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• My husband is making a raw pumpkin bread from welikeitraw.com …we’re going to be tasting it tonight. Carrot Spice Bars are a good ‘holiday’ desert which require no dehydration at all… just a good food processor. I’m sure there are recipes similar to…

  in Holiday Dishes Comment by germin8
• Vegetarian Times magazine! It has some vegan recipes. Our favorite so far is the Vegetarian Posole Stew= It’s really vegan. Also, Moosewood is internationally known for their vegetarian cooking… and they have several cookbooks. I’ve been to their re…

  in Gift ideas for a newbie vegan Comment by germin8
• I also notice when recipes call for “cocoa or carob”, it’s never a one-to-one substitution. I find you need 1/4 of the carob. Carob has a “different” flavor. You can’t eat too much of it, like one would chocolate. Alone, carob doesn’t come close as …

  in Chocolate/Carob Comment by germin8
• Thanks for the advice… and giving me some peace of mind.

  in Pregnant and raw support group Comment by germin8
• Thank you for the advice. I hope not to feel like I am giving birth myself… but rather, a gift from God… with some help. The advice was great. Thank you, you two… I put off taking prenatal vitamins, but I will definitely look into finding some. I’m …

  in Pregnant and raw support group Comment by germin8
• Hi KurdishMom, you have just a few more weeks! How exciting. I’m not pregnant… but, I do have questions (for some-time-in-the-future). I asked my gyno if I “had” to take that “drink” to test for gestational diabetes. She said “yes”. So, how importan…

  in Pregnant and raw support group Comment by germin8
• How do you lose water from grinding flaxseed? I grind my own. I don’t buy it pre-ground as it will undergo more oxidation by the time it gets to my mouth.

  in Kinds of fat Comment by germin8
• Udo’s Oil Blend is balanced. Udo Erasums’ book, “Fats that Heal Fats that Kill”, says the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio 2:1. You can add sunflower and sesame oils to flax oil. However, (somewhere in the book, I think I read that) the reverse ratio 1:2 is…

  in Kinds of fat Comment by germin8
• Funny!

  in I ate rubber bands Comment by germin8
• greenie, he never had salt growing up. Only more recently, but even then, not much. He has had all the other stuff you listed though. It’s amazing… even if you eat a little of “this and that”, it really does add-up over time, it is in our bodies, an…

  in Raw for me Comment by germin8
• That’s very interesting… when I first got my husband on a 10-day raw food back in 2005, he became depressed. I didn’t think it was the diet… until we did two other “10-day raw food” the following year. He never really had lots of stimulants before, …

  in Raw for me Comment by germin8
• Thanks deborahann. With certain juicers, juice can oxidize fairly quickly – like 30 minutes. I wasn’t sure about “juices” from a Vita-Mix and other high-speed blenders… whether they oxidize right away once you start high-speed blending or after some…

  in Oxygen-rich Food Comment by germin8
• I didn’t see nut milks and lemonades… all raw/living??? Durian? They must’ve not been in season b/c we checked the produce for interesting fruit. Awwww!

  in GrassRoots - Tampa ("Review") Comment by germin8
• I got the mango cookies from Glaser Farms… but, I wasn’t impressed. I should’ve gone for the other one. ;-) Sorry, we’re not from Tampa. Just visiting for a wedding by the beach. I don’t think queenfluff is from there either. Glaser Farms is not in …

  in GrassRoots - Tampa ("Review") Comment by germin8
• Oh yeah, I didn’t have the burrito or ‘sammich’ because those were things I make at home often. They looked so good too! My favorite was the green smoothie and the treatloaf… it was amazing how taking a bite of the treatloaf together with the smashe…

  in GrassRoots - Tampa ("Review") Comment by germin8
• Zoe, I knew a group of health missionaries that travelled overseas… and, I’m pretty sure they don’t have to get vaccines because they are missionaries. Of course, they are actually doing missionary work when they travel.

  in Vaccination hell help! Comment by germin8
• Yes, I took oregano oil internally. A couple drops with very little water per day during flu season. Check the label, I don’t know if they sell oregano oil for topical use only.

  in warts -- advice? Comment by germin8
• oregano oil is anti-viral. I took it during flu season for two years….I took it when people were sick around me. This was before I learned about raw foods, so I haven’t used oregano oil in years. P.S. Why exactly does the wart hurt? I thought they d…

  in warts -- advice? Comment by germin8
• Crushed garlic taped to the wart (without letting air in) worked for someone I know. They did it for a less than a month, every day, all day. Later, another wart grew on the joint of a pinky finger which is difficult to tape… so, believe it or not, …

  in warts -- advice? Comment by germin8
• I think it depends on how fast you want to detox. Better than just a water fast would be a water fast while doing a flush and colon cleanse. It just depends what one wants. Plus, I understand a water fast beyond 3 days requires someone (or at least …

  in Juice Fast Comment by germin8
• I’m with joesc, “I hope I am not too late”. ;-) A friend of mine has done a multi-week grape mono-”fast”. Fast is in quotes because she drank grape juice and ate raisins and grapes (anything in the form of what used to be grapes at least). I think s…

  in Juice Fast Comment by germin8
• Wow, I never really thought that eating sweets being linked to stress! I have a huge craving for sweets… but, maybe I’m really stressed and haven’t realized that. I can see that happening to me. Good info here. Thanks.

  in Does anyone eats a lot of confort food when stessed? Comment by germin8
• Thanks Zoe. That’s a comforting thought. I know the feeling of being “mostly raw”... and I would like to be “there” again. And I’m now even more curious about being “100% raw”. I’ll want to give it the 3 months Chris mentioned about… I just have to …

  in Nama Shoyu-free zone! Comment by germin8
• Chris: Three months 100% raw – eh? I read Paul Nison’s book… and some of the detox symptoms don’t sound so pleasant… like people losing hair and having teeth problem because of the acid-to-alkaline change of the body… and people getting very thin. I…

  in Nama Shoyu-free zone! Comment by germin8
• Personally, I do not like the word “raw” because it means (at least) two different things to two types of people – raw foodists & the FDA. I wish there were ‘precise’ words. “Raw” to the FDA seems to mean that is has not gone any process of prep…

  in Nama Shoyu-free zone! Comment by germin8
• Hmmm, maybe I CAN eat that onion bread that’s been in our refrigerator for 2-3 weeks. :o)

  in bread refrigeration? Comment by germin8
• Yes, store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Depending on how dehydrated it is, it can keep for weeks. At times, I take dehydrated food with me for lunch or late-lunch… and I don’t refrigerate it. It still keeps well out of the fridge…

  in bread refrigeration? Comment by germin8
• Well, there is a difference between food temperature and air temperature. (at least for the Excalibur), so really, the food probably never reaches 105 or 95 if it is set to that. I can take a hot shower up to about 112F (at least that is what I was …

  in Mostly Raw? Comment by germin8
• Good question. I just got that book and noticed the same thing… lots of coconut water. The recipes look so good and easy… but, I don’t want to crack open that many coconuts. I don’t have a recommendation.

  in Coconut Water Substitute Comment by germin8
• Thanks, Katie. I’m not sure drinking water will help with my cravings since I already drink plenty. So, I’ll try extra hard to add more greens, greens, greens. I’m going to start increasing my raw in about a week. I want to do 90% for 2 months again…

  in Help!! Comment by germin8