Spice Up Your Life!

Spice up your life by having some FUN and PLAY!
Take time for yourself once a day and focus on your play time. Schedule time for fun and laugh a little! Give yourself the gift of dancing, singing, jumping, kicking a ball, hula hooping, laughing (good for the inside and outside of your body), acting silly, skip, Be Act See yourself as the child you are inside. Remember what its like to have fun and then do IT! When the spice is back into your life you can ENJOY your day more and who knows you may even inspire others to do the same. Stop taking your life so serious and have some FUN!


From our silly family to you,
Darlene
Fruity Green Goddess Momma

For more Spice in your diet:

Raw Spicy Spanish Rice
1 head shredded cauliflower
1 chopped red bell pepper
1 bunch chopped cilantro
1 bunch thinly sliced green onions
1 chopped tomato
1 recipe of Spicy Spanish Avo Mix
Mix in a large bowl and
serve with Encha-Raw-Das available in The Garden Spot Cafe Recipe Ebook

Spicy Spanish Rice Avo Mix
1 Avocado
1 lime juiced
1 TB dry basil
1 TB paprika
½ tea garlic bread seasoning or Mexican seasoning or chili powder
½ TB Agave Nectar or honey or Stevia
½-1 red hot pepper/jalapeno chopped
1 tea salt
1 garlic crushed
½ tea onion powder
¼ tea cumin
Blend or mash and add to your Cauliflower Rice Mix ENJOY!

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!

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

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