alright! this is john kohler with okraw.comtoday with another exciting episode for you. what we're going to do in this episode todayis a popular video style that i've done before past. but i don't really like doing it, youknow, i had a video ... i don't know ... maybe a month or so ago basically what i eat ina day when i travel. a lot of you guys gave it a thumbs up so i want to thank you forthat. so i decided to do what i eat in a day, you know when i'm at home and when i'm inmy garden and, you know, in my normal environments. now i know many of you guys like these whatyou eat in a day to kind of see what other people are doing, the intention of my videois not so that you can copy me identically, "oh, i ... john ate this so i'm eating this,"right? no, that's not what i want you guys
to do. you know i ate my diet based on whati have available and what i'm feeling like and what i want to eat that day. i mean we'reall different and unique and we need different combinations of fruits and vegetables whichin my believe should be the primary source of calories and nutrients in your diet. but we're on inherently just a little bitdifferent. so i don't want you to copy me identically. but what i do want you to payattention to in this video today is, you know, some of the things i eat and some of the timesi eat and how i eat the foods that i'm eating because that's also, you know, very importantand critical to learn besides just, you know, exactly what i'm eating today.
so i guess without further ado let's go aheadand start showing you today what i ate today. so now we're going to show you guys what ieat in a day when i'm home. lately actually i haven't been home a lot, but everyday isa little bit different and today is just a random day and once again i want to let youguys know that this is what i'm eating in this day and everyday is totally different.it depends on produce availability on my garden and what i have available here and right now... and also it depends on what i'm doing. so for example if i was about to sit at homeand do a bunch of stuff i'd definitely eat probably something different. i'm actually heading out right now to somefarm to get produce for the week and so i
want something fast, easy and something thati could take with me while i'm driving and just sip on, you know, my drive to the farm. so what we're going to do today is we're goingto get some of these melons here and these melons are from the local farm, they're notsuper sweet or anything, and one of my tricks that i like to do when i get melons that aren'tsuper sweet, because if they are super sweet i'd love to eat them and they're just delicious,but what i'd like to do is i like to actually juice them up. so i'm going to go ahead and take this guyand i'm shaving off the skin, although you do not have to shave the skin off to juiceit, and actually there's more nutrition in
the skin but i just want to get the sweetnessout of this melon especially cause these are not often ripe and not often sweet. so now we're juicing this melon up in theall new omega vsj843, my new favorite vertical single auger style machine. runs at a little43 rmp's, you know, once again, this melon is nice, hard, and firm. hard and firm fruitjuices are significantly better than softer fruits. i'm going to drop that guy in thereand it just basically gets auto-sucked in, and the pulp comes out and then the sweetjuice comes out. so, you know, we've juiced about half of the melon already and it's createdabout 20 to 24 ounces. so i probably get about 40 to 48 ounces when all set and done in melonjuice this morning.
so now i'm juicing the last bit of melon hereright into the juicer. goes right in, gets juiced right up. you know, in general i recommendyou guys actually juice your vegetables and not your fruits and eat your fruits wholeand, you know, in this case the melon just does not taste good and i'd rather, you know,juice it to get some good flavor and get the nutrition out of the melon into me despiteit not being as sweet as i would like, but optimally i like to eat all my fruits whole. this juicer ... i finished making this juice.we've got a bunch of juice. i'm going to go ahead a try a few guys. i mean, it tasteslike a cucumber juice and a little bit of sweetness. it's really not that good, butthis is going to give me some hydration, you
know, to start my day. i'm kind of ready to leave. i got to get outthe door to get to the farm, it closes early. so what i'm doing is i'm basically takinglike glass bottle. i got like spring water in and we're just going to go ahead and pourthis in there so i could just drink this, you know, on my drive to the farm and thiswill be my breakfast today. alright, with that i juiced another melon.it's another small one, once again not super ripe. i need to stay hydrated and i'm goingto be out for a couple of hours. so i always encourage you guys to eat a proper amountof food. i'll be taking this juice with me and so i'll probably drink this, you know,i'm not going to guzzle it, now i'm going
to drink it now and within the next 2 hours.this will be done with my first meal about melon juice. so now i'm at a farm, harvest some producehere. we got already; we've got some of the jujubes and haven't tried any of those yet,so i've intended to eat them, although i have eaten some of these figs here. i'll eat anotherone on camera for you guys. we got a nice and delicious nevada grown fig. so i'm justeating some samples here just to know how good this fruit is before i buy it. next thing i'm buying is what i recommendyou guys get, and it's these guys right here. these are some grapes but they're not justany grapes. these are actually some wine grape
varieties. and these are atalia wine grapes.the best food is the food you harvest yourself. i'm going to come down here and get thesefresh vine ripen grapes. look at that bunch, man. nice bunch, really good color and look,these are truly sun dried raisins right here. so this is what i'm going to eat next. i'mgoing to have fresh wine grapes. wow, the table grapes you buy in the store like thegreen, the red, the black ones, they suck compared to these guys. like if you drinkwine you'll appreciate the flavors in the wine, but the wine grapes have not only thesweetness but also a whole unique different flavor palette that is really difficult todescribe. it tastes kind of like fruit punchy and there's a small seed that you can chewup and eat because there's nutrients in there.
so now for my next meal, i'm still drivingaround, doing some shopping. i actually got a dog door here for my little one, goodwill.it's always better to reuse and recycle also good prices at goodwill. so yeah, so my nextmeal is i'll be eating these figs here, they're quite soft, quite delicious and easy fingersnack food while i'm driving. check it out, quite juicy too. so now it's time for my next meal, kind ofthirsty, i want to stay hydrated. one of my favorite ways to do that is to have coconuts.so we've got these young coconuts here. i'm going to go ahead and remove the water. notuse the meat. i'm going to go ahead and put that in a blender craft along with a reallynice watery fruit, a nice papaya here. i'm
going to go ahead and show you guys what thatlooks like on the inside. nice and ripe. pull of seeds. so we're going to blend the coconutwater, papaya and then also a few frozen bananas and a nice delicious frozen smoothie comingup next. so as you guys can see i got my blender craftfull, 48 ounces craft, you got basically just 2 coconuts, all the papaya and maybe abouta clove of 1 or 2 frozen bananas. now my last special ingredient that i'm going to put intoday is this stuff right here, it's actually l reuteri probiotic powder and i like addingprobiotics to my smoothies. not only does this guy's giving the orange julius like flavorbecause it is like, this is white powder. it also adds the beneficial probiotics intothe drink for me.
the bananas are actually prebiotics and willencourage the probiotics to grown and flourish within you. and i put a fair bit of amountin there and the probiotics in my opinion are very critical for health. and i take thisspecifically because the probiotics, number one they help your digestive system digestfood. number two, the probiotics play a large role in actually your immune system, you know,to keep you healthy. so that's why i'm adding it in and plus in this recipe it makes ittaste real good. next we're going to go ahead and blend this baby up. alright, so we got that blended up, checkit out, nice, delicious papaya, banana, coconut water smoothie, just like i was in the tropics,nice and cold, still one of my favorite smoothies
to make after all these years. so now i'm ready for my next meal, it's idon't know about 4 or 3rd year or whatnot. actually over my brother's place, helpingwith some irrigation stuff, out in the hot sun, getting quite hungry. so what we're eatingnext is i got some organic strawberries. this is from cosco, it's generally the lowest pricefor organic strawberries about 2.50 a pound and it's 2 pounds. so in some cases i'll justsit here and eat 2 pounds of strawberries as one meal and, you know, the main thingi want to let you guys know is that i want to encourage you guys to just eat until you'rehappy, eat until you're full, you know, just cause there's 2 pounds, doesn't mean you needto eat all 2 pounds if you eat pound and then
you're just like full and you don't feel likeeating more. one of the things that i really like to eat,buy is buy like instinctually and what that means is, you know, we have ... we get feedbackfrom our body like our stomach will stretch out, it will be full, it will tell our brain,"okay, stop eating." and when you get that signal, stop eating, don't eat more, becausethere's 5 left, right? put those away and eat them later. they're not going to go anywhere,they're not going to grow legs, don't worry about. another thing that i like to do is, you know,checking with my taste buds. you know, we should all appreciate our taste buds and wehave them for reason to taste food. and if
you're really perceptive you'll actually tastea difference in your like your first strawberry. when you're really hungry, it just taste likereally good. it's so awesome and then once you eat maybe a pound or so, the strawberriesjust don't have that punch, they just don't taste quite as good as the first did. andthat's because maybe you've already eaten enough strawberries. so you'll perceive ataste change some point along the way after eating strawberries or literally any foodand i want you guys to pay attention to this so that you do not over eat. anyways, i'mgoing to dig into my strawberries. alright, i always go to the box and pick outthe nice deepest, reddest ones first, definitely really good. so i plowed through nearly 2pounds of strawberries. there's the last one.
i save the least right this one for last.i pride you to save the nice ripe one and on a good note. not as good as the first,but this was my meal, 2 pounds of strawberries. another thing i want to remind you guys, whenyou're eating, eating is not a race to finish your food first. eating should be an enjoymentand pleasurable experience that you want to prolong and extend that. like things you mightwant to do in the bedroom as well. and so you should want to, you know, chew your foodand enjoy it thoroughly and turn it into a mash before swallowing, this is particularlyimportant, you know, with salads, you know, even with fruits, we want to get it all mashedup cause then we're just going to get a better assimilation of the nutrients in the foodsyou're eating. so definitely have taken my
time and enjoying all my strawberries. alright, now it's dinner time for the littleman. well, that's what i say to my little man oakley. but this is dinner time for me.and what i'm doing now is actually i'm in the backyard and for dinner every night wheni'm home, i like to come to the backyard and kind of just scope everything out. i mean,i see a lot of ripe peppers over there, and i got this nice striped armenian cucumberwe're going to pick here real quick. check this guy out, man. oops, just broke off thetop. this thing is huge, look at that. this is huge, it must be like 2 and a halffeet right there, striped armenian. what i'm going to do with this, this is going to inspiremy dinner and what i'll be doing is i'll be
juicing the armenian cucumber to make armeniancucumber juice which then i will blend up with some ingredients to make a soup base,and then i'm going to add a lot of the fresh ingredients in my garden to make it delicious,raw soup for dinner. i think what i'm going to do next is actuallyharvest just some of the things in my garden. we'll come back out to you when i'm aboutready to make it, show you what i'm making, and then i'll show you guys what i'm eating,so just got done making my soup. what i ended up putting here was that i juiced that wholecucumber, it made like 64 ounces of juice. i'll probably put it 32 ounces of juice inhere. i put 4 tomatoes, about a dozen different peppers, sweet, a few hot ones from my garden.i put about 36 of the egyptian spinach leaves
which is more nutritious than kale. i putabout 12 of the genera procums or longevity greens in there. put a little bit of sage,a little bit of african blue basil, as well as a little bit of miso, and 2 handfuls ofmacadamia nuts for some fats and some sauerkraut in there and blended that up and this is whatwe got. this is going to be my dinner, about 48 ounces. wow, quite good. so hope you guys enjoyed seeing what i eatin a day. you know, everyday for me is completely different. you know, i've never had a daythat i've eaten those exact same things that you just saw this video ever. and i doubti'll ever do it again because every day i'm eating something different depending on, youknow, what i could harvest in my garden, what's
available at local farms, what's availableat local farmers markets, what's available, you know, with the local stores and what producei get available for, you know, organic produce i could get in expensive at the wholesaleproduce store terminal. and plus it's also some days i feel like eating some things,and some days i feel like eating others. to sum up this video, because you guys sawwhat i eat, you know, in general my diet goes like this. my first meal of the day alwaysis water. always like to get up and as soon as i wake up i like to drink water, you know,depending on the day from 16 to 32 ounces of water is what i like. then, i'll basicallyjust take a break. because, you know, when you wake up in the morning, you're supposedto eat breakfast and that's breaking your
fast. you're breaking your fast through sleeping.hopefully you've been sleeping 8 hours and you haven't been eating, you know, like toolate at night so that you've actually been fasting for 12 hours or hopefully, you know,thereabouts. and then i extend that fast by drinking waterin the morning, and then i only eat after, you know, a few hours later after i've hadthe water, after i work a little bit. i get my mind off, like, "oh, i got to eat foodnow cause i just woke up," no, man. you may not be ready for food if you just woke up,unless you're feeling like hungry, like when i wake up i drink water. i'm just not hungry.i don't desire any food. i'm ready to start my day and get working, go gardening, or whateveri'm doing, and then as soon as like my body
will get hungry, like i'll feel it in my mouth.like man, you're hungry, dude, eat. and i'm like, okay, now i'm going to eat. and then what i'll do for my first meal ofthe day is i'll do one of a few things. so it's very simple, either i'll have like amono fruit meal, so mono meal is basically eating one fruit until you're full. i'm nota big fan of making like, you know, fruit cocktails with bananas and oranges and grapefruits,and all these things mixed together. you know, i'll simply eat, you know, a whole meal ofpeaches, you know, it could be 5 or 6 peaches, 7 peaches, you know, until i'm full and happy.it could just be all apples; it could just be all bananas. so that's one option.
option 2 is i'll make a fruit smoothie. soi could do coconut water with bananas and maybe some green peppers or some, you know,greens added in for a green smoothie. or i could just do a straight up smoothie. next option is, i might do a vegetable juice.so i might go out to my garden and pick a whole bunch of greens and celery and comeinside and juice them up and have like a good 32 ounce to 48 ounces of juice on averageis my amount of green juice that i'd like to drink. or i could have something like agreen smoothie. and so we got the whole fruit, the fruit smoothie, the green juice, or thegreen smoothie. occasionally, you know, but not usually ... imay do a salad or something like that early
in the day, but in general i like to haveone of those other options, you know, basically whole fruits and vegetables, juices, or smoothies.on some occasions i will also do the fruit juices. so that give you some options of myfirst meal and i will do the same thing for my second meal. you know, if i did a wholemono meal for breakfast, i might do juices for lunch or i might do a smoothie for lunchand i always mix it up. once again it depends on the produce availabilityin most cases. like i have a ton of cantaloupes going ripe, they're not the super sweetestcantaloupes to eat, and i wouldn't totally enjoy them, then in many cases i'll just juicethem because by removing the fiber in the cantaloupes then i'm going to enjoy the cantaloupesmore plus be able to get rid of them so that
they're going down and feed on my accomplicefile, instead they're feeding me. that being said i always encourage and recommendyou guys to eat whole fruits, you know, first as mono meals or blend them before juicing.you know that's always better because you want to keep the fiber. on your vegetablesi recommend juicing them first and then maybe like, you know, blending them and then eatingthem whole and make sure they're chewed to nice fine consistency and no matter what youdo, whenever you blend anything you do not want to over blend. this is very important,i see many people in raw foods today, click on their blender, walk away and the blenderis running far too long, you want to only use the blender.
you want to only use the blender as, you know,as little as necessary to achieve the consistency that you desire so that the minimal amountof oxidation occurs, you know, when blending. some people in the raw food have been sayingyou're destroying 90% of the nutrients when blending and i don't know if that's true,but i do know that blending does destroy in my opinion more nutrition than a slow 47 rpmjuicer such as the omega vsj843 juicer that i've using mostly in my kitchen. and my last meal of the day simply is my dinnerand for dinner times, you know, i believe the salad should be your main meal and shouldbe a large part of your diet. so i like to have huge salads at night, like a big servingsize bowls. i've eat for like a family and
lots of greens. if i'm not doing the salad,another thing actually i like better than salad believe it or not is actually a rawfood soup. so i have a really good episode, actually i'll put a link down below this oneon how you guys could make your own raw food soups based on whatever you have on your fridgeat the time. i love raw food soups because that allowsme to get even more fruits and vegetables in me than a salad and it's also much moreand easily digestible. and then finally at night time before i go to bed, generally ilike to drink once again 16 to 30 ounce of water to stay hydrated through the night.i generally don't have to get up and go pee in the middle night, but if you do, you maywant to weigh and consider that, you know,
to not drink water so you don't have to interruptyour important sleep cycle to get that stage 4 sleep that we all desire. that is when ourbody is fully resting, healing, and rebuilding. so that's pretty much it for this episode.hope this was very helpful for you. if you like this episode, hey, give me a thumbs up.i may be doing it again as much as i hate doing what i eat in a day videos cause onceagain i want you guys to not eat exactly what i eat, but you know, kind of just be the modeland just share with you guys what i do. in case you want to do something similar or whatever,but in any case i always encourage you guys to just eat more fruits and vegetables. imean, the raw food diet, that's what it's all about. it's about eating fresh fruitsand fresh vegetables, you know, as close as
you possibly can to nature, you know, growthem yourselves, go to local farms, join the csa, go to farmer's markets and buy farm directwhenever you can, vote with your dollars so that you can be the healthiest as you can.hope you guys enjoy this episode. once again my name is john kohler with okraw.com. we'llsee you next time. and remember until then keep eating your fresh fruits and vegetables,they're always the best. alright, this is john kohler with okraw.com.today we have another exciting episode for you coming in hd. we're here at the 2013 woodstockfruit festival. it's the first day at sunday, when everybody checks in. we've got to gothere a little bit early. we're going to go...
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