Always remember to soak nuts and seeds

In 'Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine'-- Gabriel Cousens inludes a sprouting and soaking chart for many foods. I find it extremely useful.

Yesterday I woke in the morning and since then, aside from 2 - 15 minute naps, I have not slept and am only just as I start doing this blog tonight, feeling tired. This is a first for me. It is very odd how much energy I have had all day and how wide awake I have been.

Earlier in the day I ate strawberries covered in almond milk.

Noon, I suppose it was, I ate an ok tasting mango.

With the fresh batch of rejuvelac ready today, experimentation began with some sunflower/almond cheese. It will be ready tomorrow.

The rejuvelac is fizzy and has a nice lemony taste.
It was made using oat berries. 1/2 cup of dry oat berries soaked and sprouted then fermented in 3 cups of added water and fermented for 48 hours.

In the blender there are sunflower seeds, almonds, coconut aminos, kelp powder and rejuvelac ready to blend for a cream cheese. It ferments as I write. The bowl shows the blended product. The recipe is from 'Recipes for Longer Life' by Ann Wigmore.

Supper was the rest of the spaghetti pasta dish from last night, which I ate early in the evening. My appetite was down today.

Feast your eyes on the colour of those blueberries! Wow! Granola with almond milk this evening became part of the menu. This particular granola is from Bliss Cafe. It is a sweet and crunchy combination followed by a pear.

Today, eh. It went entirely too fast! Such a fun day. :)

My morning flew by; it was nearly 2:30 PM by the time I got around to eating anything. Before I post the first meal of my day I want to show the amazing bowl I et it from; a functional pottery art piece by 'Leanne Pizio' of North Carolina. I love Leanne's work. She is one of the most innovative potters I have seen and her practical creations always depict delightful art.

The Front

The Back

What you see is half a cantaloupe melon and fresh strawberries with almond milk. That was a huge tasty bowl full!

An hour later I ate a Bosc pear and walnuts. Notice any common themes in my eating? I may get attached to taste or ease or familiarity or repetition… or something.

I notice that through blogging my current eating habits I feel this moving me solidly into the arts. There is a certain amount of creative element to this endeavor that I am enjoying and want to further develop. It goes beyond the art of food, itself.

Dinner was zucchini spaghetti pasta with marinara sauce, sprinkled with nutritional yeast, topped with 'raw' olives, eaten with guacamole and crackers. I could not eat all of this meal. I saved half of the pasta dish for tomorrow. Scroll down for pictures of the two tools used to make veggie pasta.

Both the marinara sauce and guacamole are recipes in the food preparation book called 'Raw Food Made Easy' by Jennifer Cornbleet.

Just a tad past 8:00 PM I created and ate my first raw sorbet sundae. On a whim, using frozen strawberries & banana and some frozen coconut/almond cream put through the champion juicer, became a sundae. Topped with bee pollen and a fresh strawberry and it looked like a sundae. This brings in more ideas.

Think of it folks… this dessert or treat is nutritious, no sweeteners-- actually nothing added(!), low calorie, easy to digest, filling and delicious! How about that!?! :)

Both of these tools work super for making pasta from veggies. I have used zucchini, beets, sweet potato, carrots, and cucumbers for spaghetti pasta. They both make curly slices as well. The round tool makes angel hair pasta… super fine. I recommend both for the gourmet raw foodie! However, both are not necessary.

Tried the frozen almond milk

Breakfast at 10:06 AM 2 oranges, walnut halves, bee pollen in almond milk. I prefer orange in this combination rather than grapefruit.

1:40 PM - cherries!! Last night before bed I got into eating cherries. It is the best time of year for cherries since they are currently in season. BC has exquisite cherries. I used to purchase BC organic cherries from our food co-op when I lived in Ontario. These beautiful fleshy cherries are large and sweet.

Last evening there was left over sweet potato angel hair pasta and zucchini ribbon pasta which I loved eating for supper at 4:45 PM… mixed with avocado oil, Himalayan salt, black pepper, mango, tuna tasting salad and some olives. The olives are not raw. I do have raw olives but I find them really strong and didn't want them with this dish.

Added was some almond milk served in a pottery piece of artist 'Leanne Pizio'.

At 7:00 PM I felt like sorbet and wanted to try the frozen almond milk. Freezing almond milk alone only creates icy almond water. Sure is good to find this out! I put the frozen cubes of almond milk through the champion juicer together with frozen mango, banana, strawberries, blueberries adding to the eating of beautiful colours today!

What a luscious feast yet I felt like some cherries at 9:30 PM, which I ate. Couldn't resist, it is cherry season!


I experienced another point of healing this morning. It called for an energy treatment, more mercury vapour sense and a woven scratchy feeling of sorts, a gasp feeling at times, like a sudden urge to pull together it very hard to describe. Muscles of my chest were the force… a while later I felt a particularly strong and longer lasting heart murmur.

I had my eyes tested today, by an optometrist. I haven't been to one of those fellows for 40 years. Although my eyesight seems to be improving I felt a need to get some glasses specific to the needs of my eyes. I have been entirely too lazy to do Meir Schneider's eye exercises and feel myself stressing my eyes on magnified glass. So prescription glasses will be for now and I will get with the eye exercises and his recommended body exercises soon enough. I took some of Meir's training years ago and was impressed with the results. My eye examination showed all is well and in really great shape except my right eye is weak. 20/20 vision in my left, 20/50 vision in my right eye. It will be nice to shift the right to 20/20.


The fresh batch of rejuvelac is on the go. Hopefully this batch turns out better than the last batch.

Making Almond Milk

This morning I still felt like grapefruit and bee pollen and nuts yet wanted a change as well so I made a litre of almond milk. Repeatedly I have noticed people promoting the making of almond milk by leaving the skins on to be filtered out in the straining procedure. What I do is in room temperature water soak almonds over night and take the time to hand strip off the skins before blending the almonds with fresh water. I generally find at least 2 really horrible looking almonds, moldy rotten looking things, which I do not want to be drinking. That kind of almond doesn't show any sign of rot with the skin on. Maybe it isn't rot, but I doubt anyone would actually eat the almond if they saw it. For this reason I don't like to drink almond milk anyplace that leaves the almond skins on during the blending portion of making the milk. Sure it takes the extra time to hand skin. I also scrape off any areas on the almonds that look iffy.

To me it is worth the work. Consider it almond milk made with extra love.

Usually I add nothing to my milk. The odd time I will add vanilla for a different flavour. The natural almond flavour is a best for my taste pleasure; no flavourings or sweeteners need be added.

My kitchen is outfitted with two blenders, a vita mix and also a bendtec. I use the blentec for almond milk, most of the time, on the whole juice setting. The blendtec is automatic, the vita mix is not. The ratio is 1 cup dry almonds soaked then peeled and added to 4 cups of water in the blendtec. Strain and voila(!) delicious almond milk!
I will do 3 separate cups up at a time and stored as separate batches in the freezer, ready to blend. That way I peel 3 batches at one time and don't have to peel for a few weeks.

The picture shows the straining method, in mesh bags used for nut and seed milks which also can be used for making sprouts. With one hand on the camera and the other hand holding up the bag, I was unable to show squeezing the milk out of the bag. Do that carefully to avoid milk squirting through the mesh. Actually if you have a place to hang the bag you can let most of the milk drip out by itself or set the bag full into a strainer that sits over a large bowl or pitcher.

The almond left after squeezing out the milk can be dehydrated to be used to prepare other interesting raw dishes such as crackers, cookies, cakes, sauces, ice cream, etc.

Finished and ready to store, in milk bottles, of course. :) I have bought cow milk in bottles and given the milk away so I could keep the bottles.

After cutting up the grapefruit, adding a heaping tablespoon of bee pollen, a sprinking of pecans, and the fresh made almond milk, breakfast was ready. I ate it at 12:20 PM.
I puckered on this one… the mixture of sweet and sour together wasn't an expected experience!

At 1:55 PM I felt like a pear with walnuts.

6:00 PM I felt hungry on the way home from picking up a few supplies and ate some cherries. Wow were they good! There was a special on strawberries so I bought 4 tubs full which will be frozen to be used as sorbet. No doubt I will eat some fresh before they go to the freezer.

7:04 PM The oat groats that are on the last 24 hours of sprouting smelled so good I had 1-1/2 tablespoons in a bit of almond milk with a few coconut crystals. Now that was good. It would make a wonderful cereal anytime. It isn't so easy to find good quality raw oat groats, and oat groats that are actually raw! I order mine in from Toronto.

Seaweed noodles kept coming to mind today so I made some for dinner. They come dried and soften up really quickly when covered with warm water.

Added to yam angel hair noodes and zucchini angel hair and curly noodles made a nice looking noodle dish. It was another experienmental dish, just another idea.

7:21 PM The noodles were mixed with sundried tomato sunflower pesto, topped with chopped red onion with avodado and it was called dinner. Wow, did it taste amazing!!

The noodles are made with one of two different noodle makers I have on hand. I will take photos of both in another posting. See you tomorrow!

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Best feeling upon waking today! :)

11:57 AM broke the overnight fast with a tall glass of water. mmmmmm then had a bowl of a orange pieces(WOW the orange taste!), bee pollen and walnut halves covered in fresh squeezed orange juice.

3:18 PM I was out and about and stopped in Bliss Cafe for a hot chai tea with a Bliss Ball. I forgot to take a photo right off and then when I remembered I took along my camera in case I went to the Cafe, I had eaten most of the Bliss Ball and had drank most of my tea. ooops it looks more like a crumb with a shadow now.

4:30 PM a hand full of pistachios, to be shelled and eaten

6:13 PM 1/2 half of a small avocado and some red onion. The onion drew on my energy. I have noticed this in the past, a lot.

7:12 PM Salad, whoa… large and tasty! Romaine, avocado, tomato, red onion, mango, watercress, celery, shelled whole hemp seed, Himalayan salt, black pepper, avocado oil, topped with 2 falafel! I ate it all… certainly didn't feel hungry for the rest of the night and I forgot to eat the crackers I thought I wanted to eat.

I seem to be eating a lot of food and am being mindful about the reason I am eating. It is not always for what I grew up identifying hunger by. Currently I am reassessing what means hunger. How do I know I am hungry? I don't really know.

For years and years I started my mornings with 4 and 1/2 glasses of water, at least, drinking much more during the day. I felt something was missing like brushing my teeth if I didn't drink the water. When I started raw eating I didn't feel like all that much water. Lately though I have been drinking more again, especially in the morning.

On and off throughout 25 plus years I did skin brushing, light strokes with a dry brush working up the bodies limbs first, brushing toward the heart, short strokes. I loved the feeling and stopped about year ago. It is powerful lymph drainage assistance. Of late I have been finishing with hot/cool showers in my morning shower. That too is a fabulous lymph stimulator. I was pleasantly surprised with how my lymph’s responded to both techniques. With the mercury detox at times I have felt a need to take unda drainage remedies to open the elimination routes that became plugged with an overload of heavy metal detox trying to leave the body.

Progression to Health

During the last year the healing points I have experienced have been numerous. They started out feeling deadly to me. Literally I felt like my body would die. I have been using my hands to assist healing, as in hands on healing, since back in early 80's after I encountered spontaneous energy transference between another and me. The experience is published as a story in 'Conscious Woman Conscious Careers' edited by: Darlene Montgomery. During my healing points hands on healing has helped immensely. Through the last 20 plus years I have worked a lot on myself to promote my own healing. The experiences have been profound and exciting.

This past week I have experienced '3' healing points. Initially there were weeks in between and the healing would keep me in bed with doing a self-treatment before rising. These last 3 have been a breeze. I gave only one brief hands on exchange with my body during one of them.

Each time the pathway of healing has shortened as the areas of unhealth in my body have been cleared. That I find interesting as well. My whole healing journey is much more involved than this segment and all of it has taught me a lot about learning to help others, in a way I can pass on to others so they can learn to help themselves and each other. I am interested in and excited to learn to put my experiences together and help those who seek to help themselves. This has been a intuitively guided journey coupled with expertise learned through advanced education and other professionals, working with many clients and I have taken many years to experiment with myself.

This marker in my life has been a long time coming. Feels like a new energy has come in overnight and I am keen to witness where this leads and what becomes of it.

Healing point = my words for healing crisis. I might change the phrase again or return to using healing crisis. That point in healing certainly can feel like a crisis!

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Today was an odd out of sort’s food day for me. I didn't feel like making a veggie meal aside from a veggie & fruit juice.

I didn't pay attention to time other than what part of the day I ate. Starting in very late morning I had a large grapefruit sectioned, walnut halves, bee pollen and a few pecans.

Early afternoon I had a bosc pear and sesame tahini. I love that combo.

Later in early afternoon I juiced a few veggies and fruits and made a big deal about how wonderful it tasted. I used carrots, beets, kale, orange, apple, cucumber, and celery and ate a few pecans with it. It looked like a rainbow juice. See the lovely rainbow effect in the froth.

In the evening I wasn't hungry however, at 7:55 PM I got hungry! I had real hunger noises and vibrations stirring up a fuss in my intestines, a true organ recital. I decided to eat after 8:00 PM for this evening. I have been faithfully sticking to the eating cut off at 8:00 PM. Now it will be a challenge to see if this off schedule night beckons me to nightly eating or if I will easily resume the schedule.

What I ate was frozen fruit through the juicer. I made not intentionally, another rainbow dish of: a bit of banana, strawberries, a few grapes, mango and a couple of cubes of coconut almond cream. It was perfect. I wanted nothing more. :)

The picture shows a deer friend who comes to graze in the yard every day now, sometimes frequently throughout the day. That was a beautiful Echinacea plant he munched away. Today I caught him in action. Yesterday he was outside my bedroom door and only looked up at me when I pulled out the camera. Today after taking this picture I opened the door and he scampered across the yard. I did call to him that he is not to eat garden plants.