile all of the ingredients into a food processor and process using the "S" blade until all ingredients fully combine. If you process long enough it will all clump together and end up forming one large and perfectly formed ball.
2) Serve by either eating a teaspoon or two as desired to satiate the sweet tooth or roll into smaller balls and keep in the fridge for up to 5 days for freshness.
RAW COACH'S TOP TIPS:
* All of the above ingredients are optional - that is, you can swap in or out any of them with other similar ingredients (a nut for a nut, for example), or leave out coconut if you don't like it, and consider adding in some orange juice, mint leaves, carob, mesquite, maca or chocoloate powder for flavoured sweetballs.
Karen states: I'm not generally one for eating or recommending others eat dried fruits and nuts in any great amount, but sometimes, just sometimes, a girl (or guy) has just got to have it. The following recipe was quite literally "thrown together" one lunchtime this week when, after eating a lovely fresh salad, I felt I wanted something sweet and just that little but more "substantial". The following recipe is what I came up with - it's a winner!
Ingredients
* Half a cup of finely grated coconut
* 1 handful of macadamia nuts
* 2 handfuls of almonds
* 1 handful of dried apricots
* 1 handful of raisins
(See, I told you I just threw it together!)
Directions
1) Simply pile all of the ingredients into a food processor and process using the "S" blade until all ingredients fully combine. If you process long enough it will all clump together and end up forming one large and perfectly formed ball.
2) Serve by either eating a teaspoon or two as desired to satiate the sweet tooth or roll into smaller balls and keep in the fridge for up to 5 days for freshness.
RAW COACH'S TOP TIPS:
* All of the above ingredients are optional - that is, you can swap in or out any of them with other similar ingredients (a nut for a nut, for example), or leave out coconut if you don't like it, and consider adding in some orange juice, mint leaves, carob, mesquite, maca or chocoloate powder for flavoured sweetballs.
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