People ask me all the time: “how do you just eat raw, vegan foods? It seems way too hard!” You know what I think is hard? NOT just eating raw, vegan foods! Today alone, I 1) listened to NPR’s story on palm oil, and how that’s causing environmental destruction, 2) signed a petition against the use of BPAs…
Hi All! I’ve been a tiny bit under the weather and not feeling like preparing food the past couple of days, mostly subsisting on green smoothies, green juice, avocados, fresh fruit and nuts and seeds (well I guess that’s what I usually subsist on, but I typically will make them into something, like a burger…
This week I’m running a bit off the rails, as I had one of my favorite people in the world over last weekend and missed Farmer’s Market (so worth it though!). I made a couple of quick trips to the Co op to make a tiny bit of Guest-Food, and am off to the Co…
Today I woke up minorly sick and marveled at how different my life looks to me depending on how I’m feeling physically. I’ve experienced weeks of inspired empowerment recently, and all of a sudden everything looked bleak and Not-Worth-a-Crap this morning. Gosh! It’s taken me years to realize that how I view life events is…
Prelude: Last night I gleefully tucked into a few past issues of National Geographic (after artfully ignoring its faithful arrival in my mailbox every month for almost a year) and later, still in a magazine mood, flipped through an entire issue of Woman’s Day, which I wholeheartedly despise for it’s hearkening-back-to-the-50’s crap. I have no…
First of all, here’s why I went raw vegan: 1. Gluten and dairy intolerant with additional annoying food and environmental allergies I couldn’t quite pinpoint, even with testing 2. Social/ecological responsibility 3. Deep love of animals 4. VANITY What is now over 2 years ago, I grabbed my son (also a long-time vegan–before I was–and…