How to Make a Raw Food Meal

Hey! This video is from 2011, so the video quality isn't quite was it is today in 2019 :) Also, single use plastics were more of a thing then. So rest assured I don't use plastic bags like that now. But I thought it was worth posting to give you a look at making a raw food meal from scratch, without a recipe. And yes, I do normally wash my veggies.

Loved this til he got to jicama.

These Raise blood sugar levels even worse than bananas!

My husband is a fully raw vegan but diabetic so these are absolute no no’s! ❤😢

I absolutely love Russell . He has inspired me so much💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

The quick dance all around the kitchen, grabbing this and that, washing and chopping, I love it! That's what meal prep is like for me, too! Haha Everything looks wonderful. ❤ I have some inspo from this for sure. Doesn't matter that the video is 12 years old.

Meal prep took so long that the chef DIED of hunger while making it...

That was amazing! Thanks for sharing 😊

Be careful eating raw mushrooms. They contain a carcinogen called agaritine. Agaritine is diminished but not eliminated by cooking/steaming at least 3 minutes. I had a co-worker who told me that he used to work in a mushroom facility which was located underground for darkness and dampness. Most of the mushrooms were for retail stores. Workers there had to wear a type of hazmat suit, covered from head to toe, along with a kind of respirator. This was to avoid breathing in any spores from the mushrooms. Some people had to quit the job because, inevitable, spores would get on their hazmat suits and sensitive workers could not even tolerate that much exposure without a negative reaction. I say this to say that mushrooms are best for their medicinal purposes when those compounds are extracted by a laboratory as medicine. Eating mushroom, whether raw or cooked, is not the best way to get those benefits. Consider penicillin which comes from mold. You would not eat molded bread to get the benefits of penicillin contained therein, would you. So don't consume mushrooms to get the medicinal compounds which are best extracted by a laboratory, not by the human body. Mushrooms are NOT plants but re classified as fungi and are NOT recognized by the body as plant matter but as foreign material that the body must work hard to break down and neutralize the toxins therein. Just because mushrooms are in the grocery store does not mean you should eat them. That is nothing more than marketing. PS I'm 62 and vegan 7 years. Just restarted raw veganism which I first began in 2019 but stopped in 2020 during the pandemic shutdown.

Thank you so much for your generosity and expertise ✨✨. Can’t wait to try this 😊

The best of the best !!!

That's how I "cook". Thinking about fat, sweet, acidic, and when I can get it umami.

Do you wash your vegetables?

I love this video!!

Russell HNY, hope all is well💙💜
This is going to get me out of my slump and on to a reboot.

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Mushrooms should be heated,so I heard??

What was the name of the machine that you used to make the cheese and dressing? Please send me a link where I can find it

What a great video. Very valuable thank you!

This is freaking amazing!!!

Awesome 👏🏾

Seeing you making raw food always inspires me. I love your recipes !! When you taste it I wish I could too.

It looks good, but just to think you are using all your veggies 🥕 wit out washing them direct from the store. 😏

What is the name of the vegetable you used as “rice”?

Looks delicious!!

food looks great, however, I would have definitely washed the produce! Love the concept of no recipes…

Please upload recipe of jackfruit seed ..

I’m drooling 🤤!!! Thank you for this video

Thanks so much! You are an Amazing creative Chef. I enjoyed this video very much!

Good morning. Just happened on your channel. The video is helpful. Only that you could have reminded us what you did when you were plating on the romaine lettuce. Nevetheless great ideas

Cannot hear you over the music while you're in a grocery store.

Leave out the music :-/ I couldn't hear a thing, very annoying!

Very interesting don’t get me wrong
Looks good but you start woth saying what to make when you are hungry and want something now…. Lets go to the store and shop🤣 then while you cook i wish we had more tomatoes but this is what the video is abo using what you have on hand? 🤔 you just went to the store! Why did you not get more tomatoes. You are not using what you got you went shopping..
I do appreciate the recipe but it was a little odd your reasoning and description for what and why.

Today I tried this and thank you it was delicious, i put some other ingrediënts I use like scotchs bonnet instead of the chipotle, tahini with the sunflowers and spicy mushroomsauce with the portobello. This meal is a keeper.

Omg you are killing it in the kitchen keep it up 👍🏼

Wow so many choices for mushrooms...

What natural remedy do you recommend for chest cold or allergies?

Where is your home base? I don't have these options in my region?

Looks very delicious!

Thank You!

Great content!! 👍👍👍

so yum ... thanks!

I relate to your style of creating a meal as you go! I've moved to RAW from VEGAN, and I'm really enjoying this new adventure! It's such a creative outlet. OH the Flavors you have there! Simply Beautiful and Inspirational! Thank you!

the camera man makes me dizzy

I honestly prefer You like this. That is without the beard 🧔🙂. You look so good!

Thanks for sharing :)

Seems like it would've been a very informative video...but the music detracts from the overall presentation.

I imagine that instead of the romaine wraps, you could make a salad and use the other dishes as a side. Kind of like a raw vegan Buddha bowl, right?

This was a great raw vegan inspiration demo. The quality was the least noticeable thing. But the ideas in terms of the raw vegan diet variety were almost endless. Thanks for pulling this out of the archives and sharing it.

Re: the dish you made with the Jicama; could zucchini be used instead?

any good alternative to hemp seeds?

Just came across your channel & love watching you cook!