Homemade Raw Chocolate Recipe
No matter what time of year, everyone is indulging in chocolates. Making raw chocolates instead of the processed, cooked (all chocolate is cooked unless it says ‘raw’), refined & sugar-laden chocolates, can allow you to feel guilt-free while still sharing your sweetness with loved ones. Remember, eating raw food is not about deprivation; I find the raw lifestyle to actually allow guilt-free indulgence while infusing your cells with life force and nutrition.
Main Ingredients:
1 cup raw cacao powder
1 cup melted raw cacao butter
1/2 cup clear agave
1-2 tbsp raw almond butter (make your own!)
pinch Celtic salt (or mix of highly mineralized salts)
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Optional Ingredients, yet use them if you have them!
pinch of white stevia extract powder
pinch vitamin E tocotrienols
pinch blue green algae
Blend in a Vita-Mix ideally (it may warm gently which is fine – you want it to be a thinner consistency for easy pouring) or in a food processor (smaller bowl inside the bigger bowl unless you double or triple the recipe). I’ve found the VM to work best. Pour into ice cube trays or cute molds and chill until frozen.
Keep this recipe simple the first few times you make it and experiment with different versions after you’ve gotten a solid recipe that you can default to in the future.
Raw chocolate on it’s own has no sugar, but of course the clear agave brings the sweetness to this recipe. I’m personally not doing much agave recently as a personal experiment, but having a liquid sweetener for this recipe is needed. From my understanding, the raw clear agave is the healthiest agave available in comparison to the others on the market.
Tootsie Rawls and Raw Nog – Holiday Treats
I came across versions of these recipes last fall … they are not recipes created by me, but whoever did make them did a fabulous job! I typically adapt recipes that I find in raw preparation books or that I find online to make them my own – usually I do this by adding in more Superfoods (like adding in the ReVitaPhi). Try out these basic recipes first and adapt them if you find something that would make a great addition. If you do find the perfect missing ingredient – post it in the comments please!
Tootsie Rawls
1 cup raw cacao powder
1/2 cup mesquite powder
1/2 cup raw almond butter (make your own!)
3/4 cup raw clear agave nectar (or other sweetener of choice)
2 tbsp lucuma powder
1 tbsp vanilla (extract and/or powder)
pinch salt and dash of ReVitaPhi
2 tbsp fo-ti (optional)
Mix in a food processor until well-blended and stiff. Stir down as needed from the side walls. Put in a bowl and knead in more lucuma until the mixture is no longer sticky. Roll into logs (Rawls) and store in the freezer. If you have parchment paper, you can wrap the Tootsie Rawls, twist the ends, and give them away as tasty gifts!
Raw Nog
2 cups homemade nut mylk (almond, Brazil nut, pumpkin or hemp seeds)
6 pitted dates
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cardamom or 1/4 tsp cloves (or a mix of both)
1/4 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
pinch salt
Blend well. This one is so tasty, you’ll likely want to make it several times per week throughout the autumn season.
Win a Gift Certificate for Raw, Organic Superfoods!
This is a personal offer from me to you because although it’s the holiday season right around the corner, there’s no better time than the present to take control of your own health. By mastering your own health and creating your own economy, there’s no way to lose. Plus, this time of year is all about indulgence and so I expect you’ll want some sweet and scrumptious Superfood treats to keep handy at all times.
And so the offers are:
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The details of how this works: Enroll yourself for FREE (the $59 enrollment fee is WAIVED until December 1, 2009) and bring on as many friends, family members, colleagues, and partners as you’d like and whomever has the most new enrollees will receive the $50 Gift Certificate. To enroll, please contact me at the email below (you must call in to the main office to sign-up and get free enrollment, not by enrolling online).
I’d say that’s worth shooting for. That’s gives you $50 worth of Superfoods for $0. Plus, you have no idea what will come of you taking this step to create the life you deserve and have been wanting for so long.
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Healing From A Car Accident
What happens when something effects your health status / physical body that you didn’t expect or intentionally prepare for? As a raw Superfoodie with all the tools, potions, and secret weapons, I’m covered in case of most emergencies, and a minor car accident, such as the one I was in mid-last week is no exception. I’ve received many requests for me to post my healing strategy for these coming weeks and this is what I got so far.
First, I’d like to mention that I am very fortunate; things could have of course been much worse and I do not take that for granted for one minute. My practitioners have mentioned that I already am, and will heal 100 times faster than the average person due to my lifestyle and eating habits. Ah… what a relief! Because I put food into my body that is already medicinal and therapeutic, I am leaps ahead of where I could be. This information applies to all injuries, traumas, and recovery of any kind: we are more resilient when we fuel our bodies with superior nutrition and can bounce back to the surprise of others.
I believe that thoughts play a major role in healing and I do not believe accidents happen by accident. Things happen for a reason and it’s all a matter of perspective. You can disagree, but in my life experience thus far, I’ve come to see that #1: nothing is put in front of you that you cannot handle, and 2# there are no accidents – read You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay if you think there is a such thing.
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The Healing Regenerative Recovery Program:
Morning – fresh homemade vegetable juice
Afternoon – cacao Superfood Blendie (aka: medicinal smoothie) with all my usual Superfoods (green powder, raw cacao, maca, zeolites, and heavy, therapeutic amounts of MSM)
Snacks – WildBar, goji berries, Inca berries
Evening – Superfood salad (mix of leafy greens) with my favorite Creamy Dreamy Green Goddess Dressing (with turmeric and cayenne)
Dessert – Raw Chocolate Dream Nuggets, raw Superfood fudge, or raw banana ice cream (you can whip this up in minutes – no juicer needed, just a food processor) – or I pass on this & finish up the blendie from earlier. These are all guilt-free by the way… so potentially I could have them for breakfast if I wanted, and sometimes I do 
And For the ‘Extras’…
* Easy Qi from Dragon Herbs – just learned about this & am elated there is something specific for the back, neck & shoulders!
* I’m boosting up my intake of Vitamin C thru: Truly Vitamin C and Camu Camu Berry – vitamin C sourced from food actually helps speed recovery. Mix it in spring water or add to a smoothie.
* Vitamineral Green, ReVitaPhi, and Earth – if you’ve ever read this blog, you know I’m nuts over these products, and that’s a good thing, because as noted above, they’ve created a pretty strong resilient body that has the power to reduce inflammation quicker than had I not been made up of these foods.
* Anything with Enzymes: Living food, actual enzyme supplements, and the Island Fire Elixir (which I used to heal my injured / sprained ankle earlier this year) – it has turmeric, colloidal minerals, and Tahitian Noni
* Shots of wheatgrass are not normally part of my routine, but I’m doing 1 oz shots each time I go down to Seattle for the bodywork sessions.
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I’m a very low maintenance girl, yet for quite a while I’ll have a high maintenance (pretty strict as recommended) regimen. I’m seeing a holistic (non-traditional / non-’cracking’ style) chiropractor 4 times per week, a massage therapist 3 times per week, and am doing Bikram yoga (hot yoga – best yoga ever) at least every other day.
I’m spending 3 hours a day, most days per week, doing this bodywork therapy. Had this accident not happened, there’s no chance I would have made the time to ‘pamper’ myself like this. Practicing Bikram yoga consistently has not been my strength despite my deep desire to be a raw yoga girl. And yet now, I am feeling compelled to do Bikram as a key component in my recovery because when I am in that heated room I can do immensely more with my body than when I’m not.
I wonder how in the world I would be able to do all this work on myself if I worked a 9-5 JOB? There’s just no chance it would be possible to take this much time away without losing massive money; thank the Goddesses for passive income.
Raw Mint Chocolate Vanilla Mylkshake
Everyone loves a good milkshake, right? Like the ones we drank as a little kid? Yet as a raw foodie, conventional milk is thankfully not consumed and is in fact the very first thing I recommend people get off of (when ready to eliminate foods) because it’s by far the worst offender to the body. If you’ve been on other raw food blogs, you’ll see that many refer to their homemade nut drinks as mylks, and I do as well. You can make any nut mylk (using hemp seeds, almonds, Brazil nuts, pumpkin seeds – individually or some combination of them) and use it as the base for an entirely guilt-free, yet totally indulgent mylkshake.
Raw Mint Chocolate Vanilla Mylkshake
* 2-3 cups homemade hemp mylk (or any raw nut mylk) – I dilute w/ some spring water (just a personal preference)
* 1 small to medium frozen banana
* 1 tbsp HealthForce’s Vanilla Enhanced Warrior Food (hemp protein powder)
* 1 tsp – 1 tbsp HealthForce’s Vanilla Spice MacaForce or plain raw maca powder
*1 tsp raw cacao powder
* swirl of vanilla infused clear agave (either pre-bought, or just drop vanilla beans once scraped, into your clear agave & leave them to infuse)
* small handful raw cacao nibs
* couple organic pinches organic vanilla powder
* 1/2 cap of organic peppermint extract
* pinch organic stevia extract powder
* pinch Celtic salt
* ice to chill
Blend on high in the Vita-Mix until thoroughly mixed. Drink chilled and soak in the gorgeous aroma of vanilla! As with all my recipes, if you don’t have some of the ingredients, make this anyway! Just work with what you do have and come up with your own creation. If you don’t have zeolites or fresh vanilla beans, or you have no worries – it won’t make or break this shake (if no vanilla beans, try out vanilla extract). If you don’t have all of HealthForce’s products, YET, then talk with me about where you can get them in your area and I will find you a local store (or you can shop online; just click on the links I provided).
If you’re on Facebook and happen to be friends with Jay Kordich (the Juice Daddy), he recently wrote an excellent article (found in his ‘Notes’) on making your own hemp mylk. Check it out if you get a chance! He has so much goodness in his Notes section that you could read for hours regarding juicing. He is a man of experience and someone I certainly listen to!
And if for any reason you have not watched this hysterical skit poking fun at Jay and his enthusiasm, watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVH9vzffgw. Balance your mylkshakes with fresh vegetable juice and you’ll feel stellar all the time!
Need to Overcome Serious Food Cravings?
I certainly do. I have proven in the past 7 months to myself that there is definitely a deep connection between the mind and body and what we eat and how we feel. This slight struggle is interesting to me because the 1st year raw I absolutely coasted – I ate entirely raw without giving it much thought. And then came the stress, unexpected emotions, and life changes… and one not-so-good food choice in February has cascaded into a pool of more, and of course with that, the emotions (the ‘I know better’ feelings) that come with it – at least for me. I know when I feel my best.
Eating raw has for the most part been pretty effortless in these past 2 years (w/ the exceptions I’m referring to) and I give the credit to Superfoods because they’ve been the foundation of my diet. Yet, when I am tempted by something, or have a craving (in times of comfort), AND GIVE IN, I must say I feel like crap for days.. and this, if not halted with full force, can lead into over-eating (even raw food) and produce feelings of guilt and heaviness (mentally and literally). For me, these choices have repercussions much worse than the actual physical ramifications (although I have to admit that I ONLY gain weight when I don’t eat 100% raw, and very easily). I have much less clarity (re: life, decisions, daily living), energy (way more of a dragging feeling and sluggishness), and an attitude that could use some improvement.
Is this how the mainstream lives every day? Ugh… I can hardly stand it for a day.
My answer has been to do more green Superfoods powders (you already know if you read my blog regularly that I’m obsessed with Vitamineral Green and ReVitaPhi) to eliminate nutrient deficiencies that result in cravings (greens = alkalize the body). But sometimes, intense times have a way of pushing your good intentions aside and we consume food that we may not otherwise. I’m guilty and am taking on a personal challenge to see what I can do about it. I’m done with this feeling! I want to be back to effortless raw, easy choices, and not swayed for any reason because life gets in the way. Can anyone relate to this?!
As I write this I’m wondering what I should commit to in terms of a personal cleansing challenge. It’s obvious to me that I need to do a cleanse – I’ve actually been craving a juice cleanse (in between mac n’ cheese cravings) all summer but I’ve been happily eating so much raw chocolate that I couldn’t imagine my world without it. I know my problems are tough, but a few days (or a week or two?!) without cacao? Sigh. What could be worse? Well, for me the cheese and mac n’ cheese cravings are and I have to get rid of them. Now. Well, tomorrow to be exact…
I think what I’ll do is have half my usual cacao Superfood (I put double the green powder in it than cacao powder) blendie in the morning (I’ll do 16 oz or something) and green vegetable juice and/or smoothie the whole day until I have a small Superfood salad (half my usual) for dinner. But… is that really a ‘cleanse’? For me, no. Hmmm. Why am I so hesitant? Because of plans I have, this is what I’ll do this week, and beginning next Sunday I’m cutting out the blendies and salads and doing only green juices and green smoothies. Oh my, I have to click ‘publish post’ NOW before I change my mind.
MACA: The Best Superfood for Hormone Balancing
Maca is a Peruvian root that’s grown high altitude in the Andes and withstands such intense weather conditions (extreme temperatures, winds, etc) that when you consume it, you naturally become more resilient because of what it endures as it grows in the mountains. Remember, you become what you eat.
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HealthForce Superfoods: Class & Demo Recipes
For today’s class at Granola’s in Mill Creek, I served up a variety of tasty Superfoods: Vitamineral Green, Fruits of the Earth, and Earth. To read what’s in each of them, click on their highlighted link below and it will bring you right to HealthForce’s website where you can read all about them, the benefits, and all ingredients. These are basic recipes that are simple enough to get started with right away, and still therapeutic. You’ll feel a remarkable difference when you consume these Superfoods on a consistent basis – the key is to find the most palatable ways that will leave you wanting more.
Green Goodness:
2/3 coconut water (if you can get the real thing, great, if not, get a packaged one but knowing it’s pasteurized)
1/3 spring water
spoonful of Vitamineral Green
* Shake vigorously in a mason jar (16 oz) and feel the nourishing infusion of nutrients!
Anti-oxidant Powerhouse:
2/3 organic apple juice (freshly juiced is best!)
1/3 spring water
spoonful of Fruits of the Earth
* Shake vigorously in a mason jar (16 oz) and feel the surge of immune boosting!
Cacao Superfood Blendie (5 servings at 12 oz servings each – you can adjust & make smaller amounts, but this will keep in the fridge for a day and you can share it too!):
32 oz unsweetened vanilla hemp milk (I used the Living Harvest brand)
dilute with spring water (approx 1-2 cups – according to taste)
2 frozen organic bananas
2 spoonfuls of raw cacao powder
spoonful of Truly Vitamin C (acerola cherry powder)
spoonful of Vanilla Spice MacaForce
spoonful of Earth
1-2 pitted dates
pinch stevia extract powder (white powder)
swirl of clear agave if desired (try vanilla bean infused! – just add 1 vanilla bean yourself & leave it in the bottle)
ice to chill
* Blend, ideally in a Vita-Mix, and drink knowing that you’re getting superior (and highly bio-available) nutrition!
Leafy Greens Salad – How-To Superfood It Up
What do you eat for dinner? We all get asked that question from time to time, no matter what type of nutritional plan you follow. I personally never used to understand how someone could be happy with just salads, but now I’ve found a way to make them much more exciting and definitely more filling. This has been my dinner for just about every night for the past 2 months (with some variation, yes – just play with it and see what you like):
For the Superfood Style Salad:
* handful of spinach
* handful mixed salad greens
* veggies from the farmer’s market (cukes, pepper, tomato, squash – I’ll eat anything local & organic)
* spoonful of ReVitaPhi
* spoonful of tahini
* few drops of Marine Phytoplankton (even better than crumpled nori sheets)
* sometimes I add 1/2 an avocado
* I like to add Lydia’s Organics Seasoning or Living Intentions Superfood Synergy Salad Booster (sooo yummy!)
And the Superhero Dressing:
* equal parts of organic extra virgin olive oil and apple cider vinegar – I don’t measure (sorry!), I make small servings good for a couple days, so I’d estimate I’m using 1/4 cup of each
* couple tbsp organic hemp seeds
* couple cloves of garlic
* spoonful of Spirulina (I’m crazy over HealthForce’s Manna Spirulina)
* spoonful of turmeric powder & cayenne powder (to taste)
* snip some parsley or cilantro into this if you’ve got it fresh!
Blend the dressing on high for 30 seconds (Vita-Mix), turn it down, and add 1/2 an avocado & turn it back up on high for 10-20 seconds – this makes the dressing! It’s the best ever super green (it will be a beautiful GREEN) dressing and I call it the Creamy Dreamy Green Goddess Dressing, because it is! Keep some in a small jar in the fridge & have it ready to dip some veggies in, layer in to your collard or nori wraps, or put over whatever floats your raw boat.
Green Chocolate Chia Pudding
As weird as it sounds, I’ve had 16 ounces of chia seeds chillin’ in my fridge for so many months that I can’t even remember when I bought them. I’m guessing it was about 9-12 months ago (yikes!). Now that I know about them and what to do with them, I realize how silly it was that I let my lack of knowledge (particularly with how to make a real yummy dish) get in the way. Within days of each other, a friend listed a chia pudding recipe on her blog and another friend let me try his off the hook chocolate chia pudding. I was instantly hooked and thought this would be a great replacement for my old favorite of hot creamy buckwheat cereal in the old days.
On my road trips to the shows I work where I educate the thirsty (for knowledge) people with Superfood info and shower them with samples that leave them awestruck and craving more, I eat my chia pudding. I get my inexpensive chia (1 lb for only $9) from Mountain Rose Herbs, where I also get tons of loose leaf herbs for medicinal teas, spices, roots, and ingredients to make homemade raw Superfood skincare. Search online to find the best chia deals – you can get it even cheaper.
My favorite version is one with both fresh and dried fruit and loaded with a Superfood green powder and cacao. This is so satiating keeping my belly content for approx. 5 hrs. Keep in mind, I do eat a small glass Tupperware container of chia pudding over the course of about 30-45 mins because too much can be too filling and I want to know when I’ve had enough. Chia expands!
GREEN CHOCOLATE CHIA PUDDING (buy everything organic!)
(this is what I like; adjust to amounts good for you)
4 T chia seeds
pour in the homemade Brazil nut mylk (like you would over cold/hot cereal) – it will absorb well and you’ll need to add more; you can let it gel together or keep adding more until it’s more like the cereal you remember
add some Inca Berries (hands-down my fav way to eat Inca’s)
add some raisins or Goji Berries (you can soak them a bit first if you like)
add some fresh mango
add some fresh blueberries
add some fresh strawberries
OR – whatever seasonal farmer’s market fruit you’ve picked up that’s fresh and ripe
add a spoonful of HealthForce’s Manna Spirulina
add a spoonful of raw cacao powder
swirl of local raw honey or organic stevia extract powder (for lower glycemic)
I find that simple recipes for new things work best for me so that I’m not overwhelmed by including it on a regular basis (or so that I don’t ‘forget’ about it in the fridge for too long). I’d love to hear your ideas of easy ways to enjoy chia!
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