Appetite Suppression Recipe: Peanut Butter Indulgence

This article is not intended for those with strong wills, capable of snacking on raw fruits and vegetables. A carrot, some grapes, or a slice of watermelon (all organic, I hope) are all better solutions than this Appetite Suppression recipe.

However, many others are unable to satisfy their cravings with low fat, low calorie fruits and vegetables. This is where problems start and people start reaching for potato chips and doughnuts. I, while not overweight, often grab peanuts or popcorn. I eat them in moderation, but before bed, when I know I don't need the fat, oils, preservatives, and chemicals in common "snacks," I use this method as well.

The method is my own. I'm not a chef so it's far from glamorous so I would never dare print it in a book or pamphlet. The Internet, however, is a great place to share it. And, while it's not the prettiest, most lavish snack, IT WORKS! That's what you came here for, right? Well, first let me tell you a little story about how and why this peanut butter snack with curb hunger.

When I was about 11 I lived far out in the woods and didn't have too many other kids to play with. I succeeded in using rope to hang my basketball hoop on the tree and would practice everyday after school. I was terrible at the game which had suddenly become popular, so I wanted to learn to play with the other kids at school.

I would play for hours. Sometimes I would run out of energy and start to black out. Simply stopping for a few minutes let me continue practicing, but when I had those episodes of exhaustion, I would always crave peanut butter. Sure, a Mt. Dew or Coke would have made me happy as well, but I wanted peanut butter. It was just what I craved.

Now I know a banana or some fresh fruit juice would have been the best choice, but I was 11, and I wanted peanut butter. Then, several years later, I learned that peanut butter was often the desire of pregnant women's cravings. I thought that was interesting.

Have you ever heard "Packed with peanuts, Snickers really satisfies"? Have you ever heard a pregnant woman ask for peanut butter? Nuts are desirable. They are fatty, full of protein, taste great, have a satisfying crush, and so on. In peanut butter there is a lot of sugar and a lot calories packed in a small space. Eating a lot of peanut butter is not good for you, but eating a small amount, such as used in this recipe, is much better than the chips or cake alternative.

Peanut Butter Indulgence Recipe

First let me note, that as always, I recommend you buy organic food. Not only because it's good for you, because as more people buy it, the more it sends messages to the companies that we want healthy food void of pesticides and chemical preservatives. However, for simplicity, since you may just be starting on your path to a healthier lifestyle

Ingredients

• 1 heaping teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter (creamy might work, but I haven't tried it. If you only have creamy I suppose you could just add nuts or seeds to it. This recipe works in part due to its bulk, so I really would recommend getting peanut butter with whole peanuts in it)
• 1/2 teaspoon of raw, dried, shredded coconut (I can get a full sandwich size Ziploc bag of unsweetened coconut for $1 at my local organic food store. I haven't this recipe with sweetened coconut, because it is not natural and I only buy organic. I guess you could try it, but I think the finished product would come out too sweet because I wouldn't recommend omitting the sugar)
• 1/2 teaspoon of sugar (again, $1 at my local organic store. Regular sugar will for sure work, no problem. No fake NutraSweet or Equal here or EVER! Stevia is a natural sweetener that is very healthy, but it's not recommended for this recipe, for the same reason sweetened coconut is not recommended, because the grains of sugar in your mouth actually help satisfy you and suppress hunger
• 1/2 teaspoon of a healthy grain, such as steel cut oats or even regular dry oatmeal or crushed up corn flakes
  
• Optional: a few chocolate chips, cinnamon (a know appetite suppressant), flax seeds, sunflower seed, extra peanuts, etc.

Instructions

Mix sugar, coconut, and oatmeal (or your choice of grain) in a cereal bowl. Just throw it in there basically. Then, you add the peanut butter to it. Don't mix it, simple roll the peanut butter over the mixture. It won't take a good shape but it will stick together. If you get the mixture inside of the peanut butter it will fall apart, so that's why you want it on the outside. Personally I mix, roll, and eat it with a spoon, but you can do it however you want to. See the finished product:


How to Eat

This is the most important step! You must sit down, relax, and do absolutely nothing while you eat this. And you must take baby bites. You can see the small size of it. It's about the size of a very soft cookie. Take small bites and try to make it last 3-4 minutes.

Next, a strange thing might happen: you won't want to finish it! After you get all that sugar in a compact form, you body tells you it doesn't want anymore! You're getting the sugar, you're getting the crunchy satisfaction, you're getting the wonderful tastes, and you're getting the feeling of sugar crystals in your mouth. Do you see how these things all work together?

But, you must finish it! It's mandatory. And eat the remaining mixture in the bowl too. And when you're done, don't drink anything. Your mouth will be dry and you'll want to drink. Your desire for water will outweigh your hunger. Then, go do something constructive; or go to bed. Your hunger will be curbed for an hour or two!

Isn't all that sugar unhealthy?

This recipe is less than 100 calories. The peanut butter is about 50 kcal, the sugar around 30, coconut less than 10, and the grain maybe 5. Consider a quarter bag of potato chips (400 kcal), a slice of pizza (400 kcal), a candy bar (2-300 kcal), or a back of microwave popcorn (500 kcal). Plus if you use organic sugar and peanut butter and other ingredients, this recipe is much, much better than its alternatives. Tell me how you like it!

Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Recipe (for Start & End of Detox & Fast)

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Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Easy Quinoa Recipe

When you start a full-body detox or a juice fast it's often hard to eat regularly one day and go all fresh fruits and vegetables the next. Many people set aside a couple days' transition period. Simple organic recipes such as this low-gluten quinoa recipe is perfect for these occasions.

Similarly, when you're coming off a juice only detox or else a fresh fruits and vegetable diet it's not good for your body to jump right in and eat regularly again. Simple organic recipes with healthy grains like low gluten quinoa is the perfect choice.




Simple Organic Recipes: Easy Quinoa Recipe with Fresh Organic Vegetables

Ingredients (organic when available):

• 1 cup of organic quinoa (all quinoa is low-gluten quinoa)
• 1 small organic tomato (Roma preferred)
• 1 small jalepeno pepper (organic if available)
• 1 single slice of onion (red onion preferred)
• 1/2 garlic clove
• 1/2 avocado
  
• 1 slice of lime
• 2-3 leaves Romaine lettuce
  
• 2-4 cups of water (distilled preferred)
• Sea salt
• Pepper
• Extra virgin olive oil

Cooked Veggie Mix Procedure:

1. Chop jalepeno pepper and onion slice into small pieces
2. Crush or chop garlic clove into as small of pieces as possible.
   
3. Mix garlic, jalepeno, and onion together

Easy Quinoa Recipe Procedure:

1. Dry roast 1 cup of quinoa in sauce pan over medium heat. Stir continuously. Low gluten quinoa shells will "pop" open. This is normal. Roast for 2-3 minutes after the first pop.
2. After dry roast quinoa, add 2-3 cups of water.
3. Boil until water level is low, stirring occasionally
4. Add more water and jalepeno-garlic-onion mix. Cover
5. Simmer 10-15 minutes or until quinoa soft
6. When quinoa is soft, add a little more water and add salt, pepper, and 1-2 teaspoons olive oil. Add basil if desired.
7. Simmer until quinoa soft and mixed with vegetables. Quinoa will take on vegetable, salt, and olive oil taste.

Fresh Vegetable & Serving Procedure

1. Dice tomato and put on plate cold and fresh
2. Smash avacado adding sea salt and pepper. Place on plate as shown picture
3. Place fresh lime slice on plate
4. Cut or tear romaine lettuce and add to place, or put full leaves on separate plate
5. Add quinoa to plate
   
6. Compliment with any desired fresh fruit (grapes, raspberries, and cut up fresh jalepeno peppers shown in photo)

Eating

Squeeze lime over quinoa as desired. Quinoa, avocado, and tomato may be wrapped up in romaine lettuce and eaten like a burrito, or else cut up pieces of lettuce on top will be easier to eat with a spoon or fork.

This recipe serves two.

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Quick organic recipes like this easy quinoa recipes provide a good stepping stone into or out of a fast or detoxification. You're still getting fresh vegetables with the lettuce, tomato, and avacado. You're getting more veggies in the veggie mix. Quinoa provides several nutrients, and while not recommended during a juice fast, is digested fairly easily by the body

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Good Health by Just Eating a Salad Before Each Meal?

It's hard for many people to eat decently. Many people don't have time on their lunch breaks. Many people can't afford organic food. Organics are expensive! When you eat at restaurants it's almost guaranteed that there will be preservatives, pesticides, and other chemicals in your food. How can eat healthily in our current society?

Well, here's a quick tip. Your body is constantly detoxifying itself, whether you eat healthily or not. If you take chemicals (toxins) into your body faster than your body can detox, then the body stores these toxics in fats and tries to rid itself of the toxins through boils, ulcers, pimples, etc. So, the key is to eat less toxins than you're detoxing--less in than is going out!

Here's a very simple way to decrease the toxins going into your body:

Eat a fresh salad before each and every meal

Preferably this should be organic with only extra-virgin olive-oil as dressing. No cheese or meat is recommended, but I often flavor my salads with a little Roma cheese. Since you're eating a meal afterwards even a little cheese or dressing won't hurt.

How Does a Salad Help?

Eating a salad before each meal does a few things:

• Salads made with fresh fruits and vegetables provide enzymes. If your body has these enzymes it can better digest the lasagna, hamburger, pie, fast food, or any other unhealthy food you plan to eat after it.
• A salad will fill you up a little, so you'll eat less food that isn't good for you. If you skip dessert, you do, if you don't, you don't, however, if you leave half of the deep-fried French fries on your plate in favor of a salad, then you're doing better than you would be without the salad!
  

Full Body Detox Program: Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

This is a simple, easy fast to follow. It could be called a juice fast if you limit yourself to only juice, in which case the fast would actually be more beneficial to you. The purpose of the fast is to rest your digestive system while maintaining nutrition and energy to go about your daily life. You will be eating a substantially reduced calorie diet, however, so no aerobic or cardiovascular exercise can be recommended.

Program #1: Juice Only Detox

Since our goal is making the digestive system work as little as possible, for this diet, the absolute best bet would be to read our fruit juicer reviews (link for juice extractor review here) and select a juicer that best suits you. Then, you buy ONLY raw fruits and raw vegetables and juice them and drink the juice. You can drink as much juice as you like. It takes quite a bit of vegetables to get enough juice for a glass, and you won't be full after it, but if you can do it, this is the best way. Again, the best way for doing this fast is fresh fruits and vegetables only detox program or 3-4 weeks. That said, I myself am unable to do juice only for more than a day or two. I crave something with more substance. So, we'll go on to the next best thing.

Program #2: Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Only Detox

The next best thing to the only juice detoxification program is the fresh fruits and vegetables detox program. This is the same as above, however, instead of only juice, you substitute solid fruits and vegetables in order to feel full. So, instead of juicing the apple (hopefully organic, if you want the detox to work quickly), you eat it whole. You do the same with carrots, celery, lemons, oranges, etc. Some vegetables might be better juiced as opposed to being eaten raw, such as broccoli. In this diet you can make wonderful salads. Romaine lettuces, minced up garlic (you mince it, not the stuff in a jar), organic basil leaves cut into small pieces, organic tomatoes, organic vegetables of any type, organic fruits, etc. Try not to add any seeds or nuts as they don't digest as quickly as the fruits and vegetables.

Digestion and Enzyme Discussion

Before we move on let's discuss digestive enzymes. All fruits and vegetables contain digestive enzymes so that your body barely has to work to digest them. Some of the fibers of the fruits and vegetables take a little to digest, but not much. With juice-only you don't get these fibers but you still get the enzymes, so you can see how that will be better to rest your digestive system.

While your digestives systems rests, it breaks down fat and removes the toxins from it. So, the less work it does, the more it works on fat and removing the toxins within it. You can detox with non-organic fruits and veggies, but organic is best, as there are no further toxins added that your body must rid itself of. Nuts, olive oil, potatoes, avocados, etc., all have enzymes and are pretty easy to digest, not as easy is fruit only or juice only, but easy enough and may be used. Salt, pepper, and pretty much anything that comes in a container when you buy it likely has chemicals added to it. Adding these chemicals, or toxins to your body isn't the best way to detox, because the toxins are what you're trying to get rid of.

Program #3: Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Detox with a Few Extras

Now, if you still need more substance, you can still get a good detox program. Here we'll add a few things that you can by all means use while detoxing, but keep them to a minimum: extra virgin olive oil and organic salt and pepper makes that salad easier to eat. The smaller amount the better. Steamed vegetables are quite filling. Asparagus, Yukon Gold potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, broccoli, etc. Since steaming too much will kill the enzymes, don't steam too much; or too often. Just a minute or two, or until it's soft enough for you to choke down is the best. You may add RAW (not roasted or salted) seeds, nuts, beans, etc., but keep them to a minimum. We're not talking anything in a can or a package. They should all be fresh. Dried beans in a package aren't recommended, but at a minimum, they should be okay. If you absolutely need organic spices, go ahead and use them sparingly. Actually organic spices won't hurt anything, especially if you're eating them with the enzymes in the salad that you're putting them on. Organic tea is okay, but chamomile, peppermint, or senna (a laxative tea) is the best. If you know for sure that you're only drinking what comes from a dried leaf, then you're okay, especially if you drink it while eating fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, or the fresh juice of either.

Full-Body Detox Programs: Fresh, Living Fruits and Vegetables

All of the above WILL detoxify your body! Juice will be fastest, and so on. Even if you eat nuts all day and use a lot of extra-virgin olive oil as dressing you'll be okay, but the detox will just take longer. Juice-only should only take 2-3 weeks whereas #3 above will take a month. And whichever you do, you must know that if you still have fat on you you will not be fully detoxed! However, since we can't keep on these programs forever without going nuts, we take a few week period when we think we can stick to the program--a 3-week period with no stress or hard work--and detox when we can, a few times per year, for instance.

Cheating on Detox Diet

This is biggie. When people cheat once, they feel they have to give up. CHEATING IS OKAY! If you give up you fail. If you're on your third day of a detox diet and you have a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, sure, you're cheating, but why give up? It won't completely stop your body from detoxing, it will just prolong it a few hours. So, continue!

There's actually another full body detoxification diet I plan to write about how you are able to eat whatever you like for dinner and still detox! I won't get into all the details here, but basically, you follow #1 or #2 above (let's not do #3 here) for breakfast and lunch, and eat a normal dinner of what you want to eat. Heck, cake is fine too! Now to make this work much, much better, you do the eat-anything part for lunch, and juice or fruit and vegetables for dinner. That would be a nice detox, slowly but surely.

In fact, this is how I live my life. I do the occasional water-fast (which is the fastest way to detox but that won't be discussed in this post) for a day or two (that's all I can handle without feeling too dizzy to stand), juice fasts for a few days, and #2 above a few times a year, however, almost all of my meals at home are organic fruits and vegetables. Why do I limit it to meals at home? Well, virtually all restaurants used processed foods with nearly no enzymes that are full of preservatives and other chemicals. I stay away from fast-food as much as possible. Eating a salad before each and every meal on the road does wonders as well--provides enzymes and fills you up a bit and might even keep you from eating dessert!

I know I probably missed a lot here, but I'll answer all questions in the comments below, so fire away!

Reader's Write: How do I do a Juice Fast?

I just bookmarked this your site. I'm looking to start a kind of new life. I plan to buy a good blender (reviews on this site) and juicer (review available on this site) and want to do one of these detox diets. I like the idea of getting all the gook out of your system, things that are stuck in your intestines, etc. I even believe that if you were to eat ONLY healthy vegetables every day, reduce stress, and exercise properly, your body will cure itself of disease, even something like cancer. A lot of people believe this, but few people do it.

I saw an ad on TV once about okra pill that will dissolve mucous from your intestines and increase nutrient absorption. Do you have any information on these okra tablets? I think it's called okra-pepsin e3

Plus I'm going to play exercise 1-2 times a week. I don't want to do it everyday because it seems like it's too much and I might end up quitting.

I'd like to do this once I get the information. I think I can buy organic fruit and vegetables really cheap at the new grocery store that opened. In the summer peopleou a basket of home-grown tomatoes, peppers, apples, for free.! This home-grown stuff can have four times the nutrients due to the non-depleted soil

Sooooooooo, do you have the list of HOW to do the fast? I think I'd still take my multi-vitamins and eat a bowl of fiber cereal if I were to make my own schedule, but maybe that isn't good. If there were a tried and true list of what to do and when to eat it I could follow it more closely as I'd believe in it.

Please tell me the links!