Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Raw Food Breakfast

A raw food breakfast is a great way to start your day. You will find that you can make delicious morning meals from a wide variety of these fruits and vegetables. You will get not only a great tasting breakfast but a great boost to your health as well with living foods.

Living Foods

The reasons behind a this breakfast are important. Living foods, also known as raw foods, contain nutrients your body needs. Once these foods have been cooked all the nutritional value is destroyed.

Raw foodists, people who make these foods 75%f their daily diet, see massive improvements in their health once they begin eating these foods. A few of the changes immediately noticeable include weight loss, less neck and back pain, arthritis relief, and an improved mood. Over time more and more health benefits will become readily apparent.

What is For Breakfast?

Whether you eat raw or cooked food, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You are literally 'breaking your fast' of the night before. You body has gone for the longest period of the day between meals and needs to be recharged.

Why not super-charge your body? This breakfast is healthier than a cooked breakfast. These foods give you a huge supply of energy and the vitamins and minerals you need to face your day.

Can you imagine waking each day with more energy than you have ever had and a great mood? This is what will happen when you make a this diet part of your normal routine. In addition, you will no longer be as susceptible to viruses and diseases. The illnesses you are currently experiencing may be cured and will definitely be lessened.

There are unlimited choices for a living foods breakfast. For those of you in a hurry you can grab several pieces of filling fruit such as apples or bananas. If you have a little more time, or are able to prepare your breakfast the night before, you have even more choices. You can combine various raw foods for different flavors.

* Breads are a normal part of the traditional breakfast. Unfortunately, breads require cooking and have little or no nutritional value. Instead, you can make a scrumptious living foods bread using cinnamon and dates. Soft wheat that has been sprouted for one day can be combined with fresh dates, cinnamon, and raisins. Once mixed together form into a loaf. Next, place the loaf in a dehydrator to create a 'bread-y' texture.

* A raw food buckwheat breakfast can be filling. A breakfast drink can be created using raw foods that will fill you up and prepare you for your day. Soak buckwheat and add to it fresh dates, an apple, shredded coconut, and cinnamon and nutmeg to taste. This mixture can be pureed in a blender. Once you have the consistency you desire add a banana or your favorite dried fruit to give the breakfast drink power.

* Muesli is very popular on the raw food breakfast menu. Apples, rolled oats, raisins, almonds, cinnamon, and fresh apple juice can be combined to create this heart healthy breakfast dish. Soak the mixture overnight in your refrigerator and add fresh fruits before eating.

The best raw food breakfast is a part of the 811 diet. Throughout the day proponents of this diet get 80 percent of their calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fats, and 10 percent from proteins.

The raw food breakfast menu is anything but boring. It is exciting, colorful, healthy, and a fabulous way to start your day.