My raw food toolkit is now complete and my excuses not to be raw are running just as dry as the banana chip I created overnight. My Excalibur deluxe 9 tray dehydrator in white has arrived!! In 12 hours at 37 degrees C, it successfully delivered a feast of dried strawberries, blueberries,raspberries, mango, pears and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘raw food’
My dehydrator has sweetened my raw life
Posted in Raw food news, tagged dehydrator, dried fruits, excalibur 9-tray, nutrients intact, raw food on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
796* raw foodists in Czech Republic
Posted in Raw travel diary, tagged czech republic, prague raw food, raw food, vegetarians, world vegetarian day on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was in beautiful Prague for work last week, which sounds exciting but sadly I had just the one opportunity to leave the office, eat out and test a typical Czech restaurant menu for ‘raw food’. The menu at this particular beer-based ‘restaurant’ was more of a manual of ‘how to eat meat with meat with [...]
‘finger lickin good’ no more?? KFC goes ‘so good’
Posted in Raw food news, tagged Betsy Craig, brand choice, chicken wings, corn cobs, healthier eating, KFC so good, mass audience, mock chicken, qsr, QSRweb, raw food on September 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This month in the UK we wait with bated breath to see the new healthier, more nutritionally transparent menu from KFC. I see it now. Raw cashew nut replacement chicken buckets, raw mock chicken fillet burgers….Oh what a raw dream. Perhaps my sarcasm is misplaced because already, earlier this year, KFC did the unthinkable and ditched [...]
How to go raw: my raw cupboard essentials
Posted in Raw food news, tagged raw cupboard, Raw essentials, raw food, starting raw on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By some strange quirk in the universe lots of people have recently asked me what they need to buy to make ‘going raw’ as easy as possible. It is strangely harder than I thought to find a list online so here are some of the raw basics I have in my cupboard at all times. I should [...]
Raw food restaurant review: Rasayana
Posted in Raw restaurant reviews, tagged Bangkok raw food, rasayana, raw cabbage rolls, raw food, raw food restaurant, raw lime pie on July 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My friend San Bao, of tea ceremony fame in Koh Samui, raved about the Bangkok raw food restaurant Rasayana to me two years ago. This year I finally have a few extra days up my sleeve so decided to stop by Bangkok for a raw lunch. I decided to walk and arrive via a motorway, [...]
Fasting for the fast lane
Posted in Raw travel diary, tagged alkalise, fasting, fasting schedule. koh samui spa, green drink, liver flush, raw food, raw food restuarant thailand, spa samui on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back in Thailand at Spa Samui detox ‘spa’ and 7 days into my fifth annual fast. Spa Samui is by no means glamorous but it is by far, for me anyway, the most effective and most relaxing (thanks to Thai culture), reasonably priced detox spa I can find. It also has, as they describe, [...]
Watercress cures cancer, baldness and dull salads
Posted in Raw food news, tagged folate, iphone app seasons, raw, raw food, vitamin a, watercress, watercress cures cancer and baldness, watercress.co.uk on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in love with watercress at the moment and not just because my iphone app seasons says it is in season locally. Watercress tastes delicious and peppery, has many medicinal properties (from cancer to baldness cures), speeds up metabolisms, is a diuretic, and helps pick up your energy if you’re feeling tired. Gram for gram, [...]
Carrots are sexy say researchers
Posted in Raw food news, tagged Carotenoids, carrots, raw food, st andrews university on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Being the very fair skinned child in a family of olive skinned naturally tanned siblings and parents, I have always fantasised about waking up one day with a tan. I did try fake tan once – but I looked more like an oompa loompa at Madame Tussauds than an actual person. Well – according to [...]
Great Swapathon is a big step forward for the obese
Posted in Raw food news, tagged 5-a-day, bbc, Change for Life, Children's Food Campaign, great swapathon, Marketing Week, raw food, Tim Lang on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve read conflicting views of the Department of Health’s recently launched Change for Life Great Swapathon. A mouthful in itself, the idea is that the British government, with the help of the world’s biggest food businesses (Asda, Birds Eye, JJB Sports, Nestle, Mars, Unilever, Warburtons and Weight Watchers), The Sun and News of the World, [...]

