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try this soup. i made it before and found it exotic and delicious!
CHILLED MANGO AND CUCUMBER SOUP
Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 45 min
2 mangoes, peeled and pitted (2 lb total)
2 seedless cucumbers (usually plastic-wrapped; 1 1/2 lb total)
3 tablespoons finely chopped red onion
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice, or to taste
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Finely chop 1 mango and 1 cucumber and set aside. Coarsely chop remaining mango and cucumber and pur’‚©e with 1/4 cup water in a blender until almost smooth. Transfer to a bowl and stir in finely chopped mango and cucumber, onion, lime juice, and 2 cups cold water. Place bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and stir until cool.
Just before serving, stir in cilantro and 1 1/4 teaspoons salt.
Cooks' note:
‚ Soup can also be chilled in the refrigerator until cold, but it will take about 2 hours.
Makes about 7 cups.
source: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/106879
hey guys I'm copying a post
that says spinach has iodine an is bad
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http://www.acne.org/messageboard/index.php...p;#entry1313778
I found 2 common triggers for acne throughout the webpages: Milk, and Iodine
Incidentally there is A LOT of IODINE in MILK. Go figure!
I also found out there is a lot of iodine in spinach, and tuna.
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so should we eat spinach or not?
^The things we've mentioned above can be made into a raw soup. 🙂 So you're wanting to make the salad a meal? If that's the case, then I can see why you'd want more calories by adding oils. Keep us updated on how your blended salads are going! 🙂
Yep that's exactly what I was getting at 🙂 Fruit for breakfast, salad for lunch, some sort of protein (legumes, soy, chicken or fish) for dinner, that's how I'm aiming to eat once school starts again so I'm trying to get in the flow of it now. Pretty simple diet... and organic salad greens are oh so cheap 🙂
Alexei, don't worry about the spinach for god's sake! It's one of the healthiest foods you could possibly eat. Iodine is not some big scary toxin, it's a mineral and a very necessary one at that. Only when it's grossly overconsumed do you run into problems like an acne-like rash. I think what that guy did for the most part was inadvertantly figure out the trigger to his acne was dairy, and then cut it out, and along with that he cut out the spinach as a bonus and figured iodine played a role. Or maybe he's overly hypersensitive to iodine? Doubt it. Your thyroid needs iodine and a faulty thyroid gland can excaberate acne.
try this soup. i made it before and found it exotic and delicious!
CHILLED MANGO AND CUCUMBER SOUP
That sounds really good! Thanks for posting! 🙂
Yep that's exactly what I was getting at 🙂 Fruit for breakfast, salad for lunch, some sort of protein (legumes, soy, chicken or fish) for dinner, that's how I'm aiming to eat once school starts again so I'm trying to get in the flow of it now. Pretty simple diet... and organic salad greens are oh so cheap 🙂
Wow... sounds like a healthy diet to me! Did you check out Dr. Fuhrman's website? www.drfuhrman.com He's really into blended salads and green smoothies apparently. I just bought his book, Eat to Live, so I'm looking forward to reading what he has to say.
so should we eat spinach or not?
Spinach is very healthy! The key is to eat a variety of greens - you wouldn't want to only eat spinach, but I don't see anything wrong with eating it here and there. I find that my skin looks best when I'm doing lots of spinach in my smoothies. It's high in oxalates though, so I don't eat spinach everyday. Just eat a variety of greens. 🙂
Yeah that's where I got the idea from, Eat2Live. Basically trying to get the most out of my calorie to nutrients ratio with a daily blended salad and fruits for breakfast, then legumes / meat for dinner... probably be some grains sprinkled here and there too, just a small amount.
^ ^ ^ Guys, I'm not going for a smoothie. I've done those a million times. What Im striving for is a pure blended salad that's palatable, or atleast a "raw soup". I add the oils for calories because let's face it, you're not going to be satisfied off the <200 calories you get from lettuce, spinach, onion bits and broccoli.
I thought so but wasn't sure. To be honest, I will be surprised if you are able to make this concoction taste good, however if you do achieve it eventually, please let us know!
I thought so but wasn't sure. To be honest, I will be surprised if you are able to make this concoction taste good, however if you do achieve it eventually, please let us know!
I think he can make it taste good. It'll just take some experimenting. 🙂
The problem is he is trying to turn a meal into a drink. If you were doing this with something else, take a traditional roast dinner - roast potatoes, roast chicken, broccoli, yorkshire pudding gravy etc etc - individually the components taste great. But blended into a drink?? 😯 Now, I am not saying that it can't be done - I just have my doubts! 🙂
I thought so but wasn't sure. To be honest, I will be surprised if you are able to make this concoction taste good, however if you do achieve it eventually, please let us know!
I think he can make it taste good. It'll just take some experimenting. 🙂
The problem is he is trying to turn a meal into a drink. If you were doing this with something else, take a traditional roast dinner - roast potatoes, roast chicken, broccoli, yorkshire pudding gravy etc etc - individually the components taste great. But blended into a drink?? 😯 Now, I am not saying that it can't be done - I just have my doubts! 🙂
LOL!! Yeah, blended potatoes, chicken and broccoli might not be so good..... eeeew!!! That's hilarious, hehe. Yes, I do agree it will be tricky. If anyone can figure it out though, I bet it's Rubber Sheep! I've actually made some really good blended salads that are smoothies. I add lots of onions and garlic - very tasty. 🙂 I also do some fruit with them though, so that helps.
I thought so but wasn't sure. To be honest, I will be surprised if you are able to make this concoction taste good, however if you do achieve it eventually, please let us know!
I think he can make it taste good. It'll just take some experimenting. 🙂
The problem is he is trying to turn a meal into a drink. If you were doing this with something else, take a traditional roast dinner - roast potatoes, roast chicken, broccoli, yorkshire pudding gravy etc etc - individually the components taste great. But blended into a drink?? 😯 Now, I am not saying that it can't be done - I just have my doubts! 🙂
On the contrary, monseieur. I'm trying to turn a drink into a meal. You had it backwards! But yeah, basically I'm looking at the blended salad as a "soup base" to use for a disgustingly healthy cold soup, and figure out how to make it palatable. I kind of had it first try.
So I'm thinking along the lines of: add a bag of salad and oil for the "base", put in lemon juice, guacamole, garlic, onions, celery, carrots, possibly cucumber. For the soup, something like steamed broccoli, shucked corn???, tomatoe pieces, possibly some steamed rice or lentils... I'll figure this out later actually. But if I can make these damn blended salads palatable, I know I'll be loving them up on the daily.
I was also thinking of something like a shredded salad where you throw the greens in a food processor with no water just so they get super shredded and in tiny pieces so the cellulose walls are broken down, and then just eat the tiny bits like a regular salad with a couple things like cherry tomatoes, shiitake mushrooms and tofu / chicken bits thrown in as well to improve taste and texture. But my damn food processor is so tiny, it'd take me half the day to shred up a whole bag of salad and that's what I aim to eat in a sitting.
im drinking my first green smoothie
2 apples, 5 strawberrys and alot of lettuce its the chunkiest nastiest thing i've ever tasted in my life but i dont give a fuck!
This shouldn't taste bad - IMO lettuce has very little flavour of its own and strawberries and apples are yummy. Plus you say its chucky so it may be that you didn't blend it for long enough (or your blender isn't powerful enough). Try adding half a cup of water next time to improve the consistency and increasing the ratio of fruit:greens to make it more palatable.
I was also thinking of something like a shredded salad where you throw the greens in a food processor with no water just so they get super shredded and in tiny pieces so the cellulose walls are broken down, and then just eat the tiny bits like a regular salad with a couple things like cherry tomatoes, shiitake mushrooms and tofu / chicken bits thrown in as well to improve taste and texture. But my damn food processor is so tiny, it'd take me half the day to shred up a whole bag of salad and that's what I aim to eat in a sitting.
Very cool idea indeed. 🙂
im drinking my first green smoothie
2 apples, 5 strawberrys and alot of lettuce its the chunkiest nastiest thing i've ever tasted in my life but i dont give a fuck!
LOL, well good for you for at least giving it a try! You may want to try blending a little longer and adding less lettuce.
I added an ingredient to my smoothie:P
I added kale....it tastes awful:P
don't try it hehehehhee
:sick:
Eeew.... LOL, yeah, I made some seriously nasty smoothies in the beginning by adding kale. I have heard since then that's it's best to only use the leafy parts of the kale and not the stems, as they are just too fibery (is that a word? If not, I'm making it up). hehe 🙂
i've read from kiesen's book that:
- green leafy vegetables such as spinach are a good source of magnesium
- magnesium is necessary for converting the essential fatty acid AL into Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA)
- GLA is the single largest essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency because it's so rare in foods
- magnesium plays a major role in normalizing hormone production and use (especially with calcium)
- magnesium is an anti-stress mineral
i've read from kiesen's book that:
- green leafy vegetables such as spinach are a good source of magnesium
- magnesium is necessary for converting the essential fatty acid AL into Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA)
- GLA is the single largest essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency because it's so rare in foods
- magnesium plays a major role in normalizing hormone production and use (especially with calcium)
- magnesium is an anti-stress mineral
That's definitely encouraging information! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Well indiethink. I got the blended salads down to a point, but today I decided to just try a green smoothie. Put in a full bag of og. baby romaine lettuce, a bananna, and two handfulls grapes. A pinch of stevia as well. As bad as I thought it would come out, it actually came out pretty good. I think instead of doing those blended salad soup type things I'm just gonna do this for a meal (maybe breakfast and add more fruits next time because it's pretty fast and easy...) and include some coconut oil (and possibly olive since all the other stuff will neutralize it's taste) in the smoothie next time for calories, maybe even throw in an avocado haha. I'm definitely a strong believer that leafy greens should be a daily addition to everyone's diets, whether they're Paleo, vegetarian, raw foodist, macrobiotic, or S.A.D. diet...
Well indiethink. I got the blended salads down to a point, but today I decided to just try a green smoothie. Put in a full bag of og. baby romaine lettuce, a bananna, and two handfulls grapes. A pinch of stevia as well. As bad as I thought it would come out, it actually came out pretty good. I think instead of doing those blended salad soup type things I'm just gonna do this for a meal and include some olive & coconut oil in the smoothie next time for calories, maybe even throw in an avocado haha. I'm definitely a strong believer that leafy greens should be a daily addition to everyone's diets, whether they're Paleo, vegetarian, raw foodist, macrobiotic, or S.A.D. diet...
🙂 Congratulations. I think its the way to go. Out of interest - why did you add the stevia? With the mango and banana it should have been sweet enough already?
Well indiethink. I got the blended salads down to a point, but today I decided to just try a green smoothie. Put in a full bag of og. baby romaine lettuce, a bananna, and two handfulls grapes. A pinch of stevia as well. As bad as I thought it would come out, it actually came out pretty good. I think instead of doing those blended salad soup type things I'm just gonna do this for a meal (maybe breakfast and add more fruits next time because it's pretty fast and easy...) and include some coconut oil (and possibly olive since all the other stuff will neutralize it's taste) in the smoothie next time for calories, maybe even throw in an avocado haha. I'm definitely a strong believer that leafy greens should be a daily addition to everyone's diets, whether they're Paleo, vegetarian, raw foodist, macrobiotic, or S.A.D. diet...
Awesome! I'm so glad you're getting this all figured out for your liking. That is a LOT of lettuce in that smoothie! haha It's really cool that you liked it!! I agree with you - these are so easy, and it's such an easy way to get in your fruit and leafy greens. I used to barely getting around to either - this is the first time in my life that I'm consistently eating fruits and greens on a daily basis. I used to hate cutting up fruit into little pieces - it's so easy to just throw into the blender though.
I think the avocado is a great idea to add for extra calories. Dr. Fuhrman is against concentrated foods, like olive oil, but if you're just doing a little, I don't see that that would be a big deal. I like the idea of adding in coconut oil - better yet, add in some young coconut meat and water! Have you tried young coconuts yet? I'm sure you have. They'd be great in a smoothie - I should go pick up some of those. They are pricey at places like Whole Foods but are much more reasonable at Vietnamese markets.
I totally agree as well that no matter what diet philosophy you have, greens should be a part of everyone's diet. The greens smoothies are by far the most important health discovery I have made in the last few years, and they are also the one thing I know for a fact are good to do... no confusion there like with so many other things.
im drinking my first green smoothie
2 apples, 5 strawberrys and alot of lettuce its the chunkiest nastiest thing i've ever tasted in my life but i dont give a fuck!
Green smoothies are supposed to taste GREAT ... so you did something wrong
I will post few good recipes to make good green smoothies
Just you must use baby greens so they taste sweet and are blended easily and not course old leaves
You must add some liquid to blend it: like milk or soy milk or lemon juice or orange juice
You must blend it until it has the consistency of a creamy soups, nothing should remain intact
You must use the right proportion of green versus fruits/nuts
Oh yeah, young coconuts are good. A bit time consuming to get all of the jelly meat out to do it as a morning routine, but the liquid would be better then water for a smoothie base. Yeah I figure a full bag of salad greens a day is the way to go. Keep in mind guys, you're also partially reaping the benefits of CHLOROPHYLL when you do these. Chlorophyll is a very beneficial thing in the human diet, it's not just for plants! Google it.
Anyways that's funny that Dr. Fuhrman advises against concentrated foods... with fruits, leafy greens and vegetables as your staples, it's very hard to get enough calories without either 1) meat, 2) grains / legumes, 3) excessive nuts and seeds, or 4) oils... I'd probably be adding a good amount of oil anyways, because the way I look at it, 15 calories from the salad greens, and 100-400 from fruits mostly in the form of simple sugars isn't going to cut it for real sustained nourishment if I was doing this as a meal replacement... need something to slow down everything else's digestion and add some extra calories and that's where the coconut / olive oil / avocadoes / dried coconut flakes (these are great) comes in 
Edit: read over a statement Fuhrman gave about being against too much oils and it makes sense. I wonder how well these dried coconut flakes would blend, the things are dirt cheap at Wild Oats...
Oh yeah, young coconuts are good. A bit time consuming to get all of the jelly meat out to do it as a morning routine, but the liquid would be better then water for a smoothie base. Yeah I figure a full bag of salad greens a day is the way to go. Keep in mind guys, you're also partially reaping the benefits of CHLOROPHYLL when you do these. Chlorophyll is a very beneficial thing in the human diet, it's not just for plants! Google it.
Anyways that's funny that Dr. Fuhrman advises against concentrated foods... with fruits, leafy greens and vegetables as your staples, it's very hard to get enough calories without either 1) meat, 2) grains / legumes, 3) excessive nuts and seeds, or 4) oils... I'd probably be adding a good amount of oil anyways, because the way I look at it, 15 calories from the salad greens, and 100-400 from fruits mostly in the form of simple sugars isn't going to cut it for real sustained nourishment if I was doing this as a meal replacement... need something to slow down everything else's digestion and add some extra calories and that's where the coconut / olive oil / avocadoes / dried coconut flakes (these are great) comes in 🙂
Edit: read over a statement Fuhrman gave about being against too much oils and it makes sense. I wonder how well these dried coconut flakes would blend, the things are dirt cheap at Wild Oats...
True...haha, the coconuts would be time consuming for in the morning... LOL I'm sure that's just want you want to do in the morning is to have to pry one of those things open. haha I learned an easy way to get the coconut water out.... cut about an inch off the flat part on the bottom, and you'll find a little knob on the bottom that you can easily break open, and then you can let the water drain out. To break the shell though, I have to use a hammer. LOL
I made a mistake above... I meant to say "refined" instead of concentrated. Fuhrman is okay with grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. I think the coconut flakes are an excellent idea!! One idea is to make the smoothie the night before, drink it as soon as you wake up, and then about 20-30 minutes later, eat a little something extra that's heavier.