Spring 2009 Detox - Day 7

Final day of detox. How time flies! With all the raw energy available to you now, with eased digestion and improved sleep, what will you do? Projects won't be lacking, I'm sure of it.

Why not think of integrating living foods into your lifestyle? Without going all rigid and uncompromising, there are ways to eat mainly living foods while still leaving room for the rest. Now, let's see how to make the last meal of the day a living foods meal.

Supper

This is the meal where the whole family sits down and catches up on daily events. We have fun, we enjoy each other's company, we joke around... No time for raw warfare!

If meal preparation becomes too much of a burden, ask for help. Usually children will love spiralizing the fruits and veggies, or spinning the lettuce dry (how doesn't like to see just how fast that thing will spin). They can set the table, help make the sauce or soup with the blender (with parents watching) and bring some truly inspired ideas to the meals if listened to! Believe me.

Meals that will please most include a big salad, vegan wraps or zucchini "pasta" with a raw marinara sauce. Why not try a mexican fiesta with raw dehydrated crackers, guacamole, homemade salsa and all the trimings? Or try to "rawify" an old family favorite as a family?

Incorporating the living foods lifestyle into your own will take time, patience and perseverance not to mention creativity. But it is worth it, truly. Some time can be saved if you buy some organic foods already prepared: prewashed lettuce, baby carrots, or dehydrated crackers (at the health food store). You could also make larger quantities of some staples, like pâtés, and use them in different ways during the week: once as a pâté with cucumber slices, once as a filling for sushi, another time as an extra to your salad. Vary its flavor each time by adding different herbs and spices.

Integrating more healthy living and raw foods into our lifestyle is always going to be a challenge because we live in a society of hyper-commercialized fast and quick foods, all prepared in advance for the consumer. These foods are full of chemical and hardly fit for human consumption. But your health, and that of your family's, is really worth the effort. Pay now with your wallet or pay later with your health. It is our choice, individually and collectively.