Finishing the Green Smoothie Challenge

24. January 2012

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Finishing the Green Smoothie Challenge

We finished out our New Year’s 5-Day Green Smoothie Challenge strong and enjoyed every moment of it.    I wanted to do something special on Day 5 to celebrate the end of the GSC.  I remembered our vet telling us that our cats should eat more wheatgrass.  We can’t just give it to our cats though, as some people can. [...]

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Green Smoothie Challenge: Day 2

10. January 2012

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Green Smoothie Challenge: Day 2

We’re still working on our 5 day Green Smoothie Challenge over here and we’re feeling great!  Day 2 has been super tasty, so far we’ve had a Sweet Celery Smoothie and a Kitchen Sink Smoothie.  Currently I’m trying to finish off lunch, the Sweet Celery smoothie.  I think I’ve let mine sit for too long and it’s starting to separate.  Guess I’ll have to go all the way downstairs to get a spoon to mix it up… [...]

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Celebrating the New Year with Green Smoothies

9. January 2012

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Celebrating the New Year with Green Smoothies

Over the years, our families have come to realize that this “raw kick” we’re on is probably going to continue for the rest of our lives.  There’s just no getting around how good it makes us feel when we eat raw and living foods.  At first, we fielded a lot of questions from family about the safety of it, if we could thrive on it, where we’d get our protein from, and what about B12?  After a while, I guess the newness of it wore off and our families stopped questioning our diet.  [...]

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19. December 2011

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Cafe Gratitude–I Am Closing

Cafe Gratitude–I Am Closing

This is slightly old news, but I just wanted to write a quick post to make sure everyone knew what was going on.  Cafe Gratitude, an amazing vegan/raw food chain mainly based in North California, is closing all of their Northern California locations.  The only Cafe Gratitude location that will remain open is the one [...]

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9. December 2011

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May I Be Frank?

May I Be Frank?

May I be frank with you?  We just saw May I Be Frank for the first time and wow, it was a bit of a shocker!  I had been waiting and waiting and waiting for this movie to come out.  I first heard about it about a year and a half ago.  I heard it [...]

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18. November 2011

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Just Juice

Just Juice

After I finished up my Kelly & Alissa Blog Project, I wanted to do something really great for my body.  I decided the best thing to do would be to go on a two week juice fast.  Let me first start off by saying I’ve never done anything like it before.  Rob’s done a few [...]

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10. November 2011

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Top 15 Recipes from Raw Food for Everyone

Top 15 Recipes from Raw Food for Everyone

Now that I’ve uncooked my way through Raw Food for Everyone, people keep on asking me which recipes are my favorites.  Honestly, I’d say that there were only a handful of recipes that I didn’t like, everything else in the book was great!  So chances are, if you make any of the recipes you’ll love [...]

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31. October 2011

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Kelly & Alissa: Week 47

Kelly & Alissa: Week 47

I’m done.  All done.  I’ve made all 300 recipes from Alissa Cohen’s Raw Food For Everyone over the course of the last 11 months!  I finished making the last of the recipes on Saturday but it wasn’t until Sunday when I’d finally tried them all.  There was no coherent menu last week as I tied [...]

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24. October 2011

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Kelly & Alissa Week 46

Kelly & Alissa Week 46

I felt like I was cranking through recipes last week!  I knocked a lot off my list.  I started getting really excited when I updated my spreadsheet for this blog project and realized that I only had a single digit number of recipes left to make!  I was a little giddy when I told Rob, [...]

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18. October 2011

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Raw on the Mountain ’11

Raw on the Mountain ’11

Last weekend, Rob and I, along with 40 or so other people, all got together to have a raw food weekend in the Tennessee mountains.  Where we live there are no raw food festivals for us to go to, so some friends decided it was time to change that and they created Raw on the [...]

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17. October 2011

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Kelly & Alissa: Week 45

Kelly & Alissa: Week 45

Wow!  What a crazy week last week was!  It feels like I was in the kitchen all last week and I’ll be in the kitchen all this week, too!  Last week I did double time in the kitchen, knocking out a bunch of recipes from Alissa Cohen’s Raw Food for Everyone, and making tons of [...]

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