Recommended equipment for your Raw Live Kitchen

 

Just to get you going you only need:-

 

• a blender
• & maybe a nut mylk bag 

Just buy your sprouts from health food stores and supermarkets now sell them. If you feel ready to sprout your own sprouts then do so, but you may find you have enough on your plate excuse the pun, just managing the raw recipes.

When you feel ready you can maybe start looking into purchasing other bits and pieces. Most of the time when it comes to doing more raw food recipes you might find it of help to go to workshops to get the feel for the ingredients & get that inspiration too …especially when it comes to dehydrating. See my website for these workshops. 

Blender – Again choose wisely to begin with. My first one only cost me around £40 and it does me a good service. But ultimately when you become more experienced and decide you really are going to go raw – of course you are! Then the it's hard to beat the Vitamix - from the USA.

Dehydrator – The Excalibur is meant to be the best on the market. I bought a Stockli one at first. You can actually make your own dehydrator believe it or not with a cardboard box and using light bulbs – a little more complex that that, but when you know how it's always easier!? You can use the dehydrator for all sorts of things from burgers, onion bread, breads, flax seed crackers, waffles, nut loaves, and lots of other wonderful things that satisfy your palate especially when you are transitioning over to raw food. People are generally amazed when they 1 st encounter a mouthful of delicious dehydrated food for the 1 st time.

Remember the dehydrator only heats up to a certain temperature whereby the enzymes are not destroyed. So the food is still a lot better for you than cooked food.

If you come on any Raw Food Workshops you will learn about dehydrating foods!

Juicer – Again to begin with you might want to get something that is not so expensive. I bought my Matstone juicer ( this is a masticating juicer) from Wholistic Research and I am still using it. I love my Matstone juicer as it's so easy to use and most of all clean! It's middle of the road in terms of expense. And does wheatgrass, juices and I use the blind attachment for soaked nuts and seeds & soaked sun dried tomatoes etc to create a thick sauce or pates for my recipes. Green juices are one of the most healing raw things you can take. And if you can add anything to it and make it into a super juice or smoothie! If you can just begin with this in the morning it's a good start to the day and to better health! Just remember liquids are easier to assimilate than solids

Sprouting devices - I used to use jars and I also spent a lot of money on an electric one only to find a couple of years later that I could use pure hemp Sproutman bags – much easier! Again available from Wholistic Research. These hemp bags come with instructions on how to look after them. But they allow the sprouts to breath and so don't allow for moulds to grow so easily compared to jars etc. I always have 1 or 2 hanging in my kitchen full of live sprouts. You can sprout after soaking, nuts, seeds, grains, pulses and use them in your recipes. These are full of live enzymes!

Measuring Cups - cups or mugs are used in most raw recipes and its far easier to use than anything else.

Nut/seed Mylk bag –  This is a nylon mesh bag which is great for Hemp mylk as any of the seeds husks left in the mylk will make it taste bitter.

Raw Food Book Reviews & Recommendations 

Remember to always check your library first to see if they have any books on their shelves about Raw Food.

Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko - this is one of the best books and easiest to read books I have ever read for anyone wanting to improve their well being! Green smoothies have changed my life and I wish I had known about them before..so I just hope to inspire people to read this fabulous, definitely worth a read book.

12 Steps to Raw By Victoria Boutenko. A great book about giving you tips on how to go raw. And it is also easy to read. I think this is a great book for new comers to Raw Food. This really helped me understand more about why eating raw food is good for you.

Rawvolution by Matt Amsden is one of my favourite Raw Food recipe Books because it easy to follow & it has great recipes with great photos! Also it has the famous onion bread recipe.

Living on Live Food By Alissa Cohen. This is a great book to inspire or tempt anyone into eating raw food. It has lots of testimonials with before & after photos. And she talks about her own transition into the raw food world. It's also full of great recipes and photos to go along with them.

Detox Your World By Shazzie. It is a very friendly & approachable guide to transitioning to raw food. She includes plans to follow and describes her own experiences of various alternative therapies that have helped her.

Sunfood Success Systems By David Wolfe An excellent book. He talks about super foods and raw foods. And goes into how much we should eat in terms of nuts, vegetables, and fruits. He is mine of information. There are some fantastic Kirlain photos of raw foods too, showing you the proof of how full of energy raw food really is! It is a great handbook for anyone interested in raw food. A must have book if you want to educate yourself.

Amazing Grace By David Wolfe and Nick Good. This combination of personal story & motivational guide offers a wealth of ways to improve life, health & spirit by adopting this nurturing, intuitive lifestyle

Naked Chocolate By David Wolfe & Shazzie . This book because its full of delicious easy to make desserts & puddings.

Raw. The Uncook book. By Juliano. He is a raw chef and is famous amongst the showbiz celebrities. His recipes are amazing and so are the photos ! Now out of print.

There is another another book on its way out there as this one does contain some non-raw ingredients in it! If you can get a look at this book it's worth it just for the photos.

The Kitchen Garden cookbook By Steve Meyerowitz This book is full of great information all about sprouting your own beans, seeds, nuts & grains.. He gives good information on the nutritional value of all the sprouts. Its full of funny cartoon images and is quite an entertaining book. This was one of my 1 st books that I bought when I heard about the benefits of sprouts on our immune system! It has quite a good selection of recipes too.

The Complete Guide to Sprouting Sprouts The Miracle Food By Steve Meyerowitz (Sproutman) Another book on how to sprout . More about sprouting .than the previous book.

Eat Smart Eat Raw By Kate Wood . This is one of the first books I bought on raw food. I would recommend this to any beginner who is about to indulge in the raw food. Full of easy to follow raw food recipes. Even although there are not a lot of photos in this book , it doesn't burn a hole in your purse.

The Raw Gourmet By Nomi Shannon . Another raw food recipe book I dip in and out of as I like and use a lot of the recipes in this & lots of nice photos of raw dishes to inspire you.

Rainbow green Live-Cuisine By Gabriel Cousens M.D.This book introduces an Ayurvedic dietary approach. It is a book for anyone interested in nutrition and much more than just recipes. I love this book. The photos of live blood analysis are amazing showing you what your blood is like before and after going on a raw food diet.

Conscious Eating By Gabriel Cousens M.D. Another great book where Gabriel Cousens provides loads of facts & wisdom in support of a raw food diet. It is a 30 year investigation into the at, science & practice of raw food. Again I love all the books written by Gabriel Cousens because he has so much knowledge and experience in treating people with disease.

Spiritual Nutrition By Gabriel Cousens. Yes another book but more to do with spirituality and eating a raw food diet. Spiritual Nutrition!

Living Cuisine the art of loving food By Renee Underkoffler. Has lots of delicious Gourmet recipes. But quite a lot contain non-raw ingredients.

Hooked on Raw By Rhio. Has lots of delicious recipes.

Vital Creations By Chad Samo. Again full of amazing recipes. He has been behind many of the most successful Raw Food Restaurant's menu's. Another must have!

There are lots more Raw Food books out there, so these are only to give you an idea of what is available.