Simple Raw and Natural

Food prep for the day : Apple juice for 2 using 6 apples. Smoothie for 2: 2 bananas, 1/4 papaya, 1/4 pineapple, 4 strawberries, 2 cups frozen wild blueberries, 2 Tbsp ground flaxseed, arugula and herbs from the garden, water. Veggie Cocktails for 2: 6 carrots, 6 stalks celery, 1/2 beet, 1 pear, 1/2 bunch cilantro. Cut up avocado and tomato to add to the salad left from yesterday. Lunch: Green smoothie; apple juice; almonds Dinner: Veggie cocktail; sauerkraut; green salad (added some cole slaw mix to the salad left from yesterday; chopped tomato and avocado for salad; leftover green lava; banana. One of the first lessons I was taught as I began to study Natural Hygiene and Nature Cure is to trust the process. Even when it seems like you are getting worse, you are getting better when you are doing the right thing. So don't be afraid to do the right thing. We have to be patient, as the healing does not take place overnight. For most of us we didn't...

I am going through a bit of a healing crisis which is to be expected from time to time as the body makes every effort to eliminate backed up waste matter.  Elimination is one of the major factors in living in health.  That's why clean eating is so important. We don't want the waste to accumulate faster than the elimination process can work, otherwise, you are being set up for chronic illness.  That is also the reason we are so opposed to the suppression of these healing symptoms. Food prep:   Lemongrass tea. Juice for two using 5 apples and 1 pear. Fruit smoothie for lunch : 2 bananas, 1/4 cup ground flaxseed, 1/4 pineapple, 1/4 papaya, 1 cup frozen wild blueberries, 6 big strawberries, water. Salad for dinner: (romaine, broccoli, cauliflower, red bell pepper, onion, radish, tomatoes) Lunch: Fruit smoothie; almonds; appple/pear juice; almonds; lemongrass tea Dinner:  Leftover green lava from yesterday; salad Grocery haul today. ...

The times in my life when I have been successful in staying totally raw for long periods of time have been the times when the foods were prepared quite simply with no flavor enhancements. It seems to me that the more I try to make the raw foods look like or taste like the foods everyone else is eating, the more difficult it is to be consistent. I also find that preparing the raw food recipes in that way leads to much waste of food, as the recipes are not simple, raw and natu ral nor are they the food everyone else is eating. They are not authentic. Yesterday, I started the day with lemongrass tea. Food prep today. I made Dr. Fielder's recipe called Green Lava to eat with my salad at dinner. I made the Green Lava with 1 tomato, several stalks of celery, 3 Tbsp sauerkraut, and about 1/3 of a bunch of parsley blended in the high speed blender. A food processor would work, also. Made apple juice using 6 apples - juice for two. I added some chopped up cauliflower and pell pepp...