“Is it healthier to eat an apple or to eat applesauce?”
This is the simple question which has lead me on recent raw foods journey. A book I was reading (Raw Truth by Jordan Rubin, author of one of my favorites, The Makers Diet) asked this question, and at first I was like duhhhhhh, the apple of course. But for some reason this question kept sticking in my head.
I spend a large quantity of my grocery budget on organic produce, and I realized that I don’t want to spend money on something that I will end up “cooking/heating” thus depleting nutrients and lessening the value and nutrition of that item. If I am spending our hard earned money on good quality, local, organic foods, why would I do something to it to lessen their worth?
So lately I have been making little changes to keep the purity and integrity of the foods I buy. One way being the method in which I make my applesauce. As long as you have some sort of food processor, there is really no need to cook your apples (thus depleting nutrients). Just throw apples in, blend. DONE. Love it!
This week I have been filling our home with foods of fall. I bought tons of cranberries and have been finding neat ways to use them. (Here is my Cranberry-Cinnamon Homemade Potpourri Idea). I have had cranberry applesauce in the past and I always loved it, so today I simply threw in some organic apples (cored but with skins on), a pinch of cinnamon, and a handful of cranberries, blended them together, and I served my boys a bowl of delicious raw applesauce, which they devoured in 5 minutes followed by “more mama, more!”
*Note: I tried making this in my blender once and it turned out a bit frothy and more like a thick apple juice. I would recommend using a good food processor so you get the desired “sauce” texture. I use the BPA free Big Mouth Hamilton Beech Processor and I am very happy with it.
This is the simple question which has lead me on recent raw foods journey. A book I was reading (Raw Truth by Jordan Rubin, author of one of my favorites, The Makers Diet) asked this question, and at first I was like duhhhhhh, the apple of course. But for some reason this question kept sticking in my head.
I spend a large quantity of my grocery budget on organic produce, and I realized that I don’t want to spend money on something that I will end up “cooking/heating” thus depleting nutrients and lessening the value and nutrition of that item. If I am spending our hard earned money on good quality, local, organic foods, why would I do something to it to lessen their worth?
So lately I have been making little changes to keep the purity and integrity of the foods I buy. One way being the method in which I make my applesauce. As long as you have some sort of food processor, there is really no need to cook your apples (thus depleting nutrients). Just throw apples in, blend. DONE. Love it!
This week I have been filling our home with foods of fall. I bought tons of cranberries and have been finding neat ways to use them. (Here is my Cranberry-Cinnamon Homemade Potpourri Idea). I have had cranberry applesauce in the past and I always loved it, so today I simply threw in some organic apples (cored but with skins on), a pinch of cinnamon, and a handful of cranberries, blended them together, and I served my boys a bowl of delicious raw applesauce, which they devoured in 5 minutes followed by “more mama, more!”
*Note: I tried making this in my blender once and it turned out a bit frothy and more like a thick apple juice. I would recommend using a good food processor so you get the desired “sauce” texture. I use the BPA free Big Mouth Hamilton Beech Processor and I am very happy with it.
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