Morning Jing
A good healthy raw breakfast that is sustaining and quick to prepare is easier to achieve with some of the lovely new products on offer now. One of them is Morning Jing, a super-healthy protein food containing special extras to boost your jing. I am all about the jing at the moment, so this breakfast makes me very happy, it makes my tastebuds happy and makes my stomach happy too as I find it easy to digest and sustaining without being heavy. But you may be wondering, what’s jing, and how can you use this protein powder?
Recently I was in West London for a couple of weeks, and I couldn’t take any of my raw staples with me. I decided to have faith that I would find what I needed and lo, it turned out that Planet Organic was just round the corner from where I was staying. I knew Planet Organic have begun stocking Raw Living products so I wasted no time in exploring the store. And there it was, a whole section of shiny packets with the familiar purple labels, and quite a few other branded goodies too. It was like bumping into old friends in a foreign country. Actually it was more exciting than that, I felt like Dorothy in a sort of raw food Oz – chia and cacao and maca, oh my!
Does everyone with candida issues find their symptoms worse at this time of year, or is it just me? I don’t know if it’s because mushrooms thrive when conditions get damp, and that applies to internal fungus as well as the external specimens you can find in the woods about now. Or is it because it’s the autumn equinox and I always feel icky at the equinoxes? At least these days I do have better information about how to keep the beastly yeast at bay.
Raw Living’s new tea blend, Feminini-tea is a beautiful blend of nourishing and tonic herbs specifically designed to support women’s wellbeing.
The taste is smooth, nurturing and refreshing with rose buds adding a fragrant note which blends beautifully with the greener taste of raspberry leaf, the sweetness of gojis and the earthiness of shatavari.
Medicinally this is also a well balanced formula with more astringent, tonifying herbs like raspberry and rose mixed with moister ones like the berries and roots.
This video was filmed by Johanna Bjork at The Raw Life festival in Angsbacka, Sweden at the beginning of August. The festival was amazing, & I really recommend trying to get there next year if you can. It was a raw food paradise: beautiful setting, outstanding food and wonderful people.
If you want to see more videos from the festival you can find them on Johanna’s blog RaFrisk! (it’s a bilingual blog – in Swedish and English).
Raw Life: Kate Magic on Her Favorite Superfoods: Adaptogens & Green Powders from Råfrisk! on Vimeo.
Raw Life: Kate Magic on Her Favorite Superfoods: Adaptogens & Green Powders from Råfrisk! on Vimeo.
By now, we all pretty much know that antioxidants are important for optimum health thanks to the numerous reports, studies and research that have been conducted over the last 10 years. But is there a way to get more concentrated antioxidants aside from eating a punnet of blueberries and pomegranate which are consistently hailed in the media for being a “superfood”? Hey, I love blueberries but if I can augment my health and the amount of antioxidants I can get in one sitting, I’m game. Enter medicinal mushroom Chaga.
Now don’t confuse this with magic mushrooms – that is some trippy stuff apparently! I’m talking about super potent Chaga, the heavyweight champion of all antioxidants that knocks açaí, pomegranate and the blueberry out of the water (or whatever they are each grown on!)
Femininiteea is a beautiful blend of shatavari root, rasberry leaf, damiana, goji berries and whole rosebuds.
It’s such a pretty combination that part of me just wanted to keep looking at it!
Being a medicinal blend, all of these herbs are included specifically to support and nurture women’s health.
It’s recommended that you use about a fifth of the packet for a teapot (I actually use a Cafetiere), and you can top up with water at least three times. This means that this magical mixture is very economical – always a bonus!
What I like to do with any leftover tea is to leave it cool, and then use it as the base for nut and seed milks – it super charges them!
“Welcome to the other side, where the grass is always greener”
Greener Grass is Raw Living’s special blend of green powders and high vibrational food.
I’ve been sneaking it into my food as possible to up the sparkle level! It’s made an appearance in my raw soups, green smoothies and even chocolate creations!
I have also decided to always keep some in my bag for those emergency salad situations…you know what I mean, when you get served a couple of leaves of iceberg lettuce and a slice of tomato! But with some of this blend to hand, there will always be a way of amplifying both the nutritional value and yum factor of any meal!
With the amount of health information we are bombarded with via television, media, and online these days, it can be confusing to know where to start with getting on the “Healthy Highway”. Should I eat more sea vegetables, should I be eating less fat, more nuts, less grains, more greens, more superfoods?! And so on.
When working with clients on their diet and helping them to transition to a cleaner greener diet, I always suggest starting off with just one new “food”. For some people it might be introducing them to an ordinary vegetable they may have never previously eaten or for someone more seasoned in raw living, we dive right in to superfoods.
Although largely famed for its aphrodisiacal properties, Muira Puama’s value to me has been its restorative and energising effects. I am a sensitive soul and living in the city is hard work sometimes and I find myself exhausted by the constant battles and sensory overload. I have very sensitive adrenals and found that if i put a small amount (1/4 teaspoon) Muira Puama into a smoothie in the morning, my energy levels were increased and stable. At first I noticed an energy buzz, if you are sensitive to stimulants then I’d definitely recommend taking Muira Puama in the morning or before 2pm. I didn’t get a crash like you get from caffeine, it’s more like Siberian Ginseng in that it’s a softer, more supported energy boost.
