~ Watermelon Smoothie ~

Watermellon is a highly alkaline fruit. It is a very hydrating food and should not be eaten with other foods. Proper food combinging is very important to ensure the smooth digestion. Fruit is best eaten on it's own. It is a great way to begin a meal and causes a type of funnel for the other foods afterwards to be digested. Most people traditionally after a large meal eat fruit for a healthy alternative. This is a huge mistake and will cause a lot of abdominal cramping. The ( SAD) has typically a large meal for supper that includes animal proiten and starchy foods followed with fruit as dessert. Animal protien takes minimum of four hours to digest with fruit ontop which would normally take only 15-25 min. This causes fermentation and rotting in the gut which encourages yeast and fungus.

~ Clover Dandy Salad ~

Simplicity at it's best !!

I have always said that the simple things in life are sooo beautiful . I was so excited to learn that the flowers I had always admired were edible. I ran outside lastnight took a number of photos and then picked a bunch of red clover flowers. As it said in my last post how healing they are I decided to add some to my salad for a snack. I picked the petals one by one and really enjoyed the taste of them. **

~ Benefits of Red Clover ~

When I was young I would pick these and pull the pink petals and bite their ends. They taste very sweet just like honey. I called them honey suckels; now when I see them I will be sure to eat the whole flower..

Red Clover has been used traditionally to treat respiratory and skin problems, today it is of most interest in menopause and in the prevention of breast cancer because of its strong concentration of natural plant estrogen. Red clover's phytoestrogens, the plant world's equivalents of human female estrogen, preform functions in the body similar to those of natural and synthetic estrogens, relieving menopause and menstruation related problems and perhaps protecting against osteoporosis and cancer of the breast, colon and prostate. At the root of red clovers attributes are an impressive array of vitamins, and trace minerals in synergy with many active medical compounds.

Although red clover has a strong following among herbalists as a blood purifying alterative and anticancer agent and has been used safely and effectively for hundreds, if not thousands of years, little scientific study has been done.

Maca Ice-Cream & Cacao Crackle Sandwiches ~ Picture and Recipe by Chef Russell James

*For the ice-cream *

1 1/2c cashews
1/3c agave
1 vanilla pod insides scraped out
3c almond milk
3T maca root powder
2t lemon juice
Pinch salt

Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth.
Pour into an ice-cream maker. Alternatively you can pour into a container and place in the freezer to set hard. Once it’s frozen, cut into chunks and run through a juicer with the blank homogenising plate on. This gets rid of any ice crystals that may have formed.
When ice-cream is soft enough to work with shape it into a cylinder (a metal ring is great for this) and re-freeze.

*For the cacao crackles*

1/2c cacao butter
1/4c cacao powder
1/4c agave
3T cacao nibs

Blend all ingredients except the cacao nibs in a high-speed blender.
Use a spoon to drop small amounts of the mixture onto a non-stick surface, such as a Paraflexx sheet, to form circles only slightly bigger than the ice-cream cylinders.
Leave to set hard.

Assembly

Take the ice-cream cylinders from the freezer and let them soften slightly for a few minutes. That way the next stage will work better.
Sandwich each of the cylinders between 2 pieces of the cacao crackles. You may want to return them to the freezer at this point so the whole thing freezes together as one.

~ Alkaline Healing Salad ~

Two highly recommended books. These can change your life. If you have illness and want to be well read these !!

Dr. Robert and Shelly Young's work was what inspired me on the green/raw/vegan lifestyle. Their work focuses on alkalining the body through raw/green foods and living water. I came accross their website looking for information on the connection between lemons, limes and candidas. I have always suffered with this illness and have heard of how an alkaline system will heal candidas. Canadidas cannot thrive in an alkaline body. The first month of beginning my transition I lived on green smoothie's to clean my body. it was easy for me to do at the time because I was in bed for months with asthma and pneumonia. I went through hell the first few months which came with it a lot of detox symtoms.

Even though fruit is considered good for you to the general public they are acidic and I only eat them as a treat. If I ate mostly fruit and only a few veggies I would be ill again. Now I live on green smoothie's, green juices, salads, raw breads and crackers and raw desserts.

www.phmiracleliving.com

Wow this looks great and tastes out of this world !!

" Not Tim Bit's " They are raw dounuts !!

They are made with a couple of superfoods such as cacoa and raw coconut....

~ THEY ARE 100 % RAW !! ~

It has raw coconut, cacoa, agave, vanilla, almond flour, almond butter, coconut butter and coconut flour.

~ Lavender ~ <3<3

I have always had an over active nervous system and have tired so many things to stay calm. I have always been not able to tolerate scents due to my envirmontal allergies. I can tolerate natuaral scents and lavender is one of them. I adore the smell and the look of dried lavender. I am going to try lavender essential oil to put in my bath and on my pillow for sleep. I have found since I have gone raw I am so much more calm than ever and find I have busrts of energy

~ Lavender Lemonade ~