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We had some great wild food days!

Because our friend brought us this huuuge amount of wild green (chickweed).
Check this out!

We already juiced 1 third of the amount, so what you see here is not all of the wild edibles we had.

It used to be kilos of it, and we ate it all!
It felt so good, and the best part is: Chickweed is our most favourite wild edible, because it tastes so good.

Anyway: We started off with a green smoothie (after I had a 2 glasses of water with marine phytoplankton), todyay not with spinach, but chickweed as green component.

We added water, bananas, maca and marine phytoplankton.

After that we had some veggies.

us mish-mash. That is squeezed avocado mixed with sprouts, small carrott pieces, cucumber and tomatos.

The kids love it!
That brought us through most of the day.
Afternoon was some mandarines and an apple with chickweed.

Evening was a chocolate cream.

Avocado, carob powder, some honey, water, maca.

Great stuff. Tastes like pudding!! That was it for the day. Kids went off to bed, and I had an hour in the sauna

We started in this beautiful Sunday with a alltime best drink ever.

Superfood green smoothie.

Thats green (spinach,kale) water, 4 bananas, maca and marine phytoplankton.

We spend a nice day out in the dartmoor then. We visited a pony farm.
We all had an apple and some avocado with carrot while being there.

When going home in the afternoon, we just saw that a close friend brought us around 4 kilos of chickweed (wild nature edibles growing here). So we made a wild pesto, consisting out of
sunflower seeds, oil, basil, chickweed, salt, water, garlic and lemon. All this came together with veggies.
That was that! I had some water for the evening. We Looove Sundays

We had an exciting day today!!
We woke up and – of course- had our famous green smoothie alltogether.

I drank about 2 liters of water with marine phytoplankton during the whole morning.
Then we jumped in our car and drove to Plymouth to one of our favourite stores there: The asian shop.

We bought durian, and goji berries and drove back home in the beautiful sun of fall.
At home the kids enjoyed a JUMPOT. This is superfood. Coconut mixed with a zip water, lucuma and a little bit of honey, crushed apple, maca and carob powder. After that there was some veggies (Avocado, carrot, cucumber).

Then I made a big green juice with veggies, 1,5 kilo of green, and 3 apples. After that we were enjoying the bliss of the day. DURIAN!! Everybody was silently tasting and enjoying. This was how our day ended.

I still felt a little heavy when waking up this morning.
I have to really watch out better, when my body tells me to stop eating!

Too much pesto yesterday. It is good that my body becomes more and more sensitive to things like this! It was just one spoon enough. But sometimes this one spoon can make such a difference!

I had just 2 glasses of water, and lateron a glas of green smoothie. Just more water until late afternoon.

Then there was the time for GRREEEEEN JUUUUIIICE again.

I juices 1 big bunch of celerey, 1 kilo of kale, 300 gr, of spring greens, 6 carrots, 3 apples, and 2 oranges.

Wow!
What a different person I felt after that!
It was like new fuel in my tank. I was healed after that, and felt totally fine and good again!

We shared the juice as a family. The kids had some salad for evening meal, and I was so happy with the juice, that i had nothing else! Just some dates and cashews in the evening.

Thats it for today friends! Love and sunlight!

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1) What was your personal experience with gaining muscle while eating Raw Food?

I feel that it is easier to gain muscles on a raw food diet. I feel much lighter and more energized, and therefor it is easier to exercise. I reduced the amount of fat at my body and the muscles can be seen much more easily. Also being raw helps me to feel so healthy and good, that this psychological component is helping me as well.

2) In what ways does eating Raw Food make it easier for people to gain muscle?

Your body does not need so much energy for the digestion process, and can concentrate more on building muscle and exercise.
There are the best protein sources in Hemp, flax and sesame, with a good balance of Omega 3,6 and 9 for maximum absorbtion rate. These high quality proteins help to build muscles and are very efficient!

3) What are some Raw Food ways people can tweak their diet, to have an even easier time gaining muscle?

Have hemp smoothies and green veggie juices. (This is what I do!) A balanced raw food diet. Fully ripe tropical fruits, lots of dark green leave veggies (wild edibles!), sprouts, superfood (Goji, hemp, coconut, maca,..), and good fat sources like Avocado, Coconut, raw olives.

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We had our famous greeeeeen smoothie for breakfast.

Katie had to work, so I took of with my kiddies gang and spend a beautiful day nearby in a big aquarium.
They absolutly loved it!!

Before we went there we were shopping and bought each 2 big medjool dates and a little handful of cashews.

After this event we returned back home, and I created once more a huuuuuge green juice.

A kilo of spring greens, 300 gr of kale, 1 big bunch of celery, 8 carrots, 3 apples and 2 oranges.

Right after we drank this, I made again a delicious cashew, basil pesto.
(cashews, basil, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, garlic and some soja sauce,… yummo!)

We had this of course with plenty of green, cucumber, carrots and tomatos. I liked it so much, that I eat too much of it. I felt heavy after that. Because there is mixed fats(oil plus cashews), I have really to watch out, to eat it just as a little extra, and have mostly veggies and green. I did not so today! Thats why I did no training in the evening, but only relaxing sauna.

Another lovely day in fall. Cold in the morning and a lot of warm sunshine during the day.

We had to wait with our green smoothie, because we ran out of spinach, so the kids had 2 mandarines each, and I had nothing, exept of 2 glasses of fresh water.

When Katie returned from shopping she had 2 big medjool dates for everyone, which was appreciated a lot.

Then there was the green smoothie with spinach, banana and water.

I had two sesame honey bars and a protein shake later ( Raw rice protein, carob and 2 banans).

Before the kids went off to bed we had a nother very huge
green juice.

About one kilo of spring greens, 1 big bunch of celery, 5carrots and 3 apples.

I was going to bed with the 2 younger ones, while Katie was writig her e-Zinwe for tommorow, and Benny was reading Asterix.

When the youngsters were sleeping, I went off to the gym, and had an hour of sauna, and 45 min. of swim training.

I drank 2 liters of water during this time. Now I am having another 2 liters of raw rice protein shake, with bananas and maca.

We had to do a fire this morning, because it is getting cold during the night.

Fall has arrived!
We had a big green smoothie for breakfast with
spinach (300 gr.), 4 bananas, water, maca, 1 orange and marine phytoplankton.

Around noon I made a very big green juice, with all sorts of wild edibles picked around our house. These wild plants have so much to give. I feel so great when hjaving wild greens!!
The most powerful superfood it is. The juice was made out of
300-400 gr mixed wild edibles, 1 biiig bunch of celery, 10 carrots, 3 apples, 1 orange.

This did nourish me for the wholoe day.
As enjoyment I had again a raw chicolate bar. After the kids were in bed, I went of to the gym and went 1,5 hours to the sauna – no break!

I had 3 liters of water, and at the end I was swimming for 45 minutes. Intense training.

At home I made a nice salad.

Lettuce, tomato, carrot, little bit of onion, avocado, beet root, corn, and a avocado, lemon dressing with a little balsamico and soja sauce plus garlic. All this came along with Raw nori rolls.
Veeeery tasty.

After that I had 2 glasses of protein shake (sunwarrior raw rice protein, 2 bananas, water, caob powder and maca). I feel really great tonight. I loved the workout.

Woke up early with the kids, and created a nice bucket of green smoothie together with them. (300gr. spinach, 4 bananas, water, maca, marine phytoplankton).

One glas of this was my breakfast. I went out with my two sons and played football until noon, and then went for an hour swimming work out after returning them home to Katie and Ronja.

We made some banana, sunflower, coconut paste in the dehydrator yesterday, so everybody did get a small slice of that.

I had a big green juice in the afternoon, which was made out of

fully ripe pineapple, carrots, apples, kale and wild edibles (nettles, dandelion,…)

This charged me up so intense that I was not hungry for the rest of the day. I had some dates and cashews in the evening, but that was it!

I had no breakfast this morning, because of the late salad last night, just a glas of water.
Around noon we created a big bucket of green veggie juice for the whole family again.

The juice consisted out of 2 bunches of celery, 300 gr.spinach, 300 gr. kale and 300gr. spring greens. Some carrots, 2 apples and 1 orange. We added some mace and 1 teaspoon of raw agave.

I had one raw chocolate in the afternoon, and went out for an intense 1,5 hour swimming exercise when the family was in bed. Afterwards I went to the sauna, met a nice raw fooder from south africa and had a very inspiring conversation. I had 2 liters of water. When I came home, I made myself a 2 liter hemp smoothie with some frozen banana and carob. It has become late now (2 am) and I am off to bed.