Vegetable-based mucusless diet recipes range from raw salads to vegetables with the starch baked or steamed out of them. Spira’s Baked Acorn Squash recipe fits into Prof. Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless Diet Healing System.

Mucusless Diet Recipes: Spira’s Baked Acorn Squash |

The world of baked squash can become a powerful staple at the beginning of one’s “transition diet” toward a mucus-free lifestyle, as discussed in Prof. Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless Diet Healing System. When prepared properly, they can be quite filling and satisfying for people coming from standard mucus-rich diets. Squashes are mentioned by Ehret in the Mucusless Diet. One instance comes from Lesson 15, part 1 of the “Transition Diet” lessons:

Menus for the First 2 Weeks (Excerpt)

LUNCH: A combination salad, consisting of raw grated carrots or coleslaw or both, half and half, and two or three spoonfuls of a stewed or canned vegetable, such as green peas, string beans, or spinach. Add to this one of the following items (whatever is in season): cucumbers, tomatoes, green onions, lettuce, or other green leafy vegetables, celery, etc., but only a sufficient quantity for a flavoring. You may make an oil dressing according to your taste if desired, using lemon juice instead of vinegar—for flavoring purposes only. The rest of the meal should consist of one baked or stewed vegetable such as cauliflower, beets, parsnips, turnips, squash, etc. If you still feel as though you were hungry, you may eat a small-sized baked sweet potato or one slice of toasted bran or whole wheat bread. Fats of any kind, including ordinary butter, are unnatural and therefore should not be eaten. However, should you crave fats, it is best to use peanut butter or some other nut butter on your bread (Arnold Ehret, Mucusless Diet Healing System, annotated edition).

A Note to Raw Food Enthusiasts

If you are a strict raw foodist, obviously this recipe is not for you. You can always forward this recipe to a friend or family member, as this tends to satisfy even the worst eaters. In the future, if you ever find yourself having trouble maintaining a 100% raw and mucus-free plant-based diet, I invite you to return to these mucusless diet recipes. These simple recipes could prevent a number of former strict raw-foodists that gave up and went back to eating meat and dairy products (pus-forming foods). It is important to understand that there is a reason that cooked mucus-free foods are a large part of Ehret’s transitional dieting methodology, or “mucusless diet plan.” In “Lesson 12 Confusion in Dietetics Part 2,” Ehret explains:

At present among the vegetarian health-seekers, “raw-food diet” is in fashion. No doubt it represents great progress, but the arguments are partly wrong and lead to mistaken and fanatic extremes. They claim all cooking destroys food values, but it should be said properly: “Wrong cooking destroys HEALING value qualities (efficiency) of foods and can even cause them to become acid forming.” The “raw food” experts hint on the same wrong stress as all others, i.e., the higher food value. The entire effect or benefit from raw food is the rough fiber of uncooked vegetables which relieves constipation and acts as an ideal “mucus broom” in the intestines. I do not believe that the human body assimilates “food-value vegetables” such as cauliflower, asparagus, turnips, potatoes, or from uncooked cereals. After a certain beneficial mechanical cleansing of the bowels through these raw foods, the one-sided raw-food eater lacks, in fact, the most important food substance, and that is grape or fruit sugar, unless they eat sufficient fruits (Arnold Ehret, Mucusless Diet Healing System, all editions).

Keep in mind, methodologically speaking you should never eat any cooked or mucus-forming foods without a big raw mucus-free combination salad. Without further ado, here is the recipe:

1. Slice the acorn squash.

2. Remove seeds from acorn squash halves.

3. Season to taste. My favorite combination is as follows: Spread a layer of olive oil over skin, add onion/garlic powder, add non-salt Italian or garlic and herb seasoning, fresh dill, chopped onions, chopped celery, chopped green pepper, and minced garlic. Line baking pan with parchment paper. Place squash half face down on parchment-lined baking sheet.  Douse backs of squash with about 3 teaspoons of water. Cover with another piece of parchment paper.

4. Bake in preheated oven at 425 F for about 35 minutes, then turn it over and check tenderness. Leave halves face up and uncovered, and bake for another 10 minutes or until meat inside is very tender when tested with a fork.

5. Remove the acorn squash again. Check tenderness, add additional seasoning or fresh tomato sauce to taste.

Tomato sauce is something that Ehret recommends using as a “gravy” or sauce from time to time. I’ve often used it as a vinegar-free dressing over salads as well.

6. Combine with one of Ehret’s or Spira’s combination salads as a side dish. Eat about 25% of your combination salad, then start to eat combined with your baked squash. If you are still hungry or craving mucus at the end of the meal, toast some 100% grain bread very well and eat it with a bit of nut butter or tomato sauce.

*All images from Prof. Spira’s Mucusless Diet food preparation videos which will be released as a part of his Mucusless Diet Healing System eCourse. 

Mucusless Diet Recipes: Enjoy Your Change of Diet!

Do not overthink the transition diet. I strongly advise that you give Ehret’s methods a try for a period of time without imposing outside concepts or methods that would further narrow your focus and hinder your ability to enjoy your meals. Ehret is not concerned with avoiding “hybrid” foods, he does not find cooked foods to be evil, it is perfectly fine to use selected mucus-forming foods combined properly with raw salads to transition, and Ehret only recommends fasting for short periods of time (1 to 3 days interspersed with mucus-free meals. See Rational Fasting and Mucusless Diet for more on Ehret’s fasting methods). It is true that once you try to combine Ehret’s methods with anti-hybridism and strict rawism, you are left with only a few things to eat. And if you do a long fruit fast and fail, do not blame Ehret’s work. If this happens, you’ve failed to follow his teachings. Stick to and master one system or dietary practice before mixing and matching concepts from philosophies that do not easily synchronize. In closing, Ehret asserts:

I differ from the raw food “fanatics,” because the food value is not important in a diet of healing. It is of more importance that the patient should and shall enjoy his or her change of diet during the transition, until their tastes and conditions have improved (Ehret, Mucusless Diet, all editions).

Enjoy the transformation, and until next time . . .

Peace, Love, and Breath!

Prof. Spira