Simply Simple

at precisely 12:30 PM- I ate a mango… it was a most tender, juicy, sweet and tantalizing fruit in the history of my eating; well maybe. Truly though, it was sublime! And that one turned into two. Just like that. Simply Supreme.

1:15 PM a goblet of silky home prepared almond milk with 1/2 scoop of energy inspiring phytogreens powder.

3:07 PM a pear that ignited a 2 plus hour walk on the beach in the glorious sunshine with my skin loving the skillful breeze that brushed it warmly. Simply Sensational.

at approximately 7:30 PM pulling together lively home grown mung beans, organic red vine ripe tomato, brilliant purple onion, soft & smooth avocado, refreshing cucumber, and well aged sunflower/pepita seed cheese created a treat of a salad to dine for. Adding a few squirts of stone ground mustard made eating it an experience of pzazz. (Sorry, I was distracted and forgot to take a photo.)

That's it, meals for today were Seriously Simply Simple.

The goblet was fashioned and created by a local Japanese artist who sells his finished works of pottery at 'Moss Street Market' Victoria, B.C.

On The Road to visit a New Cafe

8:30 AM breakfast was some of the juice that I processed last night. I added a small amount of almond milk for the protein and extra nutrients and a scoop of phytogreens powder; packed up some pears, a nectarine, pistachios, water, dehydrated cracker/chips and headed to Nanaimo to pick up a friend.

1:30ish friend Pat and I ate at ‘Rawthentic’ Eatery' in 'Qualicum Beach', further north on Vancouver Island. I found Qualicum Beach to be an attractive and stimulating community.
For lunch Pat ordered a veggies sandwich of some kind; she loved it
I ordered a wrap and smoothie and was surprised and grateful to receive the generous amounts that were served. The taste of the wrap was delectable(!) filled with almond cheese and shredded veggies with a toothsome dressing that offered a slight mustard hot bite. The smoothie was made of mango, strawberries, almond milk and pineapple. The meal was aces eaten!

All out thumbs up for this restaurant. I highly recommend that you too eat at
'Rawthentic Eatery' in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island!

These two pictures are of cracker chips I conjured up last night using the pulp that was left from juicing. The juice was all veggie with the exception of one apple. I seasoned the crackers with various spices and sea salt. They turned out amazing tasting (!) and work well to be eaten as crackers or a snack as chips. Tomorrow I will experiment to make another batch.

The crackers are displayed in a vintage hand painted in Japan serving dish.

It was evening by the time I headed for home after parting with Pat. I was some tired and decided to have an organic coffee. In the moment I opted for a piece of gluten free lemon poppy seed loaf as well. It was not organic; it was commercial and bland tasting. The coffee was, ok. I got high from the coffee, no rush of energy though, and after having eaten the poppy seed cake my mind held a memory of a nothing taste for it. The cake countered the effects of the caffeine so I got a good night sleep. My dreams following the day were interesting; Picasso formation.

There is more and more an enormous contrast for me in comparison of eating raw/living foods to eating anything commercially cooked! I have to work hard at convincing myself to eat anything cooked. It is good to challenge my system now and then with undernourished foods to see how I react and what the experience and contrast to raw/living shows. My health is steadily improving with the raw/living/vegan lifestyle!

The picture shows rye berries that are covered in water to soak; the beginnings of another batch of rejuvelac. I don't know if the berries had been steam processed and the store clerk didn't know either. The clerk suggested I try the kernels and if they don't sprout the store will refund my money. I ought to be able to tell by tomorrow night if they are all or partially alive or dead.

The Vintage Dish that displayed the dehydrated crackers

Pat and I were entertained by a couple of crows that were finding what looked to be nuts, in amongst the bushes at the parking lot. Initially every time I took out the camera the crows flew away. We looked through the bushes ourselves to see what it was the birds were eating. We found Nothing!

July 22, 2011

I will to learn not to indulge in heavy eating so late in the evening. Last night the combination of a whole avocado, seed cheese, past 9:00 PM; is a not to be repeated action.

1:45 PM a delicious orange!

2:30 PM the by far, best mango I have ever eaten! I promptly returned to the retailer and bought this case of mangoes.

3:20 PM flax crackers with hemp butter and green onions dipped in Himalayan salt.

5:49 PM an orange, strawberry, almond milk-- smoothie WOW(!) no kidding! Nothing else added either. I remembered to take a picture when I was nearly finished drinking the large glass full.

7:56 PM a very large glass of fresh juiced carrot, black kale, celery, beet, dandelion leaves, gala apple (1), cucumber; I added a scoop of phytogreens powder for the extra sponge effect for heavy metals. Again, I remembered to take a photo only when I was nearly finished drinking the juice!

I am currently experiencing very low-level detox symptoms when a point of healing occurs, which is rare.

Oh and, today I mindlessly ate some raw chocolate; it was strictly from an emotional need at the time. It was a very little bit and I forgot about it with no urge for more, within a couple of minutes. I experienced a burn sensation in my mouth after having eaten the chocolate.

New specs. Interesting that on the way to pick up my glasses I could read my hand writing with ease, extremely minimal blur. My hope is to heal my right eye that has 20/50 vision. It is the eye with an astigmatism issue. My left eye has 20/20 vision. My intention is to heal by means of healing my mind, and/or this diet plus exercises recommended by ‘Meir Schneider’ whom I took a couple of weekend trainings from back in the 80’s or early 90’s. Schneider does amazing work in teaching self healing techniques and I have been lazy following his teachings. You may have to copy/paste the link http://www.self-healing.org/navigation/instructors/meir-schneider/ .

I noticed my eyesight had drastically improved yesterday right after I 'saw' something clearly in my mind, a shift in perception equalled a shift in eyesight as well, a healing. May it continue.

Sunny Perfect Day

Meals started today at 1:05 PM 1 bosc pear, kiwi fruit, seed yogurt and walnuts.
The seed yogurt was more like cheese today. It is best eaten the same day it is made, imo.

T'was a bummer that the rejuvelac turned bad so I fed the entire batch to the garden. I think it needed more warmth during fermenting. I find rejuvelac really temperamental to make and it can get costly with the loss of the expensive hard to find raw berries. For now I will make cheese with probiotics, unless I decide to attempt rejuvelac with wheat berries. They are more economical.

After washing the kelm runner I headed for the juicer and made up some sorbet from strawberries and frozen almond milk. The coldness was nice after working up a sweat.

The dish is by potter 'Goldie Sherman', Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

The flax crackers in the dehydrator as shown turned out rather perfect tasting. I had added garlic dulse flakes by Maine Coast and Herbamare herbs and veggies with sea salt-- the spicy combo. Both seasonings are organic. Maine coast seasoning is raw dried and the herbamare is vacuum dehydrated. The temperature used in their dehydrating process is an unknown. I haven't researched it and am too tired this evening to do so. It is something I want to check out, to know. The flax was soaked over night and dehydrated approx 20 hours.

The crackers on the plate are the flax crackers shown above. I slathered them with hemp butter topped with some coconut crystals. 2 thumbs up! It was filling snack that followed the sorbet.

These are mung beans I have been nurturing for sprouts for the last couple of days. They are ready to eat. Just look at those fresh lively little delights! It is a perfect batch. Rinsing them often helps to keep them fresh and not moldy as they grow.

It was on to errands afterwards and I didn't get home until nearly 9:00 PM. It was 9:00 PM by the time I got to eat the salad. I was pretty hungry and had decided to eat rather than not.
The salad is of red lettuce, red onion, mung bean sprouts, olives, avocado, yellow heritage tomato, seed cheese. I drizzled avocado oil over the salad, squirts of lime and seasoned it with some spicy herbamare. It was tasty and alive.

A strong desire to eat an orange followed the salad, which I ate. I find oranges to be so beautifully flavourful!

Today I washed a kelm rug outside on the grass; an easy way to wash eastern natural fiber hand made carpets. After lightly scrubbing it with a brush and eco safe soap I hosed the suds and grime out with cold water. Leaving it to dry in the sun works well .

The art of food, painting, pottery…

'First Mate'-- a 'Janet Schaefer' original (North Carolina)

11:30 AM Echinacea tea

After soaking pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds over night I went to work making cheese and yogurt from the combination. A separate bowl full of pepitas (pumpkin seeds) took over a tray in the dehydrator that will be used for snacks and as an ingredient in granola.

'Hang in a cheese bag, over a bowl, the blended mixture of water, probiotic and seeds. That will allow the excess water to drip away.'



The video by Dan shows how to prepare the cheese and the yogurt. The only change I made was to use human milk cultured probiotic 'HMF Forte' by Genestra. Dan says he is making cheese from nuts and seeds however he used only seeds. What a super taste from the combo of sunflower and pumpkin!

Breakfast at 2:30 PM at which time I realized I had started to prepare breakfast much earlier and had gotten easily distracted with doing other interesting things, forgetting to eat.

Breakfast was some of the freshly made seed yogurt with blueberries, blackberries and orange pieces. I love the taste of the yogurt and the combo of the fruit with it.
I drank a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice mixed with a fresh batch of rejuvelac. MMMMMMM!!

Last night flax seeds soaked which are now dehydrating to form crackers. More will be added about them tomorrow.

At some point in the late afternoon I ate a couple of bosc pears with more than usual amount of pecan nuts. I finished all the pecans I have on hand so really need to get an order in this week.

I found some agave syrup in my cupboard; it went to the garbage. It was outdated but that wasn't the reason it was tossed out. I never felt good on agave and found out it isn't even the raw food it was made out to be. I am experimenting with coconut crystals and they too don't seem to be up to par.

Between 6:00 PM and 6:30 PM my stomach requested food. My refrigerator has a nice selection of food items pretty much at all times. There was enough mariana sauce to mix with yam angel hair noodles and zucchini angel hair noodles, which I freshly spun through one the veggies noodle makers. The mixture was placed on a bed of red lettuce topped with olives and chopped fresh basil. Some of the cheese that is still fermenting was added and whoa…. 'Delicious'.

Oh and right when I was heading to bed I stopped in the kitchen to eat a weensy bit more of the seed yogurt(guess what I am having for breakfast… yep) :), spotted the two ripe mangos atop the counter right beside me and ate one of them, as well. I really do think rejuvelac speeds my metabolism and gets me wanting more to eat.
P.S.-- I didn't feel the best this morning after eating the pistachios so close to retiring for the night. Not the time to eat such a rich nut, actually any nuts! A reminder how well I do when I only eat fresh fruit after 8:00 PM. A tidbit I picked up from Natural Hygienists, years ago, that I have found to be a good idea.

I love that so many folk are raw foodies!

My eating day today started at 1:18 PM with 2 kiwi fruit.

at 2:17 PM I added the juice of 2 lemons to a glass of rejuvelac and drank it. Walnuts came to mind so I ate 6 1/2 walnut halves.

at 3:13 PM a bosc pear which was tasty plus to eat together with another 6 half walnuts. My pear taste returned :)!

At 4:52 PM a hungry stomach spoke up so I ate the other half of the lasagna with red lettuce and hemp seed/olive oil dressing. This time I made a bed of lettuce topped the lettuce around the outside with the dressing and placed the lasagna in the center. Gawd I love this dish!

6:40 PM Thoughts of tasting black berries/ blueberries covered with almond milk lured me right to the kitchen. The beauty of the berries and milk was astounding and I nearly took a picture before adding the bee pollen but I didn't. Another time.

7:06 PM it was the enjoyment of a small bowl of pistachio nuts and red raspberry leaf tea with almond milk. I love to add some kind of milk to red raspberry leaf tea. My choice was to do a weak steep, maybe 5 minutes. It tastes a lot like black tea, and I love the taste of black tea.

I am yawning, a LOT. Heading to bed with a book. Maybe I will be able to read a bit, maybe I will go right to sleep. Sleep can come on so fast for me I will fall asleep in mid sentence even if talking on the phone. When I am tired… out I go, like flicking a switch! Later gator!

Lasagna this evening!

I slept 8 1/2 hours last night. It was a good sleep. I am not getting to bed as early as I would like to be.

Tonight I felt hungry at 11:30 PM and decided to snack on the some granola like I ate earlier in the day.

I do think rejuvelac has increased the speed of my metabolism.

8:30 AM was a refreshing drink of lemon and rejuvelac. I have more brewing. Certainly don't want to run out of it yet I will if I don't locate more of raw oat berries. ack!

12:15 PM a bunch of organic BC cherries… :) Blessings!

AND-- a bowl of granola made of nuts, raisins, goji berries, sprouted sunflower seeds, coconut, fresh black berries and almond milk. scrumptious!

1:31 PM a glass of lemon in rejuvelac

3:36 PM I made a sandwich using the toast from last evening. It is made of hemp butter, heritage tomato, dandelion leaves, seed/nut cheese, himalayan salt and black pepper. I have tasted much better. Truly I was not enthralled with this sandwich one iota. Leaving off the hemp butter may have been best or adding some shallots or fresh basil may have worked. I felt an overall sinking heavy feeling after eating it. Not in my belly, it was an energetic sense. Also my left ear started ringing and is still at it this evening. That may be detox symptoms, although it wasn't ringing prior to eating the sandwich. It was fun to eat a sandwich with something closely resembling bread. I hadn't been eating bread for many YEARS, with the exception of the odd occasion when I was out for dinner.

4:30 PM While I was out and about I ate a bosc pear. It was so so today. Odd how it was to experience a bosc pear as so so.

8:05 PM The big hit of the day was 'Lasagna'! Wow did it turn out amazing and delicious! I was surprised. Using the mariana sauce I layered it with the nut/seed cheese, thin slices of zucchini and avocado topping it off with sauce and some of the cheese. I put the lasagna in the dehydrator for approx half an hour on 115F to warm it and allow the flavours to mingle as well as dry it some.

This gave time to prepare a salad. Ripping up some lovely red lettuce, adding chopped onion topped with whole hemp seed in avocado oil and it was all finished.

Before eating I sprinkled both salad and lasagna with fresh basil from my garden.

The whole meal had me MMMMmmming and MMMMMMMMMmmming repeatedly. A definite, OMG, meal to serve to everyone!!

I ate even later tonight than last night. I felt hungry which led me to eating a heap of cherries then a small bowl of the nut/seed granola with almond milk, before bed. Nope, not a good idea said me in the morning!

Does anyone know what kind of berries these are? They are growing at the foot of the back yard, bordering a small forest. The red looking ripe ones fall off in my hand. They are not firm like raspberries.