A recipe from Althea Hughes Wills

An Angel Saved My Life!

When I wake up in the morning now I am quite hungry. It’s a good kind of hunger. It isn’t a gnawing, dizzy, angry "my blood sugar just crashed" kind of hunger. Rather it is an "I can hardly wait to fuel up" kind of hunger. I don’t know if I can really describe it. It’s like my body knows it’s going to get something good and useful, and is letting me know it is ready to accept and utilize that fuel!

This is a HUGE change for me. Before I started this journey 10 days ago, I would never be hungry in the morning. In fact the thought of eating before 11 would make me nauseous.

Now if you read yesterday, then you heard about my raw breakfast follies and laughed along with me, but this could be serious. Raw fruit in the morning is not enough to keep the hunger at bay!

Well last night, an angel visited my blog, left her link on the "Add My Blog" page on this website, and left me a raw breakfast recipe which I am going to repost over in the recipe section! Althea Hughes Wills is The Raw Mocha Angel. Here is a bit about Althea from her website…

Althea is the author of the forthcoming book Mocha Angels: 365 Days of Angelic Wisdom & Affirmations and the award-winning novel Walking The Line. She has studied raw food preparation with Lynda Carter of Alive and Raw. This blog is about Althea’s journey toward becoming a 100% live and raw vegan.

You know I find when people write "about me" kinds of statements you never really get a sense of who they are from that. You really need to read some of their entries, and some of the comments in order to get a feel for that person. Althea is someone I would love to meet some day. I found out that she is a caring woman whose family comes first. She speaks to her readers instead of speaking ‘at’ them and she shares her journey without hiding the difficult parts. In other words… she is REAL! 

Her Mission Statement:

"I am raw vegan so that I can live to my highest potential and be mentally, spiritually, and emotionally present with my family and friends."

Take the time to visit Althea. You’ll be glad you did!

Getting Healthy Can Keep You Busy!

WOW I went the entire day before I got to my update post! I went to the farmer’s market again and just inhaled! LOL I just filled my fridge yesterday so I really didn’t need anymore fresh produce!

I also got a new page put up on my blog for people with wellness related blogs to add their site. See up in the menu there where it says "Add Your Blog"? It’s real easy… all you have to do is add your link and then grab one of the banners or the text link to put on your site. We’ll have our own little network of wellness sites all joined together in this community. FUN!

So how did I do yesterday?? OOOO I am so glad you asked! I made the most beautiful salad I’ve ever seen and it was delicious. It gave me the idea that when I make up something that I really like I should write it down here, so that led me to think that I need a recipe section as well. So that is what I am going to do. … And if YOU have a vegetarian, vegan, raw or just plain ole healthy recipe you want to share you can put it in the comments section.

So I kind of got lost searching for yoga info and didn’t really get to actually doing anything in the way of exercises yesterday, so today it was the first thing I did when I got my carcass out of bed! 40 minutes on the bike and then 20 minutes of long slow stretching while I lost myself in thought. It was delightful!

And Boy oh Boy you should see the bounty I came home with yesterday. Zucchini, cucumber, green onion, garlic, yam, carrots, yellow and green beans, peas in the pod, romaine, mushrooms, tomatoes, grape tomatoes, new potatoes, grapes, strawberries, mango, black plums, nectarines, lemons, limes, avocado, apples, tangerines, cilantro, parsley, basil, oregano, and thyme, and a bunch of whole grains…. Oh MY!!

Oh and I have to tell you my amusing "breakfast" story! If you’ve been reading along, you know that I’ve been quite fascinated with the whole "eat everything raw" idea. So when I was searching the other day I came across a site that talked about raw grains for breakfast, so I thought, "Self, that is something you should try!" I like to have something substantial in my stomach for breakfats, and apples and oranges don’t seem to be doing it. SO this guy said to get a variety of raw whole grains and seeds, (he listed about 14 different ones) and then grind them in a coffee grinder…. well when I was at the grocery store, in the organic section, I found some "Bob’s Red Mill" 10 grain hot cereal. It had most of the grains the website talked about, and had the added benefit of being already ground, and mixed.

So take 1/3 to 1/2 (I took 1/3) cup of grain mix, add about the same amount of water and soak overnight. I decided that I would add raisins to soak with it, so I added the raisins and water and popped it in the fridge. The next morning I could hardly WAIT to have breakfast! YAY no apples for me! So I grabbed my cereal, popped off the lid, gave it a stir, and put a big spoonful into my mouth.

Well the first think that happened was that the moisture that was in the cereal immediately soaked into my mucous membranes. What was left in my mouth felt like sand. I couldn’t chew, swallow… I could barely move it around off my cheeks and the roof of my mouth! So I immediately got out a pot and spooned the rest in with a bit more water and turned on the burner! That kind of grain is NOT meant to be eaten raw and don’t let anyone trick you into thinking it is!

Anyway, I think I am starting to experience a bit of detox…. today (and yesterday afternoon) my lower abdomen is acting up a bit and churning. I’m also less energetic today. HOWEVER I am STILL a hundred times better than I have been for the last few years so I can handle it!

So now I am going to go write up that salad recipe before I forget, and YES I am going to get to the article on juicing! (*nag nag* )