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16 April 2008
HELLO GOOD PEOPLE! YAY! Sunshine! We're getting sunshine!! Matt has already gone on his first motorcycle trip of the season. YIPPEEEEEE!!! We've had a LOT of snow this year and now we're experiencing a LOT of mud! So stay on those main roads unless you really needed a new muffler anyway... :-) OK, let's get right to it: First of all, I want to say that I'll be 38 in a few months and I'm FINALLY learning how to do things like stand and sit and walk properly. How funny is that?! I found out that for years I've been hyper-extending my legs (even though now that I think of it my friend in high school mentioned that he noticed that in how I used to stand.) Anyway, changing the hyperextension has, in part, helped my hips (along with some exercises.) And YESTERDAY I was asking my chiropractor about this arch pain that I sometimes have in my feet and she asked if I roll my arches. What??! I had no idea what she was talking about so she asked me to stand and she saw my feet as I'm standing. Turns out I roll my feet in which also turns my knees in a bit. WILD! I never realized! So I asked her to show me how I'm supposed to stand and now I'm standing in a way that totally feels foreign to any way I've ever stood and we'll see how that goes for my feet. So far, so good - I've been doing this for a full day and my arches are ok. She also gave me some exercises to do and I guess it all boils down to using and strengthening the whole body. Hopefully all you guys know how to stand and sit and walk. My kids think I'm crazy: "WHAT? You don't know how to stand?" Well, I guess I do now! :-)
• so all the stores should still have plenty of food in their grab and go/grocery and/or bakery sections.
Currently there is Chick-UN Salad & NOT Tuna at Hunger Mountain Coop, Sweet Clover Market, City Market and Healthy Living. Sweet Clover and Healthy Living have already got the party started with RAWsome Chilli and the other 2 stores will have that soon enough! Healthy Living also is carrying the Eggless Egg Salad still. Every store but Healthy Living also has the God and Goddess Butters and if the stores are out, hold tight - they'll be restocked soon.
I just heard yesterday how much this person enjoyed the sweet & savory flavors of the Chick-UN salad - woo-hoooo!!! thanks for the props!
• I had a fun time being interviewed yesterday for the Bridge, a local paper out of Montpelier. My kids were with me during the interview as Sylvia, the food writer, arrived shortly after the kiddies came home from school. The kids were hungry and wanting snacks so it was perfect timing to have a reporter tasting food that your kids are also diggin' and chompin' down - Be on the look out for this article which should be out in a week or so - she has a wonderful purpose for local food writing, so it sounds anyway. I loved telling her about the permaculture design that Matthew Delorey designed for us around the exterior of the house as well as the mural painting that Robin Merriam is working for us on the front of the building. Talking about the dreams of the place only further ignites all the wonderful possibilities. Baby steps though. We just have to keep chunking away at what we can do each day...
• Today (Wednesday) is the Green Smoothie workshop at Hunger Mountain Coop. We are full and even have people on the waiting list. I am very excited to share these recipes - I've been taste testing for weeks now to get 3 good ones to share. (There's so many options for green smoothies!)
I got asked today if I do the workshops at any other places and I hope that the answer will be YES soon! I really do love doing the classes and workshops the most. That whole "teaching a person how to fish" kind of thing. But then again, making food for the stores also fulfills my own love of making food. My college friend paid us a visit recently and told me I finally found the perfect job because I've always loved buying/making large quantities of food. I looked at her and thought: "she's right! I've been crazy like this for YEARS!" hahaha :-)
• nut milk bags. OH BOY! These things are flying off the shelves. In fact - they don't even make it TO the shelves! We've gotten so many orders in fact that we've needed extra hands! And we can possibly use more! If you are fast and efficient with a sewing machine, please give us a call ASAP at 802-223-2111. We're shipping them out to individuals and to companies around the US, Canada and even to England! Yowsers!
• this one just came to me from a listserve I'm on and this is so awesome and beautiful, I just have to share it. It's a very short video and website. This family in SoCal got rid of their entire lawn and put in an organic garden as a way of taking back control of their food source. I've been telling Matt for years I want to get rid of the lawn and just make it all garden space. Look at what you can do with a little space - this is SO awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXFcbFoAd8 - they even have a website: http://pathtofreedom.com/
• another cool thing: apparently people around the world are trying to either have a ban on plastic bags or put a tax on them to make using them less convenient for customers/stores the original article is here this is very exciting because it's not good enough to say we recycle - it's good to actually use less stuff! I think that's actually a book title: Use Less Stuff: Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are. Anyway, Hip-Hooray for these people around the world waking up to the endless nastiness of plastic. • Which reminds me: please know that we reuse packing materials as well as use biodegradable food packaging - if we use packing peanuts, they are made from corn starch and we only use them if we've received them from other places. I'm working on finding little baggies that are made from potatoes and/but all our food packaging is biodegradable. I've been talking to places that I buy from as well as places that I sell to and asking if they will also put an effort to have their vendors use biodegradable packaging. I mean, particularly for organic (& raw) food - why put that beautiful food in crap plastic clamshells that get dumped and discarded in some landfill? Hey, let's have more awareness and ACTION on sustainable & renewable & compostable products. Please support people/places that are trying to work on the 200 year plan... :-) • wanna know how to make eating healthier more affordable? well, look no further! check out the Raw Food Made Economical page and here's some warm/fuzzies that came in about this e-guide book:
"I like how you included quality links and didn't include too many of them because that can be overwhelming. For example, on the sprouting section, you included one link which is awesome because then someone like me can say "huh, let me go here and find out more." You saved me some work by finding a good resource."
"Awesome tip about produce managers, I never thought of that!" "I loved the layout of your pub, it's beautiful and easy to read." "And my favorite part of all? That you throw in recipes and examples, talk about what your own experience has been (that you were intimidated to try sprouting at first b/c I'd like to try that too but seems complicated so I haven't -- but hearing you say that makes me think oh I should really give it a try), and the lovely end note where you ask for feedback and encourage people to treat themselves and the earth well. I love your kind outlook and it shines through your writing." "Nice work and I'm excited to go look at these links!" THANKS! now for that raw food recipe After all the green smoothies I've been trying, how about a purple one! This has been adapted slightly from a recipe I found on gone raw.
Pretty Purple Smoothie
serves 2-3
Ingredients
Preparation
Blend ingredients for about 30 seconds in a blender. Pour in your fav glass and enjoy! It's a gorgeous color and with the flax/sesame and hemp seeds, you'll be adding things like calcium, protein and nice fatty acids to your pretty drink. *Alternatively, you can make your own hemp milk and use that in place of the hemp seeds and water. Either way is delicious. NOTE: Frozen fruits make a thicker smoothies as does less water.
Linda
P.S. Don't forget to check out the e-guide book and the product page for my "No Excuses" product/service offerings! Have a RAWsome day!
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