First of all, hijiki can be found at most of the Asian food sections at Whole Foods. Also (maybe obvious!) it can be found at most Asian grocery stores. Either way, these two places are the best bet for finding it. Of course, ordering online is an excellent choice as well.

The trick here is too pre-soak your hijiki. Use either hot or cold water, it doesn’t actually matter (hot goes faster…). 10 minutes for this is about right. For visual appearance, the black color of hijiki looks amazing with brightly colored veggies like carrots or red peppers!

The main ingredients for your salad are about 1/2 cup of hijiki (saoked) and about 2 cups of finely chopped kale, such as dino kale or green kale. Remove the stems first for this finely chopped texture.

What makes this salad yummy and much more palatable is a dressing that has the right amount of salt and fat with a hint of sweetness. The fat is provided by the coconut oil and sesame butter (tahini), The salt is provided by the Ume vinegar, which comes from the Umeboshi plums. The sweet taste also comes from the sesame butter, but you are welcome to add a tiny dash of date or palm sugar to this.
Dressing:
¼ cup raw Tahini
½ tsp fresh ginger, grated
1 T Ume vinegar (made from umeboshi plums)
1 T raw sesame oil
1 T olive oil
1 tsp nama shoyu (or more to taste)
(1 tsp of celtic sea salt, ground, can be substituted for nama shoyu)
1 dash cayenne powder
Nama Shoyu or wheat-free tamari or soy sauce, to taste

Rinse the hijiki well after it has been soaked. Finely chop the greens and mix in the sesame oil and olive oil. Massage this mixture with your hands! This helps to make the kale more digestible. Toss the drained hijiki with your kale. Add tahini, nama shoyu (or sea salt), ginger and cayenne. Sprinkle raw sesame seeds or hemp seeds over your salad for a beautiful visual effect!
This salad is especially yummy when served with raw miso soup!

Enjoy!

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From Abeba’s Krazy Kracker book! Order yours here:

Here are Abeba’s Pizza Krackers:

2 cups water

2 Tomatoes – medium

1/2 cup dried tomatoes

1 Tbsp Pizza Seasoning

1/3 Red Onion

2 Garlic Cloves

2 Carrots

3/4 cups whole flax seeds, brown (soaked overnight)

Blend all ingredients except flax seeds. After blending well, add the flax seeds. Mixture should be slimy and a little thick but not runny!

Drop by spoonfuls on Teflex sheet. Dehydrate for 10-12 hours at 105 degrees. Flip Krackers and remove Teflex sheet. Continue dehydrating for 8-10 hours or until desired crispness is obtained. Wow! Abeba’s magic is in the CRUNCH!!!!

1 cup water

1/2 cup raw tahini

1/4 cup lemon juice

1 T Garlic

Sea salt

Dash of cayenne powder

The best and most digestible way to do this is to soak the garbanzo beans for 6 hours, but then have them sprouting for 3 days. Keep rinsing them 2-3 times daily. That is important. Now simply blend the beans with the rest of the ingredients until creamy. Voila! Enjoy with a salad or on your favorite dehyrated cracker.

Nutrition for Galactic Activation

Why is raw food important, particularly for the time and age that we are in? What are the foods that help to increase your vibrational frequency? What are the ones that help you to become a more clear channel? Is there a process to becoming physically more open to the energies of ascension? What foods can help to activate your pineal? How can you do this in an organized way? Get your body ready to accept the highest frequencies!

Wheatgrass and the other grasses (like kamut and barley) are exceptionally important and help in many ways with the activation frequencies. Activating, vortexing and charging your water is also important. We will discuss the power of the sun, of hydration, of breathing and much more. All of these are a part of nutrition for ascension. We will talk about all of this and more.

We are moving very quickly into ascension and stand on the edge of an incredible adventure! This process will be beginning now but will take us through a phase of about 20 years as we are moving more deeply into the process of expanded vibration.

As this happens, we increase our cosmic consciousness, regain our Christ consciousness and move more profoundly into our hearts, it is quite natural that we will find that the fuel that supplies our body will also begin to change. You might begin to wonder, what foods would best facilitate and ease this process? Should I eat this particular food, juice, herb, superfood?

This great earth is overflowing with everything we need to aid the physical body for healthy ascension not to mention optimum health and even sublime health.

Each plant on this earth is a beautiful mystery unto itself. As you dive into the mystery by studying even one fruit or herb or plant it completely goes deeper and deeper. It could be a complete spiritual practice unto itself. To try to contemplate the love that mother earth and Mother Nature has for her inhabitants is certainly to contemplate the infinite. This planet has functioned as our Garden of Eden, where every nutritional need for the human body could be satisfied. Although we have committed a multitude of sins upon the earth and in the past prayed and thanked too little she has continued to send forth gifts for our healing and for our awakening.

I have studied raw foods and superfood nutrition extensively. I hope that I can properly describe a bridge of sorts. This treatise is intended to describe the best nutrition that will facilitate your ascension. As above, so below. As you take in nutrition for ascension, your mundane health on this planet will soar as well. You will become healthier and more vibrant just by following the program. However, your vibrational frequency will also increase many times. They go hand in hand. From this program, you will also begin to enhance your own intuition about what your body needs. This program is meant to facilitate not restrict. Allow any part of this that does not resonate be completely released.

May these suggestions and words take you to your highest physical health and help you to become both prepared and infinitely excited about the adventure that is now and is just ahead of us!

There is no charge for this exciting 5 part teleseminar. We will do some guided meditations as well, where you will receive your own personal guidance about foods, juices, flower essences, essential oils, movement, hydration and more that you be beneficial just for you to upgrade your body and spirit for the increasingly refined vibrational energies.

Sign-up below to be registered for the class and to receive call in information.

When: Thursday evenings, 7pm Pacific beginning on February 2nd.

Where: Register to get call-in information

Hosted by: Dr. Ariel Policano, the Live Food Doctor – Ariel Policano is a clinically trained naturopathic doctor and visionary for food as medicine and food as lifter of the spirt when used in the right way. She believes that the divine combinations of hydration, breath, sunshine and food can help you to create the vessel for your spirit to experience heaven on earth. Ariel is available for personal phone and Skype nutritional consultations, health coaching, and medical intuitive readings.

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Making seed cheese is often a quest of people in the raw food world, but they just don’t know how to do it! Here we reveal the mystery of seed cheese. The truth is that it is deeply simple to make this fermented food. The beauty of seed cheese is that you can take it in many directions! You can use different seeds and various types of spices. Enjoy taking this seed cheese to an exciting new place!

Basic recipe:

2 cups of seeds or nuts, for this recipe try sunflower seeds

1-2 cups of water

Soak your sunflower seeds overnight. Blend the nuts and seeds in a food processor until creamy. You can also use a Vitamix. Now place your mixture in a glass jar or a bowl. Cover with cheese cloth or nut milk bag. Keep in a relatively warm place (room temperature is fine) for about 12-24 hours. A separation happens at this time and the cheese part is the solid part, while the liquid part is sort of like whey. Strain the whey off by using your nut milk bag and enjoy the cheese. You can now mix your cheese with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, lemon or other citrus flavors (like orange) and add in a variety of spices. Tarragon and orange, for example go very well.

Here is another seed cheese recipe:

1 cup sunflower seeds

1 cup pumpkin seeds

1 T Italian herbs, or Mexican blend, or Indian spice blend (Curry)

1 tsp. lemon juice (the heaviness of the nuts means you need the lemon or citrus for digestion and to round out your flavors)

(These are usually available at health food stores)

1 t sea salt

Use the method above (pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds are the ones to use, soak overnight) to make the seed cheese base. When the seed cheese is complete, hand mix in your herbs and salt.

Almonds also make great seed cheese! Enjoy!

Juice the following:

1 lemon, peeled

1/2 – 1 fresh inch ginger, sliced

2 apples (Fuji or Gala), organic

1/4 tsp dash of cayenne pepper

You can also add water to dilute this mixture. This drink is very soothing and alkalizing. It is excellent for weight loss. It can also be anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, anti-viral and circulation enhancing. Also, apples contain malic acid. Malic acid helps to break down gall bladder stones. The lemon ginger blast is potent and powerful as a way to maintain your health!

My routine for a while was to get up at 5am, meditate and hit my Bikram yoga class at 7am. I would then get back to my home/office and make the lemon ginger blast to hydrate after class. After a few weeks of this, I was feeling incredible. I had lost weight and I wasn’t hungry until lunch time. For lunch, I would have a large salad and then a light dinner. I believe that the lemon ginger blast set all of that in motion. You can also add your favorite greens to your lemon ginger blast for a different experience of your juice.

As I said before, adding garlic creates an even more potent drink. Experiment with your add-ons to this classic detox drink and leave your adjustment in the comments section!

Would you like to improve your thyroid health?

• What kind of nutrition would benefit your thyroid?
• Is thyroid hormone the only answer?
• Are you deficient in iodine?
• What are the top superfoods for thyroid health – including new discoveries!
• Is your thyroid issue really autoimmune disease?
• Why is Vitamin D crucial to good thyroid health?

How about your adrenal health?

• Is your cortisol balanced?
• What simple change could powerfully shift your energy?
• How do you deal with adrenal exhaustion?
• What are the top 3 super-herbs for balancing your adrenals?

And your estrogen…?

• How crucial is it to reduce excess estrogen?
• What are signs of estrogen dominance?
• What foods can help you to balance your estrogen?
• Which nuts and seeds can normalize your cycle?

Find out in 3 Weeks to Healthy Hormones!

What do I get with this program?

• 3 Exciting Teleseminars!
• 2 20-minute coaching sessions with Ariel.
• Daily hormonal tips, food information and recipes for hormonal balance.
• Recordings of all the sessions.
• Summary of the teleseminars – information to take with you!

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3 Weeks to Healthy Hormones begins Wednesday,  January 4th at 6pm Pacific.

Program cost: $199

Sign up by 12/23 and get $50 off!

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You can even call for your coaching session BEFORE the program begins, in case you need some help before the end of the year!

I am excited to work with you toward balanced hormones!

The holidays are almost here.

You might automatically rule out the possibility of doing a “cleanse” right now. But wait…

What if doing this program right now could help you to:

Breeze though the holidays by making better food choices with ease?

Stay more grounded in stressful family situations?

Help you to come from a place of self-love so that you spend more wisely?

Here is the recording of last weeks FREE Teleseminar describing the Courage To Change Cleanse!

This is a 14 day cleanse that can help you to lose weight and restore your good nutritional program.
You receive:

Daily cleansing tips in your e-mail.

A menu plan for the 14 days with recipes.

A shopping list with foods for the cleanse.

3 group phone sessions including information about cleansing for hormonal balance and thyroid health and more information on cleansing, digestion, breathing exercises, home spa treatments and much more!

A list of foods to avoid for the during the 14 days (examples include wheat, sugar and alcohol).

2-20 minute individual check-in sessions with Ariel Policano, Naturopathic Doctor. This is to be sure you are on track and your questions are answered.

3 techniques for creating long-term change including

A Daily Schedule including powerful wellness practices for your day.

Delicious Carrot Cake Avocado Smoothie

A 14-Day program with so many parts to it and with so much support could cost upwards of $399 or more.

We are honored to offer this program at an amazing investment of $149.

The program begins on Thursday, November 3rd at 7pm Pacific and runs through November 17th. Just in time for Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Schedule includes Group Phone Session 1 11/3 at 7pm Pacific, Group Phone Session 2 11/10 at 7pm Pacifc and Group Phone Session 3 11/17 at 7pm Pacific. You receive recordings of all sessions, so never worry about missing them!

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