Fruit Recipes

In recent years, there has been much made about food combining. Some books have come out with formulas that are so ridiculously stringent, it takes the joy out of sitting down and having a meal. Eating can become a science instead of communion with one another and Jesus Christ. There needs to be balance, so we would like to lay down some simple principles in food combining.

For convenience, let us class food under two groups, concentrated and nonconcentrated.

Meat, eggs, cheese, legumes, grains, starches, nuts, etc. are all considered concentrated food, and take longer to digest. Fruits and vegetables have a high content of water and are relatively low in protein. This makes them very easy to digest and pass quickly through the stomach, colon and out of the body.

Fruits do not combine well with concentrated foods. A concentrated food will stop the quick movement of fruit, causing fermentation, resulting in excess gas, bloating and mild toxemia. Vegetables and concentrated foods go well together because of their low-sugar, high-fiber content. If you eat dairy products, such as meat, eggs cooked beans or grains, always try to eat a salad.

Here are the points to follow:

1. Avoid mixing fruits and concentrated foods. Try to separate these meals by 2-4 hours.

2. Avoid mixing concentrated food together. Try to eat only one concentrated food per meal.

3. Eat salad or raw vegetables with concentrated foods.

4. Fruits and raw vegetables do digest well together.

5. Cooked starchy vegetables do not combine well with fruit.

6. Nuts do not digest well with fresh fruit, but, nuts and dried fruits digest well together.

7. Try to drink liquids half an hour before or after the meal to avoid diluting digestive juices.

8. Chew your food well.

Putting together fruit recipes almost seems humorous. They are so easy and convenient to eat just the way they are. There are all kinds of room for creativity. It is impossible to go wrong, so get out your reformed steak knife, salad bowl, cutting board and blender. Doing dishes after a raw fruit meal is a dream. There are no greasy baked on pots and pans. Just rinse, dry and put away.

A word of caution. Even though fruit supplies everything that the body needs, after a few meals of fruit, the mind reels with thoughts of being deprived. The body shouts: I want something heavy, filling, sustaining, hot cooked and greasy. Cravings roar. It is time you take control over your body’s cravings. Stop allowing them to dictate your behavior! You have been given the spirit of self-control. Are you not sick and tired of having such little control of your life? Continually doing the things that you do not want to do, and not being able to do the things that you desperately want to. We need to have a Holy Anger against anything that has control over us. Enough is enough!