Valine's Fruit Tacos

This is a fun and easy to make recipe.

Filling:
2 mangos, diced
1 banana, diced
1 apple or pear, diced
1 cup red grapes, diced
1-2 cups spinach, minced

Mix all ingredients in a big bowl and then spoon the mixture onto lettuces leaves.

Shells:
1-2 heads of romaine lettuce

Chop the bottom off of the lettuces leaves and clean well. Be sure to check the leaves for those tiny bugs, especially if you purchased organice lettuce. Spoon the mixture on top of leaves and serve.

I like this recipe because it is so versatile. You can change all of the filling ingredients to your liking. You can even put the filling on top of a bed of mixed greens or spinach and enjoy it all as a salad. Any mild tasting green works great, such as red or green leafs lettuce. Fruit and greens are a great combination!

NOTE: Avoid adding any fats. I used to add hemp seeds or flaxseed meal to my fruit recipes, but I have since learned the fruits don't combine as well with fat. If interested, read more about proper food combining at http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/.

Sunflower Sprout Juice

This is a great way to consume greens. Whenever a tray of greens is ready to harvest, I like to blend large portions with freshly made fruit juice, and use the rest for snacking and salads.

Sunflower sprouts are so healthy, full of vitamins, enzymes, and amino acids for protein-building. I love it when we eat sprouts. I actually encourage my daughters to eat sprouts whenever they like. I let them to scissor-cut or pick sprouts from the tray or their clay pots, because I want them to eat as many greens as they choose.
2 cups sunflower sprouts
2 cups fresh apple juice
1 banana (optional)

Blend sprouts with juice and banana, and drink immediately.

Green Fruit Sauce by Valine

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2 bananas
3-4 apples, peeled and coarsely chopped
1-2 pears, coarsely chopped
5-6 medjool dates, pitted
4-5 leaves of dinosaur or curly kale, with stems removed and finely chopped

Place all ingredients in the food processor and blend to desired consistency. Serve immediately.

This is another breakfast favorite. As you can see, I just gotta add greens. They are just so good for us! I like it be a little bit chunky. With fruit sauce, I don't always add the same amount of apples, pears, or bananas. So the recipe above is never the same when I make it. I hope you like it, too.

Green Pudding by Valine

2 avocados, chopped
2 ripe bananas, chopped
1/2 cup of pitted medjool or honey dates
2 leaves of kale with stems removed, finely chopped or almost minced
2 tsp. of super green food (optional)

Add kale, dates, avocadoes, bananas and super green food to the blender. Blend until smooth, using tamper if necessary. Top with chopped dates, slices apples, or raspberries.

I like to serve this pudding for breakfast. I'm always happy to serve it because it is great to start the day with greens. The healthy fat of the avocado and the potassium from the bananas is very nourishing.

This pudding will make an excellent baby food for Baby Brother. He's only 5 months now, so of course I'll introduce bananas and avocados separately first, because this makes an excellent baby food.