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Your Healthy Day!

Posted on March 16th, 2017

I was recently invited to run a raw food workshop by Elizabeth Bray of Meare Court Farm, near Taunton.  Liz is a professional nutritionist, and runs a nutritional school at her farmhouse, where she also has a number of very beautifully converted self-catering holiday cottages and the gorgeous old farmhouse itself.  So it was a very lovely for our gathering of half a dozen people interested in learning more about incorporating raw food into their lifestyle and health maintenance programmes. And what fun we had!

I aimed to cover what a healthy day’s menu might be using raw food.  This would ideally start with a green juice, and then we covered the many and varied uses and value of homemade hempmilk, which served both as a replacement ‘cappucino’ with added superfoods, a breakfast smoothie, a chia pudding which we kept for lunchtime, as well as a day long drink to provide protein, hydration and a whole range of optional superfoods.  Its just so versatile!  And I love sharing the exciting benefits of the amazing superfoods we now have access to…

After that, we all prepared a big salad which included some fermented food in the form of sauerkraut, contributed by one of the group, (and very delicious it was too!), green leaves, a luscious dressing, herbs from the garden, and soaked sunflower seed mayonnaise, which topped some spiralised veg towers.  I shared the recipe for the ‘cheeze’ kale crisps (cashew cheese) and dehydrated onion bread that I brought along.  And we finished the afternoon with a raw cake and chocolates… and everyone went home with a set of recipes including raw soups for the evening, as a perfect finish to their ‘Healthy Day’ …

Liz and I are now planning some more workshop dates … so watch this space….