Raw Foods For Busy People: Simple And Machine Free Recipes For Every Day

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Raymond Francis, M.Sc., R.N.C., Author of Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It Bravo! Jordan makes achieving health simple by offering practical recipes that are great tasting and easy-to-prepare. Chris O'Loughlin, The Raw Trainer
Jordan's recipes are so healthy, tasty, and easy to prepare, I recommend the book to all of my clients. Book Description
Now you can enjoy and prepare simple raw foods, the healthiest foods nature has to offer, while living a busy lifestyle. This book is perfect for raw food beginners, busy people, health-conscious slackers, and those on temporary cleansing programs. It makes a great gift for the raw-curious as well, since it is the simplest and least intimidating raw food recipe book on the market. It includes over 120 recipes, almost half of which are or include machine-free options. About the Author
Jordan Maerin holds a degree in Philosophy from Michigan State University. She is a raw food enthusiast and sungazer living in San Diego, California, where she has been a contributing writer for Zengers newsmagazine. She currently works fulltime at the premier raw food superstore,
Nature's First Law, at rawfood.com. Excerpted from Raw Foods for Busy People: Simple and Machine-Free Recipes for Every Day by Jordan Maerin.
Let's face it. Busy people do not like to prepare food. We generally eat out. A lot. If you want to eat raw foods but do not want to prepare anything yourself, then you'll subsist on fresh raw fruit and frequent your local salad bars. If you're lucky, you'll live near a raw restaurant. End of story. However, there are many easy ways to enjoy more variety while eating raw foods. In this book, I discuss strategies for eating out; direct you to some mail order resources for raw prepared foods; and, yes, encourage you to learn some very simple dishes that you can prepare for yourself. Even the busiest people enjoy some variety in the foods they eat, especially over the long run. Helping you achieve Paradise Health, happily and conveniently, is what this book is all about. I had two reasons for writing this book. First, I want to remove the last vestige of an excuse for you to resist embracing the raw food diet: the prep time factor. Secondly, I want to inspire you to become as comfortably functional preparing raw foods in your kitchen as you ever have been preparing cooked foods (maybe even more so!). Let me give you an example of what I mean. Imagine wanting to prepare a grilled cheese sandwich. Do you refer to a cookbook to find out how much butter you should use on the bread? Do you get out your scale and ask your guest exactly how many ounces of cheese they want on their sandwich? Do you rely on a thermometer to tell you when your skillet is ready to receive the sandwich? Do you again consult a cookbook to find out exactly how long the sandwich should remain on the hot skillet before flipping it to the other side? Of course not! Instead, you easily assemble the ingredients, eyeball the amount of butter and cheese, throw the sandwich onto the skillet when you're ready, and then peek underneath the bottom piece of bread to determine when you want to flip it. These have been easy, comfortable rituals, whatever we've learned to do in our kitchens over the course of our lifetimes. It's an ease that we take for granted, until the day we discover a whole new way of eating, like the raw food diet. A new direction like this seems like a curve ball, a speed bump. Suddenly, we feel that the rules have changed, the restrictions multiplied, the machinery become unfamiliar. With the help of this book, you'll discover that raw food preparation takes much less time than you'd thought. And I've put in some of the time and energy for you, by translating, compiling and creating some very simple recipes, and consolidating them into types that will be easy for you to remember and duplicate. With this book as your guide, you'll never again come home after an exhausting day and think, "I don't have the time and energy to make something healthy to eat." Think of this book as your launching pad, as you discover the ease and comfort of preparing the most nutritious foods that nature has to offer, within the comfort of your own home. Easy, natural, simple. This is the road to Paradise Health.

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The Quick Way to Health
In our modern, grab-and-go society, most people don't have the time for radical changes in their diets. But, fast food is literally killing us! It's no secret that at least half of the western world is suffering from one ailment or another; and it's not gettin' any better! So, how do we improve our health, while maintaining our go-go-go lifestyles? Jordan Maerin has the answer in her new book "Raw Foods for Busy People."
Whether you're looking to just add more raw food into your diet, or you're going for the extraordinary results of a 90-100% raw food diet, Maerin's book can make that path a lot easier. She starts off with the basic ideas behind the raw food diet, including her own personal journey, then moves onto pages full of delicious, easy-to-make recipes (most of which you can make without having to spend hundreds of dollars on new appliances!).
And if you thought raw food was boring or tasteless, think again. My personal favorites here are the Pesto-stuffed Vegetables, the Curried Coconut Soup and the Cottage Pie! So, if you're looking for a healthy alternative to fast food, and you can't afford highly priced gourmet raw food meals, "Raw Foods for Busy People" has everything you need to get started on the path to awesome health.

FINALLY A RAW FOODS BOOK FOR REGULAR PEOPLE,
Its very apparent that a lot of love went into making this book. The layout, additional info and resources are excellent and presented very clearly.
As a single guy with not a lot of free time I searched all over for a Raw Foods cookbook that I could use. This is the ONLY book I found that has things I'd eat, enjoy and are easy to make without exorbitant costs or prep times or weird ingredients.
Honestly after researching a lot of the Raw Foods books I figured the only people who could eat this way are housewives with a lot of money, I couldnt imagine anyone spending the time or wanting to eat a lot of the recipes in these other books.After making many things from the book I can say that they fall into two categories-great or bland/too watery. Things like the cinnamon stewed apples, cashew cream, schezwan marinade, halvah shake, puddings and the dehydrator recipes are outstanding. Others like the gravy, curry apple marinade, tahini marinade, mashed potatoes and others are way too watery or lack flavor. I'd still rate this book 5 stars since theres no other raw cookbook like this but I think she needs to fine tune some of these recipes.Would still highly reccomend it though. It was a big relief to get a practical book like this after my 1st purchase- Raw in Ten which was truly an awful raw book.