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16 years ago
Lee_123
There has to be an easier way to get a child to help keep the car clean.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
482. Re: Combining food?
Was it Doug Graham who said that meals should be five ingredients or less and able to be prepared in no more than five minutes?
I read that somewhere...
Obviously, the healing hasn't reached my brain yet.
Lee
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
I'm psyched for you! Sounds like a really cool thing to do.
And let me know about durian. My local ethnic market has it but I'm afraid to try it. My housemate says it stinks (as in smell) but so many people here say it is delicious. I'm not sure if it's worth being evicted over. Let me know! ha ha
Lee
PS: I think I've seen "Arise and Shine" products in a local health food store
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
I would skip a few of the ala carte menu items...
Colloidal silver -- I get enough heavy metal toxicity from my environment;
Emergen-C -- Why not just drink some juice that is high in vitamin C? I don't see the benefit of taking in chemically manufactured vitamin C when so much natural vitamin C is available;
Digestive enzymes -- not necessary for most people;
Ginseng -- a stimulant y
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
I'd be interested in underground composting if it were something that didn't attract rats. I live in a city and they are so big around here that they sometimes take the lid off my trash containers. I'm not kidding.
If anyone has links for urban composting, please post them!
Thanks.
Lee
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
486. Re: fruitarian site
Yeah.
He thinks lettuce is a fruit.
Next thing, someone is going to log on here and tell us that beef is a fruit.
Pleeeeeease.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
The way you can protect yourself is to become familiar with what organic should look like. Generally, when you see a display of organic produce, it will not all look picture "perfect," and it will not all look exactly alike. If you are looking at a display that appears to be all absolutely "unblemished" and identical produce, be suspicious if it is labeled "organic."
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
There is a market I go to that has "Ethnic" in the name... can't recall the full name now. But it looks, on the outside like a shabby supermarket. On the inside, it's kind of shabby too. But... the prices and selection are awesome!
I will not mention the name of a certain well known << ahem >> "natural" food store but will tell you that a friend of mine was a
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
Gilda Radner
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Sometimes I wonder if some of the people who brag about needing hardly any sleep are actually just overstimulated (by their intake of stimulating things...)
Just wondering. Don't get all cranky about it if you are overtired.
And to all a goodnight.
Lee
"Sleep is the best meditation."
-- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
I'm sorry to read of the challenges ahead for your brother-in-law and your family.
I was very sick once. For a couple of years. It was very challenging but I occasionally made trips to a local used book store to sell the books on how to think and how to eat and what to believe that well-meaning people had given me. It helped me to afford food and medicine.
<sigh>
Unconditional love
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
492. Re: Am I weird?!
Yes, it would be quite normal to buy your children whatever they insist on, let them stay out as late as they like, and to let them eat junk food nonstop instead of stocking up of produce.
Cancer and heart disease and emotional abuse and intolerance are normal too.
I pray your children will grow old and wise enough to someday thank you!
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
493. Re: Am I weird?!
My co-worker said to me today, "I ate an orange the other day. It was good. I don't know why I don't eat them more often." Then she smiled even though, while smiling, she looked a bit sad and a lot tired.
Her thought was prompted by my eating some oranges as a mid-morning snack. Sometimes she looks at me as if I'm some sort of exotic animal in a zoo that she's been allowed to see up
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Nedsin, Sunshine79 is right about cortisone. My surgeon recommended local injections to me for scarring. I didn't go that route.
I don't see where Sunshine79 says cortisone causes scarring -- that seems to be what you took from her post.
Scarring is an inflammatory response. Thus, the recommendation on the part of some surgeons for cortisone to prevent keloids. That may not be an option you
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Eye color?
Didn't Hitler believe something like that too?
There are lots of reason why eye color can change. Blue or hazel or green is not necessarily better and is not necessarily a sign that one is healthier.
I'm truly happy for you if you are healthy but please don't imply that those with brown eyes are not necessarily as healthy as those with other color eyes.
Please google or ot
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 16 years ago
Lee_123
Just keep trying without berating yourself or browbeating yourself. Fall down a hundred times, get up a hundred and one. Just notice the emotions, the physical sensations, the craving, the taste of delicious fruit...
Breathe in, breathe out.
Take care of yourself. No one should berate a child learning to walk! Don't berate yourself as you take your first steps on this path. Don't berate yo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
497. Re: Am I weird?!
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk
I don't think diagnosing Brittany Spears has anything to do with this. Let's leave the poor thing out of it. Let's also not insult those who do suffer from emotional and/or psychiatric disorders or imply that the
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Sapphire,
I'm sending healing vibes and "metta" as they say in Pali. I'll let you google that.
I'm impressed by your perfect typing though I know everything is taking much longer. I thought Lassie was supposed to run and get help! I thought all dogs were like Lassie.
Dog: Bark, bark, bark!
Person: What's that?
Dog: Bark! Bark!
Person: Sapphire?
Dog: Bark! Bark! B
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
499. Re: Am I weird?!
Ok, ok, Wheatgrass Yogi, I'll help you out here since what I said could be viewed as anti-smoothie...
Smoothies are awesome for breakfast. You can make lots and drink 'em for mid-morning snack then for lunch too.
You can always freeze fruit that is about to go from ripe to rotten and then throw them in the blender when fresh organic fruits are not in abundance.
They ARE easy to make.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
500. Re: NO TEAR ONIONS
They already have food without flavor.
Next:
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
I went to an allergist last year and found out I was allergic to a lot of stuff I never knew about.
She wanted me to take shots and she said that after a year of shots we would see if the shots had at all worked. I went for a month then gave up. I didn't seem worth it to me. Your mileage may vary.
I'm going to try and make my body as healthy as possible.
At times I wonder: am I detoxing
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
502. Re: Am I weird?!
Yes, you are weird, as we all are. If you don't like green smoothies that is ok. Maybe your body doesn't need green smoothies right now. Maybe your bank account doesn't need a Vitamix. Maybe you had a bad experience while Kermit the Frog was singing, "It's Not Easy Being Green" in the background.
I don't like everything everyone else likes. I'm ok with that.
Lee
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Hmm, not being an expert, I can only tell you what would be easiest on my body. Melons just don't sit right with my stomach. I know some people think they are very gentle. But they just seem to go sour in my stomach -- except watermelon. I'd go for grapes or apples. Right now, I've been getting a lot of organic apples at Trader Joe's for a decent price (less expensive than Whole Foods).
I've
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Technically, Naked Juice is not raw since it is pasteruized. But, if you are in a gas station far from home and deciding between a bottle of Starbucks coffeesugarchemicals and a can of diet Mountain Dew cancerdrink and a Naked Juice... well, I'd pick a bottle of water now but when I was transitioning, I drank Naked Juice and it didn't kill me. Sure, there are people who will scream "TOXIC!&q
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
First bit of advice: Beware of experts. We have some here and they are generally cranky and have fake names attesting to their wonderfulness. That said, this is my favorite raw online forum because all are welcome. I read on another board, someone reported a successful raw way of eating that wasn't in line with what the guru there was selling... and <GASP!> The forum moderator shut her
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Hey VeganAthlete,
Sounds to me like you have really thought this through.
Sometimes when I can't fast due to work commitments, I mono eat fruit for a day or two. Just adding that as an option if you are in a situation where fasting is not appropriate.
Good luck to you -- and thanks for the reminder to read the ingredients on those commercial cleansing formulas!
Let us know how it goe
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
507. Re: NO TEAR ONIONS
Before you know it, it will be illegal to grow your own food...
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
508. Re: Dead Foods???
When I was transitioning, someone at work knew about it. I don't talk much about my personal life there but it's a small place... hard to be completely private. But, anyway, she was sitting across the office from me with a Diet Coke in her hand and she said, (with an "AHA! CAUGHT YA!" tone) --
"Odwalla is pasterized! It isn't really raw."
Uh huh.
I was tempted to poi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Just advice... take it or leave it.
Don't ever try to justify to others, especially co-workers, what you need to do for yourself.
Do what works for you... for YOU not for others.
I don't think we are all SUPPOSED to be anything.
Be good to yourself. You are worth it.
Lee
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Lee_123
Wow, pampam, I really appreciate your emotional honesty and clarity.
Hang in there. Keep trying without beating yourself up. You are worth it. Fall down a hundred times, get up a hundred and one times.
A thought, from the Pinsky translation of Dante's "Inferno" --
Midway on our life's journey, I found myself
In dark woods, the right road lost. To tell
About those woods i
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