Alkaline Recipe : Avocado Bowls

So this is one of the first alkaline recipes which I've tried: salad in a avocado bowl! I would include a picture but I ate it right after I made it. It was actually really good. The creamy avocado with crisp salad and tangy dressing was a surprisingly cool and delicious treat. Here's the recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup of salad ( I used bell peppers, cucumber, onions, lettuce, and water crest for mine )
• 1 Avocado
• Salad dressing ( 1tbsp of balsamic vinegar, 1 tbsp of yellow mustard, .5 tsp of onion powder, .5 tsp of garlic powder, and .5 tsp of powdered thyme)

Directions

1. Wash your avocado and cut it in half. (Do the best you can since their is a seed in the middle!). Remove the seed. Their should already be a hallow area in the avocado halfs which will be used for the "bowls". Set it aside
2. On a chopping board cut up the vegetables you have chosen for your salad. The smaller the pieces the better since more will be able to fit in the avocado bowls but that's just my preference. Put your salad in a bowl.
3. In a separate bowl or container combine the balsamic vinegar and mustard. Then, combine the powdered onions, powdered garlic, and powdered thyme.
4. Pour your dressing into your salad and toss. ( You can also pour the dressing on the salad when its in the avocado bowls)
5. Put your salad into your avocado bowls and enjoy!

If you want to add some more protein you can put some raw almonds shavings/pieces on top.

I love this recipe because it I can get eat alot of alkaline vegetables in my diet in a fun to eat way. Also, you can use whatever vegetables you have at home to make the salad. I think I used most of the alkaline rich foods I have at the moment.

P.S. if you have extra salad or doesn't fit in your "bowl" then you can put the extra on a separate plate or use your spoon to scoop out avocado flesh for a bigger bowl :)

Alkaline Acid Food Chart ?

Ok, to get this Alkaline lifestyle on its way I needed to figure out what foods I actually want to eat. After much research, I've found the high alkaline foods which I want to incorporate into my diet. The list is ordered with highest alkaline foods at the top and the lowest ones at the bottom. Surprisingly enough, according to this list, watermelon and lemons are the highest alkaline foods (which is great by me because I love both of those foods )

I"m not going to lie, finding this list of foods was pretty difficult because their's no concensus on which foods are alkaline and which aren't (isn't that odd? why is it so hard to find a list of "acid vs alkaline foods"). On one site they'll say that ripe bananas are acid forming but then another will say its fairly high in alkalinity (is that spelled right?). So I'm basing my food list on this website because it easily showed the acidity of foods (they separated the foods for me from high to low alkalinity/acidity). All the foods on this list are high in alkalinity (1), mid high (2), mid (3), and low-neutral (4).

Grains 6 ounces	Vegetables 2.5 cups	Fruits 1.5 cups	Milk 3 cups	Meat & Beans & nuts 5 Ounces	Other
Arrowroot, Flour Quinoa millet amaranth	2. Kelp Watercress Seaweeds Asparagus Vegetable juices 3. Avocados Alfalfa sprouts Carrots Celery Lettuce Peas Pumpkin (sweet) Spinach. 4. Bamboo shoots Beans (fresh green), Beets Bell Pepper Broccoli, Cabbage ;Cauli, Kale Lettuce Parsnip Potatoes & skin Raspberry Strawberry Squash Sweet corn Turnip 5. Artichokes Brussels Sprouts Cucumbers Leeks, Mushrooms Okra, Olives ripe Onions, Tomatoes taro sweet	1. Lemons Watermelon 2. Cantaloupe Dried dates & figs Limes Mango, Melons, Papaya Seedless grapes Kiwifrui Fruit juices Passion fruit Pears Pineapple Raisins plum 3. Apples sweet Apricots , Bananas (ripe) Berries Currants, Dates & figs (fresh) Gooseberry, Guavas, Grapefruit Nectarine, Peaches Oranges 5. Cherries Coconut Rhubarb	goats milk whey	5. almonds egg yolks chestnuts	2. Cayenne Parsley 3. Garlic Herbs (leafy green sea salt Ginger persimmon 4. Vinegar (apple cider) 5. Barley-Malt (sweetener-Bronner) Brown Rice Syrup Honey Spices oilve oil mustard

The recommended servings amounts next to the food group name are from www.nutrition.gov.

Now, my question is how to get more meat alternative, grains, and milk alternative options into my diet?

Info from:

http://www.greatestherbsonearth.com/articles/acid_alkaline.htm