Barefoot Healthy Hippie

Raw Veggie "tortilla" and my assortment of fruits and veggies on it.

I found this great idea one day online while I was perusing for raw food sites and ideas, so I don't remember exactly where I found it.

Since I am trying to be healthier, lose weight, and cut down on processed foods I have given up eating breads and tortillas as often, I have been eating foods in a more whole state, but I miss having a good wrap sandwich!

I found this awesome and very good alternative, but it works best if you have a dehydrator, if you don't want it to be raw I'm sure the oven would work also.

You start with the meat of a young Thai coconut. Crack it open, put the coconut water into a smoothie and drink it! Then, scoop out the coconut meat with a spoon and put it in the blender. Next, add up to three cups of veggies, the above tortilla was made with carrots, cabbage and celery because I have an abundance of it. Blend it all up, if you have a Blendtec or VitaMix of something like that you won't need to add any water, just use the Whole Juice function and Juice It!

Then spread one cup of the mixture out on the Paraflex sheets, dehydrate for 12 or more hours on the living foods temp, about 115. If you can't dehydrate that low, it won't remain living, but it will still be a healthy and low calorie food, and a great way to eat more veggies!

Tips:

If you have too many veggies, the veggie "leather" will be brittle and crack when you try to use it. It's still good, but way harder to eat. The above recipe was made with 5 cups of veggies and it was too much. The flavor is still fine though so if you make this mistake you can still eat it.

I have also made them out of celery only, and it was really good that way too, and it's far prettier, it has a living green color, unlike the one I made with the carrots and green veggies!

Imagine making them with carrots only, celery only, broccoli only and beets only, it would be so colorful and pretty!