I added just a bit of dehydrated raw wheat grass powder in my plain water today. My almost 5 (so he says) year old rugrat took a sip and said, “Hmmm, this is good tea Mummy”. This is excellent because it means his taste buds are starting to appreciate more complex flavors.

ften times, we don’t know what they like. So it’s always good to keep introducing new food to them every once in a while.

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More on healing raw food

• Malaysian raw food product
• How virgin coconut oil is made
• Guava As Medicine

Guess how old Rosemary is. You really would not believe. She looks so vibrant and young.

In fact, Rosemary Fletcher had spent 11 years confined to a wheelchair and doctors said she will never walk again. She looked at how she ate and she healed herself naturally.

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• Iodine Tincture Heals Cancer Lesions?
• Miang Kam – An Almost Raw Appetizer
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To all Malaysian raw foodies and those who are interested in health, we can now get Loving Earth (Australia) raw food products at Jaya Grocers! *Whoohoo*

There’s raw cacao powder (lots of good stuff and sinful too), Maca powder (Peruvian ginseng), oh so delicious raw cacao butter, and other great stuff.

If you have never tried Maca, you should try it now, cause previously the only way was to buy them online. Also great for guys who, for whatever reason, want to increase their *cough* sperm count.

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Where to get raw dehydrated wheat grass in Malaysia

Raw chocolate tastes so good

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I just found this can of dehydrated raw organic wheatgrass and barley grass  supplement, and to tell you the truth, I’m happy, cause I’m too lazy to grow wheatgrass, and I live too far away from my favorite Juice Works juice bar that sells wheatgrass shots.

I’m happy as well because there are companies now that realise we need raw food, full of enzymes and vitamins instead of stuff full of artificial colorings, chemicals we can’t pronounce, cancer causing preservatives in our food.

So ok. When you look at the can, how do you know it’s raw food since it doesn’t say so on the can. In the case of this particular Green Balance can, it says “dehydrated at body temperature 37 degrees Celsius”

Food that is preserved raw should be dehydrated not more than 120 degrees Farenheight or about 49 degrees Celsius.

Often times, we do need supplement like these because think about it, how many of us can grow wheatgrass everyday?

Wheatgrass juice is so good for us. My uncle, who is a doctor says, it really helps our blood. Plant blood he calls it. Wheatgrass stimulates metabolism and the body’s enzyme systems by enriching the blood. It also aids in reducing blood pressure by dilating the blood pathways throughout the body.

Try buying raw wheat grass powder the next time you step into an organic / wholefood store. Add a little of the powder into your drinks. Heck, bring a small bottle to the office and add that to your morning coffee if you so incline. Add just a bit at a time until you get used to the flavor!

ps you can get this product at many Watsons pharmacies and at quite a few organic stores

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Loving Earth Raw Food Products now sold in Kuala Lumpur

How virgin coconut oil is made

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The sweet pulp that covers the (raw) cacao beans are really yummy.

It’s really sweet, remarkably different from the cacao nuts I’ve taken to snacking on at night as I writeup field notes. The cacao fruit is really a forgotten commodity. I like the flesh to a very soft mango without the annoying fibers that get stuck between the teeth. After the cacao beans (or nuts?) have been fermented and sun dried they give a nice chocolaty taste when cracked open.

Noah Jackson is in West Africa working with African farmers.

From the forest floor, a cacao farmer searches the mid-canopy of one of his avocado trees for a mid-day snack.
Like many farmers who live on small farms, these trees serve as important nutrient supplements.
Although avocado is not sold on the local market, cashews, oranges, papaya, plantain,
coffee and mangoes help provide a secondary income.

Email from the back of the pickup truck; Avocados are close at hand.

Community Interviews. It got a bit hectic here in one of the communities.
At one point crowds of kids showed up.
So we could have more of a focused conversation, I gave an extra camera to some kids.
It’s a technique I use often to refocus myself, the group I’m with,
and to move chaotic energy away from me so I can focus.
It works well. The images from the camera, like my community
photography workshops, are always unexpected.
This is a pretty good shot, made by young creative hands.

Walking in one of the villages at the end of the day, one young girl waved me into her family compound. I made a series of images of her and her older siblings before I was directed to these scene just inside one of the houses.
I spent some time photographing this part of the day, the end of the day cleanup.
“Mother and Child, End of the day farm washup.”

Solution of vinegar and soap

I was just reading a funny post about how this lady hated fruit flies, and guess what … I DO TOO!

Hate them.

I don’t like them hovering my bananas, and I certainly don’t like them to hover over my garbage bin and then fly over to hover over my fruits!

Apparently, there are scores of people who have tested ways to kill these buggers (don’t you just love this British term?) and here are the environmentally freindly ways to do so.

1. Alcohol kills 

One guy found out that a few inches of wine in a standard wine bottle works extremely well - as he found out the next morning, after he took a glug of wine with some dead flies floating in it!! The little bugs love wine and they will dive into the bottle only to drown after having a few hick sips. Apparently, the reason why they can’t fly out of the narrow opening of the wine bottle  is because these lovable  fruit flies can only fly side to side, not up and down. 

Here’s what he says “I don’t like killing anything, but I salve my conscience by shaking the bottle regularly, to drown them so they don’t swim for hours, struggling…”

Note to self, look INSIDE the alcohol bottle to make sure there’s no drowned animals before having a go at the hoo-hoo-hoo. However, if you already ate these bugs … accidentally … consider this. They are a good source of uncooked protein. 

2. Wash / hand slap trick

This same wino guy tried another tactic which he said worked well for him. He washed the  fruits right away and then hand slap the flies as soon as they appear, right before they settle in and procreate. 

3. A deadly cocktail of apple cider vinegar and soap

If you are too lazy to wash the fruit or kill hand slap the silly buggers, then you might want to try this instead. Leaving a mixture of foamy, soapy apple cider vinegar solution on the table next to the fruits. It seems the pesky flies are attracted to the vinegar. But the foam traps them and they die. Something you can easily try at home.

Speaking of insects, I found that they drown easily in soapy water. If you are a sadist, you can try picking up ants, cockroaches, bees, whatever takes your fancy and slowly release them into the soapy water … to test my theory. There’s one insect I truly dislike with passion, and that is mosquitoes. Just one mosquito can cause so much damage to a baby. One day, I found multiple Mozzie bites on my precious baby’s skin. Horrified I tell you. So this fuming mommy sat there, waiting patiently with soapy wet hands. I took a slow easy swipe at the nasty mozzie just as it was about to make another meal out of my kid and it promptly got caught in the foam. Then, I walked to the bathroom and triumphantly release the struggling mozzie into the soapy water and watched it slowly sink down into the abyss.

Bliss! No more bites that night. 

So, if you don’t like nasty insects like me, you know what to do.

Peace!

Image and info taken from Re-Nest.com