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Dehydrate Fruits
One of
the problems facing anyone trying to eat healthier, especially for
someone trying to move towards eating more raw foods is the convenience
factor. Raw and natural foods are so much healthier for you, but it’s
not as if there are drive-through raw foods restaurants on every street
corner in the country.
And of course, there’s no such thing as a
raw foods snack machine, is there? So if you get hungry during the day,
you’re going to have a challenge of finding something appropriate to
eat if you haven’t packed any raw fruits and vegetables. And
when
you’re rushing around in the morning, sometimes it’s next to impossible
to find the time to put together a selection of healthy snacks to take
with you.
One thing to try so that you have healthy snacks
available quickly is to dehydrate your fruits or make fruit leathers.
Those fruit roll-ups you see in the grocery store are derived from a
pretty good idea – fruit leathers. But it’s better to make your own –
commercial fruit leathers are going to be loaded with preservatives and
sugars – just the things you want to avoid.
When you’re
switching to a raw foods diet, that doesn’t always have to mean fresh
off the farm. It means not cooking foods with processes that strip all
the essential vitamins, amino acids and enzymes from them. Drying fruit
is a great way to add variety to your diet and make yourself tasty
snacks of dried fruit or fruit leathers. It’s not hard to do. There are
recipes and inexpensive food dehydrators on the Web. These are also
great snacks to pack for your kids’ lunches!
You get all the benefit of the raw fruit, just packaged and preserved
in a healthy, nutritious way!...
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