Raw Banana Coconut Cream Pie (raw, vegan)
Recipe by GreenChef Vanessa Sherwood Serves 8 people

For the Crust: ½ Cup Macadamia Nuts ½ Cup Shredded Dry Coconut Pinch of Salt 1 tsp Coconut Oil 2 TB Agave Nectar

How To Prepare The Crust

Step 1 Blend first 5 ingredients in a food processor.
Step 2 Add more agave if needed to make crust sticky.
Step 3 Line pie pan with saran wrap and press crust on top.
Step 4 Place in freezer while making the filling.

For the Filling: 2 Cup Young Coconut Meat ½ Cup Virgin Coconut Oil 2 to 4 TB Agave Nectar (to taste) Coconut Water (if needed) 1 TB Lime Juice ¼ tsp Salt ½ tsp Vanilla Extract (or seeds from 1/2 vanilla bean) 1 to 2 bananas, sliced in 1/2″ slices

How To Prepare The Filling

Step 1 Blend the rest of the ingredients, except banana slices, in a blender until smooth.
Step 2 Make sure there is enough liquid to have the ingredients swirling in a vortex.
Step 3 Add coconut water, if needed.
Step 4 Take crust out from freezer and place sliced bananas on top of crust.
Step 5 Pour filling on top of bananas.
Step 6 Place in freezer for 3-4 hours to set.

Topping
Vanessa adds a coconut cream topping by running the meat of a mature coconut through a heavy juicer. The “juice” will have the consistency similar to whipped cream. Spread cream on top of pie filling before placing pie in the freezer.
THIS IS WHAT I DID INSTEAD:
Whipped Coconut Milk Cream
Step 1: Buy a can of full fat coconut milk.
Step 2: Place it in the fridge overnight.
Step 3: Open the can without shaking it or turning upside down.
Step 4: Carefully spoon out the top layer of opaque white stuff that has gathered at the top of the can. Spoon into a mixing bowl. You will be left with about 1/2 cup of white syrup-y looking translucent liquid. Leave this in the can. Note: I use this leftover liquid in numerous coconut-y recipes. Plus, it makes a great coconut syrup - almost like a hydrated extract of coconut flavor.
Step 5: Add some Vanilla or Sweetener of your choice
Step 6: Grab a hand beater (simple mixers work just as well as expensive ones)
Step 7: Whip the coconut milk froth until creamy. Start on low and move to a higher speed, move the beater in an up and down motion to infuse the mixture with as much air as possible.
Step 8: Serve!

How to Vibrantly Live and How to Slowly Die

Top 10 ways to LIVE: Light, Water, Air, Vitamins, Minerals, Carbs, Fats, Proteins, Attitude, Movement

*Are you getting the good kind and right amount of all of these? Now remember moderation; IE sunlight is a fire that can warm your house or burn it down...prudence of course.
A way to encompass a plethora of these? RAW FOOOOOOOD!, HAPPINESS, OUTSIDE AND EXERCISE. DONE.
Top 6 ways to TAKE LIFE AWAY:
White Flour, White Sugar, Dairy, Meat, Being Stagnant, Processed Food
*Keep in mind you might not die after you eat your hamburger tonight. But instead of living 110 years, all those hamburgers add up to you only living 70 years...if that.

"Live in the Sunshine, Swim the Sea, and Drink the Wild Air" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 7 Secrets of Centenarians

1. Eat Well
2. Stay Active
3. Social Network
4. Curiosity
5. Play
6. Sleep
7. Goals

This is Maria Lucimar Pereira, an indigenous Amazonian belonging to the Kaxinawá tribe of western Brazil, will soon be celebrating her birthday -- her 121st birthday, to be exact. The truth behind Pereira's remarkable longevity was recently discovered by the Brazilian government while performing a routine review of birth records -- which, in her case, date back to 1890 -- making her the world's oldest living person. And the best part of all?
Pereira credits her long-life to an active, healthy lifestyle, in addition to a diet rich in locally grown fruits, and vegetables gathered in the forests around her home -- free of the extra salt, sugar, and preservatives so commonly found in foods now days. Her all-natural diet, along with frequent walks around town, has allowed Pereira to thrive while others, many years her junior, die at half her age. Think about it like this-Its like she started her life over at age 60 and then lived to age 60 all over again!

Learned about Maria from treehugger.com

Our relationship with our Mind, Divine Source and Body.

Excerpt from "Feelings Buried Alive Never Die..."
A very vivid and profound illustration of the power of feeling and thought frequencies was told by Dr. W. Jerome Stowell. Here is his story:
 I was almost a devout atheist, I did not believe that God was any more than a conglomeration of everyone's mind put together, and the good that was there, that was God as far as I was concerned. As for the real, all-powerful God existing and loving us all, with power over everything, I did not believe that.
Then one day I had an experience that really set me thinking. I was in a large pathological laboratory where we were attempting to find the wave length of the brain. We found a channel of wave lengths, and that channel has a mach room (unit of measure) in it wherein the different wave lengths of each individual's brain are further separated in identity more clearly than are the finger prints of each individual's hand. This is a point we should remember: God can actually keep in heaven a record of our thoughts as individuals just as the FBI can keep a record of our fingerprints in Washington, D.C.
...If we scientists can record these things, I believe with all my heart that the Lord God can keep a record of our thoughts.

Don't you think that the more positive our thoughts are, which are also our vibrational frequencies, the closer we can draw near to our Divine Source? Reading this was a real brain burner for me and compelled me to share this portion of the book. And doesn't it make sense that taking into account how powerful a mere thought is, the affect it can have on our mere mortal bodies??
Dr. Bernie Siegel, the author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, was giving a talk to a room full of skeptical doctors when he brought out a copy of Lady Chatterly's Lover and proceeded to read the most erotic part. As he put the book down he said, "Just as reading a book can stir our sexuality, so you can see how our thoughts and feelings can affect us physically." The doctors were immediately convinced!
There is a whole new science called pschonueroimmunology exploring just that:  The relationship between the psyche or mind, the nervous system and the immune system. Now that its 'scientifically official'-your thoughts are accounted for...and they will not only make themselves known after we die, but they will also show here and now with our health. Take action! Alter those 60,000 thoughts a day into proactive positive self talk!!!

Ode to Wheatgrass

-Wheatgrass picks up 92 of the 102 minerals in the soil and contains all vitamins science has isolated.
-Wheatgrass is 70% living chlorophyll. The chlorophyll molecule closely resembles that of the hemin molecule, the pigment that combines with protein to form hemoglobin (the compound that carries oxygen in the blood). The major difference is the chlorophyll molecule contains magnesium as its central atom, and hemin contains iron. Chlorophyll is plants blood, but can also be human blood!
-1 oz. of wheatgrass is equivalent to 2.5 POUNDS of the best vegetables.
-As a nutrient powerhouse, wheatgrass turned Ann Wigmore's hair (founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute) from grey back to its original brown.
-Chlorophyll is the first product of light and therefore contains more light energy than any other element.
-Farmers in the Midwest who have sterile cows and bulls put them on wheatgrass to restore fertility.
-Dr. Birscher, a research scientist, called chlorophyll "concentrated sun power".
-Wheatgrass offers the benefit of a liquid oxygen transfusion. **Cancer cannot exist in the presence of oxygen.

Convinced? I decided to give it a try and have been taking two ounces of Wheatgrass juice a day. I am now on week 3 and must say I have never felt more rejuvenated when I wake up in the morning! I am tickled full of oxygen!! Call it what you will-vibrating, humming..but this is a marvelous feel.