As I have quite a bit of distrust for labels on the food, I want to know FOR SURE that my food is GMO free and organic.  All companies who want to sell their products can be accidentally or even consciously mistaken by labeling their food as “GMO-Free” or “organic”.  This video gives some real good tips on how to identify REAL GMO-Free food without having to trust the labels on packages.

I love how we can take the power back using the simple tips I am giving here in this video.  We do NOT have to buy GMO foods, but can make our own decisions getting the GMO-free foods on our table.  This is so important, as most of the “designed” or “hybrid” foods are trained to have fewer seeds and much more sugar, which decreases the natural force and nutrient content.  I am not even talking about pesticides or hormones here.  Just the simple quality and nutrient content is much lower in GMO produced food.  This is why it is so important to have the wild foods and the old types of our raw foods on our table.

Did you know that ancient apples were the size of cherries and were really sour?  Those apples contained 50 times more nutrients than our modern versions.  We need the old, wild sorts.   Those are the foods that also have more life force and are better prepared to survive in nature without our protection.  It is almost ironic, that most of the raw foods today wouldn’t even be able to survive by themselves. They need us to protect, shelter and nurture them.  We get so much more life force and nutrients out of the wild, old types of foods that are GMO-free.

I hope you find some good tips in the video, and remain with all my wild food.

love

ka

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In this video we take you with us and show you exactly how we shop, how much we shop and what exactly we buy being on a raw food diet together with our 4 children.  As we have so many mouths to feed, we hope you are not too shocked to see that we carry the food back in the house by the wheelbarrows.  The overwhelming majority of our food we buy at the farmer markets here in San Isidro – which is the bigger “city” in the south-west of Costa Rica.

All our fruits and veggies we get from this market.  A rule of thumb we go by to make sure our food is non GMO and organic is:
First and foremost we buy from organic booths in the market.  If we cannot find a fruit or veggie there, we keep on asking around the market.

Mostly we end up buying from:
-Small booths (no mass produced)
-Old farmers (that do not have the money, knowledge or means to buy pesticides)
-Ugly fruits (the more wrinkles and spots they have the more natural they are)
-Small fruits (the GMO fruits are mostly designed for color and size.  Going for small fruits makes sure you get the more natural ones)
-Many seeds (the more seeds are in fruits, the more sure you can be that it is natural. Wild food mostly consists of seeds. Designed and modified food is designed for taste and flesh)
-Less sugar (the more sugar there is in a fruit, normally the more hybrid it is.)

Did you know that ancient wild apples were the size of cherries, and were really sour??)

Those are some golden tips to make sure you get GMO-free organic food not having to rely on labeling and good will of super markets or other sellers who, of course, just want to sell their products.  Aside from this we also want to show you exactly what we buy.  You will see the cooked foods that we buy, and what a high ratio there is between the raw foods and the cooked foods in our diet.

We also receive almost weekly superfoods via post, as Costa Rica does not have ANY health food store.  So there are no superfoods to buy in the whole of Costa Rica.  We have found a smart and cheap solution to that, and this video will show you how we have solved this problem.

We hope to inspire you with this video, showing how easy and simple a healthy raw food diet with kids can be.

Lots of love and coconut greetings from the jungle of Costa Rica!
Ka and family!

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I felt like doing a response video.

People (Mostly vegan parents) were asking questions like:

“How do you give any guidance, when you are so super tolerant? Do you have any rules in your family??”  The clear answer to this question is: “YES! Of course we have rules in our family!”  Being tolerant does not mean that you do not have any rules to live by.  In our experience being parents to 4 children, we feel that kids need and want rules.  If you leave a kid without any rules, they will keep on pushing and pushing to find a wall.

Kids enjoy having guidance!

However, this guidance does not have to come along as a rule-set that is forced upon them.  We have 3 simple rules in our family, and we have come up with those rules together as a family.  Our kids have helped to create those rules.

We have three basic rules we live by:
1. no physical or verbal abuse of others
2. no swear words
3. no throwing things

That is pretty much it.

If we all would live by these 3 simple rules -vegan or not- the world would be a peaceful and beautiful place, huh?
(And if the everybody would drink green juices, we all would be even healthy!! -LOL)

Other than that, I also believe that my kids deserve trust.  They deserve and need that trust to find out what is right and wrong to them.  I trust that this will help them to make good and healthy decisions.  If they do make a decision I am disagreeing with, I feel that I have to be tolerant.   I cannot force my beliefs on others.  I would have wished for that trust and freedom myself when I was a little kid, and so I feel I must provide this trust for my brothers and sisters out there in the world and especially to my own children.

So this is the fine line between giving guidance and freedom in the vegan – or vegetarian world.

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