The Live Green Smoothie Diet

This dish is a winner, with its pairing of fresh sweet papaya just exploding with juice and giant medjool dates, which go beautifully with garlic, lime, and olive oil. Topped with chopped salted macadamia nuts, it’s a beautiful dish for entertaining as well as for your own private table.

A simple “raw compote”, this dish is a convergence of all my favorite raw food elements: juicy, sweet, crunchy, creamy, filling, grounding, and savory. It’s filling enough to make a meal of it all by its lonesome, and satisfying enough to the taste buds to star solo as well.

I’m always on the lookout for raw dishes that are filling, grounding, savory, and quick to prepare — without getting into the fuss of dehydration –, as these qualities combined are (in my humble opinion) the least pioneered area of raw & living foods cuisine.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine: Foods Great for the Spleen

If you do a little research you’ll find that dates, garlic, and papaya are all foods that are considered in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) to be tonifying and strengthening for the spleen.

This I know because last fall I became very ill with mono and immediately set about to strengthen my spleen, chi, and blood…and these were among the top of the list for foods to help support all of those systems. I immersed myself in those and other foods, and within a week I was back to normal, and considered myself very fortunate that I didn’t have a lengthy struggle with the illness.

When I eat these foods, I feel both grounded and deeply nourished and comforted. Try it and see how it affects your own body!

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