Island Eating

The best food here on the island I've found is the fresh produce. There's an open market where dozens of women stay the week Monday through Saturday afternoon and sell their produce around the clock. Everything is sweet, the sweetest carrots and lettuce I've ever tasted!

Some of the women make prepared foods at lunch time, I have no idea what they call the things. The have some kind of potato thing with fish or chicken and various sauces. I sometimes go for what looks like a huge rolled pancake made of tapioca with coconut cream inside. It's very rich and so scrumptious. There's a little french restaurant with delicious cream desserts. For the most part we've been sticking pretty close to a raw diet.

Husband eats everything but I had a light case of traveler's sickness and have been eating produce that has a peel on it. Got a peeler yesterday though, so I'll be able to expand my diet.

Mangoes just came into season and showed up in the market today, will definitely be getting some! Fresh grapefruit grow on our property and they're not at all sour, very sweet. Husband and I share one of those in the morning with fresh coconut cream that husband makes by opening a coconut with a machete, then using a coconut scraper to get the meat out, then squeezing the meat which makes the coconut milk/cream. DELICIOUS!

Scrumptius Carrot Cake with Orange Frosting RAW

I got this recipe off of www.goneraw.com Submitted by earthintruder

Here's what I did different...

Cake: Instead of shredded carrot, juice carrot and use pulp and juice - makes for a more cakier cake

Grind Cinnamon sticks in a coffee mill so that there's little chunks of cinnamon

Topping: Shredded coconut on the icing. The decoration is carrot slivers and parsley!

Servings: 

 6-8

This cake was adored by everyone I shared it with at work. It is highly fiberous with just the right amount of sweetness.

Ingredients: 

2 cup shredded carrot
2 cup soaked seeds + handful walnuts
½ cup diced pineapple
½ cup raisens
¼ cup agave, honey, yacan syrup, add more or less to taste
1 sprinkle cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
1 sprinkle fresh ground nutmeg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract or scrapings of bean
1 pinch celtic sea salt
½ cup shredded coconut, optional

Preparation: 

Soak seeds 6-8 hours in purified water, or overnight.
Rinse and Drain. In a food processer, combine seeds and walnuts. Grind until smooth, but be careful not to make into “butter.” You may have to scrap the sides down more than a few times to get well blended. set aside.

Combine all other ingredients in large bowl. Taste as you go along. After mixing all the ‘sweets and spices’..add the seeds and form into a round circle. I then freeze this cake for about 2 hours, then frost it with the orange frosting I posted earlier. =) peace and love, enjoy!

The first time I created this cake, I put way too much cinnamon, and apparently Jonny ( my BF ) claims it tasted like ‘Big red’ the chewing gum.

Servings: 

 enough for one cake-or about 1 1/2 Cups frosting

this “frosting” is a perfect compliment to carrot cake. I absolutley love making carrot cake with pinnapple and raisens and topping it off with this decadent fluff. Make sure to adjust sweetner to your tasting as I don’t like that sweet of stuff. enjoy! peace and love

Ingredients: 

1 cup coconut butter
1 tablespoon orange zest
juice of an orange
1 teaspoon vanilla, or scrapings of bean
pinch cinnamon
pinch sea salt
extra water for consistancy
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed

Preparation: 

In a food processor, combine all ingredients except extra water. Add water slowly as needed to make that “fluffy” dollop frosting.

Ten Days After Zoamore's Birth

Belly is almost back to normal and have been back to prepregnany weight since the day after the birth. I definitely ate a lot during the pregnancy but for the most part ate really healthy, mostly raw fruits and veggies. I'm still craving oranges and pears, which I've been munching down on since the first trimester. I eat about 3-5 oranges a day now! yumm

Eating with Chelly...

2 oranges

2 bananas

cantaloupe

juice - carrot, apple and then put in a blendtec with spinach

pinto beans

carrots & tahini

raw blueberry muffin dessert

Glenn made us a smoothie: banana, coconut milk, dates, vanilla, agave - would be great with some nutmeg or cinnamon yum!

ionized water intake: so far about 50 ounces... ideally at least 80, which is calculated...

1/2 body weight in pounds = ounces of water daily + more if perspiring a lot

Day Two Raw

Ate all raw yesterday and been eating raw all day today except for my apple sauce. I will make raw apple sauce in the future, but figured I'd finish what I have and not waste it. Had juice yesterday and today - carrot, apple, dandelion greens and parsley. Husband juiced with some Kale this afternoon and was a bit nauseating for me, I think kale is a bit harsh on my stomach right now.

Another reason why I wanted to go back to eating mostly raw is that the past two weeks I've been having some really bad heartburn. I can't believe some people live their lives constantly with heartburn, it's incredibly painful and was keeping me from some much needed sleep. To get rid of the heartburn I first upped my water intake. A big cause of heartburn is dehydration and I had not been drinking enough. So I've been filling a large cup  (about 40 oz) twice a day with ionized water at an alkaline pH of about 7.5-9 depending on how I'm feeling, I'll change the pH level. I started feeling relief after one big glass of water and there was little heartburn that evening and I only noticed it because husband asked about it. Also cut back a lot on gluten the following days and I believe that this was also a major culprit. As the following day I was feeling great until I had some bread and the heartburn came back. So.... more alkalized water, no gluten, and eating more raw foods is healing heartburn :)

Went for a swim today and did weights and stretching in the water. I found it very therapeutic and also safer being the I'm not very balanced lately!