Eat ice cream without guilt!

Hello!

Today was my first day at mango packing shed. It was just 6 hours today. Not very hard work, mostly hard for legs. Got some mangoes also for lunch :)

But Christmas we spent with the Daintree farm family, where we were working last 3 months. It was held in their son´s house, with quite many people there. So much food was on the table - cheese, salads, chicken, crab, different kinds of pastry, dips, snacks, 4 different kinds of cakes and so on. I ate salad with vegetables, greens and millet or something like that. Then some carrot and celery sticks with a dip what was made of nuts, lemon...pineapple, lychees, strawberries...their daughter made specially for me these raw nut and dried fruit balls covered with shredded coconuts witch where very yum :P And i made banana and mango ice cream. First time i tried to make it with food processor (previously i used only blender and it wasnt so good) and it was AMAZING!!! Just like real ice cream, the soft kinda type.

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Just frozen bananas into food processor and thats it! No dairy, no eggs, no added sugar. NO cholesterol, LOW FAT and NO GUILT! :D

 3. If you want you can add some berries, fruits, nuts, melted carob which is similar to cacao. Dont use cacao, it contains caffeine substances which can contribute to racing heart, insomnia, fatigue, irritability, agitation, acne, anxiety and so on. No mater how "pure" the cacao is.







4. OR you can make another treat with bananas - banana ice cream with a stick! Just cut bananas in half and stick the stick through:P You can even cover it with melted carob and some nuts. Put it in the freezer and it will be ready in few hours.

I havent done it myself jet - just found these cool pictures from google :P So i remembered this cool treat i once saw somewhere, but had forgotten...

But i have another news as well, besides my banana love :D

I finally got my study course from the University of Natural Health for Natural Health Practitioner certificate! So i guess im back at school again :) Its a home study course, since the school is in USA. And I looked through the material and even red the first book for first part of the course. First course is called Humans Natural Biological Diet and it is EXACTLY what i wanted to learn. Its not about ordinary nutritionist study or how we should eat like the Food Pyramid says from 5 food groups or even not about vegetarian diet solely. Its about raw food, mostly about fruitarian diet with greens, vegetables and occasional nuts and seeds. Its also about Natural Hygiene what is learning from the nature and living in harmony with the nature. Eating the foods what nature intended us to eat. Also about thinking good thoughts, having good relationships, growing better as a person, loving yourself and others, taking care of your mental health and much more. So its kinda study of life i guess...

DEFINITION: "Hygiene is properly defined as the branch of biology which designates the conditions upon which health depends and the means by which it may be sustained in all its virtue and purity while we have it, and the means upon which its restoration rests when we lost it. --- It is scientific application of the principles of nature in the preservation and restoration of health." - H. Shelton, 1968


Anyway...im superexcited about this :)

Gonna fly away now...

Fruit fly always finds the fruit :)

I´ve been Wwoofing (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) now in Australia for about 3 months and its been great...especially in terms of Fruit ;) Of course Daintree area is the reason why theres so much good fruit available as it is in the tropics.

Next week im gonna start working in the mango packing. Yeee, so it means im gonna have cases and cases of free mangoes for me to eat! There are big bins of mangoes in packing shed what all gonna be thrown away just because they are too ripe for packing - it means that they are ripe for eating but you cant pack them cos until they gonna arrive to the market they gonna be off, they need to be packed green...But its fine with me :) I will eat them. Heres some mangoes...my boyfriend already works there and brought some.

Its gonna be hard work though. Night shift and 12 hours straight, 6pm - 6am. But it lasts only about 5 weeks. Wonder if im gonna get sick of mangoes by then...

Some weeks ago we discovered an organic banana farm near to our wwoofing farm. Its almost abandoned, nobody wants to work there, the former owner worked there almost 30 years growing, picking, packing, selling bananas and he said he have had enough of them. So the most delicious bananas in Australia are growing there almost wildly, getting ripe and falling off the tree cos nobody eats them - but here i went for rescue ;)

So we got like 50 kg of organic bananas for only 20 dollars! He even said we can get them for free but it felt almost like stealing anyway, so we still give him some money :P If you´ve had these bananas once then bananas from the shop seem tasteless and bad compared to these ones. So i guess i have spoiled my taste a little and i dont know what im gonna do if we gonna leave the area, i just have to get used to the bananas from supermarket again.

And today i just finished my work at another farm where we picked and packed Mangosteens. They are the Queen of Fruit. Quite expensive, since they are so hard to grow. It takes 15 year for the tree to start produce fruit. Very unique and sweet taste. Mangosteens are suprisingly high in calories too, but low in fat, so its great! :P I ate bags and bags of those as well, but about two weeks now i hardly had any. I was simply so sick of them :D

.Bzzz...

Learn from the people who have the results you want to achieve

Today I´m gonna post you a video I just saw.

Harley speaks about hes 10 year journey from vegan to raw foods - the mistakes he made and the most important things he learned how to be truly healthy and feel amazing all the time.

This video explains so clearly and simply the mistakes vegans and raw foodists often make and why they don´t see the results they wanna see.

Anyway, here´s the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjECH1ubjpc

My freakin´ fruitarian diet...

I was thinking that i will start this new blog on 1th of January 2012...but, what the heck?! :)

Of course this blog is gonna be about my freakin´ weird diet :D My fruitarian diet...

I have been doing it since the start of this year, on and off...probably even more off than on...:P BUT, its a journey and everything is part of the process. I wanted to go 100% raw, HCRV (high carb raw vegan) overnight, several times, but i failed hard each time...like I failed yesterday after doing it 23 days this time...

So am I a failure now, since I cant do it 100% and stick with it? Probably. :P

Im not gonna say that "tomorrow" is a new day and that i´m gonna try again and this time its gonna be different, cos i would be lying - i mean, how can i know that? I dont wanna make anymore promises, so i´m just gonna start somewhere and see how i go.

I have decided that instead trying to do it 100% hard core, i will take a few steps back this time. Like im still gonna eat my delicious fruit, but im gonna eat something cooked vegan and healthy, too. Im gonna try recipes from Barnard, Esselstyn or what McDougall recommends - low fat (or even better - fat free) vegan dishes. Brown rice with steamed vegetables, wholegrain pasta with peans, vegetable stews and soups. I know that its best to eat fruit for breakfast and lunch, so im gonna do it. But for dinner it might be something from the list above.

I know health is first, but i wanna lose some weight. Im not obese, but have gained weight this year after jo-jo-ing back and forth cooked and raw (of course cooked was often plain junk). Im now 64 kilos, but i wanna be 54 kilos - so 10 kilos to loose. :) (Yahoo, cant wait!)

Right now I have cases of bananas and mangoes and lychees and black sapotes and mangosteens - so i think im gonna stick with that for a while, but i let myself be free - if i want cooked vegan meal, i will eat it :)