3 Month Juice Fast!

Yes, that's right. I start tomorrow September 1st with a group of 7. We will meet once a week and make juice together. Tonight was our start up meeting and we made celery, granny smith apple, and ginger juice together. The group is very fun and supportive. We will be calling each other for support throughout the week.

I joined a meet-up group called, "The Raw Treasure," organized by, Jimmy Be Free. He posted the 3 month juice fast a while ago and I RSVP'ed maybe. Then last night, the night before we start I just decided, YES! I want to do this. I am ready. I know my life will be transformed. This feels so scary and exciting to me. Of the 10 years I have been eating raw foods and of the 16 gallbladder flushes, I have only done 2 three day juice fasts. I'm not sure what is going to happen.

I don't know exactly how I will be feeling form day to day. I'm sure I'll have good days and bad days. The part that feels good to me is that I'm not alone. I have the support that I need to get through this.

I hope to share with you everyday a little about how I'm doing with this fast. I will do my best.

Be Well!

Susan

Green Thing 1 and Green Thing 2

Hi Friends,

I have been making green soups for the past 3 days now and I feel so much more energy! The kind of energy that keeps me aware and centered. Not like when I feel hyper form to much fruit. Here are the recipes:

Green Thing Soup 1

1/2 lemon

1/2 cucumber

1 small tomato

1 apple, I prefer granny smith

1/2 red pepper

2 stalks of celery

6 kale leaves (That is one of the few things I grew successfully)

2 collard leaves

1/2 cups already soaked overnight walnuts

1 inch ginger or to taste

1/2 tsp celtic sea salt

Soak about 1/4 cup walnuts overnight.

Put all ingredients in the Vita Mix, blend, put in a bowl, top with chopped up tomatoes, avocados, and so dulse seaweed. You can sprinkle a little sea salt and cayenne pepper on time if you like.

Green Thing Soup 2

1/2 lemon

1/2 cucumber

1 small tomato

1 apple

1 red pepper

1/2 bunch parsley

6 or 8 kale or collards leaves or any yummy dark green leafy thing

3 celery

1 small kohlrabi or 1/2 big one

1/4 cup soaked then dehydrated almonds

1 inch ginger or more if you are a ginger lover

Put everything in the Vita Mix, blend, add toppings like in green thing 1 or whatever you fancy at the time, and have fun feeling good!

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MMMMMMMM........Yummy Soft Basil Garlic Almond Bread!

Hi,

Well I said that I would give you the recipe the next day but I didn't. Sorry, I was distracted by other things. Well here it is now. It turned out so yummy. My friend Lori loved it. We had such a nice time together it felt like just yesterday that we had been best friends in high school.

Here is what she said about our visit and the sandwitch I made her on my face book wall:

"Thanks so much for having me over and preparing that wonderful meal. Olivia (her 15 year old daughter) and I have already made the almond mayonnaise and I had one of your sandwiches yesterday and today.....Chris loved it."

"Yes, it was great to see you, too, you are such a cutie! I felt like like it was just like yesterday in a lot of ways, too. It's nice to have you back in my life and I would love to come over for a smoothie! Olivia is eager to meet you, as well. She liked your raw veggie bread and was very impressed."

Love you always, Lori

Basil Garlic Flax Almonds Bread!

3 C unsoaked flax seeds
cover with water to soak over night
3 C unsoaked almonds
cover with water to soak over night
3 sweet onions
3 big cloves of garlic
1 big bunch of basil
1 or 2 tablespoons of celtic sea salt or to your taste
Cayenne to taste, I like a lot!

In vita mix blend the soaked flax 1/2 cup at a time. Add water if needed.

Put all the rest of the ingredients in a food processor and mix all together is a big bowl with the blended flax. Put on t-flex sheets in dehydrator about 1/4 inch thick. Dehydrate for 2 hours then turn and take off sheets and dehydrate for 4 more hours or just enough so they are soft and bendy but not to mushy or hard. Makes about 5 trays. Cut into 4 pieces a tray.

Look for the almond recipe on this blog!

Put almond mayonnaise on the bread and fill with you favorite greens, tomatoes, avocados, olives, pesto, what every your heart desires! yummmmmmmmmmmm!

Your Friend the Sandwitch Witch!

The Raw Food Sandwitch Witch!

I just finished putting some yummy basil, garlic, flax bread in the dehydrator! Tomorrow a friend of mine (Lori), from high school is coming to visit so I wanted to make something yummy! I have not seen her in years. I can't wait to hear about how her life has been. We have a lot of catching up to do.

I hope the bread turns out. It usually does. I'm going to make an almond mayonnaise and roll it all up with lettuce, tomatoes and avocado. I wish I had some OceanGrown Sunflower Sprouts! I will start a tray tomorrow, and let you know how it's done. I'll also let you know how Lori liked her sandwitch!

Last time I made them they were magical. Everyone who had one said if they could have this instead of bread the giving up bread would be easy.

I'll post the recipe tomorrow. I want to make sure it turns out before I give it to you.

Namaste, Susan

What's Hot?

In the raw food world GREEN SMOOTHIES are, well I can't really say hot. They're cool! Let's just say many are talking about and drinking them. From what I have read and heard people are feeling great and happy!

Chocolate is also a very popular item, RAW chocolate that is. I have not heard as many people talk about how great they feel after eating this. I myself have felt pretty less than great and happy. Well I was happy while I was putting it in my mouth and tasting its yummy flavor, but within an hour or so of having it my heart feels like it's going to jump out of my chest, and I can't sleep, and I feel yucky. So now I do not eat it accept to taste a very little bit once in a great while.

Of the two I vote for the green smoothies! I have been blending greens for 9 years now. For the first 6 months on raw foods that is all I ate. My smoothies were a lot different than most of the recipes I see out there now. Mine had no sweet fruits in them. At the time, very long ago I could not tolerate the sugars in these yummy fruits. It was because of candida and leaky gut. Still to this day I feel better if I only eat a little bit of fruit. My smoothies consisted of mostly greens and non sweet fruits. It's really a green soup. I'll give you a basic recipe at the end of the post.

It is not always easy to come up with different flavors and always have them taste good, but I do not make them for the taste. I make them because they are healing! I can mostly drink any combination of greens that I put together. Although sometimes I just need something sweet and I go ahead and make myself a durian coconut smoothie! My favorite! I feel good after I drink one of these, but if I did it everyday after a while some of those yucky candida symptoms creep back. I try not do that too much accept this last 5 months I have felt some stress due to the move and have been wanting to feed my emotional body, and have felt the consequences. Time to get on the green thing again and feel better.

I will be sharing with you next time some strategies for staying on an all sweet free diet if your are dealing with candida or any illness that creates a yeast or fungus like condition. For now I'll give you one tip to help you stop craving sweets and other less than excellent foods.
EAT MORE GREENS!

Basic Green Soup! First I put in a half of lemon, half cucumber, celery, small tomato, and maybe a little green apple, and blend them some. Then I put some leafy greens in like kale, collards, bok choy, cilantro, parsley, basil, or maybe even some dandelion. I flavor it with cletic sea salt, garlic, ginger, or cayenne pepper. At this point you can drink it or if your wanting or needing some fats you can add a hand full soaked seed or nuts. This makes it rich and creamy. Use different green each time and get creative with flavoring. Good Luck! If it does not turn out, think of it a medicine and down it! You will get use to it.
I do have some yummy recipes that I will be sharing with you. For now get creative! Explore!

Decide to feel Great!