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15 years ago
Choco
Many people in America are in similar predicaments to yours; they want to step up and have a healthier diet, but unfortunately their local communities and stores don't have organics and pesticide free produce high on their list of priorities and concerns.
If you cannot get organic produce all the time but/and are concerned about eating a 100% raw diet with only conventional fruits and vegetab
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
Anne Wigmore's blending book is good for ideas on blended foods.
You might also consider making blended soups with some of the easier to digest veggies like spinach, carrots, zucchini, bibb lettuce, or butter letuce, mushrooms ( since they agree with you..) and some good quality, soothing fat like olive oil, tahini, almond butter or avocado with a pinch of sea salt. Gently warming the soup in
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
...Bed Bath and Beyond is another great resource for blenders. I just remembered that they carry a cool smoothie machine that has a spigot like you would have on a water cooler, so all you would need to do is bend the little black tab back to extrude the smoothie concoction. Completely by-passing the need to lift the carafe like you would with a standard blender. It's really adorable from what I
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
Choco
Wheatgrass Yogi,
Have you tried returning it to Walmart to get a refund for your mother..? They are so nice and have a liberal return policy that it's possible you could return it once you explain the situation ( even if it's used, they are ok about that) and get her a blender with a plastic container. Kitchen-Aid is currently making a higher power home use blender with a plastic container t
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
Choco
Chopping your greens into small pieces may help, but the unfortunate reality is, as any of us who've experimented first with cheapy blenders know, is that you will always have pulp and will chew a lot if you aren't using a machine like a Vita Mix. On an fyi note, I've never found kale or collards or even spinach or lettuce for that matter, to pulverize into a creamy green smoothie when I used my
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
Choco
oh, there are also liquid B-12 drops at Whole Foods ( I forgot the brand..)that some of my friends like better, if you don't like tabs.
PEACE
Choco
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
The brand "Twin Lab" sold at Whole Foods, sells a very high potency sublingual B-12 tab that I have heard people say is good.
PEACE
Choco
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
"...and it may be that our internal B-12 gets consumed simply by being very sick, independent of whether we have it in our diet or not.."
Bryan,
Yes, I totally agree. Being ill does require a lot of energy to fight disease and does consume a lot of the body's resources. I also agree that simply eating meat will not necessarily provide people with the B-12 they need. One can have com
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
I personally know many raw foodists who've tested deficient for
Vitamin B-12. They thought their symptoms of fatigue and depression were due to "detoxing", when in fact it was their low levels of Vitamin B-12 that was causing their sadness, lethargy and depression. Once they started receiving
on-going B-12 injections from their physicians, their symptoms began to fade away as if a d
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
To me, the Excalibur is 100% worth the extra money.
And you would definately want to go with the 5 or 9 tray only.
Depending on how large your family is and how often you need to make large batches of dehydrated food, you'll decide on either a 9 or 5 tray. I own a 9 tray and never used all 9 trays at the same time. If I could choose again I would purchase a 5 tray due to my eating habits an
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
Choco
Moderator, ( Bryan is that you?)
Can you please fix the glitch that keeps the Recipe Board from posting? I must have tried a half a dozen times this evening to post and it still won't allow anything.
Why does this keep happening on that particular board each week?
Can you permanently fix it from happening again?
Thanks
PEACE
Choco
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
One of my favorite super energy boosting morning juices is a simple yet potent mix of alfalfa sprouts, cucumber and lemon.
I take 1 box of alfalfa sprouts, a 1/2 to 1 whole cucumber, 1/2 a peeled lemon and juice it all. Super cleansing, energy boosting power for the a.m.
I love it.
PEACE
Choco
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
Choco
Thanks!
It seems to be working now...
PEACE
Choco
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
If you are using sprouted grains and vegetables to make your pizza crust like sprouted buckwheat or kamut with grated carrots and onions, and you need a binder to keep it together, chia seeds are also really workable when you can't/don't like using flax seeds.
If you are looking for cracker and pizza recipes - every, and I mean every, raw food recipe book on the market today has a pizza and
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
Choco
a) Online (and by snail mail catalog), "Living Tree Natural Foods" has wonderful raw food organic products. So does "Sun Organic Farm". I trust these two sources for the purity of their products and their really sweet, raw-food lovin' customer service.
b) Very few if any raw food dishes freeze "well".
The high water content in most fresh fruits and vegetables d
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
Choco
Phyllis Avery has a raw food book called "Garden Of Eden Raw Fruit and Vegetable Recipes" with properly combined raw recipes. It's one of the few books I have ever found that follows the principals of proper combining for better digestion.
The other book I know of with 100% properly combined recipes is the official recipe book for the raw food retreat center - "The Optimum Hea
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
Choco
The Recipe Board is not posting messgages since last night. Can someone look into this? Thanks.
PEACE
Choco
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
Evening Primrose Oil if you are a woman...
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Choco
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
Some vegetable sources of calcium are:
Bok choy cabbage, 80 mg; 1/2 cup broccoli, 45 mg; 1/2 cup kale, 90 mg; 1/2 cup mustard greens, 105 mg.
Fruits are much less likely to be strong sources of calcium as compared to vegetables.
As far as veg protein sources, if you are open to eating sprouted grains (though technically quinoa is not really a "grain" , quinoa is the strongest gr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
What I would suggest if you attempt fasting again, is to vary your juice choices to include green juices along with your fruit juice, specifically vegetables that are naturally salty and naturally bitter. It sounds to me that because your body was only taking in sweet juice all day ( which is very yin in Chinese Medicine), and our bodies naturally crave balance in the form of both yin and yang fo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
51. Re: Feed a Cold?
Miz,
If your instinct due to past experience is to eat something even though you can't taste anything or have much of an appetite, you may want to consider the wisdom of yourself and go with that. For myself, when I have been very ill with the flu or serious cold and I felt hungry,I found drinking miso soup and vegetable broth very healing. I also like eating raw applesauce when I am sick whi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
Hi Jen.
On Halloween we pass out the more exciting chocolate flavors of the Lara Bars to the children in our neighborhood where I live. Trader Joe's sells Lara Bars at good prices. You could also find the regular Lara Bar flavors in bulk from Costco. And we also buy fruit leather from Trader Joe's to give out, and 100% pure fruit leather from the Stretch Island company which comes in cool fla
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
Choco
You might want to try making green smoothies without the fruit. You'll need to pick out about 4 or 5 leafy greens you can tolerate, along with some celery and a piece of cucumber,an avocado, stevia, coconut water, ice, and an optional lemon.
Get your high power blender out - Vita Mix or Blend Tek, and put everything inside. I personally like blending sprouts in my smoothies, and for my green s
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
Choco
There is a raw restaurant run by a wonderful raw foodist about 40 minutes outside of Phili. It's called Arnold's Way. It's very clean old school raw food, good tasting and pure. Arnold used to be an active member of this board a number of years ago.
I found the link to his location with directions and have posted them below. Hope this helps! Happy traveling.
PEACE.
Choco
Directions to
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
Just an FYI...
Some of us have more delicate or sensitive systems than others. It took me many, many months to have a complete bowel movement when I transitioned to 100% raw food. My foods sat in my stomach, I was bloated and in pain, my intestines felt constantly logged with food and I had no complete bowel movements to ease the way. And yes, I ate fiber, juiced, and drank wheatgrass too. Col
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
56. Re: Fuji Water?
It's really expensive water.
Taste wise its ok, I prefer Smart Water.
Fuji water is supposed to be from a source that is super pure and good for you. I personally didn't notice any difference in my health. Just in my wallet. It got much lighter the weeks I was drinking that stuff. I ended up switching to electrolyte filled, distilled Smart Water after I read about it and really enjoy the
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
Choco
57. Re: Not Hungry
It's really important to insure that you keep your blood sugar and energy up on a daily basis regardless if you are hungry. Sometimes we don't "feel" hungry but our physical system needs nourishment regardless, just to get us through the requirements of our busy days. This is especially true if you have a stressful demanding job you need to be on point and alert for, an active family yo
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