10 posts tagged “raw”

One Lucky Duck products are my favorite raw vegan foods to order online and to have in person in NYC. They even have TWO locations in Manhattan now! Pictured here are two cereals and my favorite way to eat them. I make some vanilla raw vegan hemp milk in my blender and pour it over the cacao or cinnamon crispies and pile on bananas, frozen blueberries, and goji berries. Amazingly delicious and good for me!

I'm expecting my next One Lucky Duck order on my doorstep very soon. This time I'm trying their new chocolate bars (I think I ordered every flavor), two kinds of crackers that I've only had in the restaurant and of course, some cacao crispies! And because I'm on the mailing list I happily took full advantage of some free shipping and free snowflake cookies. Sign up for the treats on the mailing list cause they're changing the specials daily. Happy holidays!

"I believe this is a tremendously exciting time to be alive.  I believe if we look and listen with our hearts, we can see very clearly now the emerging new paradigm based on love, unity, peace, prosperity, abundance, hope, change, harmony, sustainability.  All we have to do is keep that vision clear, not fall prey to the fears and worries that easily beset us in these tumultuous times.  I’m bringing my children up for a world that is going to be unimaginably different from the one I grew up in.  Really, how could I know what to teach them, what skills they will need?  So all I can do is to empower them to be themselves, to teach them self-knowledge, self-awareness, and self-responsibility.  To trust that they have all the answers they need inside of themselves.  Or in their words, to become Jedi Knights!!"

-Kate Magic of  Raw Living

Taken form a great interview you can read here: http://rawmom.com/blog/?p=520

Delicious Green Smoothie with the hows and the whys!

I cup water- get it moving
4 big handfuls of spinach -Protein! Vitamin A, C, E, K and calcium and iron!
1 cup frozen mango -makes it creamy and vitamin A, C, more B vitamins, potassium, and even a little calcium and iron!
1 banana -makes it creamy and potassium, magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and more!
cinnamon to taste -yum
vanilla extract to taste -sweetness
1 tablespoon raw honey -sweetness
3 tablespoons Manitoba Harvest hemp vanilla protein powder -for the protein after a 30 minute rebounder workout duh!
optional: sprinkle of vegan chocolate chips -cause I love chocolate!

"I am a genius! Look at every opportunity I created in my life and all those I continue to create that show me the wonders of flow, life, infinity, love, contrast and action. Without all that stuff, there would be nothing, yet from nothing springs stuff, so I get to love all of my stuff right now! I'm so glad I've switched on my Ecstatic Being circuitry, so I can love every single thing that comes to me from right now to infinity. Oh, goddess, I just can't help myself. Finally, I am falling in freedom. I have no control, I have no boundaries, and everything is limitless. The Universe loves me and wants me to be ecstatic to its perfect rhythm. Lucky, lucky me for shining so bright at the most interesting time ever in history."

Shazzie

Kelp Noodles!

Tonight I gave Sea Tangle Kelp Noodles a go in my own kitchen. I've had them prepared for me in raw vegan restaurants but this was the first time I found them and brought them home! First I soaked them in warm water for about 30 minutes (I've read that soaking them for about half the day gets them soft like glass noodles) while I threw together the following (measurements are rough, sorry I just eyeball it):

1/2 avocado
1/2 garlic clove
dash of cayenne
ginger
onion powder
pink salt
shredded carrots
apple cider vinegar
balsamic vinegar
1/2 squeezed lemon
fresh parsley
dulse flakes

Delicious!

I think I may have a few dear friends that I haven't seen in so long reading my blog because of Facebook! So fun! So this post is for you Amy M! And your letter filled with your yummieness made me a little teary! 

Details of my day being an athletic vegan stay at home mom:

5:30am: Alarm, drink water, eat a 1/4 of a Thrive Bar  and maybe a piece of dark chocolate. I like Endangered Species. My fav:

6:15am: Start gym workout by warming up on the eliptical for 5 to 7 minutes. Then work in intervals of 30 seconds hard and one minute recovery. I vary this to make it more interesting for myself. So sometimes it means a higher incline, longer time at a higher heart rate or slowing down. I'll mix up my cardio on any machine from the stairs to rowing to cycling and running. I consider my first hour of exercise time I must get in and the rest of my workout is the body making time that will really have the long lasting changes. So for me that means I want to accomplish an hour of cardio, free weights for 10 to 20 minutes 3 days a week, and about 5 minutes of abs most days.

I have my first appointment with a new trainer tomorrow. He better not give me any grief about being vegan! And I'm excited to learn what I'm missing at the gym!

8:15am: I've already made a smoothie for myself the night before so I'm able to walk into my house, grab and drink! Brendan Brazier's Thrive book taught me about the recovery window after exercise. Brazier says you need something to eat this is easily and quickly assimilated by the body right after exercise. By doing this you are keeping your blood flowing to recover your hard working muscle extremities from your workout and not rushing your blood to your belly for digestion. One hour after your recovery meal you can have your plate of food because your body is ready and able and needs it!

The remainder of my day is not so structured:
I eat about every 2 1/2 hours, play, have internet time, games, meals for my son, classes for him as well and Andy (husband) hides away in his home office to work.

I eat a lot of raw food. Some of my favs are zucchini pasta, raw desserts, smoothies, raw tacos, salads and more! Lately I've been loving a sprouted wheat bagel with Tofutti Cream Cheese, cucumbers and ground black pepper. Yum! I also love Quinoa pasta  with sauce or just tossed with a little extra virgin olive oil and nutritional yeast. I make raw hemp milk in a high speed blender and enjoy raw cereals from One Lucky Duck and Lydia's Organics. I eat apples and a little almond butter, bananas, pears, big bowls of steamed broccoli, kale, chard, and loads of spinach! I make green lemonade with greens, lemon, water and an apple. Oh my I could go on for days about food, I take E3 Live every day, and rotate protein powders like hemp, the Ultimate meal, Vega, and anything that's vegan without soy is fair game! I do eat soy products but I'm trying not to overdo the processed foods. One of my personal food rules is to not drink anything 30 minutes before or after a meal. I find it's helpful with overall digestion.

When I eat this way I feel light and energized, grounded and strong.

I like to watch a little Oprah at night and go to bed because I looooovvvvve sleep and am in bed by about 9:30p. I believe the body needs plenty of rest for recovery and energy. I have an amazing support system in my husband who encourages me to try whatever I fancy and my little boy, Eliot wants to run races with me! 

I made a raw triple berry cake from rawroyalty's blog on Thursday and I must say it was really good. It was a big bummer trying to get a photo of it, it's really purple all over the top, unlike the picture tells! Husband thought he tasted cacao butter, so I lost him there, I thought it tasted a bit like a berry cheesecake, and Summer (my sister-in-law of design is mine and bread and honey) thought it was more like a berry pudding. All in all a fun but expensive experience. And I couldn't get Eliot to try it, "no thanks, Mom" he says "I just like chocolate."

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

B: e3 live, lemon water. i sat down and ate a whole papaya

s: i adapted a smoothie recipe i found on http://rawroyalty.blogspot.com/. my smoothie: water, a large orange, frozen strawberries, frozen cherries, scoop of raw raspberry honey, pinch of pumpkin seeds, and small handful of cacao nibs.

i took my big mason jar full of smoothie too the alberta street fair. there was music, a parade with drummers, bicycles, silt walkers, kids and dogs, and we donated some cash for at a fundraiser for a little boy. they had haystacks, bubbles, a train table, painting birdhouses and picture frames- it was very sweet.

L: green papaya salad from a thai restaurant on alberta. not entirely raw, but close!

s: slice of watermelon and chocolate peanut butter frosting off a very dry piece of vegan cake.

D: green smoothie: coconut water, banana, frozen mango, bunches of spinach, cardamom, cinnamon and vanilla. next time i'll put nutmeg too. yummy! i also made curry in a hurry from goneraw.com. i put the creamy curry sauce over a small head of chopped kale, 1/2 sliced cucumber and peas. sounds weird but it totally worked. refreshing. next time i'll make it spicier. i was a bit shy with the curry.

What are five words you really like? 
Submitted by purplesque.

“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” — Henry Miller

love
raw
beauty
leap
serendipity

love- obviously. love is all you need
raw- food, i'm considering going raw with my diet, probably 80% of the time
beauty- seeing beauty in everything gives your mind a moment to breath. i'm thankful for beauty.
leap- good stuff happens when you leap, either you smash and learn or you fly.
serendipity- yummy word. i think you experience serendipity when the love, beauty and leaps come together you encounter the magic, another good word, magic!

yesterday eliot and i went to a take out only restuarant called que seraw seraw. it is all raw vegan food and the owner was behind the counter preparing all of the wonderous food with a sweet assistant. e and i shared an almond banana milk. he loved it so much that he wouldn't let me hold it. the majority of it ended up on the sidewalk outside. eliiot said,"i'm sorry i spilled it mommy." so cute.

i also picked up lasagna, rawkin cheese dip, kale salad, nori sushi rolls, pizza, chocolate cheese cake and coconut cheese cake. so far everything has been so amazing. this is truly my favorite kind of food. my plan is to go by once a  week and pick up a couple days worth of lunches and dinners. i am over the moon excited. knowing that the food i eat is so alive and nourishing makes me feel great and the small portions are unbelievably filling.

by the way, eliot is yummy and loving and amazing. we looked at some of his baby pictures yesterday and seeing himself as this tiny squishy baby and andy and i cuddling him in almost every picture, compelled eliot to through his little arms around my neck and proclaim, "i love you mommy!"  that was quite a moment for me. my little tiny baby now with his sweet big heart able to express how he feels.

outfit for today: ojai yoga peace tank, true religion torn jeans and pink converse.