Delicious rumors of Bart’s Ethiopia Yemisir Shorba – Red Lentil Soup String Bean & Tomato Stew & Injera – classic teff Ethiopian Coffee & Coconut Ice Cream today at Avanti Cafe.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
New at Campaign for Real Health:
The unnatural corn-based food system is killing us... A comprehensive article on raw versus cooked food... The Natural Wife comes up with a nutrient dense natural energy drink that shuts off the allergies! And much more!
Campaign for Real Health: news and information from the world of natural living.
The unnatural corn-based food system is killing us... A comprehensive article on raw versus cooked food... The Natural Wife comes up with a nutrient dense natural energy drink that shuts off the allergies! And much more!
Campaign for Real Health: news and information from the world of natural living.
Staying Positive In the Midst of Chaos
A Mission Viejo Chiropractor offers a very helpful, healing message apropos to the tough times everyone must face.
It is so important that we learn to positively manage our reactions and attitudes to the difficult situations life throws our way. Reaching for the bottle of tranquilizers or booze is not the answer. These things harm the body and the spirit.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Finding Raw Milk in Orange County
Raw milk popularity is growing by leaps and bounds. We are fortunate here in the OC to have it widely available. Organic Pastures is one of two producrs here in California and their products, not only raw milk but raw butter, cream, cheese, Qephor, and Colostrum can be found in natural food stores throughout Orange County.Our favorite place to buy OP milk is at Mother's Market because their prices are the lowest around and their selection is the best. Whole Foods also carries their products but the prices there are too high for our budget. We like Whole Foods for many other reasons and we shop there frequently but not for Organic Pastures products. Still, having said that, we buy raw milk there in a pinch. Other places to find raw milk include Henry's and Sprouts; the prices in these stores are mid-range.
Mother's Market is found in Santa Ana (largest store, best selection and a GREAT staff!) Costa Mesa, Irvine, Laguna Woods and Huntington Beach. Whole Foods is in Tustin (and if you have not been there you must see it! It is huge and has everything you could want including grass fed beef - but that is a subject for a future post...) Sprouts is in Tustin ( in the old Whole Foods location) and Seal Beach and Henry's is in Costa Mesa, Fullerton and Henry's. Wild Oats in Laguna Beach also carries Organic Pastures products. One other way to get your raw dairy fix is through a number of co-ops here in Orange County. Contact Organic Pastures directly for more information.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Goodbye Farmers' Markets?
Orange County has 24 thriving farmer's markets. But for how much longer?Will they be put out of business in the name of "food safety"?
Self-serving, corporate-backed legislation currently in Congress threatens to do just that.
From Opednews.com comes the following:
"The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?
In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.
"The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?
In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.
Slow Food was right - limit your food to what comes from your region and from real farmers, and slow down to cook it and linger over it with friends and family, and the world begins to change for the better."
There is much more of this article at Opednews.com. Read the rest of it here. The end of the article contains a wonderful list of positive things we can all do to be doing to support "slow food." We are blessed to have an active farmers' market community here in Orange County. Let your voice -- and your actions -- be heard now!
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Information found on Natural Living OC is meant for educational and informational purposes only, and to motivate you to make your own health care and dietary decisions based upon your own research and in partnership with your health care provider. It should not be relied upon to determine dietary changes, a medical diagnosis or courses of treatment.
A Raw Food Tour of Mother's Market
This is a short video of the NEWEST Mother's Market in Santa Ana, across from the Main Place Mall. It just opened a few months ago and is the largest, best-stocked of all the Mother's Markets. I have a dozen or more photos to share with you in the near future showing some of our favorite items. In the meantime, here is one very enthusiastic raw fooder giving you his impressions. We are so fortunate here in the OC to have a place like this!
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Fat-Burning Power Breakfast served up in South OC!
This looks GOOD!
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Welcome to Natural Living OC!
Orange County, California.Phenomenal climate & landscape; fascinating people.
A HOT SPOT for natural health lifestylers.
People of all ages on the cutting edge of eating healthy to stay healthy and seeking natural remedies when a little extra help is needed. Staying in sync with the body and the spirit and sensitive to one's ever changing needs.
Seeking wholeness and balance in part through organic, nutrient dense foods and in part through meditation. Understanding that both proper eating AND meditation nourish BOTH the body AND the spirit. Avoiding the poisonous calamities thrown our way daily in ads for dangerous food products and drugs which damage both body and spirit.
The natural living lifestylers of Orange County share these common attributes and yet we do not march to the beat of a single drum. We are vegans, raw foodists, raw dairy enthusiasts, Weston Pricers, fermented food lovers, grass finished beef eaters, Paleo Dieters, low carbers, vegetarians and every imaginable shade and combination in between. We all, as Lucille Ball so memorably "instructed" us -- spoon our way to health.
This blog is an information resource for all these natural approaches to living in Orange County. There is so much happening here! Up until now the OC has not had an online resource that is comprehensive, a one-stop place to find what you need for living a genuine natural lifestyle. We intend this to be that very place. We will post information on the best food sources, the most innovative and inviting organic restaurants, interesting local people in the natural living culture and natural living ideas. Check back often as we intend to update frequently. Better yet subscribe now and you won't miss a thing!
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Information found on Natural Living OC is meant for educational and informational purposes only, and to motivate you to make your own health care and dietary decisions based upon your own research and in partnership with your health care provider. It should not be relied upon to determine dietary changes, a medical diagnosis or courses of treatment.
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