It's OK to Be Abundant with Your Food

Yesterday's Abundance of Raw Deliciousness:

Breakfast: after an ecstatic 6 mile run in my new Vibram Five Finger shoes! http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/ Check these out
Amazing smoothie with frozen mango, banana and wild blueberries; with red chard, parsley and mint (and water)

Lunch at The Stand, Norwalk, CT:
Choco Cherry smoothie with cacao, date, nutmilk and banana; Yum!
Curried Collard wrap with curried almond pate, red pepper, cuke, avo and sprouts

Snack:
pack of Emmy's Mint Chip macaroons; Yeaow!!!
Late Snack:
Raw Revolution chocolate hazelnut bar

Dinner at One Luck Duck Juice Takeaway, 17th Street, NYC:
Shared meal of tortilla wraps, in mini flax taco-shaped filled with spicy sundried tomato spread and corn cilantro guacamole, with tomato lime salsa and cashew sour cream; Mmmmmmmmmm
Thai lettice wraps in collard greens filled with mango, pea shoots, carrots, savoy cabbage, cashews and spicy tamarind sauce; outrageous!
Desserts: I ate so much of these :)
Moonpie (modeled after the childhood moonpie or "Ho Ho") with coated raw dark chocolate, layered with a cream and chocolate
lemon square
raw vanilla almond butter cup ice cream
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I had raw chocolate OD!

8 ounces water

I ate with abundance, savoring every mouthful of my raw meal while sharing a beautiful four-hour conversation with my male BFF (Best Friend Forever) Ron. The intimacy of the conversation, catching up on our lives after not seeing each other for awhile, complemented and supported our relationship with the food. Did I eat alot? Yes? Was it rich? Was it sweet? Was it filled with many ingredients, textures, colors and sensations? Yes to all of the above. In fact, it was directly connected to our conversation, which also was rich, sweet and filled with all the ingredients that make up who we each are and what we were sharing.
Allow your food to model your healthiest relationships. So much of our relationship with food is based upon our childhood models, which were often not supportive of our highest selves shining bright. Now we have the opportunity to cultivate food as a metaphor for the richness of our lives and our relationships.
Please write in and share a story about having a meal as extraordinary as the relationship that surrounded it...

Celebrate the Earth by Being with the Earth and Eating From the Earth

Delicious Earth Day Food:

Breakfast:
32 ounces lemon water and a great 5 miler in the warm sunshine

Lunch/Snacks in Varying Degrees:
3 stalks of celery filled with sundried tomato/walnut pate, made lovingly by my dear friend Lizzie
an apple with a tablespoon of almond butter
8 -10 soaked almonds; no skin
thick smoothie with fresh Thai coconut water and meat, 5 leaves of red chard, large handful of parsley and 1 apple

hours of hiking in the warm sunshine in honor of Earth Day

Decadent Snacks with Liz:
Lizzie's raw brownies; two each
3 'One Lucky Duck' raw macaroons; two chocolate (these elicited the "O" response in me!) and one blondie

No Dinner, as I feel satisfied, satiated and filled with very high energy; my body feels complete with food for today

A good friend of mine called me today; we hadn't spoken in awhile. He mentioned owning part of an organic garden and said something about how we should all have our hands in the earth. I responded, "Yes, and being 'hands-in' with the earth will also connect us more deeply to our relationship with our food." When we eat out of cartons, containers and boxes, we lose all connection with the earth, except as a repository for our garbage.
Take your shoes off and walk in a garden. Feel the warm soil on your feet. Today I hiked on the valleys and peaks of the earth with a dear friend; we blessed the earth; we shared our lives and stories and let the earth hear our secrets. And I ate raw food from the earth; no mayonnaise, no pasteurization; no chicken nuggets; just simple food from the earth.
Thank you, dear earth, for putting up with so much abuse and still waking up happy each day. May you continue to cultivate passionate soil and nourish our precious ecosystem.