1. HOLY AVOCADO!: Amen & Hallelujah at Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids

    | Appetizers, Entrees, Giving, Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, How-To, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw, Raw Food, Soups, Vegan, WholeFood
    January 12, 2012
    Tasty nibbles during our recent Raw Food Workshop at Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids: Down & Dirty Flax Crax & Seed Cheese Trio This week my youngest daughter, Teddy, and I taught a raw food workshop, “The Basics” at Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids. This was our second time having the honor to teach raw, plant-based...
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    A Heart Healthy Valentine on WOOD-TV8

    | Dressings & Sauces, eightWest WOOD TV8, Fun, garden, Gardening, Gift Wrapping, Giving, Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, Holidays, How-To, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw, Raw Food, Recipes-Salads, Salads, Valentine's Day, Vegan, Videos, WholeFood
    January 4, 2012
    Give heart healthy Valentines this year using dried herbs from your garden, or plan ahead to create meaningful and economical gifts in the future. Today, on eightWest WOOD-TV8, co-hosts Terri DeBoer and Rachael Ruiz invited me to show their viewers how to package a custom dried herb mix in a container that can be used to...
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    The Attitude of Gratitude Lives On…

    | Field Trip, Fun, Healthy Living, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw Food, Restaurant Review, Travel, Vegan, WholeFood
    November 30, 2011
    Via Twitter last night: We are deeply saddened to announce the closure/sale of all NorCal Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre locations. cafegratitude.info/component/cont… Great sadness, indeed! One of my all time favorite restaurants is being forced to close its doors. I do not know why, only time will tell. For now, let’s focus on...
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    WARNING: Plant-Based Thanksgiving

    | Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, Holidays, Plant to Plate, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw, Raw Food, Thanksgiving, Travel, Vegan, WholeFood
    November 24, 2011
    Preparing my first raw, plant-based Thanksgiving dinner, poolside.2006Little did I know… I’ll never forget my first raw, plant-based Thanksgiving. Poolside in Key Largo, I was slicing, dicing and blending beautifully colored, tropically grown produce into these creations that smelled, looked and tasted OUT OF THIS WORLD. My kids were picking...
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    The Ultimate Birthday Gift

    | Birthdays, Chester and Wesley, Detox/Cleanse, Free, Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw, Raw Food, Raw For 30 Days, Vegan, WholeFood, WholeYou
    November 21, 2011
    Today is my husband’s birthday.Steve chose, weeks ago, to give himself the gift of HEALTH.  There is only one gift that means EVERYTHING but you can only give it to yourself: Health. Without it, nothing else matters. Three weeks ago my husband, Steve, decided to improve his health so he...
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