Blog Search for: Bodybuilding, Green Smoothies, and Raw Food Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, I just wanted to thank you so much for inspiring me to try your green smoothies. I am totally hooked on them and I’ve started to crave… raw food: here’s what’s in my dehydrator right now You know I love my dehydrator, especially this time of year when I’ve got so much stuff coming out of the garden that I don’t want to go to waste…. What to do when your kids go into the “real world” In 2008, after being married for 20 years, I found myself a newly single parent. I was on my own trying to achieve a high-raw diet for my four athletes… What to do when your kids go into the “real world” In 2008, after being married for 20 years, I found myself a newly single parent. I was on my own trying to achieve a high-raw diet for my four… Grains and legumes made easy I think sometimes we don’t make brown rice, split peas, lentils, or other wonderful whole-grain or legume dishes, only because we get home from work and don’t want to wait… Always Use an Antibiotic for Strep and Ear Infections, Right? With winter coming up, I know many of you have kids who get strep or ear infections or any number of other illnesses we have come to think of as… Birthday ideas… Email from a reader: My son is turning two in just a couple weeks. We have moved to the whole foods lifestyle as a family now. I have no… should you cut skin off fruits and vegetables? My sons Kincade and Tennyson hate peaches because of their fuzzy skin. I tell them they’re crazy, because inside the fuzzy skin is one of the most fabulous foods on… Gluten Free Live Granola & Breakfast Jason, a 12 Steps to Whole Foods reader, shared the following recipes with us. They’re mostly raw, gluten free, and full of sprouted nutrition. He writes: When I first got the… raw food diet versus alkaline diet I was having this conversation on Facebook today with a reader, and since I’m sure not all of you are my facebook friends or check in there regularly, I thought… Preserving raw foods, two ways to make living the lifestyle CHEAP! If you’ve read my books, you know that I promote ways of making a whole-foods, high-raw, plant-based diet very affordable, especially the #1 and #2 highest-impact methods: Plant a garden… Raw Food: try this Rainbow Salad (way to use your zucchini and squash) Here’s a fun way (from Ch. 5 of 12 Steps) to use the zucchini coming out of your garden (or your neighbor’s). Thought I’d share it with you since…