The Beginning

Welcome!

Hi I am Julie-Ann Booth & welcome to my blog, The Wholesome Food Coach.

I am a classically trained Chef who is now journeying into the world of Raw & Living Foods. Here is my website so you can learn more about who I am & what I have done in my career. www.julie-annbooth.com

The Wholesome Food Coach was created because there are just so many of you who have been asking me how you too can cook & make beautiful dinner parties with healthy & delicious tasting food. The WholesomeFood Coach is able to easily offer you this & so much more by educating you the benefits of incorporating more Living Foods into you repetoire for family & friends.

I have always had a very keen knowledge of learning the various ways that food can heal our bodies. My belief with this philosphy is becoming clearer & clearer as I venture more into the world of Raw & Living Foods. As a Chef & especially after working in the industry for 20 years I have had to accomodate so many individual dietary requirements for people over the years without other guests being obviously aware. This is where I love weaving my magic through creativity! During this time I have seen so many ways in which the wrong types of food has been detrimental to people's health & created diseases. Some can be mere inconvenience ailments like diabetes & allergies whereas, others can be life threatening such as cancers & heart disease. Yet on the other side of the coin I have also very happily seen how the foods we eat can contribute to healing & keeping our bodies vibrantly healthy.

As a Chef I realise how much influence I have when I am preparing food for someone & I always want people to walk away feeling good. This is how I keep inspired by adding variety to someone's sometimes limited palate.

I was first exposed to this 'new' Raw way of life in April of this year. I wasn't quite sure what it was all about & curiousity go the better of me. I started researching then sat back & thought.. "mm wait a minute I eat predominatly raw food & I wasn't even aware of the fact." It was something that I had always done & I LOVE the natural flavours of most food. As a chef I was curious to know more about it as to me this was a whole new style of cuisine that I could definitely use in my day to day routine. So with a little more research I read that if someone drinks what is called a 'Green Smoothie' every day for 14 days then they would experience changes within their life & for the better. Of course being totally skeptical & having a chuckle to myself I thought 'yeah right, whatever'. But because it was all so new & I was ready to learn more I decided to take up the challenge & see what happens.

Okay, so in all honesty I did think once I had blended my first smoothie "uh oh here we go it is going to taste absolutely disgusting so I had better block my nose & physc myself for the horrid taste". I talked myself into it by reminding myself that I have downed Chinese herbs before so I could do this because it is good for me! Well at least it doesn't smell like those horrid herbs so I told myself I can drink this harmless little smoothie :)

Guess what? I couldn't believe my taste spuds! It actually tasted nice. Wow! It was so good & I happily drank the whole lot! And now I really look forward to my daily Green Smoothie. I must say that by drinking this daily & eating more Living Foods things are very, very different in my life now & I honestly couldn't be happier!

Below are 2 very basic recipes that I started drinking initially so I encourage you to try these & feel free to be a little more creative as the days go on. Try drinking these smoothies for the 14 days & please let me know how you go.

Banana & Baby Spinach Smoothie
1 Banana
1 generous handful of washed baby spinach
1/3 of a glass of filtered water

Just put all of the ingredients into a blender & puree for aprox 45sec. It is now ready to drink! That simple. When I first started having my smoothies I preferred to drink them around mid morning so I wouldn't be snacking on the wrong foods. This made a huge difference as it kept my sugar craving at bay!

Mango & Spinach Smoothie
1 Mango
1 generous handful of baby spinach
1/3 of a glass of water

Again straight into the blender & puree for 45sec.
You can vary either one by incorporating both fruits into the one smoothie or add strawberries, blueberries or raspberries. Even a pear. The list goes on so enjoy experimenting.

The amount of water you add to either smoothie can be determined by how thick or thin you would like to drink it. I encourage you to experiment & please let me know how you get on.

Next week I will share some other variations & the nutritional benefits of eating Raw Foods.

With love, warmth & radiance

Julie-Ann xo