I have had several people ask me about what to feed your family on the Hallelujah diet and lifestyle! We are very blessed to have all changed our diets together. After my husband's diagnosis of cancer in January of 2010, I made the decision to change my diet with him. It took me a while to get rid of my old habits including coffee and sugar desserts, but after I did, we decided never to look back. Our children are now thriving on the diet and lifestyle as well! I can truly say that we have more variety in our diets than ever before! Amazing, but true!
In the morning, our girls (ages 10 and 2) wake up to a nice bowl of oatmeal with maple syrup and organic raisins and sometimes even a spoonful of earth balance, drizzled on top, which is a great butter substitute. Some days we make vegan pumpkin muffins or a sprouted grain toast with raw almond butter or honey. We have found that the raw nut butters are much tastier than the roasted ones. Our girls love their breakfast choices! We always have a barley max shake for them in the morning. Our barley max shakes are very green, and our girls have developed a taste for them. In fact, they crave them! Each morning, our two year old asks us for her Barley max shake, and we know just what she wants! Our shakes usually consist of almond milk, frozen bananas, one apple, kale or parsley (parsley is super yummy), spinach, and barley max. Sometimes we throw in a few berries to add a bit of tartness too!
For lunch, we always make the girls something like a sandwich on a sprouted grain bread with veganaise (a great substitute for mayo) avocado slices, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, spinach and a pinch of celtic sea salt. They usually eat their sandwich with a piece of fruit for a simple lunch. My husband and I enjoy a raw salad for lunch, topped with our favorite home-made dressing and some vegan style topping which is much better than parmesan cheese. Our topping is made with nutritional yeast and nuts with some sea salt and we process these together in our food processor until they resemble parmesan cheese. It is so yummy! We use this topping on our soups, salads, and lots of other things. It is a staple in our house.
Finally, for dinner, we like to make a variety of different lentil soups with vegetables, and sometimes we will eat a home-made spaghetti sauce that I make in our Blend-Tec blender. My husband and I eat a large salad with our small portion of the cooked food. Some days we just eat raw, and that is when we feel the best. We enjoy making our own sauces now, so that we know what is in them. Sauces that you purchase in a can or jar seem to have lots of preservatives and unnecessary ingredients, and don't taste half as good as the ones we make, so we enjoy making our own dressings and sauces. We do this ahead of time most days, so that we have enough to last for a few days. My favorite is a simple cheesy dressing, made with tahini, that we put on top of raw kale for a delicious creamy and tangy kick!
During the day, we drink our raw vegetable and fruit juices throughout the day for an added pick me up! The children's taste buds have entirely adapted to this way of eating. They enjoy the foods we eat now more than ever before! And they are reaping the benefits of not getting sick when other children all around them are sick at least a few times each year. Their immune systems are saying THANK YOU as well as their taste buds!
Until Next Time....
~Tabitha L.
Good Soil for Life!
