Raw fruit-filled life = LOVE and TRUTH.
Eating simply creates simpler emotions and thoughts. Mono meals are great to give the body a chance to relax from the confusion of complex mixed foods. Cooked complex foods are more confusing for the body, but even raw complexity can be confusing since this is not found in nature. You walk through the forest, you find a bush of berries, you eat as many berries as you want until you feel full, and you go on your way. You wouldn't save some for later to eat with the peaches you're going to find.
Eat fruit. Eat lots of fruits - no deprivation baby! Eat to your heart's content, and feel gratitude for the life and awareness that you are integrating into your physical form. Plants are life. Listen to your body. Listen to your food. Listen to the birds, and the rustle of trees in the wind. Listen. Breathe. Be. Live.
Fruit is LIFE !!!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Hey everyone :) We have lots of stories to share. Our kitchen is now filled with multiple jars of kale chips, which, if you live in the Pittsburgh area, you can now buy for 5 dollars a bag. We're selling them at local coffee shops like the Java House on California Avenue, and we sold our first bag to our friends yesterday. It was their first time tasting kale chips and one said that it was better than he anticipated, and the other said they had "a complex flavor." We are so excited to be sharing our home-made recipes with people and are hoping to cater to local events.
NamaSisters has also been expanding in more personal ways. Last week, a friend of ours who has been suffering from medication and who had cancer two years ago hired us to teach her how to eat and live raw. She's been fatigued and has learned about raw foods and previously attended seminars but did not have the support, motivation and knowledge of how to apply it until now. We will be going to her house to teach her the intuitive approach that we take to scientific nutrition and also how to make delicious meals for herself. We hope to reach out to many other people and help them individually as well. If you or someone you know needs coaching or even advice, please let us know. :)
NamaSisters has also been expanding in more personal ways. Last week, a friend of ours who has been suffering from medication and who had cancer two years ago hired us to teach her how to eat and live raw. She's been fatigued and has learned about raw foods and previously attended seminars but did not have the support, motivation and knowledge of how to apply it until now. We will be going to her house to teach her the intuitive approach that we take to scientific nutrition and also how to make delicious meals for herself. We hope to reach out to many other people and help them individually as well. If you or someone you know needs coaching or even advice, please let us know. :)
"We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart."
-John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Sustainabilty-what is it really?
We attended a lively party-meeting in the Squirrel Hill part of Pittsburgh the other afternoon/evening called a Sustainability Salon, and the topic was, for this particular Salon, food.
So you can imagine our excitement when we were invited by the owner of the home, Maren, to come to this gathering of Pittsburghian souls. There were farmers and consumers alike, and many familiar faces. We heard a good many speakers talk about organic farming, localization, farmer's markets, and permaculture. One guy even talked about his garlic farm. The last speaker we stayed for was, you can guess it...a cattle and pig farmer. He talked about his practices, and how he develops relationships with his animals. He spoke about them with love, and compassion. But one thing we noticed was that he never once used the accurate word to describe what he does with them before they are dead bodies, shipped off to markets and stores around the area. He used the word "processed"...um, excuse me? Did you forget to mention that you murder them?
Hm. The word sustainable does not accurately describe the production of meat from animals because a cow eats about 70 pounds of grass per day, and the man who was speaking said they aim for 80 % devastation of the particular pasture that he allows the cows to be in that particular day. I think we just need to re-evaluate what sustainability truly means, and of course this is an open-ended idea, because it means something different for everyone, since it is a value that we develop within ourselves.
At the gathering, we felt a strain because there was such a tight schedule of speakers that there really was no free time to share ideas and have open ended discussions with the 60 + people that were there. It was speakers talking to an audience, and it felt like we again were in the role of the consumer.
In this cycle of supply and demand, the consumer is always at the mercy of the supplier. This is not what sustainability looks like..and what we need to do is break free once and for all from this system. We need to start teaching each other the practices we are applying and know will work for others. Because it's not about simply profiting for your own family, it is about creating long-lasting changes for a community, changes that eventually branch off and touch the entire world. It's all pretty on the surface to pretend like we are doing something but when you get together with people, you need to have open-ended conversation and a relaxed environment so people can use their imaginations and truly make things happen.
So you can imagine our excitement when we were invited by the owner of the home, Maren, to come to this gathering of Pittsburghian souls. There were farmers and consumers alike, and many familiar faces. We heard a good many speakers talk about organic farming, localization, farmer's markets, and permaculture. One guy even talked about his garlic farm. The last speaker we stayed for was, you can guess it...a cattle and pig farmer. He talked about his practices, and how he develops relationships with his animals. He spoke about them with love, and compassion. But one thing we noticed was that he never once used the accurate word to describe what he does with them before they are dead bodies, shipped off to markets and stores around the area. He used the word "processed"...um, excuse me? Did you forget to mention that you murder them?
Hm. The word sustainable does not accurately describe the production of meat from animals because a cow eats about 70 pounds of grass per day, and the man who was speaking said they aim for 80 % devastation of the particular pasture that he allows the cows to be in that particular day. I think we just need to re-evaluate what sustainability truly means, and of course this is an open-ended idea, because it means something different for everyone, since it is a value that we develop within ourselves.
At the gathering, we felt a strain because there was such a tight schedule of speakers that there really was no free time to share ideas and have open ended discussions with the 60 + people that were there. It was speakers talking to an audience, and it felt like we again were in the role of the consumer.
In this cycle of supply and demand, the consumer is always at the mercy of the supplier. This is not what sustainability looks like..and what we need to do is break free once and for all from this system. We need to start teaching each other the practices we are applying and know will work for others. Because it's not about simply profiting for your own family, it is about creating long-lasting changes for a community, changes that eventually branch off and touch the entire world. It's all pretty on the surface to pretend like we are doing something but when you get together with people, you need to have open-ended conversation and a relaxed environment so people can use their imaginations and truly make things happen.
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