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JUICE F(E)AST finally

My juicer has finally arrived 4 days ago and my realfoods.com order which consists of 20kgs of organic carrots and other organic juicy lush stuff is on its way and will be with me tomorrow. It has taken me 5 months to finally start it and the reason why it has been so prolonged was mainly my last year of university. I didnt want to worry about food and feeling concious of what I am consuming when I had so much work to do. Now that its over and I have lots of free time I am at my parents’ home in Lowestoft away from London I can finally do this. For the past 4 days I have been juicing what I had on hand since my vegetable order didnt come at the same time as my juicer. This included organic carrots, some celeriac, tomatoes, apples and basically anything I had that I could juice. In a way I am happy that I have had those 4 days to prepare my body for the next 100 days of liquid only diet and to see how I would react and how hungry I would get. I have consumed 1.5litres of juice a day plus water and raw fruit/ vegetable pulp burgers that I made from the left over juicer pulp. I wont lie it was hard and seeing people eat makes it that much harder. When you do this with a partner it must be so much better to prevent slip ups. Anyway I am starting 100% tomorrow or the next day depending on when my order comes in! SPEAK SOON

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craigslist houseshare ad: “i have a garden growing in my shower so you have to use eco-friendly hair products. you will see worms and other insects, and you will occasionally see a spider too but they all help out the ecosystem.”

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food wishlist - what I want in my kitchen asap

1.chia seeds 2.goji berries 3.flax seeds 4.spirulina 5.organic cannabis (now that’s a whish) or hemp oil but not from hemp seeds but buds and leaf. 6.aloe vera 7.pure almond oil 8.berries!!! 9.lovely ripe mangoes 10.fresh parsley

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Made some cookies! Melt coconut oil and add in oats (soaked over night) add agave syrup and pure cocoa powder with a bit of cinnamon and vanilla if you like. Stir everything well before the oil sets and using hands or a spoon form little balls - dress with nuts or berries. Put in the fridge to harden. Nice and easy!

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Reblog if you are ~VEGAN~ and blog about it, I want to follow you all :)

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New Year, same mistakes?

So it is (finally) January the 1st. I celebrated it at a house party with my best Joshua and accompanied by a lot of honest and wholesome people. In the morning, still at the house I woke up to Josh who got a pizza and samosas... Hungry and feeling the results of drinking and smoking I went for it. 1st of Jan was going to be my first raw day of the year, but it looks like I am going to have to post-pone it, family from Columbia is visiting and so I don't want to over complicate things by not being able to enjoy being out with them (one in a life time opportunity to meet them) . I am going to start on the 3rd (since 3 is my magic number).  

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Buckwheat with fried onion, garlic and leek Raw Kale Salad with lemon juice, pumpkin & sunflower seeds, red pepper, apple, raisins & cashew cheese Linda McCartney sausage and Tomatoes in organic yoghurt with salt and pepper. 

Vegan option would skip the yoghurt, you could make some creamy cashew dressing, or just go with bare beautiful tomatoes. 

Since I am postponing the rawness till the 3rd, as explained in the previous post, this is one of my last cooked vege meals. I ate it after I came back from NY celebrations to regenerate myself. Nice glass of water with a whole lemon squeezed in, Fre$h. 

Peace. 

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Orange Snack 

Fresh orange and carrot juice 

Carrot sticks and Mango 

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afternoon thoughts

In a moment when I am uncertain of this life and self, do you know what I'd like to do? I would like to  be standing on the edge of a bridge over-looking a highway. It's 6 pm - quite dark and people are getting back home, driving. I am about to jump off, and then I start thinking about all the things I have got to live for. My parents, my family... At this moment I have managed to gather some audience. I move my foot to get back to the other side of the fence, when I slip and start falling down the 200 meter space, I hear screams in the distance, I realise I don't want to die. I start to see things that actually matter to me. I see my life clearly, as if it's a film with a plot and sub-plots, I can see my goals, I can see it all written out like a story, it's so simple I want to laugh. If only I didn't have to pay the price for gaining this knowledge... if only we could stand on a bridge like this whenever we're numb in uncertainty... But when you understand life you must die, or more accurately, you understand life in death for death is the final puzzle of life. 

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Final Self-Confirmation

Laying down in bed still awake at 6:45am, I have decided I want to do this 100%.  My start day will be 1st of January (would never consider myself to have time OCD, but it just makes it so symbolic). I will have 3 weeks of being 100% raw vegan and then move onto the 100 day juice cleanse. 

I am worried that it will be very hard and I will relapse one day with like (amazing) take-away, and induce yo-yo but, hopefully I will find more raw/ feasting/fasting blogs and people to follow. 

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Smoking and Alternatives

When I went fully raw I stopped smoking and drinking - after all - it is about eliminating the intake of toxins for your body. It's a wonderful feeling because you feel this voluntary want of giving everything up in order to pursue a pure living.  But I have gone off the raw, and the fags have followed. I was always a very concious/casual smoker who knew the boundaries and it was not hard to stop at all, however now that I am on roll-ups it seems harder to say no. There seem to be two major alternatives and those are Electronic Cigarettes and Herbals. I could also say smoking pure weed, but that is illegal and also has side-effects, so defo couldn't replace smoking cigarettes with mary j on every day basis. However it is so much better to roll weed without tobacco, tastes so much better too. 

Although I know I could easily give up the cigarettes themselves, my problem is that I don't want to. I like smoking. I like seeing the smoke coming out of my mouth, I like to light up when I am walking alone at night, or when I am with my friends. 

It seems that these are the only two alternatives closest to the smoking experience:

Herbals

- I haven't tried them, but I know they reek. The closest you will ever get to the tobacco cigarette experience, you want to feel that soft and firm butt between your lips and exhale properly. However they still contain tar, which is the main bad point of cigarettes, what you're eliminating however is nicotine and chemicals. 

How to Roll Your own Herbals

The Electronic Cigarette 

They use vapour technology to imitate smoke. Legal to use indoors which is a plus, although I haven't actually seen anyone do that. My friend got one a year ago, and it wans't that great, it was cool sometimes, the flavour was nice, but I felt stupid as shit with this heavy roll of metal between my fingers, twice the circumference of a rollie, trying to inhale tiny amounts of smoke. 

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Vegan beetroot borscht with buckwheat dumplings of cabbage (sauerkraut), prune and mushroom filling. 

takes quite a while to knead the dumpling dough and make the shapes with the filling, but it is totally worth it. 

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Ok, so I made this incredible raw vegan cheesecake for Xmas. Here is the recipe,  you will need a food processor for this, or a very able/high-speed blender or a high-speed hand blender.  

Ingredients: 

Crust: 

Half Cup Pecan Nuts Half Cup of Almonds & Walnuts Half Cup Pitted Dates

"Cheese":

(I made this without coconut oil because I didn't have any, but without it it is lacking firmness, however, by not using it you will lower the fat and also avoid the waxy taste it sometimes gives out)  3 cups of soaked cashew nuts (soak in filtered water for at least 5 hours)  Juice of 1 lemon and 1 lime  1-2 spoons of vanilla extract Half a cup of agave nectar or if you aren't a strict rawie use unpasteurised honey. Fruit of choice (I used cranberry&strawberry, blueberry and raw chocolate powder for 3 different layers) optional 0,5 cup of unrefined coconut oil  

Sauce:

1-2 cups of fruit raspberry and strawberry is best Agave nectar a squeeze or two  

Method: 

Step 1:

Put all the ingredients for part one in a food processor with an "S" blade and grind until you achieve an even consistency, doesn't have to be completly smooth as long as you don't have huge chunks. It should be very malleable like cookie-dough, and should not be falling apart when taken into hand, just like a normal cheesecake crust - the nuts should be sticking to each-other because of the dates. 

Take out the mixture and press it down into a spring form or any dish of your choice, I used an aluminium pie form. 

Step 2: 

Process all ingredients for the cheese, get creative with the fruit, I had 3 different layers. One cranberry-strawberry, then kept on adding more ingredients until I layed out all the filling. The consistency should be quite thick, this time make sure you get a smooth mixture. It can't be too runny especially if you are not using coco oil. 

Put in freezer for about an hour or 2. 

Step 3: 

Using a hand blender/ fork or a fine strainer mash the fruit until you achieve a smooth liquid.

Pour over your nice and cool piece of cheesecake and enjoy! 

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A welcome post

Right now I am laying in bed, post-failed-Christmas, looking at the sun come up with my lamp still shining - I haven't slept. Instead I have been watching Black Books and creating an outfit blog, crying over shit that will perhaps be irrelevant very soon. 

I have reached a very high and un-healthy point in my weight, and as a person who crawled through their teenage hood without any major skin problems, pretty much skin perfect I now seem to be developing acne, which is stressing me out in itself - I had a dream last night about spots rapidly covering the whole surface of my body and the puss coming out of each one of them simultaneously (it looked like a piece of garlic going through a garlic press). 

Being quite into the raw lifestyle (I only ever did 4 months of it but I do believe in it to be the best food-life-style) I watched this video of a couple who did 100 days of juice feasting. 3 months of consuming nothing but freshly made organic juice made from leafy greens, vegetables and some fruits. You can start watching their journey here(day1), they filmed each day so go through their channel to see the final result. 

My BMI is 25,5 which is over-weight by a whole point. I feel numb and shit all the time from smoking fags, it will be hard to stick to this challenge because it's my final university year and I have 2 dissertations but, if not now, when? 

I hope I find people like me for mutual support and exchange of recipes etc. 

- Peace