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"Raw Food Made Easy
for 1 or 2 People"

by Jennifer Cornbleet

"Raw Food Made Easy" Companion DVD
Starring: Jennifer Cornbleet
Director: Larry Cook

Everyone knows we need to eat more fruits, vegetables, and unprocessed whole foods. How to do this easily and without sacrificing taste is the question. Jennifer Cornbleet's book, Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People, and new companion DVD, Raw Food Made Easy, can help. When you prepare fruits, vegetables, and other natural ingredients without cooking, you preserve the maximum nutrition in these foods, you save time, and you can create some of the most delicious meals ever.

With Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People:

  • Choose from over 100 foolproof recipes, along with lunch and dinner menu plans.
  • Enjoy easy recipes that call for common ingredients and basic equipment.
  • Learn how to avoid health-busters like white sugar, white flour, and trans-fats.
  • Convert traditional favorite recipes into nutritious treats made from all-natural ingredients.

In the companion DVD, Raw Food Made Easy,
Jennifer shows how to:

  • Set up your kitchen with basic equipment and staple ingredients.
  • Use a knife, blender, food processor, juicer, and other kitchen tools.
  • Make breakfast juices, smoothies, and cereals.
  • Master delicious dishes for the rest of the day--soups, patés, dressings, elegant entrées, and scrumptious desserts.
  • Stick to a healthy diet while traveling.
 
 

The following are some of Jennifer's favorite raw food books/DVDs and exercise DVDs.

Raw Food Books and DVDs

"Angel Foods: Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies"
by Cherie Soria

Over 240 delicious and easy-to-prepare cooked and raw vegan recipes. Includes an excellent chapter on sprouting and kitchen gardening.

 

"Conscious Eating"
by Gabriel Cousens, MD

This comprehensive reference guide to raw food nutrition draws on the perspectives of metabolic typing and Ayurvedic medicine.

"Eating in the Raw: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Slimmer, Feeling Healthier, and Looking Younger the Raw-Food Way"
by Carol Alt

Presents practical information on how to adapt to a high raw diet without deprivation. Carol’s flexible approach includes how to eat raw if you aren’t vegetarian, how to eat raw at restaurants, and how to incorporate some cooked food into your diet.

 

 

"Living Cuisine: The Art and Spirit of Raw Foods"
by Renée Loux Underkoffler

A comprehensive resource for raw nutrition, ingredients, equipment, and techniques, plus over 300 delicious and varied recipes.

"Naked Chocolate"
by David Wolfe

This book offers delicious recipes using raw cacao beans and nibs.

 

 

"Raw"
by Charlie Trotter, Roxanne Klein

This elegant book will challenge and delight adventurous gourmet cooks. The recipes are not quick to prepare, but are ideal for special dinner parties and fine dining occasions. Each recipe includes wine notes and a full-page color photograph.

"The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss"
by Natalia Rose

Natalia provides five levels of menu plans and recipes to detoxify the body and transition to a raw food diet. She explains how you can achieve the benefits of eating raw whatever your present diet or state of health. This book contains an excellent chapter on food combining for easy digestion and weight loss.


 

 

"The Raw Gourmet"
by Nomi Shannon

A beautiful book with full-color photographs, filled with simple and elegant recipes for all occasions. Includes a sample menu plan for a three-week cleanse diet.

"Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow"
by Matthew Kenney, Sarma Melngailis

The head chefs and co-owners of Pure Food and Wine, a gourmet raw restaurant in New York City, show that creative, satisfying, high-flavor raw food doesn't have to be time-consuming to prepare. No matter what your present diet, you can enjoy healthy and delicious dishes such as Zucchini and Green Zebra Tomato Lasagne, Golden Squash Pasta with Black Summer Truffles, and Dark Chocolate Ganache Tart with Vanilla Cream.

 

  LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force
By Annie Padden Jubb and David Jubb

The authors explain how a LifeFood (raw and vegetarian) diet can improve health. Includes over 150 easy to follow recipes plus instructions for a 14-day LifeFood nutritional fast with gallbladder and liver cleanses.

Green For Life
By Victoria Boutenko

A well-researched book about the importance of greens in the raw food diet. Victoria’s green smoothie recipes provide a delicious and easy way to increase consumption of a variety of greens.
 

  The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity
By Donna Gates

The Body Ecology Diet shows you how to restore and maintain the important "inner ecology" your body needs to function properly and to eliminate or control the symptoms that rob you of the joy of living.

Living on Live Food
By Alissa Cohen

Chapter topics include: shopping for raw and living foods, how to start raw today, four-week shopping and preparation guide, and recipes. The book also includes inspiring testimonials and before and after photos of Alissa’s clients.
 

  Hooked on Raw
By Rhio

Hooked On Raw is a must for anyone who is interested in the Raw/Live food lifestyle. The first half of the book teaches you about the reasons for eating this way. The second half of the book contains over 350 delicious gourmet recipes designed to please just about everyone.

The Sunfood Diet Success System:
36 Lessons in Health Transformation

By David Wolfe

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to eat 100% raw. Wolfe provides the information you need to succeed on a raw food diet, including information about the three raw food groups, detoxification, food combining, and hybridized food. This book emphasizes eating foods in their natural, unadulterated state, rather than preparing complex recipes.

 

 

Sunfood Cuisine: A Practical Guide to Raw Vegetarian Cuisine
By Frederic Patenaude

How to prepare delicious and easy green drinks, juices, smoothies, soups, salads, dressings, nut milks, and other dishes. Includes valuable information on how to transition to a 100% raw diet, and clearly explains basic food preparation techniques.

Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine
B y Gabriel Cousens

This is an excellent book for people looking for a low-sugar and low-carb raw food diet. Many people struggling with candida, hypoglycemia, fatigue, or depression experience more energy and feelings of well-being on this diet than on other live-food diets.

 

 

The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program
By Ann Wigmore

This book provides instruction in a diet of not only raw foods, but super nutritious living foods, such as sprouts, wheatgrass juice, and seed cheeses, which help the body regain strength, lose weight, and/or heal from illness.

Raw
By Juliano Brotman

This is gourmet raw cuisine--not quick to prepare, but worth the effort. Juliano's delicious recipes include recipes such as Butternut Squash Soup, Living Buckwheat Pizza Crust, Mock Salmon Sushi, Burritos, and Cashew Gelato.

 

 

Raw Foods for Busy People: Simple Machine Free Recipes for EveryDay
By Jordan Maerin

This book is perfect for busy people and beginners to raw foods. Includes tips on eating raw while dining out and transforming the simplest foods into delicious daily meals.

Juice Fasting and Detoxification
By Steve Meyerowitz

Fasting is the best way for the body to heal and rejuvenate itself, and this book is a classic guide on this subject. Juice fasting is also the easiest way to transition to a raw food diet.

 

 

Eating for Beauty: For Women & Men: Introducing a Whole New Concept of Beauty What It Is, and How You Can Achieve It
By David Wolfe

In Eating for Beauty, David Wolfe, one of America's foremost nutrition experts, describes how to cleanse, nourish, and beautify by utilizing the benefits of a fresh-food diet. You can apply the lessons contained within this book to improve your appearance, vitality, and health.

The Raw Crunch Diet: Strengthening Your Body from the Inside-Out
by Kathy Feldman

The Raw Crunch Diet is an excellent approach if you are looking for an easy, down-to-earth approach to weight loss or optimal health. Kathy tells you exactly what to do for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It's a flexible, no-deprivation plan that is easy to follow and works.

 

 

Beautiful on Raw: Uncooked Creations
by Tonya Zavasta

In this book, you'll read about the experiences of Tonya and 10 other women, ages 25-65, on the raw food diet. Learn their personal beauty secrets and the amazing changes they noticed after adopting a raw food diet. Includes 100 delicious recipes.

Vegan With A Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

In this entertaining and informative book, Isa Moskowitz brings the do-it-yourself, community-driven ethos of punk rock into the kitchen. Her cooking philosophy embraces being kind to animals and to your wallet--while being creative and having fun in the process. She emphasizes fresh ingredients over heavily processed brand-name foods.

 

  Recipes Into Type
by Joan Whitman

A guide for how to write your own recipe book with clarity and appeal. This book lays out stylistic standards that are often overlooked at the expense of both the reader and the writer. Whitman gives the rundown on how to write the best recipe book possible so that you can be as successful as the people re-creating your innovations.

The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life One Luscious Bite at a Time
by Douglas Graham

The title refers to an eating program that gleans 80% of total calories from carbs found in fruit and 10% each of fat and protein, within a raw, vegan diet. Graham proposes that this is the optimum food intake for human beings. A very helpful book for those trying to figure out how to approach the raw food diet and stick with it.

 

  Raw Food Life Force Energy: Enter a Totally New Stratosphere of Weight Loss, Beauty, and Health
by Natalia Rose

Natalia presents a new way of attaining the highest level of health without following a strict raw or vegetarian diet. This book takes into consideration the fact that we are not only just physical bodies, but also vibrant beings who flourish on Life Force Energy. The 21-day program aims to end harmful, energy-draining eating patterns and elevate us to a harmonious state of well-being.

Enzyme Nutrition
by Edward Howell

A classic written by the “father of food enzymes.” This well-researched book explores the philosophy that enzymes are essential nutrients destroyed by cooking and processing, therefore inhibiting our ability to digest properly and retain optimum health. If you want to have more scientific knowledge about the advantage of raw food, look no further.

 

  12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food
by Victoria Boutenko

Why do we make poor diet choices even when we strongly desire to be healthy? Answer similar provoking questions in one of the many self-tests that aim to get you in touch with your eating habits. Research-based, this book not only explains the benefits of a raw food diet, but also offers helpful methods to develop and uphold this new way of eating. Written in 12-steps, this book leads the reader through the major physical, psychological, and spiritual phases that occur while transitioning into raw foods.

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
by Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry

A hip and practical guide for organic eating as part of a greater, conscientious urban existence. This book provides the reader with riveting motives for buying organic, illuminating the destructive forces of the pesticide industry and how it pollutes the earth and our bodies. Grub offers twenty-four meals revolving around the seasons that are as resourceful as down-to-earth. Enjoy the whimsical extras, such as music play lists to cook by.

 

  The Thrive Diet
by Brendan Brazier

Brazier outlines the importance of reducing all types of stress to achieve the best possible health, and it all starts inside--with a raw food diet. Through his very succulent and simple recipes, he gives the reader practical ways to apply his concepts into real-life meals. Enter into a raw food existence empowered with the knowledge of why it is so good for you.

Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes by Ani Phyo

An upbeat book with delicious raw food recipes and plenty of colorful photographs. Learn about the benefits of a raw food diet partnered with advice from the author. Nestled between the recipes are great tips for going green and reducing your footprint on the planet.

 

  I am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude
by Terces Engelhart and Orchid

Café Gratitude is known for its positive environment and delectable cuisine. Terces reaches out to the reader by sharing her story of recovery from food addiction via the raw food diet. The book features beautiful photographs and easy recipes from the café’s most popular dishes.

Alive in 5
by Angela Elliott

Everyone loves the complexity of raw, gourmet meals but not the time commitment. With Elliott’s easy alternatives, the taste of raw gourmet takes only minutes. Make scrumptious delights such as lasagna, broccoli in cheese sauce, and apple pie while partaking in the joyful zeal of the author.

 

  Beauty By Nature
by Brigitte Mars

This is a culmination of knowledge from thirty-five years experience in Natural Medicine. An herbalist at heart, Mars guides the reader through a program designed for long-lasting vitality and youth by using natural techniques and original recipes. Learn how easy it is to make scrubs, hair rinses, and moisturizers from kitchen ingredients. This book also includes information on body care for men, babies, and elders.

Rawsome!: Maximizing Health, Energy, and Culinary Delight with the Raw Foods Diet
by Brigitte Mars

Mars gives not only 200 raw food recipes, but also the scientific proof to back-up the rewards of it. The reasons to eat raw goes to an even higher level with its positive environmental impact. Reduce wasteful food from the body and help clean up the planet at the same time.

 

Exercise DVDs

  Yoga for Strength and Energy
Rodney Yee

Yoga is known for its ability to strengthen the mind as well as the body. This DVD focuses on latter, providing a simple guide for how to bolster the body through routine discipline.

Mat Workout Based on the Work of J.H. Pilates
Denise Austin

Pilates and yoga combine for two 20-minute sessions, which focus on proper body alignment to target specific muscle groups. These workouts emphasize the very best techniques from pilates and yoga: core strength, balance, flexibility and relaxation. Build long, lean muscle in a tranquil state of mind.

 

  Urban Rebounding,
Compilations #1 and 4

JB Berns

Berns combines his fitness knowledge and fun-loving attitude to create this dynamic workout series. Utilizing a mini-trampoline, the workouts lead you through cardio as well as strength training. If exercise seems like no fun, this might just change your mind.

Kundalini Yoga for Beginner's and Beyond
Ana Brett and Ravi Singh

This daily workout features two twenty-five minute sets that can be done separately or together. Set one helps build a healthy back and boost energy. Set two keeps you youthful and vital. This DVD is one of Ravi and Ana’s most popular.
 

  A.M. and P.M Yoga for Beginners
Rodney Yee, Patricia Walden

Starting and ending the day are two very important elements. AM Yoga invigorates and centers the body and mind for activity, while PM Yoga balances and calms the body and mind for restful sleep. These sessions can easily become indispensable bookends to your days.

Yoga Shakti
Shiva Rea

Rea specializes in vinyasa yoga, which is a series of flowing, connected poses involving breath and movement that promotes heat, strength and flexibility. The most innovative aspect of this workout is the “yoga matrix,” which lets users customize their own workout pulling from portions of the various sequences. This interactive feature helps generate motivation by allowing you to tailor to your needs.

 

  Power Yoga Complete Collection
Bryan Kest

Kest based these video workouts on his popular classes that utilize the hearty Ashtanga style of Yoga. Consisting of three volumes, this collection will take you from beginner to advanced at your own pace. Experience the power of strengthening, slimming and boosting your energy through meditative yoga.

Total Yoga: Original and The Flow Series--Earth
Ganga White and Tracy Rich

Thes DVDs are a comprehensive introduction to the many rewards of yoga. Taught by internationally renowned yoga teachers, these easy-to-follow sequences of classical yoga postures will help you lead a healthier, more balanced life.
 

  New York City Ballet: Complete Workout 1 and 2

A deluxe edition DVD intended to strengthen your body with the elegance and poise of a dancer. This is a fantastic alternative to fast-paced workout routines as it offers a challenging workout with a good blend of art and culture. People of an any age or fitness level can enjoy the benefits of this routine.

Yoga For Stress Relief (with the Dalai Lama)
Barbara Benagh

Enjoy a customized yoga routine with this DVDs interactive features. Shoulder tension? Energy boost? Choose what you need to do and achieve the rewards of getting exactly what you want. Also, hear a speech by the Dalai Lama about the harmful effects and solutions to modern day stress.

 

 

Belly Dance Basics and Beyond: Techniques for a Solid Foundation
Jenna

This workout teaches the fundamental moves of bellydancing while promoting excellent posture. You will walk through each element of bellydancing including footwork and arm movement, then you combine all of these skills to create longer bellydancing routines.

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