I’ve been a real slacker lately in my raw food kitchen. After the Arise & Shine detox I’ve been like a kid in a candy store enjoying all of the simple foods that I wasn’t allowed to eat while I was on the cleanse. Sea salt being one of them! It’s amazing how much I missed salt and how much pleasure it gives me.
But I have managed to blend up a few delightful raw treats.
This is a Raw Chocolate Banana Mousse that is incredibly easy to make, especially if you have a lot of young coconuts lying around like I do.
I blend up the pulp from one young coconut with a fresh or frozen banana, a heaped tablespoon of cacao, enough honey or maple syrup to make it perfectly sweet, a tiny pinch of salt and a little spring water. And that’s it! The banana and coconut pulp make it really smooth and creamy. Yum yum.
This Raspberry Mylkshake impressed even my six year old next door neighbor. I love it when you can trick kids into thinking healthy foods are treats ;)
To make this smoothie I blend up a small handful of soaked cashew nuts with about a cup of spring water, a spoonful of honey, a tiny bit of vanilla and half a cup of frozen raspberries.
This morning I woke up feeling like I may get a head cold. My house mate has been sick and I’ve been a little stressed lately so I think my immune system was a little down. So I made a delicious jug of camu-camu lemonade to fix me right up!
To make this magnificent lemonade, blend the juice of 2 lemons and 1 lime with a heaped teaspoon of camu-camu, a small handfull of goji berries, 4-5 cups of spring water and honey or stevia to taste. If it’s a hot day you can add some ice cubes in there too.
And here is a pic of a banana cream pie that I made this afternoon from the Cafe Gratitude recipe book I Am Grateful. Next week I’m starting a 3 month no sugar detox so I’m trying to use up all the sweeteners in my house before it’s stevia only! Gosh 3 months!! I have no idea what I’m getting myself into :)
Fran
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Amazing Fran!! All the treats look really pretty and yummy!
Hi Fran!
Congrats on finishing your detox. You are so disciplined…what an accomplishment. I just wanted to let you know that because of my long battle with systemic candida, I gave up all sugar, grains and alcohol about 5 months ago. I plan on eating this way for a year to really “kick” the candida. I will tell you that initially I was concerned about ALL sugar (including fruit.) I do use a bit of stevia everyday but it is not bad at all. I am very used to it. Good luck and tell me how it goes.
Anna
hey fran how did you make the banana cream pie it looks so good
How funny! I just made a the same banana cream pie from Cafe Gratitude this day, it’s so delicious right?!
I would love to see more recipes on your blog, they make me excited to try new things. I’ll soon be starting a completely raw food challenge with myself :)
hey fran have u heard of the gerson therapy? my mom read the book and afterwards she cut salt completely out of her cooking. u should look up the book. it offers the only known natural cures to cancer by cutting out salt! by the way the desserts look delicious!
Everything looks soo delish
For your cleanse are you planning on cutting out all sugarrs including fruit? or just added sugars like honey & agave? thanks :-)
Also, how are you feeling post cleanse after reintroducing foods into your diet?
frna, can you do an update on how you are feeling now, after your detox? im also really wondering what effects it had on your skin. thanks!
nicki- yes it is quite divine! The recipe is in the Cafe Gratitude book “I Am Grateful”. I don’t think I can give it away because of copyright of the book or something.
Susie- Err, look more into that please. I’m sure Gerson was referring to bad salts, because there are good salts that are essential for your health and well being too. Consuming celtic sea salt and Himalayan Crystal salt is super healthy!
Katie- Yes, everything, including fruits and sweet vegetables.
Katie & Cathy- Yes good idea about the update. To be honest I always feel soooo good on raw foods. Whenever I start eating cooked foods I feel a bit off balance both physically and emotionally. It’s just difficult breaking away from those simple “comfort foods”.
Great article.I went 3 months no sugar detox last year.it was my first detox ever.So it was pretty hard on me.but you already did some staff so i dont think it will be that hard for you.It is definitely doable.I use only stevia,no honey nothing just stevia..plus sugar that is in a fruits right now. good luck..I know you can do it
Hi Fran,
I have a HUGE problem with sugar addiction and am very curious as to what this sugar detox will entail. Could you provide some tips and maybe some advice on how you tackle sugar cravings? Thanks!
[...] Raw Chocolate Banana Mousse. This raw food dessert recipe is from Fran who loves to write about natural health on her blog, High on Health. In this post, she also shares recipes for Raspberry Mylkshake and Camu-Camu Lemonade. [...]
The recipe is posted on chowhound
http://www.chow.com/recipes/13722-i-am-inviting-banana-cream-pie
Hi Fran,
I was watching your interview with Gideon (Great and so natural by the way!) and I caught your blog post which led me to have a look at it here.
Wow they are amazing – and look so yummy!
I cut sugar out of my diet a few months ago so I will try these I think!
Great website by the way!
Have a great day.
Anthony
where r the recipes?!
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