RAW VEGAN SNACK STASH.

Thank you JP! My best friend slash devoted follower of this blog! Yesterday I hung out with my bf from high school and after not seeing each other for 2 years it was unbelievable, the transformation I saw in her. She has quite the raw food testimony, which I'll be posting shortly. BUT. For now...

ALL OF THE ABOVE. WILL BE TRIED. AND TASTED. Reviews to come!!

Dorm Room Tingz.

Salad to go.

You'd think apple, kale and lemon would be bland..far from it.

Dorm Room Rawness.

Here's the result of my latest shopping mission:

-chia seeds

-hemp seeds

-mung beans (to sprout)

-case of mangoes!

-strawberries

-cherries

-kale--(that's already been turned into a massaged kale salad...i'm eating it out of a plastic bag right not. I'm civilized..I swear.)

What's in your shopping cart???

Sprout CITAYYY.

HELLO SUMMER RAW FOODIES.

I hope everyone has been getting their greens and eating fresh fruits, and juicing, and nut mylking, and dehydrating, and just getting excited about health, vibrance and longevity!

I need to give you guys an update on my whereabouts. I'm working away from home, aka. no blender/dehydrator/food processor, etc. I've been trying to make do but eating in a university cafeteria has been slightly difficult. I just wanted to show you one thing I'm doing which you can too!

[SPROUTINGGGG!!]

I soaked the lentils, sunflower seeds, and brown rice overnight, and rinsed them every 3-4 hours, now they're sprouting!

grow my little friends, grow!

La Belle Verte Obsession

Many of you can recall my restaurant review from last summer about a new raw vegan restaurant in Gatineau, QC (literally a ten minute bike ride from the Ottawa side). WELL. Now that I have returned to the nation's capital city, I have begun making full use of this easily accessible restaurant. Here are some pictures from the last week.

Katey eagerly waiting for her Greek Pizza, (raw food newb who LOVED her meal btw.)

me and the soup du jour: creamy tomato soup with basil and chipotle (amazingg!)

devoured greek pizza: I honestly thought I wasn't vegan anymore, because the feta topping, tasted IDENTICAL to real feta cheese. (I was creeped out at first then intrigued, it was a cashew "un-feta cheese")

Obvi had to end the meal with dessert: Banana cream pie slice, and lemon tart (my favourite..so creamy)

More pictures to come...

addict.

MELON..

I think I've been eating up to 2 melons a day..(slight exaggeration) but at least one whole one.

Someone tell me this is good for me..they're delicious, but also the only reliable fruit in the cafeteria I eat from right now.

that's weird..

SECRETS OF MAINTAINING RAW.

HELLLOOOOO!!!

I apologize for the massive hiatus, but I'm back and have lots of good info to share with everyone! I have been reading books by Ann Wigmore, and Dr. Norman Walker and have had many epiphanies regarding this diet. I pretty much assessed my own lifestyle and reasoning for eating this way, and I'm not here to tell you I've stopped eating this way at all. IN FACT, I've have gained newfound motivation and determination to show the world that yes! it WILL work, heal, and purify the body if we eat this way.

My favourite book by Dr. Norman Walker was "Become Younger", it was filled with anecdotes, and information. The main points I got from that book were also paralleled by Ann Wigmore in her book, "The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program". I'm going to list the main points that you can incorporate in your lifestyle to benefit from eating raw.

• one major thing learned: eating fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouts will NOT give you optimal health alone. Which is what I've been doing and have been getting discouraged from lack of results
• vegetable juices are the builders of the body, while the fruit juices are the cleansers. They have two different digestive paths, it's not always optimal to blend both together.
• germs propagate more freely on starchy matter than on almost anything else.
• if you are eating 80% raw and still eating white bread every other day, or couscous, forget it. The walls of your intestines are (Excuse my bluntness) CAKED with hardened matter that prevent you from absorbing nutrients, and experiencing true cleansing on the diet.
• One personal tip is that if you cannot let go of your starches, aim to eat gluten free starches: quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, millet, red rice.
• Colonics shouldn't gross you out, they are a vital component of "becoming younger" and maintaining your health with this lifestyle.
• the raw food diet is incomplete without the following: wheatgrass juice daily, Rejuvelac, kelp (seaweed family), variety of sprouts: mung, lentil, buckwheat, etc
• Finally, if you continue eating with all of these points in mind, your next step would be to take note of how you feel after certain food combinations. Maybe raw vegan restaurants start making you sick or sluggish after a meal. Research the basics, melons can be mixed with themselves, nothing else; greens digest separately than fruits; starches with fruit is bad, so is fat with fruit. This is something I continually learn after eating a banana with a few tsp of almond butter--AGGHHHHH. Bloat-fest..

What do you think? Is this new information for you, or are there things you will test out and try?