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David Wolfe video FREE

November 7th, 2010

If you’ve been following the amazing Simply Raw
Video Series you probably know by now that we
in America and the rest of the world need to make
some serious changes in how we approach health…

And you’ve probably realized through this 100% fr*ee
video series how important health is for your energy,
vitality and overall success in whatever endeavor
you undertake.

After all, it’s hard to run a successful business,
have a great relationship with your spouse or
even feel fully stable emotionally when you’re drained
of energy from having a body that doesn’t deliver
the energy you ask of it…

I think this video series has been an eye opener
for many people about the society we’re living in that
is getting sicker and sicker.

Fortunately there are solutions and they’re available
for you right now. The question is…are you willing
to listen?

If you are then I suggest you take a look at video #3
in this fr*ee series with raw food expert David Wolfe
which has just been released!

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?Clk=3989789

In this video Alex Ortner, one of the executive producers
of the film “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days”,
sits down for a casual interview with David to not only
get his take on whats going on with the health of the world
but also to get some practical, immediate steps that
any person can take to get healthy.

To watch this video and the two other videos that have been
released right now just click on the link below:

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?Clk=3989789

I think that this video series that is being released by the
Raw for Thirty team is amazing and that every person
should watch them.

Plus, I know about the secret surprise that’s coming as
we get closer to World Diabetes Day on November 14th
and I want to make sure that you know about it.

Alex and his team are passionate about helping to not
only improve your health but also to working together
to create a more health conscious world where disease
is no longer the norm.

I hope you check out the videos. They really are amazing…

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?Clk=3989789

To your health!

P.S. – I promise you that watching these videos will inspire
you and educate you on how to lead a better life where you
have an endless level of vitality and energy.

This information is powerful…and it can change your life…

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?Clk=3989789

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Did Your Doctor Tell You This???

November 4th, 2010

What I’m about to share with you is information
that you’re doctor has probably never told you.

He’s never told you this because quite frankly,
he probably doesn’t even know it himself.

Most doctors tend to be pretty clueless about
how to get people healthy in the first place let
alone how to keep them healthy.

But there are some doctors that do…

And the video that you’ll see in a minute is
from one of the world’s leading medical doctors.

One of those doctors that does his job… you
know, keeping people healthy so that they stop
having to see him all the time.

His name is Dr. Joel Fuhrman and he’s about to
share with you specific details on what you
can do to ensure that you never get sick again.

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?Clk=3985276

Dr. Fuhrman is going to share specifics on
topics such as

*The root cause of all illnesses

*The biological explanation for why people have
food addictions

*What macronutrients and micronutrients are
and why you’re likely eating too many
macronutrients and not enough micronutrients.

*How to reverse chronic diseases.

*And a whole lot more…

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?Clk=3985276

This video is video number two in the 100% fr*ee
Simply Raw Video Series that is being released
by the makers of the film “Simply Raw”.

The first video was released on Monday and
featured Morgan Spurlock from the film “Super
Size Me”.

The video with Morgan has already had over
1,000 comments on the blog since it’s release!

Make sure to watch this video with Dr. Fuhrman
and if you happened to have missed the video
with Morgan Spurlock don’t worry…you’ll get
to see that one also.

To your health!

P.S. – Typically when you see a doctor you get
charged an arm and a leg for information that
is probably not helping you all that much. With
this video you get to learn from one of the world’s
top doctors… for fr*ee.

I can’t even imagine how much money watching this
video will save you in future medical visits…

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?Clk=3985276

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Must See Mogan Spulock now only!

November 3rd, 2010

Hi health seekers!

Did you ever see the film “Super Size Me?”

You know, the one where the guy from New York
(Morgan Spurlock) ate only McDonald’s for 30 Days.

Well I want to share with you an exclusive behind
the scenes interview with Morgan that will knock
your socks off but I’ll get to that in just a second…

I want to first explain why I’m sharing this. There’s a
common issue that I keep noticing with people who
are trying to create change or growth in their life.

And unfortunately I don’t think it’s talked about
enough by many people out there…
even though it’s the big elephant in the room.

Here’s what I keep noticing…

People keep talking about how they want to achieve
goals like making more money or improving their
relationships but they just don’t have the energy.

And they’re missing a really key component that
plays a huge role in their energy…

That’s why I want to share an amazing fr*ee video
with you that is an in depth and personal interview
with Morgan Spurlock, the director of the film “Super
Size Me”

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?ad=524324

In case you don’t remember, “Super Size Me” was the
blockbuster movie that exposed the major health risks
of eating a processed diet.

In fact right after the film was released McDonald’s got
rid of their whole “Super Size” concept.

It’s part of an amazing fr*ee video series that also
includes Dr. Joel Fuhrman, raw food expert David
Wolfe and Mike Adams that is being released for a
limited time only.

In case you didn’t figure it out yet, the thing that people
keep ignoring when it comes to their personal
success is… their health.

And here’s the thing… health tends to be the big
elephant in the room that people ignore in their
lives until it’s too late.

They tend to think… “it’s too difficult to be healthy and
I’m too busy to worry about it.”

But let me tell you that the information that Morgan
shares in this video and that is shared in this entire
fr*ee video series will make health about 20 times
easier for you.

And it will make having unlimited energy and totally
clarity of mind an everyday thing, not just a once in
a while thing.

You’ll see what I mean after you watch this video:

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?ad=524324

The video series is being released by the makers
of the film “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in
30 Days,” a film that was essentially the opposite
of Morgan’s film (eating good food for 30 days
instead of bad food), and is getting amazing reviews.

If you’re struggling with any health issues or if
you’d just like to know how to drastically improve
the level of health, energy and vitality that you have
on a daily basis then I highly recommend you watch
this video with Morgan and the entire video series
being released.

In fact, I don’t think there’s a single person who
couldn’t benefit from watching these videos. They’re
just that important…

http://www.rawfor30days.com/cmd.php?ad=524324

Check out the video with Morgan Spurlock right
away.

To your health,

Sabrina Granniss

P.S. – I’d like for you to ask yourself an important
question. What would your life be like if you had
unlimited energy? What else could you achieve
if you never got sick and were always full of energy?

Maybe it’s time you find out…

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Fall Harvest Squash Rice

September 28th, 2010

Happy Autumn everyone!!
I love this time of year for so many reasons. I love the crisp fall air and the surprise flashback to summer warm days. The leaves change their colors to magnificent reds, yellows, oranges and even purples. Even though I grew up in New England and have seen many fall seasons, the changes that come with fall never cease to amaze me.

Apples, pumpkins and winter squash, oh my!! The food, oh the food of fall is not to be underestimated. The bounty that comes with this season is so different than summer and yet just as abundant!

My boys and I went to a dear friends house last night to celebrate the arrival of fall. Cornhusk dolls were part of the festivities and they were so much fun to make. A friends daughter came over to sit by me and helped teach me how to put angel wings on my doll and then she made a crown for my doll. So sweet!! Her doll still came out way better than mine, of course.

After the crafts and outside celebrations, we all went inside to share a meal together. I brought one of favorite recipes that really celebrates the fall harvest from Ani Phyo’s Ani’s Raw Food Kithcen recipe book. She titles it Walnut Cranberry Squash “Rice”. It is really yummy, but I was blown away by how well received this dish was by everyone including some who have dabbled in raw foods before and some like the “bat fairie” from My Everyday Magic that are a little more wary of raw foods. A couple people made sure I knew, several times, they want the recipe, like pronto! So, here’s to you!!!

Fall Harvest Squash Rice

1 small butternut squash, about 1 lb peeled, seeded and cut into 2 inch cubes
1/2 small yellow onion
1 TBS cumin seeds
1TBS corriander powder
1/2 cup cilantro leaves, chopped
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup walnuts, crushed
2 tsp salt

Put small batches of cubed butternut squash in a food processor and process into small pieces
Put procesed squash in a large bowl and add remaining ingredients
mix well
will keep in fridge for a couple days

Seriously, this recipe is so easy to make. I didn’t have cumin seeds on hand, so I just used poedered cumin. I also add a bit more cilantro as I just love it! This is definately a recipe to double! Also, it is the type of recipe that is very forgiving with measurements and lends well to adding in your own personal touch. Keep this one for your next harvest party or to liven up your Thanksgiving table. Enjoy!!

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Blushing Almond Sundae

August 7th, 2010

The other night, I made a decadent dessert of banana crepes with cashew whipped cream and strawberry sauce atop. Gatlin ate two he loved them so. River is not a banana fan and so I am going to make apple crepes next time. They were lovely but I wanted a little twist and wasn’t in the mood for a crepe.

Into the fridge I went……. I came out with a new favorite sweet treat that truly makes me blush. Almond butter seems to have that warming effect on me.

I scooped a big dollop of raw almond butter into a bowl and topped it with strawberry sauce and a nice dollop of whipped cashew cream. Ooooo wheeeee! It is quick and easy!

I used the cashew cream recipe in Ani Phyo’s Raw Food Essentials since I have it on loan from the library right now. This book also has the wonderful crepes mentioned earlier.

Strawberry Sauce

2 cups fresh strawberries or 15 oz frozen strawberries
1-2 TBS ground chia seeds

Mash the strawberries in a bowl. I use a potato masher.
Grind chia seeds in a spice or coffee grinder
Mix ground chia seeds with strawberries until well combined
Leave to sit 5-10 minutes.

The chia seeds absorb moisture. Chia seeds also help to keep you hydrated since they absorb so much water. Adding more or less ground chia seeds allows you to reach a sauce consistency or a jam like consistency. This stays fresh in the fridge 3-5 days.

Go ahead and be creative! place sliced bananas on the bottom of your sundae or over banana ice cream. Add different toppings like chopped walnuts, whole chia seeds, cacao nibs, buckwheaties or dried coconut.

Have a sundae party and put everything in it’s own bowl and let everyone make their own. Especially fun for kids!

Enjoy!

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Farmer’s Market Time

July 26th, 2010

It’s summer and I’m lovin’ it!

It seems that now is the time that there is so much raw goodness out there and available. Just in your own backyard there is enough to create lovely salads and add-ins to smoothies to make one smile.

A favorite activity of ours is going pickin’!! We love going berry and fruit picking to eat up the sun-kissed fresh fruit. I love seeing the kids explore the farms and see how the food grows. Is it a tree, a bush, low to the ground? What do the leaves of the plant look like?

The plan is always to pick enough to freeze. We haven’t quite been able to accomplish this because we eat every last little berry we pick. It is also a good lesson in what is in season and local to us.

Another high point for us is the local farmer’s markets. They are all so different from one another. A favorite used to be Coventry Farmer’s market when we lived closer to it. Lots of great vendors including our very close friend Hurricane Farm!! Coventry also has guest speakers and it is so fun filled.

Now we are in a different location and we have been checkin’ out the scene. My new favorite is Ashlawn Farm in Lyme, CT. They are open Fridays from 3-6pm and Saturday am 9-noon. There are two organic vendors with fantastic veggies and flowers. Hidden Brook Gardens is a new favorite. They have lush greens and are passionate about what they do. I have gotten some great tips about growing and different ways to use the produce. The Hay House has gorgeous flowers and extras of greens and veggies that have not gotten used for their CSA. Scott’s is not organically certified but uses organic sprays when possible and has a huge variety of fruits and veggies. They are happy to answer questions about their goods and their practices. There is yet another vendor that is not organic and does uses sprays I care not to partake of so be sure to ask. They also have fresh baked items as well as a fresh seafood vendor and meat vendor. Ashlawn farm is a beautiful farm that is super friendly and it is fun to sit on a chair or blanket after getting your goods to watch the animals or go into their little store to buy a fresh made smoothie.

Get into the swing and find your local farmer’s markets and go check them out. Be sure to visit all the local ones as they truly are each unique and offer different goods.

So, What is your favorite market?

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WOW: Day lilies

July 16th, 2010

You know summer is in full swing when you see drifts of day lilies gently waving to you from roadsides and front yards everywhere. Their short-lived blossoms (each flower lives only for a day, hence the name, tho each stalk has several buds waiting for their turn to shine) serve as a reminder for me to enjoy each long summer day as much as possible.

Did you know that you aren’t limited to enjoying the dancing orange beauties with only sight and smell? The petals taste delicious as well! You can pull them off and toss them in salads whole or sliced. Or you can stuff them with whatever you think is tasty — flavored rice/quinoa/millet, chopped fruit or a slaw-ish salad. The greener end where the flower is attached to the stem is bitter, so you’ll want to leave it on your plate, but YUM! We ate most of the salad (a kale-cabbage-carrot slaw with a lemon tahini dressing) stuffed into all of the lilies in the picture as dinner one night.

Since borage and heartsease were also blooming in the garden, the kids picked them and tossed them into for good floral measure. I think there were some sliced rose petals in there as well. As you can see, the salad bordered on the garish, it was so colorful! Currently, our gorgeously crimson bee balm is flowering — you can pull the petals off those and toss them into salads for some beautiful color and taste, and our nasturtiums, started from seed a little late, have also started to flower. Both leaves and flowers add a peppery bite to a green salad that needs no other adornment. When I started researching what flowers could be safely consumed a couple of years ago, I was astonished at how many I already had in my yard! I have bookmarked this list of edible flowers and use it to double check plants I’m not sure about.

Back to day lilies. One afternoon Dante announced that he had something special planned for dessert. Since raspberries and wild black raspberries were also in season, he and Lucia collected a basket of berries and some day lily blossoms and disappeared into the kitchen, forbidding me to follow. He chopped up some sorrel and berries, mashing this all together a bit with some finely diced apples and the juice of half a lemon. He stuffed this mixture into the blossoms, and lay them on a plate. He put the rest of the chopped fruit mixture into the Vita-Mix to make a sauce, which he drizzled over the blossoms. We devoured this treat and wished we had more.

One caution — eating too many day lily flowers in one sitting can cause digestive upset in some people. Proceed with care until you know how many you can handle, or plan to stay close to a bathroom the next day!

If you are lucky to have a thick patch of these nearby, you can also harvest and eat the shoots raw or cooked in the early spring. Once leaves are 8-12 inches high, they will become too fibrous to enjoy. Unopened buds can be prepared much as you would green beans, and spent flowers that bloomed the previous day can be added to soups, stews, or stir-fry. The tubers at the tips of the rhizomes are also edible all year long, but the general consensus in our wild edibles books seems to be that unless you are in a survival situation, they are simply not worth the work.

Be sure to identify stands of them this summer. Otherwise, if you find a likely patch in the spring, dig up a clump and look at the root system. The underground stems (rhizomes) that end in tubers distinguish them from poisonous lilies. As with all wild edibles, you must be sure that they are free from contamination — roadsides and farms or yards that use chemical pesticides and herbicides can taint nearby wild edibles with toxins.

Happy foraging!

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day lily, edible flowers, raspberries

Berries ‘N Cream

July 4th, 2010

Happy Fourth of July!!

Today is a day of red, white and blue and celebration of America’s independence. Happy Birthday America!

We were headed to a family gathering by the lake to have a cookout, swim and celebrate the fourth. While everyone else was planning on grilling I wanted to make sure we could join in while still keeping in line with our choices for food. So we broke out the sunshine burgers and tossed them on the grill to heat for a minute towards the end of the rest of the family cooking their various meats. We piled the burgers high with lettuce tomato and melted Diya cheese on millet bread. They were great and the kids loved them. It teamed up perfectly with the Waldorf Salad I brought and our Aunts potato salad.

They real highlight was dessert! I made a new favorite.

Berries N’ Cream

In a bowl, layer sliced strawberries, cream and then blueberries on top. Get it, red, white and blue!

Cream:

3/4 cup walnuts
3/4 cup cashews
2 TBS maple syrup
1 TBS honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 -3/4 cup water

Put all cream ingredients in vitamix and blend until smooth, scraping sides down as needed.

You can use any nuts you would like including all walnuts or cashew, pecans, macadamia or a combo. Also, feel free to use dates (about six) in place of the honey or maple syrup. You could also use all honey or maple syrup.

Add the water slowly so it stays nice and thick. Change it up a bit by adding some lemon zest or orange zest, or coconut water to make new flavors.

For the top, I fan cut a strawberry and placed it in the center. Garnishing it this way added a nice splah of color and the kids thought it was cool to cut the strawberry this way.

So simple and beautiful. I ate 2 helpings while I was there and a nice snack of it when we got home. Gatlin stated, “I am so full of this but would eat it all if you made it again sometime.” My husband ate a huge container of it. Ok, so I don’t recommend that, but the point is, it is that good!

No need to worry about missing out on that whipped cream experience anymore. This one is sure to please.

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Pretty In Purple

June 6th, 2010

I love to get new raw books from the library! For a change, I decided to start making more recipes out of the many raw books on my own shelf. What a novel idea, eh? So, it was time to go grocery shopping again and I went to the shelf and picked Ani Phyo as my author of choice this time around. I bookmarked several recipes I want to make and am concentrating aon a couple a week.

I am always leery of kale salad recipes because I LOVE the one that I currently make and have tried many others and none have held up to the one tried and true recipe that makes everyone in my house go goo goo for kale and may I add, is the most passed on recipe I have. In her book Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen is one titled Cabbage Kale Slaw In Simple Greek Dressing. It is so simple and I really dig this way to use kale!

Pretty In Purple Salad

1/2 head kale, any type, destemmed (I used curly)
1/4 head red cabbage (Iused 1/2 a head)

simple Greek dressing

2 TBS apple cider vinegar
1/4 c. olive oil
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp thyme

Thinly slice the kale and cabbage and place in a mixing bowl. Place the dressing ingredients in the bowl and toss well. Eat right away or set aside to marinate and soften.

I had also added a couple cloves of garlic to the dressing. I put the dressing ingredients in the Vitamix to blend and then poured it on the slaw and massaged it to aid in softening the veggies since the dinner bell was going to ring soon.

Fantastic and pretty! Just right and perfect for lunch the next day. I even sent some into to work with my hubby and he ate it all up, yum!

The dressing recipe is like an extra special bonus. It is so good and really tastes like Greek dressing. It calls out for further experimenting to make a big Greek salad with greens, olives, grape tomatoes and dare I say a raw feta to crumble on top!

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Lunches On The Go

May 21st, 2010

In an effort to eat healthier and save money, my husband has tarted taking his lunch to work with him. Some days we just do soup. I have been buying the Dr. McDougall’s which comes in a paper box. It is my top choice at the moment because it is a BPA free container! They also have many gluten and dairy free soup choices which is important to me.

Most days, I try to send a homemade lunch. I need it to be filling and something he can eat on the run. I am always on the hunt for good to go containers for this reason. Right now we use our tiffins. I am fairly pleased with these. It has 3 sections to fill. The top section has it’s own lid so I can put soup in it or another liquidy option and it will not leak. The bottom two do not have their own lid but use the bottom of the section above it. The bottom section has long clips to hold the whole contraption together. They are bit cumbersome when opened but this is a minor setback.

Todays tiffin included cookies made with leftover almond pulp, flax meal, dates, cinnamon and other yummy stuff that were then dehydrated. I put those in the bottom part. In the middle went some cheezy almonds. On top I put mesclun topped with fantastic fajita marinated veggies with a little extra dressing. Of course he takes a big stainless steel thermos of water as well that he can refill during the day.

The goal for me is to pack in the nutrition and to fill him up. I like to pack things like todays cookis and almonds that give him some power packed nutrition and are filling.

Happy travels!