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HOWDY, livefoodfactorfriends!
Happy New Year's Eve's Eve!
May We All Survive This New Year & Thrive!
I hope you do not mind a repeat of the following WINTER FULL-MEAL SALADS & DRESSING s
erved at Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods located in Concrete, Washington, and the 3 guests stories, as well! (I have perfected both the recipes and the stories for your reread.) We have several new livefoodfactorfriends. And most of them will not know all the wonderful recipes and happy stories waiting for them in the archives unless I do a repeat to spark their imaginations! ALSO, Susan Schenck has asked me to contribute to/finance her broadcasts. SO, if you are on her mailing list, you will receive some repeat wonderful recipes, happy stories, get-set-straight teachings, and encouragement some of the time in those, as well. Rather than inspire you to unsubscribe, we hope the occasional repeat information will be helpful: "REPETITION IS THE BACKBONE OF EDUCATION!"
I hope you will enjoy today's broadcasts with these yummy salads and their dressings that make a full meal. I always serve 4 to 6 ounce beverages in fancy glasses with such full-meal salads. While Pure, Sheltonian Natural Hygiene always taught us never to drink with our meals as doing so dilutes the digestive juices, I rebelled back in 1976 when I first found this dictate! I have found this suggestion, for some of us who experience no ill-effects whatsoever from enjoying a spectacular beverage with our meals, to be just plain HOGWASH! There are some things that Dr. Shelton just didn't know! And this is one of them. I do not know anyone who does not like to drink -- INCLUDING HIGHJOY! Now, there is a horse I can lead to a live-food beverage, and I do not have to make him drink! He loves every beverage I have ever made! In our upcoming, huge book that Our 3 Texas Doctors and I are working to get ready in exactly 1 year from now -- WHAT DR. SHELTON DIDN'T KNOW! -- we will be exposing and explaining the 6 major mistakes in his teachings and 60 minor mistakes. Among the minor mistakes, well, some of them just plain take the fun out of serving and enjoying live-foods!
So, for instance, tonight, at Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods, we enjoyed a huge spinach and baby greens salad with grape tomatoes and tossed in raspberry vinaigrette. The salad was arranged as a circular evergreen wreath to cover the plate. We dined on an avo-green pesto inside the wreath and Lydia's Spirulina Bar which is so non-sweet that it can double as a cracker -- AND WE TOASTED WITH BEVERAGES, -- WONDERFUL AND YUMMY BEVERAGES! (I will send these recipes in tomorrow's NEW YEAR'S EVE BROADCAST!) To see pictures of these beverage displays, do visit "Our 40 Fun & Fancy Live-Food Fotos" at The Guesthouse website:
www.naturecurerawfoodhealthretreat.com.
BEFORE I GET ON WITH THE REPEAT WINTER SALADS AND 3 STORIES, I HAVE "A HEAD'S UP ANNOUNCEMENT!" FOR YA'LL. AND -- IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SCHEDULE A JANUARY &/OR FEBRUARY VISIT AT RATES EVEN LOWER THAN 1/3 TO 1/2 THE GOING RATE OF $1,000 A WEEK AT OTHER NATURAL HGYIENE RETREATS, PLEASE CONTACT ME:
Phone: (360) 853 - 7048 & E-mail: victoriabidwell@aol.com.
I have had "a full-house" of 3 to 4 guests throughout all the summer and right up until now. My assistant Karen and I were so busy that we really enjoyed the 2 brief no-guests moments of 2 weeks one time and 5 days another in between the full-house reservations! And although I am getting reservations for April, May, and June, on January 10th, just one guest will be here for 6 weeks. She is prepared to stay longer, as she is looking for a complete halt to and then reversal of several on-going unhealthy conditions. And she plans to leave a wheelbarrow-full of excess and unwanted body fat behind when she leaves! I would love to offer you a great rate and a private room if you, too, would like to make some health improvements in the direction of "AS GOOD AS IT GETS!" Some guests request to be alone, if at all possible. But this lady hopes to have a little company, especially for walks when she is not fasting. I am willing to do "at cost" rates for the right Health Seekers with the right needs -- just so this lone guest who does not relish the idea of being alone can have some company for a visit during these winter days. I am not looking for "babysitters." But I am looking to fill the other 3 spots with guests who would also like to GET AS GOOD AS IT GETS FOR RATES THAT ARE GIVE-AWAYS! AND NOW? THE LIVE-FOOD RECIPES, HAPPY STORIES & 10 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR US ALL!
WINTER WALDORF SPECIAL
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup diced red pears with skins left on
1 cup diced red apples with skins left on
1 cup big, purple grapes, halved and without seeds
1 cup celery in thin U-cuts
1 cup dried cranberries, sweetened in fruit juices
1 cup dates, pitted and quartered
2 large avocados, ripened until soft and diced
Juice of 2 very sweet tangerines
Pomegranate seeds for translucent red-gem color!
Lovely, perfect lettuce leaves
DIRECTIONS:
Hold out the lettuce.
Gently turn the diced avocado and tangerine juice until the dices disappear and the mix is a mash and is suitable for a dressing.
Mix thoroughly all the remaining ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
Next, stir in the avo-tangerine dressing.
Plate the lettuce to suit your guests: line individual salad bowls and place the WINTER WALDORF SPECIAL on the leaves. Or serve buffet style: with the lettuce leaves on one platter and the salad on another platter.
Whether plated on big platters or in individual salad bowls, sprinkle the little, lovely, translucent red-gem pomegranate "jewels" over the salad.
VARIATION FOR WINTER WALDORF SPECIAL
Instead of the 2 large and diced avocados, use 1/2 cup almond butter mixed with the tangerine juice as a yummy dressing. Sprinkle slivered almonds on top of the plated salad with the pomegranate seeds.
WINTER CARROT NESTS
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups coarse-shredded or spiralized carrots
2 cups good and ripe, peeled, and diced persimmons
1 cup fine-shredded or spiralized beets
1 cup big, purple grapes, halved and without seeds
Lovely, perfect lettuce leaves
Individual pitchers of whole, blended pineapple
DIRECTIONS:
On 4 single-serving salad plates, arrange lettuce leaves to make the full bottom and the outer-most rim of a nest for the salad.
Mix the carrots and persimmons together, and make the next most outer rim of the nest.
Make an inner circle of beets with an empty center.
Fill the center with the grapes.
Serve the little pitchers of pineapple for dressings.
SIMPLY TOMATOES
INGREDIENTS:
Various fancy greens: curly endive, spinach, baby bok choy leaves, parsley, red-tipped lettuce, curly green leaf lettuce, kale leaf edges, watercress, arugala, and/or whatever else you can find
Several vine-ripe or large beefsteak tomatoes
Dried tomatoes, scissor-snipped into tiny pieces
Small grape tomatoes
Heirloom miniature tomatoes if you can find them
Cherry tomatoes, halved
DIRECTIONS:
On individual salad plates, lay down beds of greens.
Thick slice the vine-ripe or beefsteak tomatoes. Layer them by putting one slice 1/3 the way on top of the next slice, making 2 rows across the plates with one centerspace in-between the 2 rows.
In the center spaces, place the smaller grape, heirloom, and cherry tomatoes.
Sprinkle all the tomatoes with dried tomato pieces.
Serve with SIMPLY TOMATOES DRESSING prepared as follows: VITA-MIX until thick and smooth 6 peeled tangerines, 1 cup cashews, fresh and chopped basil sprigs to taste, 2 green onions, 1 yellow bell pepper, and any other preferred herbs.
Each tomato lover can put on his or her own dressing, according to taste.
WINTER CINNAMON SLAW
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups shredded purple cabbage
2 cups shredded green cabbage
1 cup diced green apple with skins left on
1 cup diced red apple with skins left on
1 cup halved green grapes with seeds removed
1 cup halved red grapes with seeds removed
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon or sprinlke to taste
DIRECTIONS:
In a large mixing bowl, thoroughly mix the cabbages, apples, and grapes.
Make the WINTER CINNAMON SLAW DRESSING by VITA-MIXing until smooth and creamy the following: 1 cup very ripe and soft persimmon fruit, orange juice as needed, 1 cup walnuts, 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
Toss gently to coat the salad mix with the dressing.
Cover and chill for 2 to 6 hours so flavors mingle.
Sprinkle with sunflower seeds and pomegranate seed jewels just before serving to give spectacular, edible garnishes!
AND NOW? Enjoy a virtual visit
to Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods
from the eyes of 3 of our fall guest Health Seekers!
An Experience in October -- to Remember Forever!
How to Stop Riding The Food Pendulum from "Omnivore" to "All-Raw" & Back Again! From Karen Wilson... DO
VISIT... the art of healthy body care at www.sweetsistersbodycare.com (THANK YOU, KAREN! Your happy story brought 2 guests who had been
thinking of coming. But your story pushed them onto airplanes and into their cozy rooms here at The Homestead! They had such amazing experiences here -- thanks to your enthusiastic story write-up!)
It has been a week since returning from Victoria's Natural Hygiene health retreat in October, 2011. And I continue to feel better than I have in a very long time! Our family has swung The Food Pendulum from "Omnivores" to "Vegetarians" to "Mostly All-Raw Food Vegetarians" to "All-Raw Food Vegetarians" and right on back to "Omnivores" during the last few years. But in October, 2011, I rode The Pendulum to "Breathetarian" for 10 days at Victoria's and took my first fast on water-only, living off my reserves, pure water, and pure air -- followed by 4 days of fresh-made juices and melons. Now, once my husband returns from his 2 weeks at Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods for the same, The Food Pendulum will have successfully swung back to "Mostly All-Raw Fooders" and will find its place fixed there by our strongest resolve.
Two years ago, as The Pendulum swung on past "All-Raw Food Vegetarians" on the way back to "Omnivores" where we settled in for awhile, more and more Energy Robbers worked their ways into in our lifestyle and diet -- when we weren't looking! And during these last few years "Before Victoria's," our health was suffering, especially mine. My energy came from stimulation of energy robbing foods (poisons), and I was taking on some aches and pains. This was brought on by overworking myself as "Alchemist Formulator" at Sweet Sisters Bodycare while also serving as a homeschooling mom of three. I found comfort in stress-related eating all too often and used food and caffeine to override a building fatigue. All the while, I was becoming more and more disconnected from my body. I was missing out on the great joy great health brings! And I knew it. But I could not break the cycle at home on my own. When Victoria's letter came through Dr. Tosca Haag's mailing, I took it as a definite sign to make a change. I wanted to reset The Food Pendulum from "Omnivores" back to "Mostly All-Raw Vegetarians" for my family and me. I took the 2 terrific "Picture Tours" at www.naturecurerawfoodhealthretreat.com, talked with Victoria, and made 2-week reservations, back-to-back, for my husband and myself. Victoria appropriately calls herself "The Wilderness Woman." In the end, it was at The Wilderness Woman's "back-to-nature retreat," I knew I could give my physical and emotional body a deep rest as well as give nurturing attention to the spiritual nature of my life and reconnect to the natural world.
We had a full-house of 4 guests, and a 5th flowed over into the new "Bear Cave" building. One was an experienced faster. I fasted from all but water for 10 days, followed by juices and melons for 4. I could have continued on just water, but time constraints were an issue. Except for some occasional, low-level nausea, my fast was pleasant. As days progressed, my aches and pains disappeared, my emotions became more peaceful, my skin softer, my mind clearer, and my senses sharper. Our Hygiene Homestead was well-organized. The Homestead Library covered the gamut of subjects in nutrition, physiology, microbiology, exercise, and health. I enjoyed Victoria's extensive library of books, CDs, DVDs, and cassettes. I did not want a clinical or spa setting and mainly just needed a quiet place away from my own homestead where I could rest and heal. I had faith in the natural process of regaining health and did not need the extra costs of a doctor's monitoring and blood tests, 24-hour staff personnel watching after me, or the $1,000 a week price tag! I needed only "assistance." Victoria's place is just made and priced for someone like me: someone who is not sick enough to need to pay for a doctor and happy enough to pay 1/2 the going rate! I even enjoyed Victoria's "once a week on-call only" days when she does not even come over if all is well. During sunny afternoons, I lounged out on chairs or on the porch couches. I was in a space outside of time where we were free to just "be."
I'll always remember The Wilderness Woman's wild ways! From meeting her and HighJoy at their Homestead, to her whooping and hollering and High doing his "rocking horse" trick to her bringing surprises to my room. Once, she asked me to close my eyes and guess what she had put into my hands. I did finally guess that it was a little, howling wolf figurine. And I was staying in the Howling Wolves' Den! She always made each visit an experience to remember! One day, she roared in with her gospel music on high, bringing a huge collection of amazing rocks and crystals to show us! We spent an hour "ooohing" and "ahhhing" over spectacular stones laid out on the granite picnic table in the Indian Summer sun! She let us each pick 2 to keep! She wants us to find the joy in the little things in nature. One morning, to my surprise, I found my breakfast watermelon smiling back at me with braids made of brightly colored, curled ribbon -- all to look like me! Even massages ended with a playful, little slap and a laugh. It was her way to put silliness back into life and to not take ourselves too seriously.
It's now a week "After Victoria.." Before leaving, she declared: "YOU HAVE JUST TAKEN AN EXTREME MAKEOVER! In 2 weeks, you have gone from middle-aged, frumpy, worn-out, haggard, and dull-eyed to youthful, frisky, bright-eyed, and bushy-tailed -- and with each of the 25 pounds gone showing! YOU LOOK JUST WONDERFUL! YOU'RE JUST GLOWING! I try to discourage 2-week visits, thinking them never long enough to make a noticeable difference. And now? I am going to have to rethink this advice! You did not just make a turnaround in 2 weeks! You are well on your way to recovering all the highest joys you enjoyed so during the healthiest days of your frisky youth!" Then she cheerled me: "You have ridden your Food Pendulum from 'Omnivore' to 'All-Raw Fooder' here, Karen! Keep it fixed on Live-Foods forever!"
During my entire Hygiene Homestead visit, The Wilderness Woman was juicing gallons and gallons of berries to make raspberry, strawberry, and blackberry juices for us and guests yet to come. I will always remember Victoria's delicious fruit juices served in little, decorative glasses. Today, I just juiced cases of strawberries, nectarines, and peaches to put in the freezer as main ingredients in sauces, drinks, coulees, and endless recipes. I will carry on Our Hygiene Homestead tradition!
JANE & JOHN VISIT OUR HYGIENE HOMESTEAD IN THE WOODS
FOR JUST 3 DAYS & GET FAR MORE THAN THEY EXPECTED!
VICTORIA WRITES: I am sucker for romance. So in November, when I scheduled in an engaged couple for 3 days at The Guesthouse, I fixed it so they could be "home alone" between scheduled full houses. Not wanting to be out of anything for their special meals, I spent way too much money on food. So High and I were left with lots of surplus supplies. But I had everything on hand I could possibly want for meals they fixed and for 3 fancy evening meals we enjoyed together. It was "THE PERFECT VISIT," defined as "getting much more than the guests had paid for."
Jane exuded lots of cheeriness when she talked but wore such a pale, weary-and-worn look on her face at all the other times. I sensed something was just not right. I discerned she had been through a lot and had never really recovered. Come to find out, I was right. She shared her life's story. She is one of those whose lifestyle has left her blessed to just be alive. I wanted to see if I could help her identify which of The 10 Energy Enhancers she needed to give serious consideration and what needed changing in her life so she could capture a life worth living, genuine enthusiasm for her daily activities, and rosy cheeks that just glowed with health! I had 3 days to do the job. Upon their morning exit, I asked them to take a few minutes and jot down the highlights of their visit.
JANE WRITES: I am inspired by "The Wild Wilderness Woman!" And I fell in love with the spirited, gorgeous, proud-cut, SUPER HORSE HIGHJOY! At their own Homestead, we got to see the 2 together do tricks for us! While feeding him big, white marshmarshmellows (High's junkfood favorite), my love for horses leaped out of me and brought such joy! We went on the tour first at The HighJoy Homestead and then at Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods. We marvelled at all the beauty and creativity all around! The pure air was fabulous to breathe on our wilderness walks to the river each day. All in all, it was a magical experience!
Victoria spent a lot of time with us. At one point, she made me laugh so deep that my cheek capillaries actually opened up! "LOOK!" Victoria cried out: "YOU HAVE COLOR TO YOUR FACE! ROSY CHEEKS! All this time, you looked so pale, as if you were dead, lying on a slab in the morgue!" It was true. I have 4 years of meth in my history. I have been drinking for years and just quit recently. I have a secure job I do not even remotely like. I live in a city when I really need to live in the country. I do not have the love of my life -- a horse! And I have not had a good laugh like that for years. I learned that laughing is like "jogging on the inside!" I learned that the energy it takes to make raw gourmet would be worth the effort for me in order to get the "AS GOOD AS IT GETS EFFECT" for my life. The gourmet raw food Victoria made was THE BEST! I am so proud to say that my soon-to-be-husband and I learned "THE 10 ENERGY ENHANCERS" by heart through Victoria's famous memorization techniques. And I am leaving after 3 days with a whole new and exciting perspective on how to claim and get a life that lights me up! Victoria's lectures behind those simple 10 Energy Enhancers were priceless. These 10 little habits even a 5th grader could teach should not be taken lightly. They hold the answers to our problems -- especially as The Wilderness Woman pointed out: "Nurturing Relationships, for us Christians, starts with the #1 relationship in our lives -- the one we have with The Lord." THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES! Until we meet again, LOVE, Jane
JOHN WRITES: My stay with my soon-to-be-wife at The Hygiene Homestead in The Woods began with a lengthy visit at www.naturecurerawfoodhealthretret.com. The short visit was very relaxing. We stayed for a 3-day weekend retreat. The meals and drinks prepared by The Wilderness Woman (Victoria) were MOST EXCELLENT! The reminder of the importance of fasting was an eye-opener. I have fasted in the past. I have maintained some degree of health. But I do have an on-again/off-again relationship with healthful living habits. After just 3 days here, I can imagine that if I were to stay the typical 4 to 6 weeks that most guests do and if I were to work in a fast during that time and if I were to learn and experience as much in those few weeks as I have in these 3 days, I would be ready to drop the "off again" part of my lifestyle and stay turned on to The 10 Energy Enhancers consistently. In just 3 days, I acquired a consciousness for what it would take. For one thing: without "ADEQUATE REST & SLEEP" everything else falls by the wayside, and the Health Seeker goes downhill. For another, obviously, without the right foods shopped for and present in the house, it is impossible to be on the diet.
Since we were short of cash to get the 2 BOOKS IN 1: The Health Seekers' YearBook with The Best of Common Health Sense and The Live Food Factor, Victoria just gave them to us -- in trade! It was very generous. Twice, while she was preparing elaborate dinners with special drinks and fancy main dishes, we were sent to The HighJoy Homestead on errands with tasks to perform. These visits included alone times with HighJoy -- the big, beautiful, white Arabian. These were unforgettable treats! Jane is wild for horses. Instead of spending the 2 hours a day she usually gives, Victoria went far beyond and spent 6 hours with us one day and 8 the next. She helped Jane see the exact reasons for her unhappiness and that she may need to bring her own horse into her life before she can actually call herself HAPPY! "That," she explained, "is what happened to me when I got High in 1996!"
REMEMBER: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SCHEDULE A WINTER VISIT AT RATES EVEN LOWER THAN 1/3 TO 1/2 THE GOING RATE OF $1,000 A WEEK AT OTHER NATURAL HYGIENE RETREATS, PLEASE CONTACT ME.
IN CLOSING, THE HIGHJOY HORSE AND I -- OFFER YOU THESE 10 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, JUST IN CASE YOU ARE SHORT OF IDEAS! THEY ARE WHAT WE USE TO GET WELL & STAY WELL AT OUR HYGIENE HOMESTEAD IN THE WOODS!
THE 10 ENERGY ENHANCERS
1. Cleanliness & Detoxification of your 75,000,000,000 cells
2. Pure Air
3. Pure Water
4. Adequate Rest & Sleep
5. The Live Food Diet
6. Right Temperatures
7. Regular Sunbaths
8. Regular Exercise
9. Emotional Balance
10. Nurturing Relationships
BLESSINGS & GRATITUDE!
YOUR WILDERNESS WOMAN & THE HIGHJOY HORSE!
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SENT TO ALL livefoodfactorfriends ON DECEMBER 30TH, 2011
