It’s A New Day

What a great relief, on both accounts.

It feels so good to be “kitchening” again after such a long hiatus. Setting up a new homestead, settling into the rhythm of a new job, adjusting to life in a new town, and stabilizing all these changes took awhile to sort out, but the dust has settled and I’m ready to pick up where I left off!

Where that was: hitting the dehydration recipe phase of my “Daily Recipe” program, which I will be ending around Labor Day. All subscribers will retain access to the recipes through that weekend. And between now and then it’s going to be very heavy on the Dehydro Recipes, as that is the one group of recipes I haven’t touched upon.

Dehydrated Raw Recipes

Me, personally… I need crunchy, bready, savory cracker & sandwich-bread raw substitutes in order to stay extremely high raw. I need chips to eat my Chopped Salads with, and wraps or flatbreads for my Salad Sammiches, and normally I use organic corn tortilla chips and toasted Ezekiel bread to fill the bill.

As I just loathe the taste of flax seed, which is what most raw crackers & breads utilize to get everything to stick together (because of its gelatinous nature when moistened, flax seed has been called the “egg” of the raw world), I’ve been at a disadvantage as far as what to use for chips & flatbreads. So…I’m going to be experimenting with other methods to bind raw ingredients into chips & flatbreads. Chia seeds will factor in heavily, as they have an even higher “binding” quality but a milder flavor. I’ll also experiment with using some high-pectin, high-soluble-fiber fruits as binders. For example, Persimmon has been on my mind as potentially being a great Dehydro ingredient. And berries as well. We’ll see. I anticipate some interesting surprises to emerge as they did in previous recipe-creating waves.

For example, the versatile nature of Zucchini! That was a revelation. And not surprisingly, my first two Dehydro recipes both include Zucchini as a main ingredient! Also, the Miraculously Meaty combo of Mushrooms and Almond Butter…that’s one of my fave discoveries, ever. Wow. A combo even a steak-eater can appreciate. I suspect they are going to find their way into more than one Dehydro recipe

Not all these Dehydro recipes will be crackers and chips and flatbreads. I’m going to focus on crunchy raw snacks as well — a whole range of Kale Chips, Sweet Potato Crunchies, Raw Granola, Dehydro Fruit Crunches, and lordy knows what all else. Thus far with the recipes, it has felt like pioneering a new food culture, learning how to use and think about simple ingredients differently. And the intention to stick primarily with Utterly Pedestrian ingredients remains. Simple foods one can make without any fanfare, and enjoy on a daily basis. Food For Real People, not the Fussy-N-Fab that you’d order in a raw restaurant.

My new Smoked Chipotle Kale Chips...yum!

The Live Green Smoothie Challenge

If you’re new to the LGS Challenge, click on the link at the top of my site to read about it. It’s an approach to using Live Green Smoothies to help radically “jack up the raw” in your diet to help faciliate a radical improvement in your health, energy, and well-being, and to help with weight loss. It was a critical factor in how I transformed my physique back in 2005 from a size 18/20 to a 6 in just 7 months, without “dieting” or any kind of fat/carb/portion monitoring. (Read My Story for those details, or just check out my Before & After pics.) And be sure to use my EZ Browze Recipe Library link to scan the photos & recipe titles for recipes you might like to try, yourself!

At this juncture, I’m endeavoring to bring my own weight back down to where it was — I put on some unwanted weight this past year, where frequently I was just logistically very challenged to include significant amounts of live foods in my diet. Generally speaking, in the last couple years where my dancing has been very much on hiatus, my physique took a toll and I’m soooooo ready to reclaim it!

So if you’re in a similar boat, or just wanting some company while you “jack up the raw” for your own reasons, please check in daily here. I may be posting around 4 recipes a week, but I plan on blog posting daily to the site on other subjects. And I’d love your comments, feedback, and participation in the discussion.

A Kale & Red Grape LGS with "Moringa" protein/chlorophyll powder. POWERFUL.

...with my son Curran at New Year's. Happy but... size 12 and time for some paring down!

It’s Soooo Good To Be Back!

Well, after a looong stretch of moving up from Florida back to my “native” New Jersey… and then moving again and settling into a permanent residence (and my own kitchen — yay!) after not having one for quite some time… I’m finally and delightedly ready to start up regular posting on my site again. What a relief! And I’m just so happy and excited to have my own place again, where I can dig in and create to my heart’s content.

My intention is to pick up where I left off, extend the LGS Daily Recipe service from January 08, 2011 to May 08, 2011 (all subscribers already have the extension active in their membership)… and get crackin’ in the kitchen again!

Unique, No-Flax Seed Raw “Breads”, Chips, and Crackers

Now that I have my dehydrator out of storage, I’ll be focusing some special attention — as I’ve intended to for some time — on creating some unique “raw, living” recipes for crackers, chips, biscotti, and sandwich wraps, items which are personally necessary to satisfy my own lifestyle and personal cravings for crunch and density. I’ll also make some fun “kale chip” recipes and other dehydro veggie creations.

Two things will set these recipes apart from others commonly found on raw/living food websites: I loathe the taste of flax seed, which is usually used as the “binder” (the raw food equivalent of eggs) for bready things. So I’ll be finding other ways to get the job done, without the use of flax seed. And also, I feel similarly about nutritional yeast, which I do not use and suspect is a highly denatured, addictive substance akin to MSG. I have no proof, but I have observed the throngs of people who make their kale chips with nutritional yeast “and can’t stop eating until they’ve consumed the whole bunch”. People claim that over and over again, and that’s exactly what MSG-type additives do, whether used in Doritos, potato chips, hot dogs…or kale chips.

So… although I am not a “100% raw devotee”, I am a strict proponent of whole, undenatured foods, whether vegan, omnivorous, cooked, or living. And nutritional yeast will not factor into my kale chips or other recipes. So I’ll be exploring how to make delicious savory, crunchy snacks without such additives.

Time To Lose Those Excess Pounds…

The other piece I’m excited about is finally having structure and stability back in my life, so I can eat that way I like to eat, work out regularly, and invest in myself and my health in a way that I’ve very much neglected for several months. Toward that end, like gazillions of other Americans in January, I’m preparing to cinch my belt and take some action to lose the extra pounds that crept up in recent months.

But for me, that doesn’t involve counting calories. It doesn’t involve tracking grams of fat. And it definitely doesn’t involve seeking out “low-fat” ingredients for anything. I never did that when I went from a size 20 to a size 6 using LGSs to help me establish a high-raw diet, and since then I have come to regard “low-fat” foods as part of what causes imbalances in health.

My approach to losing weight? Focusing on maximixing the high-water-content, living foods in my diet using Live Green Smoothies. I describe my approach here, and I call it The Live Green Smoothie 85% Challenge. This approach makes it so easy for anyone to “jack up the raw” in their diet using these awesome smoothies, made in one’s own kitchen from fresh fruit & greens picked up at the local grocer’s. No calorie counting, no complexity, no “dieting” or restricting your favorite foods… just “jack up the raw” and get your 3 blenderfuls in every day, as best you can!

Weight Watcher’s New Points System — Live Green Smoothies Are Now ZERO Points!

I know more than a handful of acquaintances who are currently hitting the Weight Watcher’s bandwagon, and I’ve learned through them that WW has recently revised their point system, making recipes with fresh fruit now “zero points”. What an awesome development! Certainly in alignment with my own view that calories are NOT all the same!

So if you have friends who are Weight Watcher’s fans, do let them know about the Live Green Smoothie 85% Challenge, and that they can bolster their WW approach with some energizing, revitalizing, weight-losing LGSs!

Daily Tracking

I’ll be posting my own progress with the LGS 85% Challenge…the LGSs I’m making, the raw & non-raw foods I’m adding to that equation, and the exercise & other self-care I’ll be including while working to lose that extra poundage.

It’s great to be back. And I hope you’ll feel free to comment and share what you’re doing (and the LGSs your making!) as well!

I know more than a handful of acquaintances who are leaping on the Weight Watcher’s bandwagon

(The EZ Browse LGS Recipe Library has been updated as of:

August 18, 2010 with 339 recipes.)(

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A Complete Library of All Raw & Living Foods Recipes

On the Live Green Smoothie Diet Site

In clarifying my plans and intentions for this year and beyond, I’ve decided that I will be committing to the continuation of my LGS Daily Recipe online magazine only through January 8, 2011, and will then take my creative focus with respect to raw and living foods into a new direction.

What Lies Ahead:

During the remaining winter months, I’ll continue to focus on generating more warming dishes… Warm Live Soups, Warm “Pasta” dishes, and other dishes that are comforting, grounding, and give a sense of heat and comfort.

Also, likely as spring rolls around, I’ll be getting my dehydrator out of storage and will start pioneering raw, living, dehydrated, sprouted flatbreads, chips, cookies, and such… without flax seed. For whatever reason, I just abhor the taste of flax seed, which has basically eliminated my ability to easily incorporate crunchy and “bready” dehydrated goodies into my lifestyle. And without that option, I know I will never be able to remain 100% raw for any significant length of time. I’m very excited to explore all ways of making utterly delicious raw, living “bread substitutes” this year! I think there will be many who will appreciate those recipes, as well…

Also, although I’ve stayed away from the “blended cashew cheezecake”-type recipes, I *will* be introducing all sorts of dairy-substitute recipes as the year goes on. And I will also be adding more in the way of desserts, cookies, frozen treats… and of course raw chocolate and creamy vanilla specialities.

370 more recipes… It’s a journey I’m excited to take with you.

What’s So Unique About My Recipes…

When I first began exploring the raw & living foods lifestyle, nearly 5 years ago, I bought a bevy of raw food cookbooks and dug passionately into learning how to feed myself within this new and sometimes wonderfully strange food culture. But what I quickly found — and have consistently found ever since — is that, if I wanted to eat something besides whole fruit, a green salad, or a Live Green Smoothie… there wasn’t much in the way of truly useable recipes, at least for my tastes.

The predominance of recipes I encountered (and still come across…) are along the lines of “soak for 2 days, sprout for 3, dehydrate for 2 more…”. Or they’re heavy on cashews and other whipped nuts, trying to fake out non-raw-vegan taste buds to approximate various dairy dishes (that’s nice, but I can’t live on that). Or they’re desserts, desserts, desserts…

I appreciate all of these things, absolutely. But the bottom line is, when it’s 8:00 pm and I’m hungry, I want to know what I can do right now to feed myself.. not in 3-7 days. And I want to know how to feed myself truly flavorful, satisfying, savory, wonderful dishes using a rich array of produce and other various bits & pieces of superfoods and staples in my kitchen. I want variety. I want options. I want to understand how to make an assortment of dishes and feasts using whatever I have on hand, a la the “cuisine bonne femme” that a French homemaker uses when she enters her kitchen to spontaneously prepare everyday feasts for her family, using whatever was fresh that day at the market… or whatever remains in her cupboard when the pickings are slim!

I want foods that aren’t necessarily whipped and mushed in my blender and food processor — I want foods I can eat with a fork, for crying out loud. And I don’t need desserts upon desserts upon desserts.

So, I set about contributing my own creativity to this tremendously interesting endeavor of pioneering a new food culture around raw and living foods! These are real recipes for real people, for people with meat-eating taste buds… mainstreamers… not just for those with more esoteric “raw” or rarified vegan sensibilities!

“Why do you charge for your recipes? You have so much competition, you know…”

I’ve received so much support for my work, and have been tremendously grateful for it! To create, photograph, and publish one new, original recipe every single day isn’t something you can pull together as an after-thought in 15 minutes. Every recipe generally takes at least one hour to produce & publish… and 2-3 hours for the whole effort has not been uncommon. Because it takes a lot of time, it is always heart-warming to receive feedback from those who appreciate the effort and enjoy the recipes.

I have, also, consistently heard comments and questions such as “Why should I have to pay $5 to see your recipes? The Internet is full of raw recipes… You have a lot of competition, you know!” So I thought I’d take the time to address that question directly.

Over centuries, our cooked-food culture has generated an untold number of cookbooks, magazines, chefs, and cooking shows… and still new ones pop up everyday. If you’re really into the alchemical magic of food and the joy of cooking, you don’t complain about the cost of a new book or magazine… you peruse the pages and gleen inspiration whilst salivating over every page. There’s still always the prospect of a new recipe you never thought of, or a combination of ingredients that you never heard of.

So when I hear people imply that this relatively new culture of raw foods has somehow already been glutted with creativity, I simply cannot wrap my mind around it. To those people, I have to ask: do you walk into Barnes & Noble and lament that books should now all be free because all the creativity in the world has finally been exhausted? Or are you excited to find a new creative voice that might enhance your day in some small (or not-so-small) way?

Seems to me that just a few bucks a month is a pittance to support a creative venture you value. If you don’t value it… just move on, but honestly… quit your bellyachin’. There, I’ve said it.

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These Recipes Aren’t Just For You… They’re For Me, Too!

Through my LGS Daily Recipe venture, I’m creating the foods I desire to feed myself and my own family, as well as for others. I’m seeking to compile a library of highly-useable-in-the-home-every-day recipes which I wish already existed… a piece of new food culture that adds to the options that will enrich my own life for the rest of my days. And hopefully along the way, I’m revealing some new ways to prepare food to those who are following along with me.

Hope you’ll stick around and take this journey with me!

To my readers, am giving you a heads-up that you will see a lot of activity on my site this week, as I am restructuring the way the site is set up.

Currently, I have multiple blogs installed on my one website: This LGS site, my “This Raw Life” blog, and my “Longevity and Peak Performance” blog, which I have plans to expand significantly this year. All of these websites are currently accessible via the portal of my Live Green Smoothie website, but they do not possess a unified search and categorization ability.

With the new year has come the intention to consolidate and intensify my creative and professional activities, so I’m starting with bringing all of my posts and articles from my other sites into the LGS site, and dismantling the handling of my blogs as separate entitities.

I will also be revising the Categories on my LGS site to enable the increase scope of articles to be easier to find, and I will be creating a new Home page to drive visitors to the parts of my site which they will find most personally useful.

The Addition of a Personal Development Topic and Category

As those closest to me know, I have been a passionate student and practitioner of “personal development” methods since around 4th grade; in truth, the quest for an understanding of how to use consciousness to heal, revitalize, evolve, and manifest has been the primary gist of my entire life, with the use of increasingly healthifying food being just one element of that overall quest.

I’ve read literally thousands of books on spirituality, consciousness, metaphysics, personal empowerment, manifestation, alternative healing, yoga, energy systems, responsible relationships, and optimal health. But more than that, I have always sought to move away as quickly as possible from theory and to apply these principles to change my life. When I’ve found a principle that persuaded me it had power, I have repeatedly leapt without a parachute in order to discover the truth of it in my life in the way that counts… real change.

I’ve used these principles to overcome profound sorrow and despair, abiding depression, the character defects of lying and theft, and a paralyzing, economically debilitating lack of self-worth. I’ve used them to heal from acute and chronic eating disorders, and to overcome chronic, painful, physically debilitating Lyme disease without the use of antibiotics. I also learned how to find peace in many dramas that entered my life which on the surface appeared to be insanely “unjust” or tragic (I’ve often likened those journeys to “Erin Brokovich On Steroids”… heh).

And as the darkness and struggle in my life over the years dissolved, I began to use these very same principles to create tremendous joy and creative vitality, no matter what the surface dynamics occurring in the events of my life. I used the principles of manifestation to create circumstances that went completely against the odds, including a successful, prosperous, technically oriented consulting career in the corporate world despite having no college degree.

I have an insanely joyful home life, and I live a frequency of joy and enthusiasm that I could only dream of earlier in my life. I have found that one can apply the principles of consciousness and deliberate creation to one’s life with results, and that if you do so courageously… amazing things can happen.

There is no topic more beloved to me than how to use the power of consciousness to purposefully create the lives we wish to experience.

I also realize that, when someone, anyone, embarks on a quest to “jack up the raw” and living foods in their diet, even if just to start adding a few Live Green Smoothies to their diet, that is a conscious act of personal development — that’s a statement of “I want more out of life… I want more out of my energy… I want more aliveness and fulfillment, and I think that eating these foods will help me!” And indeed they will.

And so, I’ve decided to “come out of the closet”, so-to-speak, with respect to my knowledge and continued passion for personal development, and will begin blogging about it through this site.

For those of you who found my LGS site with smoothies in mind… while you sip your latest LGS, starting this year you will also be able to peruse a host of posts and articles on how to use your increasingly enlivened body and mind to make practical changes in your life so it can be all that you wish it to be.

In case you missed any of these when they were published, here’s an indexed list of all the recipes on the LGS site (through 10.25.2009)!

You don’t have to be 100% raw or 100% vegan or even a vegetarian to enjoy these recipes…I’m certainly not, and I love to make them for myself, my guests, and my family!

If you haven’t yet subscribed to my LGS Daily Recipe service, you can check it out here. For a very small fee, you will get access to my LGS Daily Recipes, one every single day, 365 days a year…and all of them meant to be made and enjoyed by anybody to help “jack up the raw” and living foods in your diet!

Enjoy!

Live Green Smoothie and Raw Food Basics

• “What’s A Live Green Smoothie, Anyway?” http://bit.ly/16XFRh 
• “How To Make A Green Smoothie: Live Green Smoothies For Beginners” http://budurl.com/sudd 
• My Kitchen: Angela Leeds http://bit.ly/16Hd7e 
• “This Raw Life” – The Power of Juicing to Turn Things Around Quickly — Your Energy, Your Health, and Your Mood http://budurl.com/8ztg
• High-Raw “Rawish” Meals To Help Introduce Friends & Family To The Delicious World of Living Foods http://tinyurl.com/llaruz 

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Live Green (and Raw) Smoothie Recipes

• LGS Daily Recipe: “Pumpkin Lemonade” Live Green Smoothie (Two Recipes In One!)http://tinyurl.com/yfh4qvq
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Orange-Pumpkin” Live Green Smoothie Recipe (with Fresh Valencia Orange Juice) http://tinyurl.com/yfm7g3o
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Pumpkin-Mango” Live Green Smoothie (Autumn Meets The Tropics…)http://tinyurl.com/yjlbcow
• Today’s Live Green Smoothie Recipe: Broccoli-Tomato Apple-Grape… Creamy, Sweet & Earthy!http://tinyurl.com/yh3rfdc
• Today’s Live Green Smoothie Recipe: Broccoli, Grape, and Celery http://tinyurl.com/yketbdx
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Basil-Lime” Live Green Smoothie with Fresh Aloe Vera Gelhttp://tinyurl.com/yk9fj3l
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Hey, Drink Your Broccoli!” Live Green Smoothie Especially for Kids & Green Smoothie Newbs http://tinyurl.com/yky4rw3
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Lemon-Goji” Live Green Smoothie Recipe (If this won’t pick you up, I don’t know what will…!)
• LGS Daily Recipe: Creamy Apple-Rose Live Green Smoothie (an Elegantly Refreshing Yet Utterly Pedestrian Green Smoothie Recipe)
• “ChocoMacaVerde” The Ultimate Live-Green Raw-Chocolate Smoothie!
• “Morning Pick-Up” Raw Smoothie (with Goji Berries & Golden Inca Berries)
• The Best Raw Smoothie Ever For Beautiful, Glowing Skin and Fine Pores
• The Liquid Brownie 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Whole Pomegranate-Raw Chocolate Smoothie & Superfood Cocktail http://tinyurl.com/ycqjpmn
• Today’s Live Green Smoothie Recipe: Mango, Kiwi, Red Grape & Spinach with Orange Blossom Water http://budurl.com/4a6g 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Super-Refreshing Late-Summer Tomato Smoothie: A Raw Blend of Juicy Red Fruits with Goji Berry http://budurl.com/w4kz
• Today’s Green Smoothie Recipe: Parsley-Red Grape-Goji-Apple with Blue Green Algae & Cordyceps http://budurl.com/d5yf 
• Watermelon Smoothie, a “Whole Food Juice” that may act like… Viagra? http://budurl.com/3cag 
• Today’s Green Smoothie Recipe: Fresh Whole Pomegranate with Mango, Spinach, and Watermelon http://budurl.com/6sw3
• Today’s Live Green Smoothie Recipe: Mango-Banana-Spinachhttp://budurl.com/pgr9
• LGS Daily Recipe: Creamy Anti-Cancer, Anti-Inflammatory, Tummy-Soothing Green Smoothie: http://budurl.com/cbzw 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Mango Cooler with Orange Blossom Water & Fresh Turmeric Root http://budurl.com/3kqu YUM!

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Fresh Juices

• This Morning’s “Cappo”… Fresh Juice in a Cup! http://tinyurl.com/ppc3pt 
• Fresh Juice Shot: Cuke Zuke & Apple http://bit.ly/JDTEl 
• Today’s Fresh Juice Photos: Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll! http://tinyurl.com/ncwdwf 
• The Live Green Lemon-Drop Martini – Simply The Best Lemon-Drop Martini I’ve Ever Had http://tinyurl.com/kpgtra 
• Today’s Fresh Juice Photos: It Ain’t Pretty But…It Sure Hit The Spot! http://tinyurl.com/nh5oag 
• Today’s Fresh Juice: Kale, Celery, Carrot & Apple http://urlm.in/daez 
• Today’s Fresh Juice Photo, My Big Green Jug-O-Juice… Best Energy Drink Ever! http://tinyurl.com/ralfew 

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Angela’s Favorite Recipes

• LGS Daily Recipe: “Green Lemonade Smoothie”, a Live Green Smoothie With Fresh Aloe Vera Gel
• LGS Daily Recipe: Luscious “Ultimate Green” Mango Shake (a Must-Make Live Green Smoothie)
• LGS Daily Recipe: “The Dream Team” Raw Smoothie, with Galangal, Goji Berry, and Mango
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Lemon-Goji” Live Green Smoothie Recipe (If this won’t pick you up, I don’t know what will…!)
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Angelic Grapetini” AKA Fresh Grape Tequilatini (A Raw Cocktail… with Virgin Recipe Too!)
• Genuinely Meaty Raw-Vegan Taco “Meat”…With Chunky Guacamole and Fresh Cherry Tomato-Jalapeno Salsa
• The Best Raw Smoothie Ever For Beautiful, Glowing Skin and Fine Pores
• The Liquid Brownie 
• Vanilla, Macadamia Nut, and Hemp Seed Fruit Topping
• The Best Dark Chocolate You Ever Had… Made With Raw Chocolate!
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Kreas Kokkinisto” Greek Stew (a Hearty Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://tinyurl.com/yd4wdna
• LGS Daily Recipe: Kale-Portabella Salad w/ Creamy Macadamia-Garlic Dressing (Raw Vegan Recipe Even a Meat-Eater Will Go Nuts Over) http://tinyurl.com/q9aews 
• The Live Green Lemon-Drop Martini – Simply The Best Lemon-Drop Martini I’ve Ever Had http://tinyurl.com/kpgtra 
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Waldorf Salad” with Creamy Pear Mayonnaise (A Raw Vegan Recipe Anyone Can Enjoy) http://budurl.com/ggpy 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Savory Savoy Cabbage Raw Sandwich Filling for Raw Nori Rolls, Canapes, & “Rawish” Salad Sandwiches http://alturl.com/4bhg 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Creamy Watermelon Milk, Most Refreshing Calcium Drink Ever http://alturl.com/f6b9 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Exquisite Summer Harvest, a September Salad Plate To Knock Your Taste Buds Outa the Ballpark! http://budurl.com/t4nx 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Savory Watermelon-Raspberry Salad http://budurl.com/49rt 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Fresh Cream of Tomato Soup (A Creamy, Warm Live, Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://budurl.com/qkre 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Creamy Bolognese Pasta Sauce with Baby Zucchinihttp://budurl.com/8556 
• The Pink Pussycat Martini… A Raw Cocktail for Lovers http://budurl.com/pc6g 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Mango Cooler with Orange Blossom Water & Fresh Turmeric Root http://budurl.com/3kqu YUM!
• LGS Daily Recipe: Mango Tacos in Baby Cabbage Leaves! *delicious & easy* http://budurl.com/6nj4 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Crisp Pears with Rose Water & Strawberries. YUM! http://budurl.com/8blq 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Greek Spaghetti – Raw Vegan Comfy Food http://budurl.com/a6×4 

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Appetizers, Salads & Side Dishes

• LGS Daily Recipe: Crowd-Pleasing “Indian Curry” Dip (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone)
• LGS Daily Recipe: Kale-Cabbage Slaw with Creamy Citrus-Garlic Dressing (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone)
• LGS Daily Recipe: Fresh French Dressing (a Raw Vegan Dressing for Anyone)
• LGS Daily Recipe: Kale Salad With Pears (a Pretty & Refreshing Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://tinyurl.com/ya74hpx
• LGS Daily Recipe: Avocado-Orange No-Oil Salad Dressing (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://tinyurl.com/y8ky5rz
• LGS Daily Recipe: Kale-Portabella Salad w/ Creamy Macadamia-Garlic Dressing (Raw Vegan Recipe Even a Meat-Eater Will Go Nuts Over) http://tinyurl.com/q9aews 
• Watermelon Raspberry-Rose Fruit Salad… If You Aren’t In The Mood For Romance Now, You Will Be After This! http://tinyurl.com/n4ckjy #
• LGS Daily Recipe: Fresh Cucumber-Tomato Salad, With a Twist! Cukes With Creamy Tomato Vinaigrette (Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone)http://tinyurl.com/nvpv5s 
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Waldorf Salad” with Creamy Pear Mayonnaise (A Raw Vegan Recipe Anyone Can Enjoy) http://budurl.com/ggpy 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Totally Yummy, No-Soak, No-Sprouting, No-Cashew, No-Sesame Raw-Vegan “Hummus” Recipehttp://budurl.com/rc5k 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Savory Savoy Cabbage Raw Sandwich Filling for Raw Nori Rolls, Canapes, & “Rawish” Salad Sandwiches http://alturl.com/4bhg 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Exquisite Summer Harvest, a September Salad Plate To Knock Your Taste Buds Outa the Ballpark! http://budurl.com/t4nx 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Savory Apple-Celery Salad http://budurl.com/gqbl 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Savory Watermelon-Raspberry Salad http://budurl.com/49rt 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Tomato Antipasto with Fresh Cherries & Raw Macadamia Pesto http://budurl.com/qyg2 
• LGS Daily Recipe: A Sweetly-Savoury, Melt-in-your-mouth Supper: Papaya-Date “Raw Compote” http://budurl.com/7mgd 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Tender Green Bean “Chutney” Salad with Creamy Lemon-Mint Dressing http://budurl.com/kqbd 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Mango Tacos in Baby Cabbage Leaves! *delicious & easy* http://budurl.com/6nj4 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Crisp Pears with Rose Water & Strawberries. YUM! http://budurl.com/8blq 

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Breakfasts

• How To Make Raw Hot Chocolate
• Vanilla, Macadamia Nut, and Hemp Seed Fruit Topping
• Fresh Creamy Grape-Orange Sorbet (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone)http://tinyurl.com/ybjaob4
• Warm Live “Chocolate Cream o’ Wheat” (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Everyone) http://tinyurl.com/mvsmau 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Warm Banana-Date “Pudding” with Fresh Pumpkin Seed Milk (a raw vegan recipe) http://budurl.com/tnzf 
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Cooked Cereal” the Raw Vegan Way, for Brekkies or Dessert: http://budurl.com/435d 

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Desserts

• LGS Daily Recipe: Apples with “Caramel Sauce” (AKA Turkish “Figgy Whip”… with a multitude of uses)
• Creamy Mango Sorbet
• The Best Dark Chocolate You Ever Had… Made With Raw Chocolate!
• Fresh Creamy Grape-Orange Sorbet (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone)http://tinyurl.com/ybjaob4
• Watermelon Raspberry-Rose Fruit Salad… If You Aren’t In The Mood For Romance Now, You Will Be After This! http://tinyurl.com/n4ckjy #
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Quick Chocolate-Fix” Raw Chocolate Shake: A Creamy Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone http://tinyurl.com/o8ah8c 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Caramel-Pecan Sauce, a Raw Vegan Topping for Fruit, Raw Ice Cream & Pancakes! http://budurl.com/slfc 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Rich White Chocolate-Pecan Shake or Ice Cream (a raw vegan recipe) http://budurl.com/4j3n 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Crunchy Chocolate Chip-Goji Berry Nut Balls http://budurl.com/g72t 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookies and Energy Bars – a Quick-Easy Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone!http://budurl.com/uw9t
• LGS Daily Recipe: Warm Banana-Date “Pudding” with Fresh Pumpkin Seed Milk (a raw vegan recipe) http://budurl.com/tnzf 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Fresh Peaches with “Galaktobouriko” Cream (a raw vegan recipe) http://budurl.com/jveq 

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Drinks (… including Raw Cocktails!)

• LGS Daily Recipe: LGS Daily Recipe:
  Antioxidant-and-Beta-Carotene-Rich “Ginger-Ade” Raw Smoothie http://tinyurl.com/yg9a5gv
• LGS Daily Recipe: Refreshing, Mild Tomato-Cabbage Live Green Smoothie (Don’t stick your nose up at it until you give it a try!)
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Green Lemonade Smoothie”, a Live Green Smoothie With Fresh Aloe Vera Gel
• LGS Daily Recipe: Luscious “Ultimate Green” Mango Shake (a Must-Make Live Green Smoothie)
• LGS Daily Recipe: “The Dream Team” Raw Smoothie, with Galangal, Goji Berry, and Mango
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Lemon-Goji” Live Green Smoothie Recipe (If this won’t pick you up, I don’t know what will…!)
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Angelic Grapetini” AKA Fresh Grape Tequilatini (A Raw Cocktail… with Virgin Recipe Too!)
• How To Make Raw Hot Chocolate
• Recipe for Raw “Soda Pop”
• The Best Raw Smoothie Ever For Beautiful, Glowing Skin and Fine Pores
• The Liquid Brownie 
• Goji Berry “Raw Soda Pop” and Blended Goji Berry-Lemon Tea Recipes
• LGS Daily Recipe: Whole Pomegranate-Raw Chocolate Smoothie & Superfood Cocktail http://tinyurl.com/ycqjpmn
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Quick Chocolate-Fix” Raw Chocolate Shake: A Creamy Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone http://tinyurl.com/o8ah8c 
• The Live Green Lemon-Drop Martini – Simply The Best Lemon-Drop Martini I’ve Ever Had http://tinyurl.com/kpgtra 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Creamy Watermelon Milk, Most Refreshing Calcium Drink Ever http://alturl.com/f6b9 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Rich White Chocolate-Pecan Shake or Ice Cream (a raw vegan recipe) http://budurl.com/4j3n 
• The Pink Pussycat Martini… A Raw Cocktail for Lovers http://budurl.com/pc6g 
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Momma’s Milk” Vanilla-Almond Martini… a Raw Cocktail. http://budurl.com/lmsm 

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Great Raw Pot Luck Recipes

• LGS Daily Recipe: Crowd-Pleasing “Indian Curry” Dip (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone)
• Genuinely Meaty Raw-Vegan Taco “Meat”…With Chunky Guacamole and Fresh Cherry Tomato-Jalapeno Salsa
• The Best Dark Chocolate You Ever Had… Made With Raw Chocolate!
• LGS Daily Recipe: Kale Salad With Pears (a Pretty & Refreshing Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://tinyurl.com/ya74hpx
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Kreas Kokkinisto” Greek Stew (a Hearty Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://tinyurl.com/yd4wdna
• LGS Daily Recipe: Kale-Portabella Salad w/ Creamy Macadamia-Garlic Dressing (Raw Vegan Recipe Even a Meat-Eater Will Go Nuts Over) http://tinyurl.com/q9aews 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Watermelon Raspberry-Rose Fruit Salad… If You Aren’t In The Mood For Romance Now, You Will Be After This! http://tinyurl.com/n4ckjy #
• The Live Green Lemon-Drop Martini – Simply The Best Lemon-Drop Martini I’ve Ever Had http://tinyurl.com/kpgtra 
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Waldorf Salad” with Creamy Pear Mayonnaise (A Raw Vegan Recipe Anyone Can Enjoy) http://budurl.com/ggpy 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Totally Yummy, No-Soak, No-Sprouting, No-Cashew, No-Sesame Raw-Vegan “Hummus” Recipehttp://budurl.com/rc5k 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Savory Savoy Cabbage Raw Sandwich Filling for Raw Nori Rolls, Canapes, & “Rawish” Salad Sandwiches http://alturl.com/4bhg 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Exquisite Summer Harvest, a September Salad Plate To Knock Your Taste Buds Outa the Ballpark! http://budurl.com/t4nx 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Savory Watermelon-Raspberry Salad http://budurl.com/49rt 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Fresh Cream of Tomato Soup (A Creamy, Warm Live, Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://budurl.com/qkre 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Tomato Antipasto with Fresh Cherries & Raw Macadamia Pesto http://budurl.com/qyg2 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Creamy Bolognese Pasta Sauce with Baby Zucchinihttp://budurl.com/8556 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Cashew-Almond Raw “Milk Chocolate” Bars http://budurl.com/l7k6 
• LGS Daily Recipe: A Sweetly-Savoury, Melt-in-your-mouth Supper: Papaya-Date “Raw Compote” http://budurl.com/7mgd 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Mango Tacos in Baby Cabbage Leaves! *delicious & easy* http://budurl.com/6nj4 

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Main Dishes

• Genuinely Meaty Raw-Vegan Taco “Meat”…With Chunky Guacamole and Fresh Cherry Tomato-Jalapeno Salsa
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Kreas Kokkinisto” Greek Stew (a Hearty Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://tinyurl.com/yd4wdna
• LGS Daily Recipe: Kale-Portabella Salad w/ Creamy Macadamia-Garlic Dressing (Raw Vegan Recipe Even a Meat-Eater Will Go Nuts Over) http://tinyurl.com/q9aews 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Raw Gyros for Everyday (a Raw Vegan Recipe)http://budurl.com/3cx3 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Creamy Bolognese Pasta Sauce with Baby Zucchinihttp://budurl.com/8556 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Greek Spaghetti – Raw Vegan Comfy Food http://budurl.com/a6×4 

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RAW CHOCOLATE RECIPES

• How To Make Raw Hot Chocolate
• “ChocoMacaVerde” The Ultimate Live-Green Raw-Chocolate Smoothie!
• The Liquid Brownie 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Whole Pomegranate-Raw Chocolate Smoothie & Superfood Cocktail http://tinyurl.com/ycqjpmn
• Warm Live “Chocolate Cream o’ Wheat” (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Everyone) http://tinyurl.com/mvsmau 
• LGS Daily Recipe: “Quick Chocolate-Fix” Raw Chocolate Shake: A Creamy Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone http://tinyurl.com/o8ah8c 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Crunchy Chocolate Chip-Goji Berry Nut Balls http://budurl.com/g72t 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Cashew-Almond Raw “Milk Chocolate” Bars http://budurl.com/l7k6 

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Other Raw Recipes

• How To Make Pumpkin Seed Milk
• Vanilla, Macadamia Nut, and Hemp Seed Fruit Topping
• LGS Daily Recipe: Avocado-Orange No-Oil Salad Dressing (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://tinyurl.com/y8ky5rz
• LGS Daily Recipe: Caramel-Pecan Sauce, a Raw Vegan Topping for Fruit, Raw Ice Cream & Pancakes! http://budurl.com/slfc 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Fresh Cream of Tomato Soup (A Creamy, Warm Live, Vegan Recipe for Anyone) http://budurl.com/qkre 
• LGS Daily Recipe: Lemon-Garlic Spinach Soup (A Creamy, Raw Warm Live Soup) http://budurl.com/gete 

@najuu Holy cow, najuu… that worked great! Now let’s see if it can handle cacao butter and hemp seeds. in reply to najuu #

@notwoodyallen That’s great to hear, NWA! Lemme know what you make. in reply to notwoodyallen #

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Fluid Linking Between All the LGS Sites

The LGS web site is actually comprised of three separate blogs that are all interconnected:

• The Live Green Smoothie Diet site
• “This Raw Life“, and
• “Longevity & Peak Performance“

Links between these sites, as well as to the LGS Raw Foods Superstore, display on all the blogs across the very top of every page.

Up until now, there was an intermediate page when clicking on menu options to travel between the different site. Now, all of that has been streamlined, so one click gets you directly where you want to go! Yay!

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A New Paypal Donations Option

Several very enthusiastic readers have generously requested the ability to make donations in support of the site.  So, for the convenience of those inclined to contribute support in that way, I’ve installed a Paypal “Donate” button, which now displays in the far-right column of every page.

It means the world to me to receive your support and appreciation. In advance…thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart.

The Tags feature (in the middle-column sidebar, you click on “Tags” and it will show you those options) will allow browsing recipes and other posts by ingredients and other subject content.

And recipes have been categorized more simply (Categories are in the far-right sidebar). I’ve gone through all posts to the site to make sure they’ve been updated with the new categories & tags.

Hope these changes help you enjoy the Live Green Smoothie Diet site even more!

@Quest2bRaw Thank you for your support, Quest2bRaw! Very much appreciated! in reply to Quest2bRaw #

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