Raw Envy with Dayna Martin: Raw, Sexy B.L.T.'s

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Raw, Sexy B.L.T.'s

I made these for lunch today! The kids really loved them. Since becoming raw, I've been offering more and more raw foods to our kids. They have the freedom to eat whatever they choose, and I will buy, cook and prepare all of their favorites, without my own agenda or personal beliefs getting in the way of our connection. However, since becoming raw, our children have been eating more and more living foods, which is an unexpected, wonderful side effect of choosing to eat raw.

These B.L.T.'s are made from raw tomato wraps, (Ani Phyo's recipe) eggplant bacon (found online), lettuce, tomato and raw mayo!

These are one of those recipes that I am so grateful to have the Excalibur Dehydrator for! I will keep creating, offering and adding more and more raw foods to the list of living foods that my kids love!

Rawk On!

5 comments:

Unknown said...: OMG!! I MUST have one of those! The photo is just yummy! The eggplant bacon even looks greasy (in a good way) like the "real" thing!; January 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Dayna Martin said...: Christina, I rubbed a little bit of olive oil on the bacon to give it that greasy feel. In my experience, it is those little touches with raw food that kick it up a notch! Thanks for your comment!

Love, Dayna; January 5, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Unknown said...: Very smart ;); January 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM
Patrick and Emily said...: YuM! I bought eggplant 2 days ago so I could try the bacon. Even though I am doing raw plus meat. And this recipe looks so yummy! My excaliber is calling my name!
I went raw for 3 or 4 mths a couple yrs ago. Then got pregnant and just wanted warm comfort foods. Ugh. Wish I hadn't switched. Now pregnant again I have chose raw with meat. I hate cooking but love making raw foods. If that doesn't say something to me I am not sure what will.
Plus eating meats too I feel less like I am making tons of meals. And the children (and husband) feel happy to eat the same or mostly the same as I do. <3
I have lost 5 LBS this week alone and even with being tired still my energy is much bigger! Love raw!; January 6, 2012 at 6:18 AM
Edwards_Twins said...: Dayna, would you be willing to share the recipe for the Ani Phoyo's raw tomato wraps? They look soooo yummy and I'm not finding anything else like it online. Thanks!; February 26, 2012 at 7:47 PM

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My favorite raw food quotes:

"Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are." Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."
Hippocrates
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein
"Nature itself is the best physician."Hippocrates
"If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool."
Hippocrates
“I wake up feeling clear and energized in the morning ... What is most profound for me about this light eating pattern is the flow of cosmic energy I feel coursing through my body. ... During the day it feels as if joy is simply running through every cell independent of external factors.”------Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. "
Hippocrates
"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. "
Hippocrates
"Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. "
Henry IV of France
“It was tough at first because cooked food is addictive ... Once I cleansed my body of the cooked-food residues, I no longer craved cooked food. What a liberating experience! I can sincerely tell you – it is magical ... I just did my best each day to go without cooked food and I didn't worry about how much raw plant food I was eating ... I stopped eating cooked food completely after about a year.” -----Stephen Arlin, Raw Power, Building Strength & Muscle Naturally
"We never regret of having eaten too little."
Thomas Jefferson
"The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
Socrates
Vegetarians don't believe in killing for food, but too often they kill their food by cooking it! Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda! by Joe Alexander
"They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing."
William Shakespeare
“Obesity is nothing more than backed-up cooked-food waste trapped in the body. No amount of raw plant food is fattening, only cooked food is fattening. Eating raw bankrupts all the complex theories as to why and how people become fat.” ---Arlin, Dini & Wolfe, Nature's First Law: The Raw-Food Diet
"In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
Benjamin Franklin
"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little."
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist, The Affluent Society
The greatest value of the raw food diet is its transformative value. To a great extent, when you take up the raw food diet, you become a new and different and better person. You don't just stay the old person, only a little healthier. You become, to a great extent, a new being with new interests, a new philosophy and outlook on life, new goals and desires. You become more of your essence, your true and natural self. You become a person who is more a part of the one great life of Nature and less of the confused human world. You become less "of the world" and more "of the Earth." --Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda! by Joe Alexander