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How To Eat Your Way To A Better World

Raw & Tasty Tacos, Photo by Johan Everstijn

By Laura Weldon

Ever heard the word “locavore?” This was the New American Dictionary word of the year for 2007. A locavore is a person who chooses to eat food that has been grown and produced locally.

Why go to all that trouble?

Save energy and reduce your carbon footprint

Food [...]

How to make a delicious Kale Salad

Here’s a tasty Kale Salad Recipe,– the cheese is optional.

Raw Recipe – Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

1 cup raw macadamia nuts
1 cup organic raisins
2 avocados, peeled and seeded
1 cup raw honey (you could use dates if you’re vegan)
1 vanilla bean (soak for an hour or so if it’s dried)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon grated fresh or frozen ginger
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup water
4 cups (960 ml) raw pumpkin, peeled
4-8 tablespoons ground psyllium husks

Pie shell of choice

Directions

Soak the macadamia [...]

Why should you soak your nuts and seeds?

By: Delicia Beaty and Sharon Foutch

Soaking nuts, grains, seeds, and legumes
Nature has set it up so that the nut, grain and seed may survive until proper growing conditions are present. Nature’s defense mechanism includes nutritional inhibitors and toxic substances that can be removed naturally when there is enough precipitation to sustain a new plant [...]

Sunflower Seed Salad

Ingredients

1 cup raw sunflower seeds

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1/4 tsp salt

1/3 celery stalk

1/8 medium onion

1/3 carrot

2 tbsp minced fresh parsley

seasonings as desired

Directions

Soak the sunflower seeds for at least 1 hour until soft.  In food processor combine onion, celery, and carrot, and chop until fine.  Add the soaked sunflower seed, salt,  parsley, and any desired seasonings. [...]

Buckwheat Sprouts – Nutritional Facts and Recipe

Sprouting takes a nut or seed that is dormant and brings it to life. You can watch as a food that has been sitting in a bag on a shelf for months begins to grow a little sprout and transforms. One of the easiest foods to sprout is buckwheat. Buckwheat becomes packed with live enzymes [...]

Raw Recipe – Cauliflower Tagine

Ingredients:
1 small head of cauliflower
1 turnip, small dice
1 carrot, small dice
1 tbs. garlic, minced
1 tbs. shallot, minced
2 dried apricots, diced
2 dates, diced
4 leaves dinosaur kale, chopped
2 tbs. pine nuts
2 tbs. olive oil
1 tbs. nama shoyu
1 tbs. tamarind, soaked at least 30 minutes in 3 tbs. water
2 tsp. cumin seed
2 tsp. corriander seed
1 tsp. fresh tumeric [...]

The Truth Is Out on Genetically Modified Foods – And It’s Not Pretty

By the Institute for Responsible Technology , Your Consumer Safety Partner – May 20, 2009

This week, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.” They [...]