"Light Up Your Life" with Raw and Living Super Foods!

RAW FOOD; EASY OR HARD?

2011-08-11T13:52:00.000-07:00

Seems like we have all heard it over and over that "Raw is not hard, it is easy!"
This is what I have found in my life. I eat alot of simple raw foods and that really works well for me. It really is not complicated!

I think, if you say it is hard, then it is. If you say it is easy, then it is.
This kind of follows my post about listening to your body. THAT is what MAKES raw easy.

The body naturally wants simple foods that do not bog us down. Most gourmet raw does exactly that. Even heavy smoothies, laden with bananas and all kinds of other ingredients, are also pretty taxing on the body.

When I got to the point where I wanted juice
from fresh fruits and vegetables (mostly vegs), my life got even simpler. I get up and make my jars of juice and off I go. I also might add in an apple to my "feed bag" and even a few nuts, if I might want something heavier.

Raw really is as easy or as hard as you want to make it....and the beauty is, you get to choose!

Pick and apple, eat it, pick some berries, eat them! Make an amazing raw cake that takes a bit more, and enjoy.

Even the more complex food prep is sheer joy, so actually, that isnt hard at all! It is really fun! Plus, it is food with LOVE, live food made with love.

Raw food, raw lifestyle, is far from hard, it is a joy and a pleasure to eat so close to the earth (I wondered where all that dirt on my lips came from!)

Love from my simple raw loving heART to yours, Love, Bette Bliss

HALOE! Its ALOE! Here for the GLOW!!

2011-08-05T06:09:00.000-07:00

Aloe Glow Smoothie
2 bananas
6-7 strawberries
2 tablespoon of fresh aloe vera
3 cups or more baby greens
1 cup water
Blend well, drink and glow baby, glow!

This recipe comes to you courtesy of our Superfood hd app (avail at itunes)!!!

Why would people CHOOSE sickness?

2011-07-27T09:29:00.000-07:00

Yep, you heard correctly....why do people CHOOSE sickness? You are choosing, health or sickness, by what you put into your mouth. Simple as that! Yes it is that simple.

Sickness and disease are caused and created by two things, toxicity and nutrional defiency. So one must clean the body to rid the toxins and feed the body nutrient dense foods.

How can this be done? Simple, as I said above. Feed your body with the closest material your body is made of. Your body was made from the dirt, dust of the earth and the closer you feed it to the ground, the greater your health!

Your body is living, thus the material mst be raw materials, in their inprocessed state, as found in a garden. Living material, plant foods, feed our living bodies.

Anything that is taken from the garden and processed with heat is no longer living, it is devoid of nutrients and enzymes needed to feed the body. So instead of feeding the body, it robs the body. Also the body goes into a continual crisis mode to seek to try to process this stuff!

So, by every choice you make with food, you are choosing sickness or health! It is true and it is that simple.

What will you choose?

How do you leave people?

2011-07-26T13:22:00.000-07:00

Now this post is about leaving people, as in, leaving them after being with them for a few hours or a day, or even a few moments. How do you leave the person?

Besides saying goodbye and perhaps hugging and/or kissing them, how do they feel for having spent time with you?

Do you leave them feeling better than when you found them? Better than when you got together with them, uplifted and encouraged, or downtrodden and drained? Do you bring refreshment and joy to those you are with or do you bring total negativity and a spirit of complaint?

Is your conversation with them merely about you or do you take an active interest in them and what their interests are? Do you bore them with things theyhave no interest in or do you find common topics to talk about?

most of all,are your words filled with chaste, lovable, virtuous, praiseworthy, true, topics or the opposite of these?

What spiritual gift do you bring to the presence of another? Is it a gift or a cursing of sorts?

You alone have the power, within your little member (the tongue) to lift a 300 pound person higher than when you found them!

You can bring a person up who is down, inspire one who is discouraged,raise a depressed soul, bring a smile to someone so sad.

Remember you never know what another person my be experiencing in their life. What if you treated every person as if they were carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders, and you helped them carry it or you lifted it a bit? WOW!

Just as you have the power to lift and heal, your tongue can cut and hurt another and drain them. How do you want to use that power? I choose LOVE and lifting and leaving a person far better than when I found them!

Love from my sharing heART to yours! Muah! Bette Bliss

Where would YOU and I be without raw?

2011-07-11T13:30:00.000-07:00

I have been hearing of sooo much illness these days. Also feeling really grateful that my life does not consist of running off to the doctor/ER/lab etc for any number of invasive and/or painful stuffs!!!!

How grateful we can be, those of us who have been turned onto raw food, food of this earth, from which we came, and seen the profound results it has brought to our bodies!!

I am feeling so grateful for raw today. How about you?

Here was breakfast (part of it, as I loaded up on green too)!

Here is my lunch;

Love from my grateful heART to yours, Muah, Bette Bliss

Just a reminder .....

2011-07-11T09:10:00.000-07:00

Just in case you didnt know this already, I have an application that is available on Ipone, Ipad and Ipod touch.

It is called SUPERFOOD HD and is an incredible raw resource for over 40 super foods, their properties and nutrients as well as over 200 recipes!

Here is the link to Superfood Hd facebook page;
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.100676923335445.798.100001794122933#!/profile.php?id=100001794122933

Please go here to our facebook link where you can see alot of the amazing foods I have made;
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.100676923335445.798.100001794122933&l=3a8008554f

Here is the link to purchase (99 cents!!!); http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/superfood-hd/id395150718?mt=8

Thank you for checking it all out and I send you the wish for incredible and amaZING health!

Love Bette

2011-07-11T06:27:00.000-07:00
"You'd be happy too if you could eat what bugs ya!" says the frog as he smiles with a fly on his outstretched tongue. (talking with his mouth full....hahaha).

Is this statement true? If something is bugging us emotionally and we eat to fill it, as in, to seek "comfort", does it work? Are we happy? Is it a comfort or does it simply dull down the emotions, numb us out to them? Only to feel it, yet again, when the next wave hits but now we have the added body burden of the food we ate, how stinkin lousy we feel,the damage we have done to our bodies and for many, the guilt that often joins hands with that.

Why do we eat when we are under emotional duress? Well, maybe for that exact reason and more. To numb, to not feel, to FEED a need. To feed a need; that is kind of like putting on ten layers of clothes on a hot summer day when we needed to put on our bathing suit and go swimming in a cool ocean. (ok ok I tried with this analogy, but you get it?) We need one thing that is so good for us and healthy and we do quite the opposite that beats us up!

Some might eat when under duress because it is something they can CONTROL. Life gets so out of their control sometimes that they know the ONE thing they have the power over...food. But, do we really have power over food if we are a slave to it and it is our master, it leads us????

We all see people who are literally eating themselves to death, a slow suicide. We feel for the kids starving to death and our heart aches but we also have this opposite side of the coin as well. People eating large amounts of food, that isnt truly feeding the body nutrients, that usually leads to disease and death. This is the hard reality.

Well what do we do when emos hit? Ask ourselves: what is the need here? What do I need in this moment? Does my body need a beating or a hug? What will best help me to deal with this emotional upset? How can I feed my body so as to best support what is happening?

A raw eating plan, the next raw food is the very anecdote to being able to be better able to handle these emotional times better and better. The other food choices only lead to worse and worse emotional upsets and the cycle goes on and on.

WHEN are we going to STOP this chaotic cyle and love ourselves to health, love ourselves to wholeness, love ourselves ENOUGH as created by our God to LOVE life in joy, peace and happiness??

When are we going to stop beating ourselves and love ourselves, our bodies and our life? Eye opening questions for sure!!!

I assure you, it isnt the food. It is the mastering of loving oneself enough and this gives you the desire for the BEST. The best faith, the best life, the best food, the best friends, the best one can have in this life.

YOU (yes I am talking to YOU) are enough, you DO enough, YOU have enough, YOU ARE LOVED, YOU ARE, you simply ARE and you deserve all He has given YOU and all that is on its way to YOU!!

Write a list of all it would benefit you to be raw, stay raw, be healthy, lose weight and GET YOUR LIFE BACK. I imagine that list will be powerful. OK here is your POWERFUL REASON WHY to do this! Here is why we you WANT to stop this cycle now.

In fact, this will be the title at the top of your page

MY POWERFUL REASON WHY I want to take care of ME by eating life sustaining foods that truly feed my body dense nutrition. Why raw for ME? What is my powerful reason why?

This list is powerful and post it on the fridge. This list is the basis that keeps you going. This list is the real power vs will power. Will power was on that other diet remember? How did that work for you? This is a whole new game now!

This powerful reason why is a part of you and stems from within. Will power is an outward instant thing you must muster in the moment from the surface. It doesnt work. It is fake and not real and deep. It must be mustered whereas your powerful reason why is always there and you merely draw it from within you!!!

Love from my emotional heART to yours, Muah! Bette Bliss

Bring on the raw! Food pictures that is!

2011-07-11T05:08:00.001-07:00
Raw granola is made with a combination of buckwheat (soaked and sprouted (for one day) and fruits and nuts (if desired) along with soaked and pitted dates (to sweeten and create a stick-togetherness).

Spices can be added like cinnamon or nutmeg, depending on the flavor you are seeking.

Then the mixture is spread on a dehydrater sheet and warmed at 105 degrees until crispy!

Chocolate grawnolas are yummy too!

. When I added raw granola into my eating plan, I found that I no longer sought the cooked carbs, they simply disappeared.

Raw granola is an amazing food to have in your purse and carry with you at all times! Soooo good too!

I am baaack!!

2011-07-10T12:24:00.000-07:00

Ok, I am back! I have been here, there and everywhere but I am back at my blog here.
I love you all and am so happy you are here!

I will have lots of good stuff in store for you but dropped in to say Hi and stay tuned!

lOTS OF LOVE TO YOU TODAY!!!....BETTE

MY LIFE IS NOT ALL ABOUT RAW FOOD

2010-11-16T17:06:00.000-08:00

As you might have noticed a bit, I do not post ALL about raw food. I eat raw food, alot of it, most of my days, however my life is about so much more.

Food, for me, has shrunk in importance. Ironically, by my giving it utmost importance initially, learning, trying, applying all about raw foods, it actually shrunk my concern about food. You see, before, I was fixed on finding what food worked for me....what to fix, what to buy to fix (yet another drudgery), etc etc etc and still not having optimum health.

Raw eating is simply that. It is a small part of my day most days. It is NOT WORK fixing food or buying food rather is is PLAY and JOY. So it is NOT one more thing to do or get done, it is a DELIGHT! Food has switched categories and compartments you see.

So, my life is about LOVE, FUN, WORSHIP, LOVE, PLAY,

PLAY, CREATING, GROWING INSIDE AS A PERSON, FULLFILLMENT, LAUGHTER, ANIMALS,

PEOPLE, MOVEMENT,

RICHNESS, and I can go on n on.

I keep my eating simple and delicious. It is a small part of my life. A tiny part. It is the best way to eat with no figuring anymore. By making it important it filed right in line where it is to be. I eat to live. I eat amazing food to live I will add.

Life is not about food for me. LIFE is about WONDER-FULL life. When I come to a reflection of it all, I want to say "I REALLY LIVED" and not "BOY I wish I had really lived and not focused my whole life on raw food".

I live life and the food part takes care of itself. It is not my FOCUS at all. It sure makes life beauty-full!

Goji Chocolate Truffles!

2010-11-13T05:34:00.000-08:00

I had set out the startings of a recipe this morning, then off to my afternoon job I went. Knowing I wanted goji berries and chocolate and figure a way to get them both.

I said to myself "self, goji berries are amazing and there has to be a recipe with ALOT of gojis in it!".

So I created one.

Here is what I did.

Ground up (food processor) a cup maybe of gojis in a little water. I let them mesh together, the gojis absorbing the water a bit. Then I added chia seeds until they too took the liquid up.

When it was all set up, I ran cacao nibs through my champoin juicer with blank screen in. Out came the nicest cacao creamy butter stuff I had ever seen! I "chased" it with almonds, thus making a nutella type mixture!

I put some of this cacao nutty paste into the goji mix. I added coconut shreds, coconut oil, vanilla, some himalyan salt, hemp seeds, and chopped walnuts. I stirred this all together. Adding the choco paste made the mixture firm all up nice!

I then rolled them into balls and rolled in coconut shreds and hempseeds. I put them on a plate in the fridge and in no time, they were lovely yummies ready to eat (and I did...but just one!)

All I can say is WOWEEEEEEE! I just knew there had to be a way to get massive gojis in a tasteful way! I guess I call them GOJI FUDGE TRUFFLES! because that is how they taste!

So look at the protein here: gojis, chia seed, hempseed, and nuts! Action packed nutrition right there!

Well a girl's gotta spend a Friday night in a BIG WAY! I sure did!

Hmmm anybody up for a midnight chat after my having chocolate, as I think I will be up for a while!

The best pictures I could get but no shot can capture the taste!

Finding Your Center

2010-11-10T05:26:00.000-08:00
I just love, and have always loved, Storypeople stories. I relate to many of them, as do many people , because they are all about the experience of being human. Many of them fit everyone, like a "one size fits all" piece of clothing because they are so up to interpretation, like any work of art.

Here is one I wanted to comment on today:

I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely one night & found it had wheels & moved easily in the slightest breeze, so now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing!

As I said, everyone will see this how they see it. This is what I see:

Sometimes, many times, all the time, we go round in life seeking our center. "Oh, I just wish I "could" get calm or focused or at peace once again. I was there once, many times actually, and so want to BE there again." "Calgon take me away" kinda day!

Do you know what? YES, we have "wheels" that move and adjust and are free to go wherever the wind may take us. Key: IF we LET GO and ALLOW all that IS.

It is only in our WANTING IT TO BE DIFFERENT THAN IT IS that sees (perceives) us off center.

Loving it as it is, then BECOMES our center, you see? THAT is the balancing, that is the calm, that is the peaceful place. Then, you see, we spend way more time "sailing" than trying to see what is broken, needs fixing, needs worrying over, is wrong here etc. If you are looking down, studying the wheel or the potential problem, you may just be missing out on your life!

Life, your life, IS exactly AS IT IS. That is center, your life. Love it as your life and honor it as your life and SAIL in your life, no matter what.

Really it is ALL perspective, being ever conscious of those wheels (flexibility and variability) as well as sailing (I call holy spirit). With those two, center is always center with no fuss about it. Happy sailing! today! Luv,Bette Bliss

Hmmm what do YOU see in this story?

Friends

2010-11-08T13:24:00.000-08:00
Why do we mourn so over the loss of a friendship? Is it because we gave so much of ourselves, we shared so much of what is inside us, we were VULNERABLE and NOW look what happened!?

Well when any relationship ends, it is not easy. Or some continue for a time, some for a lifetime. As time progresses however, the reasons why we were together emerge.

This poem always helps me to get right to the bottom line when I lose a friend. It makes it simple.

I immediately start looking at it with gratitude being willing to see all it brought the both of us. What gems we gathered, what lessons we learned, what traditions we can carry on in other ways. I seek to see how the shape of our love has changed now and it is ok. We still love each other, it just looks differently. They are in my heart, in my person and I am changed due to my relationship with them.

Enjoy the poem and happy friendships!

Here is a picture of me and a dear, dear friend!

A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime Dedicated to You
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrong -doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now time to move on.

When people come into your life for a SEASON, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. Thank you for being a part of my life!

It just has to be "Better Than" this!

2010-11-03T12:50:00.000-07:00
What does? Well, most anything you eat can be measured with these words "Better Than".
In transition to raw and living foods, one can ask, "is this food "better than" what I used to eat?" "Is this food a choice that is "better than" something of lesser quality?

So say you used to drink soda. What is "better than" soda? Seltzer water. Kombucha. Homeade lemonade made with fresh squuezed lemons and maple syrup or other sweetener. So many "better than" choices.

What about meat? You want meat? Well, there are all kinds of meat substitutes while transitioning to a meat free diet. Check out the alternatives in your frozen food section or your local health food store.

As far as protein, if you are eating an all inclusive diet of raw foods, you will be meeting your protein needs.

What about dairy? What is "better than" dairy? Make your own almond milk or brazil nut milk. There are alot of substitutes for dairy. Right off, you can even buy the containers of almond milk, although they are cooked.

You want soup? Well go to the health food store and buy organic, fresh made soup. Learn to make raw soups too! Better than Mr. Cantbells for sure!

So, as time goes on, applying this principle will aid you to a better and better eating plan you see? Always think, "what is better than" what I was just going to choose?"

Ask "am I doing better than I was a month ago or a week ago? Or better than I did this morning?" Whatever it is, ask that question and you will find it helps a whole lot to stay on a great path to wellness!

Are you in the green or in the red?

2010-11-01T05:23:00.000-07:00

No this is not about the upcoming shopping season! This is about RAW FOOD! Delicious LIVING and RAW foods!

I love to live in a world of peace and happiness and POSITIVITY. I still wear my "complaint free world" bracelet although I did not even want the word complaint in it so it is now my Gratitude Attitude Bracelet!

Anyway I was thinking about the negative aspects of life and how many people operate solely from all that is missing, all that isnt there, all that isnt coming to them, how they have lack and dullness and feel in desperation.

A couple days ago, I woke up feeling not my best. I have been around alot of buggies that people have been taken ill with. Although I was not my best, I pulled toward wellness and that is what I got. However, waking up feeling like that (albeit very minimal) I got to thinking. I thought, to a greater degree, this is how the world of sad eaters must wake up every day. Surely their mood matches their feeling...you know, the vibration.

Living food eaters operate at a high vibration, is it no wonder we are dancing on a higher plane, an air of happiness.

Sad food may be dead food, as many call it, yet it also being devoid and lifeless, is in a negative state. It puts those who consume this stuff in a negative state as well whether they know it or not.

Is it any wonder, when people, even rawfoodbees, consume non living material they too go into a negative state? Here you have people operating at a high vibration, like a fine tuned machine, and then a brick is thrown into the works. What can we expect, but feeling lousy and then negative thoughts and words to follow?

Then what do we do? We go on forums and tell people all the neg stuff stemming from that neg food. We tell how we fell off the wagon, what neg food we ate, how sick it made us feel, etc etc. Negative begets negative, there is no other way. Anything other than LIFE GIVING food is negative, you see?

Why do people lack luster and feel deprived and are in desperation? Because they truly are! Their bodies are starving for positive, life giving food!

If you want positive put positive in your mouth. If you want postive thinking, only eat positive food. If you want positive feeling in your body, only eat postive foods. If you want a positive life, only eat positive food, think positive thoughts and LIVE your most extraordinary positive LIFE! Green or red? Go or stop?

Are you in the green or in the red? It is all up to you, in every choice you make!

The ACT of BEING ALIVE!

2010-10-26T12:46:00.000-07:00

Isn't this life just one CLASS ACT? The ACT of BEING ALIVE!

What is ALIVE? What does being alive mean? Are you truly alive? How do you know? What if you just happen to be a walking dead person? Well, lets not go quite that far. What is you are living at LESS THAN your full potential?

How would you know? Hmmmmm? Well do you feel your absolute best or less than the best? Do you have energy to burn or lack energy? Do you have a worldview, perspective, that can take you through anything or do you cave in at the slightest disappointment?

So you Do jump out of bed in the morning to go running, seizing the day before it gets away? You just cannot wait to go to work and make a difference in the world with what you do? You cannot wait to make all of your yummy food for the day and love every bite, it bringing you nothing but bliss and joy?

Oh, and your relationships...ummm, you knew I was going there next didn't you? Are all of your relationships healthy and happy and bring you and the other person great fullfillment in life? Do you have peace throughout your relationships?

Pipe dream? No. IF you are truly BEING ALIVE you will answer "yes" or "pretty much" to all of the above questions. Sure life brings challenges yet it is how we view them that determines our happiness.

What is stopping you from living your best life? What areas are you out of integrity to who you are? That is the place to start and begin making changes toward that integrity. You DO know where you are out of integrity and what there is to do! As Nike says "just do it"!

Energy, cleansing, emotions and BURSTING with life!

2010-10-25T07:30:00.000-07:00
Lace them up!

Hi! I had an epiphany this morning, as I was on my run. It just so happens that I was thinking about expending energy.

Something led up to these thoughts around energy and eating live food! It was that Saturday night I went to a dance at my friends horse farm. It was a blast! I have to say, that only three straight hours of dancing was not enough for me! I wanted to dance until 1 a.m.!!!

Part of it is I love dancing, the other part is it was just super fun and felt so good to expend that energy, like all kinds of electricity being discharged, static energy, out there (came out as love) to all there at the party. I gotta say, I twirled sooo many people!!! It was a hoot! (sigh, words never seem to capture the feeling!)

Seeing, that night at the dance, my untapped energy potential. It is all there, just asking to be used more and more! This morning, realizing the following:

LIVE food creates LIVE energy. What if you started a fire and gave it just enough air to keep burning, while throwing fuel in there continually.... but kept it contained? It has to go somewhere! Combustible...kabooom!

Anyway, my point is this...LIVE energy MUST be expended with movement, creativity, productivity, mental workouts, spiritual output, emotional blessings to others, and whatever other ways you can think of.

If it is not expended somehow, to me, this is where the challenge of emotions, anxiety, depression, stagnation and a whole host of things enter in. LIVING the ALIVE LIFE needs MOVEMENT! Movement is required for cleaning out all the oxins that are being released as well!!!

We started a fire here folks and now we need to express it OUT THERE! Let it out! Get it out!!! Blessings!

What exactly IS a superfood?

2010-10-22T14:36:00.001-07:00

Have you heard the superfood buzz? All the powders and potions and stuff you can send away for? Things that take time and big fat bux to order?

Is THIS what I am talking about when I say the word "super foods"? Nope!
I am talking about powerful, nutrient dense, foods that are right in your ocal grocery store of health food store! That's right! Common everyday foods are loaded with phytochemicals that raise the level of your health beyond what you might imagine.
Raw Brownie!

The key is to eat these foods in their whole, raw, natural state. This not oly preserves the enzymes, by not cooking them, but it also does not alter their makeup.

Did you know many foods change into something else when cooked? Most of the time, it is renderded useless for the body to use. Example: potatoes turn into a substance called acrilomide (plastic?), when fried)

This is called leucocytosis. When something enters the body that is foreign to the body and is not recognizable or usable to nourish and replenish the cells.The body then begins to attack it as an enemy.
Many bouts of leucocytosis occur before cancer sets in.

Adding super foods to the eating plan, minimizing cooked foods, will stave off these episodes where disease is being formed. Actually, the more these living foods are consumed, the better one's health is! How much leucocytosis do you want?

Super nutrition realizes super health. Check out some ways to use these super foods!

http://twitter.com/#!/JoyfullyRaw
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/superfood-hd/id395150718?mt=8

"What is there to do, I just cannot stay raw?"

2010-10-21T13:28:00.001-07:00

Have you heard that before? I have heard it a million times. Well, not quite a million but ALOT!

What is the deal? Why do people have such a hard time to keep it real and keep it raw. I suppose one can come up with a lot of reasons why they eat cooked foods.

What is the way to see clear to get and stay raw? Is there a way? Well sometimes it just has to be the progression of things. Some go raw as soon as they hear, others toy with it and add raw more often, some go back and forth between raw and cooked.

I see the key is this: getting clear on what you want for your health and your life. Ask yourself "what is my powerful reason WHY I want to eat raw foods? If you dwell with that for a while, getting clear on what it is you are wanting and WHY, then every food choice, made from that place, will be a raw one.

If this is not the case, the committment is not strong enough. This has nothing to do with will power when you choose from this powerful reason WHY. This is the difference. Many eat or don't eat by exercising will power. No will power is needed when you choose BECAUSE. You choose BECAUSE you chose, from your powerful reason WHY!

When the other choices come forth, choose again and again, one food at a time. Choose powerfully. If you choose to eat cooked, choose it wholeheartedly. Be ok with that, let it go and move on, back to your raw choices.

It really is that simple! What is your powerful reason WHY you want to eat raw food?

Be sure to check out our Superfood app for Iphone and Ipad. It has alot of ideas and inspiration for keepin it raw! I love South O' The Border Green Stew!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/superfood-hd/id395150718?mt=8

Cravings versus Emotional Eating

2010-10-20T16:54:00.000-07:00
So you have a craving. You are wanting an ice cream sundae. Hmmmm Are you really wanting an ice cream sundae?

Lets pick this apart. What is going on emotionally right now, in this moment, craving this ice cream sundae? What has happened today Are you stressed? Are you tired? Did your bird die? Did your anut go to the hospital? Did someone tell you your hair was ugly and your mother dresses you funny?

So this is the place to look first. Well, say there is nothing emo going on.
You still want an ice cream sundae? Is there a connection to nostagia for you? Check that out too. Is it what you used to have in connection with an event or ritual like going for ice cream after a ball game. If so, simpy replace it with something else that is now the ritual. Go to the health food store and pick out your favorite raw chopped salad or pick up your favorite kombucha!

No? Ok. So you are craving an ice cream sundae. Hmmm Do you need fat? Do you need something sweet? Perhpas some protein? Maybe you are just thirsty or tired and are seeking a picker upper.
Is this craving really a craving? Craving bad food. Craving, as in, your body asking you for something, asking to be fed nutritonally.

Answer it like you might your little child. Give them the sundae? Probably not. You would find a good substitute for the ice cream. An apple, some orange slices, some raw banana ice cream, some nut butter. There are so many yummy choices.

If you wait, are willing to wait, you will find you will not eat the ice cream. If you are willing to look and see what it is your body is actually saying, you will feed it what it wants.You will have success in your raw eating plan.

Is it a craving or emotional eating? Cravings are a real call, from our body for something it needs for life. Emotional eating is a false cry from the wounded child who wants something to numb, comfort or dull the feeling.

Go with your cravings, in a constructive way, seeking what it is the body actually wants. Deal with your emotions in a constructive way.

You are on your waaaaay! Yay!

My walk on the wild side for weeds!

2010-10-19T05:11:00.000-07:00

Awwww today I went out on my favorite back road, a world away from bizzyness of life, where a breath of air is as refreshing as life itself!

I was eager to pick up some food, while I was there for my run, to come back and make my medicine via juice! I pick dandelions and nettles as well as wild mint!

Well it appears that Mr Frosty came last night and sought to steal them away! I had a bit of low and wrinkled brow face (NOT) on for a second. Then I saw that he did not get most of them! Wooohooooo Celebrate good times cmon!

So I picked bunches and bunches for my juicy juice lunches. As I settled down in to pick them, with gloved hand yes!, my bottom side hit some nettles behind me. Even through my leggings I felt them. Here I was feeling a tad bum (hahahaha) about this (not really just making it fun) and that I might be itching up a storm.

Well, let that be a lesson to me. Moral of the story, don't fuss bout stuff that has not happened! All good.

I have lovely juice coming soon as well as the kombucha I stopped to pick up (am so happy it is back and boy is it fizzier than ever!)

So we staved Mr. Frosty for another day! Ahhhhh the bliss of wild green juice! Blissfulll day to you too!

The Gap -Wanted Dead or ALive!

2010-10-15T04:46:00.000-07:00

I don't know about you but doesn't it seem like there is a gap between us and them? As in, the raw foody ones and the people who eat the other stuff? I see it all the time,more and more so as time goes on.

I guess to coin an ol phrase,"the have and the have nots". Although I never believed in that phrase, as I see riches as a deep inner value that money just cannot touch.
However, in applying that to health, this phrase most certainly applies!

How? Well, I HAVE good health and many around me HAVE NOT got good health. I hear it all the time around me. I ask you, what kind of world have we come to where I have two funerals this week and also have been asked to not hug quite a few people (I do squeeze a little tight) so as to not hurt them, because they are in such pain!
ALL of these, I can say hands down, created by the very food they eat! Death by food is a sad one for sure.

The GAP is evident in so many ways. Another is the idea of kill this and kill that. Bugs and "pests" regulurly squashed out of existence because they are a nuisance? Sorry my bees here do look a little scary but they are only out for pollen I promise!)In most cases, they just showed up, not being any cause for concern, and got squished. People randomly kill things, not realizing these have a place on earth too and many are essential for our own life!

The other is ALIVENESS! Does it seem to to you there is a GAP between the ALIVE and the dead (as in people who appear to be sleepwalking through their life)?
Repeatedly, I have been asked to tone down, to shhh, to squash what I feel, to stop dancing in times square (ok ok I was wearing a clown suit and it was distracting drivers and I just about got hit by a yellow taxi cab and also almost caused an accident!)...just kidding on that part...heehee

To LIVE fully expressed in life in a cemetary with mourners all around, is a challenge I say! I want to yell from the rooftops and exclaim how life is so very good and give people tickets to go ride the carousel of happiness! I want to tell them about good health and loving life and having no pain or sickness (yes even now we can, not waiting until "afterlife" eternal promises)!!

Some, like Pooh once said "Have a lil bit of fluff in their ears". They don't want to change their diet!!!! Many see no relationship at all between poor health and what goes in their mouth!

So I tell those who will hear. I teach those who will learn but mostly, I go about being responsible for me, continuing to BE FULLY me, and letting the rest fuss about their own stuff. No mistake here, I do listen, I do hug (carefully please) and I do help as much as I can, without wearing myself out.

I see the Gap but I also see the bridge, do you?
As for me, I be found ALIVE! How about you?

Simple Raw Eating!

2010-10-14T16:22:00.000-07:00

Allright already, Give Yourself A Break

2010-10-13T05:11:00.000-07:00

Do any of you tire of hearing raw people, blown all over the place by every word and wind from "others"? Feeling like they are not "doing it right" or have, once again "fallen off the wagon" or failed in raw life. Listening always to those who have been raw a long time, or those guru type thinkers, world travellers and island hoppers (bless their hearts),taking what they say as carved in stone,what you must do? I AM grateful for the forerunners and all they offer in experience, testimonials and knowledge!

I do tire because just is not true direction if one looks ONLY to it for direction. Why do we need direction anyway? Ideas, recipes, support, LOVE, inspiration, kitchen equipment thoughts are all good. But as far as direction in connection with your own eating plan, THAT is excatly what it is, YOUR OWN.We are all heading in the direction of health if we are on a raw journey, the path you take to get their is YOURS!

What do you REALLY need? An ear. Yes an ear. YOUR OWN ear.Why? Because all you need, for your health journey is to listen to your own body! The other things mentioned above are all supplementary to intuition, which is your body telling you what you need.

The body, your body, is always and forever on a quest to heal you and keep you well! Isn't that great? If you tune in to that station and listen, you will learn. Every pain, every body sensation, every craving (of a healthy kind) is telling you what to do next. Sit still and listen.

How can you tune in for better hearing? Clean the gunk out. As Pooh once said "some folks might have a bit o fluff in their ears". Be willing to listen and learn. Take out the junk of life. Be silent. Let go of all you think you want to eat, what you used to like, what party is coming up and what cake will be there! Simply STOP all that programming from running and listen!

Once the body is cleaner, the body messages become crystal clear. You go to the co-op and pick up the exact fruit your body wants. You look in the fridge and the exact idea comes to you what to have.

Line up with your body instead of "fighting" this or that. You hear people say "I am fighting this cold" or "I am gonna fight this thing and beat it". Often this is in reference to cancer. They truly ARE fighting it. How? By waging all out chemical warfare with powerful, toxic poisins....chemotherapy.

What would listening look like? Giving the body life giving foods instead of death dealing poisin. I could go on but I won't.

Listen to your body daily. Say YES to every food that builds health and simply turn away from foods that bring disease. It is that easy!

YOU are your own health care provider,YOU are your own "GURU", YOU are the creator of your health! That is awesome my friends!

Chia Power

2010-10-12T05:01:00.000-07:00

Do you realize what a wonder we have in Chia? Oh aren't they those little seeds that make those cute little green pets? Or that gift that keep on giving but you would rather not? Who knew these little seeds pack such power??

I highly recommend to forget purchasing those little pets at giftime (nobody really wants them anyway right?) and give them the gift of the Chia seeds themselves!

These babies are packed with nutrients and are a powerful addition to a vibrant life. Here is a short list of some of the blessings of Chia:

Endurance and stamina=ENERGY!

Economical (thats reason enough right now eh?)

Great source of protein

Great for weight loss (Oh boy I am in)

Assists in colon health/elimination (who dont want this I ask you?)

May asssist in prevention of heart disease

Helps prevent colon cancer (who wants that? Not me)

Balances blood sugar

Assists those with diabetes (yup grandma will even love them!)

Packs more punch than flax seed (no way, you dont say)

*anti-aging (Ok I can handle this one!I will cancel my dumb botox appointment..haha)

Chia is a rich source of protein, is a quick an easy way to get protein and also is versatile in any recipe! One awesome seed I say!

So today, go to the health food store and say ch-ch chia! Start of a brand new Chia way! Oh but you are free to still have your pet, make it a cat or a dog and leave those little terra cotta ones on wally marts shelf!

Or you could always get alot of them and cover your car huh?

Superfood App approved!

2010-10-10T04:45:00.000-07:00
A Superfood App has been approved on Monday October 5th in the Apple store! This app will prove to be invaluable for assisting people is support of optimum health and wellness. Go check it out and see what a beautifully orchestrated piece of work this is!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/superfood-hd/id395150718?mt=8 Please be sure to write us a review!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Superfood-HD/164386543575263
Click the "like" button and we will keep you infomred of updates and new apps sure to come!

Yesterday the Ipad version hit the #2 spot in health and fitness category!

Apples!

2010-09-30T12:44:00.000-07:00
Loving simple raw! An apple a day.....you know the rest.

I am baaaack!

2010-09-30T09:52:00.000-07:00

So, I am soooo back. Stay tuned here for all kinds of fun and adventure. Please tolerate all that is here already....amatuer (I will always be,sorry) and volume challenges! eeezazoids!
Anyway keep a lookout! Thankx for watching my "show".

My rawkin raw food pictures!

2009-12-04T08:12:00.000-08:00

Please be sure to scroll down and find the post entitled "Yummy Living Food Pictures" as I add to them weekly. Inspiration city folks!

Raw Corn Chowda

2009-12-01T12:27:00.000-08:00

RAWKIN Banana Strawberry Soft Serve Ice Cream

2009-11-30T15:36:00.000-08:00

GREEN SMOOTHIE POWER

2009-10-28T09:38:00.000-07:00
This video is an AMAZING place, for anyone who wants to go raw, to start. GREEN SMOOTHIES CHANGED MY LIFE! I cannot even begin to put it into words the POWER of green smoothies! Try it and you will never be the same. One a day keeps bad health away.

This video is an AMAZING place, for anyone who wants to go raw, to start. GREEN SMOOTHIES CHANGED MY LIFE! I cannot even begin to put it into words the POWER of green smoothies! Try it and you will never be the same. One a day keeps bad health away.

Try it and post below what you think? I love to hear what you are thinkin???

Launching into VIDEO!!!!

2009-10-28T09:07:00.001-07:00
I am excited!!! The big news is...this site will now be vlogging! Yup video blogs!!!
Woohhhhhoooo yipeeee hooooray.
So here I will post some i did for other forums and things to start, but will be doing my own shows JUST FOR YOU.

This one I did for Raw fu...it is a Basic Green Juice. Enjoy!

Please post your comment below!!!
Have you ever had GREEN JUICE and do you LOVE IT! Leave me a comment.

BUT BUT BUT....

2009-10-26T04:53:00.000-07:00

OK so we have said some reasons WHY people want to go raw and LIVE raw on ALIVE foods. Something about the ENERGY. Or the vibrancy of life and health. Or even sickness free and feeling blissfull. Hmmmmmm

Now here is comes...I would go raw BUT...
I like the sounds of all that BUT...
I am sick of being sick BUT...
etc..you see how it goes

BUT what? here is the butts...ooops...the buts....

It is hard
It is expensive
I feed my family all cooked and they wont do it
I socialize alot and how do you do that
I dont even know how to cook let alone do this
etc etc etc

DISAPPEAR PLEASE...ALL OF THAT.
Instead ask yourself?
AM I A STAND FOR MY OWN HEALTH.
AM I WAITING UNTIL I GET THE C-WORD DIAGNOSIS
(or any other bad health wake up calls)
AM I WILLING TO RAISE,NOT ONLY MY HEALTH ,BUT
MY WHOLE LIFE TO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL?

EXCUSES ARE MERELY WHAT THE BRAIN DOES TO HOLD US RIGHT WHERE WE ARE AND DO NOTHING!!
Good...now that you are a little clearer lets go
on our butts..hmmm I mean the excuses (you might prefer to call them reasons instead).

It is easier than any eating plan out there. Not only that, it is a way of life that produces the most outstanding results practically effort free. All you do it eat raw and living food, one at a time.

It isnt expensive. Expensive to me is going to the doctor, being sick in bed, feeling bad, having no energy to do anything, being depressed.
I fuel my car, I pay insurance on it and upkeep. I take care of my place and pay utilities and keep it clean and orderly YET I am willing to skimp on fuel for my body and minimally maintain it. My possessions get better care than my body?

So on and on it goes.....all this clatter running round in the brain is there to serve you somehow. Serve you (it thinks) by keeping you right where you are. Keeping you in this uncomfort zone but the only one you know. Then we have no need to bust out and do something new and different.

Remember, people who really stood apart and did extraordinary things, got extraordinary results and made a huge difference in their own lives and in the lives of others. If not now, when? What is holding you back? YOU ARE THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP, AT THE HELM OF YOUR LIFE!

Cmon lets get going to a whole NEW LIFE.

WHY EAT RAW AND LIVING FOOD???

2009-10-25T14:29:00.000-07:00

WANT ENERGY LIKE THIS FROG?

People ask this question..WHY EAT RAW FOOD......or want to know how and why anyone could or would do this.

Raw and living foods are uncooked, unheated, unfooled around with foods. Well, we rawfoodies DO process some stuff yet it is minimal.

These foods are LIVING in the sense that they have all the enzymes and nutrients intact due to being eaten in their natural state. Any foods heated above 105 to 115 degrees has lost enzymes and nutrients, and in many cases, it no longer is food fit for the body. Some foods actually change into toxic materials (for instance, when potatoes go to france(fries) they turn into something called acrylamide. Sounds like plastic? Hmmmmm..you ever eat cold fries (yup plastic like and hard) and these things cannot be digested.

So why fuss with this? Why not just eat what people eat and forget bout it?
Are you sick? Hurting? Have aches and pains? Headaches? Constipation? Bloating? Weight challenges? Poor skin? Major disease? Or just plain dont feel good?
ALL, yes I said ALL of these above conditions and MORE can be cleared up with raw and living foods !!!

Why? Because when the body is receiving the nutrition that it needs, the repair guys can take these new tools (actual nutrient dense foods) and go to work repairing the body. On cooked foods and processed stuff, the body is in continual work to digest and handle the overload of poor food choices. Raw foods provide a suitable environment for healing to occur on a day to day basis.

What results have people experienced? You would be blown away to see most raw faces and bodies. Raw changes and transforms a person like no other eating on the planet!

Energy is abundant

Skin is gorgeous

Weight falls off

Brain clarity is wild

Bliss after eating is common

Life is so very good

Ones mental outlook is enhanced

Spirituality goes wild

Emotions stabilize

Love rises to the top
This is the SHORT list.

Are you SICK of it? Are you one who is tired of this sickness.medicine/death oriented world we live in (look drugstores rising on every corner while many business are closing).
Want to stop buying into "what the people do just because thats what there is to do".
Want to pave your own way? Be a stand for your own health and energy and vitality?
Ok I heard you say YES. hahaa I said YES and I am (two years raw) so incredibly happy I did.
Life on raw live food is extraordinary. One can only experience it for yourself.

Contact me and I will be happy to walk beside you on your journey to a new life

YUMMY LIVING FOOD PICTURES

2009-10-25T11:55:00.000-07:00
A Raw Beet Soup!!!

Its a raw blueberry pie...woweeeee. Nuts and dates crust with blueberry banana date and honey filling. Yummmayyyy

And lunch....rawkin the house today!!

Ah yes, yet another fruit filled morning!!!

Apple Raisin (marinates/soaked overnight) Breakfast Porridge.

Banana Strawberry Ice Cream!!!!

LIVING PIZZA!!! One of my most favorite raw foods!

Pumpkin Spice Smooothie

Choco Spice Smooothie

"Chompa" Chocolates
Jicama "Potato" Salad

A Berry Smoothie in Bali

HERE ARE PICTURES OF SOME RAW FOOD DISHES I HAVE MADE! I WILL BE ADDING PICTURES HERE PERIODICALLY. IN-JOY!

NEW BABY SPROUTS-SUPERDUPER FOOD

MIXED SALAD

SALAD WITH EGGPLANT "FACON"

"BANANA SPLIT" WITH EDIBLE FLOWERS (oooo pansies drizzled in raw choco are the best!!)

MORE YUMMY CHOPPED SALAD

MORE NEW BABY SPROUTS

"OH MY GRATEFULNESS" FRUIT SALAD

VEGGIE CHILI WITH CORNBREAD

"OH GRATEFUL" FRUIT SALAD

WILD WINTERGREEN I PICKED ON A MOUNTAIN HIKE! delish

MICRO GREENS with a passing rainbow wash

Whats so hard about eating whole and living foods???

2009-10-19T10:32:00.000-07:00
What is it that creates, in people, the "its hard" mentality when it comes to eating well?
Did you know that eating well is not only EASY it is pure JOY! Thats right!

When we get down to basics of where we all came from, we find it easy to eat right. And amaZINGly, when you eat well, you want to eat even better. It is an incredible process.

I have been on this extraordinary journey for over two years and i am here to tell you this.
You cannot even begin to imagine how, by eating whole and living foods in their unheated, uncooked state, your body will change and transform in ways you never imagined.

I have lost weight, got brain clarity, gained vibrancy and health, look younger, feel younger, am happier, am more in harmony with this earth, plants, nature and other people. I am so healthy now that I cannot even remember how bad I felt or all I have healed from.

This is me before I began my raw food journeyThis is me after six months on raw and living foods.