Green smoothies, baby!

Today I've been making and giving out green smoothies in our local health food store Alnatura.

It was interesting to see people's reactions when I told them that there is spinach in my smoothies.

Most of them thought it's kiwi but all of them were pleasantly suprised after tasting them and finding out that they are delicious.

The question I got asked often was: "Where do you keep the bottles,- can I buy these smoothies here?"


One of the ladies liked them so much, she spent almost an hour next to my stall and kept drinking one smoothie after another.

I also met a raw foodie who lives here, isnt's that amazing??? There was a very handsome man there who told me that he loves raw food and that nothing else has changed his life as much as the transition to this wonderful lifestyle. Even though he lives in the northern Germany, it was wonderful to meet like minded people and to talk to them.

When rawies meet, the energy usually RAWKs and RAWls,- I love it!
In the afternoon I met a beautiful lady from Frankfurt, who was there with her cute little son,- you can see our pictures in this post. She came because she saw the event I created on facebook. I was thrilled to finally meet Jody who I only knew from one of the raw food groups on the net. It was a great surprise,- I love it when my facebook friends suddenly "materialise" in front of me.

Thank you for your support, dear Jody! I hope we can meet again very soon.
The lesson of the day is:
green smoothies are successful. Children love them and so do the adults.
Let's do it again!!!

Raw food festival 2012 in Berlin

The raw food festival in Berlin on the 24th&25th of March 2012 -Rohvolution- was RAWsome!!! It was fun to see all the fruities and to meet new ones.

It was also great to see my lovely friend Jose who came all the way from California to spend couple of days in Germany.

On the festival I discovered two new kinds of fruit I've never (even after 10 years of raw foodism!) tried before:

Guave and sapote amarillo.

Guave looks like a big green apple, is juicy and tastes sweet.



Sapote amarillo has a very intense sweet beautiful taste and an interesting texture,-it's not juicy at all. Some people say it tastes like cheese cake but I think it tastes amazing and can not be compared with any cakes because it is much richer.










All in all, the festival keeps getting bigger and more popular.



What I love about it, is the atmosphere, the gorgeous fruit and the rawmazing people you meet every second,- woohoooo!





Can't wait to go to the next one.

Thank you for creating this event, dear Nelly and Volker,- you RAWk.

Creating a great future

The Spring is there,- wooohooooo! I love walking in this park and feeling the nature...which each of us is a part of.

I had this delicious tomato for supper last night!

Now I have some time to write down my thoughts:

How do I create a great future?


By creating a great NOW!


How do I do that?


By feeling happy NOW.


How can I feel happy if I have problems with my husband/landlord/neighbors,- you name it.





Ah well, whatever we experience is simply the reflection of our inner world.

As soon as you change from inside out by choosing to feel good now,- everything else will click into place.







The fastest way of getting there is by cultivating GRATITUDE!














Focus on all the things you feel grateful for and you'll notice there are LOTS of them.

Today is the 29th of February!

So what? Each day is special and unique :-)






Mangoes taste great all year long! These ones are from Australia






Charlie likes them too
















Nicky is talking to Grandpa















I just had some nanas,- wooohooooo!
















This was a lovely lunch!

St. Valentine's day and other news

Is she laughing at me???


















Brother&Sister


















On St. Valentine's day I decided to have something special and ate some....flowers!














My lovely St. Valentine's day salad with an artichoke















What a gorgeous flower!
















I love silly,- it's fun











Yesterday my new filter arrived












It works really well and I don't have to carry around all those bottles anymore,- yay!

I ordered it here:
Waterfilter

Thank you, dear Heike,- what a great tip!

Fruitarianism, Pregnancy and Intuition

How do I know that 80/10/10 is GREAT?


Well,- I've experienced high energy levels while on a high fruit lifestyle so often that it convinced me 100%.

I'm very intuitive and before even knowing that the raw vegan lifestyle was an option, I often experimented with my food.

In fact, I've been living off fruit for long periods of time without even knowing about 80/10/10,- I was basically doing 90/5/5 just because it felt great.

Long before going raw vegan, I used to do fruity experiments. Eating apples for one week made me feel absolutely ecstatic and strong. I did it just for fun but it worked so well that I wanted to try other things. Couple of months after that I decided to eat grapes and some cashews for 2 weeks.

Then I once went fruit for 8 days on vacation and felt amazing.

The water fasts which I did regularly, amazed me too,- I felt so light and healthy that it didn't feel right to go back to cooked stuff.

I did also love making long juice feasts. The only thing I didn't like about all of this, was the way back,- back to the old ways which don't make you feel good long term.

All these experiments made me think a lot about my cooked lifestyle and the low energy levels.






Even though I was a vegetarian since 1991, I didn't feel as good as when I was fueled by fruit.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I suddenly couldn't stand the smell of cooked food! I couldn't eat anything at all in the first couple of days and then after that the only thing that tasted good to me was juicy fruit,- imagine that!

My inner voice was extremely strong during both pregnancies and I ate lots of rawsome food and fruit back then. All the things which I absolutely loved eating before, started smelling so unbearable, they made me feel sick! I had to often hold my nose, so that I could go grocery shopping,- the smells seemed strong and almost aggressive.

After going raw almost 10 years ago, I kept experimenting with fruit and went 80/10/10 (or 90/5/5, which felt best) without knowing anything about it.

I love fruit and living off fruit for extended periods of time once or twice a year (2-3 months each time) made me feel absolutely wonderful.

That's why I could say that I'm doing this for a long time. But that wouldn't be true because I kept going back to high fat raw with 2 avocados on a daily basis, thinking that good fats are important.

Well, now, thank Dr. Douglas Graham's fruity book “80/10/10” I can consciously enjoy this beautiful lifestyle. I'm so grateful!

Enjoy the fruit, dear rawies. Eat lots of it if you want to feel good on an ongoing basis.

Rawsome times

This delicious smoothie is a great start into a day. If you don't like having breakfasts, then simply make it at noon and enjoy it in peace.









A rawsome sweet potato dish with a green kale sauce which I made for supper couple of weeks ago












Nicky liked the raw zucchini noodles









<-- Little darlings










Hmmm,- mangoes are yummy!











Look at these dandelions,- aren't they a bit....too small? :-)