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• Troublesjustabubble:)—Does the shower get greased up? What about your towels? Do you use a bath brush to exfoliate your skin with the coconut oil or are you just getting in the shower, rinsing off, doing your hair routine and getting out again? Not …

  in Coconut Oil Comment by 1sweetpea
• That wasn’t exactly what I was referring to, though I did think of that when I chose the word “lube” :-P It’s not a bad idea, though!

  in Coconut Oil Comment by 1sweetpea
• I’m using the virgin coconut oil that I bought from the health food section of my supermarket. It’s for cooking and eating, but I’m just not quite sold on eating it yet. That’s just me, though. Coconut meat and milk gives me indigestion. I know it’s…

  in Coconut Oil Comment by 1sweetpea
• I don’t see any problem with your food choices, provided you have no sensitivities to any of them. My question to you is: how much water are you drinking? The foods you listed have a lot of fibre in them. There are different kinds of fibre as well, …

  in My Energy Soups are giving me tummy aches Comment by 1sweetpea
• Ginger is good for nausea of any kind. It also stimulates the appetite, which may help you feel the desire to eat some fresh, healthy food for your health and the baby’s. If you drink hot tea, you can steep fresh ginger slices. If you don’t do hot t…

  in Nausea and pregnancy Comment by 1sweetpea
• I don’t think the raw soba idea will work. Even if you sprout and dehydrate the buckwheat, then grind it into flour and mix with water to make noodles, you’d still have to cook them in boiling water or else you’re just eating raw dough, which may ap…

  in Are there raw Japanese soba (buckwheat) noodles? Comment by 1sweetpea
• Typical response by a doctor. Don’t listen to the patient and prescribe medication for everything! It sounds to me like you weren’t depressed at all. You probably could have relieved a lot of that anxiety and stress with the help of a pscyhologist (…

  in LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION (detox content) Comment by 1sweetpea
• Hopefully, without the meds in your system, your body will respond to diet and exercise as it would if you had never been on the meds at all. I don’t think you’ll necessarily lose weight any faster just because the weight gain was quite rapid. It’s …

  in LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION (detox content) Comment by 1sweetpea
• KAIT, Nearly 13 years ago I was 5’2” and 186 pounds. I was vegetarian then, but subsisted on a diet of pure crap. I had Graves’ Disease, which is an overactive thyroid, but I should have been losing weight, since my resting heart rate was 120 at the…

  in LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION (detox content) Comment by 1sweetpea
• I agree with your CRON-o-meter’s estimate of the calories. For the amount of fruit you ate, that sounds closer to accurate. Perhaps you are sensitive to something in the pineapple, mango and/or cantaloupes, but it’s not evident unless you consume la…

  in LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION (detox content) Comment by 1sweetpea
• It is awesome. It costs $4.29 for 16-ounce bottle where I live. I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept of making my own, but it seems a bit daunting. I read on another thread here that it’s possible to brew your own from a single bottle of GT…

  in Tea&Coffee, What About Them? Comment by 1sweetpea
• My poison is aspartame-laden caffeinated soda. I’ve quit drinking it for months, only to start again. As of today, I’ve had no caffeine or aspartame in 3 weeks. I kicked coffee a long time ago. Green tea has been tough, because it has helped me to d…

  in Tea&Coffee, What About Them? Comment by 1sweetpea
• My BF and I backpacked from Panama to Guatemala (via Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras) last winter for 6 weeks. We weren’t travelling on a shoestring per se, but it was certainly possible to keep costs down, sleeping in hostel dorms for $5 a night…

  in Life Worth Living Comment by 1sweetpea
• To anyone who has a southeast asian store in their city, investigate the produce options!!! My Vietnamese store is currently selling 3 coconuts for $5.00. I don’t know if that’s a special price or their regular price, but I definitely plan to go bac…

  in Organic Coconuts No shipping on the East Coast Comment by 1sweetpea
• I agree with Angie. I’ve had no trouble sprouting quinoa. For me, it has been the easiest and most successful of my sprouting attempts. I soaked it a few hours and it was sprouting within a few more hours. I could have used it that day. If it gets w…

  in sprouting and raw quinoa? Comment by 1sweetpea
• The one I bought was orange and called something like “Sugar Pie Pumpkin”. It’s only about 6 inches or so in diameter, like a 5-pin bowling ball. I figured I’d start small, in case I didn’t like it. I’m going to try the spiralized noodles with olive…

  in How Do I Deal With a Pumpkin? Comment by 1sweetpea
• I’m ready with my cleaver, but apprehensive to hack into the little bugger until I have a concrete idea what to do after that!

  in How Do I Deal With a Pumpkin? Comment by 1sweetpea
• I think the answer to why you’re thinner when eating fish can be found in your statement that you need “to try to lay off the nuts”. You’re used to eating a lot of protein in one sitting when you eat fish. You are probably still craving that much pr…

  in OK, It suddenly came; I think I'm ready to give up fish but I have a few questions and concerns Comment by 1sweetpea
• I have joint pain in my right elbow. Aside from strengthening the surrounding muscles to help ease the strain on the joint, my chiropractor suggesting eating gelatin, which is an animal product. I asked if there were any veg alternatives and he sugg…

  in Headaches and Joint Pain Comment by 1sweetpea
• It would be better to do each one separately, or at least divide into size categories. Each bean will have its own soaking time and sprouting/harvesting time. Stay away from sprouting kidney beans, though. They are toxic when sprouted. Are your bean…

  in sprouting mixed beans? Comment by 1sweetpea
• Eating so much sweet tasting fruit, I’m really surprised at how focused most raw people are on sweets and desserts. I wouldn’t dream of eating desserts and sweet snacks on top of my general daily fruit and vegetable-fruit (tomatoes, pepppers, avocad…

  in Raw vegan sweetener Comment by 1sweetpea
• I haven’t tried this myself, but maybe soaking the slices in a salt and water solution for an hour or so, then rinsing and letting them dry out a bit would do the trick. A little lemon juice squeezed into the saltwater mix will help prevent it from …

  in preparing aubergine... Comment by 1sweetpea
• I use spinach (or arugula or kale), parsley, cucumber, an apple or two, juice of a lemon, juice of an orange, ginger and mint. It’s very refreshing. For a thicker smoothie, I’d add avocado or some hemp, maca, ground flax or ground chia. The combinat…

  in Green Smoothies Comment by 1sweetpea
• I know I’m getting off topic, but speaking of pets, has anyone tried transitioning their pets to raw food? Ani Phyo writes about this in her book and even includes recipes for doggie pate, biscuits and crunchy sweet potato treats for dental health. …

  in Helloooo Vegetarians/Vegans Comment by 1sweetpea
• My chicken slaughter experience was in Toronto, at Kensington market, which is otherwise a very cool place. I have a Croatian friend who tells a very similar story about visiting her grandmother’s house. She played with the bunnies all day, even nam…

  in Helloooo Vegetarians/Vegans Comment by 1sweetpea
• I’ve swung back and forth since I was 16 from omnivore to vegetarian to vegan, back to omnivore and now mostly raw vegan. I’m new to raw veganism and mostly loving it, but i’m concerned about B12, so I don’t sweat it if once a week a social outing m…

  in Helloooo Vegetarians/Vegans Comment by 1sweetpea
• Sharing and hearing others’ words on this topic is like an auxiliary (and free!) therapy session for me. It reinforces my own feelings about my recovery and why being raw is so important for me. I’m not 100% raw, but the cooked meals cause trouble f…

  in raw eating disorder help? Comment by 1sweetpea
• This is a delicate topic. Eating disorders are more about what’s going on in our minds and less about food. Changing your diet won’t necessarily sort out self-esteem issues and disordered thought processes. However, as a recovering bulimic and one-t…

  in raw eating disorder help? Comment by 1sweetpea
• My health food store expert tells me that if you are using the whole white chia seed s.k.a. Salba, you should soak it for at least 20 minutes, but as long as overnight in the refrigerator. That softens it so that you can chew the grains. If they’re …

  in All Hail The Chia Seed Comment by 1sweetpea
• You’d be better off using the setting that cuts into long accordion-like fpringy circles (turn the “teeth” downward so they aren’t in use). The shape will be totally different, but at least the apples might not get as mushy. Also, try to find a real…

  in Creating raw recipes in my dreams =) Comment by 1sweetpea