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Your favorite yoga recipe resource list
Recently on the forum (July 2008) we had a request from kdawg to help with some suggestions for meals. Seems kdawg was a little bored with limited food repertoire. I got the feeling that what was wanted was some quick and easy stuff. So here is a blog for anyone and everyone to post their ideas of what is easy, delicious and a favorite meal, supplement or drink, for before and after yoga.
Google it baby!
If you enjoy cooking (and I absolutely love it!) then there are so many places to go online (as you would probably guess) to find recipes. I do use them for inspiration sometimes but one has to be a bit motivated to do that. It helps to have a basic idea or know what food you want to base your meal on. All have search facilities to pop in a selected ingredient.
Online recipe websites abound
I use www.epicurious.com. Discovered a new one the other day: www.veggiemealplans.com . It is difficult to recommend the best ones because there are just so many. You will find some that resonate with you.
There is nothing like a cookbook!
Nothing beats a book though. I love to flick through my cookbooks from time to time. It is great to open it up on the counter and work directly from it. Aah it takes me back to the good ol’ days.
I once bought a book called the 30 minute Vegetarian. And YES, all the recipes take only 30 mins to prepare. This is great because most of us mortals like to have a recipe to follow. There are not many of us who can look in the cupboard and whip up something new and interesting in 30 mins. I just found a score of stuff on Amazon. And although I can’t find the exact same book I have, I am sure that you will find something that appeals to you – that’s what the reviews are for!
It is a real skill to be able to look at your supplies and quickly rustle up something delicious, that provides variety and still delivers your nutritional requirements and satisfies your cravings. I do believe that the yoga will help you gain some clarity on what your body is requesting! And you too will get good at this.
Raw foods are fantastic
One of the books that changed my life was actually called Raw Energy by Lesley and Susannah Kenton (an English mother and daughter duo). I am actually not a raw foodist. Jared has given a great reference on that in the Regaining your figure posts.
Here is one of the gems I took away from that book: When you make a salad cut up all your pieces of vegetables and fruit and whatever, very small. Robert and I call them Super Salads! We LOVE them. We don’t make any of them identical. And go with the whim of the chef for the day (or make it together).
Salad suggestions
We will add a changeable selection of the following:
- Rocket and maybe other lettuce leaves
- Sprouts (nature’s powerhouses absolutely jam packed with enzymes)
- Herbs
- Fetta
- Dried or fresh fig
- Dried apricot
- Love it with fresh mango
- Basil
- Apple
- Avocado
- Selection of seeds and nuts; sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds (pepitas), sunflower seeds, maybe pine nuts or crushed toasted almonds
- Tofu
- Tempeh
- Carrot (grated – and we love the circular grater so we get lovely long decorative strands)
- Zucchini (grated or chopped)
- Raw broccoli
- Raw cauliflower
- ANYTHING that you want to put in
- Try popping in some vermicelli noodles
- Organic tinned beans or lentils (real easy)
- Some cooked rice, white, brown, wild.
The beauty of these salads is that you cut things small and you really TASTE them. And you find you can use vegetables raw that you would normally cook (say for example, cauliflower).
The flavors can be so explosive that you won’t even need to put a dressing.
Although if I do make a dressing it could be with:
- Avocado (mashed and some olive oil and maybe Bragg aminos)
- Balsamic vinegar
- Mashed mango (yum)
- Use your imagination and go wild.
Add your own suggestions
Hey, if you have some ideas for kdawg, some online resources to recommend, or just want to share your favorite meal that supports your yoga lifestyle then go ahead, and inspire us all 
. I know you want to 
Namaste
Gabrielle 
Posted by Gabrielle on 07/23 at 02:53 AM
This is a site that along with hemp seed smoothies in the morning, I credit for a 50 pound weight loss. It’s http://www.thedailyplate.com
Its so much more than a calorie tracker; explore it’s uses and even as a free member you’ll see it’s an invaluable tool if you want to drop some pounds!
Namaste Carrie 
Posted by Carrie on 07/23 at 04:03 AM
Love Raw Tahini dressing (if you can find a raw tahini and make your own to taste- in my case, oads of raw garlic). Heady, luxuriant, earthy, warmy (okay, I know that’s not a word…) but that unctiousness is sometimes mising from raw food and this is kinda decadent feeling…
And, yes, I agree that cutting salads into small bits makes for both and exciting salad (oooh,a new taste in every forkfull!) and makes somewhat distastful ingredients more managable/acceptable (I can so overlook cauliflowers’ brainlike appearance if it’s cut into bits and covered in, say, raw tahini dressing
Posted by MIA on 11/14 at 02:15 PM
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