OMG. Need I say more? What an incredible creation, for both the eye and the body. Recipe on Golubka…

Don’y know about you, but I sure need a good dressing on my salad. Hate when I’m traveling and stuck drizzling some plain Jane olive oil on there, boring!! Here is a good one, just blend these ingredients…

Creamy Dreamy Dressing Recipe:

• 1 cup pine nuts or any of your favorite soaked white nut (almonds, cashews, etc.)
• 1/2 cup soaked sunflower seeds
• 2 cloves of garlic or more to taste
• chunk of onion
• 1 lemon juiced
• 1 to 2 tablespoon dried dill
• chunk of onion
• 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne powder

Day 2 at the Hay House ”I Can Do It!” Conference… By the way this is coming to New York City in October, so worth attending.

Started the morning with lectures from Louise Hay, Cheryl Richardson, and Robert Holden. Awesome.

And just got back from listening to Kris Carr, author of Crazy Sexy Diet. Julia  from Wellness wrote about her not so long ago…

Her biggest tips for a healthy life? Green juice and natural, organic foods.

Just got back from a lecture with Dr. Wayne Dyer at the ”I Can Do It!” Conference in Washington D.C. and I’m totally blown away. What beautiful messages he had… the strongest one being to Love Yourself. Truly love every part of yourself. And if that’s too much for you right now, simply just say it. Get it out to the Universe, manifest it, let it bounce back to you.

Will be sharing lots of great wisdom from talks in the next following days. Mom and I are attending full days with some of biggest spiritual leaders.

I love every part of myself. I am thankful. Night!

Ciao Turks & Caicos. Until next time… xx

Love healthy leaders that step out and make a change, that lead by example and make it easier for the rest to follow… in this case I’m referring to Isis Holm, the refreshing looking woman in the images above and the face behind Ecoist in Stockholm. If you haven’t already heard all the buzz about her store, listen up! Cause there is a raw goldmine right in the middle of city. Asked her some simple questions and received very informative answers that I think you’ll find helpful. Read and get inspired…

Interview with Isis Holm founder of Ecoist:

1. What inspired you to open Ecoist?
I wanted to create a store that I would like to shop in myself! Where you could buy “pure” supplements that do not contain unnecessary additives, where there was good healthy food, coffee and snacks. The goal is to get people to see how much fantastic, healthy, food you can eat and that it doesn’t have to be boring or time consuming.

2. What does a daily meal plan look like for you?
My morning starts with a filling smoothie. That is quick, taste good and gives me many healthy ingredients! Right now my favourite is: 1 orange, frozen raspberries, ½ avocado, 3 table spoons raw hemp protein, 1 table spoon manuka honey, a shot of kombutcha and some water.
For lunch I eat one of Ecoist’s food boxes, either a vegetarian option or meat/fish with vegetables. I eat varied food, but never food grains containing gluten or milk.
In the middle of the day I have a freshly pressed juice with lots of green vegetables, depending on what season of the year it is, and sometimes I’ll treat myself with a bit of raw chocolate with that.
On my way home in the evening, I eat a cooked egg and some nuts, and at home a healthy filling salad or a cooked dish that I bring back from Ecoist.

3. What are you top three health foods/products?
1) Extra virgin  2) Coconut water and coconut fat 3) kombutcha drink, and raw hemp protein if I can add a forth.

4. Favorite healthy tip?
I believe that the most important basis for health is to remove sugar, chemical additives, food grains containing gluten and processed cow milk products. This is “food” that we only had for a short period in human history, and that we are not at all genetically suited for.
Quality of food is also key, i.e how the animals have lived and vegetables been farmed. Then it is of course quite individual which type of food suites different people. Personally I feel best from a mix of raw-food and low-carb which consists of vegetables, berries, algaes, lentils, legumes, wild rice, fats such as coconut oil, butter and olive oil, and meat/fish.

Store Address: Ecoist Hälsobutik, Sibyllegatan 51, 114 43 Stockholm

Afternoon snack of the week: Raw Crunch

A word from the creators of this yummy bar…

It all began in our little one bedroom apartment. At first it was a snack designed for our own healthy consumption. We were both in the health industry, a national fitness competitor and a trainer of Muay Thai. We wanted real, live food, something that truly nourished the body, not something designed in a lab. We wanted a list of ingredients we could actually pronounce, because we know if we could not pronounce it, it was just something else for our liver to detoxify.

The Raw Crunch recipe miraculously came to us one day, but it has taken us years to get just right. Our friends and family wanted a taste, so we started wrapping our bars in Saran wrap with a label on top. They were a huge hit! So we rented a kitchen, perfected the recipe and improved the packaging.

This was 9 years ago, and here we are now, still mixing up the same small batches fresh every day. Every Raw Crunch® bar is hand-made fresh with a personal passion for excellence and quality that only a small cottage manufacturer like us can offer our consumers. Enjoy!

– Ross & Kathy

Is there anything better than fresh squeezed OJ? My boyfriend begs to differ… 🙂

When on you’re on vacation… plan ahead! Pack lots of snacks. Like these raisins… perfect little packages.