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!
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.
Here’s a great article on chia which recently appeared in a Triathlon magazine. Chia is one of the best foods for athletes who want to improve their energy levels. We also recommend maca and MSM for those doing lots of physical exercise or manual labour.
Click on the link below to see a scan of the article.
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!)
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.
