kalequeen

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• Welcome! Juicing frozen veggies isn’t a good idea. Not only are most vegetables blanched (steamed = cooked) before they’re frozen, they just won’t taste as good (or have as many nutrients) as fresh. Also, the weight fluctuation could have to do with…

  in New and help requested Please! Comment by kalequeen
• angelsfeet, Trader Joe’s at Union Square has really good prices and a great organic produce section. I don’t know what your schedule is like, but Monday afternoons/evenings are usually good, and any weekday before 5:00 PM. Weekend mornings are decen…

  in raw on a budget Comment by kalequeen
• you can buy plain, raw, organic almonds direct from the people (they’re in maine i think) who do the “living nutz” brand. their almonds aren’t from the US, so they don’t have to be pasteurized!!!11 i really love their products (all raw vegan, some f…

  in Almond substitutes? Comment by kalequeen
• Hey! I’ve been transitioning towards 80/10/10 for a while. When I originally went raw, I was eating a lot of fats & dehydrated foods, and have recently tapered my consumption of fat. It wasn’t even a conscious effort at first…I was just craving …

  in Who's there on a 80\10\10? Comment by kalequeen
• Haha. I can’t get enough tangerines either!! Entire boxes. Gone. Sometimes in less than a day! I haven’t found any really really good ones quite yet where I live. I wouldn’t mind eating nothing but tangerines, all the time. When I lived in Florida a…

  in Tangerines! Comment by kalequeen
• hey, i would just suggest lots and lots of fruit. apples are really filling, delicious, and portable. You could also pack a salad in a cooler. I make a massaged kale salad that actually “stays” really well….you could probably make a large batch a da…

  in Eating raw on the road Comment by kalequeen
• I had a pretty bad case of Candida. I tried a Candida diet/cleanse once (similar to what you described— but no supplements), and found that it was really hard to eliminate those foods while continuing to eat. I did a four-day water fast (it was my f…

  in My candida diet/cleanse... Comment by kalequeen
• I had the tendency to overeat during the first year and a half I was raw. (I wasn’t 100%) I would overeat on dehydrated foods, fruits, fatty things, seeds/nuts & dried fruit. Basically everything, haha. Anyway, over the past month I’ve made a ve…

  in Does anyone eats a lot of confort food when stessed? Comment by kalequeen
• It smells like that because of the bacterial cultures. Its light and refreshing, but I’ll admit that I usually fish out the culture strains so I don’t ingest them, lol. It tastes MUCH better than it smells, and the fizziness and light flavors from w…

  in Kombucha Comment by kalequeen
• Yeah, cashews make me really sick. Whenever I eat them I get weird scratchy throat/runny nose symptoms; like I would get back when I ate dairy. I definitely stay away from cashews, because the taste is not at all worth how they makes me feel.

  in cashews :( Comment by kalequeen
• I would definitely drink lots of water. Dehydration can cause you to feel like you have UTI issues, as well as the headache. Do whatever you need to drink your water: If I find that I can’t stomach water, I’ll drink it warm with lemon and ginger. Yo…

  in Hmm... What could this be? Comment by kalequeen
• You could try dehydrating the tomatoes a little to soften them. Good luck!

  in restaurant style salsa recipes? Comment by kalequeen
• Yeah, meeting at CP would be fun! Luckily me managed to avoid the rain for most of the day today, it actually ended up holding out until we were about to leave. We meet once a month or so, so be sure to check meetup.com for the next date. :)

  in Any fellow Raw foodists in NYC/NJ? Comment by kalequeen
• I live in Brooklyn. There’s a raw food meetup that gets together a couple of times a month here, and I believe we are having a July 4th picnic/potluck at Central Park.

  in Any fellow Raw foodists in NYC/NJ? Comment by kalequeen
• I recently discovered figs too! I am in love with them. You should also try dried Turkish Calamyrna Figs (sp?), they’re a brownish tannish grey color, and very good. I have yet to try a fresh fig. I’ve seen them just a handful of times at Whole Food…

  in Figs! Comment by kalequeen
• I use a round one (with much sucess) for crackers, breads, and chips. Mesh and Teflex sheets are available for round dehydrators. You just need to get creative with cutting out the wax paper if you want to avoid buying sheets for it. The dehydrators…

  in Look at this dehydrator... Comment by kalequeen
• My sister went to NC in Sarasota…basically you have an adviser, and together you write up a series of contracts (everything is pass/fail, there are no grades) and it is your responsibility to make sure your end of the contract is fulfilled each seme…

  in Natural "Medicine" Comment by kalequeen
• I know, I know! I’ve started to phase out my cashew intake because they make me really, really sick. This place in NYC (Pure Food & Wine’s side store/takeout place, Pure Juice & Takeaway), sells AMAZING ‘raw’ ice cream BUT its main ingredien…

  in Cake Rant! Comment by kalequeen
• I’ve noticed that lots of folks are saying kale is really hard on their stomaches…I have no problem digesting kale (entire heads at a time!) as long as the other foods I’m eating with it are properly combined. (ie, if I want to add germinated seeds …

  in Kale vs. other greens Comment by kalequeen
• Hey! I’m not a parent, but I have friends with perfectly healthy, un-vaccinated kids and have done some research for myself. There are tons of resources online for parents who either choose to delay vaccination or choose not to vaccinate at all. I w…

  in Immunizations for baby Comment by kalequeen
• There’s a really big farmer’s market (nothing’s organic though) at Hillsborough and 30th Street. Its VERY cheap and the selection is huge! Its always open 24 hours, too, which was the main reason I shopped there.

  in New eager raw foodie! Comment by kalequeen
• Hey! I literally JUST left Tampa. The raw lifestyle is definitely do-able there. Publix, the main grocery store chain down there, has a fairly decent organic selection (depending on which one you shop at…Temple Terrace near USF is good, as is downto…

  in New eager raw foodie! Comment by kalequeen
• ambikalee: I’ve never been a swimmer, but I would wet my hair, put a cap on it, and put oil in afterwards if its dried out/damaged. I might even wet it and put some oil in before hand to repel the chlorine water. I’ve found that ever since I stopped…

  in To shampoo or not to shampoo? Comment by kalequeen
• Hey! I have been shampoo-free for about 10 days. I’ve been “washing” my hair nearly every day with just warm/hot water in the shower, and thoroughly massaging my scalp every few days. It was REALLY greasy for three or four days, but I feel like its …

  in To shampoo or not to shampoo? Comment by kalequeen