Freedom of Choice!

I've been thinking about choice! Sometimes we feel helpless to what is going on around us! I use to take everything personally! From the slightest frown to the biggest "I hate you" remark. I thought every thing was directed at me! I must be so awful, and so I felt yucky inside! I also could not receive love. Many people in my life gave me so much of it and I could not let it in. It's mind blowing to think about that!

Trying to convince people why they should love me while believing that no one did was exhausting. Wow! What a load to carry! I believed that I could not love them if they did not love me first, and I still fall into that pattern sometimes now, but I'm recognizing it sooner.

Making conscious choices to love myself and others unconditionally simply feels good, although not always easy. Well, it is actually easy once you make the choice, and the feeling of freedom is so awakening. I'm learning to observe and listen to my feelings, physically and emotionally. It's important for me to just watch for awhile and not do anything, this helps me to make wiser and healthier decisions.

Whether it's a choice to eat something that is good for my body or to respond to a situation in a way that generates love and trust I have it within myself to slow down a little and listen. Then after hearing that clear voice inside I can make a choice that is the most beneficial.

We all can listen and make choices that create love and connection!

Love,
Shanti

Listening Makes Raw Food Easy!

It really is easy to eat only raw foods. The hard part is realizing that. The only way to realize that is to actually do it! Eat only raw foods and just keep doing it. It is in the choices you make. Listen to what your body is telling you. Not what your craving or desiring but what does your body really need. Here are some things you can become aware of that will help you decide what your body is telling you.

1. Are you really hungry?
2. Are you thirsty?
3. When it is "time" to eat do you listen to your body or do you follow what everyone else is doing?
4. What do you tell yourself when passing by your favorite restaurant?
5. When your out with friends and they offer you something you know will affect you in a less that excellent way, what do you feel, and how would you like to respond?
6. Same thing at a family gathering. Do you really want to eat all of that? How will you feel afterwords?
7. What is in your kitchen? Know what is food and what is not. Educate yourself
8. When feeling emotional do you reach for food? If so what would be the best choice?
9. When you are craving something, ask yourself why, go deep. Then decide and love it.
10. Know that you are free to make choices and that what you chose affects what comes next.

Planing ahead can make all the difference in your success.

One simple fast and easy meal:

2 big green leafs (collard, kale, cabbage, romaine lettuce)
2 tsp raw pumpkin seed butter
1 avocado
3 chopped raw olives
some chopped tomato
some dulse seaweed

Spread the pumpkin butter on the leafs, then the avocado, top it off with the rest of the ingredients and eat!

Be gentle with yourself!
Shanti

Lime Ginger Cilantro Sauce with Noodles?

Life gets busy and by the time 3pm rolled around I still had not eaten. Realizing that I was hungry I went to my kitchen and opened the fridge. I pulled out:

2 zucchini
1 bunch cilantro
2 to 3 inches of ginger
3 inches burdock root
1 lime
1/2 lemon
1/3 cup water
1 T honey
1/2 t Celtic sea salt

Of course not all of it came out of the fridge and ideally it would have been nice if it came straight form the garden but hey we live in a corporate society.

Spiralize the zucchini and blend the rest. Pour the Lime Ginger Cilantro Sauce on the noodles and give thanks and eat! I loved it and feel good!

Made with Love,
Shanti

More Taste of India!

I felt so excited to create this meal! I love Indian food! When I was in my twenties I was involved in a Hare Krsna temple and learned how to make yummy Indian food from the best cook ever, Maha Bhagavata Devi Dasi. It is a dream of mine to offer a healthier raw versions of this tasty Prasadam.

Indian Flax Flat Bread:

3 cups carrots pulsed in food processor

2 cups soaked Golden Flax

1 Young Thai Coconut

1 cup soaked sunflower seeds pulsed

1 1/2 tbls curry

2 tsp Celtic sea salt

½ tsp cayenne or to taste

Blend the soaked flax seeds in the Vita-Mix till it’s dough like consistency, put in a bowl. Add pulsed carrots, sunflower seeds, curry, salt, cayenne, and young coconut. Mix together and make 2 round flat bread shapes on a dehydrator tray about ¼ inch thick. Dehydrate for 2 hours, turn over for about 4 more hours or until firm and soft.

Samosa:

2 medium sweet potatoes

1 medium cauliflower

½ cup soaked flax

5 tbls fresh, peeled, chopped mature coconut

1 1/4 tsp cumin seeds ground

2 tsp minced ginger

½ hot pepper minced

½ cup green peas (I used frozen)

1 tsp Celtic sea salt

¼ tsp cayenne pepper

¼ tsp turmeric

3 tbls raisins

¼ bunch cilantro

1/3 cups ground flax seeds

Pulse sweet potatoes, and mature coconut in food processor to a cornmeal consistency. Chop cauliflower into small florets. Mix all ingredients except ground flax. Form into triangles about 1 inch thick and coat in ground dry flax seeds. Put in dehydrator for 6 to 8 hours or to desired consistency.

Apple Currant Chutney

3 tbls lemon juice

2 tbls honey

½ cup currants

1 drop Mint Young Living Essential

A pinch of ground cloves

3 tablespoon coconut oil

2 apples

Put in food processor and blend till smooth but still a little chunky. Transfer to a small pot and heat on stove on low heat while stirring with your hand so you can feel the temperature. When it is warm and the coconut oil has melted into the mix it is done.

A Raw Taste of India!

Here's a taste of India in the raw!

I spent 1/2 the day Saturday and all morning Sunday preparing 5 Indian dishes that I translated form cooked into raw. My son Alleh came over Sunday morning and took some pictures, and my sweetheart Dave video taped the preparation and the photographing. I have not seen any of the finished film products but I do have some recipes for you.

This is my favorite one called:

Kobbari Annam, a classic south Indian dish.
Coconut Rainbow Rice:

1 1/2 cups jicama
1 cup fresh mature coconut (don't substitute dry)
1/3 cup cashews soaked and dehydrated
1 red hot chili or just enough for you taste buds
1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt or to taste
1 tbsp coconut butter
1/2 tsp mustard seeds ground
1/4 bunch cilantro
1/4 each red, yellow, orange bell pepper
1/4 cup purple cabbage

Put jicama and coconut into food processor and pulse till it's a little like rice consistency.
Melt the coconut butter on very low just so it is very soft and mix in mustard seeds, chillies and salt. Chop up the rest of the veggies and mix all ingredient together! Give thanks and serve.

Widibooks: Jicama (pronounced hickama) is a legume, a relative of the beam family. It is a popular dietary staple in Latin America and widely grown in Mexico and Central America. There are many names for Jicama including: the Mexican potato, Mexican yam bean, ahipa, saa got, Chinese turnip, lo bok, and the Chinese potato.

More on the next post!
Enjoy,
Shanti

Carrot-Lime Tang Raw Food Soup Recipe – The Renegade Health Show Episode #482 | The Renegade Health Show – Raw Food and Vegan Diet Friendly TV for Health Nuts

Carrot-Lime Tang Raw Food Soup Recipe – The Renegade Health Show Episode #482 | The Renegade Health Show – Raw Food and Vegan Diet Friendly TV for Health Nuts

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