meal suggestions for better health

Wouldn't you love to know the secret to making an easy transition to alkaline foods and what to do if you're struggling with undesirable food cravings.

When you decide to adopt an alkaline diet because you're tired of living unhealthy, you must
carefully adjust your meals to help your body adjust to changes slowly but surely in the building of a healthybody.

First you should begin by reducing then eliminating all acid-forming foods, such as meat, coffee, white bread, white sugar, fried and processed foods, and see that at least one meal a day consists of fresh raw salad.

Leafy green salads are the best medicine for keeping the blood in a healthy alkaline condition. Green leafy vegetables are a good source of many vitamins and minerals your body needs to fight diseases. They are also great source of fiber.

Also it's useful to remember that the darker the vegetable, the more nutrients the vegetable usually has.

So, which green leafy vegetables should you try?

How about collard greens and kale. Collard greens are rich in vitamin A and calcium.

Kale is a little bit bitter but is rich in vitamin A, C, calcium, folic acid and potassium. You can try
adding collard greens and kale to soups, stir-fries, and salads.

You can also try eating more lettuce, cabbage, celery, chives, spring onion, endives, cress, spinach, dandelion, and other herbs.

Spinach is my favorite vegetable. You can buy it already washed and ready-to-eat and add it to salad or make a whole salad just with spinach. Spinach is rich in vitamin A, C, iron and calcium.

Swiss chard is similar to spinach. It's also great for adding to salads. Eat it raw to get full benefits of it's vitamins and minerals.

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Here're some suggestions for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Breakfast: Ripe fresh fruit, apples, pears, oranges, or grapefruit. Follow with sun-dried raisins, or currants, which have been washed and soaked overnight in cold water. No sugar should be added, which is very highly processed acid-forming food. Figs, prunes, or other dried fruit may be taken in the same manner. When dry or germinated cereals are eaten at this meal, it is wise to avoid acid fruits, using dates, raisins, or figs instead.

Lunch: It is best to make this the main meal of the day, as the body can assimilate food more easily about noon. At lunchtime learn how to make attractive green salads without the use of vinegar or salt. See suggested vegetables to put in the salad above.

Try soaking lettuce leaves in olive oil, and then before serving sprinkle with lemon juice. To chop
salads finely use a single blade chopper. Take two or three ounces of raw almonds along with a raw grated carrot, or cucumber, or tomato and salad vegetables.

Another day you may take lentils or peas soaked overnight and put through a food processor. For dressing take olive oil or nut oil and a little lemon juice. Avoid salt and vinegar, preferring a few dates or raising with the salad. If you wish to add potatoes should try grating them raw and mixing them with some flaked nuts.

Dinner: A green salad of lettuce, cress, tomato, and sliced raw onion; some milled nuts and a few dates or raisins. Vary this with a few ounces of whole-wheat meal, taken along with dried currants, which have been soaked overnight. Take an occasional fruit meal of apples, pears, or dish of nut cream.

Here's what you can try doing if you have undesirable
food craving.

If you have undesirable food cravings try meditation or
other spiritual practices eat mindfully, in a non-
stressful environment. Substitute raw foods for
cravings: sugar dried fruit/dates, very sweet fruits
like mango, grapes, cherries, carrot juice; salt
seaweed, tomatoes, celery juice; fatty foods avocados,
coconuts, soaked nuts, raw sesame tahini, raw nut
butter, raw dairy. Expand your diet and experiment with
fancy recipes.