Why you can harm yourself eating healthy raw food, but thrive on a piece of pizza
I am sorry but this had to come!
I know many will not like it and not support this message, nevertheless do I believe it to be true.
So much harm has been done within our holy raw food world, by preaching a concept 95% of the people will not be able (or willing) to live by.
So much guilt, shame and fear is created by telling people how pure&dogmatic they have to behave to be good, to be healthy, to be on the good side, “our side.”
Nothing is more harmful to our health and to our wellbeing than living with that guilt of not being the perfect Health (raw) foodist.
This video is a testimony to tolerance, self-love and honesty to where we are at RIGHT NOW.
Please dear life-lovers:
Stop trying to be someone you are not, failing several times each day.
Be thriving healthy allowing yourself to enjoy food, make mistakes and make progress with time to adjust .
I love and support you on your way!
The Rawfoodfamily Food Diary – Ka’s Green Juice Fast Update
Wow!
It has been quite a while since we gave you an update on our day-to-day diet that we enjoy as a raw food family with 4 kids.
As we always want to inspire you health conscious families with children to eat more healthy raw food, we want to share with you how we do it.
However, it is important to us that you understand that we are NOT telling you what you should do.
We also are not certified nutritionists.
All we want to do is share how we do it!!
As we have been living a raw food lifestyle as a family for more than 8 years now, you also must understand that our diet will be different from somebody who is just starting with this.
We feel that we have purified our diet again, after being in a tropical climate for 2 1/2 years now. The sun, the fully ripe tropical fruits all year round, the coconuts and the warm south-pacific ocean all year round has really helped to increase our health level to a new all-time-high.
It also has helped to simplify our diet. We sometimes have mono meals even though we still like the raw gourmet kitchen. We have also incorporated some cooked foods like quinoa, brown rice and buckwheat noodles into our diet, but we always have a huge salad and raw sauces/dressing with it.
In case you want to go (high) raw with your kids as well, we highly recommend our book “Raising Raw Children”. We are currently doing the last work to publish the 2nd edition, where we applied a lot of updates and some changes after being on this diet for 3 more years. The first edition of our book was published in autumn 2009, and we are happy to release the new book in early summer 2012.
Stay tuned…..
Veganism: What If Your Kids Want Meat??
Here comes a hot topic.
It is dealing with the question of what one should do, when family members (like kids or partners) choose to eat in a REAL different way than you. If you are vegan, a vegetarian or even a raw vegan and your kids ask for meat, what do you do?
This is a difficult question, and I want to make it clear right here and now: I am just sharing my personal opinion. This is how I see things. I am NOT telling you what you have to do, I support you finding this out for yourself. The way we go about things in our life as The Rawfodfamily is this: Tolerance!
I do not believe that I have the right to force anybody to eat the way I eat or to believe what I believe. All I can do is lead by example, and believe me, I have enough to do there myself. I trust that my kids will see me acting in alignment with my talking.
This has a power. This power is bigger than ruling them and their eating habits by force.
This does not mean that we do not have any rules in our house. For example, we insist on drinking green juice everyday, but I drink 3 liters of it myself.
Also, we have three basic rules we live by:
1. No physical or verbal abuse of others
2. No swear words
3. No throwing things around
That is pretty much it. If we all would live by these 3 simple rules the world would be a peacful and beautiful place, huh? (And if everybody would drink green juices, we all would be 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.
I know that some might disagree here, and say:
“But what if they want to do something that would harm them or others?”
I have to ask back:
“Did you ever try it this way on a consistent basis?”
In my experience (also as an un-schooling dad) this has NEVER (not even once) led my kids down that road. It really has to do with trust. Trusting seems to be a hard path to walk these days. I struggle with this myself at times, but our kids deserve this trust. They will be supported to make up their own minds, to become confident and smart adults that know what they want and why they want it. If that would include eating meat, then this would IN NO WAY make my love for them any less.
If I go down the other route, however, I will force them to do what I say. I will rule them by force, power and fear. This will make them lie to me in the end, and eat what they want to eat in hidden secret places or when they are with friends. They will feel guilty about it, and it will create issues.
Do you want this for your kids?? I say :
“NO!”
I want trust, understanding and sharing! When they decide to do something that is not aligned with my beliefs, I feel that I have to step back and tolerate their right to be different than me.
For more thoughts on this hot topic, do please watch this video here!
Green Juice Fasting Experience (Ka Sundance – Day 5)
I just woke up several days ago, and knew: “Oh cool! It is time for another juice fast!”
Since that day, I have not eaten any solid food, aside from some mangoes. So, if you go by the book, it is not a real 100% juice fast that I am doing, because I do have some mangoes each day. You know me though; going by the book doesn’t mean that much to me!
I feel awesome and have geared up my exercise level as well because I have loads of extra energy.
In this video I want to share my experiences and tips, as I have been doing this at least 2-3 times a year for almost 8 years now.
Green juices are the ultimate tool of nature for detoxing and alkalizing as well as hydrating the body. If you are looking for a spring detox, THIS IS THE WAY TO GO! There is no fear that you will be lacking any nutrients. Keep your body alkalized and nurtured with nutrients! Juicing is by far the best tool to re-mineralize and regenerate your body.
Pura vida!
-Ka
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Bloopers: The Rawfoodfamily Raw Recipes Videos
You know how they say that the most difficult things to film are animals and little children?
Well this video is about to give you testimonial to this statement. We are trying to do a promotional video for our fans and clients, giving them 5 free recipe videos. As it turns out, Joa (our youngest one) always has something different in mind, and even Katie, my wife, does not always have a clear view of what is actually going on.
Darn!
Maybe it has to do with the fact, that even I do not know which video we are recording…? LOL
You can get those 5 free raw recipe videos now at http://welcome.therawfoodfamily.com/
We also included some bloopers from a video we have been shooting for our 70 best raw food recipes Ebook. We are trying to show how difficult it is as health-conscious parents to offer your kids some plain, simple raw food. However, my kids are truly delighted by a simple raw food platter. So it was quite difficult to pretend to be disgusted by this beautiful food I was providing on a plate… If you are interested in getting our 70 Best Raw Food Recipes of The Rawfoodfamily, you can easily download them at http://70bestrawfoodrecipes.com/
Well, best you have a look at this one yourself. Lean back, turn on full-screen mode and enjoy this funny video of The Rawfoodfamily raising raw food kids.
