Bueller’s Kitchen

A friend of mine just read the book Skinny Bitch (posits similar ideas to The China Study – my favorite book – but in a “Lipstick Jungle” vernacular) which made her decide to completely change her diet and she asked me what I did. I thought maybe this would be helpful to people so I thought I’d share it:

First she sent me a list of her favorite’s foods, which were very similar to mine:

red/orange/yellow peppers

LOVE tomatoes

cucumbers

celery (can tolerate)

carrots (can tolerate)

avocado

sprouts

garlic

broccoli/cauliflower (cooked) can tolerate

beets

mushrooms cooked

jicama with chili sauce is good

pretty much every single fruit

Here were some things that work for me:

cucumber (use 2 for your base as a soup then add everything else you want), celery, jicama, cabbage, sprouts, watercress, tomatoes and garlic (3 cloves should do it) can all be combined in a blender to make soup. I just mix them up and use what appeals to me that day. Just add some celtic sea salt (I don’t use normal salt anymore, it’s terrible for you) and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. I play with these ingredients to change the soup. Then just blend it and eat it. I usually add ½ cup of lemon juice too.

Red, orange and yellow peppers are good with salad or filled with “meat” (finely chopped walnuts, a little soy sauce or nama shoya, cumin, basil, tomato paste (heat tomato paste first then add in) – blend in cuisinart, I always enjoy that.

Avocado’s are good on salads or in a green smoothie (1 apple or some of my favorite fruit), coconut water (there are cans of this in the juice section), 1 handful spinach, ½ avocado, 4 stalks celery or 1 cucumber)

Avocados are also great on Lydia’s Organics Luna Nori Crackers.

I don’t like carrots either so I don’t eat them. I don’t eat beets either but I’m sure you could make a great beet soup.

I make great marinated raw portabello mushroom patties (I didn’t eat these in the begining because of candida but would have if I hadn’t had to deal with that)

Fruit is best eaten alone, in a smoothie or before a meal.

I get oats and soak them overnight in almond milk (1/2 cup oats – 1 cup almond milk), add some cocoa and cut up some strawberries, add a little stevia (it’s in the supplements section), it is heaven.

I can get everything at Whole Foods but they never know where this stuff goes I often have to ask them for it.

Lots of salads and I really like Arugula topped with sashimi from Bristol Farms with shaved Fennel and pesto. They serve this at Dominic’s (a popular LA restaurant), it’s awesome.