Author Archives: Green Tonya

8 Health Benefits Of Pumpkin and Pumpkin Smoothie Video Recipe

pumpkin-smoothieIt’s finally the autumn in Japan, season of apples, pears, and, of course, pumpkins! Halloween came to Japan from America and became one of the most favorite holidays here. Last week of October, shops, schools and preschools are decorated with orange pumpkins and different heroes this holiday. The beautiful orange color pumpkin is a symbol of autumn and goodness. If you want to be healthy, try to eat pumpkin as much as you can do (raw of course)! About the health benefits of pumpkins I can write and write, but I think the most important 8 benefits are:

  1. Rich Iron Source. It is really important to get enough iron so that your body can make new red blood cells, and too little iron can lead to anemia. Only 15% of the iron we consume is absorbed by our bodies. If you consume 15mg of iron per day, your body is actually only absorbing about 2.25mg of iron. Taking vitamin C will help the body absorb more iron. Pumpkin has vitamin C, but it’s better to eat pumpkin with some citrus such as orange, lemon and grapefruit. Continue reading →

What Do I Eat for My Raw Food Diet Lunch?

Well, some my friends asked me what is my daily food is like? What is my breakfast, lunch and dinner? Of course, everybody thinks I prepare a very delicious menu for my lunch, but I have to disappoint you, usually I don’t cook for myself and eat very simple food 😉 I have juice or smoothie for my breakfast (usually 1 liter or more), simple salad for lunch and a lot of fresh fruits for dinner. Sometimes I want salad twice a day and have it again for dinner. I try to eat seasonal fruits and veggies, but in Japan it’s hard to understand when season for what is? 😉 We have tomatoes and cucumber, greens and fruits all year around. I think it’s not good, because mostly they were growing up in greenhouses. Anyway, I am happy to have my greens and lettuce all seasons and change my ingredients for salad sometimes. Today is a little cold outside, autumn is coming to Tokyo…therefore I feel like to eat some fat! I don’t like avocado, but like it in my salad sometimes. I am careful with fat, so have half of avocado every second day. Also I use some oil for my dressing and pinch of salt. I love to cook gourmet raw food recipes for my friends and family, for my blog and events, but never cook them to myself in my daily life. You should be careful with those recipes, usually they are too fat, and only sometimes you can enjoy a nuts cheese cake and other sweets. Also I drink fresh juice every day. I found very helpful green juices, especially when I have PMS. 🙂 And my son and husband love my smoothies and juice. Please watch my videos where I show you my simple everyday lunch. If you like this video, please give this video a thumbs up if you like the recipe and share with family and friends!

 

Side Effects Of Raw Food Diet

153555513This month is my Raw Food Birthday, two years. I don’t believe that already two full years i am on raw food diet. During this period, i accustomed to that, to my new food, and people surrounding me have already adjusted to me, took my style of life. For me it was difficult not physically, but morally, when nobody cant understand you, no support, condemn. A little bit has changed the direction of the current from the common crowd, different way of thinking than others and people immediately recognized you as strange, other, abnormal, this remind me nice small book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, written by Richard Bach. New Jonathans are coming every day, year by year, more and more! But I am not surprised, because a new era had dawned, the era of Aquarius. Continue reading →

Mattew Kenney Academy Certificate

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This is only Level 1. I wish to continue my studies and get Level 2 and 3! I hope to receive this chance in my near future! Please, Dear God, help me to find the right way for this dream!
Thank you!

Forest Spring Vegetable Basket

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This is one of the recipes I created and submitted for my final in Matthew Kenney‘s fundamentals course. All ingredients you can find only in spring time and probably only in Japan, but you can easy to replace them to your local spring greens. I made it look like a round basket from young burdock’s root chips and some flowers. This basket has very crunchy taste. Inside of the basket – blooming broccolini, shoots of Aralia, Ostrich fern and I added sesame dressing which is rich flavour. Continue reading →

Raw Ice Cream – Sakura Petals Ice Dream

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In the spring, we have beautiful cherry blossoms all over Japan, which is called sakura. This beautiful scenery of Japan is just breathtaking!  I picked up some sakura petals and dehydrated them with a maple syrup. It was not easy to find cherry in this season, but I got them for my ice-cream. I made two different presentation of my ice-cream and could not select one, so I will show you both. Continue reading →