Free Raw Recipe-Best Raw Food Bars Recipe

If you're looking for a good or the best raw Food bars recipe or have had problems making bars in the past, here is the best way to make raw Food bars. When I first starting making raw foods many years ago, I had a problem finding the right consistency when trying to make raw bars. They were either too sticky or wouldn't hold together. They would fall apart and be nothing like the bars you buy. I wondered what the secret was.

Free Raw Recipe-Best Raw Food Bars Recipe

Free Raw Recipe-Best Raw Food Bars Recipe

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Free Raw Recipe-Best Raw Food Bars Recipe

Free Raw Recipe-Best Raw Food Bars Recipe

After trying dozens of recipes with disappointMent, I did my own experiMenting and found the best proportion of ingredients. Using nuts and dates to find a basic recipe, this one holds together nicely. Part of the secret is mixing 2 process.

I used Brazil nuts and cashews. Brazil nuts are hard nuts soshould be ground to a finer grind to protect your teeth.

This easy recipe is quick although you'll want to refrigerate it or put it in the freezer for awhile before you take the bars from home.

One of the problems in the consistency is that your dates may be different sizes. I use medjools but even those vary in size. So you may have to make some adjustments if they don't turn out perfectly. But I've made these many times and they have always turned out great.

For my best raw food bars recipe:

Ingredients: 2 cups raw Brazil nuts, 2 cups raw cashews, 8 medjool dates, sea salt and lemon juice.

Put 1 1/2 cups of the raw Brazil nuts in a food processor and grind or pulverize into very small pieces, about the size for pesto. Does not have to beperfect. They will be different sizes and some will be very fine. This is good because it's a hard nut. Then add 8 pitted medjool dates, they must be medjools. The fresher the better. Older dates may be drier. Then mix in the dates to form a dough but don't overmix.

Then add 1/2 cup more of Brazil nuts and 2 cups raw cashews. Cashews are a softer nut and can be various very small chunks and some fine. No big chunks. Add a pinch of sun-dried sea salt and a squirt of fresh squeezed lemon juice and grind for a few seconds until mixed. The cashews should be ground fAirly late with some chunks. Feel the dough or mixture to see if it holds together. It'll be a little sticky and it'll set up in the refrigerator.

Now you can also add goji berries or other dried fruit if you like or alittle shredded coconut just until mixed in. Don't overmix.

Spread the dough into an 8, 9 or 10 inch square dish or 10 inch corning ceramic dish, depending on the thickness you want. You can also form the dough into balls. Place in the freezer for an hour or the refrigerator for a couple of hours or more. When set, slice into bars or into smaller pieces for a quick snack.

Free Raw Recipe-Best Raw Food Bars Recipe

How Many Carbs Per Day Do You Consume Or Eat on Medifast?

Before I conducted a lot of research on this diet, I did not realize that it was actually designed to be low in carbohydrates.  It works a lot like the south beach or Atkins diet by putting your body into ketosis and getting it to burn it's own fat.  But, you don't have to just eat eggs and meat all the time like many similar diets. There are a lot of dessert and snack type alternatives, which is a good thing.  Yesterday, someone emailed me and asked, "Exactly how many carbs can you consume per day on mediFast?" I'll answer this question in the following article.

How Many Carbs Per Day Do You Consume Or Eat on Medifast?

How Many Carbs Per Day Do You Consume Or Eat on Medifast?

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How Many Carbs Per Day Do You Consume Or Eat on Medifast?

How Many Carbs Per Day Do You Consume Or Eat on Medifast?

The Average Amount Of Carbs In A Day Of MediFast Foods: You probably already know this, but you'll be eating six times per day on this diet-five of these meals are provided by thecompany and one of them (called the "lean and green") you make yourself-(based on the mediFast guidelines, of course.)

On average, all six meals will provide you around 80 -100 grams of carbohydrates per day.  Of course, it's best to be on the low end of this range, but there have been times when I have been on the higher end of this and I know from using ketone strips that I was able to stay in ketosis and continue to burn fat.  Here's a look at the carbs contained in a sample of five meals.

Sample Meals With Amount Of Carbohydrates (Contained InGrams)

Cappuccino 13

Oatmeal                                               15

ChocolateShake                                   13

Chili                                                     15

Caramel Protein Bar 13

Apple CinnamonCrisps                        8

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Total                                                  77 grams

How Many Carbs Per Day Do You Consume Or Eat on Medifast?

Could Gluten Be Damaging Your Health?

Do you suffer from some or all of these problems: IBS, depression, difficulties with your aches and pains, weight in your bones and joints, chronic fatigue? If so, you may be gluten intolerant.

Could Gluten Be Damaging Your Health?

Could Gluten Be Damaging Your Health?

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Could Gluten Be Damaging Your Health?

Could Gluten Be Damaging Your Health?

Gluten is a protein found in cereals, specifically, wheat (the main culprit), barley and rye. A similar protein is also found in oats. These cereals are relatively recent additions to the human diet, on the evolutionary timescale. Basically, our bodies haven't had very long to learn how to deal with gluten -so it's not surprising if a high proportion of us have difficulties digesting it.

During man's evolution, our diet consisted mainly of fruit, berries, nuts and large seeds, plus vegetables, roots and the occasional piece of meat whenthe hunt went well. It was only about 12.000 years ago that grasses were introduced. There's a theory that this change of diet was what killed off Neanderthals man in favour of Homo sapiens, although many believe that assimilation accounted for this. Perhaps it was a bit of both.

Whatever the case, the fact remains that our ancestors had a very short time to get used to the sudden change in diet. Within 10.000 years bread had become known as "the staff of life" in many parts of the world. Even today people in some places don't eat much of these grains-the area of China where rice is grown, for example.

Wheat flour is consumed in huge quantities in the West-think pies, bread, Pasta, pizza ... It's very likely that someone who eats a lot of something they can't digest properlywill develop health problems. And that is what seems to be happening, although the health profession, as usual, is taking a while to catch up.

You don't have to take my word for it. Surf the net for a little while, looking for the words "gluten intolerance", "gluten and depression", "gluten and health", "gluten and obesity", and so on. There are many studies, stories from sufferers, and a few doctors and other medical types saying it's all a load of rubbish.

(I guess it's understandable that doctors don't want to put a health warning on wheat, barley and rye-after all, they've already warned us off almost everything else-though they do seem to change their minds quite a lot. What would their patients eat?)

It's well known that adeficiency in certain vitamins can result in serious health problems. Because gluten based products form such a high proportion of most people's diets, which many of them can't digest properly, malnourishMent is becoming common in the West-even in the chronically obese.

Despite what some in the medical fraternity would have you believe, gluten intolerance is not a fantasy. The most severe form, coeliac disease, is a very nasty disease. If you're happy to irritable bowel syndrome, accept arthritic symptoms and depression in exchange for a bowl of Pasta, you're braver than I am! I used to suffer from all these problems until I cut gluten out of my diet. I wish I had known about it before.

If you do have symptoms like the ones listed at the top of thisarticle, it's important you try and find out the cause. Gluten is a prime culprit. And there is quite a bit of evidence to link gluten to bowel cancer, as well (which has been increasing steadily for years).

How should you go about this? There's little point in going to your doctor, because even if he doesn't laugh at you, the only form of gluten intolerance that can be detected (sometimes) by a blood test is coeliac disease. I know you need to do a bit of detective work for yourself to establish whether or not gluten is a problem for you.

The easiest way to check this out is to cut gluten out of your diet for two or three weeks and see how you feel at the end of it. There will most likely be changes, though some symptoms may take quite awhile to fade away completely. But at the end of the trial, go and get a pizza or a sticky bun or something, just to see what your body's reaction is (but don't go overboard-it may be a stronger reaction than you expect).

Gluten intolerance is much more common than people realise. Don't be a victim, check it out. You're worth it.

Could Gluten Be Damaging Your Health?