Month: May 2015

It is not as easy to buy raw food as you might think when you start out on a raw food diet. Many items on the supermarket shelves appear raw when really they are not.

Some, like cashews and many other nuts, may even be labeled raw when in fact they have been subjected to very high temperatures in the process of extracting them from their shells.

Buying Raw Food Online?

The good news is that it is possible to obtain many of these items in their truly raw form. You may find some things in your local health food store, but it is often easier to order online.

 

It is so easy these days to buy items like this on the internet and you can find many sites that will cater to people wanting to buy raw food to get the benefit of a non cooked, non processed diet.

Online Sites For Raw Foods

There are many online raw food suppliers in the USA and a quick search on Google for whatever you are looking for will quickly produce some online stores.

David Wolfe’s sunfoods.com specializes in raw cashews, chocolate/cacao and superfoods. In the UK, detoxyourworld.com provides most of the ingredients you could need to stock your raw kitchen. In Australia you can use getprice.com.au to find suppliers of just about anything.

As we have said, there are many foods that you might need to buy from a specialist raw food supplier if you want to be 100% raw. These include olives. Raw olives can be bitter so most of the olives that you find in the store have been cooked.

However, there are a couple of varieties that taste wonderful in their raw form and you can find these online. Order plenty because you might find they disappear very fast!

Buying Raw Almonds

The law now requires that all almonds produced in California must be pasteurized. This means most of the almonds sold in the USA and Canada, so check packaging and order from overseas if you have to.

In other countries, almonds are extracted from the shell without using heat. However, of course you want to buy them with their skins on.

White, skinless almonds, including chopped and ground, have been blanched in boiling water to remove the skins. And if you don’t like the skins, you can remove them quite easily after soaking the almonds overnight.

Buying Raw Dairy Foods

If you are not planning to be a raw vegan you may want to find a source of raw dairy foods to add enzymes and calcium into your diet.

Unpasteurized milk is illegal to be sold in stores in many jurisdictions although you can still often buy it direct from the farm. Unpasteurized cheese is usually easier to find since many specialty cheeses are traditionally made raw.

Be aware that as well as extra enzymes, raw dairy products can contain unwanted bacteria. Pregnant women in particular are usually advised not to consume raw dairy products.

You Can Even Get Raw Toothpaste

Finally, have you thought about toothpaste? OK, you probably don’t eat it, but you must be ingesting some of it and if you buy any kind of commercial brand it will not be raw, even if it is fluoride free.

Many people who go raw switch to Toothsoap which is free of undesirable chemical ingredients. It may take a few days to get used to the taste but it is not unpleasant and it is getting rave reviews.

So that is something to add to your list when you go online to buy raw food.

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We all have lots of stuff tugging us one way or another and we have jobs, people, and tasks that we are accountable for but sometimes we forget about our own accountability to ourselves and set our own priorities.

I have been thinking a lot lately about how much the company that I work for and my family, and even the two school parent council groups are relying on me and at the same time those groups will get more attention from me than I give to myself.

I am sure that you are the same way. Lets take a look at how we can fix these things.

How Others Control Us

All the groups that rely on us will give us certain tasks. These tasks are often given to us because we have those strengths and when we are accountable for an outcome we take ownership.

Whether it is running a meeting or a project or unloading the dishwasher or walking the dog or making dinner, or getting a new school built in our community.

We have time, we have skills, and we are in a position to make these things happen. When we succeed it is great for our ego and having the responsibility also makes us feel important.We can have some control over how things happen in our little part of the world. This is very good

The bad part of these responsibilities and the accountability that it gives to us is that often the good of others trumps our own needs and the things that may be important to us. I worry about this for a lot of people in my own life as well as myself and want to look a bit at how we look at our own priorities.

How We See Our Own Priorities

Our priorities and the life that we lead is often very controlled by others because we put a higher value on  what those other people want or need instead of ourselves. This is not the way to live.

I like to look at my own life an how when I feel like I have little control of circumstances because other are setting all of my priorities it makes me angry, my own fault I know but I am really getting angry at myself for letting it happen.

There is an old saying that “If you do not make plans other people will fit you into theirs” and this is very true. We need to make sure that we see our priorities first and see how our priorities can help others.

Making Our Priorities Help Others

This has always been a very tough battle. I fight it all the time and I am sure that you do to. What we need to do is honestly assess what is important in our lives and once we have this list of 10 or so things that we want to achieve ofr ourselves and others then we can make the time.

Lets say that having a strong family is important, then we will want to make sure that we are giving our time to our family, we want to scheduile things that the family can do together and we will want to make sure that the time that we spend with the family is shared experiences that we can have memories from and build on.

Another example is work projects. If you are on a project you will tend to have work heaped on you.

Some of this work is best for you, some should be delegated to others, and some does not have to be done at all but is merely busywork that can be just let go of (do you create this busywork yourself?).

What you need to do is take the initiative to tell the project manager what needs to be done and what does not in your eyes.

Are You Being Confrontational?

What I tend to find is that in these two above examples and with many situations that you want to change priorities from other peoples to your own you are going to deal with confrontation.

The best way to do this is almost every case is to lay out your view, your reasons, and your plan and make sure that the other person or people understand that this is not a personal attack, this is just your view and between you and others you can work out differences.

Most people are not interested in barrelling over you they just are trying to get things done.

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When you exercise outside, your body enjoys many benefits which simply are not possible when you work out indoors. But you may be thinking,

“What are some of the better outdoor workouts?”

After all, not all exercises are the same.

To harness all of the total body benefits that exercising outside can deliver, stick to the following 5 outdoor workout programs.

Tennis for an outdoor workout

Tennis is Great Exercise

You burn between 450 and 550 calories per hour playing tennis, and you enjoy the benefits of socializing as well. From your head to your toes, you involve all major muscle groups, and tennis is an inexpensive sport available to men, women and children of all ages. You can always find someone at your skill level by checking with local tennis organizations.

Hill sprints as an excellent way to shred body fat, burn calories improve your level of conditioning and develop lean muscle mass

This metabolic workout uses body weight exercise principles to strengthen your entire body. You can expect to burn between 200 and 250 calories in just 2.5 minutes of hill sprinting.(Expert Tip: this is a secret tactic that professional athletes use to burn significant amounts of fat and drop body weight in a very short period of time.)

Jogging in sand as the perfect outdoor exercise

The increased resistance delivers a 1.6X higher calorie burn than simply jogging on a grass or dirt path. Another benefit? Sand goes to work on your feet and toes, removing unsightly dry, dead skin. While you are at the beach, throw in a couple of games of beach volleyball to burn even more calories.

Body weight training is perfectly suited for the great outdoors

You use the weight of your body as resistance, building lean muscle mass while burning fat and calories. Nothing more than your body is needed, but you can accentuate your workout with monkey bars, benches, chin up and pull up bars and other park equipment.

Yoga and Pilates in the park

Everyone has a favorite park or outdoor environment they like to go to relax. Pilates and yoga are excellent for relieving stress while also building muscle and burning fat. When performed outdoors in the sun, you benefit from fresh air and all of the wonderful sights, smells and sounds that mother nature has to offer.

Exercising outdoors has been directly linked to an improved self-image, fewer feelings of stress, anxiety and depression and a higher calorie burn than working out indoors. Get out today, practicing the above outdoor exercise plans to grab those benefits for yourself.

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