The One Month RAW Challenge

[TeePee]

SIM!!!!! you are absolutely amazing!!!!

For all of the Sim Fans here, I can tell you first hand that she is the best source of information and inspiration I have had through my whole raw journey!!! I think she posted that her and I (and her sweet husband) met up in the fall to share a raw organic lunch, and she is wonderful, beautiful and amazing!!

Sim, we can't wait to hear all about your new knowledge!! Maybe you can give us a "tip of the day" Or maybe you should open your own training school!!!! Love to you!!! T

[TeePee]

ABOUT DEHYDRATORS.....Does anyone, or does anyone know, is it safe to put the teflex and/or mesh sheets in the dishwasher. Washing those things is my biggest raw chore peeve!!!

[Sim]

Sim,

I am thinking about how to magnify your generosity in the corporate effort in the group! Can we delegate a sort of bucket brigade process and come up with a final prodeuct that would benefit the enitre site?

Is there a feature on this new Bulletin Board we have not utilized yet that would make this process more corporately hands on?

n.

HI Nance and everyone~
I love this idea! How can we do this? Whatever I've learned (and oh my, I can't believe how much that is!) is for all of you girls...I'm far from being an expert, but when I think of the "mistakes" I've made over the past year and a half in raw food prep and eating habits, I'm amazed that I was able to get to this point! In the past five weeks, I've eaten less nuts and nut=based dishes than ever...and the food that my classmates and I have created has been over-the-top gourmet. This past week in the Spa/Fusion Cuisine class, the challenge was to create two new recipes per day (a soup, salad, starter or main dish) using only the ingredients they told us we could use---a limited list. The iist varied very slightly each day but what was significant about it was that in Spa cuisine, very little nut or nut product and very little oil can be used. The limit was the equivalent of two tablespoons of whole or fractiionated fat, whole meaning fat from a whole fat food like a nut or coconut and fractionated meaning an oil. Now think of this: 16 people coming up with 32 recipes per day, using a very limited list of ingredients and there were 32 different recipes for 4 days in a row. Spectacular, delicious and lighter than light. My own personal triumph was a coconut almond fruit parfait with a coconut/almond/pineapple crumble...that used less than one tablespoon of almonds and one tablespoon of young coconut per serving. No other fat but a luscious dessert. Of all my other happy creations, I really enjoyed something I called "Lettuce Wrap Ourselves in Joy"...what can I say? I'm such a nerd and couldn't resist the pun. But it was a gorgeous green lettuce wrap with Thai flavors and the filling was of spinach, shiitake mushrooms, snap beans, green peas, red bell peppers, miso, tamari, lemograss, ginger, and finely diced hot pepper. No genius, just pretty and tasty. And i'm finding out that most of what raw food chef "cookbooks" offer isn't genius either...you all do exactly what these chefs do..you play in your kitchens and you create. The difference is that they have everything at their fingertips and we don't. Keep creating and sharing, girls. Maybe we can put out our own collective cookbook, "I've Mastercleansed...Now What Do I Eat?: Raw Lifestyle Recipes for Smart People" or some such title. Let's think about it.

Most notable moment of the week: I had my first durian and I have to tell you all that there is no sexier, more sensuous, or more sweet, creamy, luscious substance on the face of this planet! Of course, that's in my own humble opinion. Some people can't even bear the smell of durian, so maybe I'm a freak Whatever, all I can say is that I will do whatever I can to find durian at home or away, even if I have to order it directly from Thailand! In San Francisco, they're $9 apiece. Sold. I'll take 500.

That's it for now, ladies. I'm sending you all my love and gratitude for being here and sharing, always sharing and for continuing to make this thread a place where we know we can find friends-of-the-heart.

[TeePee]

Went to NYC yesterday. Ate at Pure Juice and Take Away and later at PUre Food and Wine. sooooo worth the 2 hour drive!

[Sim]

Went to NYC yesterday. Ate at Pure Juice and Take Away and later at PUre Food and Wine. sooooo worth the 2 hour drive!

Tee Pee....that means you are ONE LUCKY DUCK!

[SuhasRao]

This is a concept I borrowed from the shareware industry, where you can download a trial version of a piece of software and try it out risk-free for 30 days before you’re required to buy the full version. It’s also a great way to develop new habits, and best of all, it’s brain-dead simple.

Let’s say you want to start a new habit like an exercise program or quit a bad habit like sucking on cancer sticks. We all know that getting started and sticking with the new habit for a few weeks is the hard part. Once you’ve overcome inertia, it’s much easier to keep going.

SuhasRao

Looking to perform an intervention on a loved one who is abusing drugs or alcohol? This site can definitely help.
www.druginterventions.net

[SuhasRao]

This is a concept I borrowed from the shareware industry, where you can download a trial version of a piece of software and try it out risk-free for 30 days before you’re required to buy the full version. It’s also a great way to develop new habits, and best of all, it’s brain-dead simple.

Let’s say you want to start a new habit like an exercise program or quit a bad habit like sucking on cancer sticks. We all know that getting started and sticking with the new habit for a few weeks is the hard part. Once you’ve overcome inertia, it’s much easier to keep going.


SuhasRao

Looking to perform an intervention on a loved one who is abusing drugs or alcohol? This site can definitely help.

www.druginterventions.net

[TeePee]

Yes!!! SIM, it was a 'LUCKY DUCK DAY"!!!

[Sim]

ABOUT DEHYDRATORS.....Does anyone, or does anyone know, is it safe to put the teflex and/or mesh sheets in the dishwasher. Washing those things is my biggest raw chore peeve!!!

Okay, TeePee... i am thoroughly and that means embarrassed...all my new California Goddess friends would tell me to just say "thank you" for all your love and all your confidence, so l will BUT I have to say that I am no expert...but I will learn because I LOVE THIS RAW LIFE. I'm finding that the trick is to read and read and read and listen to everything...and then we can make up our own minds about how to live raw, according to what our bodies tell us feels right. If 80-10-10 is good for someone, then do it. If the Hippocrates way is better for someone, then he/she should do it, but not disparage anyone who lives raw differently than the way he/she does It's that simple. Yet if I hear another person ask, "What percentage raw are you?" I might scream And yes, listen to all the leading lights in the raw food world...and then make up your own minds as to what their opinions really mean and whether they're credible. Just because they're out there and are very big doesn't mean they're correct or even sincere about what they're saying. We have to educate ourselves and make up our own minds.

But thanks, TeePee. You are the living end!

Anyway, Miss TeePee, had quite the adventure this week, rubbing elbows with and having seaweed salad in common with Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson at Pure Food and Wine this weekend. What TeePee didn't tell you about when we met this past year was what i said when I saw her...I think it was something like, "'Oh, holy @#$%, you are gorgeous!" She is, both inside and out.

Okay, mutual admiraiton society meeting is over. Teflex and mesh sheets can be washed in the dishwasher but they wear out very quickly that way. I say string a clothesline with clothespins, rinse the things and hang 'em up. Summer's coming, TP...they'll dry quickly!

Love to everyone...and please remember that TeePee wrote nice things about me in her post while she was still under the influence of a Harrelson/Wilson high!

[SierraM]

Hi Everyone!
I recently made a committment to get myself back together and it started with a move to California! I am new in the Pasadena area, also new to the Master Cleanse. Today is my second day of 15 that I am committed to. In preparing to come off the cleanse I would like to try the 30 day raw food diet. My diet has been lacto vegitarian for the past 15 years but I have to say that although I did cut out all meat and fish I was still living primarily on frozen and fast foods. I am a type 0 blood and wonder if anyone would have ideas or suggested reading on how the raw food diet would effect the "0" blood type. Thanks and Great Health to ALL!!!