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I'm getting better at sprouting, but sometimes I don't plan well and I'm left sproutless. I like to eat sprouts every day, so when I don't have any that are homegrown, I pick up a container at the supermarket.

A local company, LEASA, supplies a big chunk of the South with its sprouts. I recently noticed a new package on the shelf - "Living Alfalfa Sprouts" (as opposed to the standard "Alfalfa Sprouts"). Since I'm now all about the living food, my immediate reaction was something like "R… Continue

My boyfriend noticed some kiwi fruit hairs on the counter. He said, "I don't like kiwi, but I'm eating it every day without realizing it, right?" I told him he was, along with kale or collards or spinach and a whole bunch of other stuff that I throw into the green smoothies I make us each morning.

He later took a gulp of the blend of blueberries, bananas, spinach, bee pollen, cacao, maca, cayenne, cinnamon, sea salt, agave, flax seeds, spirulina, and kiwi and said, "Mmm. It's like a ch… Continue

As I begin my third month of eating a predominantly raw diet, I've been thinking about some of the new pieces of equipment I'd like to get (spiralizer, dehydrator, nut milk bags, mesh sprouter lids for my Mason jars) and making lists of new foods and supplements I'd like to try (young coconuts, mesquite, chia seeds, bee pollen). I've been following this thread about bee pollen and energy, which contains a lin… Continue

"I don't even know you anymore."

That's what my boyfriend said to me this morning after he noted the spiciness of the green smoothie I had made us and I told him that many cultures have been combining cacao and cayenne for years (something I heard David Wolfe mention in a video a couple of days ago) and that cayenne increases in heat intensity as it sits in food (something I noticed when I did the Master Cleanse a few weeks ago).

He said that I've become a "cultural and nutrit… Continue

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend whom I haven't seen since I started eating a predominantly raw diet about a month ago. She told me I look great and said, "Your skin, it..." and then she made twinkling motions with her fingers around her face because she just didn't know how to put it into words. Not yet used to this, I countered by pointing out the three massive zits on my face (which I take as evidence of my detoxing) and she still insisted that my skin looks amazing and that there's "somet… Continue