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