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Rachel Fracassa
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- About Me:
- I'm a raw food chef teaching classes and doing events in Kansas City. Plans for something big in KC are in the works! I have two children: Gwynneth Yvette is five and Eliott Kiddo is two. The loves of my life.
- Relationship Status:
- It's Complicated
- Favorite Raw Food or Recipe?
- Coconut Smoothie w/ Fresh Mint and Lime
- Interests (outside of Raw Food):
- Keeping balance in everything I do.
- Favorite Quote:
- Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon
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- http://www.LemonsintheKitchen.com
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- http://www.myspace.com/lemonsinthekitchen
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Raw with Little Ones
Boy how I wish I had discovered the world of raw foods before I had my children! Eliott was only a year old when I started to transition our family, but he had already developed a taste for cooked food. It's hard to keep a realistic approach with children. On one hand, I am the parent and they better eat what I say; however, I want them to develop the love for living foods that I feel. I don't want to force it down their throats. Now that I am at this point in my journey, its painful for me to w… Continue
Posted on December 9, 2007 at 9:38am — 3 Comments
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Mila :-)
I love your web page. I came across it a month ago. Love the pictures.
Monique
Thought you'd enjoy this:
I think that the emphasis on 100% raw vegan and the stress that comes with that is probably more detrimental to the well being of these children than what actually constitutes their diets.
I can speak from experience when I say that in most cases it is best to let the child come to conclusions about their diet naturally. Any external pressure usually has achieved the undesired result more often than the desired one. I think the best possible way to influence your child's diet is by the way the parent exhibits eating. The child is after all, a metaphorical sponge of information for its first 5 years and does not necessarily draw conclusions based on logic about things such as eating but establishes ground truths and baseline references towards acceptable behaviors through the transference of these types of energies.
I have three girls all under the age of 5. The youngest is 5 months old is breast fed primarily by my wife who is raw vegan. Sometimes when milk is low or we need extensions we supplement young coconut water in a glass bottle. She responds extremely well to the coconut water showing incredible alertness and awareness. It was a difficult step for us to even try because there is so much influence in our circles in the direction of milk, rice cereal, baby foods, and formula. However the first hand knowledge is extremely empowering. Seeing the effect of natural food on my child has only reinforced my faith in real food.
Her older sister is turning 2 in October and she was raised from infancy on canned formula. This was during a period where we were more comfortable listening to others tell us what was right than finding the information for ourselves. Instead of weaning her onto cow's milk, however, we started giving her almond mylk and macademia mylk. Her first solid foods were bell peppers, avocados, blended greens, fermented raw chocolate and other superfoods, and berries. (Frozen bell pepper slices, BTW, are excellent for teething stages). She is now at a point where people will try to give her junk/cooked/low-vibe foods and more often than not she will opt out. Unless its meat or something that is heavily dairy we don't intervene because we know that her body is smarter than our conscious mind could ever aspire to be. Everyday she surprises us with her cravings and I enjoy sitting down with her and sharing what I eat and seeing her love it. I'd been told by my uncle who has cheffed for The Olympic Country Club, The Ritz (San Francisco), MGM Grand (Las Vegas), that babies had certain flavors that they would or would not be attracted to. However I still have yet to see Cadence shy from eating anything raw. I could load an avocado with curry, salt, cayenne, coriander, and dulse flakes and she would devour it and ask for more.
I think what gets people stressed is there dependence on objective standards set by so-called authorities. Its best to let the child experience as much as possible within the spectrum of what is reasonably safe and approach these circumstances with faith that the child's body is a very adept and powerful vessel.
My oldest daughter is from a previous relationship and her mother does not keep a raw kitchen however she is aware of the power of live nutrition. She is simply in a place where, given her surroundings it seems less stressful to feed the child what is around. And ultimately I can't blame her. The only way I myself have been successful with whole raw foods is by surrounding myself with that consciousness. I think everyone would agree that this is a huge shift from the old paradigm that in many cases can mean the exclusion of unsupportive friends, family members and other influences.
My oldest still gets a nice dose of great food but in order to provide her with a supportive environment (i.e. one where her parents don't argue constantly about food choice) I have to simply nurture her and have faith in what I've seen that everyone is simply where they are at and eventually she'll see just as I have that the food provided by earth is superior in all forms to the food assembled by man. Its just going to take time. I didn't make the shift until I was 23 years old. And I'm going to live to be 250. So at the age of 4 I think she's going to be okay.
The only goal of a relationship is to nurture. Spouse, Relative, Friend, Child. Support is key!
The whole emphasis on fitting into a category is ultimately causing the confusion surrounding this issue. Love and Thanks.
Wow what great conversation you have on Super food smoothies! It was great talking to u both! Hope I see you saturday!
Love,
Mia
Rachel,
I love making spring Rolls with sprouts and other good things, What would be a good way to soak cabbage leaves or lettuce? Also, now that I figured out how to make good hoisen based sauce, now I need a raw version for dipping sauce. Do you have any ideas for a substitute?
Best to you,
Mia
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