Our Raw Food (almost) Lunch!!

(Recipes to follow)

Cheesecake with cho. crust ~by Elizabeth~ from the "Raw Food Gourmet"

Process 2 c. soaked, rinsed and re-dried (or unsoaked) walnuts with 1/2 c. raw cacao beans peeled and ground (or just use cocao)and 1 Tbsp agave and sprinkle of sea salt unrefined. press into pie plate.

Filling:Blend 2 cups raw mac nuts rinsed, 1 cup pine nuts rinsed, 1 cup almond pulp left over from making almond milk, juice of 1-2 oranges, juice of 1 lemon, 1/4 agave, packet of stevia, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 tsp almond extract, salt to taste. top with strawberries. yum!

Idea:

My Sis add Cinnamon to her apples she dehydrated and said it helped "lower the insulin level" ??? and was quite tastee!....NO! leftover lunchbox lettuce doesn't count!! tsk tsk!!

snacks

I made a snack the kids actually liked today!
sliced pears and apples with the mandolin (really thin)
spread on dehydrator sheets
spray with fresh squeezed lemon juice
dehydrate to desired crispness
If you don't have a dehydrator you could try setting the oven at the lowest temp setting, propping the door open with a hot pad and setting an oven thermometer in the oven and monitor it. I never had much luck with this but it is worth a try.....

Tuesday

hum.....interesting bit of info....Who Owns Your Favorite Organic Brands?
by Dr. Phil Howard, 25 July 2007

A few examples of the organic industry structure:

Heinz owns Hain, Breadshop, Arrowhead Mills, Garden of Eatin', Farm Foods, Imagine Rice and Soy Dream, Casbah, Health Valley, DeBoles, Nile Spice, Celestial Seasonings, Westbrae, Westsoy, Little Bear, Walnut Acres, Shari Ann's, Mountain Sun, Millina's Finest, etc.
Kraft owns Boca Foods and Back to Nature.
Coca-Cola owns Odwalla.
Pepsi owns Naked Juice.
Hershey Foods owns Dagoba.
M&M Mars owns Seeds of Change
Kellog owns Kashi and Morningstar Farms
General Mills owns Cascadian Farm and Muir Glen
ConAgra owns Lightlife
Click here for top selling independent organic brands!!!
what we drink in place of milkDONT forget to drink the juice of one lemon a day AND lotsa water!! Lemon helps rid your body of all sorts of toxins...great for liver cleansing!

Nov 16

yey! Another raw food lunch with mollie! i learned:
~you cant absorb calcium with out vit. d (15 min. of sunshine a day) and magnesium....green stuff and almonds!! seems like i just need to eat greens! ha! my sis brought THE best raw meat balls with bar-b-q sauce. AND key lime pie that passed the kid test!! (they hogged it)!! recipe to follow....i cheated and made a "cooked" dead soup. but it was yummy. found a new website.....
~www.welikeitraw.com
-pumpkin seeds are good for zinc. (only the mailorder kind or make yourself ` stores bake thiers at extreemly high heat...thus "killing" them...
~sprouted sunflower seeds are VERY good according to Deania and Elizabeth. must be grown in dirt and misted with spray bottle....
~mung bean sprouts are good for eyesite...


oh, and my new friend Tawny had a spilada party. i was NOT going to buy anthing becuz i dont DO jewlery....well except ankle braclets in the summer on the boat cuz they make my feet look skinny...derhhhhhhhh...

we got a new monitor, as our old one "burned" out....brad installed it and we could NOT get it to work!! humm maybe it's the mute button......thanks kids, Pu....lease take off the mute button when yer done!!! ................derhhhhhhhhhh again!!!!

good sources of calcium:

Food source Serving size Calcium (mg)
Baked beans, canned 1 cup 28
Black turtle beans 1 cup 103
French beans cup, boiled 111
Great Northern beans cup, boiled 121
Navy beans cup, boiled 128
ReFried Beans canned 1cup 188
White beans cup, boiled 161
white beans small cup, boiled 131
Yellow beans cup, boiled 110

Almonds 24(dried) 75

Carob flour 1cup 359

Figs, dried 10figs 269
hummus 1cup 125
kelp raw 3.5 oz 168
Laver (nori), raw 3.5 oz 70

Okra half cup 50
papaya raw 1 med 72

Navel orange 1 medium 56 mg
Orange 1 medium 52 mg