A Very Special Lunch

  We went on Saturday to a very interesting luncheon talk held in Sunnyvale. The topic was  related to health, and the host, Steven Fowkes, shared information about how the brain works, how our bodies process foods, and how to recognize what our bodies need as we journey through life. Although not a pure raw [...]

My Worst Nightmare Green Smoothie

This is a story of what Not To Do when making a Green Smoothie. This morning I decided to try something different. We had some purple kale which was on its last legs. We also had some left-over salad greens from the night before. Kathleen insisted that we keep the tough stems on the kale [...]

Pomelo Green Smoothies Rule!

This morning when I got up I didn’t know what I was going to make for my daily green smoothie. We were out of our usual mangoes and the kale was used up last night in making delicious Kale Chips. Then I spotted a lonely pomelo sitting in the corner. YUUUMMM I thought! I could [...]

Sharing With Others on the Raw Food Journey

We had a delightful dinner last night with friends who have also embarked on the raw food journey. First we toured their garden. Gorgeous! They have made a special vegetable garden with raised beds where there are lots of good veggies that will grow to provide abundantly in a couple months. Interspersed with the rest [...]

Brainwashed in America

A friend visited this morning and told me about her husband, who had recently been hospitalized for congestive heart failure. He is also diabetic and overweight. He’d recently gotten off diet Pepsi, which he was addicted to, and been drinking a Vita Water drink instead, and had lost weight and had his blood sugar drop [...]

Delving Deeper Into The Raw Food Lifestyle

We’ve had some wonderful successes with the raw food diet, weight reduction being one of the most immediate ones. We are also seeing our skin coming into a healthy glow and feeling better. I have had one area of concern, which I mentioned previously – the elevation of my blood pressure since being on this [...]

Good Food, Good Books!

I got a call from my daughter this afternoon – the one with the two-year old. Apparently, Phoebe had a half glass of the first smoothie she tried, but wouldn’t drink any again until her mother followed the formula of 60% fruit, 40% dark leafy green veggies we suggested. She let Phoebe choose the fruit [...]

Kale Slaw Salad

What do you do when you have too much kale?  Why you think for a moment and then you realize that you could adapt another recipe, in this case my old recipe for tobouli, to kale!  Now that I have a nice Cuisinart in my kitchen I took a head of purple kale and trimmed [...]

Green Smoothies and Medication

Since we’ve been on this raw diet with green smoothies, I found a really perplexing trend. I have high blood pressure, and with medication, my blood pressure has been normal. I assumed that being on green smoothies might mean I would need to change the dosage of my BP medication because I’d read that green [...]

All Vegetables Are Not Created Equal

We went to our favorite Farmer’s Market yesterday. The Raw Daddy cones were delicious, and the kale from our favorite farm, Capay Organic, www.farmfreshtoyou.com is super. The veggies at the all organic booths look vibrant and have a quality of vitality that is clearly noticeable. That was why I was so surprised when I went [...]