tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66163118803412730322024-09-07T17:01:37.890-07:00Being Frugal is not synonymous with being cheap. Cheap is a measure of poor quality. Frugal is using high quality goods with a budget in mind. Let's make our money work with healthy, diverse meals on a budget. Here you will find out how to make multitudes of meals from scratch even if you have never cooked before.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18308506477461253088noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616311880341273032.post-60922765188346164652010-09-20T09:28:00.000-07:002010-09-20T09:28:38.772-07:00

As much as we would have liked to move back to Portland this summer, the opportunities just weren't there at this time. I began working remotely for a start-up web firm that is based in Portland but wanted to be sure it was a stable opportunity before I finished packing up the house and moving the family. It is a really good thing that I did because six weeks after starting, everyone was laid off

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So, since I last blogged we have decided that we are going to move back to Portland very soon. I have been busy packing and planning for the move and haven't been blogging about food here. I will once again as soon as we are established up there. In the meantime you can keep up with my creative side and the move at http://auntieandie.blogspot.com/ I'll be back by Fall. Have a great summer!

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For breakfast today I made a smoothie of banana's and a Thai coconut. You can find the recipe here. It makes four servings. It is mild and creamy and only slightly sweet. I watched a very sweet documentary called To Be and To Have. It is a French film about a small school in rural France. The one room school house holds 13 students from age 3 to 10 with a truly remarkable teacher. He epitomizes

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Raw Diet Day 39: For breakfast I made a tonic juice. The balance of potassium, calcium and diuretic properties of celery, cucumber and parsley, when combined into a drink help flush out retained water, relieve some pain and flush the liver and kidneys. I was out of apples so I used 1 cup concord grapes, 1 cucumber, 3 stalks celery, 1 handful of parsley and an inch of ginger. It was a mild

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Raw Diet Day 38: For breakfast this morning I had a ruby juice of 1 green apple, 1 red apple, half of a large beet, 1 large carrot, a handful of parsley and 1 inch of ginger. For lunch I had a smoothie of 1 cup macadamia milk, 1 large banana and 1/2 cup each of cranberries and blueberries. It made two servings.

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Raw Diet Day 37: For breakfast I didn't have an appetite again so I just had an orange. For snack I had three nutmeal cocoa cookies. For lunch I needed something savory, warm and starchy but couldn't think of anything raw that meet that craving so I had 1/2 of a cup of fat free vegetarian refried beans. For dinner tonight I was out of town so went to the Extreme Juice booth at the mall and got

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Raw Diet Day 36: Wasn't hungry this morning so just had a carrot. I made a quart of macadamia nut milk. You can find the recipe here. For lunch I made a smoothie of 1 extra large banana, 1 cup blueberries, 2 cups of macadamia milk. I had half for lunch and my daughter had the other half. In the garden I found a problem that is going to take some work to resolve. The straw bales that I

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Raw Diet Day 35: For breakfast today I had ruby zing juice, which is one large apple, 1 handful of parsley, 2 carrots, 1/2 of a large beet and 1 inch of ginger root. The color matches my car :) Other than removing the frost blanket and watering the potted plants there wasn't anything to do in the garden today. The garden is full of little sprouted plants and a few of the peat pots indoors are

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Raw Diet Day 34: A heavy frost developed overnight so I was eager to check on the the little seedlings. The fleece blankets are working very well and the seedlings are doing just fine. Several more sprouts came up over night as well. This morning was the first morning in a few days that I didn't hear the turkey gobbling at the crack of dawn. I suspect he has moved on to a new neighborhood. Too

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I have decided to make certain foods and recipes my staples and strive to have those each day. For breakfast I'll often have ruby zing juice with parsley added. For lunch I"ll have smoothies made up of one banana, 1 cup berries, 1 cup nut milk, 1 Tablespoon nut meal and 1 Tablespoon raw honey. For dinner I will have 1 cup of peas, 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds, 1 Tablespoon hemp nuts, 1 red bell

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Today's entry will be long because it recaps the first month of transition to a raw foods diet and explores what the next month will entail. If you just want to know the gist of today's diet and progress please scroll down to the bottom of the page. On March 8th I began my transition to a raw foods diet. Today marks the beginning of the second month. In the first month I saw some truly

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In a report published in the New Scientist today it was revealed that raw seaweed helped create the living enzymes in people that allows for the breakdown of carbohydrates in seaweed. People studied in North America did not have the enzyme while people in Japan, who average over 14 grams of seaweed consumption per day, did. Read more here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/

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Raw Diet Day 31: I slept well until 5:30 when the wild turkey in the neighborhood started gobbling and my dog responded vociferously each time. :) Got back to sleep around 6 and slept until 7. I went out to the garden and removed the frost blankets and saw that the radishes and herbs were beginning to come up. The rain was gone and in its place was a warm, sunny day. I used the energy to

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Raw Diet Day 30: Last night I had a bit of trouble getting to sleep so didn't fall asleep until after 1:30. Around 4:30 in the morning there was a tremendous commotion that woke me up. My dog was barking his head off and I could hear my husband in the living room speaking to someone. Turns out that a homeless man had been found sleeping in our old Jeep Grand Wagoneer by the local

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Raw Diet Day 29, Week Four, Day One: Happy Easter. Didn't add a blog for Easter so here it is, with today's... I spent some time looking for unusual fruit and vegetable seeds online. The ones I found most interesting ones were the Tigger Melon, Purple Haze Carrot,  Purple Dragon Carrot, Poona Kheera Cucumber, Hmong Red Cucumber (huge, looks yellow/orange though), Pepino Melon, Strawberry

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Raw Diet Day 27: I wasn't hungry in the least for breakfast so I just made myself eat half of an orange. For lunch I made a juice of 1 gala apple, 1/2 an inch of ginger and about 1/4 cup of mint. Apple. mint and ginger are good for sour stomachs. It made one cup of juice. Ginger also helps relieve cold and flu symptoms. I did not strain the juice this time so accurate nomenclature would be that

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Raw Diet Day 26: The storm that came in was blowing pretty hard this morning but the garden is still covered since I put some basins from my potted plants on top of the covers to anchor them yesterday. For breakfast I had the second serving of the papaya apricot smoothie I made for dessert last night. For lunch I had the remaining two servings of the nut stuffed zucchini. It didn't taste

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Raw Diet Day 25: For breakfast I made a juice of 2 apples, 2 carrots, 1 medium beet and 1 inch of ginger.  For Lunch I made a smoothie of 1 cup of macadamia nut milk, 1 cup of frozen raspberries, 2 Tablespoons honey and 2 cups of skinned, seeded papaya. It made two servings, one for lunch and one for snack. You can find the recipes here. For dinner I made Stuffed

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Raw Diet Day 24: At 1:00 I had a juice of two braeburn apples, two large carrots, 1/2 an inch of ginger and about half of a cup of mint. You can find this recipe here. The potted plants that I brought in yesterday turned out fine and the garden is warm and moist under the covers. It is snowing a little again today and feels pretty cold out there. It is supposed to get to the low 20s

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Raw Diet Day 23: For breakfast I had a juice of one green apple, one rose apple, two large carrots, 1/2 an inch of ginger and about half of a cup of mint. You can find this recipe here. We had a surprise light snow last night which may have affected my sown seeds and the potted flowers and herbs I planted a week ago. The whole garden was covered in a light dusting. I had to go out and cover the

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Raw Diet Day 22: For breakfast I had a banana blueberry smoothie, just like the one I made yesterday. For lunch I had an avocado with sea salt. The remainder of the day was interrupted by an emergency with my youngest daughter's pet guinea pig. He started screaming and then went into repeated seizures. We took him to the vet and found out that he was having a severe reaction to microscopic

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Raw Diet Day 21: For breakfast I had two Valencia oranges. For morning snack I made a juice of 6 small apples, 1 cup of defrosted cranberries and 2 thumbs of ginger root. It was very sweet, spicy and tangy. Loved it. I found that the ginger did help clear up quite a bit of the congestion but still sneezing like crazy. The juice made a very pretty rose colored drink: Too bad I drank most of

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Raw Diet Garden Start: The predicted storm hasn't come in yet today so I was able to get the pictures I promised. Here I will tell you how you can have a trouble free intensive garden of your own. One week before you are ready to start putting in seeds find a local farmer that sells straw bales. You don't want to get hay bales because they will have a bunch of hay seed in them, and they are

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Raw Diet Day 20: Wasn't a bit hungry so I just had a coffee with almond milk for breakfast. For lunch I had a banana and a cup of papaya. Today was a very productive day but I didn't get the indoor seeds started because the yard had to be mowed and weed whacked before I could begin the big gardening project. The mowing and weeding took over two hours. For the garden I was able to get

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Raw Diet Day 19: For breakfast I had one avocado and one banana. For lunch I had almond milk and 1/2 a cup of cocoa coconut pudding. For dinner I had a great salad which I would recommend you try. I combined 2 cups of mixed lettuces, 1/2 of a cup of alfalfa sprouts, 1/2 of a cup of bean sprouts, some hemp oil and the boon was 1/2 of a cup of mixed seaweeds from Sea Tangle. Just rinse the mixed

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