raw food

FitSugar readers pure2raw shared this raw tropical breakfast bowl Healthy Recipe group.

Wishing you were in Hawaii? So do we! Nothing beats the warm sun, relaxing on the beach, toes in the sand, and perhaps a Mai Tai in hand. Check out our easy raw buckwheat cereal with pineapple, banana, and coconut! No special equipment or baking required for this Hawaiian inspired breakfast.

To learn how to make this recipe, visit the twins' blog, Pure2Raw. And don't forget to share your own recipes in our Healthy Recipe group!

FitSugar reader pure2raw shared this coconut-lime dessert recipe in our Healthy Recipe group.

Looking for a simple, refreshing dessert?

Love mini things?

You will love our raw, vegan coconut-lime cream cakes. Check out the easy recipe over on our blog.

Promise it is that good! Have a wonderful day.

— the pure2raw twins

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In the mood for something sweet? Take a cue from FitSugar reader LaurenMurphy, who posted this recipe for a sweet yet nutrition-packed no-bake dessert in our Healthy Recipe group.

I always crave something sweet and delicious at the end of the day (and in the middle of the day . . . and at the beginning of the day . . . OK, pretty much all the time!). However, the majority of sweet delicious things pack major calories and limited nutritional value! So this recipe is my solution; these squares can be used as a dessert or snack, are incredibly easy, and take about 10 minutes to make (not including chilling time).

All of the ingredients used are raw, meaning that you're ingesting all of their live vibrant enzymes. This recipe is not "technically" vegan, as I use raw honey (which has incredible anti-inflammatory properties!), but feel free to experiment with vegan sweeteners like maple syrup or agave.

Check out the recipe after the break!

Amanda Seyfried is having "a moment." She's currently starring in the box office hit Letters to Juliet and is on this month's cover of Self. She also seems to be changing her tune a bit. In the past she's vented about having to be on a restrictive raw food diet and exercising like a maniac in order to get roles and keep up with Hollywood standards. She now takes a more moderate approach to her workout schedule — running for 30 minutes five days a week and doing Pilates on the weekends — and lets herself enjoy food. Here are the highlights:

• On obsessive exercising: "If we're so busy trying to change ourselves, especially aesthetically, we're going to miss out on more important things. I used to live, eat and sleep by an exercise schedule, and I couldn't enjoy myself if I didn't exercise. And then I realized, What a waste of time! My soft parts are probably never going away."
• On body perfection in Hollywood: "People may seem perfect, but that's because they spend thousands on trainers and diets and surgeries. That's what we're made to feel like we're supposed to look like but if you put it in perspective, there's nothing realistic about it!"
• On body image: "It's important in the grand scheme of things to keep in shape, but if you're always worrying about imperfections and how you look, these things aren't going to change for the most part. The thing you can change is the way you perceive . . . Stop looking in the mirror and realize that you're living for yourself, not other people."
• On letting herself have food indulgences: "I mean, at the end of the day, if you can't have a Girl Scout cookie and a piece of cheese, what is life all about?"