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It’s been a month since I decided to remove red meat from my diet. Ever since I came from San Benito Farm, my outlook on food diet changed my life. I had initial misgivings about The Farm. I found it expensive and the food though appealing to the eyes wasn’t something I was used to. My Farm experience was an accidental surprise because I was there for a press briefing on Amway’s Nutrilite Vitamins and Food Supplements. Such surprises can be a pleasant gift to the mind, soul and body. I can say a life-changing experience.

To celebrate my one month semi-vegan lifestyle, let me present to you the “Living Food” or raw cuisine that transformed me.

It started out with a Korean Cuisine inspired menu for lunch.

To quote Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, “Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food.” Food is our most potent medicine. Various clinical studies have concluded that proper nutrition plays a central role in disease prevention and restoration of health. This is what I discovered after my culinary experience at The Farm.

Pickled Radish with assorted toppings and mustard sauce

I made the mistake of joining a walking tour just before lunch. Hungry and hot from walking, the dishes came in small portions and did not nothing to appease my hunger pangs.

Korean Style Soybean Noodle soup with Oyster Mushroom

Mango Lassi

Korean Salad with Apple Ginger Dressing

Celery, cucumber, apple, greens, lime, coconut juice

Bimbimbap with Mixed Grains

Jackfruit Cake

As you can see, The Farm’s award-winning Alive! restaurant serves organic vegan cuisine composed primarily of uncooked fruits, vegetables, germinated grains, nuts and seeds. The Farm made sure that we experienced these:

• Satisfy your eyes, your palate and your emotions with our beautiful culinary creations
• Educate you about the benefits of a diet consisting primarily of plant-based, “live” foods
• Show you that eating for health can be extremely exciting and satisfying.

I notice that even water served contained no ice as it should be. Natural goodness.

The veggies from lunch got me hungry though and about 5:00PM , I took some snacks.
Snacks

Snacks with Biscuits

Dinner

Steamed Green Asparagus with Walnut Miso sauce and red pepper syrup

Chilled Coconut Udon Noodles

Open Face Eggplant , Shitake Mushroom and Cashew Tofu sandwich with Asian Coleslaw

Banana Chocolate Cake

The breakfast buffet is the best meal of The Farm. One should take advantage of the breakfast in case your lunch and dinner does not satisfy you.

All types of juices such as Tropical juice, Watermelon, buco and cacao

cereals and vegetable salad

Mango coconut yoghurt

My breakfast choice consisted of fruits , banana bread with some sort of cheese spread.

And I got a second serving. This time, I scrambled tofu, banana bread and pancakes

and Yoghurt dessert

My breakfast was so filling that it lasted me till noon time. The lunch menu consisted of a “Taste of Thailand” served in 4 dishes. I only ate two of them.

Baked Eggplant with Chili and Basil; Young Coconut Noodles with Green Curry Sauce and Organic Rice

and my dessert of Coconut Chia Sago Pudding with Mangoes

After I went through their Live Blood Analysis that day, I finally understood what “Living Food” meant.

“Living” food (or sometimes called “raw” cuisine) is understood to mean uncooked, unprocessed, whole and organic foods. The reason we serve the majority of our food in its raw, “live” state is because raw food contains the maximum amount of enzymes, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, all necessary for health. Enzymes are essential to every function of the body and are present in perfect balance in every fresh food provided by Nature.

It made perfect sense. The Farm further explains that ” Enzymes are live, dynamic elements that convert our food into living energy. Cooking destroys all enzymes; therefore, your own body’s enzyme stores must be used to digest foods, which explains why after eating a cooked meal, especially a large one, people feel tired, lethargic and lacking energy. The constant depletion of the body’s enzymes by eating primarily cooked foods is the precursor to illness and the degenerative conditions we have come to consider as normal in growing older. But, by adding more live foods to your diet, you can restore your vitality, energy and life force. You will feel and look younger by eating less cooked foods and more live, unrefined, whole foods in their natural state.”

The problem in getting back to the city is that raw vegetables are hard to source. If ever, it is expensive. That didn’t deter me. I constantly seek raw vegetables and fruits in the supermarket. Raw does not have to be unappetizing. I just imagine too that live foods will restore my vitality, energy and life force.

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1226 Makati City, The Philippines

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