after reading this yesterday i had a dream i bumped into alissa in australia and was talking to her and asking about her recipes at grezzo and i was stoked she was so friendly. i sure hope she comes and also brings out a new recipe book. some of the photos on the grezzo site look really awesome!

i would like to try and eat with the seasons a bit more and was wondering if somebody could clarify what is the go with some fruit and veg that i don't know what the season is for them.

strawberries and all berries? are they more a summer/winter/year round thing? i get really confused. i think i read in japan they are a summer fruit but i thought i've heard they're a winter fruit or something and berries are more a cold environment fruit? a chinese medicine book i read said how eating them in winter is bad?!?! but i've had quite alot of strawberries and berries this winter.

stone fruits? what are they and which season/climate?

and lastly, when i move to japan if i ever graduate uni, i wonder if you can get any sort of in season fruits in a really cold spot up in the north like hokkaido which is near russia. i don't think i've ever seen fruit in a place that is thick with snow. anyone live in a really cold climate?

eat with confidence. i like it! everyone is different. i have been reading a bit lately from all sorts of raw gurus and i have to say, i don't think fat is that bad and raw fat especially shouldn't be feared, there's such a difference between raw and cooked fat which of course you would already know. today i had a bit of a david wolfe style super smoothie with berries, banana, goji, cacao and other stuff and it tasted awesome and made me feel awesome and had a bit of good fat with a bit of swami's yummmy raw chocolate and felt good throughout the day so i think that a little good quality, raw fat and superfoods are good if you gravitate towards them and the same for low fat and high fruit ect. i definitely notice if i want to go running or exercise that low fat is really good but then i find that not necessarily gourmet raw but some avacado or some high fat foods here and there helps me when i need to study or am less active. if in doubt i think one thing that we can agree on is high fat/low fat high sugar/low sugar ect is all pretty good if its raw . even though i'm sure juliano could do with some less fat he does pretty well on a high fat raw diet. sometimes gs will bloat me too i guess its best to avoid them if they do that and figure out why they are at the time.

aww. thanks jen. i've never been told that before. thanks always for hosting these awesome potlucks and picnics. i had a great time. was good to meet some people i hadn't yet met too. i'm glad you liked the chia pudding. wasn't sure how that was going to go. anyway ciao for now.

i'd be very careful with the almonds you choose. i bought some from mrs flannerys that seemed ok but were a good price and i'm quite sure they were rancid after straining it into a bowl because the liquid looked different to usual very oily and just different.from now on i'm only going with really good fresh organic almonds. i don't have a nut milk bag either so i use a teatowel and it works well.

good point fbi. i wonder about really small insects that eat only greens? maybe greens and soil bacteria provide enough for them because they're so small?

well now it seems that there's spoil me raw at miami. the magic apple on the gold coast highway right next to burleigh heads mcdonalds has some raw salads, a raw fruit salad and juices. i really wish people were more educated in the hospitality industry on things like veganism.

the other night i had a cooked dinner, some teppanyaki and they cooked my tofu on the hot plate right where some chicken had just been and i asked them to do it again and i felt a bit bad but i thought at least i've educated them. i mean is it seriously not obvious that you wouldn't want your tofu and veges mixed with chicken fat!?!?!? some people i've talked to honestly haven't heard of the concept of vegetarianism let alone veganism. i was at dinner and a chinese girl was telling me when she was younger she didn't even realize that there were people who didn't eat meat.

it would be nice if fancy hotels and all those chefs like jamie oliver ect learnt about raw cuisine and added it to their repertoire so major cities and restaurants all had raw vegan food options. not that you can't go to a fruit store but since the raw movement is growing it would be nice to be able to eat out with friends and get decent salads ect. 

so does that mean nici is now open on those days and i can drop in and get ready made raw food? that's so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm always on the run (not from the cops  ) and even if two days of the week i could do that it will help me eat raw. are you coming to the picnic this saturday freelea?

even in winter when the sun is out in the middle of the day the cold is bearable on the gold coast. sorry that's probably not much help for you though. i couldn't live in an extremely cold environment

i only watched the first five seconds or so but my dad uses roundup regularly 

personally myself i wouldn't freeze raw soups, nuts i'm not sure, hummus i wouldn't but almond milk you can i think because in raw food real world i remember reading about places selling frozen nut milks. i freeze fruit for smoothies often but i wouldn't thaw it and use it like it was fresh. anything with high water content will usually burst eg greens. i'm sure somebody will be able to answer your questions more fully soon. as a rule of thumb though fresh is best, freezing can somewhat deactivate enzymes.

lately i've been asking myself alot of questions about water. i've heard various things like botted water,
something about the droplets or someting or other being to large to be absorbed properly by the body
so ionised water is better. some days i can just keep drinking water and my mouth still feels dry but i'm not sure
if i'm really thirsty or not. i'm not sure if its a water thing but sometimes on those days i get can get really bloated and
i'm yet to make a connection to a possible cause. i'm not sure if i'm going through a detox when it happens or what but sometimes it seems like drinking water unnecessarily causes it. i'm also curious, what do you all drink? bottled water, tap, filtered, fresh from the creek

wow! i'm sure every raw girl on here would make a better cover girl naturally than a make up photoshopped model. i admit though, i've even used photoshop to blur out zits in photos.

i've seen one about a year and a bit ago. i think there's been two. one with a vegan raw foodist and a raw meat eater. i saw the vegan one. she ended up eating cooked food again which is a shame i thought. they really try to present them in a negative way. the other wife tried to make the vegan daughter who was raised a vegan, choose a piece of meat for a bbq. i thought it was really thoughtless of her. anyway the only way to be normal on tv is abnormal i think, i wouldn't want to be average burger eating american joe.

i may be wrong so somebody please correct me if i am but other minerals like magnesium and silica i think, are important for strong bones if not more important than calcium? david wolfe spoke about excess calcium in the diet being bad. rawconnection, are the calcium tablets you're taking organic calcium? i'm not big on supplements if they because i've heard they're not the kind of mineral that is really absorbed by the body in most supplements.