For My Inspiration!

I am asking anyone and everyone to assist or rather INSPIRE me in my 30 Days of Green Smoothies Challenge! Today is Day 2 and for my Inspiration for the month I would love to run a contest for the BEST Green Smoothie. I will be the guinne pig per say and try them all then Tweet, Blog and Facebook them all. I love all smoothies and I would love to test out what YOUR favorite smoothie is.
Guide Lines:
Fresh Greens ONLY and
Fresh Fruits ONLY and
Fresh Veggies ONLY
No powders or supplements
Just Fresh Whole Raw/Living Foods!

Send your recipes by Twitter, Email (contact@fruitygreenfamily.com), Text (702-539-3478) or whatever means you can!
I am sooo excited!!!

What will you receive for the BEST GREEN SMOOTHIE Ever:

Our new Garden Spot Cafe E-book being released March 1, 2009 for only $15 !!

In The Garden Spot Recipe E-Book you will get amazing raw recipes from easy to more gourmet like:

The Best Tasting Raw Pizza EVER

Jalapeno-Mushroom Garden Burgers W/ Jicama (not potato) Salad

Recipe for Goddess Goodeez: Amazing Cookies and Almond Mylk Shakes
ENJOY!!!

Gaining Perspective From Contrast

For years I have been a big believer in learning through contrast. I love contrast how would I grow if everything was always working out. I recently taught an amazing inspirational raw food class. I came up with this simple to follow formula (available in our soon to be released recipe book) for creating delicious raw recipes anyone can follow and their food comes out wonderful.

Before the class started I went a bought a bunch of food of a variety, second I showed up on time and with everything I needed for a great class. Third, I locked my keys in my car along with the food needed for the class. People started showing up and I was a little embarrassed at first. I choose to take this in stride and just proceeded to call a locksmith and continue with a great attitude.

Locking my keys in my car 15 minutes before people were to show up for a class I was teaching was not planned. It happened and I stayed in the flow that everything happens for a reason and so take what it is and move on to the next moment. Within 15 minutes my car was open and I, along with some wonderful party guests unloaded the groceries and went on to have the best class I had ever dreamed of.

Everyone made amazing food and had the best time doing it. I could have taken the car lock out negatively and let it ruin my day instead I thought oh well I guess I just needed to slow down and enjoy this moment for what it is! I did and we all had a blast. Even the biggest skeptics ended up having a great time and left with some new skills to get more raw fruits and veggies into their diet and who knows what it may lead to??? For me it was perfect and so is my life!! You too can choose to take the contrast in your life without getting up set and letting it take control of you.

ENJOY life to the fullest, even the contrast and live on PURPOSE!

With Love,

Darlene

Fruity Green Momma

For those special mornings when you want a little more than a smoothie for breakfast:

Raw Gr-Oat-Meal:

1-2 cups of soaked Raw Oat Groats (soak for 24 hours or until soft)

1/4-1/2 cup of Dates

1/4 cup of Raisins

1/2 tea cinnamon

Blend in a blender adding water as needed. You Gr-Oat-Meal will even get warm. Serve with fresh berry jam and sliced bananas and maybe even a bit of fresh squeeze Almond Mylk!

Yummy!

Fresh Raw Foods and Creativity

On February 21, 2009 I was the instructor to an interactive raw food prep class. I love empowering others to do for themselves. People came over to a private home setting bringing their food prep utensils like Vita-Mixes and food processors. I had arranged the food according to taste, sweet, sour, salty, spicy and bitter, and gave everyone basic instructions. They were off to work and I think from the smiles and laughs they all had a good time and their food came out amazing! I even had a few sceptics that were won over and thanked me for the much needed inspiring healthy help.

I was in ahhhh the whole time realizing how simple raw food preparation is if a few basic ideas are followed. The Garden Spot Recipe Book will be out in 6 days and I am including my amazing easy to follow guide for creating your own live raw recipes simply and easily. Get more fresh raw foods into your life and ENJOY!

Raw Spinach Avocado dip
1 Avocado
1 cup Spinach
1/2 of a Orange fresh squeezed
1/2 Garlic or garlic seasoning
1/4 tea Salt
1 Stalk Celery
2 Green Onions

This is a blend, process or chop dip perfect for anyone in the mood to try something amazing and delicious. Serve up with some veggie sticks and ENJOY!

What Newz

Over the next week:

I will be at Whole Foods Market in Summerlin on Friday Feb 20, 2009 from 2-5 demonstrating Berries-n-Cream and then again at the Whole Foods Market in Henderson, NV on Friday Feb 27, 2009 from 2-5.

On March 1, 2009 (time ?) I will be demonstrating raw pizza, raw crackers and more at the Bikram Yoga Las Vegas.

On March 1st I will also be releasing my first raw recipe book The Garden Spot Cafe Raw Recipe Book. It will be available as 8x11 flip chart recipe book or you may buy it as an ebook.

I am also working on my new book Raw Emotions to be out as soon as possible.

Thanks so much for your support and love,

Please let us know if you have as questions or comments on how we can more assist you to get MORE Fresh Fruits, Veggies, and Greens into your life!

Love and hugs,

Darlene, Blake, Mitch, Carter, and Breeana

Your Fruity Green Family

Creating Personal Wellness, Healthy Relationships and RECIPE FUN!!!

I love to replace old unhealthy habits for healthy relationship building habits. I went from reacting to my c

hildren or husband to Responding. As the reactive feelings of anger or rage start to come up I stop, take a breath and think what I would like to communicate to who I am speaking to and what I would like to say. This gives me time to calm down and respond.

Next I like to incorporate a method I took in a parenting class called PET (Parent Effectiveness Training). I learned that by describing something like "When I hear that sound, or see that, . . ." it takes the attack away and puts the responsibility back to myself. I remember the technique by using the acronym I call the B.F.E. Method. I describe the Behavior I am having an issue with "when I see ink writing on my favorite blender", I describe my Feelings "I feel upset, irritated, unhappy" and last I describe the Effect (the effect being time, money, energy) "It will take time to get that ink writing off the blender or it will cost $400 to replace it".

Last I allow them to speak and tell their tell or feelings. Usually they want to right the stuation "I understand, I will clean the ink off the blender and and I wont do it again" and it usually does not happen again. This process allows the person I am communicating with to know I have feelings and at the same time they don't have to feel attacked. In the end we can work together to take care of the issue at hand and we both come out feeling better. We end up building a respectful loving relationship rather than a gap in our relationship.

Now another healthy habit I replaced for an unhealthy habit was learning to convert a cooked food recipe to a raw/living food one. As a chef I am always being asked to create raw dishes that taste like cooked food dishes. I get the the information highway and look up a few cooked recipes like "Thai dressing" or "marinara" and start my imagination going by replacing the cooked ingredients for raw ones, remembering a balance of flavors always includes 5 major tastes: sweet, sour, salty, spicey, and bitter.

Examples:

peanut butter for Almond Butter or Tahini (sesame seed butter)

can tomatoes for fresh tomatoes

tomato paste for sun-dried tomatoes

butter/dairy/cheese for young coconut meat or blended cashews/macadamia nuts or avocado

milk for almond Mylk

bread for a dehydrated raw bread

sugar for dates, raisins, Agave Nectar, honey

vinegar for lemon, lime or orange juice

See what you can create from your favorite recipe and turn in raw!

I took a recipe from Rachel Ray and converted it to RAW!

Rachel Ray's

Berries and Cream

1 cup sour cream
4 tablespoons sugar
Grated peel and juice of 1 lemon
1/4 pound fresh cherries, halved, plus 10 whole for garnish
1 pint mixed berries (blackberries, blueberries, raspberries)
6 ounces milk or dark chocolate
20 sugar cones

Fruity Green Family's

Berries and Cream

Almond Creamy milk:
2 cup soaked almonds
4 cups water
Blend very well and strain through a cheese cloth bag, save pulp for another recipe.

Put milk back in blender and add:
2 cups of Macadamia or cashew nuts
be sure to add only 1/4 cup at a time
Blend until smooth.
Then add

1 cup date/raisin combo
1 teaspoon to vanilla or one inch vanilla bean or vanilla bean powder

a squeeze or 2 of lemon juice or orange juice
blend until smooth

Put in bowl and add your favorite fruit (fresh or frozen). Let this sit in the frig a bit or if the fruit is frozen let it sit on the counter for a few. As the cream absorbs the flavor of the fruit it just gets better!
A few favorites are peaches n cream, berries n cream and strawberries and cream!

Serve in glass dishes and ENJOY!
Your can serve this at any family event and nobody with know that it is non dairy and non refined sugar.

I welcome you to look at what others are doing and without judgement just describe what they are doing as if you were speaking to someone that can not see. How to you describe the color blue to a blind person?

With a hug, as if my arms wrapped around your body and yours around mine and we can feel our hearts beating and begin to feel our bodies full of energy from the possitive connection between an one amazing being to another!

Love,

Darlene

fruity green goddess momma

Get Busy Livin!

One of my favorite quotes "get busy livin' or get busy dying" from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. I remember when I was in my teens, I felt lost and unsure of what direction I was suppose to go. I was making choices unconciously and I was not happy with the direction my life went. Now I can look back and I realize when my path in life changed to the BEST MOMENTS EVER was when I started living my life and finding a way to love every minute of it. 

Everyone that is living is living and everybody is going to move on, die. The question remains are you living fully in life, creating conscious choices and concious actions. You can start in this very moment and begin your path. Pave the roads you want to take, 100 years from now I want to look back on my life and know I lived every moment to the fullest. You are the leader of your life so take you by the hand and choose to ENJOY and feel as great as you can every moment of everyday!

I hope you understand it is most important to love you more than it is for anyone to love you!

With that said I love everyone including YOU!

Get more life into yourself and EAT MORE LIVING FOODS!

Darlene

fruity green goddess momma

On the other side of FEAR- Self Satisfaction

Self Satisfaction is a fabulous feeling. Whenever we are treading in unfamiliar territory like a new life style, such as eating a living foods/raw way, or creating a new habit, from day 6 to 10 we may stubble upon feelings of unfamiliarity and perhaps even fear. STOP and RELAX, know that you are not alone. These feeling are similar to those of when you ride a roller coaster. At first on the roller coast you may feel excitement, you are on the roller coast for the fun, right. The closer you get to the top of the first big hill, the more your excitement may turn to fear or maybe your stomache starts to get butterflies, you may even want to run, hide, of just get off. The first 6 to 10 days of a new life style or habit is the rising on your big hill in your roller coaster of life. You started because you were excited and inspired. Then after 6 to 10 days fear or doubt may start to set in and you may want to stop and run away from those feelings. 

At this point please feel free to take a deep breathe and understand once you get over the first big hill the momentum of the roller coaster just goes and goes, things get easier and easier and you feel ELATION and in the end high self satisfaction. Once you have reached this type of self satisfaction know one needs to say anything to you or give you a pat on the back because You know how amazing you are and YOU DID IT. You rode the ride went through the fear or doubt and came out feeling Grand with a new sense of self and more knowledge of you and what you can do!

I welcome you to ride through your fear and doubts on the other side is finding out more about yourself and a feeling of total self and knowledge, YOU DID IT!!! If you feel like you would like support, find a mentor that is doing what you want and not those that will add to your fears or doubts. 

ENJOY your rides through fear we can find more of what we are really capable of on the other side! 

In LOVE,

Darlene

fruity green momma

TO MIx or Not to Mix

Many people ask me "why do I get so much gas or blotting eating a raw food diet?" 

Its proper food combining: 

Sweet fruits= bananas, dried fruits, mangoes, etc (break-down in 1 hour) go well with greens and not with nuts or citrus or non-sweet fruits. 

Non-sweet fruits=red peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc go well with greens and nuts and citrus fruits. (break-down 1 hour without nuts)

Citrus fruits=grapefruit, oranges, pineapple, berries, etc go well with greens and nuts and non-sweet fruits. (break-down 1 hour without nuts)

Fatty fruits=avocados, durian, jackfruit, young coconuts, etc go well with greens, non-sweet fruits, and ok with nuts. (break-down about 3 hours without nuts).

Nuts and seeds=walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, etc go with non-sweet fruits, greens, and citrus and can take 3 to 12 hours to break-down. 

Melons always best eatten alone. Break down with in 30 min.

Your body is made perfectly like this. Sweet fruits are alkaline and break down without the strong acid needed for nuts. 

Proper food combinding will help you digestion and no more blotting and gas. Some people, like myself, my have a compromised digestive system and nuts and seeds are bothersome still. I like to stick to avocados and young coconut for the fat in my dressings. 

I hope this helps,

With love,

Darlene

Fruity Green Momma 

Self Reflection, Self Love

I am sure everyone has a friend or perhaps even yourself that is not happy with their appearance. Whether they or you think your too fat, skinny, your legs are too big or small, its all negative thoughts towards a beautiful being such as yourself. Comments like this only create more of what you don't want. Take a break and consciously love at least one thing about yourself. 

I know there is at least one thing about yourself you do love/like start there and focus your attention on that and only that one thing. As the days go by play a game with yourself to see if you can find one more thing per day you can add to your list. 

example:

day 1: I love how small my wrists are.

day 2: I love my small wrists and my tiny thin fingers.

day 3: I love my small wrists, my tiny fingers and my lips.

You get the point.

Love were you are NOW, in this moment and soon you will be where you want to be. 

With love of myself and love for you,

Darlene

fruity green goddess momma

Create the Fun in your Challenge!

Neale Donald Walsh wrote:
"fun is not defined as the absence of challenging circumstances, but as the absence of anger about them."
Last month I decided I wanted to create a new habit of responding and NOT reacting to a situation I did not find favorable. I decided before I started my 30 practice of calm responsiveness what I would do instead of my former anger reaction. I decided I would stop and ask myself is what I am about to get angry over worth the effort and acid in my body? Once I started my practice and as I started to become angry I stopped myself and ask my question and every time my answer was. . . NO. My mind would start to think of how special this person is and how much I love myself and love to feel calm. During my 30 days I only became angry 4 times! WOW a record for me.

Acid from anger or rage is worse for your digestion than anything you may eat. Give yourself a gift and practice something you want for yourself and not what you don't want. It only takes 21-23 days to create a new habit and a life time of personal progression!

Here's to your new positive habit in your life and remember the fun comes in how you take in the challenges in your life.
Life is a journey ENJOY the ride!
Darlene
Fruity Green Goddess Momma

Delicious and Beautiful!

Delicious and Beautiful! 

Yes those sweet, spicy, sexy fruits, greens and vegetables need nothing

No food coloring or artificial flavorings just pure, whole, live fruits and vegetables. 

Take a trip to the market in the produce section and just look. 

Take in the beauty that nature as provided for you, Radiant!

After your live food enjoyment go take a look down the rest of the isles and ???

Your eyes tell the story are you listening?

Pay attention to the beauty in all of life and bask in your beauty and live light!

In Beauty,

Darlene

Live Bowl O' Chowder

1 Thai-young coconut meat and milk

1 cup cashews

3-5 garlic cloves

1 cup chopped celery

piece of hot pepper

1 date

sea salt if desired

2 TB lemon juice

Dulse if desired

1 cup water

Blend and then add your favorite foods: avocado, chopped carrots, corn, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, broccoli, etc

YUMMY!

INSPIRATION #14 Let go and Just Flow Down Stream

Currently in my life I love to take responsibility for what anyone says or does "to" me. I started a live/raw food delivery service to give and offer others a delicious healthy mean to their home AND to raise the financial abundance I want to open a raw cafe and have a live raw food show. As life goes, months ago when I was searching for investors I was frustrated and could not find one. In January I choose to take a new approach and let go and create the delivery food service and raise the finances myself.

A week after I had started the delivery service I was demonstrating at Whole Foods Market and a beautiful lady approached me with an offer to partake in a 30 Fresh food and Yoga Challenge at Bikram Yoga Las Vegas. She even called the same night to give me the owner's number. Since then I have been on a roller coaster ride of plenty of business and long hours of getting what I asked for. I even have potential investors for the cafe. Even the employees and owners of the studio have been so supportive and accommodating to myself and my business. Now I am only taking orders from the studio because I am so full. By letting go and following my passion my dreams are coming true.

As the roller coaster goes, I was having an extremely busy week last week and so drained of personal energy and clarity, I felt out of the flow. So naturally life show me my doubts and fears. 2 days ago I receive a text from a friend who also is in the raw business and she informed me that others had asked her if she was not upset about the situation of me running a food biz out of my home and taking from her? She healed her fears and was letting me know. I was so tired I reacted through tears. Sometimes I really cannot understand why others want to place themselves in others business. I am so big on minding our business and not others. At times I feel like a child that cannot understand why the parent is angry with them. When it comes to my friends, or really anyone, my intention is always good and well and I want only the best for all. I took this as a time to stop, rest and reflect on why I attracted this.

I welcomed my fears and doubts and realized there is only love and I love my friend and the others who said those things, we are all in this time, space, reality together and I love them all for sharing and giving me a chance to cry, rest, reflect and move more towards my dream. I love to look at fears and ask myself what is the worst that could happen? When I ask this question I can see that the worst thing is nothing and all is well and works out for the best! I am back in the flow and life is wonderful! I am in deep appreciation to all and especially to my friend she is amazing!

In appreciation of you, my viewers, and with LOVE,
Darlene
Fruity Green Goddess Momma

For a restful afternoon enjoy a:
Quick and Tasty
Tomato and cucumber dill salad

Desired amount of tomatoes I use 4 or so, chopped
1 cucumber, chopped
1/2 red onion, chopped
dried dill
1 garlic clove crushed
1/2 avocado
a little, lemon, lime, or OJ

Toss salad together and sit back relax and ENJOY!

Where do I get my protein?

Biggest question I ever get where do you get your protein?! I want to say that the sales personal that sold this country the "protein" myth did a fabulous job. I like to take questions and logically question them from a common sense approach.

1st) do I know anyone or every met anyone with a protein deficiency? NO (and I meet tons of people) and you could tell if they did. So no worries here, the average american exceeds 6%.
2nd) Babies need the most protein for support during brain developement and breast milk (the best form of food for baby) is around 6-8% protein. So as a grown adult 6% is more than enough. No worries here eating 6 peices of fruit will give you at least 6%.
3rd) where does muscle come from, protein? NO sorry guys and gals it does NOT come from eating protein like meat which by the way is mostly fat, muscle comes from resistance. With weights or body weight, muscle is build from resistance and protein is for repair. AND the best most assumable protein for humans is . . . . .GREEN LEAVES (spinach, kale, romaine, collards, Swiss chard, etc). Easiest way to get the forgotten greens into your body, GREEN SMOOTHIES and a few body resistant excersises for the muscle and you are GREAT to GO!!!
HOW: I like to go to Trader Joe's or Costco or Whole Foods Market get some organic spinach and organic (very important organic still has the minerals and no pesticides) celery and organic banana and blend with water and ice. I use 1 stalk of celery, 1 handful of spinach and 4 ripe spotted bananas, sometimes I may add some berries. I love the stuff. In the beginning I used only a little greens and now I add more and more. I love them and they are sooo good for your body and the smoothie even tastes amazing.
Here's to your pro-teen cuz I am for teens, they are the only pro-teens worth thinkin about!
Love,
Darlene
fruity green goddess momma

NEW QUICK THOUGHTS and MORE MORE MORE

I wanted to offer more for those of you creating a fresh food path or just adding MORE fresh foods into your diet. I/we love providing you with delicious living food recipes, videos and INSPIRATIONS hopefully inspiring you along the way. In addition I wanted to give you MORE (cuz I am a giver)- I will be providing you with short daily loving thoughts to assist you even more with fun story/thoughts to inspire, inspire, inspire. AND Since I am sooo auditory I will be providing Ustream live feed videos nightly and utterli voice messages. I am so excited about live videos, I only wish we could connect face to face so feel free to email me/us and then we can: contact@fruitygreenfamily.com. AND if you still want more we are soon to be on Twitter and Facebook so we can really keep in touch. WOW how great is the internet!?! Constant contact from us to you and you to us.
Welcome and with Living Love,
Darlene
Fruity Green Momma

INSPIRATION #13 CHANGE and CREATIVITY

Life is full of adjustments. New jobs, new baby, new love, new way of eating-lifestyle changes in general, that is what keeps the universe in constant flow and gives way to our creativity. I love change I thrive on and in it. I recently spoke with a lovely lady who happens to be a Bikram Yoga instructor at Birkram Yoga Las Vegas, she was eating an all raw/live diet for a few days and teaching yoga. She told me she felt weak and had a drastic low in energy while on the raw diet. After a conversation with her, her and I both realized she was not getting enough calories in her body for the amount of calories she was burning. Each of us burns a different amount of calories depending on our activity and body type. Simple carbohydrates like fruit, bananas, mangoes, watermelon, etc. are the best way to get enough calories into your diet.

I like to drink a green smoothie made with 60-70% organic fruit, 4 bananas, and 30-40% greens, spinach, kale, celery, collard greens, for the first meal I partake of in the day. The fruits insure I get enough calories to get off and going for the day and vitamins and the greens give my body the minerals and sodium for repair and replacement. Leafy Greens are a great source of protein for the body and yet they have very little calorie content. While bananas and mangoes have the calories to help your body stay active. Both are essential for the body and work perfectly together.

Here is a little nutritional information from Nutridiary about kale, romaine, bananas, and mangoes
1 cup chopped Kale:
Amounts per 67g
Calories 33.5
Calories From Fat 3.5
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.5g
Saturated Fat 0.1g 3%
1%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 28.8mg 1%
Total Carbohydrate 6.7g
Dietary Fiber 1.3g
Sugars 0g 3%
9%
Protein 2.2g 7%
Vitamin A 206% Vitamin C 134%
Calcium 9% Iron 6%

1/2 cup shredded Romaine leaves
Amounts per 28g
Calories 4.8
Calories From Fat 0.6
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.1g
Saturated Fat 0g 1%
0%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 2.2mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 0.9g
Dietary Fiber 0.6g
Sugars 0.3g 0%
4%
Protein 0.3g 1%
Vitamin A 33% Vitamin C 11%
Calcium 1% Iron 2%

1 cup sliced Bananas
Amounts per 150g
Calories 133.5
Calories From Fat 4
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.5g
Saturated Fat 0.2g 4%
2%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 1.5mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 34.3g
Dietary Fiber 3.9g
Sugars 18.3g 14%
27%
Protein 1.6g 5%
Vitamin A 2% Vitamin C 22%
Calcium 1% Iron 2%

1 cup sliced Mangoes
Amounts per 165g
Calories 107.2
Calories From Fat 3.6
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.4g
Saturated Fat 0.1g 3%
2%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 3.3mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 28g
Dietary Fiber 3g
Sugars 24.4g 11%
21%
Protein 0.8g 3%
Vitamin A 25% Vitamin C 76%
Calcium 2% Iron 1%

Bottom line if you are entering a new lifestyle such as a Whole Fresh Living Lifestyle you CAN succeed if it is really something you want. This is your body and your process and you are not alone we are all connected and if or when you need help there are is always others who have been there, done that and are always ready to lend a creative tip or suggestion.

When you are frustrated or feeling lost sit down a minute, take a deep breathe and remember you have all the creativity you need to succeed. Remind yourself that the answers with show up and create a possibility happening. You will always be there for you and all the answers are within you, you can just relax and allow it to happen.

All is well and I am here for your success too!
In peace and wellness,
Darlene

ENJOY a bit O' Chowder to success:

Bowl O' Chowder
by Darlene

1 cup of cashews blended with 1 cup young coconut water
1/2 cup of young coconut meat
2-5 cloves of garlic
1/4 cup whole dulse
3 celery stalks
piece of onion
2 TB lemon juice
hot pepper if desire to taste
1 TB honey, Agave, dates, etc
sea salt if you like or more dulse or kelp powder

Blend well
Now you can add avocado, chopped carrots, mushrooms, and/or any other veggies you desire
YUMMY!