Once breakfast is habitually a raw event, you are now ready for the next step on your transition to living foods: lunch!
Living foods lunch
Favor high water content foods such as leafy green vegetables (lettuce, spinach, collards, kale, etc.), sprouts (sunflower, alfalfa, etc.) and vegetables, all raw of course. Once you have made this a habit, your food intake is two-thirds raw!
You will have plenty of variety with these choices. The classical choice, salad, comes in all shapes and colors. A green smoothie is easy to bring along at the office in a tightly-sealed container. You can also bring fruit (or a nice fruit salad), dehydrated fruits (apricots, gojis, dates, etc.) or soaked nuts and seeds. Vegetable sticks with a dip (nut or seed-based, or vegetable-based) make a satisfying lunch. Mexican lovers can bring a raw fiesta with them in the form of guacamole, home-made salsa, and dehydrated crackers. Holé! Add some sunflower sprouts to this and you're in business.
If you go out with colleagues for lunch, try to eat a little something before heading out: this will help you make better choices. There is no stopping a hungry stomach! Drink a green smoothie, grab a few nuts or seeds, a banana or an avocado before going to lunch. Also, you can bring some nuts, seeds or raisins to perk up the restaurant's salad. Why not a sliced avocado and some sprouts? You can whip up a quick homemade salad dressing before work, in the morning. Nobody will say a thing.
Do not hesitate to ask for a custom-made raw vegan salad, without dressing, when you are at a restaurant. Most places will be more than happy to accomodate you and will bring you a very nice salad, exactly to your specifications.
Living foods lunch
Favor high water content foods such as leafy green vegetables (lettuce, spinach, collards, kale, etc.), sprouts (sunflower, alfalfa, etc.) and vegetables, all raw of course. Once you have made this a habit, your food intake is two-thirds raw!
You will have plenty of variety with these choices. The classical choice, salad, comes in all shapes and colors. A green smoothie is easy to bring along at the office in a tightly-sealed container. You can also bring fruit (or a nice fruit salad), dehydrated fruits (apricots, gojis, dates, etc.) or soaked nuts and seeds. Vegetable sticks with a dip (nut or seed-based, or vegetable-based) make a satisfying lunch. Mexican lovers can bring a raw fiesta with them in the form of guacamole, home-made salsa, and dehydrated crackers. Holé! Add some sunflower sprouts to this and you're in business.
If you go out with colleagues for lunch, try to eat a little something before heading out: this will help you make better choices. There is no stopping a hungry stomach! Drink a green smoothie, grab a few nuts or seeds, a banana or an avocado before going to lunch. Also, you can bring some nuts, seeds or raisins to perk up the restaurant's salad. Why not a sliced avocado and some sprouts? You can whip up a quick homemade salad dressing before work, in the morning. Nobody will say a thing.
Do not hesitate to ask for a custom-made raw vegan salad, without dressing, when you are at a restaurant. Most places will be more than happy to accomodate you and will bring you a very nice salad, exactly to your specifications.
That's so true! When heading out with colleagues, one NEEDS to eat BEFORE!! So much easier to stay on the path...
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