Continuing with the Valentine’s month chocolate theme, I found this video clip below from a series of raw food classes I taught in Australia last year. This particular class was on preparing raw nut mylks, cheeses and creams. The recipe is Hazelnut Cacao Mylk. It was filmed at Samudra, a gorgeous raw food cafe on the West Coast of Oz. Behind me, you can see the permaculture gardens that supply the cafe each day with fresh organic food.

I found the bit about how I say nut milk is healthier than goat milk amusing now. After this was filmed, I discovered RAW goat milk and wow!  What a difference from the pasteurized dead milk I’ve had in the past.  I actually feel that I digest CULTURED raw milk products like kefir great. But I still use it sparingly.

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As many of you already know, I’ve followed the Turbulence Training (TT) exercise program in the past. It’s really quite good, especially if you don’t have access to a gym and are limited on workout equipment because most of the exercises involve just bodyweight.

Anyway, the personal trainer who developed TT, Craig Ballantyne has recently gone vegan! Yep, that’s right – a serious exercise professional who doesn’t believe chicken breasts, eggs and whey are necessary to be fit and muscular. He published his shopping list on his blog – check it out below:

“Here’s my vegetarian grocery list that I shop with twice per week…

• 2 pints blueberries
• 6 bananas
• 6 red delicious apples
• 6 pears
• 2 grapefruit
• 1 watermelon
• 2 bunches broccoli
• 2 red peppers
• 1 orange pepper
• 1 yellow pepper
• 1 green pepper
• 2 avocados
• mushrooms
• bag of baby spinach
• quinoa
• wild rice
• oat groats (i soak these for 24 hours and eat them raw with berries)
• barley
• 1 jar sugar free tomato sauce
• 2 containers hummus
• 2 boxes almond milk (vanilla)
• 2 boxes almond milk (unsweetened)
• 2 cans black beans (low sodium if possible)
• 2 cans kidney beans (low sodium if possible)
• 2 cans Amy’s organic chili”

Sounds pretty good, Craig!

Personally, I prefer to make my own tomato sauce, hummus, almond milk, etc., but this is GREAT list if you don’t have time or want to prepare those items yourself. Back in the States, I used to be addicted to Almond Breeze Unsweetened Chocolate Milk – soooo good with a dash of stevia. Yummm – kind of glad I can’t get it here in Oz. That way I have to make my own – fresh and activated.

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Looking forward to reading the book “The End of Overeating” when I get back to Oz. Heard good things about it.

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Every Saturday, there’s an organic market in Ubud. I was so excited to go – looking forward to it since I got to Bali! Unfortunately, it was a bit disappointing. Ten tables and only two with produce.  Ah well, at least the consciousness is there and the start of people getting together which is WAY cool.

Organic Market in Ubud

Baby Organic Plants

I got some spinach, tomatoes, bananas and my biggest catch – a huge bag of organic vanilla beans for US$11! In Australia I spent $3 on just one inorganic one. I’ll be making vanilla smoothies, vanilla infusions, raw vanilla ice cream, vanilla body oil, vanilla agave – vanilla heaven! I started using more vanilla after hearing David Wolfe say how good it is for you and yet it’s not one of the biggest products he sells – so I’ll take that as a somewhat unbiased endorsement. LOL. I might even repackage them and sell them online. Bali is crazy with vanilla!

Hundred Vanilla Beans!

Then I went to the shiny new supermarket. It’s on the outskirts of Ubud past the river and quite a trek but worth it because I finally found a converter for my Tribest personal blender. Now I can make smoothies and dressings! They also have a huge selection of fruit and veggies, some organic but mostly not. They sell the cheapest young cocos that I’ve found so far at US$.75 if you can open them yourself. Saw some fruit that I’m not familiar with but think I’ll give it go! Maybe I’ll post pics and you can tell me if it’s worth it or not. They had fresh (not dried) dates still on the stem. Has anyone tried a fresh date? I might have to purely for research purposes of course.

Ubud's New Supermarket

Today, I went to the outdoor food market in the early morning before it turns into a crafts market. A lot of food, but not a lot of variety. Everyone seemed to have the same items and not many green leafies to be found. There were durians, some mangos, papayas, lychees but mostly potatoes, chilies, limes, onions, garlic and spices. I got a bunch of lychees – haven’t had any since my ladder-climbing days in Kaui when I picked them myself. Good memories!

Morning Food Market

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Adam Waters of RTP-Blog.com has just announced a GLOBAL transformation contest in partnership with Tom Venuto of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. The prize package is AMAZING and everyone in the RTP forum is buzzing with excitement! The energy that this event is creating is really motivating people to raise their game to all-time highs. And it’s soooo infectious! The blogs are going off like crazy and it’s impossible not to give it your all when everyone is going at it with all cylinders.

All the members are really supportive, offering advice and helping each other. And some of the posts are just so darn honest and heartfelt, that I just want EVERYONE to win the contest! LOL. And there are already some incredible results and progress being made in the forum! Very exciting. This will be my second transformation contest and having participated in a Turbulence Training contest (and winning $1000 for best video!) last year, I can vouch for the motivational power that transformation contests bring.

Also big news is Matt Monarch and Angela Stokes wedding on the Summer Solstice this year. Yay! These two kids have been trying to get hitched FOREVER and Angela finally got her fiancee visa a few weeks ago. So now they’re planning a HUGE event and everyone is invited to the Raw Union in Oregon! The wedding ceremony is free to anyone and then they’ve add a festival and retreat with workshops, demos and talks by some of the coolest rawies like David Wolf, the Giannis, Shazzie, the Raw Model, etc. Check out all the details for Raw Union here.

And of course, the big news this year is that Raw Spirit will be held in not one, not two but THREE locations this year – Arizona, Santa Barbara and D.C. How do these people organize these whopper events?! I can barely organize my morning smoothie.

WOW – it’s a big year! Figures I decided to move to Australia when all this cool stuff is going down stateside. Well, if I win the contest, I might make a pitstop and hit them ALL since they will be happening one after the other this summer. YaaaaaaaaY! Thinking BIG!

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