A meal of cold foods, like a gigantic, colorful salad, is very refreshing to eat in the summer. Cool, crunchy veggies atop a bed of crisp lettuce are like heaven to your lips on a blistering hot day. Other raw, uncooked foods are just as delicious and satisfying for this season, like nori wraps and zucchini pasta. Yum! Check out these five reasons for why summer is the best time to eat raw vegan:
1. Eating Raw Helps Beat the Heat
As the temperature rises, our desire for frozen and cold foods increases along with it. Eating a raw diet is a healthy choice since the food does not undergo heat processing that strips nutrients. What better way to take advantage of the heat than by cooling down with nutritious, amazing raw food? Don’t turn on the oven and heat up the house even more. Instead, check out our raw food recipes here on One Green Planet.
2. You Can Indulge in Guilt-Free, Frozen Treats
What’s awesome about frozen treats is that there is no cooking required and they’re super easy to make! Frozen treats can easily be made vegan because you can use coconut cream or almond milk in place of dairy milk. Ice cream cake, popsicles, sorbet, ice cream, frozen whoopee pies – you name it, and you can make a raw, frozen version without dairy. Try this Ultimate Raw Vegan Ice Cream Sandwich and this Raw Almond Chunky Monkey Ice Cream.
3. Your Food Will Never ‘Get Cold’
I’m sure you know how unpleasant it is when a meal that you want to eat warm goes cold, and this problem can happen on summer nights when time seems to get slower as the sun sets later. As a kid, I remember bouncing into the house much later than the set dinnertime because I wanted to play outside longer, but then my meal would get cold. To solve this, we would reheat it, which destroys those food nutrients even more. Loose track of time with the sun, enjoy the longer daylight, and forget cooking! When you eat raw vegan in the summer, you don’t have to worry about your food “going cold.” Raw, cool food is much more satisfying for summer, anyway. Try these 10 Raw Vegan Dishes Everyone Needs to Try, Whether You’re “Raw” or Not.
4. Following a Raw Diet Can Aid in Weight Loss
When you decrease the amount of processed foods you consume and increase the amount of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, your body will change. You’ll notice that you have a more glowing, vibrant complexion. You will feel more energized, which will help you sustain a workout to help carve some poolside abs. You will lose weight. This all inches you closer and closer to that bikini body, if you desire to shape up for the season.
5. You Will Enjoy the Bounty of Fresh Summer Produce
Best of all, when you eat raw vegan, you get to eat more summer produce than others! Fruits and vegetables that are in season during summer include zucchini, summer squash, tomatoes, cucumber, peaches, and watermelon. Check out these 5 Essential Ingredients for Cool Summer Meals, which includes recipes.
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