Continuing Week 1 - Good for You-Naturally!

Greetings from Me and My House,

How are you doing on Step 1 to a Good for You-Naturally! Lifestyle of Eating? Have you began each Lunch and Supper with a big raw veggie salad? Have you made better choices for building those salads, like dark leafy greens instead of iceberg lettuce? Have you included a variety of veggies, not just standard lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes with ranch dressing? Good for You!

I want to encourage you to keep trying various types of raw vegetables. Look in your produce section. How many types are there that you have never tried? How many have you tried but not made a regular part of your meals? As you continue on this journey to new habits in eating, purpose to try to include at least 7 new raw vegetables that you don't normally buy and eat.

Go beyond the typical lettuce salad. I had hoped to give you plenty of ideas from my Good for You Salads recipe book this week. But the computer version has evidently been lost in some long ago harddrive crash and I didn't have time to re-compile and type them all back up. But here are just a few ideas of other type of veggie salads you can be including:

Coleslaw - with cabbage, carrots, optional green pepper, onion, and raw pecans, walnuts, or sunflower seeds.
Waldorf Salad - with lettuce, apples, celery, and raw walnuts.
Brandi Salad (named after daughter #2 - this was her favorite) - broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, celery, and onion, optional raw pecans or walnuts.
Carrot & Raisin Salad - with optional raw pecans or sunflower seeds.
Marinated Cucumbers - Vinegar or Creamy
Layered Lettuce & Pea Salad - with celery, red or green onion, optional raw pecans or walnuts.
Ashli Salad (named after daughter #4, its inventor - her favorite) - Tomato, green pepper, avocado, onion, optional mushrooms and celery.
Raw Veggie Tray - your choice. Carrots, Celery, Green Pepper, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Broccoli Stems, Turnip Strips, Kohlrabi, Cucumber Strips, Radishes, Mushrooms, .... What else can you think of?

There's 8 of our family's favorite raw veggie salads. More than a week's worth of variety with lettuce only used twice. Want more? Recipes for Life - from God's Garden by Rhonda Malkmus has a wonderful section on raw vegetable salads. The Cookbook: Health Begins in Him by Terry Dorian also has many different ones. And whenever I have time to recomplile, our Good for You Salads will be available again. Go to our Good for You Resources page and click on Cookbooks.

Did you notice all those optional raw nuts? Don't worry about them right now. We will get to them on another week. But feel free to include them if you like.

Have a great rest of this week, trying a great variety of God's raw vegetable provision. And I'll see you next week with Step 2.

O Taste and See that the Lord is Good. Ps. 34:8
For Me and My House,
At Jesus' feet,
Lisa