Do Eat Raw
Developer: Wachipi Cost: $0.99 Runs on: iPhone Website:www.doeatraw.com
I love all forms of cooking, but there’s something divine about raw food. Grabbing a vine-ripened tomato and biting into it like an apple is a guilty pleasure of mine. Of course, most people who dedicate their life to eating raw foods do it for nutritional or ethical reasons. And, of course, that doesn’t mean non-vegans can’t enjoy this raw food app, Do Eat Raw.
Do Eat Raw includes over 300 raw vegan recipes organized in seven different categories: Salads, Entrée and Main Courses, Appetizers and Snacks, Desserts, and more. Each category is organized alphabetically, but you can’t scrub/jump through the recipe alphabet like you can when scanning for cheese in Ask the Cheesemonger. This app also doesn’t include thumbnails of the recipes so you can’t have that ravioli recipe jump out at you through visual stimulation. Unfortunately, once you’ve clicked into the recipe page, you’ll notice the dearth of visuals continues.
Trufflehead
Developer: ADITK, LLC Cost: $3.99 Runs on: iPhone Website:www.trufflehead.com
Finding healthy, organic recipes isn’t always the easiest proposition. You might say it can be as difficult as digging through dirt trying to find a truffle. Well, consider this app your trained pig.
Trufflehead was created by Deborah Chud, MD, a mother who knows how hard it can be to find healthy dinner options. This app includes over 260 recipes: 160 vegetarian, 150 dairy free, 110 gluten free, and 200 low-calorie and low-fat dishes. Better yet, every recipe includes nutrition data.
The app is very simple to use. It has four main sections: Recipes, Favorites, Shopping List and References. First stop is a recipe section where you can conduct a basic search or select a recipe based on one of 10 categories.
Rising food prices are on everyone’s mind, from your next door neighbor to the Michelin-starred restaurant owner downtown. Short of dumpster diving or applying for government assistance, people have to get crafty. Perhaps that’s part of the reason why meat eating is way down–consumption decreased more than 12 percent since 2007. In a recent post NYTimes’ Mark Bittman details some of the reasons he thinks this is true, and significant, in how Americans are slowly changing their eating habits. Mostly for the better.
I love all forms of cooking, but there’s something divine about raw food. Grabbing a vine-ripened tomato and biting into it like an apple is a guilty pleasure of mine. Of course, most people who dedicate their life to eating raw foods do it for nutritional or ethical reasons. And, of course, that doesn’t mean non-vegans can’t enjoy this raw food app, Do Eat Raw.
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