Feb 12 2005

Today we went to the potluck. It was hard to find but me, evil unicorn and Mom queen bee found it.. I made a carrot salad of grated carrots, apple, almonds, dried fruit and a sauce made outof blended carrot, apple, nuts and sweetener with chili.

Evil Unicorn made cabbage salad and mango pudding and a salad



We got there 2 hours late and all the food was gone. We didn't pay. Anyways..a lady who sees Gabriel Cousens as doctor was there. She is from Key West , very rich and has a thai coconut grove in Key West. We gave her our flyer and my mom says she will bring all her raw food friends. Mostly it was old people there.

I went into Whole Foods looking for raw extra virgin coconut butter.. NOT the gross Spectrum Naturals every place seems to have. Another good one is Garden of Life brand. They sell those in the supplement section...other coconut oil in the beauty and other with the other oils..

Two people stopped me when they read my RAW GODDESS CHOCOLATE tshirt.. "oh my god, I love her, call her up, she'll get you raw coconut butter!" " I love that chocolate, I bought some yesterday"

Alot of people interested in RAW in florida.

I decided I am going to do a CACAO drink fast..just ground cacao in coconut water blended with sweetener and very light.. this is what I read..a good excuse:

...................""""17th Century • Spiritual Considerations
In addition to the debate among physicians, religious leaders found themselves engaged in arguments about whether chocolate was a beverage or a food. Religious fasts forbade the taking of nourishment, and yet chocolate had become popular among those who were fasting precisely because it eased their hunger. Most people, including all of the popes consulted during the course of the debate (from Gregory XIII to Benedict XIV) agreed that, since one drank it, it did not break the fast...""""

I know David Wolfe did a cacao fast during Mad Mad House.. for real. I went to his Aphrodisia lecture on South Beach.


He also told us to read Chapter 16 of Willy Wonka and the chocolate Factory..Which I found online and I post it here:

.........""""16
The Oompa-Loompas
'Oompa-Loompas!' everyone said at once. 'Oompa-Loompas!'

'Imported direct from Loompaland,' said Mr Wonka proudly.

'There's no such place,' said Mrs Salt.

'Excuse me, dear lady, but . . .'

'Mr Wonka,' cried Mrs Salt. 'I'm a teacher of geography

'Then you'll know all about it,' said Mr Wonka. 'And oh, what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most

dangerous beasts in the world — hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten

Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping. When I went out there, I found the little Oompa-Loompas living in

tree houses. They had to live in tree houses to escape from the whangdoodles and the hornswogglers and the snozzwangers. And they were living

on green caterpillars, and the caterpillars tasted revolting, and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment of their days climbing through the

treetops looking for other things to mash up with the caterpillars to make them taste better — red beetles, for instance, and eucalyptus

leaves, and the bark of the bong-bong tree, all of them beastly, but not quite so beastly as the caterpillars. Poor little Oompa-Loompas! The

one food that they longed for more than any other was the cacao bean. But they couldn't get it. An Oompa-Loompa was lucky if he found three

or four cacao beans a year. But oh, how they craved them. They used to dream about cacao beans all night and talk about them all day. You had

only to mention the word "cacao" to an Oompa-Loompa and he would start dribbling at the mouth. The cacao bean,' Mr Wonka continued, 'which

grows on the cacao tree, happens to be the thing from which all chocolate is made. You cannot make chocolate without the cacao bean. The

cacao bean is chocolate. I myself use billions of cacao beans every week in this factory. And so, my dear children, as soon as I discovered

that the Oompa-Loompas were crazy about this particular food, I climbed up to their tree-house village and poked my head in through the door

of the tree house belonging to the leader of the tribe. The poor little fellow, looking thin and starved, was sitting there trying to eat a

bowl full of mashed-up green caterpillars without being sick. "Look here," I said (speaking not in English, of course, but in

Oompa-Loompish), "look here, if you and all your people will come back to my country and live in my factory, you can have all the cacao beans

you want! I've got mountains of them in my storehouses! You can have cacao beans for every meal! You can gorge yourselves silly on them! I'll

even pay your wages in cacao beans if you wish!"

'"You really mean it?" asked the Oompa-Loompa leader, leaping up from his chair.

'"Of course I mean it," I said. "And you can have chocolate as well. Chocolate tastes even better than cacao beans because it's got milk and

sugar added."

'The little man gave a great whoop of joy and threw his bowl of mashed caterpillars right out of the tree-house window. "It's a deal!" he

cried. "Come on! Let's go!"

'So I shipped them all over here, every man, woman, and child in the Oompa-Loompa tribe. It was easy. I smuggled them over in large packing

cases with holes in them, and they all got here safely. They are wonderful workers. They all speak English now. They love dancing and music.

They are always making up songs. I expect you will hear a good deal of singing today from time to time. I must warn you, though, that they

are rather mischievous. They like jokes. They still wear the same kind of clothes they wore in the jungle. They insist upon that. The men, as

you can see for yourselves across the river, wear only deerskins. The women wear leaves, and the children wear nothing at all. The women use

fresh leaves every day . . .'

'Daddy!' shouted Veruca Salt (the girl who got everything she wanted). 'Daddy! I want an Oompa-Loompa! I want you to get me an Oompa-Loompa!

I want an Oompa-Loompa right away! I want to take it home with me! Go on, Daddy! Get me an Oompa-Loompa!'

'Now, now, my pet!' her father said to her, 'we mustn't interrupt Mr Wonka.'

"But I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

'All right, Veruca, all right. But I can't get it for you this second. Please be patient. I'll see you have one before the day is out.'

'Augustus!' shouted Mrs Gloop. 'Augustus, sweetheart, I don't think you had better do that.' Augustus Gloop, as you might have guessed, had

quietly sneaked down to the edge of the river, and he was now kneeling on the riverbank, scooping hot melted chocolate into his mouth as fast

as he could."""""

There! David Wolfe also said that Goethe's FAUST was written under a cacao fast.. He said Cacao attracts prosperity..

Here is a cacao tree I saw at The Tropical Gardens in Miami next to a durian tree..

Oh my god.. do I love you all who read this... YES.. I want to hold and hug every one of you and tell you that you are the best.

Minneapolis
I went to Minneapolis. It was cold.

I went to a place called ECOPOLITAN

I bought 200 dollars in raw food books. Included is Baby Greens, Kulvinskas 21st, Raw family, Rawsome, Wigmore's recipes..etc..

I also did the oxygen bar thing with my canula. Oxygen is cool indeed.

I bought MBHORSE a hemp sweater and some hemp wallets.

I bought special soap.

I had a soup that was delish..Carrot, Beet, Coconut water, spiroolied stuff..basil..

I also one night got a little down and went out and got a Persimmon pie

I met Dr. T and went to a lecture about electro pollution.

I did cacao drinks all day every day because of it. I think one would be better just saving it for special occasions.. in Raw Guru's newletter this month he says cacao is not raw. www.rawguru.com/issue7.html
HERE is article:
5. Articles of the Month!

The RAW Truth! by Alex Malinsky

I would like to inform you about certain "raw" products that are not really/truly raw. If you eat some or most of the following products, don't worry about it. Cut back on them or don't eat them at all. I am here to state the raw truth! Are you ready?!

Cashews - As we all know "raw" cashews that you buy from the health food stores are cooked. The factories must use heat to get rid of the brown skin and fluid from the nut. The cashews labeled "raw" are labeled as such to distinguish them from roasted/toasted cashews.
>If you don't have or can't afford cashews try to substitute pine nuts or mac nuts or coconut meat. Buy truly raw cashews from reliable online sources.

Brazil Nuts - From Gene Cohen :"Thousands of pounds of Brazil Nuts are placed in a large steel drum and heated from below. As the Brazil Nuts bake - the moisture comes off each nut and the shells become brittle. After the nuts have dried a bit and become a bit smaller in the shell - the nuts are individually cracked and sorted. The cracking is done on long tables. Each person gets about 100 pounds of in-shell nuts a day in a bin next to where they work and each nut is loaded into a manual shotgun shell loader. The loader is simply a permanent bottom plate with a handle on the top that moves the top cylinder up and down by hand. As you pull down, the nut is broken in the vise-like device. When the handle is pulled down, the nut cracks and the shells drop to the floor and the nuts are sorted by size and whole vs broken grades.

Olive Oil and other Oils - Because there is no standard for "first cold pressed oils" in North America, it is easy for some manufacturers to literally "pull the wool over the consumer's eyes" by blending or cutting good quality oils with inferior ones and claiming that the oil is "cold pressed". As always: "buyer beware". Guidelines for buying good healthy oils: 1. Always "first cold pressed" from a reliable producer, not a refinery. 2. Certified organic if possible. 3. Always in dark ( green, brown or blue ) glass bottles. Never in clear glass bottles. 4. Oils should taste delicious: fresh, clean, rich. Trust your taste.
>I like to buy most of my oils from the FLORA company. (available in the refrigerated section of most health food stores)

Nut and Seed Butters - Something so tasty has to be cooked! I have contacted many "raw" nut companies and they said that during the grinding process it can (most likely it does) heat up the nuts to 130-140 degrees F. Yes, there are some conscious raw companies out there that really do it raw but why spend $18.00-$20.00 on a 1 lb. jar of almond butter when you can buy 1 lb of almonds for $6-$8 and make your own nut butter.
> If you are going to buy raw nut and seed butter buy from the Rejuvenative Company.

Carob Powder - Sorry to say but most carob powders, even the really raw kind is cooked. It may not be toasted or roasted but it is cooked. A few carob companies have told me that the carob pods have to be heated to dry the pods in order to powder them. Any moisture in the pods will affect the grinding process. The pods are first dry and wet cleaned and then kibbled (coarsely ground) to separate the seeds from the pulp. In the drying process the pods are heated to about 300 degrees F. for about 20-30 minutes to really dry them out.
> I suggest the use of mesquite pod meal instead of carob because mesquite is sun dried and then powdered.

Agave Nectar - One of my favorite "raw" sweeteners is cooked unfortunately. Dark agave and regular agave nectars are processed and evaporated by heat. The first process begins by milling and crushing the agave plant core. Then the raw raw juices are poured into tanks. In order for the juices to be broken into high fructose the juices are cooked to 140 degrees F for 36 hours. To extract the water and concentrate the agave nectar the juices are spilled into vacuum evaporators at a maximum temp. of 149 degrees F. until the desired consistency and color.
> Substitute soaked dried fruits, honey or stevia in place of agave nectar.

Cacao Beans and Nibs - Raw Cacao beans and pieces are not truly raw. In order for the cacao to become like chocolate the cacao pods are first piled up to ‘sweat’ or ferment for 3-4 days, then the seeds are removed and dried. During the fermentation process the heat in the middle of the pile can reach up to 140 degrees F. The drying process is not always sun dried. If the weather is not perfect to dry the beans, they are transferred into large tumble dryers where they can be dried at temperatures above 130 degrees F.
> Substitute mesquite pod meal in place of cacao. If you really want to impress your guests then a little cacao won't hurt.

Dried Fruits and Dates - A lot of the organic dried fruits that are sold in the bulk bin section of health food stores are coated in corn oil or safflower oil to make them shiner and to prevent clumping. Raisins are the number one coated dried fruit. Medjool and other dates are steamed so they can have a greater water content and be bigger in size. This also improves taste and texture. The ingredient label will not show that the dried fruits were coated.
> Order dried fruit online. Try to buy sun dried whenever possible.

There are many other products out there on the market that are not truly raw like certain type of olives, dried herbs, and raw bars. Many raw companies out there are misleading the consumer. Please listen to your body when eating certain superfoods, nuts, seeds, and anything that comes in a jar or a squeeze bottle.

I hope the above information didn't scare anyone going on the raw diet. The truth about the above products had to be told. "Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it." -Emily Dickinson





I had Cultured Salsa and Avocado/salad. I bought bee pollen.. Ground up stevia herb/ date fines etc..
Now I feel I need to go 100% raw completely because of the cacao thing. Who knows if the dates I buy in the store are raw either?

I want a family and I want kids.

Last night on the plane I was so hungry I bought Brazil nuts that aren't really raw either. When I found out about the cashews I was bummed.. but brazil nuts too? I have to buy all my groceries from Glaser Farms or order.

My Tachyon disks came in and also a TON of almonds/agave and coconut oil from Sunorganics.com

Evil Unicorn spoke to Juliano last in the few days. He couldn't hire her over the phone so she has to fly in for an interview. If she works at RAW I will visit.