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Vietnamese Bun Thit Nuong

vietnamese pork and noodle dish Vietnamese Bun Thit Nuong

Recipe from Jennifer Cooks

This photo, taken at night on my phone, had to be captured because I was just so excited to eat Vietnamese food that tastes so close to the ones I started eating in restaurants.

This dish reminds me of Josh and my first visits to New York. The visits that would cement our relationship  and a combined appreciated for good food. We’d go to L’Annam in Union Square every single time I visited, even once on Thanksgiving after the parade. I’d always order the grilled pork vermicelli, and he’d order pho.

I may have known, but never could  have guessed that this dish would be the same one that I’d seek out while traveling and eventually make in our home.

I think this is the perfect summer dinner and since we basically skipped most of winter and spring and seem to be headed straight  into summer (it’s supposed to be 80 degrees today! no complaints here.), I thought I’d share this recipe with you. Jennifer, from Jennifer Cooks gets it right. Also known that this would be just as good with chicken thighs or even tofu if that’s your thing. And if you’re like me and have tons of leftover noodles, vegetables and sauce, it makes an excellent cold salad the next day.

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How Not to Eat Bread, Potatoes and Pasta

One of the biggest obstacles when starting the Paleo diet is in knowing that you can’t eat any more bread, rice and pasta. How are you going to manage? Well there are some simple switches you can make.

Instead of feeling deprived by having to change your food choices, you should welcome this new change instead. View it as a way to get creative and discover some great new foods that you can eat.

Who doesn’t eat bread, rice, potatoes and pasta at least once or twice a week? They are a good way to add bulk to any meal and are filling as well. This is very true as all of these foods are high in carbohydrates and low in fibre. While they may fill you up they don’t add much in the way of nutritional value!

Keep in mind too the principle of the Paleo diet is to eat natural and raw fruits and vegetables. Bread is a manufactured food full of additives and preservatives and the same is true of pasta. Potatoes were not eaten by our ancestors as they did not know how to cook them. They were thought to be inedible in their raw state.

One easy substitution can be made by using spaghetti squash as noodles for pasta dishes. Spaghetti squash is easy to cook, delicious and low in calories. You should find that even your kids won’t mind eating spaghetti squash.

Instead of potatoes cook up cauliflower and then mash it. Mashed cauliflower resembles mashed potatoes but has a lighter texture. Serve it with your next roast beef and nobody may even notice the difference.

For stews and meals with sauces serve red or green sliced cabbage instead of noodles, rice or potatoes. The cabbage is high in fibre and low in fat and keeps you feeling full for a long time.

When it comes to summer time eating a burger on a bun is accepted by everyone. On the Paleo diet you will want to cut out the bun! Makes you feel like you are stripping the burger naked! But there are other ways to dress up your burger that won’t have you feeling as though you are missing out on something.

Substitute your bun for lettuce leaves and wrap your burger up in it. You are still holding your burger in something but you are making a healthier choice. Plus you are not ruining your Paleo Diet.

When it comes to eating breakfast toast seems to go with just about everything. Try eating your eggs with tomatoes, peppers and mushrooms instead. You will feel full and you may just find that you didn’t miss the toast at all!

By being a little creative you can learn to live without bread, potatoes and pasta. Your body will thank you for putting less high carb food into it and your weight loss efforts will be rewarded.

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Raw Food Diet Recipes


Raw food diet recipes are essential if you are going to stay on a raw food diet for any more than a few weeks. In the beginning, people who go raw are full of enthusiasm and can happily live on fruit, salad and nuts without a lot of preparation. The health benefits that they expect to gain are highly motivating.

Raw Food Diet Recipes

Raw food diet recipes

On top of that, people start to feel much better both physically and mentally within 5-10 days of starting a raw food diet. So it is easy to continue for a while longer even if the food that you are eating has become a little dull or repetitive.

Raw Food As a Lifestyle

However, if you plan to stay on a raw diet for months or even years, you will need more variety, and that’s where raw food diet recipes come in. If you keep trying to eat the same few foods over and over, you will become bored. You will probably also not be balancing nutrients as well as you might. That is when cravings really kick in, pushing you into eating cooked foods (and probably not even healthy cooked foods) if you are not able to vary your diet.

Raw food diet recipes cover every type of dish that you could imagine. It is not all salads! You will find aperitifs and main courses, desserts, raw cakes and snack bars, spreads and dips, and of course, smoothies. You can find raw food diet recipes for raw pizza with a nut base, flax crackers, noodles made from zucchini or squash, and many other delights.

Nutrition with Raw Food Diet Recipes

Planning your nutritional needs is important too. A website like fitday.com, designed for weight loss, can be very helpful to anybody who wants to know if they are getting enough of all of the essential minerals and vitamins. You don’t have to use the weight loss tracking aspect of the site unless you need it. Just enter the quantities of foods that you eat over 1-2 weeks and see whether you are missing something essential.

If you are low on certain nutrients, you will need to find a raw food source of it. You may find that you don’t like many of the foods that contain this nutrient and that is why it is not in your diet already. In that situation, raw food diet recipes can help you out by suggesting dishes where the disliked food can be combined with others to make it more palatable for you.

In other cases, you may find it hard to supply the nutrients with raw food diet recipes. Calcium is a mineral that many raw fooders do not get enough of – at least according to the government recommendations. Some argue that we do not need so much calcium if we are not eating meat, because calcium is said to be less available when combined with substances in animal foods. But this has not been proven.

Dairy – A Raw Food?

Some raw fooders use raw dairy products to make up their calcium, although this carries some risk of food poisoning. Others take a supplement even though supplements are not raw, or simply use higher calcium fruits and vegetables like oranges, broccoli and almonds in their raw food diet recipes.

Raw Food Diet Recipes
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