Day off today

So today I have been chilling out, I have not done anything remotely energetic. I did though find, thanks to Angela Stokes:-) a really interesting website belonging to Storm and Jinjee on Raw foods. This website has some incredible pictures of them both and covers a whole host of supportive material on eating raw, body building, raising raw children, e-books and much more.

Sun blessed foods

I feel so lucky at the abundance of food here in St Lucia, I bought a big bunch of watercress and made a delicious simple salad with it today, I added grated carrot, tomatoes and sunflower seeds as a topping. I had half of it for my lunch, I am going to finish the rest of it tonight. I am getting so much enjoyment playing with simple combo’s of foods and my body feels great. Working out every day is paying off as well, today we walked further again up into the hills, we were gone around two hours and I am guessing how high but I recon around 5-600 feet up and down twice. Turning for home around 8 a.m. we had walked a little way, I was just thinking, ‘Oops we have come so far I wish I had bought some food with me, I don’t know if I can make it all the way back without eating something.’ (We still had some punishing hill work to do.) Bernie suddenly says "look there are some ripe guavas over there" and proceeds to pick them for me. Thanks to those precious little fruits I made it home OK. It sounds a bit dramatic but the heat is intense I find it tough on the hills unless fruited or sunridered up!

Raw Almonds

Some of you will know about the raw almonds issue with American almonds, the labelling of pasteurised as raw and the unnecessary decision in my view to pasteurise all almonds. For those of us who believe in food choice and want to eat our almonds raw we may still be able to do something to stop the continuing violation of our rights, I really don’t want to give up on this one. I find it deplorable that I am not given the correct info on what I am choosing to eat. To be able to buy almonds labelled as raw when they have been pasteurised is just not on in my book. Plus the fact it seems a ridicules thing to do to the almond, whoever heard of anyone getting ill eating raw almonds? Salmonella from chickens yes, but almonds?

Apparently two people did…………once

I got sick eating a duff sandwich from a shop when I used to eat that sort of thing, and I believe not so long ago several hundred people got sick on a cruise, and loads were ill who went on a holiday that my friend took. The point being that I don’t think almonds are a major player here in creating sickness..do you?

Anyway go to this link to read more about it and sign the campaign to save our almonds.

I'm really mad now :-)

Blessings
love Caroline and Bernie

Raw Recipe

I made a great raw lunch today and thought you might like to know so here’s what I did.
I put in the new little Kenwood mixer with the metal knife;

1 red pepper sliced and de-seeded
1 white aubergine cut up
Some olive oil and salt to taste
These I whizzed see pic.
I used this as a topping

Then on the plate I put;
1 small lettuce
1 avocado from the tree in the garden
1 tomato
A few sprouted lentils

It was very yummy and I prepared it in about 5 minutes.

One of the great things about going raw is that the washing up only takes a few minutes also!

But what do you eat?

OK so a lot of local people here are finding it a bit of a struggle to imagine what I am eating as I eat no fish, meat, dairy or wheat. Also the majority of what I do eat is raw, probably around 90%. Many people are interested in the whole idea of health as an option now, but are struggling with their addictions, they feel that they cannot give up eating some of the things they are used to because they will feel deprived. It’s a tricky one for sure and of course like everything simple to talk about and in practice it can bring up loads of emotional and physical challenges, but I feel like I am on a journey of discovery about what works for and supports me in what I am doing. For me what I put in my body is interesting as I explore the dynamics of being human! For support and education on the growing raw food movement check out my links, more will be added soon.

To give you an idea this is what I had yesterday

2 litres of filtered energised water
The juice of 2 jelly coconuts
The meat of one
2 sunrider sunbars
1 sunrider vitashake
2 small sweet potatoes
Double serving of spinach
1 white aubergine
Handful of mixed seeds mixed in olive oil (sunflower, sesame)
½ teaspoon of sea salt
1 pint of green juice

The sweet potato, aubergine and spinach I lightly steamed for 2 minutes

I have now just got a blender and small food processor so I will be now going 100% raw and juicing rather than steaming.

The sunrider products I find have helped me enormously and are considered raw, they are full of live enzymes and my body loves them! I am enjoying all the fruits but I am also aware that too much sugar from the fruits makes me feel tired, but its OK if I work it off by exercise. I have heard some of my friends mention the same thing too.
As soon as the clouds go I am going to make some flax crackers and sun dry them. I also have some really beautiful red peppers, which I am going to eat today.