Where can I find recipes for alkaline diets?

When you first discover the alkaline diet and its many benefits, from great levels of energy and vitality to its anti-aging properties, great digestion, disease prevention, and overall health improvement, the natural question is “Where can I find recipes for alkaline diets?

The refreshing answer is that many recipes and foods you already know and enjoy can be made more alkaline by making some simple substitutions for foods that are alkaline.

Following the alkaline diet means swapping acidic foods like meat, dairy, refined sugars and fats, and other processed foods for alkaline foods like greens, green leafy vegetables, some fruits and nuts, and seeds.

So, for example, you can make an alkaline version of spaghetti Bolognese by swapping the ground beef for brown lentils, swapping the jar of processed Bolognese tomato sauce for a homemade version containing tomatoes, herbs and spices, a little flax oil. , onions and a few other unprocessed natural ingredients mixed in and swapped out the durum wheat spaghetti for raw zucchini noodles made with a plant specialty.

Another fantastic alkaline diet recipe that’s so good it’s hard to believe it’s healthy for you is alkaline banana ice cream – you just take a bunch of overripe bananas, peel them, cut them into chunks, and freeze them. Then when you want to eat the ice cream, take 10 or more of the frozen pieces, mix them in your high speed blender with a little coconut or almond milk and a teaspoon of mica (a calciferous tuber superfood that tastes like a little malt) if you like. You can also add a little vanilla extract or lucuma powder (custard-flavored superfood) to make it more ‘creamy’. Simple, healthy, delicious! It’s really hard to believe that this ice cream recipe is dairy free and the consistency is just like proper ice cream.

A question that is asked a lot is whether fruits are alkaline or not. The simple answer is that it depends: as long as fruits are eaten on their own, before any other slower digesting foods, and in the context of a general plant-based diet, then they supplement this and help alkalize your body. If not combined correctly, they can ferment and cause acidification. Therefore, it is good to educate yourself on optimal food combining protocols.

A good rule of thumb for preparing alkaline recipes is to keep them as unprocessed as possible (raw, natural ingredients are best) and substitute vegetables and beans, legumes, nuts, and seeds for meat and dairy products.

Some simple changes you can easily make alkalize your diet and your body: Coconut milk for cow’s milk; steamed vegetables for rice, pasta and bread; legumes for meat; fruits for refined sugary products; water and herbal teas for coffee, soft drinks and alcohol.