Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Cuzzin Kainas Cream Dream Puddin Perfection Banana Bonanza

Acces denied for my second bowl. Lahiki said it was off limits till after dinner haha. So i went to the kitchen to make some more puddin only to find out that all the coconut had been used. I had a flash of genius that comes in those times when my resourcefulness is requested to carry out my endeavors. Thank God for ADVOCADOS!!!! and all the wonderful fruit.

A conversation I had with Kaina came to mind where he had told me about his puddin he made using advocados. We had tried using advocado in pudding and for some reason preferred the coconut recipe. Being all out of coconut i decided to try again using avocados and bananas. i threw in maple syrup to taste and carob powder till it got dark chocolaty looking. The creamy texture amazed me , it was just like puddin! And the color i got after adding the maple syrup and carob looked dark as if i were actually eating chocolate pudding!

Stoked! When raw food can look and taste just as good as cooked food why go back? Thanks to Kaina for ending my depenancy on coconut to make pudding! Pudding for breakfast, lunch and dinner!


Warning: Maple syrup isnt raw. It can get addicting too, not to mention expensive. Which gets me to thinking ; agave might be a good substitute.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Any Participants?

Hey guys!
So how's the raw lifestyle going? Any interesting things happening? Like slipping and pigging out on cooked food. haha. It's going to happen quite a bit in the beginning. Alex and I started eating a lot of fruits and salads in the day and then in the evenings we would eat a cooked meal. Usually a homemade cooked meal, which consisted of anything from alex's delicious beef stew to corned beef, cabbage, and carrots, to my mom's recipe of chicken hekka, we also ate a lot of steamed vegetables(artichoke, beets, asparagus). After reading " The Essense Gospel of Peace" everything made sense!!! I thought to myself I need to try this. We were both already incorporating good living foods into our diets, however, we hadn't made the commitment to go completely raw. Completely raw, meaning not tampered with, fresh fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
It was before bed when we actually talked about going raw. We told ourselves we were going to try it. We wanted to try this for strength and for mucus cleansing. In the beginning we were still completely new to this lifestyle and I believe for some it will take longer than others to get familiar with. Research is the key!!! So anyways, in the beginning we were blessed with a lot of freshly picked mangoes. Freshly picked by Alex the greatest Mango picker!!! I only love him for his mango tree!!! These mangoes were from Diamond Head, we made use of all of them;) and are continuing to make use of the avocados as well :) We've been blessed with fruit. My Dad gave us about 3 banana tree full of bananas...the exact day after we ate our last banana we came across a mango tree with the best mangoes ever, and guess what??? The owners don't care to pick or eat!!!!! haha....mangoes galore!!!!!!!! We are currently surviving on mangoes...Mangoes being my favorite fruit this diet was easy!!!! Another raw living food that we ate a lot of was corn on the cob, uncooked. I made the conclusion that eating corn on the cob, which you can buy at your local supermarket, (times the best)taste much sweeter and fresher uncooked. This was also one of our foods of choice that helped ween us off of cooked food. We also incorporated drinking a gallon of water a day. To me this was hard because I wasn't used to drinking that much water. This was very easy to purchase, buy a one gallon empty container and fill it up daily with purified water. I got my gallon at down to earth and still use it to this day. If I feel like I'm forgetting something when walking out the door, it's usually my gallon water if it's not in my hand.( I'm always walking out the door with it, it's become a habit!) Drinking water daily helped because it made me realize that sometimes we're not really hungry just thirsty:) And you can never drink too much water! especially now days when we have so much bad food going into our bodies. Our bodies are craving water!
Because hiking koko head is in our schedule of workouts every week, usually after a long day of hiking up koko head we would feel the urge of cooked food. Our first attempt to hike koko head 2x on a Saturday morning, (and let me remind you that this has been one of our goals that we've been trying to accomplish, after seeing people going up and down 2 to 3 times a day)we did it in no time and felt great. It was actually easier going up the 2nd time. This is after we've been eating raw food for about 2 weeks, maybe a week 1/2. We were feeling stronger than ever and nothing could stop us!!!! Unless of course it was cooked food!!! (hold on alex is getting sad as we speak because we can't eat at olive tree anymore and I'm sitting here laughing....)ok back to business...I had to confirm with him how many times we ate at olive tree before going raw. That day was the perfect day, we did koko head 2x, went to spend time with alex's father all day, and then came home showered and made our decision to celebrate eating out at the olive tree....mmmmmmmm humus, pita bread, lemon soup, and baklava. We did it, ate cooked food!!!!!!! I felt fine, nothing new just overate. The olive tree was our cooked food haven. Whenever we felt like falling we were eating at the olive tree. You can never go wrong there, good grinds that satisfies the craving!
It was after reading "The Essense Gospel of Peace" when we talked and made the commitment to go raw for 1 month. 1 month has turned into 2 months now. We have our ups and downs, but we know better not to run to the olive tree. I've never stopped researching, reading, and learning new things about this raw lifestyle. It helps everyday. Makes me stronger mentally and it's very interesting as well. I'm lucky to have been introduced to this lifestyle, and been able to have the time to read and get to know the different things I know today, without knowing these valuable essential details I would be very ignorant. I feel bad for those who have no idea what they are putting into their bodies. We should at least have the right to know what's going into our bodies as well as what food does to our bodies, and from there we can make the decision on what we want to eat. It's our own body, our ONLY body, we only get one, we might as well make the best out of it!!!!
I'm so lucky, but so are you!!!! Lucky to be involved in the raw food lifestyle and getting to know your body. I'm currently reading "The Sun-food Diet" by David Wolfe, I highly recommend it to everyone. This one has good stuff, very good stuff, very helpful stuff!!!!!! Hope all of you are enjoying your food;) Let us know how it's going we want to know. Hopefully soon we can all get together and enjoy a raw potluck together. Wouldn't that be fun!!!
P.S. I'm very jealous that most of you have either a vita mix or a juicer!!!!
But hey we got a dehydrator, lets get together and we'll have it all:)
Love you guys.
hiki

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Some of our Delicious Raw Foods

You Know Im Loving IT!!!

MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm
MMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm
MMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm!

Wait, what are you doing? No! this isnt what you want... your gonna have to tell Lahiki. Its all right ill tell her. I gotta tell her. Shoot i blew it. Oh well im already started , GIVE ME MORE!!!

IN this one commercial All the olympians are saying you gotta get up early if you want to succeed, and then it shows them getting ready to train and they all say what time they get up at. one at 6 one at 5:30 etc. And they build this thing thing up about waking up early if you really want it and i swear - i was feeling Inspired, Motivated, Driven, lifted with a new sense of determination that came over me like a child recieving hope from his mentor. I was running out the door so fast to chase down my Dream i could taste it... and BAM!!!! I hit the glass door!
The Damn mentor didnt open the door for me, he was closing it while he had me hypnotized with his way to success. You gotta wake early if you really want the new Mcdonalds Breakfast Chicken Sandwich. All the olympians are standing with chicken sandwiches in their hands LIKE some kinda nightmare and their smiling at the thousands of dollars their getting paid to endorse the Biggest PUSHER out on the streets. Breakfast of Champions. Hats off to Ronald and his advertising team it looked so good i was eating it in my sleep!!!
Believe me it was just as saitisfying especially the part during my binge when i reached out and grabbed me a handful of hot salty fries and shoved them into my mouth while still chewing on a mouthful of chicken sandwich not breathing just inhaling the food as fast as i could then shoving more fries into my mouth before swallowing and reaching out and grabbing more!!!!!!! Now thats WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!! YEEEEHAAAAA!
When i woke and i realised it was all a dream and i hadnt broke my 1 and a half month raw run it was such a relief.

You Know IM LOVING IT!

Try some Sweet potatoe fries you guys. If your transitioning, cut um real thin and slightly coat your rack or pan with olive oil and bake um till desired crispieness. If you have a deydrator dehydrate um .

Monday, August 18, 2008

15 and Counting


15 the day b4 yesterday.
12 yesterday.
and so far today 4. And im not talking shmall kine manini weenie , deez ARE big boys(BlueField). Bananas that is. Like monkey. thats how i feel haha. thats where that term ape shit comes from you know? from bananas. Go Bananas, Go Ape Shit. you know how big an ape is? those suckers are Bigg. Do you think they really eat bananas?
Me and Lahiki were blessed with a bunch so Gotta eat um while they ripe. when i say bunch i mean a bunch of bananas. is that the right term? i think so. a bunch has hands on it. maybe 10-15 hands, and each hand has 15-20 bananas in it. they cover half our dining table and we have more on our counter in the kitchen.
i heard last night that you can die by eating too much bananas. which really got my attention! ask what the count was and the guy said ...88. in one day? i asked. "at one sitting" he responded. "hitler tested his prisoners for potassium poisening and found out that 88 bananas wil kill a man." " hmm " i thought , with a picture of banana puree coming out of my ears, nose, eyes and then another banana being kicked in my mouth and massaged down my throat. was it the bananas that man died from?

back on topic here. ive heard that it is better to eat food in its normal state. ive read it too. freezing explodes the molecules and kills the food. thus provoking me to see how many i can eat in one day, cuz once you cut um off the tree they all get ripe . i learned its better to just peel um and eat um. they go good like that with raisins and cashews. if you blend them and throw in some almond butter then slice up one banana on top with some bee pollen that works too. the only thing about that is when your slurping and swallowing its not the same as chewing. you might get more down then you need at one sitting and end up feeling like one of hitlers experiments. But its just sooo darn GOOD! well den drink choke water... bananas are not the most hydrating thing to eat but they are constipating! so drink choke water.

gotta go gotta go more bananas to peel.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Raw Education Needed

Okay, so educate me.
Just remember that I love you too! Oh and one more thing.... I'm your mother!
Love you,
Sherry

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Internal Dialog of a Cacao Buckwheat Crispies Experience

Ho.
Ho brah.
Easy.
Easy cuz.
Nuff.
Nuff, already?
stop.
no can.
Stop.
no way.
Stop!
No worries. Eat as much as you like you not gone get fat.

"Lahiki!"
"Yes?"
"I need help. Help me please!!!"
"What?"
"Take this away from me. i cant stop eating :("
"What? you tired now? Or you just dont wanna walk to the sink?"

WEW!!! couple sweet ones later... Blogging. If you all didnt know, Lahik's is da bomb! She made dis killa "coco buckwheatie crispies". i started munchin on um right when i walked in the kitchen but controlled myself so i wouldnt spoil my dinner. i like to make sure i got some real fuel before i pig out on the sweets. so i saved room during dinner, which beleive me was hard- Cuz we make da crippest grinds!!!HA. Den i pigged out on the buckwheatiecrispiecocopalolololoeattillhenomoreroominhisopu. i wanted some kind of peanutbutter chocolate dip, so i whipped up some almond butter, honey and cacao powder. the usual dinner, stuff myself silly and not drink enough water. atleast im not gonna wake up wonderin why im boggin. just get a half gallon in me before i break the fast and the first movement should pass. Try to do a gallon and a half a day cuz I plan on holdin the throttle open till dinner. that usually means light meals throughout the day. Anyway anyway.