RAW Living and Learning

Advice for dealing with negative feedback in your community This is today's blog prompt and I love what Angela Stokes said someone once taught her about this very subject. She said that it is best to make comments on someone's blog the same as if you were making a comment in their home. Therefore if one gets a negative comment posted to their blog, if it is rude in tone or belittling, then they should act the same way they would if that person were in their home. The comments should be removed from the blog the same way the person should be removed from ones home. Made sense to me. Some what of a wake up call to be aware of how we comment and the tone our comments may make, when responding on other's blogs. Good advice. Today I wanted to share how I like to use dates to sweeten recipes.  I make a thick date paste by soaking as many dates as desired in fresh coconut water. Simply cover the dates, remove all pits from dates first , with the coconu...

BAT Cereal I learned how to make this recipe from watching a video of Karen Ranzi  interviewing her daughter. Karen wrote the book, Creating Healthy Children Through Attachment Parenting and Raw Foods. She was asking her what it was like to be raised a vegan and then a raw vegan. One of her fondest childhood memories was begging her Mom each morning to make "BAT Cereal". Well, it sounded delicious to me so I decided to try it for myself. I ordered a jar of raw tahini from The Raw Food World. This tahini is stone ground making it ultra creamy and oh so delicious. I have never tasted a raw tahini so good. Not bitter in the least!!  As soon as it arrived I made a batch of BAT Cereal. 2 organic apples, diced 2 organic bananas, mashed 1 teaspoon raw tahini Mash the 2 bananas with the teaspoon of raw tahini. Place the mixture in a bowl and top with the diced apples. Enjoy! Insane!! Might be nice with a bit of cinnamon too.         ...