I made some research on green smoothies, vegetables juices and other things to speed up detoxification for raw food detox diet. Here is what I tried out today.
Green Smoothie
- 2 bananas
- 1 peach
- 5 strawberries
- 2 handfuls of spinach
- 1 cup of water
I tried a vegetable juice before but it tasted really bad. Also my blender didn’t quite mix all the greens completely so the taste was pretty bad. In comparison this smoothie tasted really good!! Banana really overcome the bitter taste of spinach. In fact you won’t even feel that there is any spinach. The color may be not too convincing but this smoothie tastes like a banana smoothie. Peach and strawberries help to give more sweet taste. You can experiment with different berries and ingredients but banana is one of the fundaments of this raw food recipe.
Almond Milk
- 40 soaked almonds
- 8 pitted dates
- 2 tablespoons of cinnamon powder
Chocolate Smoothie
- 2 bananas
- 2 tablespoons of raw cacao
- 1 vanilla
- 2 cup of almond milk
It tasted really good and creamy. I could drink just 1 cup and felt full. It has a lto of fat because of almonds.
Another thing I was researching today was green smoothies. I wanted to know the best recipes for tasty and rich smoothies that have a lot of green leafy vegetables and salads. I found a great book called “Green For Life” by Victoria Boutenko. She goes really in deep why green smoothies are the best solution and how to do them easily. It’s also one of the best selling books on Amazon in smoothies category.
Another site I discovered is called Juice Feasting. David Rainoshek, the creator of this site is a raw vegan for many years and developed many interesting concepts how to go around your first steps in raw food. He actually created a 92 day plan explaining everything about raw food with ready recipes and even online community and coaching. He advocates to use only green smoothies in first 90 days of detoxification. It eases the detoxification process and accelerates the process. Additionally David came up with an idea called “Spectrum of Diet” that I found very interesting. You can find more about spectrum of diet here.
You can see the interview with David Rainoshek here