tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60645267402043830572024-03-05T04:17:38.867-08:00Lovin' Life Raw I'm Sarah Tarrylea, wild and free.
I dream big, laugh a lot and hang out with my three faeries while they unschool me, the natural world nourishing my body, mind and spirit; passionately living, loving and celebrating each moment of every day.
I write, teach and speak my truth to anyone who wants to listen and needs to know my secret of outrageously lovin' life raw, naturally, livin' life more.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11142605815969516904noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064526740204383057.post-11084762119064492782014-08-19T20:51:00.000-07:002014-08-19T20:51:03.959-07:00how to keep sane in maddening, wonder-filled world<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'You'd have to be half mad to dream me up.' </h3>
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... and if one more person tells me we didn't plan the birth days of our children very well, I will shout at the top of my voice "OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!"<br />
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How curious it is that we almost all share the same month to celebrate the day we came to our wonder-full lives. <br />
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How wonder-full that the youngest two share the same celebration, friends, party, celebrating themselves, and that daddy parties on down in the same week too.<br />
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How lucky am I, that I have one week of pure, unadulterated service to my loved ones, celebrating my children and husband. That the rest of life is put on hold while I concentrate my efforts in pure love, intent and purpose, that my whole being is poured into the family mould.<br />
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Divine timing.<br />
Everything happens at the right time.<br />
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A family's celebration in love, wonder and awesomeness.<br />
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My boy showered in love and boats and car cake and berry smoothies and a day just for him, before we moved on to the next day with horses, unicorns, tea party and sleepover, ending the week with a tea party for our very own Mad Hatter, Alice, Doormouse and all our friends.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are!"</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.</span><br />
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Still living without a conventional fridge, the night kitchen being one awesome place to set chocolate and cake icing, the outdoor toilet block being another! meant that everything was made the night before each birthday. </div>
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No worries with regards to burning, sinking or forgetting vital rising ingredients. No cutting into shapes. Just bunging it all together, adding flavours til the taste was filled with wonder and shaping it by hand like putty at your finger tips.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">“Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.”</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland</span></div>
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And the joint celebration being a tea party ... I focused on jam tarts, jam, eat me cookies to get those kids big, drink me kombucha to make e'm small and love heart chocolates to expand their hearts. </div>
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And endless rounds of tea. With locally supplied raw milk! To keep the parents at bay!</div>
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And this year I gifted myself with kindness and let go of the need to do it all. </div>
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I added up the hours prepping, the price of the raw ingredients and saw that in some ares, overall it was madness not to reach out and pay for help.</div>
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And I asked our tea party guests to bring some food for the table. And that alone enabled me to keep a wee bit of sanity in an ever growing mad week.</div>
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And I still find it challenging to take
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Not checking the overload of other peoples schedules
in my inbox, breaking the family routine, not making three meals a
day, every day. Stopping reading, talking, helping someone with
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I find it more manageable to take bite
sizes of time off…like when I’m asleep, or in the shower, or in
the car on my own in between dropping and picking up children from
various playdates, classes and sleepovers. Time off in my books is
the weekly shop without kids, playing on social media, reading a book
on biz, helping a friend in need.<br />
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Taking a day off is the most important
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Yes, I know you’re really, really
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Maybe next week
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I can't possibly take today off because
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I hear
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I’ve been overwhelmed with the
routine and needs of life, family and everything. My creativity has
lain in a crumpled heap alongside the trug of clothes that should’ve
been folded tidily away into drawers sometime last week. My physical
needs have demanded I take some time out as I hammer away at the
keys. My productivity rates slid down the scale as I put myself down
the back alleys of self care, alongside the remains of chaos and
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So, what is it that’s impossible to
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I gifted myself with a day last week. </div>
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My day of work became a day for me. </div>
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I had to be pushed outa the
door…my beloved thought it was the best idea I’d ever had! I got
permission from someone else, and I still had to take the leap of
faith that my life wouldn’t crumble around me while I was looking
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I came back joy-full, free, relaxed and
happy. My head was busting with new ideas for famliy happiness,
business prosperity and solutions to challenges had been answered
while I took myself for a bush whacking exercise into my back yard of
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Sunning myself on the beach, dunking my head under the
waves and giving myself a virtual swim, looking out at the horizon
rewired my neural patterns, put life into perspective, gave me back
my freedom and perspective on life, the universe and everything.
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And taking advantage of losing power at
home during a weekend rainstorm, therefore loosing the ability to
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I've fallen off the wagon.</h3>
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It didn't take me long!<br />
In fact, I hadn't even started my month's green smoothie fast yesterday, when I threw a hand-full of brazils into my wide open yawning mouth ... at seven in the morning, while trying to light the fire with sodden wood.<br />
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I was very excited that now my baby of nearly three years has pretty much weaned himself off his mama's living milk. I was gonna be able to clean myself out in the first week of my new year.<br />
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Who was I trying to kid!<br />
Not thinking through this idea, looking at what I was devouring and when and why ... just throwing myself whole heartedly into fasting without a thought was probably not the best of ideas to get started.<br />
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No plan</div>
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No willpower!</div>
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Just a half hearted attempt at feeling lighter, cleaner and gifting myself with a boost of love.<br />
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Why the fast?<br />
I've unintentionally put on weight. Quite a lot actually.<br />
I'm beginning to wear those winter hide-me-away clothes again.<br />
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Then there's my eldest's beauty-full comment on my birthday. She loves me coz i feel like sloppy porridge.<br />
YEEK!<br />
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I feel slower, lower energy, heavy and lacking some of the unlimited energy that I usually bound with.<br />
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And then there's the photos of me splashing in the ocean in my birthday suit! My daughters lithe bodies in contrast of my own beauty-full voluptuous body highlighted at last what I already new.<br />
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I'm getting fat.<br />
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And the reason for gaining unwanted fat's no rocket science.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Too much fat </span></div>
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Too much sugar</div>
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Too many calories</div>
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Not enough water</div>
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Lacking in exercise</div>
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Not enough sleep</div>
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Incorrect balance in life</div>
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I had a giggle about binging on nuts so early in the morning ... and if that's how bad it got, what's the problem?<br />
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Of course, there's no problem..I just don't feel comfortable at the excess weight that's been creeping on since I changed my life, going off grid, relying on too little solar power to keep me turbo charged through the colder days.<br />
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The dehydrator that we used to rely on in the winter months to conveniently consume our days worth of seeds and nuts in handy pack-'em-up sized pizza bread, crackers and chips, and the fridge that we lack to conveniently store pre-made meals has meant that although we've been eating fresher and lighter meals, mainly in the form of salads, I've not been sprouting grains, seeds and legumes as much, and have been lavishly filling up instead with dried fruits, nuts and generous helpings of avocado, chocolate and coconut oil.<br />
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It's like it's Christmas binging every day!</div>
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Lacking solar power as the sky dumps blankets of rain on us, means more than the garden of greens resting in hibernation. Without enough electricity to keep a dehydrator bangin' out health-full staples, I've been grabbing food in it's natural state and relying on dried staples to fulfil all of my emotional and physical needs ... which has created a platform of addiction to sugars and fats.<br />
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A house that can get unbearably cold due to lack of insulation and sodden clay beneath our wooden stilted floors, means that my body has started to insulate itself.<br />
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And again, none of this is a biggie.<br />
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To convert this given energy into a state of a highly functioning body, I just need to up my exercise regime.<br />
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Into maybe a marathon a week at current gorging.<br />
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Obviously walking up and down the hill is not raising my heart beat enough to use the excess calories that I'm feeding myself these days. So, I've either gotta find some time to raise my heart beat tenfold, or I gotta cut down on the sugars and fats.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Fat loves to snuggle up to the sugar, where it stores it for later, rather than converting it into super fuel glucose.</span></h3>
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So, here's my updated plan.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Run to my new Creative Space via the beach</span></span></div>
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Chop wood, collect kindling, run and play more outside with the kids, creating warmth from the inside out.</div>
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Stick to a handful of nuts and seeds each day</div>
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Fill up with super green smoothies</div>
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Limit myself to one avocado per day</div>
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Eat two main green salads, brimming with sprouts</div>
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Get some more sleep<br />
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Don't get fooled into thinking that eating health-fully will keep you in tiptoptastic condition.<br />
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Keep an eye on what you're consuming and when and why. Empowering ourselves with the knowledge that food is energy utilised to get us from A-Z, revitalising, repairing and rejuvenating our bodies and mind, helps us power our life and gets us naturally, living life more. <br />
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It doesn't matter whether you're on the healthiest lifestyle or hammering the middle aisles of the superstore ... if you don't get a good balance, then somethings gotta give.<br />
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Listening to my inner voice and trusting that internal guidance has taken me over the stepping stones of my life, leading me to my dreams and beyond into life that is yet to be realised. </div>
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I love food. </div>
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Food has been a constant source of inspiration, well being (emotionally if not physically!) and a way of showing my love to those around me.</div>
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In the early days though, I had to delve deep into faith and know that all would be well when, due to various self-destructive motivations, my body began to fall apart.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">I</span>nstead, I carried on to near collapse. </div>
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It took a long time to realise and react. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Becoming physically exhausted and unable to mentally stabilise, my body began to react strongly to most food types. With help from professionals, I was pulled apart from my beloved food and reintroduced to it over a period of two years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A decade later, I feel two decades younger, have gained a new body and have healed at a higher level.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I'm now able to nourish people with love through foods I know are the best the planet has to offer. Healing and empowering not only loved ones, but supporting and awakening the spirit within, sustaining our planet, celebrating our aliveness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accessing supersonic powers through supersonic foods is something to be grateful for daily, and the longer you implement it in your lifestyle, the more you will want it in your life.</span></div>
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Admittedly, the fire’s on indoors, gently keeping the hot water tank full, and at the ready to take off Jack Frosts icy touch in the morning.</div>
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Beach fires have been lit and friends gather as the sun lays its’ head behind the ranges of the national park. Children flit about burning bare bottoms with sand slides and the elders swap their weekly chatter and philosophise over Matariki, super-full moons and the footy.</div>
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Blankets, mead, music and love. And feast on familiar hearty foods. </div>
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Wracking my brain for a raw dish to share with fellow foodies is not on my list of priorities. Gathering beach clodder and having a fun day at the local markets, eating lunch al fresco is.<br />
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A fervoured cooked dish used to be refried beans. Easy to whip together, nourishing, adored by all. </div>
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No- fried beans with salsa, guacamole and raw chips. Fire fodder whipped up in under half an hour. </div>
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My husband and I pass cacao beans to one another in sultry corners looking for a hit that alcohol used to get a glint of. Feeling high, full of clarity and stoked for being alive, our inner fires burn strong with a power previously unmatched.</div>
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Children glowing with orange flames highlighted on rudded cheeks huddle around the roaring fire, toasting sticky marshmallows on bits of driftwood. My girls join them with bare sticks, embracing the warmth and light that welcomes them into the circle. </div>
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Ecstactically they gobble up shop-bought raw chocolate macaroons, a wicked delicacy saved for such occasions. Sadly, not enough to share around, my homemade treats of cacao and bee pollen are snaffled up, reminding us of the summer days that lie ahead. </div>
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Opening up the thermos, my beloved and I temporarily connect and wrap our chilled hands around a cup of raw hot chocolate, sensationally spiked with chilli and ginger. </div>
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We delight in the connection to the Aztecs, the Divine and ourselves as we speak of love and connectedness in our life.</div>
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1/ Pop seeds (saving a handful to add to mix at the end) and tomatoes into the food processor and mix until a mushed-up mash.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life’s our choice. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s up to us how we feel, where we go and who we choose to share it with. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My beloved and I have recently made huge choices to create a life that we wanted to live. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that meant leaving loved ones, a family home, a country, a hemisphere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In short, we left one life to create another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know without doubt that our raw food lifestyle enabled us to do this. Lifting us up instead of keeping us down, making us feel lighter, happier, clearer about stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stopped stuffing down our emotions, let them rip forth and dealt with the rubbish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn’t that pretty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some people say that it’s OK for us, it comes easy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some say we’re lucky, they don’t have that opportunity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I say whatever you want, you go and get it as no-one else can do it for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The choices we make of which foods we put in our bodies sets the basis for our physical, mental and spiritual health. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life’s challenging and faced with huge needs from our family, work and our high expectations of ourselves… the big D crept in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sign from our bodies that we needed to make better choices about our life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I switched to a high raw vegan diet, my overwhelming moods that would flip around depending on the season, stress load, financial, relationship, work loads levelled out to a happily harmonious go-getting mood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was over getting sick and tired of not living the dream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Depression is both emotional and physiological and many of the vitamins that support serotonin production and nerve health aren’t things we usually get enough of eating the SAD (Standard American Diet) way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cooked foods are addictive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sugar, wheat, caffeine, food additives, bad fats, animal products and microwaved foods…all dressed up in fancy foil, easy to eat, on the go, buy it now product. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets us be continuously on the move without much thought for what’s going on inside our living, breathing machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Minerals and enzymes are the essence of life and they’re found in uncooked plants… fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cacao beans seductively stack up on the mineral content unlike anything else in the world. With the highest natural source of magnesium, chromium, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, vitamin C and antioxidants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not to mention that cacao is a mood elevator.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It stimulates the release of endorphins in your brain which in turn make you happy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wahoo! It’s OK to reach out for chocolate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drinking plenty of live, pure water and getting lots of plant based Omega 3 and 6 fats are essential to healthy brain nutrition. These good oils and fats also make our skin beautiful and healthy, so even if I’m having a less than bouncy day, I can still feel radiant! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eating two avocados a day and making room for flax and hemp seeds, sunflower, sesame and pumpkin seeds, raw soaked nuts, dark green veggies and cold pressed organic oils…alongside friendly bacteria found in fermented foods, it’s pretty hard to squeeze anything less than healthy in a day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we stop stuffing our bellies full, allowing our bodies to balance physically, mentally and spiritually, our choices come positively easy peasy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we get out of balance that’s when it often becomes hard to see the right choice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, slowly and surely allowing small changes in our diet leads us back to happiness, health, vitality and balance…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now, that’s a choice dream worth living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life’s a Choice…Shake it Up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 tbsp cacao powder</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 tbsp maca powder</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sm handful dark leafy greens; spinach, kale, dandelion leaves</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/ Pop all the ingredients into your blender and shake ‘em up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2/ Choose a happy friend, fill two glasses, drink and elevate your day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LoveLifeRaw Chocolate Workshop. Sunday 26th August. 10am-12 midday. Takaka. For info and bookings please contact Sarah on 525 9102.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>martine says: August 13, 2012 at 9:57 pm go gorgeous divine goddess – you are so good at this! I’m inspired by your passion for what you are doing – you and your family literally ‘glow’ from the inside out with the life-giving food you are eating. looooovvved the raw carrot cake on the beach… m x GD Star Rating</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tania says: August 14, 2012 at 10:27 am I wholeheartedly agree with all you have written Sarah. Martine is right “you all glow”!! happy shiney peoples xxxxx GD Star Rating</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Janet says: August 14, 2012 at 2:34 pm I made raw chocolate with toasted nuts for one of our guests with a special diet. So your recipe is on the menu in Alaska! GD Star Rating</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sarah says: August 16, 2012 at 10:28 pm woweeee! what beauty i have in my life…thank you for such deliciousness in your kind words…raw choccies all around!! GD Star Rating</span><br />
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The decidious trees are hitting the limelight with technicolour dream coats, snow has touched the mountain tops and although enjoying an indian summer, the hours that snuggle close to the darkness tempt us to light the fire.</div>
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I’m getting alot of folk asking, ‘How do you do it? I couldn’t eat salads all winter…my body needs cooked food.’ </div>
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There’s a misconception about raw foods having to be cold.</div>
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In fact, alot of our food is warm, either through gently heating or adding spice. </div>
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When food is cooked, it’s boiled, fried, and roasted until it’s so hot, we have to wait until the meal is cool enough to stop burning the skin from the roof of our mouths! Preparing raw and gently heating, we get close to the same temperature, the bonus being we get to keep all the good stuff.<br />
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I heat my food between 105-115 degrees in order to preserve the life-giving properties, when the food’s warm to touch, then it’s ready to go. </div>
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The girls are getting excited now the nights draw in. It’s a cue to getting porridge and spiced juices in the mornings.</div>
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When starting a raw food diet, it’s natural to release toxins making you feel colder and tempting you to slide back to previous undesirable eating habits. </div>
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Your body temperature drops and it can take time to get used to. When eating this way, your arteries clear up and your circulation improves. You only need to look at how liberated young children are in their birthday suits, even in the winter months!</div>
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I love finding ways of warming meals. One of our cake making rituals is to dance. The cake goes in the freezer to set, we do the cacao dance, when we finish…we are flushed and the cake is ready to gobble up!</div>
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Another way to stoke your inner fire is to use spices. Ginger, cayenne, curry, cumin, cinnamon, cardamon, cloves and chilli are beautifully warming. Adding these to sauces with soaked seeds or nuts will jazz up your salad. Another sure-fire way to glow.</div>
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We gently heat our raw soups or nut milks in a pan on the stove until warm to touch but you could just as easily pour into a preserving jar and steep in hot water. I blend my vegetables and add nearly boiling water to make soup. In the same vein, for our sprouted buckwheat porridge I also add spice and seeds for extra oomph! </div>
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I warm up the bowls by soaking them in hot water.</div>
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The gradual journey to colder months gives me a yearning for snuggling indoors in front of the fire, playing board games and drinking spiced teas and kambucha ginger beer. Outdoor exercise is also a great way to keep our internal heating system going and the house is deliciously warm after a brisk afternoon walk and a treat of a ‘hot’ chocolate.</div>
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Celebrated raw vegan, physician, nutritionist and scientist Gabriel Cousins conducted a study on the continued success of Alaskan raw vegans. One of their answers was to pop cayenne pepper in their socks! A whopping 95% of these guys triumphed in keeping raw throughout the year. </div>
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Now, I’m not suggesting that this is the answer…a hot water bottle may just do the trick…but knowing that they could do it sure gives the winter clouds a rainbow glow.</div>
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<li style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #313228; font-size: 14px;"><b>shannon</b></span> says: <br />
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</span>Is a kambucha ginger beer recipe possible please?Ta<br /><span style="color: #313228; font-size: 14px;"><b>b</b></span> says: </li>
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<a href="http://happyzine.co.nz/2012/05/06/warming-up-with-raw-food-creamy-orange-and-cardamon-soup-by-sarah-lea/comment-page-1/#comment-45212"><span style="font-size: 10px;">May 8, 2012 at 1:09 pm</span></a><span style="font-size: 10px;"> <br />
</span>yumo!<br />
i experimented with raw food for the month of january and LOVED it. i continue to dip my toes in and eat a high raw diet but didn’t manage to convert my family… yummy recipes, though, where you don’t actually notice that the food hasn’t been cooked, are the way forward: smuggle the goodness in!<br />
thanks for the inspirational recipe~ winter’s going to be superhealthy!<br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #313228; font-size: 14px;"><b>sarah</b></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> says: </span></span></li>
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</span>Hi Shannon,<br />
I am currently writing an ebook with lots of yummy easy to put together recipes…kambucha ginger beer will be in there just for you xxxx<br />
and hello to b, i would love to hear how you go with your journey! winter is a challenging time to start raw foods, but keepig up with spices and soups ad blending these in with regular meals will make you feel great!<br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #313228; font-size: 14px;"><b>Caro</b></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> says: </span></span></li>
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</span>yum….quick need to find some avocado, want this soup NOW<br />
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</span>caro…if you come over i will whizz it up…made a awesome barbeque tomato soup yesterday…YUM!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fruit's dripping off the trees, and our senses are hammered with the overflowing flavours of our labour. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dehydrator is at full whack and I am eternally thank-full for my fruit flies who know what to do with the produce that hangs out waiting to be stored for the winter months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feijoa juice clings to salty skin, figs tossed down whole. Pears, zuchinis, tomatoes, sapote and apples have little chance to be hangin' out together in storeage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bellys rubbed, jiggled and juggled to squeeze in a wee bit more. Tanks topped up for nut foraging expeditions, my four year old's turned squirrel as she disappears into the trees and buries her treasure for another day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Squeezing everything into a day is a mission. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life's full, fast and fun....and sticky! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there's the need to be flexible when I'm hangin' out with my children all day. So, I watch and learn and have my fill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We eat more than we come home with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only time of the year I have no worries about over eating! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagining our bellies as pantries, and trusting the innate wisdom of ourselves, we gorge, suck and guzzle sun ripened vitamins, anti oxidants and minerals, preparing our bodies for hibernation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making the most of the waning sun-fuelled days, we leave the indoors behind and head to the beach. Stripping naked and drenching our skin in Vitamin D, bathing in the pools of mirrors and floppin' ourselves on shell encrusted rocks, we hang out like seals, with nothing particular to do but be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as night fall always comes sooner than expected, three tired children walk home with mama; starving, needing, aching for food. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As long as these tortillas are slowly drying out,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I never need to think ahead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And whatever flavour the tortilla oozes, reflects the choice of filling. Burrito style, apple puree filled crepes, pate, full-afels, raw hummus, burgers, sprouts or plain avocado... throwing in whatever you have an abundance of ... tea is only five minutes away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I like to make apple cinnamon wraps folded like a cone and fill with icecream!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1/ Assemble all the above ingredients inside the courgette tortilla and wrap it up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2/ Hand to the first in the queue as you get on with making more!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Not just for children, I've seen many a grown up digging deep into the belly of this magnificent fruit, drifting off into the moment, as they carve their dreams into the surface of the lantern. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">If you're into eating the flesh of jack, then know that your skin will be joyfully radiating life back to you. Vitamins A and C help reduce the signs of </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">ageing whilst the potassium supports our nervous system; calming anxiety, stress and blood pressure, strengthening our </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">muscles and energy. Zinc turbo boosts our immune system ...Scaring the ghouls right outa our body!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">And with the sultry sun slinking off back to the northern lands, heating up our meals with spices that enhance the comforting properties of a pumpkin, warm our bellies and souls.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br />1/ Juice the pumpkin in your juicer </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br />1/ Mix the pumpkin and coconut water in a food processor until smooth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">3/ Add dates and spices, and whizz some more.<br />4/ Pour the pumpkin mix on top of the pie crust, spread evenly and chill in the fridge for several hours before serving.</span><br />
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Not needing any other prompting, I can find a celebration cake for any day of the week... happy monday cake, happy outa work cake, happy pay day cake. And it doesn't have to be chocolate. But it always helps!<br />
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Extending the festivities to prompt your busy minds eye that you are worth the ceremonial worship.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Celebrating Autumn with Easter festivities hurts my brain.<br />Easter is a Christian celebration, celebrating the rebirth of the Messiah. Oestre or Ishtar is the pagan celebration of the feminine and fertility and the coming light.</span></h3>
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So why, down south, do we celebrate Easter in the Autumn when everything around us is decaying, the mornings and nights are magnetised to one another and we are reaching out towards our gum boots, jumpers and fires?<br />
I'm pulled to carve out a pumpkin. Or at least to make mini chocolate mushrooms!<br />
Who wants to celebrate life by eating an egg anyhow?<br />
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My eldest today asked why there was a chick on her easter card. My head ties itself in knots trying to work out a solution. It's bad enough not eating sugar, dairy and cooked chocolate without thinking about the politics of the occasion.<br />
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So, starting the day with a perky slice of pollen nation cake and a large glass full of easter bunny's surprise, (read dandelions), we charged full power into the day and held onto the belief that it would all work out.<br />
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Looks as if we have the faeries back again, as a large bag of chocolate walnuts were left at the door. Beautiful handmade vintage hot water bottle covers stuffed with fruit leathers were handed out with a promise of an easter hunt by the end of the day.<br />
On our walk round the garden plucking bursting bombs of nutrition from our laden grapevines, filling our skirts full of windfall heritage apples and layin' hands on velvety white mushrooms tucked in under the grass nestled against the knarled bodies of trees, we selected our lunch and ate on the run.<br />
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Hunt the easter walnuts kept us busy for the next half an hour. Rummaging around underneath the historic cathedral of branches overhead, we lost the baby in the weeds, spotted a couple of eels in the creek and checked out Ratty's pantry stocked chocker full of our prized nut. Stuffing our bags full of autumns gift, we relished our hunt for these nuggets of brain power, lovin' that they resembled armoured easter eggs hiding in the long grass.<br />
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Heading to our temple of moss covered rocks covering lichen laden trees, we left easter origami bags of nuts, grapes and apples in gratitude to the faery folk of the rata forest. The girls knelt down in reverence in the clear waters of the magical creek and laid their offerings upon their chosen shrine, the old arm of a tree; broken, water logged and waiting for a new direction in life.<br />
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But still it was not enough.<br />
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While the children babbled and paddled in the shower after a salty run on the beach, mama hid the chocolate eggs she'd made the night before easter around the kitchen garden. Squeals of delight with three little bedtime fairies snaffling up silver wrapped miniature eggs, coating their squeaky clean skin with layers of mud, cacao, tomatoes and berries, the great easter tradition of huntin' out the eggs was complete.<br />
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Smiling, sleeping faces with cacao streaked hair beckoned me tonight into the darkened rooms of autumn, sanctuaries of childhood dreams and memories.<br />
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2/3 cup coconut oil, gently melted<br />
1/3 cup cacao butter, gently melted<br />
1/4 cup cacao powder<br />
2/3 cup lucuma<br />
2 tbsp maca<br />
pinch of pink salt<br />
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1/ mix all ingredients except walnuts, together well with love and great intentions<br />
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5/ empty chocolates out of the moulds and stick two halves together with leftover cacao mix<br />
6/ sit next to the fire with a cuppa chocolate and snaffle 'em all up!<br />
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The non-stop media chatter about cows and the amount of methane they produced, brought the word flatulence to our family table</div>
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On the other hand, as my eldest struggles with becoming aware of who she is, the laughter subsides and embarrassment creeps in.<br />
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Looking closer to our plant eating friends chewing the cud, gave us an insight into what’s missing in our fast forwarded lives.<br />
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When I started my journey, my body talked to me in more ways than one.<br />
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Inner rumblings, gargles and explosive, volatile interruptions joined my bloated tummy in either waiting and waiting and waiting in constipation or had me leaping for a toilet bowl straight off the starting block.<br />
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Fermenting my foods took on another meaning as gasses built up inside and increased as I fumbled around confused and embarrassed.<br />
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It’s been interesting to watch how, when and which foods combined, produce gassy guts, as even my children who’ve been built on a predominantly raw diet, get a bout of blowing bubbles from time to time.<br />
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Water, crucial to all moving bodies, helps eliminate in digestive matter and toxins.<br />
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Chewing, chewing, chewing all foods, green salads masticated until pulped, and even chewing our smoothies, allows digestive juices to be properly released fulfilling the digestive process.<br />
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Nuts and seeds which had never been a large part of my diet, taxed my under-used system in the early days, my liver and gall bladder not working at their optimal levels.<br />
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By adding ground flax to biscuits, salads and cereals, I slowly added a gentle fibre that eased old matter outa my body.<br />
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However, I do remember the early days of transitioning to a raw food diet. </div>
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There were times when detoxifying felt less than amazing! </div>
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The way I changed over was to slowly incorporate more raw foods into my daily diet while I eliminated highly processed foods such as coffee, dairy, fried foods and refined flours.</div>
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I started with a fruit and vegetable juice in the mornings, ensuring that there were plenty of greens.<br />
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Cleansing, hydrating and light this ensured that my body was able to continue the detox that it had been working on while I slept. </div>
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In the earlier days I created sumptiously lip smacking fruit salads that allowed my brain to feel full. With seeds and nuts scattered over the top I felt less deprived! </div>
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This made an enormous difference and I felt my health and energy leap forward.</div>
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When I finally met my raw food angel, I felt myself metamorphosise.<br />
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Meeting once a week at a local homeschool group allowed us to share scrumptious lunches, recipes, books and publications from a world different from the one we walked with others.<br />
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A couple of days before our coming together, time was well spent in preparing sumptuous banquets for each other, creating new recipes that kept us on our chosen paths throughout the week.<br />
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Spreading our delectable goodies in picnic fashion would get others excited, watching what we’d brought to the table, and we’d share love, inspiration and nibbles with curious friends. Children loved eating from our plates and so, through our friendships, we were able to support others in health-full eating choices too.</div>
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Arriving home well satiated with a nutrient full tummy and a clear connected mind, dinner would be swapped leftovers from our feast, and would often see us right for another couple of days.<br />
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New inspiring recipes, books and tribulations to share, bolstered up with honest musings over long telephone calls in times of need allowed us to be honest and supportive to one another.<br />
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My friend and I shared an important time together and I miss our well trodden path of love.</h4>
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Yesterday, a tribe of health-full souls came together in a circle of support, as a raw food gathering connected the dots.<br />
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Holding an ‘Introduction to Raw Foods’ presentation at my home of retreat introduced more than a new way of living. Throwing a lifebelt to some, new ideas at others, what they all walked away with was friends that met at the same cross roads, a support network to bounce ideas off, evenings of inspiration to come and a library of books to devour.<br />
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Grabbing a friend to feast with on your journey is a sure fire way to fill up with valuable nutrients.</div>
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Fridays here in the bay are abundance days and I open and close my store cupboard doors in delight, captivated by a vast array of greens jostling on the shelves, lovingly gathered from friends luscious veggie gardens.<br />
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‘Pick me! Pick me!’ scream out overflowing fruit bowls, seasonal fruits bought from the local market stall.<br />
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We savour the Charlie Bucket feeling by limiting ourselves to one chocolate a day.<br />
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Buying too many avocados from the market stall, ensures a glut at the end of the week where the girls delight in raw chocolate mousse for breakfast, whilst brownies and biscuits get iced and chocolate icecream joins the party in the freezer.<br />
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Sprouts are a great lesson for the girls who delight in watching the quick growth of seed to plant.<br />
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Lightly oiled, spiced and dehydrated, my three year old devours these powerhouses of nutrition while the fresh sprouts that line my windowsill fill salads and smoothies during the week.<br />
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And when the purse strings get pulled tighter, I bring my princesses into the kitchen and make dehydrated sprouted breads, crackers, biscuits, cakes, nut butters and chocolates. <br />
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Whether walking in the fields, woods, the beach or our garden, we fill our pockets full of yummy foraged, wild foods.<br />
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Eating raw, fresh foods for optimum health is my household priority and it’s where I channel any extra income into. Knowing that investing in raw foods invests in me, I ask for specialist raw food kitchen equipment and ingredients like blue green algae, spirulina or cacao for birthday and christmas presents.<br />
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(Remember that when you buy more raw food, you are also buying less processed and packaged goods. You will spend more on raw fruits, veggies and superfoods but you will then see that you have a decreasing need for expensive “vices”.<br />
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</span>Sarah Lea, I so love reading your pieces! Your writing is infused with such style, and such energy!! You really inspire me to go raw, through the passion and eloquence with which you write about your own family’s journey. Your kids are so lucky to be getting the nutrition and life lessons you are so willing to share. Thanks so much for your passion and positivity!<br /></li>
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</span>Christa, I am so happy to be the inspiration and will continue to clear the way and show how easy it is…<br />
To Lou, thanking you for your awesome feedback.It is so wonderful to hear that I am helping others to make positive life changes. I had no-one to help me when i went raw and it seemed such an extreme thing to do, I wish I’d had the support that I am able to give through sharing my journey … blessings on your day sx</li>
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I‘ve lovingly made raw jams in minutes for mamas morning croissant that knocks the socks off the girls porridge at breakfast, and a decadently rich raw curry was devoured by all last night, with rice on the side for mama.<br />
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Everyone gets something they want, and all benefit from the healthy options.<br />
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I always pop a green salad with a delicious dressing in a fancy bottle on the table and when guests are here we always get a pudding, the recipe finding a new home!<br />
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When dining with meat eaters, I love to make a raw sauce, or dehydrated veggies in a Chinese dressing, coat steamed potatoes in a wild pesto and fill baked sweet potatoes with mouth watering nut mayonnaises.<br />
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Eating out has given my mama more of a choice in her food world, and she’s delighted in local whitebait, eggs and seafood … keeping my conscience clean and kitchen simple.</div>
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Sharing meals that have been lovingly prepared by others, I call ahead and ask what I can bring that will compliment the table, ensuring that I can eat alongside friends and they can try something different with their meal.</h4>
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Eating in the real world, outside of our family bubble doesn’t mean more work or social exclusion. <br />
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Far from it.<br />
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People are usually intrigued and once they know that I’m are not forcing my lifestyle on them, sweet treats, ice creams, snacks and mains are usually hoovered up at alarming speeds!</div>
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My beloved was a meat and potato kinda guy once upon a time …<br />
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ow he’s high raw and loving the benefits.<br />
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It’s been a bumpy ride, but a life changing journey worthy of the adventure.<br />
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And now, instead of cooking a family meal and me sharing the salad, I feed all as one, and keep quiet about what’s lurking in the luscious pudding!</div>
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1/ Pop peeled, cut up bananas in the freezer for 24 hours (I keep a supply in there!)</div>
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3/ Add the extract and chocolate, spoon into bowls and hand around to smiley faces.</div>
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ps/ Shouting out loud to everyone on the homefront was my way to announce that I was gonna go raw but it’s not not necessarily the right way. I’ve been through so many different journeys with food and have generally taken this option, feeling that if everyone in my life knows … including the local grocer, then I‘ll stick to my new eating plan! However, unlike vegetarianism, gluten freeism and dairy freeism, most people look at you like you’re talking martian or the very least, you’ve gone<br />
temporarily insane when you mention raw foods! It’s not that it’s that weird, but it was hard for my loved ones to get their heads around what this meant for them! We are survivalists and if you‘re chief feeder at your zoo, you may see some heads in the sand, as imaginations are tuned in to rabbit food, hungry tummys and sacred takeouts in front of the telly denied.</div>
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</span>Love all this great information, its helps me on my <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/raw-food-diet8"><span style="color: black;">Raw Food Diet Plan</span></a>.<br />
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</span>I loved your food, Sarah – not the least because it was lovingly prepared. Raw veggie burgers also went down a treat – along with the yummy chocolate cake. On the scales when I resurfaced back in England – and I’ve lost weight – feel much brighter too<br />
…. added bonus!<br />
Thank you<br />
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Mum xxxxxxx</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11142605815969516904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064526740204383057.post-49607429834723722352013-01-02T17:37:00.004-08:002013-06-25T01:57:23.644-07:00tools of the trade<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #505050;">I swing a stocking around my head when I wake and stroke my blender with love and whisper sweet nothings to it every morning.</span></span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I thank it for pre-digesting my food for me and for not conking out just yet. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People get very excited about equipment needed in a raw food kitchen.<span style="color: #505050;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buzz words are handed around such as vita-mix, green power kempo and excalibur.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #505050;">They are exciting words.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;">I particulary love vitamix. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;">And I look forward to using it in my kitchen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s just that I am still loving my freebie blender from the dump; with one shorn off blade leaving three still intact, Philips home blender.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;">I get told by people that the reason they aren’t going raw is because the equipment’s too costly. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;">It really doesn’t need to be so.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think for the first few months of experimenting, you can probably beg, borrow and get free from the tip, most equipment you need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Vita-mix by the way, is a turbo powered blender with enough horse power in it to make juice out of a brick! </span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the lifetime that it’s fancy price tag will give you, you could pulverise your home! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only does it perform virtually every food prep task you can imagine, but it increases bioavailability, meaning your body is able to absorb more nutrients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But still not a have-to-have when you are first starting out experimenting with raw foods.</span><br />
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A juicer’s great. </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, you can find these anywhere these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I often see them at our local tip … but I bet you can find one lurking unloved at the back of someone’s well intended and stocked graveyard-kitchen-appliance cupboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use a Champion juicer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Extremely efficient and can make nut butters and ice creams too! But I also have a basic Philips centrifugal juicer which is super speedy… even if it doesn’t keep all the nutrients in tact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bottom line in the early days is that it gets you drinking freshly prepared juices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />The Excalibur is a raw foody’s low-temperature oven. </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It slowly ‘bakes’ food without killing vital enzymes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Biscuits, breads, pizzas, cakes and crackers keep you sane in the early days of transitioning, giving you the crunchy bite that cooked food has delighted us with…it took me two years to finally get one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, there are cheaper brands available…or use your conventional oven on the lowest setting and leave the door slightly open for similar results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The more powerful the better, simplifying your time in the kitchen, enabling you to spend more time playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a couple of sharp knives,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a mandoline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">silicone spoons, measuring cups and teaspoons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a sturdy chopping board</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some jam jars</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will save you money from the Super Gadgets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loving life with raw, living foods is about keeping it simple and hassle free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look to your kitchen and make it work for you … however much you think that Vita-mix will change your life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ps/ A stocking can transform into an instant sprouter or enable you to get milk from a nut. It also keeps grannies feet warm! but nut milk bags, jam jars and sprouting trays are a better way to go!</span></div>
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Getting edgy, mild panic palpitations and a crazed glint in the eye… thoughts about my food stash and where my next hit was coming from.<br />
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Maybe from something to make it all better. <br />
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Definitely playing snakes and ladders that’d take me right back to the beginning!</div>
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When I started to eliminate foods that I knew were doing me no favours, I was surprised at the ferocity of my denial. With my body’s demands and my monkey brain giving the chatter, it took a couple of focused weeks to get myself under control.<br />
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The body’s a master at chucking out the crap that we put in.<br />
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Eliminating toxins is the livers job and they usually exit the body in bowel movements or through the skin’s pores. <br />
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Spring cleaning my body the first time was an evolutionary revelation, decluttering me of unnecessary stuff that I’d held onto for years, helping me to shine my light.<br />
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I thought myself as being health-full and was surprised at the truth.<br />
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Headaches, drowsiness, irritability, congestion, insomnia and stomach bloating had me worrying about chronic fatigue symptoms returning, a bug picked up or worse, some terrible fatal disease yet unknown by medical establishments.<br />
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In the early days, if anything ever got too intense, I gently added something back to my diet that I’d taken out.<br />
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This not only fed me emotionally, but got me through some testing times.<br />
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Over time I found supporting my body with hydrocolon therapy and dry skin brushing stopped the need for excuses in continuing the yo-yo effect of returning to toxic foods.</div>
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Wanting the immediate effects that I’d read about; weight loss, sparkling eyes, radiant skin, emotional stability, increased energy and mental clarity, I became frustrated that maybe this wasn’t the route after all, that somehow I was different.<br />
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In reality, I needed to slow down and allow my body to gently wake up to the new me.<br />
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Gradually, as the weeks turned into months, I remember the light bulb moment when I saw my clothes were hanging off me and that I’d accomplished a long time goal.<br />
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The raw food diet will start the elimination of toxic waste at the cellular level. Our body gets rid of everything that it has no use for and works on dissolving tumours, ulcers, abscesses and cancerous growths. On this journey of self healing, deep seated diseases you weren’t aware of having might surface, physically in the form of fever, skin eruptions or nausea or emotionally in dreams, mood swings and irratibility.<br />
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Eventually I gave in to my body, and do so more now than ever. When I’ve pushed myself too far, I treat myself with time out, an early night or even better a night off!<br />
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<a href="http://happyzine.co.nz/2012/12/01/raw-detoxing-with-raw-foodie-sarah-lea/comment-page-1/#comment-100687">December 26, 2012 at 9:55 am</a></div>
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Glad I found this article. I am about to start a plant based diet called the E2 Diet…..written by an Austin, Texas Fireman/Triathlon. Like you I will be ridding my body of all the gunk I have been putting into it and just eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds for 28 days to start off with. So it’s interesting to read your article and prepare myself for what I might encounter in this cleansing. Thank you for sharing.</div>
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Birthday season is officially over. In my family’s nest that is. Party number five done and dusted, with a very happy seven year old as an outcome. Over the course of two days I’ve managed to cut two decadently delicious raw chocolate brownie cakes into enough squares to feed over 50 drooling devotees! What a happy bunch they were too. We’re blessed to have such wonder-full friends who are willing to forgo dairy, wheat and sugar to join in on our celebrations!</div>
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And an amazing organic shop who not only supplies the raw ingredients to create such divine treats, but also sells tantalizing temptation take-outs such as raw pumpkin pie, key lime tart and purple guava cheesecake that we eagerly snaffled away to the playground and gorged on a deliciously impromptu picnic lunch while the children let their energy rip round the park.</div>
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That and a handful of sprouts with a couple of carrots eaten on the run was all that was needed to get us to the beach. Galloping after a pony and cart five kms to the sandy arena, I relished the thought of the amazing energy reserves my body was gifted at lunch. With my two girls in the cart and my husband and baby in the car, I allowed my wings to lift me free of daily restraints as Moonbeam trotted ahead on the sand and kicked up the streams of water, whinnying in excitement at his raw lunch … a couple of gifted apples and a garden of lush green Spring grass.</div>
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It was awe inspiring waiting on ten princesses at the royal banquet the following day. Crystal glasses filled with pink kombucha clinked and sloshed as the birthday girl was blessed by her friends in honour of her seventh year. Parents happily became waiters and bus boys as we held our breath. The dining room filled with classical music kept the girls in a dreamlike trance … fully living the dream of a makeover princess party.</div>
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With tiaras freshly created perched on their silken heads, they were served fruits and vegetables in all manners of pre-prepared guises. Healthy and enticing raw finger foods interspersed by candlelight and the sweet essence of jasmine ensured that the royal guests were able to choose what they wanted, keeping bellies full for play and leaving little untouched. Round after round of raw delicacies were brought to the table to be devoured. The finale, a cake stand full of simple dried mango strips dipped in raw chocolate, buck-crispy cakes, jellies and pineapple wedges. The parents could hardly believe the attentiveness, the silence and the beauty of the performance. Leaving sugar highs and lows for another day, they took what they needed leaving their parents to swoop in grazing on the left over cake!</div>
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2/ Pop the lucuma and cacao into a large bowl and add the coconut oil. Mix well until smooth</div>
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Cram into your mouth and let nostalgia slip into your body.</div>
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ps/ Children may be overfed with things that make them lose completely their healthy instinct for food, whereas by giving them the proper nourishment, the instinct can be preserved so that they always want what is wholesome for them under the circumstances.” ~Rudolf Steiner</div>
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With three Leos on board, our Golden Bay whanau have delighted us by celebrating a first, a fourth and a 38th birthday this last week.<br />
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Watching the children surge forward and grab hand-fulls of raw plant matter made my heart swell…and this was before they saw the dessert selection!<br />
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A table full of dishes dedicated to honouring the seasonal garden was licked clean.<br />
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Seaweed crackers, guacamole, no-fried beans, cashew cheese, sunflower hummus, marinara sauce, toona pate, kale and sweet potato crisps, crudites, olives, flowers and salad all gobbled up.<br />
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Happy, smiley faces with good clean energy to party hard created clay cacao creatures, faery family's and mushroom villages.<br />
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1/ Pop all ingredients into a food processor and mix until yummy, creamy and chocolately.</div>
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2/ Spoon into wee cups or shot glasses, decorate with fruit and refrigerate until you can stand it no longer.</div>
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3/ Find a reason to celebrate, thank your day and indulge in cacao heaven.</div>
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ps/ Although working on warping time, I still only have as much time in a day as any busy homeschooling mama!<br />
Preparing ecstatic raw foods is faster than watching an oven create the cooked version…and as the foods still in it’s natural state, it’s easy to change tastes if it doesn’t tantalise your taste buds.<br />
The girls get immense pleasure in helping create such simple foods, and it gives them something to keep inquisitive minds on while I quickly capture time and make the rest.<br />
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Any of these foods are easy to travel with and when celebrating at friends parties, we take a selection of these delectable treasures to share, knowing that we too can eat in celebration.</div>
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</span>Hi Sarah,<br />
I am making chocolate truffles for 80 guests at Camp Denali and North Face Lodge in Alaska on Sunday night. How exciting to have your chocolate sauce recipe mixed with dried fruit and nuts served to these people at a high end eco lodge that has been in operation for 60 years! Thanks for the recipes. The staff is all addicted and I am making some for the dance party at Aurora cabin Friday night. Maybe we’ll even see the aurora borealis later on…<br /></li>
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</span>thats awesome janet!! Wowee! party time. cacao parties are the way to go…keeping you alert and focused but happy, loved up and blissful. It will keep you going for hours and you will awaken feeling perky and refreshed. Meanwhile your body will be entirely nourished! Dont forget to send anyone interested through LoveLifeRaw facebook page or through here for more info!!! Have fun with the aurora xxx<br />
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I never knew what it would be like to experience life now. Never felt as nourished, inspired, excited, energised and gratified by food as I do today. And it’s so empowering to know that my choice of diet can so dramatically affect the future of my health and quality of<br />
life…those choices moving markets, shifting attitudes and improving the quality of life for future generations.</div>
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Raw foods have truly changed my life….</div>
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However, I do remember the early days of transitioning to a raw food diet, that there were times when detoxifying felt less than amazing! The way I changed over was to slowly incorporate more raw foods into my daily diet while I eliminated highly processed foods<br />
such as coffee, dairy, fried foods and refined flours. It took a while, but that was OK. As the weeks moved into months the benefits towered over keeping the junk in.</div>
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I started with a fruit and vegetable juice in the mornings, ensuring that there were plenty of greens. Cleansing, hydrating and light this ensured that my body was able to continue the detox that it had been working on while I slept. In the earlier days I created sumptiously lip smackingly fruit salads that allowed my brain to feel full. With seeds and nuts scattered over the top I felt less deprived! This made an enormous difference and I felt my health and energy leap forward.</div>
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Feasting on an incredible salad for lunch got me through the next meal. We’re not talking side salad! Filled with sprouts, olives, avocados, seeds, various green leaves, tomatoes, sauerkraut and divine dressings I was amazed at how nourished I felt. With a special gift of a deep hand-thrown lunch bowl, I felt nurtured and energised at the way my life was turning.</div>
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Raw chocolate for pudding gave me a fulfilling pat on the back for having got through two thirds of the day raw. It really was that simple!</div>
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My cooked evening meal became lighter and being more aware of how my body reacted to foods, I chose to enjoy a small salad with a cooked vegan dish…usually curry or some type of stew served with quinoa or baked potatoes. My evenings had more clarity and sleep became restful.</div>
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I actually remember the day when I realised how much more flavour the uncooked foods had than their cooked counterpart. With no need for shop bought dressings or sauces and choosing healthy home made alternatives, this led me to experimenting with raw pasta sauces, seed cheeses and seaweed seasonings.</div>
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And then I found I’d gone raw! I just did it! I took a dive, believed and never looked back.</div>
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Sure, I’ve fallen off the band wagon over the years … but each time there’s been a lesson learned and I hop, skip and jump back on feeling stronger than ever.</div>
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Ps/ Whatever you do and however you do it, walk your own path and walk tall. Only you know what feels best for you. Take it slowly. We all have our own eating habits and emotional food issues that trace back a lifetime. While some people may have overnight transformations, the rest of us can work through a process of constantly working towards new and improved levels of health, energy and personal awareness!</div>
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When I was little I used to throw my morning porridge behind the dresser and refused to eat the cheese pinwheels and smash they’d serve me at lunch at first school. The milk that was handed out at morning break used to make me heave and it’d be a cause of anxiety until the bottles and straws were handed back to teacher.</div>
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It still seems quite normal for children not to like their cooked veggies, preferring to fill up on breads, pasta, rice and sauces instead. Watching my children and their friends, they always take preference over simply cut up raw fruits and vegetables to a mixed pot of something or other. They act intuitively, knowing what their body needs at any one time. This can prove frustrating at meal times when a favoured dish for the last few weeks becomes inedible to their professional palates overnight. I play simple when breaking their fast. Cut up seasonal fruits for the first course, followed by g’raw’nola and almond milk…letting them dive into their nose bags while I create the green juice of the day.</div>
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Sending them out for a day of play, having filled them with the above foods makes the lunch box easy to create. Not needing filler foods such as breads and dairy, having got a foundation of nutrition well laid in the morning, typical lunches are simple and colour-full. Allowing them freedom from sitting and eating, enabling them to graze while their playtime can be uninterupted. Keeping children in a social whirl is important, so filling the lunchbox with yummy alternatives to the norm is an important ingredient. Varying packed lunches and picnics with a simple theme keeps an average of 10 minutes to prepare…usually when the children are slurping their spirulina tablets around the bottom of the juice glass. Filling the box with more food than they need ensures plenty of choice, and leftovers for snacks later in the day.</div>
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So, we fill our picnic hamper with little bags of mixed nuts, seeds and dried fruits, cut up strips of carrots, celery, yacon, peppers, a little tub of mixed sprouts; snow peas, blue peas, lentils and alfalfa, cucumber or apple rounds filled with nut butter, raw seaweed crackers, chunks of halva or bliss balls, raw chocolate brownies, fresh fruit and coconut water or pure water.</div>
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This may seem alot, but it allows the girls choice. I love watching them delight in deciding what they want rather than eating what they have to. They generally eat all the food, and what doesn’t get eaten gets used for the evening meal. Their friends are inquisitive and the girls are always offering their sweet treats to them, telling them how delicious they are. Packing more than we need is great so that others can try.</div>
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For shared food at friends houses I will add a tub of olives, guacamole or a sunflower seed pate, raw chocolate, flax crackers and a bag of fruit to the packed lunch list.</div>
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And they know. When we’re out with others they naturally come to me or a friendly elder and ask if they can eat something that we haven’t brought. Usually this is a handful of rice or corn crackers. They know how they feel after bread or cake and don’t want that anymore. Of course, my eldest has questions about what others eat and my three year old is beginning to wonder too. I tell them that we’re not here to be judgemental about the choices of others. I tell them that cooked food can make people poorly and sad. I tell them that what they eat builds strong, healthy bodies and clever brains. And my eldest shouts with joy that she is wild and free, happy and clever because that’s what she feeds her body with.</div>
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<b>Check out Sarah’s Facebook page </b><span style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/LoveLifeRaw">Lovin'LifeRaw</a></b></span></div>
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</span>I served your raw chocolate to yet anopther guest at my Alaskan Lodge. The staff loves it as I make it every Sunday. I feel like a pusher sometimes, passing around the container so thay can all have burst of natural energy!<br />
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</span>jonathan deals with cacaao beans now when he’s out and about!! Sultry corners and cacao explosions!!! Missing you dear friend. Come home and share your chocolate delights <3<br />
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</span>Awesome Sarah! Thanks for sharing, that was so inspiring and encouraging! Great ideas for lunch box… and just as I thought that I had no choice but to surrender to the unhealthy lunchboxes for my daughter (who, at 12 months, is already spying on other kids’ meals!) Keep it coming! :} -Debora</li>
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I love having a bit on the side. And so it seems do others. It took me a while to get there but I feel rather saucy. Making extra condiments that only last a few days in the fridge seemed such a hassle, but wowser! How they can revolutionise a meal.</div>
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I physically shudder when someone bypasses the condiments and I wonder what they’re going to think of the dish that I’ve made them. A Save-the-fish cake just wouldn’t be the same without some Holidays Sauce. And a Full-afel without Tomato Catch-up and tahini dressing would unbalance the taste detector scales! And for crying out loud … what would a pancake do without a citrusy cinnamon sauce and chocolate dip?</div>
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I roar in delight when customers come back for second helpings at food fairs … and what they take-away with them is three different types of sauce! And I’ve lost count how many times I’ve created an extra only to turn it into a main.</div>
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There’s an easy way round all this extra work and it’s called teaming up meals. The night we have a marinara sauce twisted around veggie pasta, I take a portion of the tomato sauce aside before adding what makes it taste like the sea. When I prepare almond mayo for wraps, crackers and crudites, I add extras to the other half and create something entirely different for the next day. Thinking ahead is always a great plan … it saves you time, money and energy.</div>
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In the before raw days, my pantry was well packed with extras that would tart up a meal. Bottles of ‘perk-me-up’ and ‘cover-that’ and ‘taste-better’ hustled and bustled with jam jars and pickles. Now, having something extra on the side is something to shout about. Often, the highlight of the meal and full of nutrients, there’s nothing to stop you from spooning it right outa the jar! And when the children do just that, there’s no hullabaloo. Let them have it and know that all will be well. With no added extras like sugars, flavourings, colourings and fillers, let your loved ones lick their fingers in delight.</div>
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2/3 cup activated almond, ground (soaked, sprouted, dried)</div>
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1/3 cup water</div>
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3 large lemons juiced</div>
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grated rind 1 lemon</div>
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1/3 tsp turmeric</div>
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1/2 tsp sea salt</div>
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1/3 cup cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil</div>
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1/ Blend all the ingredients together, saving the olive oil</div>
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2/ Add the oil and blend until thick.</div>
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3/ Pop into a jar and dip, dip dip!</div>
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Refrigerates for up to 5 days when stored in a jar with lid. Delicious teamed up with Save-the-fish-cakes, crackers, raw sushi and burgers.</div>
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Sarah Lea</div>
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The Raw Shopping List by raw foodie Sarah Lea<br />
Submitted by sarahlea on October 26, 2012 – 9:04 pm<br />
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Thank goodness it’s Friday! The cupboards gape mournfully and the fridge gets a makeover. I’m so thank-full that I got us to the beginning of another food week, I get all excited and clean the shelves!<br />
I always plan for a day out on a Friday, starting at our generously packed market stall, where I buy most of the week’s fresh fruit and vegetables from. This stops people coming by the homestead and getting turned down.. having no deliciously decadent treats to snaffle! The cupboards get topped up by a Saturday morning market visit, picking up anything that tasted sublime the day before…or yummy extras that we’ve already demolished our way through! Buying direct like this means that you’re getting fresh, seasonal produce that is at its energy peak in full flavour and nutrition. I love keeping my money within the community, knowing my food has been cared for, and that I’m receiving all the benefits of food being sold at it’s absolute best. Stopping at roadside stalls advertising organic leafy greens, tops up my sluggish gardens ever dwindling supply and grabbing ripe fruits from friend’s gardens adds to the bounty.<br />
Believing wholeheartedly in feeding our bodies the best to feel the greatest, eating organically wherever I can gifts me with preserving more than my well being. Helping to restore soil quality and encouraging wildlife fills in the bigger picture. Receiving up to 50% more vitamins, minerals and enzymes than in non-organic produce and avoiding exposure to poisonous chemicals and potential carcinogens allows me to breathe easy and ignite my days with more energy.<br />
Shopping in the supermarkets is sometimes our only option, and some are well stocked with organic, wholefood supplies. Local, independent shops are way more fun however, and I love to have an energising giggle with likeminded souls over a willow shopping basket, brown paper bags and tantalising treats. Wholefood stores are also stocked with knowledgeable staff who can point you in the right direction. They also offer bulk buying, which is a sensible option, as prices on nuts and seeds can drastically be cut buying this way.<br />
What to buy for eating more energy and loving life raw…<br />
A selection from each section…<br />
Fruit…apples, oranges, pears, lemons, dates, bananas as your staples. Then anything seasonal from your area…kiwis and grapefruit for me at the moment, and there are tropical fruits if you are lookin’ for a treat…pineapples, kumquats, lychees, mango, guava. I always have frozen organic berries in the freezer too.<br />
Vegetables…carrots, avocadoes, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers (not green as these are unripe), celery, beetroot, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, onions, spinach, lettuce, mushrooms, green beans, olives, corn. Dark leafy greens such as kale, pak choi, rocket, watercress, chard and cavolo nero are an important part of your diet.<br />
Sea Vegetables…These contain more minerals than any other kinda food, as well as many vital vitamins, including that elusive B12! …dulse, arame, nori, kelp and wakame are a few to choose from.<br />
Herbs and spices…fresh is always best! Ginger, garlic, red chilli, parsley, coriander, basil…anything you can get your hands on. Dried…I use, dill, cumin, cinnamon, garam masala, paprika and nutmeg.<br />
Nuts…walnuts, almonds, hazlenuts, pecans, pine nuts, cashews, macadamias and brazils.<br />
Seeds… sesame, sunflower, pumpkin, hemp, flax, alafalfa (for sprouting only) tahini If I had to choose one of the above, I would choose almonds and sunflower seeds for their diverse uses, high nutritional content and their affordability! Make sure all nuts and seeds are untoasted, unheated and raw.<br />
Dried fruit…avoid buying sulphured fruits, such as orange apricots and light pears and fruits sweetened with sugar. Raisins, dates, apricots figs and dried mango.<br />
Grains…buckwheat groats, quinoa and oat groats.<br />
Beans and pulses… lentils, mungbeans and chickpeas<br />
Oils…Cold pressed only. Flax, hemp, coconut, extra virgin olive oil and treat yourself with walnut, avocado and other fancy oils.<br />
Sweeteners… raw honey, raw agave nectar, lucuma, mesquite and maple syrup<br />
Pickles…sauerkraut, gherkins, kimchee, pickled onions…<br />
Flavourings…nutritional yeast flakes (add cheesy flavour) carob powder, miso, tamari or shoyu or Braggs liquid aminos, apple cider vinegar, sundried tomatoes, vanilla extract/beans and sea salt or himalyan pink salt.<br />
Superfoods…spirulina, wheatgrass powder, barleygrasss, blue green algae, cacao, hemp protein powder and maca.<br />
And if you’re really lucky you may find…<br />
Essene breads, ready made raw chocolates, macaroons, grawnola, trail mix, brownies, raw nut butters, crackers, truffles, halva and raw icecream.<br />
Yeeha! So, empty your cupboards and fridge of all the old fashioned, energy depleting way of eating and raise the vibration with your rainbow room of delights.<br />
Sarah Lea<br />
Ps/ To find out how to turn this lot into 5 minute delicious gourmet dishes, that’ll be gobbled up just as quickly, tune in to Eat More Energy this November and jump aboard the energy train!<br />
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<span class="userContent">Fuelling our refined engines with rabbit food this christmas just ainta option. With friends sharing our days and high expectations from the children, I've had to throw caution to the windless day and join the crowd. Ahah! you cry…the big day just aint possible without falling by the wayside…but no, enlightening desserts, chocolates and drinks have been devoured without compromising our energy lev<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">els. And everyone's been digging in!<br /><br />Waking up throughout the night before christmas, checkin' on the whereabouts of St Nick, kept us on our toes. With enough carrots to help the old man loosen his belt off and alchemical laced delights for the red nosed reindeer, kept my eldest on night watch, concerned the bearded bloke would eat all the chocolate instead!<br /><br />Hitting morning with little shut eye, hinted at a breakfast of super-natural powers. Chocolate mousse, walnuts and berries recharged us as we flung ourselves into the art of giving, receiving, ooohing and ahhing. Swooning from the heat, and sticky with humidity, we stripped down and got stuck in.<br />Giggling through gifts, resting and playing built up enough appetite to eat a mediterranean inspired feast, dining al fresco with loved ones as we clung to the shade of the grapevine. Raw pizza topped with caper berries, pesto and basil, sweet peppers, zucchini, cherry tomatoes and nut cheese was guzzled down alongside blackcurrant wine and purple corn lemonade. A garden salad filled with the scent of flowers, raw olives and lime pickle had the tuis all of a buzz, and the air was filled with the sweet song of babies nestling in the natives.<br />Topping the bill was Christmas pudding. I had to stop myself from making the raw version and using dried fruits! A tiptoptastic tirarawmisu produced gasps of wonder, covered in freshly picked raspberries.<br /><br />Holding our tummies and giving in, we headed to the cool, crystal waters of the river to idle the glorious afternoon away. Filled with love and gratitude, a sense of calm enveloped us with warm satin waters keeping our temples cool and clean. Slurping on sun warmed plums, squirting their juice at us, the children splashed and the dogs frolicked as we all took time to hang out and be present with the day.<br />Watching the little ones gasp with joy and shriek with laughter filled me with a sense of wonder of what we all have in our lives if we'd just let it in. Time. Without the restrictions of a work filled day, all techno gear turned off, we harmonised with our natural surroundings and our loved ones. Drifting gently with the day, flowing with the current, life played out a glorious set of magic. And with berry-filled custard tarts and mince pies topped with frangipani cream for dinner, we set up a day or two of fasting creating a natural rhythm for the rest of the festive holiday.</span></span></div>
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