What's been on my mind.

Hello Every one,

I want to share what's been on my mind.

Some one ask me a while back to give a Raw Food class to help people in the community eat healthier. Here was the main problem. How can you teach or help people to eat healthier if food prices or so high. How do you educate a Mother of two who has a few dollars to stretch for the rest of the week? When it comes to feeding her kids, She is going to go for the dollar menu deals or go to the 99 cents store to get frozen food. The price of Broccoli when not on sale is between $2.50 to 2.99. Organic can go above $3.00. (Let us not forget the paper towels and toilet tissue she needs) A Raw Food life style is not cheap for a person living on the poverty level. If you are a single parent with two kids eating raw foods and living from paycheck to paycheck or on Food stamps, let me know how you are managing it, please. It may offer help to others.

Last week People on food stamps were getting attention because the tax payers do not want to pay taxes for Soda. I'm not sure if any of you are aware that Mayor Bloomberg of New York is asking the Obama administration for permission to exclude sugary soft drinks from the food stamp program. Ten years ago when concerned individuals were asking about the amount of sugary products that were being included on the items of food stamp spending..........Did the powers to be care then? Now as a result we have obesity among children. By the time they are teenagers half of them will have diabetes. It is bad enough already that seniors and People in general can't afford healthier foods. I have to constantly find ways to spend less and eat healthier which is not a huge problem because I don't have children to feed.
For me this is hypocrisy when it comes to the soda thing. If I were Bloomberg, I would have asked the Obama Administration to lower food prices.
That is my voice for today.


From August of 2009 to June of 2010, I was on top of the world eating Raw Foods. During the month of July 2010 my life Style turned into a constant battle between eating healthy foods and avoiding bad foods. I wasn't sure if I make the one year. I felt victorious winning over my weakness at first, but after a while, I became tired and frustrated from being on the battlefield. My Raw Food lifestyle was turning into an epic series between good and evil. Episode one : Should I use my will power to stand up against the sugar cravings? Episode two: Where is that determination? Episode three : Master the discipline grasshopper. Thoughts were whirling like a tornado in my head. Do I have enough will power to continue eating Raw Foods or do I need more determination? What is going to happen to me is I don't master discipline ? After one month of constant frustration, I started this blog. Joy came back into my life but only lasted for a few weeks. Then that annoying question came up again. How are you going to maintain this life style for the rest of your life ? I couldn't stuff this question back down. I had to face it. The answer was revealed to me in the middle of October. The truth is .........It will not take either will power or determination or discipline to live this lifestyle. It is going to take work to clean out any remaining negative thinking I was taught to believe. The same steps to rid the body of physical toxins, must be applied to rid my mind of mental and emotional toxins. I still hold on to doubts about myself. By December 21 2010 I will have written down "creating the life I truly desire for the next 5o years".

Here are some two simple soup to make on your own. From the " Living on Raw Foods " by Alissa Cohen.

THAI COCONUT SOUP
4 young bay white coconuts
1/2 cup pineapple
1 teaspoon cumin

Remove the milk from 4 coconuts and place in a blender or vita-mix.
Take the meat from 1 of the coconuts and place in blender along with the coconut milk.
Add the pineapple and cumin and blend well until smooth and creamy.

RED PEPPER SOUP
4 1/2 red bell pepper
1/2 teaspoon miso
1/2 cup chopped apple
1 cup cilantro

Blend all except 1/2 cup red bell pepper in blender or vita-mix until creamy.
Pour into a bowl.
Dice the remaining 1/2 cup red bell pepper and mix into bowl with the soup.

Enjoy!

Note: I pick these two simple soups to encourage my friend who hates being in the kitchen cooking over the flame. Eating healthy doesn't have to be laborious work. You are not going to break a into a sweat preparing these soups.

raincoat - Anne klein - burlington coat factory
scarf /plaid skirt - Rags A GO GO
beret - vintage
bag- thirfted
tights- 99 cents NYC
M.J. shoe - John Fluevog

Thank you for reading

peace and light to you