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- About Me:
- Its always hard to try and summarize yourself in a paragraph but here goes nothing... I grew up in the Northwest surrounded by the elements of mother nature and a wonderful family. After many years of journey hopping from state to state, my education and job status landed me in various locations. Some I really enjoyed and some not so much, but each place taught me valuable lessons about friendship, spirituality, life and living in the moment and most important love. I recently and enthusiastically left Las Vegas where I was pursuing my dancing career( and no not that kind of dancing) performing in a wonderful show as well as doing outside gigs for various music artists and performance groups. Although I will miss dancing for a career I'm ready to make the shift and focus on my other passion sustainable interior design and working on starting my own raw food dessert line. Exciting!! Its good to be back in the Northwest surrounded my all the things I love, trees, water, fresh clean air, fresh fruit and vegetables picked from the back yard and of course good friends and family. I decided to become vegan about a year ago and by accident walked into a vegan raw food cafe and fell in love. After a lot of reading and research, I decided to become 100% raw about 2 1/2 months ago so this is all still very new to me. However, the excitement of all the new textures, flavors, physical and mental changes that I've already experienced are completely blowing my mind. I look forward to talking with others in the raw food community and learning from their experiences.
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- Favorite Raw Food or Recipe?
- I have so many!coconuts, papayas, huge salads w/ all the fixing's,chocolate ganache,zuchinni pasta, no-bean hummus, spirulina carob truffles and the list goes on...
- Interests (outside of Raw Food):
- My first passion in life is dancing! any form of dance for me is an incredible expression of all emotions and brings me a sense of enlightenment with each movement. Anything that has to do with the outdoors. I love snowboarding, surfing, wake boarding, hiking, camping, bikram and all forms of yoga, gardening, swimming, kayaking etc... random spontanous adventures are the best, whether its outside our back door or across the country. I am very into music, art, architecture and interior design mainly focusing on sustainable and green design.
- Favorite Books or Authors:
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Sacred Journey of The Peaceful Warrior, Heavier Than Heaven, The Alchemist, Into The Wild, Into Thin Air, 12 Steps to Raw Food, The Coconut Oil Miracle, Eat Pray Love, A New Earth,and many many more!
- Favorite Quote:
- I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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Is incorporating sprouted wheat into a raw foods diet ok for gluten sensitive people?
I have been allergic to gluten for many years and kept it out of my diet completely. I recently changed to a 100% raw foods lifestyle and was wondering if anybody had experiences incorporating sprouted wheat into their diets although they had sensitivity to wheat when on a cooked foods diet?
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 11:07pm —
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from an Indian store yesterday and not sure if i could use it in non Indian and Asian recipes. Any ideas?
what's in it?
you are such a chameleon.
your writing is of the gods.
divine.
love your makeup too by the way.
I watch a lot of TV. For a normal person, it's probably too much, but for an aspiring TV writer, it's probably not enough. I watch Top Chef, Project Runway, Heroes, Gossip Girl, Greek, Biggest Loser, Glee, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, and Bon...
I have that on vinyl
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we both have the same hair style now :)
No, it needs all three. Flavor and ratio, not just equal parts of every component.
lol- that would be good but not allowed!
I want to raise my vibration at every level, for many reasons. Earthly illusions such as poverty, jealousy, anger, hate, greed, abuse, weigh me down like heavy luggage. It is these very illusions that keep me separate from others and from God. Get...
Thank you guys! For the sauce, I used tomatoes, a spoon of olive oil and a pinch of any yellow spice I could find in my cupboard and some cilantro. I prepare almond milk so I used the leftovers nuts and mixed them with previous ingredients and the...
MAN VS WILD!!! Bear Grylls is hardcore and sexy.
For anybody who is interested in the 80/10/10 diet by Dr. Douglas Graham
That looks delicious!!!
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I was there in the beginning of November.
2. AWESOMMEEE. raw desserts=my heart, though, i've been laggin it lately since finals has taken over my life until mid-june..after that, i'm gonna have new desserts practically shooting out of my ass.
3. ccccha..i'm always down to be friends with other dope people into the raw thing..actually, just dope people in general suffices.
as a "recovering ballerina" i totally get putting the dance away for a bit in order to pursue other passions. haven't quite made the leap to veganism or raw yet but the discipline and pure health benefits of it all certainly appeal to someone of my mindset. just wanted to say 'hi' and 'welcome.'
mimi
. Everyone around here is so in tune with what's going on in the world and what they want and need to be in life. It's even better when you meet them and realize yes these people are real and oh so divine (and often kinda hot!)
Oh yeah and the desserts things...if you ever decide to sell your product in NY. You should know that there are some sweets foodies on here (myself included) that are willing to be taste testers and they can be pleasantly brutal with honesty....what i'm trying to say is....bring your desserts to NY so a girl can get something new to eat :-D