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?
Chocolate Dream Cream, Sacred Chocolate, and Be Real
Valentine’s day is a wonderful excuse, if any were needed, to have a decadent feast of the greatest superfood on the planet – chocolate! Let’s start with breakfast; how would you fancy a crunchy, chewy and delicious granola cereal smothered in a rich, thick, silky and extremely chocolatey smoothie and topped with super-sprinkles? It’s a heavenly way to start the most romantic day of the year.
Kombucha is a culture that ‘digests’ complex sugars and produces a drink full of live enzymes, probiotics and nutrients. When I looked at recipes for making it, I quickly decided not to try because it seems complicated and far too much trouble for someone of leisurely inclination. But since the nice people at Go! Kombucha have already done the hard work for me, I had a taste and…zing! It has a refreshing tongue-tingling tanginess, reminiscent of cider with a slightly vinegary bite. But unlike cider, it has some very cool benefits.
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!
Here’s a new recipe video from Kate, it’s a simple inexpensive raw kitchen staple.
Raw Chocolate Pie – Peppermint
Made by Living Foods of St Ives, I had been eyeing up the raw chocolate pies for a while, so was a bit (over) excited when I got to sample the Peppermint version!
The ingredients are lovely: cacao nibs, coconut butter, agave nectar, lucuma, ground almonds, carob flour, and natural peppermint essence.
It’s recommended that you enjoy these straight from the fridge, and so this is what I did. The texture was satisfyingly dense and pleasantly crumbly, a mix between chocolate bar and cake…different to any other raw chocolate I’ve yet tried, and very moreish! It started to soften quite quickly once out of the fridge, becoming almost truffle like. Such decadence! The cacao nibs added another dimension; a fun, crunchy contrast.
Mmmm, goji berries. I love them.
We all know by now that they’re little gems of nutrition: very high in vitamin C, and have all of the essential amino acids. They are also anti-inflammatory and immune-system boosting. Brilliant!
What’s great about them is that they are equally at home in a sweet or savoury context, and are yummy enough to eat by the handful.
I didn’t think that my adoration of these beauties could get any bigger…until I tried these Heaven Mountain goji berries.
raw living chocolate crispy
Ticru Raw Chocolate Crackerette
With just four ingredients – dates, sesame seeds, cacao and coconut – you would be forgiven for questioning just how good these little chocolatey discs could possibly be.
My suggestion is this; don’t question, just try one.
They are dark and delicious, light and moreish. Made from only pure, natural, organic ingredients. There’s a lovely balance between sweetness of the dates and the intensity of the cacao. Easy to transport, perfect for a quick energy boost. I think that they would be a really good thing to keep in your bag when you’re on the go. Especially since they don’t do silly things to your blood sugar levels like other snacks can. Mind you, I wouldn’t know, since mine didn’t last long enough for me to test out my theory!
Wasabi & Wheatgrass Kale Chips from Inspiral
As snack foods go, these are undoubtedly one of the healthiest and most delicious. Kale chips have that uniquely yummy quality to them that makes you feel like you’re doing something naughty by eating them even when you’re not. With Kale chips it’s easy to eat your way through the equivalent of a bag of kale without batting an eyelid.
As Emma attested in her Kale Chip review here they’re not something you can just put down and walk away from and my advice is, if you want to share them, buy double.
