Good Cookbooks for Fruit/Veggies

Hi Flalady!

I like the Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose. It's one of the only "raw food" geared books that doesn't say you HAVE to do all raw. In fact, many of the recipes are cooked foods. She gives different stages depending upon where you are at, and suggestions for how to gradually move towards being raw. Her big emphasis is on combining foods properly. I do have to say that when I follow her advice, my digestion is much better and I feel great! 

Her recipes are not at all complicated like some raw cookbooks that rely so much on nuts and dehydrators, etc.  With so many raw cookbooks, you have to plan so far ahead by sprouting things and dehydrating, etc. This book doesn't require that. You really just need a knife and a decent blender to make most of the stuff, and I've been pretty pleased with the recipes that I have tried out of it.  

DeAnn 

I've been juicing since last December.  For whatever reason, carrot juice was all I ever made with it when I first bought the juicer 20 years ago.  I was so grateful that my juicer still works after being idle for so long.  Now I'm putting all kinds of things down the chute. 

I'd like to know what ingredients are used in the Gerson therapy.   I just started reading the gerson website this week and I'm intrigued.  The program sounds burdensome.  And expensive.  Twenty pounds of organic produce a day to make juice 13 times a day?  Jeepers alive that's a lot produce, a lot of juice and a lot of time.  It sounds like a fulltime job just to do the therapy.  It will be another week for my next trip to the library, so if someone who has a gerson book could give a sneak peek at the ingredient list, I'd love to see it. 

 My combination of choice for the last several weeks has been: one lime, one lemon, one orange, one granny smith apple, three carrots, some cucumber and celery for greens.  Then I rotate through a variety of green things.  I've been reading that sprouts are espeically good for us because they're still living and young and young plants have some kind of property that protects them against predators and disease.  Supposedly, those protective properties translate into being protective for us also.  Other greens include green pepper, spinach, lettuce.  

I have some books that I read during chemo but am going back to read again. 

Alkaline or Die book - Dr Theodore A. Baroody has soem receipes and is an easy read.  I have been doing some reading on the low fat cottage cheese/flaxseed oil diet to raise pH and this seems related.

The Omega Diet - Artemis P. Simopoulos MD - mostly for cardiac but lots of facts on Omega 3 and 6 with numerous recipes.

Dietitian in the Kitchen - Diane M. Henderiks RD - simple short book with quick simple organic recipes.  Mostly vegetarian dishes with lots of fruit and Veggies but look easy.  She gave a presentation at a Wellness meeting I had attended and is how I got a copy of her book. 120 pages

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, Mark Bittman

Changing Seasons Macrobiotic Cookbook: Cooking in Harmony with Nature, Aveline Kushi and Wedny Esko

 Eating Right for Cancer Survival- The Cancer Project (available in pdf on line or you can buy it spiral bound)

I have a lot of others but I've been focusing on these lately.

Here's a great veggie cookbook -  The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without  by Mollie Katzen