Eat Dance Live

One of the first people I ever heard talk about his experience with the raw food diet was a guy named Nature Love on a We Like it Raw podcast about a year ago. When asked about his diet, he said he mainly (and almost exclusively) ate cruciferous greens and only certain fruit types. He explained that he chose those foods not out of restriction, but because over time he had come to notice that his body didn't optimally digest most other foods at all. He noticed through small cues, whether a minor skin reaction to citrus, or faint digestive problems due to raw brassicas. At the time, being only a couple weeks into my raw journey, I couldn't help but find that he seemed to be an extremely picky eater. Look who's talking now... A year later, I find myself totally getting where he was coming from. Though I'm nowhere near that exclusive in my food choices, I know better now then to be too quick to judge. What most people don't realize is that the longer you are on...

Going to bed early tonight for much needed sleep (yay, that means midnight). We were out at my cousin's place again tonight for dinner (best salads EVER) and our weekly viewing of Lost. Wow. However, I can't leave you with nothing to drool over. I finally got around to making Katie's Fudge Babies from over at CCV . It being me, I couldn't just leave all them plain, so I rolled some in coconut shreds, some in mesquite, and some in hemp seeds (you know I would have done spirulina if I had any left). Because I had left over date paste, I also made my guesstimated version of Ani Phyo 's Monkey Bars. I made them with dates, brazil nuts, a little sea salt, vanilla, and carob powder. The results were all fabulous, tasty and awfully pretty! Goodnight!

... And by that I mean Meredith 's yummy raw chocolate milkshake, of course! For the very little amount of work it takes to put this together, it certainly was a nice treat. For my own personal tastes, I think I would use about half the sweetener, but other than that it was super tasty! I'm excited to try the vanilla one now, since it's usually the taste I prefer if asked to answer the age old vanilla or chocolate question. Again, the great thing about the raw diet is how you can enjoy pure, living and raw foods that you know are good for your body, spirit, and for the environment without having to give them a second them. While everyone in the mainstream world is freaking out about what is actually in one of those 'chocolate-y' candy bars and chocolate percentages and what not, we can enjoy the optimal health benefits of cacao without question. Did you know that cacao is one of the foods with the highest magnesium levels? It helps our body bind calcium to built str...