Since beginning my raw food living diet journey almost a year ago, I have tried many ways to keep up with my need for fresh organic fruit and veg while and keeping my cost down.

By far the best move I ever made was to sign-up for Albert & Eve!

Their service not only saves me time, but a lot of money! And let's face it, time is also money, so having them deliver to your door (for FREE) is priceless!

You also get to "customize" your order each week.
Once you sign up, you get an email each week telling what they have so you can pick exactly what goes into your "box." Not only is the order customizable, but how often you get delivery is customizable too: I choose every week, but you can choose every-other week, once a month - whatever you need! Plus you can pause for when you are out of town.

The Deluxe Organic Mix Box - is a HUGE value!
For only $28.90 -  You get 3 different fruits and 6 different veggies and you get to pick from a list like this:

All Organic:
Satsuma Tangerines
Fuji Apples
California Kiwifruit
Chandler Pomelo
Fair Trade Bananas
Purple Broccoli
Red Russian Kale
Hannah Sweet Potatoes
Green Giant Cabbage
Heirloom Baby Head Lettuce
Royal Stalk field Celery
French Breakfast Bunch Radish
Mixed herbs

In the summer - I step my order up to the Deluxe PLUS Organic Mix box - it's only $36.90 and it comes with 4 fruits and 8 veggies!! If you juice and need a lot of fruit veggies like I do, this box is a lifesaver!

Their service is also impeccable!

Albert & Eve's passion and commitment to organic produce delivery is very evident in the amazing variety and super-high quality of goods that they place each week for your box! Look at all the farms they work with!
They delivery on Wednesday for my neighborhood, and each Wednesday for me is - "Yippee!!...A celebration of life-giving whole food magic!"

Organic veg to your door - Fabulous!

I'm so happy to be home and getting back to my raw food living diet!

Today i'm going to drink a huge green smoothie:

• One whole bag of Trader Joes' organic baby spinach
• Some frozen peaches I saved from last summer. About 2 cups.
• One tablespoon each of: Vitamineral Green Powder, Maca, Bee Pollen
• Two 11oz cartons of coconut water
• One handfull of Goji Berries
• One teaspoon of Merlin's herbal magic roots elixer
• 1/2 teaspoon of E3Ensymes powder
• I tablespoon of Diviana Nectar

Blend on high in VitaMix until smooth.

Raw Cranberry Sauce Recipe - from Brigitte Mar’s raw cookbook Rawsome!

It’s very easy and so delicious; you’ll want to eat it year-round!

Yield: 8 Servings

• 2 cups organic cranberries
• 2 medium oranges, peeled and seeded
• ¾ cup of dates, soaked for 20 minutes
• 2 teaspoons of lemon juice (I use Meyers lemons)
• 1 cup halved, grapes.

Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and pulse until uniformly chopped and mixed. The sauce should be a bit chunky.

Will keep in the refrigerator for a week

Rawsome!: There are over 200 recipes and everyone I've tried is fantastic and super easy. If you need photos, this book is not for you.

You can buy Brigitte's book here: http://brigittemars.com/shop/rawsome-book/

Happy Thanksgiving!

I love a crunchy, sweet snack, and these Spirulina Bars will last for weeks in a zip-lock bag, and are great for breakfast or for on-the-go noshing. 

This recipe makes about 20 bars.

Equipment needed:

Heavy Duty bender like Vita Mix or BlendTec and a food dehydrator with non-stick sheet.

Time:

·      Prep: 15 minutes

·      They dehydrate in about 24 hours – more if you want crunchier and less chewy.

Ingredients:

• 5 Large Organic Ripe Bananas
•  2 Cups Dried Coconut
• 1/3 Cup of Raw Organic Agave Syrup
•  ½ Cup Coconut Water
• ¼ Cup Spirulina Powder
• 3 Cups Raw Sesame Seeds (I sprouted the sesame seeds, which adds a day to this process, but if you don’t have time to sprout, it’s just fine to use the raw sesame seeds as they come. Also, sprouted sesame seeds are a bit bitter.  So if you prefer to have a purely sweet bar, don’t sprout the seeds.)

Steps:

1.   Blend together all items, except the sesame seeds, in the Vita Mix.

2.   Stir in the sesame seeds

3.   Pour the mixture onto one dehydrator tray covered with a non-stick sheet.

4.   Spread the mixture evenly on the tray to the edges. I use a knife to smooth the top. It will be about ½ inch think.

5.   Put into dehydrator at temp. of 110 degrees. 

6.   After about 10-12 hours you can peel the semi-firm spirulina bar mixture off the non-stick tray and flip it over onto a dehydrator screen with no non-stick sheet.

7.   At this point to make neater rectangular bars, you can score the mixture with a knife or pizza cutter into a grid to the size of bars you want. It’s more difficult to cut them once they are crunchy, but totally doable.

8.   Put the tray back into the dehydrator for another 10-12 hours.

What is Spirulina and what nutrients do you get when you eat it?

Where to buy Spirulina in bulk and online for a good price.

Everybody loves Cheesy Kale Chips! These make a raw food diet so easy to stay with because you will never feel deprived when you can treat yourself to a delicious snack like Cheesy Kale Chips!

I first found them in the raw food section at the San Francisco Whole Foods, made by a Berkeley company, Blessings Alive and Radiant Foods, and they were $6.99 for 3 oz. I was so addicted, I realized that if I was going to stay on the raw food living diet, that I needed to figure out how to make them myself. Now I make huge batches at home (12 to 16oz) for about $5.00. I found this recipe on a great website for raw dishes called http://goneraw.com Gone Raw is a wonderful website to find and share recipes with other raw food natural-born chefs! I was lucky to find it the first week I went raw.

Here’s how you’ll find the post about Cheesey Kale Chips on GoneRaw.com:
 If you've been lucky enough to try Blessings Cheesy Kale Chips you know they are AMAZING!! www.BlessingsAliveAndRadiantFoods.com
This recipe makes identical chips. I found it over on Rawfoodtalk.com, thanks to Rawknitster!! http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?p=494315&posted=1#post494315  They are so fantastic I wanted to make sure everyone knew about them.
INGREDIENTS:
1 large bunch of curly, green kale, washed, large stems removed, torn into bite size pieces
COATING:
1 cup cashews, (soaked 2 hours)
1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
juice of 1 lemon
2 t. agave (optional-I don't add, I like them more salty + savory)
1 T. nutritional yeast
1/2 t. himalayan pink crystal salt (use more or less to taste)
PREPARATION:
Put coating ingredients in Vitamix. Blend until smooth. Using your hands, massage coating onto kale pieces getting it inside of curls. Put on teflex sheets (don't worry about flattening them, they're better bunched up) and dehydrate at 105 overnight or until coating is dry. Slide onto mesh screens and dehydrate 12 hours, or until very crispy.

Check out all the variations members of Gone Raw have added here: http://goneraw.com/recipe/cheesy-kale-chips. I was once out of cashews and used macadamia nuts instead. I also used a bit more agave to make "sweet" cheesy kale chips. I thought they were fabulous and my kale-loving friends agreed.  Try your own variations and have fun with kale!

Note: The one major piece of eqiupment needed to make these is a dehydraror, which, in my opinion, is essential in a raw food living dieter's kitchen, because making your own snacks (chips, cookies, breads, bars, seasoned nuts etc.) will save you a ton of money in the long-run. But if you don't have the equipment to make your own (yet) you can buy cheesy and other flavors like Ranch, Pesto and Thai at Blessing's Site: http://www.blessingsaliveandradiantfoods.com/kaleinkrunch.html or here: http://www.therawfoodworld.com/index.php?cPath=100150_100148_100216_100282