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I wasn’t feelin’ the joy much this morning - but ran across the blog of personal development blogger Steve Pavlina. This guy is amazing - attracting more than two million monthly readers to his website! (StevePavlina.com)

His post “You know you’re a raw foodist when…” is a funny one that will make you smile - see if your cooked food friends can figure out things like:

….you spell juice fasting with an extra e.

…you want to try solar gazing soon. (or have already tried it!)

…you know the difference between raw and really raw when it comes to foods like almonds, tahini, and agave nectar.

…your crackers cost more than $1 per ounce

and more…check it out and feel the joy!

feelin’ the joy,

~Jules

Cool fun and inspirational music video from Kute Blackson - visit the Love Now website here

Have you seen the Iron Man movie yet? I rented it this weekend and thought it was great. Of course Robert Downey Jr is a cutie pie and now we know why - he drinks green juice! Or at least his character does - maybe that’s where the Iron Man gets his special powers!

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This is from one of my favorite sites - check it out when you’re feeling low! Very clever stuff on there.

The amazing and energetic Kevin Gianni, who cofounded Raw Summit, launches Rawkathon, Sunday, October 19, 2008. I didn’t miss Raw Summit, and Raw Summit 2 - and I won’t miss this.

Rawkathon will be a week long on-line raw food info seminar series.  Audio and video will also be available online for 24 hours only if you miss the live event. They will have 2 raw living food experts speaking each night (Sunday to Sunday). Including 2 of my favorites - Victoria Boutenko of RawFamily.com and David Rainoshek, my juicefeasting guru, of JuiceFeasting.com.

These kind of events are important to be involved with - constant education and inspiration serves you well on the raw food journey. Thats why I enjoyed the Raw Summits so much. So much fantastic information and inspirational stories. I always learn something new.

Clicking on the RawSummit link will take you to a page that shows all the experts involved. You can fill out your name and email to get to the page where they sell the audio CDs of the event. Listen to them in your car, or on your IPOD when you exercise - and don’t miss Rawkathon - remember, each audio/video is available for free on-line for 24 hours.

Wishing all raw joy!          ~Jules

Organic Honey Crisp PLU#93283

They are PLU Codes - or “price look-up” codes. They tell the check-out person what your produce (or nuts or herbs) are and how much they are - it also tells you whether or not its organic, conventionally grown or genetically modified (Just say no to GMO!)

Look on the little sticker - all produce will have a 4 digit number. If there is a 9 in front of that number it means it is organic. If there is an 8 in front (I’ve never seen one in my area) it means that it has been genetically modified. If it only has the 4 digit number and it begins with a 3 or 4, it means that it has been conventionally grown. Recently I saw some small red delicious apples with the PLU code 6257. There was another bin of small apples with another 4 digit number starting with a 6. The PLU website doesn’t have that number listed when I did a search. It must be new and I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that both kinds of apples were smaller than normal. I’ll update this as I find out (if you know, let me know!)

I’ve seen bins of apples at the market that say they are organic but the bin is full of apples with a 4 digit code starting with a 4. Probably just put in the wrong bin, but many don’t know to look at the PLU code. The codes aren’t always on a little decal - sometimes they are on large tags.

Buy organic when you can for better vitamin and mineral content….and flavor. I loved the organic Honey Crisp apple in the photo -  it was crispy, very juicy and tasted amazing! 

 (Pink Lady apples used to be my favorite until I tasted organic Honey Crisps when I attended the 2 week raw program at Creative Health Institute. That was after 3 days of nothing but wheat grass juice, rejuvelac and energy soup - grated apples and cinnamon for breakfast was orgasmic.)