- The Daily Raw Inspiration from Jinjee at TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Raw Recipe Invention

Take an avocado and some cashews and a little water or other liquid like lemon juice or coconut water and see if you can invent an amazing creamy sauce, dip or dressing, using your blender. Tip: powder the cashews in a dry blender first.

For a low-cost, low-fat option use sunflower seeds (amazingly cheap!) instead of the cashews and some kind of vegetable like a dark leafy green, celery, bell pepper, or tomato instead of the avocado.

Let this adventure awaken the raw chef within you!

For more ideas for low-cost healthy, raw eating head over to Brandi's Health on a Budget Summit that starts today at http://tinyurl.com/healthbudge

For more raw recipe ideas join in our 21 Day Raw Challenge at http://21DaysRaw.com

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Extra - Health on a Budget Summit Starts Tomorrow!

The 7-Day Health on a Budget Summit starts tomorrow Saturday May 19th! It's f-ree and online!

Eating raw, living healthy, can seem to be cost-prohibitive in these times, but Brandi Rollins author of Raw Foods on a Budget, has put together a brilliant Health on a Budget Summit to share ways to make healthy living doable!

The Health on a Budget Summit is a f-ree 7-day online conference that will
be aired live from May 19th to 25th!

During the Summit, you will be able to listen to 36 talks and interviews with
experts discussing topics like:

Eating Raw Foods on a Budget
Eating Vegan on a Budget
Eating Vegetarian on a Budget
Eating Organic on a Budget
Feeding Your Family Vegetarian on a Budget
Foraging Basics and Foraging in Urban Areas
Eating Healthy on Food Stamps
Eating Healthy in College
Getting Fit on a Budget
Budgeting 101
Raising Financially Responsible Children
Live More on Less
Gardening on a Budget
Getting Healthcare on a Budget

The Summit will feature a Recipe section that will showcase affordable raw, vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free recipes; a Fitness section featuring exercise videos; a Summit cookbook with 100+ vegan, raw, vegetarian, and gluten-free recipes; Gardening and Budgeting 101 guides; and a huge Community Forum!

And, take advantage of these 3 amazing registration options that are guaranteed
to fit your budget!

+ If you are low on money, attend the conference for FREE!

+ If you are low on time, invest in the premium registration (less than 8 cents a day) and get access to the Summit for a whole year! And get 5 eBook BONUSES
(includes 2 Recipe ebooks)!

+ Want more raw foods in your budget-conscious life, become an All Star and get everything above and more!

So many options�which one is right for you?

Register HERE: http://healthonabudgetsummit.com#oid=1002_7

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Back to the Garden Retreat

21 Day Cleanse optional Prep Week starts Monday!
This Session is your last chance to do the 21 Day Cleanse and win a free retreat by submitting your Before and After pictures. This is not like other cleanses where there is no food, as on this program you will eat, be satisfied, AND release weight! Take our 21 Day Raw Challenge and I know you'll surprise yourself with how well you do! Optional "Prep Week" starts this Monday! More info and Early Bird Registration - http://21DaysRaw.com

10th Annual Garden Diet Retreat
Just two months left until our annual retreat, a raw social party that I look forward to every year, meeting great people, making and eating delicious food together, and hiking in the beautiful Ojai wilderness! This may just be our last retreat as Storm is moving in to his film-making career. Check out the amazing waterfalls we just found, -- with Jome sliding down a 25 ft. natural water-slide! -- that we'll be taking our guests to play at! Plus see a video of our 1st Annual Garden Diet Retreat! http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=1457

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Finding My Perfect Weight

I recently released five lbs. from my tummy area doing our 21 Day Cleanse, and I feel really good at my new steady weight; 143 lbs.. Strangely, I hovered around this weight for many years but always struggled to get to between 135-137 lbs., feeling like the 140's just sounded too high. This was even though I knew from an online ideal weight calculator that 144 lbs. was a perfect weight for me based on my height (5'9") and a healthy BMI.

So I think of all those years that I was a perfect weight but fought it instead of embracing it. I wanted to be a waif instead of the amazon that I am. I've been down in my 120's and 130's and I really don't look good as a waif. It isn't me. I'm, as my mother calls it, statuesque. Some of us just take a long time to discover who we really are.

Fortunately thanks to the raw diet it isn't too late to enjoy our youth. In the raw world, youth is not simply wasted on the young, but is also available to many of us who have the maturity to enjoy it!

:)

Schedule Memo - Optional Prep-Week for the May 28th 21 Day Raw Cleanse starts this Monday! http://21DaysRaw.com

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Super Simple Sprouted Humus

Last week I shared Storm's humus recipe with you. Someone mentioned leaving out the coconut would be just as nice. And that reminded me of my own humus recipe, which is much lighter and is super-simple to make, and in my opinion just as delicious!

So, here it is...

Light & Super-Simple Sprouted Humus....

1.5 c garbanzo beans, soaked for 24-48 hours (Change water every 12 hours)
1 lemon, juiced
1 clove garlic, core removed
1/4 c water
4 pinches salt

1. Put everything except salt and water in food processor and process, pulsing until ground down as much as possible
2. Add water and continue to process and pulse until cottage-cheese texture
3. Add salt and process for another 15-30 seconds

Use as a veggie dip or wrap humus in romaine lettuce with sprouts, avocado and tomato.

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Lovely Raw Food Photos

Here is a new blog I found by one of our 21 Day Cleanse participants with really nice photos of the food!

http://tinyurl.com/mppsblog

Click "Newer Post" at the bottom of each post under the comments box and you'll see a photo journey of many of the recipes from the 21 Day Raw Cleanse.

Next session starts on my 45th birthday, May 28th, two weeks from today! Find out more here: http://21DaysRaw.com

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
�Spanish Proverb

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Raw Overeaters Anonymous Follow-up

Dear Daily Raw Inspiration Readers,

We are receiving a great many emails from people interested in the Raw-Centric Overeaters Anonymous group idea. So I've started a little forum/community where people can let us know about their interest, as well as discuss ideas for the formation of the group. I'm especially interested in anyone with experience setting up an OA chapter who might be willing to help with this! Also open to debating whether we should set the group up independently of the OA organization or not.

Here is the group: Raw Overeaters Anonymous
http://oarawgroup.ning.com/
Anyone can sign up.
You don't need to be raw already to join.

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Raw Overeaters Anonymous

For those of us who are food addicts, who hurt ourselves with food, who are compulsive eaters, who are out of control and who have only found relief through a 100% raw vegan diet, welcome home.

First, I had to admit that I was an addict and that I had no control over this disease. I had to admit that I could only stay raw if I ate 100% raw. I had to be abstinent, to stay on the wagon. And to stay on the wagon, to stay abstinent, I have to eat 100% raw. Not a bite of cooked food. I have to treat myself like an alcoholic and I have to look at cooked food as alcohol.

If you can relate to this, and if you would like to join a f-r-ee 100% Raw chapter of OA (Overeaters Anonymous) online, please let me know. If there is enough interest, I will apply to start one.

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Online Raw Class Starts Monday!

"The Vital Force Diet System" a new eBook by Storm features a balanced raw menu plan that is particularly designed for Baby Boomers but can help anyone with weight loss, rejuvenation and increasing your energy levels.

We are excited to announce that due to the popularity of the eBook we are launching a Vital Force Diet Program this Monday! When you sign up for the Program below you receive the eBook instantly, in a new version that contains a printable one-week Menu Plan and 2-Part Shopping List.

You also receive an invitation to the exclusive Vital Force Diet Online Community where you can link support with others following the menu plan. You will be a lifetime member so you will have an ongoing support network to help you in your raw journey going forward.

The Vital Force Diet System Program starts fresh each Monday, so you can begin any week that you are ready, and take as many tries at it as you need!

This is a great way to get your feet wet with our Programs as this class is only $47 total! That's a one-time fee for a lifetime membership to the forum along with instant delivery of the eBook, "The Vital Force Diet System".

Sign up here to go raw on Monday and get ready to feel amazing!
http://tinyurl.com/vitalforceprogram

If you already have the eBook, you can register for just the Program for only $22 here:
http://tinyurl.com/vitalforcecom

Or to order just the eBook now for only $25, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/vitalforce

For more information and photos click here: http://thegardendiet.com/?p=1126

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
�Calvin Trillin

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Better Version Protein-Rich Raw Recipe

Some of the text in the recipe I shared today came out gobbledegook in the first mailing, so here it is again below, straightened out!

Did you know that 1 cup of chick-peas / garbanzo beans and 1 cup of nuts gives you about 10 grams more protein than the recommended daily amount (RDA) of protein for men?

A cup of garbanzo beans has 39 grams of protein. A woman's RDA of protein is 46 grams. This recipe below contains 1 cup of garbanzo beans and the balance of 7 grams in the tahini, young coconut meat, and avocado, meeting your entire protein needs for the day!

I have always been a big humus fan, but no cooked humus in the world can compare to the deliciousness of raw humus made from soaked garbanzo beans!

Raw Vegan Humus Recipe

Ingredients:
1 c. garbanzo beans, soaked 24 hours
Half a young coconut, meat only
One quarter c. raw tahini
One eighth c. water
1 lemon, juiced
One quarter avocado
One eighth cup olive oil
1 clove garlic
One quarter tsp. Celtic sea salt
1 tbsp. cut Wakame seaweed, (optional)

Directions:
1. Blend all above except tahini in blender or food processor.
2. Blend down until it is very creamy with no lumps.
3. Then add and blend in tahini.
4. Mix in Wakame (optional).

Servings/Yield: 1 servings

This recipe is from The Vital Force Diet System, a new eBook by Storm featuring a raw diet menu plan that is particularly designed for weight loss, rejuvenation and increasing your energy levels.

To join the Vital Force Diet System Program, $47, which includes both the eBook, a one-week Menu Plan and Shopping List, plus an invitation and lifetime membership to an exclusive Vital Force Diet System Online Community where you can link support with others following the menu plan, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/vitalforceprogram

The Vital Force Diet System Program starts fresh each Monday, so you can begin whenever you are ready, and take as many tries at it as you need!

Or to order just the eBook now for only $25, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/vitalforce

For more information and photos click here: http://thegardendiet.com/?p=1126

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com

Daily Raw Inspiration - Protein-Rich Raw Recipe

Did you know that 1 cup of chick-peas / garbanzo beans and 1 cup of nuts gives you about 10 grams more protein than the recommended daily amount (RDA) of protein for men?

A cup of garbanzo beans has 39 grams of protein. A woman's RDA of protein is 46 grams. This recipe below contains 1 cup of garbanzo beans and the balance of 7 grams in the tahini, young coconut meat, and avocado, meeting your entire protein needs for the day!

I have always been a big humus fan, but no cooked humus in the world can compare to the deliciousness of raw humus made from soaked garbanzo beans!

Raw Vegan Humus Recipe

Ingredients:
1 c. garbanzo beans, soaked 24 hours
� young coconut, meat only
� c. raw tahini
⅛ c. water
1 lemon, juiced
� avocado
⅛ cup olive oil
1 clove garlic
� tsp. Celtic sea salt
1 tbsp. cut Wakame seaweed, (optional)

Directions:
1. Blend all above except tahini in blender or food processor.
2. Blend down until it is very creamy with no lumps.
3. Then add and blend in tahini.
4. Mix in Wakame (optional).

Servings/Yield: 1 servings

This recipe is from The Vital Force Diet System, a new eBook by Storm featuring a raw diet menu plan that is particularly designed for weight loss, rejuvenation and increasing your energy levels.

To join the Vital Force Diet System Program, $47, which includes both the eBook, a one-week Menu Plan and Shopping List, plus an invitation and lifetime membership to an exclusive Vital Force Diet System Online Community where you can link support with others following the menu plan, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/vitalforceprogram

The Vital Force Diet System Program starts fresh each Monday, so you can begin whenever you are ready, and take as many tries at it as you need!

Or to order just the eBook now for only $25, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/vitalforce

For more information and photos click here: http://thegardendiet.com/?p=1126

In Joy!
Jinjee
http://TheGardenDiet.com