Snacks for school

Woah, was I in for a crazy surprise when our son began kindergarten half-days...I never knew that parents volunteered, or that you could provide snacks for the whole class. The ideas are almost endless, but when I need to think of one at the store...grr...my mind wanders and would get lost. I realized, a list of ideas would help! Now their little faces light up when they see me bring snacks in, because they know it will be something cool. That feeling is PRICELESS! The idea is to feel confident and deliver the snacks with panache.  Soooooo, I made a list...maybe you can use it, maybe not, anyhow...here it is...

Chia Pudding is the best

Okay...so when did the chia pet become the "thing" to do with chia seeds? People are seriously nuts! Maybe I was just the last to discover the versatility of this seed, which is probably the case, either way, I am overjoyed with the deliciousness this easy pudding brings! 

The freestyle recipe is as follows:

soak a cup of raw almonds in your blender in a few cups of water

sourdough tortilla recipe

A sourdough venture with a happy ending...

popular healthy vegan bar recipe snack/hack

 Easiest healthy snack ever

Gather these ingredients: Regular oats, Dates, Almonds, Cacao powder, vanilla, and salt...

how to get your kid to eat spinach and salad

Piranha Boy Eats Spinach Salad

Yep, you heard right, I have decoded the child's mind and developed a way to ALLOW THEM TO ACTUALLY ENJOY SALAD!!! 

Vegan grape upside down cake recipe. vegan zucchini upside down cake recipe

 Have you EVER? I'd never heard of it either! Grape upside down cake...turns out, it's delicious...a real keeper...

 My recipes are, as always, freestyle. This is a nice way of saying, use what you have...if you have no sugar, use honey...if you have no coconut oil, use olive oil...if you have no wheat flour, grind up some oats...quit messing around and put it in the bowl.....make it go!

Cooking off the moisture in the grapes until they just begin to spew their insides out...medium heat...with coconut

My best friend and I also made dill pickles! So delicious and easy to make! I think we'll do this every year from now on! These would make great gifts and an even better snack!

 I don't think we'll have to buy pickles for at least two years! It was

heirloom tomato recipes

Super easy homemade tomato sauce! All it requires is a hot water bath...it's as easy as making jam!

 Adding homemade canned goods to your pantry is a great way to eliminate additives into your diet. Store bought tomato sauce has

how to get rid of candida in steps

If you are suffering from a yeast overgrowth

• Change your diet immediately to a strict anti-candida diet... no carbs, no sugar, no coffee, no booze, no nothing for a time, but it's gets better!

Find a Naturopathic Doctor in your area

•  they can help you with supplements to rid your body of yeast...probiotics, yeast killers...
•  Naturopaths will give you a detox plan and speed your road to recovery.
•  they can be your support 100%.  

Rid your body of stress and trust yourself to get better. Your methods of fighting yeast without antibiotics will be more successful in the long run, considering antibiotics cause yeast infections! Good Luck

feeling better on candida diet

I spoke to a naturopathic doctor the other day and she said I was doing everything right as far as curing my yeast infection naturally. Right now the infection is at bay. I am not in pain and feel little to no discomfort, which is quite a change from the excruciating pain suffered by me two weeks ago! I accomplished this with

Raw diet complications. We had a fight, and we broke up...forever.

Well, there are some problems with deficiencies as of late. Not sure

Detox Detox Detox Detox Detox Detox Detox Detox De toxic i fy ing

Detox sucks...right now is the training of my stomach to function properly...my thought was that raw and green smoothies were doing just that...turns out, that was not the case. 
I feel in two days, with such simple steps, 25% better than I did last

Raw diet danger

Well, I did say it was an attempt. yep, you read it. This is the end of my adventure. I'm not having fun anymore and think that the raw diet

All natural cleaning product

Vinegar. It's an acid...I use it to clean
our counters and to clean our veggies and fruit. It is a great deodorizer and makes windows sparkling clean!

Most of the time I dilute it; (3 parts water to 1 part vinegar.) It works on literally everything! Vinegar has

healthy meat; is there such a thing anymore?

Here we are, talking about food again!

I am interested in the prospect of healthy meat and if it can be bought in a store...Around here, we catch

ENERGY: "where have thou disappeared to?"

Update; since the cessation of coffee consumption, my energy has regulated to steady low... trying to figure

is coffee healthy?

My crutch...coffee. I have been drinking ALOT of it lately...and oddly, I am much more drained of energy. 
I am thinking this through people...so coffee is a diuretic and a stimulant...some call it a drug, but I wouldn't go that far...come on people, it's all I have! is this "drug" stripping my body of the nutrients that it needs? Does it make me eat more because of this? I am really feeling like coffee is holding me

healthy vegan banana blueberry muffin, bread, cake recipe

Moist, robust, and super nutritious!

I do not measure for this recipe...I approximate! First step...Oven 400 degrees...check...put in an empty cast iron pan to get super hot...

In blender put:Wet ingredients...

child piranha

literally every 15 minutes my kid wants to eat...all of his pants were

raw is hard.

You know, at one point I was completely agro about going to the raw food diet, but then I fell off the wagon...hard. (Oh,  The pain! ) Now, after having managed to climb partially on,

I want more information

I'm really interested in learning new things about food...
all aspects of it! If there is something that any of you have come across that is not common knowledge, would you be so gracious to share???
I'd love some book suggestions...right now I am engulfed in

Dairy free: chocolate "milk"/chocolate popsicles/hot chocolate

I don't drink milk. My stolen philosophy is "milk is good for baby cows," and I'm sticking to it. When they

Bloggity blogg blog!

I have never had to deal with ants. Them and their googlie round cartoon heads...they seem

Europe and GMO's

How come all of Europe is aware of: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), Genetic Engineering (GE), and things like rBGH in milk?

Homemade Vegitarian Lentil Burger Recipe

I'll be making these again and freezing them to use in the george foreman later... I'd throw them in frozen...It's sooooo easy.

Who says that vegitarian burgers are boring!!! These were super delicious!!!

I made lentils yesterday, so in all fairness you should make the lentils a day ahead, or just plan on making

so here's the truth

I should be working on my english paper. My paper is about, wait for it, plants/food and genetic

growing green and eating chocolate cherries!

Sounds illegal! It's not...to grow your own swiss chard, parsley, lettuce, cilantro, spinach, and other greens is a really easy way to incorporate extra green into your life...and save some

agoraphobic nerd and the cemetery pit bull it's my blog @#$%&

So here we are again...connecting through the keyboard and screen like a bunch of agoraphobic nerds...well, I for one

viva la green smoothie

You know with the fast paced world we live in I'd have to say that the green smoothie is here to stay. No more frying sausage

best black beans recipe

Okay so I've noticed so many bean recipes cover the flavor of the beans...their actual flavors differ so much that I've taken to plain...here is how the creamiest most flavorful plain beans are created,(in my opinion;) start with a stockpot and dump your beans of choice in...

thanksgiving day food rant...introducing the tofurkerumpkinaritto!!!

Hello all,(two people who actually read this,) I am going to take a gravy shower today!!! with olives on each finger and a never-ending glass of eggnog...keeps the skin supple and elegant...
it is a grimm realization that EVERY dish that we, (my friend and I,) would like to serve our families for

how to say no to a tamale.

Okay so I made it through breakfast without eating cooked food other than coffee...but tamale was the lunch special and when it comes to refusing a tamale...I've got nothing.  And how to make a raw tamale??? you got me there too.  i guess what I'm trying to say is: the masterpieces of cooked cuisine  cannot be substituted...this is my opinion at THIS point in my life, but I am open to suggestions...now, my two new years resolutions involve shotgunning a tallboy and developing a recipe for a raw tamale...I know, I know, I shoot for the sky!  My aspirations are mindboggeling even to myself!  later, Eva

down with sliced bread!

So lets talk about the natural ebb and flow, rise and fall, predator vs. prey...winners and losers.  In the battle for health in the form of RAW foods, I came out fighting, but somehow was swayed to the side of the

doubt and Muffins

Vegan muffins are delicious... Seriously, I had my doubts...I found a recipe on line and used honey instead of sugar, wheat flour-flax seeds and wheat germ instead of white flour and more nuts raisins and bananna than they ask for, (as always, I freestyle,) and they were FABULOUS.  I'll post my favorite recipe someday...but now I am going to pack!

here we go

So...I am going on a trip.  On a boat...this ought to be interesting!  I am thinking that I'll bring my blender, but I'm not sure if it'll work!!! Fresh produce and boats...hmmmm
We are going to cruise the inside passage along the panhandle of Alaska down to

I think it's the rain

I swear, as I wrote that title, the sun came out...what does that mean?!


This entry is in honor of Kodiak's Farmers market..as far as I know  the last one will take place this Saturday at the fairground gazebo-thing from 10am-12...end plug....back to Ode...


I will miss you, oh fair, fair market... with your knotty rutabagas and leafy green gargantuan, your ever changing face of bounty, the mix of strangers, visitors, vendors, and

deadly tofu. and what to do with 82 sticks of butter.

Okay, so nobody wants to die...that's what started my dietary revolt, fear of death, and hatred for

falling from raw

So this is a journey...and this week I fell into the crackers and gouda...literally!  When the weather turns to pureedpottedmeatproduct in kodiak ak, like it always does, I get ravenous for

eat it with a spoon best chocolate"caramel" sauce EVER!!!

So late last night I wanted chocolate and I usually make this recipe with a lot of cacao powder, but I didn't this time and WOW was it delicious!!!

oh so simple cabbage salad

Yessss!  I do love a good cabbage salad!  This is an example of less is more.  Try it simple; shred

labels

Why don't grocery stores have nutritional labels for produce?  When buying spinach or romaine or

vitamix justification

Okay, so you like green smoothies, and you can buy a 80 dollar  blender and explode it in a week!  (And they do not break your food down on the cellular level, or make it smooth liquid.)  Sooooo...That's where I was!  I balked at the cost of a Vitamix, (the cheapest one I could find was costco, $380,) but I quickly crunched the numbers, justifying it easily...so now I pass them on to you:

take hold of your future!

A lot of people are afraid to change, but it is a natural and beautiful process to embrace...an adventure to willingly embark on...with style and grace...lately dietary change has been inspiring change in all aspects of my life, and the old me would NOT

Salmonberry Juice!

Yesterday we picked some delightfully ripe salmonberries out in the woods and this morning

bananna coconut shake

Viva Coconut Butter!  So tonight was hot,  and thinking about ice cream is what one does in the heat...so I threw 2 frozen bananas

Blogging is harder than I thought!

Hi Krystal, I haven't figured out how to respond to your comment in the correct way yet,

Yes...Green smoothies work wonders!

After three plus months of eating green smoothies for breakfast I realized

Chia seeds

My dear friend Rachel told me to check out Chia seeds...I had read a bit about them, but checked them out again and found out more about them...she was right...they are amazing!  My favorite part is

freestyle sweet veggie or fruit dip...maybe even frosting

Okay...I just made a veggie tray for a backyard picnic and I needed something for my son to dip his veggies in....so freestyle dip was born.  It's DELICIOUS.
In vitamix blend:

transitional recipe...raw stirfry salad

Now this recipe is obviously not raw, but the stirfry part is!

coconut oil

Raw organic coconut oil is AMAZING!

coconut treats to die for! (almost.)

For this recipe I use all raw and all organic ingredients

my favorite green smoothie

In a vitamix blend

raw tacos!

recipe for raw tacos...

quick apple treat

core about 3 organic apples and slice thinly on a mandolin...juice an

raw dressing

Delicious!!!  Blend together juice of one organic lemon...tablespoon raw honey...tablespoon organic

some ideas

Rawmazing is a beautiful website, with some great ideas!!!  http://www.rawmazing.com/rawmazing-recipes/

are you confidently nourishing your family?

We all know we need to eat more fruits and vegetables, and that they are healthy for us...right?  Yet

rampage about...food.

okay, so we all know we "are what we eat," but do we really?
 close your eyes and think about that for a moment.

I just ate my first raw brownies...holy...wow!

Yay!  My first blog...it's for the kids...it's for my family...it's for all of the people brave enough to