Friday, August 5, 2011

Healthy Vegan Recipes - How Perfectly Create Vegan Recipes

By Heather Nauta


I like to come up with healthy vegan recipes, but I couldn't say that I grew up with a special interest in health, cooking nutrition. The truth is, it would rather be funny if my mother sees me now, eager to try eating everything that can be healthy for me - I was rather a picky eater when I was young.

Despite my protests, she did manage to set a solid foundation for me, and I have her to thank for a lot of my inner nutritional wisdom. I remember asking her one afternoon if I could have a banana as a snack, and being ecstatic when she agreed. Although growing up I was never fully vegan, my mom was always making healthy recipes for dinner, and showed me the basics of healthy vegan recipes.

I can say I'm not really into eating at restaurants. I have always chosen to cook healthy simple meals at home, so that I can control what goes into it and how it was prepared. The more I acquire info about how the foods are processed these days before they get to the stores, the more I desire to cook healthy vegan meals at home.

Phil and I have traded a few times as head chef in our kitchen, but it was when we eliminated meat, eggs, dairy and cooked food that I really found inspiration. An inability to rely on those powerful flavors forced me to discover the power of simplicity and unleash the flavors of natural, whole foods. While we no longer eat a 100% raw diet, the creativity necessary for raw vegan recipes has opened my eyes to a new world of possibilities in the kitchen.

Learning more about cooking led me naturally to start learning about nutrition and how to make healthy vegan recipes that are not only incredibly delicious, but go a step beyond to bring back the simple truth that the food we eat is meant to nourish our bodies and create the energy we carry through life.

Phil and I has explored many and different ways or approaches to nutrition - detoxification, raw food programs, western scientific nutrition, gluten free recipes, ayurvedic approaches, vegetarian and vegan diets, and the traditional Chinese methods, which is based on centuries of cultural learning.

A lot of the most riches cultures around the world are based on their cuisine - French, Italian, Indian, and Chinese. There is also escalating consciousness that there is more to food that its form. Scientific and cultural knowledge has both take part a role in nutrition, and every cultures and broadly varying approaches have momentous practices to be taken into consideration.

I believe the solution is to begin listening to your body. Even as I, without doubt think that there are certain fundamental truths about cooking and nutrition, my overall viewpoint is that there is no absolute fact for each person. It takes certain consciousness of your health and testing with your body to create a balance, which requires frequent adjustments as you move forward with your life.

My objective is to offer you a new point of view, and assist you to find that consciousness to reunite with the energy of food, while having more fun in the kitchen making simple and healthy vegan recipes.




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