Happy Earth Day Everyone!

Hope everyone has had a great Earth day. I, unfortunately, could not spend anytime outside since I had to fly. I started my day in Hartford, Connecticut and ended up in Miami, Florida. Both of these places had great weather for a day to celebrate the earth and all it’s goodness.

I just finished up a batch of “raw chocolate pudding“, which I intend to bring to work tomorrow. That’s if it makes it to the plane. I have a few co-workers intrigued, so to speak, about raw foods. I figured a raw chocolate treat was a good stepping stone. I’ve included the recipe for you to try. Hopefully, I can do a video demo of it in the near future, when I get a little time away from flying. This recipe uses young thai coconuts. I’ve also included a video on how to open them. This recipe calls for 2 cups of coconut meat, which is approximately 3-4 thai coconuts.

CHOCOLATE PUDDING

• 2 CUPS COCONUT MEAT
• 3/4 CUPS COCONUT WATER
• 1/2 CUP PITTED DATES
• 1/3 CUP AGAVE NECTAR
• 1/2 CUP RAW COCOA POWDER
• 2 TBS VANILLA EXTRACT
• 1/4 TSP SEA SALT

Puree all ingredients in a hight speed blender until smooth. Refrigerate 1/2 hour to thicken.

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

How to Read PLU sticker on Fruits and Vegetables

This is a an easy way to tell if a fruit or vegetable is Organic, Non Organic, or GMO (genetically modified organism). Refer to the PLU(price look up) sticker found on the fruit or vegetable.

• Non Organic grown consists of a PLU of 4 numbers ie: 4446
• Organically grown consists of a PLU of 5 numers prefaced by a 9 ie: 94446
• GMO fruits and vegetables consist of a PLU of 5 numbers prefaced by a 8 ie: 84446

Would you feed your Baby Pesticides?

I heard this for the first time yesterday. This dilemma has been confronting unknowing family’s for many years now. Since embracing Raw Foods Living, issues like these become a cornerstone of why we need to understand the importance of how we grow our food.

We certainly would not knowingly, poison our children. This is why we need to go back to what nature had intended for us Unaltered, Unadulterated completely Natural.

This is a good article from Consumer Reports regarding pesticides and baby food. “Better For Baby?”

Those Who Inspire

I would like to share with you my short list, of those individuals who have inspired me. Who, for various reasons have enlightened, informed, and have ignited the passion within me to spread their good works to others. The fervor they bring to Raw Foods Living is immeasurable. My hope is to be able to add another voice, that can do the same forsomeone else.

• David Wolfe
  
• Anthony Anderson
• Philip McCluskey
  
• Dhrumil Purohit
• Tim VanOrden

“Keep Inspiring”

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau

One Very Compleling Reason to Eat Raw Organic

This is a video I have seen posted on many sites. It’s importance can not be understated. I know many people feel, if they don’t see what happens in the background it’s not important.

“What you don’t see won’t hurt you.”

THINK AGAIN!

“Knowledge is Power * Power is Knowledge”

We have to stop living in the shadows. Especially, when it come to our Livelihood, Vitality, and Optimum Health.

Corporations like Monsanto are driven by profits. Profits that support a “non-living” being. Our plant’s eco system is designed to sustain living things. We need to get back to natural organic way of living.

“Food For Thought”

• In 2006, 1.5 million Americans died from dietary related diseases, at a cost of $800 billion
• Agri-business and food processing account for 60% of US oil consumption
• Conscious eating = reduced oil dependency and a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions

(These statistics are courteous of Tim VanOrden’s website The Running Raw Project)

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden