To Eat Living Food or Dead Food, That Is The Question

Breakfast time!

Here's a picture of a typical Veggie Daddy Breakfast:

I juice the carrots, the lemon, two oranges and voila!

I drink it up! YUM. (No animals were inhumanely slaughtered or treated in the making of this breakfast.) Took all of of 5 minutes to make. Meanwhile, my girls nibbled on grapes, cucumber slices, orange pieces, watermelon, and they each split a home-made, vegan peanut-butter and chocolate muffin.

Now I have to make the school lunch. Here it is:

My girl's lunch. The braised-cauliflower and Basmati rice pilaf from last night, carrots, cucumbers, and grapes, and a juice box, not that she needs it, but you pick your battles. I would prefer her to just drink water, but I'm not an extremist (shrug.)

Veggie Daddy Food for Thought:

They say you are what you eat, so you have two choices: 1) Eat food that is alive, which has color, vibrancy, and essential nutrients; 2) Eat food that is dead.

Let's not forget what we know from the first law of thermodynamics: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed from one state to another.

So it stands to reason that eating food that is alive with energy will keep us vital and healthy. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that CAFO-related dead cows and chickens don't move too much. Perhaps it's because they lack vital energy.

Rudolf Steiner says some very interesting things about what happens when we consume dead flesh. He was pretty much what we know today as a vegetarian. That guy was way ahead of his time. But there were good reasons he didn't eat any meat. Hindus and Buddhists neither. Look it up sometime!

But even if you do eat meat as I did for most of my life, the more raw food you eat the better. Try to find a balance if you can. If it's only 10% right now, try to bump it up to 20% raw a day. As you can see above, I eat raw for breakfast and in between lunch and dinner. And the last time I ate meat was this past X-mas, so I know how good meat tastes. But we really should go easier on it, best to take it out altogether, which I'll discuss all the reasons for some other time. And remember, when you start to introduce more of the REAL FOOD into your lifestyle, you will notice incredible changes in what your body wants to eat. Trust me.

Finally, here's the picture of what I ate an hour ago. That's my girl reaching into the bag:

We ate Tamari-roasted almonds and pistachios. My little one ate the pistachios and honey pitted dates. YUM!

One last tip: I try to eat only raw food until lunch time. Raw food has the most vital (alive) energy of any food. When we eat it, that energy gets transferred to us. If the food is dead, then there's no vital energy there. Not a good match for us, I don't think.

And remember, when you eat fruits and veggies, it's a general fact that the darker (or more colorful) the berry, the sweeter the juice, but it's also the most nutritious. Beets, carrots, oranges, sweet potato--packed to the gills with nutrients.

Eat B(right),

Veggie Daddy