Many countries traditional meals consist of meats and and heavily cooked vegetables, which unfortunately can mean that you get very little vitamin content in your food. Prehistoric people lived mainly on raw, uncooked roots, fruits and other edible plants which would have provided more than sufficient nutrients. While eating your vegetables raw is not very appealing, there are some easy and tasty alternatives to just boiling your food until it is soft and mushy.
1. First look at what you can eat raw quite easily – if you struggle to get enough vegetables, boost your intake by eating a bit more fruit. Although not quite as beneficial as vegetable fiber, fresh fruit is very good for you. Adding just a few fresh carrot sticks a day is a great start to your diet.
2. When you do cook vegetables, try lightly steaming rather than boiling them. Steaming will still lower vitamin content, but not as much as boiling, where many of the nutrients actually get washed away in the water you throw out. Steam vegetables in a colander over a pot of boiling water, with lid on the colander. Alternatively you can get microwave steamers and even bench top steamers that are very fast. A note on microwaves though – the radiation denatures enzymes and destroys vitamin compounds, so avoid using if possible! Ideally only steam until the food is tender enough to eat, but still quite firm.
3. Make salads with every meal. Salads can be as easy as two sliced vegetables, like carrot and lettuce, and does not even need a dressing. Salads are one of the easiest ways to eat raw food.
4. Don’t eat them at all – drink your vegetables as juice instead. Carrots, celery, and capsicum just to mention a few make tasty juice, which will provide excellent fiber and nutrients. Juicing is fast and easy with a juicing machine. If you’re not sure which juicer machine is right for you, check out the different kinds of juicer machine.