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Blending & Juicing Vegetables

Information on how to (un)cook your raw food

Do you wonder what's the best way for juicing vegetables? What's the best juicer for carrots, and how to juice greens or grasses? Do you like the idea of eating raw, but think it's too much work? Or you don't know exactly how to prepare a raw food dinner?

"Make food simple and bring out its real taste."
Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland)

This page will give you the information on juicing, blending fruits, germinating nuts, sprouting and everyting else you need to get started on a raw food diet.

All cooking information has be put in an easy table so you can quickly find what you're looking for and easily compare the various techniques.

Before you know it,
juicing becomes second nature
.

After learning how to juice, blend, dehydrate and sprout effectively, your'e another big step forward to reaching your perfect weight and super health. This is fun!

Let's get started.


Overview of Raw Food Preparation Methods

First, have a look at the chart below. This compares nine different raw (un)cooking techniques. The raw food dish for which to use the method, the best tool, and the pro's and cons of the technique. See what method you like most.

Technique
Raw Dish
Tool
Advantages
Considerations
Juicing Vegetable Juice
Fruit Juice
Wheatgrass Juice
Nut Milk
Centrifuge Juicer
Green Star Juicer
Champion Juicer
Quick
Easy
Fun
Expensive (good juicers)
Cleaning time
Blending Smoothies
Soups
Sauces
Spreads
Ice-cream
Vitamix Blender
Blendtec Blender
Hand Blender
Quick
Easy
Fun
Expensive (high speed blender)
Dehydrating Crackers
Cookies
Bars
Dehydrator
Sun
Oven
Quick
Easy
Fun
Expensive
Takes up space (Dehydrator)
Sprouting Sprouts
grass
Sprouter
Sprouting Jars
Sprouting Bags
Inexpensive Requires skill & time
Germinating Nuts
Seeds
Grains
Bowl Inexpensive
Quick
Easy
Need to plan in advance
Cutting Salads
precutting blender
Knifes
Food Processor
Mandoline
Spiralizer
Inexpensive
Quick
Easy
Not for high volumes
Chopping Nuts
Veggies
Fruits
Chopper
Cleaver
Inexpensive
Quick
Easy
Not for high volumes
Rehydrating Juices
Fruits
Spreads
Cakes
Spreads
Mouses
Smoothies
Quick
Easy
Loss of some enzymes


Next Steps
for Starting a Raw Food Diet

Now you've read about the various ways of raw food preparation.

Next, you can read more details about how to start juicing.

Go to the page that reviews raw food kitchen tools.

Or you can go straight to the recipe site and search for recipes you like:

Recipe Index

Breakfast Recipes

Lunch Recipes

Best Recipes - My Top 8

All Recipes - 50+ raw recipes



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