Fruits are magic food and made by the power of the sun, the nutrients of the earth and contain high amount of rain water filtered through the plant and its roots. What else do we need to nourish ourselfes?

Really not much more. Any fruit is a complete meal and we are ment to survive only with their energy and power provided. They have a big variety of flavours from sweet to bitter, full of natural and clean water and give a tremendous amount of vitamins, nutrients and are high in fiber.

all you can eat fruit buffet

The perfect food not only while traveling the world

Whenever its difficult to get fresh made juices or smoothies, I enjoy more fruits. And therefore in some countries like cuba with its nearly 100 % organic fruits and vegetables its just a joy to try fruits you know. And also new types you have maybe never tried before. Its not like there are no juices to buy. But especially in cuba nearly everything gets tuned up with lots of industrial and refined sugars. Yes cubans love their sweet foods! In order to compensate missing nutrients its a fantastic and tasty way to power yourself with nearly everything you need. And the big advantage is, you can still find fruits nearly everywhere.

a cashew fruit picked from a tree in the cuban jungle

Make it a daily adventure

And because I am so exited to try out new foods, it is my daily adventure! During a jungle hike in cuba we found a cashew tree.  And the fruits were ready to eat. Not the cashew but the cashew fruit that grows with the cashew we know. I am not going to forget this wonderful taste. And as soon a I will see a cashew tree I will eat some of these fruits again!

cashew fruit: great taste like apple with lime

Therefore one of my worries not getting enough juices and smoothies during traveling turned into a new habit eating lots of fresh fruits for breakfast and during the day. And as a breakfast its also the best way to start with a lot of freshness and energy in your day! What I had to learn is about the amounts of fruits I need. For me it makes not much sense to eat little quantities of fruit. Because I would soon get hungry again. But when eating a complete pineapple, melon or bigger amounts of fruit, it serves me longer and keeps satisfied.

a complete breakfast: a huge pineapple

A present from god and the universe

And there are no doubts. Whatever we are planing to do for the day there is no greater support than using this present. And we all got it from god and the universe! To make every day a good day with natural food! I give you an example. Whenever I do my greatest hobby diving I have to drink a lot of water in order to feel well during a dive. Beetween 5 and 7 liters of water when doing a 2 tank dive is quite normal for me. That changed when I started to have fruits for breakfast. Because of the huge quantities of water in a pineapple, melon, papaya, banana or citrus fruit I have for breakfast, with 2 or 3 liters of additional water I am fine now.

make every day perfect with the right choice

Great availability nearly everywhere on our planet

Do you know the weird feeling during your change in lifestyle, when you think that there is nothing to eat left? When you start getting rid of your bad eating habits and realise that almost all products in commercial supermarkets are not good for you! And I also felt a little bit scared in those moments. But learning about the availability of healthy and natural food is a great release. This was a strange moment when I realised that there is nothing to be scared about! Good food is all around us! We just need to look at things in a different way.

thats a comfortable & healthy breakfast in Mexico City

And because I like to be lazy sometimes its nice and comfortable to have a healthy breakfast when its available as it is in bigger cities. But since I experienced the joy of going to local markets, this is a new habit and adventure in my life!

Real farmers market are my preferred dealers

One of the most beautiful markets I have visited is located in the mexican state chiapas in the city of san cristobal de las casas.

farmers market in san cristobal de las casas, mexico

Here on a farmers market there are no more worries to get enough good and natural food. Its all available and guaranted you are going to make the right choice! Whatever you buy, its going to be good for you! You know how difficult it is to make the right choice in a commercial supermarket!

natural food treated with respect & love

And when I see how the farmers treat every single fruit and vegetable and present their work in a beautiful way. Then I know thats food treated with respect and love. In conclusion food that is only treated industrially can never give you and you body what a real natural food can do. Natural and real food is a big amount of work combined with respect for the creation of mother earth. If you eat this kind of products your life is enbrightened by more love, energy and respect for all living creatures.

my new supermarkets: real farmers markets

And besides the fact that eating lots of fruits helps to strengthen your new habits and lifestyle, its every time a little adventure to go for shopping on farmers markets. Wherever I have been to local and real markets in this world the farmers providing us with natural food are very friendly, helping and know a lot about their products.

Motivation to write about my food inspiration

With my blog series of food inspiration, I want to help you! By showing you what great possibilities we really have in terms of making the right food choices. And it doesnt matter where we are, its possible nearly everywhere on our planet!

In my next post I will give an overview about my specials and like anybody I give myself also some treats. But how I do it on a healthy way, let me tell you in my nextcoming article!

Lui

The richness of nutrients and the great appearance of salads make me happy! But not only me.

I am surprised since I eat salads daily, my point of view concerning food changed. Also lots of restaurants offer great salad plates and really have some know-how about what to combine and what not. However, when I have the possibility I would prefer to prepare my own tasty salad combination, but sometimes its more chilly just to order your healthy food outside.

a lunch that makes happy: green chaya juice and a huge salad plate

salads are not a complete meal?

Its amazing to experience how I changed myself. Some years ago I remember not considering a salad as a complete meal.

I had the feeling that “only” a salad does not make me satisfied and creates disharmony in my digestive system.

Nowadays I feel and know the difference and I want to eat a healthy and mainly raw salad ever day.

a raw power salad with beetroot, carrots, kale and many other tasty and healthy ingredients

minimalistic yucca salad with bell pepper and onions and some herbs

how I eat salads

How did I manage to convince myself? First of all I never was eating the salad in the right order. What did I do? For example after a cooked or heavy meal I would still feel hungry and then I would eat the salad.

Yes, now I know that was completely wrong for me!

For sure a salad is very easy to digest, but when eaten after a heavy and cooked meal, the salad cannot be digested well. Therefore it has to wait until the heavy food is digested and in that time the salad created a big disharmony inside me. And after just changing the order of eating, first the easy to digest salad and afterwards the heavier meal, I had a big improvement in my health and well-being.

make it on your own: a self made salad with sprouts during traveling and the juice never is missing

can salads satisfy you?

And another effect was that I started to get a really good feeling of being satisfied with salads and learned which ingredients to add to my salads. Sometimes during traveling its not that easy, but still there are many solutions how I can get my daily salad. And when I cannot prepare a complete salad, I would buy a ready to eat salad from the market, trow away the including dressing and tune it up by adding ingredients like avocados, sprouts, nuts and seeds.

My task is to give the salad a certain amount of greens, healthy fats and proteins.

Therefore I add to a green salad also good fats like avocado, olive or coconut oil. And in order to get the additional proteins and satisfying ingredients in my salad I add goat cheese, beans, lentils and different kind of seeds or nuts.

lots of ingredients combined make a salad that will definetly satisfy

salads tastes boring!

For most people salads taste boring and something is missing. What is it? After we have been manipulated all our life by huge amounts of taste improvers and industrial sugar in processed foods, I found out for me that I have to teach my taste senses to enjoy new flavours. And why not add healthy spices to your salad?

In the last years I have developed many salad recipes where I always add certain spices.

Most salads contain salt and pepper and that’s it! In conclusion I started to add spices like clove, curcuma, cumin, nutmeg and many more. And everybody who tried my salads knows what I am talking about!

Hope you enjoyed my todays post and maybe it motivates you to make a salad! Below this post you can get a free salad recipe from my E-Book 3+1 Power Recipes!

Enjoy the flavour of natural food!

Lui

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Drinking smoothies is not only a style. But it is a great possibilty to enjoy fruits, vegetables and more natural food in new and surprising combinations.

However a big advantage is that they are quickly prepared and a super healthy drink. And it is also a very satisfying meal in the same time.

In comparison to juicing it is much faster and also a lot cheaper!

Because you are using the complete fruits and vegetables, it allows you also to transform more expensive produce, like grapes, pineapple and fresh spinach to a healthy drink.

And sometimes even the best juicers are not able to get an appreciable amount of liquids out of the produce.

Like with bananas, nuts or very leafy greens.

a fantastic drink blended out of different grapes

very sweet and a great cleanser: a pineapple with mango smoothie

one of my favorite smoothies: grapefruits, oranges and lime or lemon

combine a juice with a smoothie

In my opinion making smoothies and juices are a great combination. Therefore its not a discussion whats better a juice or a smoothie.

If using both systems this allows you to get the best out of your choosen produce!

And for some recipes its great to combine a juicer and a blender. Here is one example where I use both devices to make a lifesaving spinach carrot drink.

carrot prepared with a juicer and the spinach blended with the carrot juice

In conclusion the right philosophy is to use both machine concepts in combination. And the result for you is that you can get the most out your fruits and vegetables, even when you invest in more expensive produce or prefer to buy organic.

In my own experience its great to have both systems!

In the next post “my food inspiration: salads“ I will give you some secrects how to make wonderful salads that really satisfy you, even if you are a very hungry person like me.

Your Lui

blender suggestions

If you are looking for the right blender here you find links for very popular machines. However dependent on how often you are using a blender, it makes a lot of sense to get good and proven quality. Like for any device the market has a tremendous variety. And I remember how much time I spend in finding and choosing the right machine. In order to make it easier for you, here some great blenders I use:

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I love juices because they helped me to change to a healthier and better person! Therefore in this and the following posts I am presenting you a series of my food inspirations.

First of all I want to write about juices. What can I eat and how does good food look like? One of the big questions I had after I decided to change my food addictions.

However I needed habits that help me to stay motivated in preparing healthy food and make the right choices every day!

So you can take this as an inspiration for yourself and enjoy the great colours and flavours we are provided by mother earth.

juices during traveling

Yes you are right, they are expensive and when made by yourself also very time consuming, but when made fresh it is worth the time and money. The best of the best of each fruit and vegetable in great combinations and different variations.

Therefore I would even say that juices had the biggest impact on my health condition!

And this is why I love all kinds of juices! First of all you will find new flavours, amazing colours and immediately everybody can feel the good vibrations!

real joy of colours: green wheatgrass juice, orange carrot juice and red beetroot juice

pure health every day: my carrot juice, a green juice made with spinach and pure orange

Whenever I am on the road and I have no possibility to use a juicing machine, I buy my fresh juices. Especially in the first part of my trip I found out that there is already a huge juicing culture in the USA, Mexico and all Central America.

Almost wherever you are its so easy to buy all kinds of juices and healthy foods!

Because some shops mights use industrial sugar to tune up the sweetness of their product, I also have to take care. For sure this is not what I am looking for and its better to watch how the order is made to make sure there are no added sugars inside.

keep it simple: preparing my orange juice breakfast with a squeezer during traveling

However in some areas you will not find any place that prepares or sells fresh juices.

Due to this reason sometimes I use my manual squeezer to press grapefruits, oranges and lime.

This little squeezer is now traveling for more than one and a half years with me!

juicing at home

Before I started full time traveling, two or three times a week I invested the time to make my juices for the nextcoming days. For the whole procedure I would spend about 2 hours to produce several liters. In order to store them properly I put them in bottles.

And this is how I was drinking my daily juices also during my work time!

Here are some pictures showing my juicing action at home.

beetroot juice with apples and pears

a carrot juice with apples

real juicing action: all ready to make several juices at once

Because you already started successfully to change your habits, also you will start with implementing daily juices in your life.

As a result it will add a new scope of flavours in your life and will give your body what it really needs.

In conclusion they are the most powerful food you can use to heal, nourish and protect yourself.

Stay tuned and read also my nextcoming post “my food inspiration: smoothies”.

Your Lui

juicer suggestions

Here you find some links for juicers in different price ranges, that I can recommend. I worked with all of the by myself and they all help you to make good and healthy juices. For sure there are differences in quality and performance, but here you find a nice device thats fits any purse:

literature references

If you want to read and learn more about this topic, I also can recommend you some great books. The author Gerson is one of the first persons in the medical area who found out about the healing power of fresh pressed fruits and vegetables. And since then the Gerson Therapy cured many kinds of sicknesses and also cancer. Here I have some book suggestions in german, spanish and english for you:

Because the Gerson Therapy works so good, it is actually forbidden to practise his therapy in Europe and the USA on a professional level?!

What a surprise!!!

But its not forbidden to buy and use his books! Lets learn and practise this great knowledge and spread the good word!

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