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Delicious strawberry dessert. You'll whip it up in just a few minutes.
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Strawberry Mousse This awesome strawberry mousse is so quick and easy to make.

Awesome outdoor cooking with family and friends. You can cook anything on a BBQ. Just let your creative juices flow and cook something awesome and delicious.
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Barbecue Summer Food Fest You can cook anything on a barbecue! Take full advantage.

For a soothing and couling cold soup for warm days try this watermelon gazpacho or try the beetroot gazpacho.
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Strawberry and Watermelon 'Gazpacho' A cooling Strawberry and Watermelon “Gazpacho� for the heat of summer.

For a refreshing side dish, try a Greek Tzatziki. Simple, quick and delicious with a piece of bread.
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Greek Tzatziki Greek Tzatziki is a classic and easy to make yogurt dip or dressing.

CHANGING YOUR DIET (11/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

HEALTH
Depending on your past diet and the changes you make in how and what you eat, it is rather common for people to really experience the first benefits to their health within a few weeks. And over the years your health will increase and common colds, headaches and stomach cramps will become but a distant memory. Again, it is highly dependable on your personal situation, but it’s good to realize that it may take 10 to 12 years for your health to completely reflect your eating habits. By that time you should never feel short of energy, never have any aches and pains, you should never be ill, your mind and emotions should be clear, calm, fresh and at ease, your skin soft and moist, your eyes bright, your complexion should have a healthy gloss and you should always have a lovely taste in your mouth.

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If you like to learn a little about the Long Life diet, one of the long standing natural food traditions, check it out on https://www.passionatefood.cooking/nutrition-changming.php.

Changming diet The full art of Changming is about maintaining perfect health. Check out the time-tested recommendations regarding what to eat, how to prepare your food, and how to digest your food.

CHANGING YOUR DIET (10/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

INTERNAL FEELINGS
You are what you eat! So when you change what you eat you will actually feel different, and you may think it is outright wrong, just because it’s different, just because you feel different than what is normal to you.

For example, if you are used to drinking coffee, you may feel a bit tired or sleepy at first when you eradicate it from your diet. So you may erroneously think that you have less energy, just because you are not used to such a relaxed sensation in your nervous system.

If you are used to eating much more then you need, then after changing to a more natural diet, you may never feel satisfied, never full, because your mind is telling you that you are still hungry since your stomach still feels empty. But in fact your system needs some time to adjust. Your system needs to learn that feeling like a heavy stone in your stomach is not the natural feeling that tells you that you have eaten enough. In fact it is a much more pleasurable and gentle feeling of having some food in your stomach that should inform your mind that you have eaten enough. Actually, you should never feel completely full. You should never feel drained from eating. Take your time and savour your food. Enjoy it. If you are not sure if you’ve had enough, just give it half an hour to get your digestion going. If you then still have a little appetite, then you can eat a little more. If you are living a life without any food shortage, then you are not going to starve to death today. So don’t worry.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (9/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

DIGESTION
You are intricately attuned to your diet. Any changes require re-attunement. Sudden big changes in your diet may cause temporary obstipation or headaches. If that happens to you, don’t worry for the first few weeks, because it’s merely a sign that your body has started to heal itself and is dispelling toxins.

The first step in your digestive systems is in your mouth, where you chew your food and where your saliva plays a crucial role in breaking it down. Your stomach will then further break down the food and pass it on to the intestines where your body can draw all the nutrients from it into the bloodstream. It is vital that you chew your food really well, because it allows your saliva to play its critical role and because you should grind down your food until you can swallow it as a liquid. If you gulp down your food, then your stomach will also need to do the job your mouth is supposed to do, so your stomach will carry the burden. And if your stomach is overworked, the intestines will not get the intake they are supposed to, and the bloodstream cannot absorb as many nutrients from your food. So chew your food really well.

When you eradicate foods that are very hard on the stomach, you will immediately notice the benefit and feel less tired after a meal. On the other hand, if you are coming from a diet with very little vegetables and no whole-wheat products, then your intestines may need a little time to get up to their natural strength to digest them. You can think of your intestines as a muscle. If a muscle is never used it gets weak and even the smallest effort then seems too much. But when you train a muscle a little every day, gradually increasing the load, then soon enough even a big effort seems a piece of cake. Within a few months your intestines will get back to their natural strength and you will feel how much you benefit from a natural diet.

It is quite natural that after a good meal your body directs its energy towards digestion but if you feel completely drained after a meal that is not how it is supposed to be. Maybe some ingredient is not right for you. Maybe you have eaten more than you need? Maybe the food wasn’t prepared well? Figure it out and avoid it in the future.

Remember, for a healthy person, if any food causes you stomach cramps or pains then do not eat it again. If it causes a bloated feeling in your intestines or upsets the natural flow of food through your digestive tract, then do not eat it again. If it gives you a headache, then do not eat it again. If it makes you feel uncomfortably cool or warm, then do not eat it again. Learn to listen to your body.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (8/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

DELICIOUS FOOD
As your body gradually adjusts to changes in your diet and as your health gradually benefits, you will also notice a gradual change in your sense of taste. Your taste buds will become much more sensitive. You will increasingly be able to distinguish flavors and scents, which enhances the joy you can derive from a lovely plate of food. In this process you will probably find yourself avoiding extreme flavors, simply because it tastes too strong. So you will quite naturally avoid extremely salty, spicy, sweet, bitter or citric food and develop and increased appetite for more mellow delicious flavors.

Simply make sure that every plate of food you prepare is delicious. It may take you some time to figure it all out again. And as your tastes and preferences change over time, your favorite dishes will change accordingly. Just keep at it. With a little effort, you will figure it out and you will have delicious and nutritious meals every single day of your life.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (7/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

CHANGING TASTE
You like best what your mamma cooked for you.

When you change the ingredients you work with, don’t expect your food to taste the same as before. Your sense for what is sweet or salty is very adaptable. If you are used to a lot of salt, any food with slightly less salt will taste bland. If you are used to very little salt, any food with only a touch more of salt, will taste salty. If you love cream sauces and then set out to recreate a cream sauce without using cream, you may end up disappointed and with a feeling of being unduly wronged. It will never taste exactly the same, because it is not the same. If, on the other hand, you set out to create awesome sauces with creamy tastes and textures, you will most certainly succeed and feel very pleased about your newly discovered delicious sauce. And you will no longer crave for the old cream sauce.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (6/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

COOKING SKILLS
When you first learned to cook you adopted a set of techniques and the ability to prepare a certain set of ingredients. When you change your diet, suddenly part of these skills may become obsolete and you may feel incompetent. Take your time. There is a lot to learn. If you can pick just one moment every week, just one meal every week, to cook a new ingredient, use a new cooking technique or prepare a new dish, then you will quickly learn a lot and discover many awesome new tastes and textures. If you see a vegetable you don’t know, just get it and then figure out what to do with it. It may be your discovery of the century!

If you try a new technique or dish, you will sometimes get it right the first time, but it is more likely that it will take a few times before you hit the mark. Just enjoy the learning and experimenting, figure out how to improve it next time, and keep at it until you are perfectly happy with it.

If you can find a way, try to get into a kitchen and cook alongside people who have more experience in cooking along the lines of your desired diet. This can be a true accelerator for your learning.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (5/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

TAKING YOUR TIME
If your desire to change your diet is not driven by acute health reasons, then give it time. Just start with eradicating the worst elements from your diet, and gradually learn to incorporate other ingredients and other preparations in your day to day food. If you are inquisitive and curious and eager to learn you will soon find many new ways to nurture yourself and you will discover new flavors and textures you love. If there is part of you that still wants to eat certain ingredients, maybe first eat them less frequently, or use a little less in your dishes. When you find joy and fulfillment in new and more natural food then the craving you may first experience for the foods you used to eat will quite naturally disappear.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (4/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

HELPFULL MINDSET
Changing your diet does take a certain amount of resolve. Without a clear desire and a fair amount of dedication, nothing will ever change. But there is no need to be hard on yourself or even become dogmatic about it.

If for instance you like to eat meat only when visiting your relatives, that’s fine, don’t worry, it’s ok as long as you feel comfortable with it. But stand firm in the face of social pressure, because you and you alone should decide what you do or don’t eat.

Keep your eye on the big picture, the life you want to lead, and just take a baby step every single day. Then when you look back in two or three years from now you will see how big a change you have made and how easy it has been.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (3/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

SOCIAL CHALLENGES
When you change your diet, your friends and family may struggle. Your friends will ridicule you, your relatives will wonder if they are no longer good enough for you, and your family at home may complain and take on a battle to get all the crappy food stuffs back on the table. I remember a moment in my early twenties when I suddenly stopped drinking alcohol, which I used to consume jolly generously. My friends got really angry with me. I guess they were angry because they felt I suddenly rejected their lifestyles and maybe, secretly, because they too wanted to reduce their drinking but they hadn’t yet found a way to make it work. I quickly discovered that being sober in a group of drunken youngsters is very little fun. So it had a deep impact on my social life. But I never regretted it for a second, because soon enough I met other people with lifestyles that were more in line with my own new lifestyle.

If you are the key person doing the shopping and preparing the meals for your family, you are probably aware of the incredible responsibility you have to look after their health through the food you serve. Just take your family along on the journey, talk with them about food choices and the consequences thereof, invite them to join you on the discovery tour of new and delicious flavors and textures, allow them time to adjust, and allow them to work up their own appetite for natural food in their own time. Remember that every individual has different food needs, so allow them to fulfill their personal needs.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (2/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

CULTURAL CHALLENGES
Depending on where you were born and raised, you will probably have a dominant source of
- energy, e.g. rice or wheat or corn or potatoes,
- proteins e.g. pulses or meat or fish
- fat e.g. certain oils or animal fats and
- sweetness, e.g. tree sap, beets, sugarcanes or bees.

I was raised on potatoes, meat and one veg with some gravy. So when I first envisioned a vegetable meal without any nightshade, all I could envision was a few vegetables on a plate. And that didn’t seem right. You can’t call that food. So it is quite natural that at first you think of replacing one part of your dishes for something else. If you replace the meat for a soy burger, replace the potatoes for rice and replace the gravy for a pumpkin sauce, then this might be a new way of eating. And it can be. But that's just the beginning and certainly not the end of it. In the longer run, as you amplify your palette of ingredients and cooking techniques, you will also change your thinking about food. From a nutritional perspective you will think of your meals in terms of sources of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and other elements. From a culinary perspective you will think of your meals in terms of all the beautiful flavors and flavor combinations and of all the wonderful textures you can create.

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CHANGING YOUR DIET (1/11)
The food you eat is deeply entwined with who you are and where you come from. When you make any changes to your diet, you will have to work with these deep deep roots. Depending on your eating habits, changing to a natural diet may be but a minor adjustment or a complete and total makeover.

INTRODUCTION
If you weren’t raised on natural food, changing your diet will pose cultural and social challenges. Therefor it takes some resolve on your side. Don’t rush the process. Allow yourself ample time to adapt and learn. You will need to develop additional cooking skills and adjust to a new flavor profile. If you make sure every meal is delicious, then the process will be highly enjoyable. Give your digestion time to adjust and allow your body and mind to get used to new and vibrant feelings inside, and you will find your health will increase and increase as the years progress.

In the coming weeks we’ll talk a little more about:
- cultural challenges
- social challenges
- helpful mindset
- taking your time
- cooking skills
- changing taste
- delicious food
- digestion
- internal feelings
- health.

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