Raw Gratitude...

WHeeeeeeeeEEEeEeEEew, the last couple of weeks have been pretty FULL-ON here... ;) LOL...thanks for all your beautiful messages and sorry that not much blogging has been in process ;) We just got back to the UK yesterday and I promptly fell asleep for 16 HOURS – lol ;) Back on form now... The recent lovely news item from CNN News on my weight loss story seems to have been meeting with much delight among raw foodies all over – YAY :) Thank you, Dr Gupta for keeping your perspective open :)
I know some of you in Europe have been having issues viewing the clip on the CNN site – it’s actually now up on YouTube too, so you can see it HERE instead, if you like ;)
The piece will apparently be aired on TV again Friday morning around 8.30am Eastern US time, as well as a few repeats this weekend - so, watch out for that if you have TV ;)
...and for those of you who’d enjoy sending some raw love and gratitude over to Dr. Gupta and the CNN crew for their yummy portrayal of the raw lifestyle, you can visit this page HERE to leave them any kind comments ;)

on September the 19th I had:

1 quart water
mug of sweet/spicy tea
3 cups veggie juice: cucumber, celery, kale, romaine, carrots, ginger
2 cups energy soup with coconut chips stirred in, followed by a little bowl of almond butter mixed with lucuma, carob and maca powders
3 cups water
big handful of freshly-picked blackberries
3 cups veggie juice: cucumber, celery, kale, romaine, carrots, ginger
2 cups water


on September the 20th I had:

1 quart water
handful of blackberries
3 cups veggie juice: cucumber, kale, romaine, carrots, ginger
2 cups energy soup with coconut chips stirred in, followed by a little bowl of apricot kernal butter mixed with lucuma, carob and maca powders
2 cups water
freeze-dried durian and 2 fresh peaches – yum ;)
3 cups water


on September the 21st I had:

1 quart water
2 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, kale, spinach, romaine
1.5 cups energy soup with flax crackers on the side, followed by a few gojis for sweeeeeetness ;)
3 cups water
1.5 cups energy soup with half a slice of raw pesto pizza, followed by a little ‘amazon bliss’ butter
a few pieces of dried durian/mangosteen, a few fresh figs and a few nibbles of new raw chocolate goodies from Raw Spirit Fest
1.5 cups ‘wild power’ tea
2 cups water

Have you checked out Justin and Heidi Ohlander’s ‘Raw Food Right Now’ blog recently? I went for a visit a couple of days ago and was delighted to see lots of exciting new blog posts there – they cooled off on their postings for a while over summer – now it seems like they’re back full-force ;) Yeeeeee-HAH ;) There are some GREAT pieces to check out over there, including:

*A wonderful ‘Raw Spirit Fest’ wrap-up blog, giving links to numerous peoples’ pics and accounts of their experiences at the fabulous festie in Sedona.
*A link to the fantastic new list put together by Steve Pavlina called ‘You know you’re a raw foodist WHEN...’ – very funny ;) (I’d like to add ‘when you regularly have green specks of food stuck between your teeth’ and another I heard once that really resonated for me – ‘when you have goji berries constantly stuck to your kitchen floor and you don’t mind’ ;)
*A review of different cooler bags/boxes for carrying your raw yummables around with you. WOW – I for one am SOOO happy to see this review piece – I’m ALWAYS on the look-out for user-friendly, eco-friendly, stylish cooler bags and food storage solutions for the road – THANKS, guys, for putting this out there... :)

So, hop on over to RawFoodRightNow.com for an eyeful of yum...

on September the 22nd I had:

1 quart water
2 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, kale, spinach, romaine
1.5 cups energy soup with flax crackers on the side, followed by a little ‘vanilla crème’ from Cocopura – WOW :)
1 quart water
10 ‘chlorella nuts’
14oz veggie juice: celery, cucumber, spinach, beetroot, carrot, ginger
a feast of freeze-dried durian dipped in raw chocolate – OooOoOooooo la LA ;) LOL ;)
3 cups water


on September the 23rd I had:

1.5 quarts water
1.5 cups green juice: celery, parsley, kale
2 cups water
1.5 cups energy soup with flax crackers on the side, followed by a little raw chocolate ‘sauce’ ;)
3 cups water
tbsp wheatgrass powder and 10 ‘chlorella nuts’
1 curry powerstix, a little bowl of hand-mixed yacon powder, mesquite powder, gojis and barberries – wow ;)
3 cups water


on September the 24th I had:
2 quarts water
4 fresh figs
1 tbsp wheatgrass powder and 15 chlorella ‘nuts’
3 cups water
2 cups energy soup with flax crackers, followed by a little durian ice cream
2 cups water

on September the 25th I had:

1 quart water
3 cups veggie juice: celery, cucumber, lettuces, carrot, ginger
3 cups water
15 chlorella ‘nuts’
2 cups energy soup with flax crackers, followed by a little durian ice cream
3 cups water

Another ‘hot’ topic you’ll find summarised over at RawFoodRightNow is the current on-goings with the almond growers in the US, who are taking action against the USDA. We can ALL support the almond growers as they go to court against the USDA to overturn the ruling to ‘pasteurise’ all almonds. This lawsuit will be expensive for the farmers, who have mostly seen their family farm incomes destroyed by the pasteurisation mandate. If you would LOVE to support the farmers and get back to being able to easily buy raw almonds again at will, please visit the Cornucopia Institute’s website HERE and send along your donation towards this case.

Almond-y love to all ;)
Angelalalalaalaaaaaaa. xxx

(P.S. hope to see those of you in the UK at the Festival of Life this weekend in Londinium – see HERE for details – I’m scheduled to speak at 3pm and the Monarch at 5pm ;)