Jungle Janie's Raw Vegan Blogspot

Wraps are simple and fun, especially when you dip them. Tightly wrap the contents to avoid losing it out the ends. Alternately, you can have use all of the sauce on the sprouts for a wet wrap. Wet wraps benefit from folding over the bottom to avoid leakage and is easiest with the version described without the wrap leaf's rib removed. You don't need to have the same cabbage or sprouts I grew. You can substitute any other large leafed greens for the cabbage and other sprouts or salad for my sprouts. Also, feel free to use your own sauce instead. Ingredients:    Wrap: Cabbage (or other large green for wrap)    Filling: Sprouts: Broccoli Sprouts (or other sprouts) Fenugreek Sprouts (optional) Salad Greens Sorrel (to taste) Lettuce and other salad greens (as desired and available) Tomato, sliced in strips (enough to run length of wrap when layed end to end, Roma are good for this) Optional: Avocado, sliced in strips (optional in wrap to l...

This was originally sent to my email list. Click here if you want to sign up.   I love plants! I love growing them and eating them..and a whole lot more. One of the top reasons I love growing my own food is being able to grow things I want to eat, and especially things I wouldn't be able to have access to otherwise. Cabbage leaves harvested from my garden yesterday. Case in point: the cabbage leaves I harvested yesterday. Believe it or not: these two leaves are the smaller leaves from a plant I have basically neglected for a while! (It is on an automatic drip watering system). They are an open leaved variety that is simply beautiful to me, grows well where I am, rarely gets spicy hot (if ever), is bolt resistant (so does not go to seed fast and I can keep harvesting for longer), and is great for wrappers in wraps (or chopped in ways cabbage is often used). Another example: the top pic here is "Janie" created by arranging "Armenian" Cucu...

My take on a recipe traditionally served at Christmas is an easy, simple, and quick healthy low-fat raw vegan gluten-free holiday recipe which also follows the food combining principles of Natural Hygiene and 80/10/10.  I make half of the recipe without machines, and the other half with a food processor. Then I compare and combine them, do a little ambiance for it, and sample it.  Nutrition Facts are included as well. Enjoy! :)  

In this reaction vlog I discuss my reactions, and try to gather and process my racing and scattered thoughts upon receiving cardiolipin antibody test results (which I share here too). I wanted to put this up right away, rather than wait, so it has minimal editing and is fairly rough-cut. My words are not coming to me as well due to all the thoughts and emotions going on, but hey, that's part of the thing about reaction vlogs, right? Whatever the case. Here it is in its full glory (or full something, lol). For those who have not read the rest of my blog/journals here or my story otherwise (or as a review for those who have): I have had persistently positive cardiolipin IgM antibodies for over 21 years (basically every time I have been tested)... until now, it seems!?!  These results have totally distracted me from completing the editing and upload of the fig cake recipe I planned to release... but it is next on my list... once I can focus on it better.  BTW/FYI: these antibodie...

Here is a quick vlog of what I did yesterday. It has my food along with other stuff too and is kind of an update. Not so much about my thoughts as this blog, but I thought you might enjoy it as a change of pace. ;) It takes you from waking to sleeping (mostly) and includes: my food for the day, some garden activities, nutrient breakdowns, birds, bees, a butterfly, and more. Enjoy! :)

Food:   Breakfast:  Watermelon Lunch: Smoothie of blended: Banana, Blueberry, Kale*, Coconut Water with dried White Mulberries on top Dinner: Cucumber* Noodles with chopped sugar snap peas, carrots, yellow bell pepper, celery, pineapple, tomato*, sunflower seeds with blended sauce of kale*, lemon juice, carrot juice, carrot, chia, broccoli sprouts*, fenugreek sprouts*, alfalfa sprouts*, tomato*, yellow bell pepper, celery, basil* with a little sprinkle of ground black pepper on top *stuff we grew and harvested (rather than bought) Here are a couple pics: 1st is with noodles and chopped things unmixed, with the sauce still in the blender. 2nd is with sauce in bowl. 3rd is with everything in the bowl.   The Rest: I am not in Hawaii right now, and have been away from there since about this time in 2017. Darrel and I were driving around the US Mainland for a couple years, then got stuck in Washington during pandemic lockdowns, etc. I gardened some up there in the Pacific No...

Sleep:  woke at 8am, up at 8:30am to sleep last night at 11:00pm Food: breakfast: organic pineapple lunch: 2 large pitaya (dragon fruit) dinner: blueberries followed by veggies (organic tomato, organic white mushrooms, organic cauliflower) with dip (organic carrot juice,  organic freeze-dried broccoli powder, nutritional yeast) Exercise: pushups and dips (mixed full, assisted, incline, etc), squats before 30 minutes on rebounder (arm exercises on rebounder too), stretches after The Rest: Went to town the day before yesterday, and well, went to town grocery shopping too! LOL My cart while shopping at Safeway I'm in Arizona and not growing my food currently, so it's grocery stores and mail deliveries for now. The post office and where I pick up deliveries is the same area I grocery shop at stores, so it's about the same. I try to consolidate the trips to shop as infrequently as possible, and it's been working out well. I've been finding more and ...

Happy New Year Everyone!!! :) :) :) Sleep:  awake at 7:45am, up at 8:30am to sleep for night last night at: 11:30pm Food: breakfast: 6 (or 7?) organic California Page mandarins lunch: 9 Fuyu persimmons (3 lbs) dinner: TBD -- probably a mandarin or two, followed by salad of: head of green cabbage cut into ribbons with dressing of tahini, lemon, carrot juice, freeze dried kale powder ... and maybe some partially dehydrated summer squash slices on the side or with the dressing as dip (possibly dipping "baby" carrots too) ... and maybe some carrot juice afterward I've been eating persimmons pretty much every day for a while now. They are SO delicious, and they store really well here, so I can get over a month's worth at a time, which I absolutely love! They hold up well without refrigeration and are a terrific staple or back-up because they're the kind that you can eat whether they are hard or soft. I got a great deal on them at CostCo in California when Da...

6-23-17 Fresh squeezed orange juice blended with frozen strawberries Fresh harvested mountain apples from yard 7 Saba bananas Oops, forgot to record the rest of this day and the next... now I have forgotten. Think this is the night I made a kind of salsa chutney ish thing one of these two nights. It was 3/4 of a fruity avocado mashed a bit still chunky, some minced chives, 2 roma tomatoes chopped, and a touch of lemon juice. I started eating it with celery, but then Darrel started eating his guacamole which makes his breath bother me if I don’t have some. It's raw vegan so I will put some in my stuff sometimes so his breath doesn't bother me. I added some to mine and decided to put that in dried nori sheets in a row lengthwise with a stick of celery lengthwise across as well before rolling it and eating it. Neither the spicy guacamole nor the dried nori are my ideal foods, but they are acceptable at times. This was one of those times (obviously). Lol 6-24...

Happy Solstice! :) A couple of figs from yard eaten at tree Lots of mountain apples from yard Sweet frozen puree: frozen apple bananas blended with frozen bing cherries and a bit of coconut water Small strawberry papaya Small hand bananas  (called ladyfinger here, Apple banana elsewhere) Soaked deglet noor dates and soak water mixed with sliced pink lady apples and celery Photos to be posted later

Water from coconut from yard About 1/2 a pear offered to me when out in the field at the refuge with the biologist A couple of figs from yard eaten at the tree :) Lots of mountain apples harvested fresh from yard Fresh squeezed orange juice Mix of zuke, cuke, multicolor carrot noodles with sauce of some of the OJ blended with celery, zucchini, and a touch of tahini, sprinkled with minced fresh chives Photos to be posted later Today was a big birding day for me: spent morning on state-wide nene survey, then the rest of the day doing photo review and writing up observations of a moorhen nest from the motion detection camera's SD card I got from an intern. So interesting! Love all of it! :) Darrel went to farm today to see if there was anything new to harvest, and discovered more theft and vandalism. :( They cut our starfruit tree so severely that it might not survive. 😓 It had the best starfruit I have ever tasted... was planted from a tree that had the best starf...

Water from coconuts from yard :) Apple bananas on the go Rest of coconut water from earlier, stored in fridge Large Cantaloupe and some salvaged from another Defrosted frozen spinach, fresh mushrooms, and dried tomatoes that were in olive oil in jar (all not ideal) Partially dehydrated mushrooms and roma tomatoes with fresh sugar snap peas

Saturday June 17, 2017 Fresh squeezed orange juice 1 Tuscan melon Lychee Darrel and I spent time to try out Agile Scrum framework for figuring out our life in the next year, in order to help prioritize all the things we were feeling need to be done, feel driven to do and/or have deadlines to finish before we go to the FoodnSport retreats in September. It really helped! Yay! :) Sunday June 18, 2017 Father's Day! :) 1 Tuscan melon Mountain apples Apple bananas Hearts of romaine head lettuce Hearts of romaine head lettuce 3 large roma tomatoes Mustard  (not ideal) Darrel had something with a lot of mustard on it and I decided to have some mustard too. I wedged the roma tomatoes lengthwise, and placed them on the lettuce leaves lengthwise, then put a bit of mustard down the length of that, folded the leaves over the top and ate them that way. It hit the spot. Mustard is not ideal because of its spiciness, but it's one of the exceptions I have been making over the last ...

Large fresh squeezed OJ at Jamba Juice while out White pineapple and Blueberries More OJ I squeezed myself Blended OJ with frozen mango and mint as sauce for: Veggie dish with Brussels sprouts, multicolor carrots, celery, sections from juiced oranges Hearts of romaine head on the side Touch of Darrel's guacamole mixed in so we have the same breath :)

Today was a hodge podge... and little of this, little of that... A few golden figs from yard 2 Jamaican lilikoi from yard 3 mountain apples from yard 1/2 large white pineapple from farmers market 2 ears corn from farmers market Blueberries from store 2 hearts of romaine heads lettuce from store Lychee from farmers market Yesterday Fresh squeezed orange juice Smoothie with some of the OJ and frozen strawberries Mamey sapot e 1/2 pound baby lettuce spring mix with olive oil and spices on it (not ideal, but tasty) 1-2 tablespoons tahini with lemon juice as spread onto dried nori sheets (not ideal) wrapped around small wedges of roma tomatoes  (2 large) Yeah, too much fat for one day, more than one type of fat, oil and spices, and nori all are not my ideal. I realized that and decided it was acceptable enough for me, and I don't regret it. I felt like having the mix spiced like I used to spice popcorn, so I did, and ate it like that. Call it my rarely-occassionally th...

Monday 6/12/17 Coconut water Hmm. don't remember lunch anymore  (it's after lunch on Tuesday now)... not sure if I actually had lunch... think I didn't Salad: 1 pound baby lettuce spring mix with dressing of blended: 1 cup-ish frozen mango, 2 large roma tomatoes, 4 or 5 sticks celery T uesday  6/13/17 (so far) Fresh squeezed orange juice  (about 3 or 4 cups) 1 Sunrise papaya friends left behind 1 Mammy sapote Fresh squeezed orange juice  (about 3 or 4 cups) Made dressing to take with me with blending some of the OJ, about a tablespoon or 2 of tahini, and a couple of celery stalks  Salad at bar and grill: chopped: romaine lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, with grated carrots and a few mung bean sprouts. Used the dressing I made earlier on it. We went out dancing tonight at a bar and grill, and ate dinner there. It was fun. We haven't done that in a while and it was good to see people and dance again. :)

Yes, I admit it. I've sucked at keeping any regular posting here in quite some time. It hasn't kept me from thinking about you all, in fact you've been on my mind a LOT, for years. Still, I haven't gotten into the swing of this again yet. Sometimes I just have a photo, sometimes I have a description, sometimes a thought, sometimes something nifty to share, sometimes I'm actually up for tracking my food as well.. but not always all at the same time, on schedule. Life happens. And it's been happening in oh, so many varied ways. I'd love to share it with you. I'd love to get back in touch and hear from you as well. Let's catch up. I have so many interests, and things to share in so many areas, that I think maybe I should try to different websites for them, or maybe different sections on this site.. and then I get bogged down in trying to organize it all that I don't get to the actual sharing. I've decided to turn over a new leaf ...

For those of you wanting the scoop on what's been going on in my life... I'll do an update and all another time.  For now I'm just gonna' start back into this as I can... (UPDATED 6/11/17) Here's food for 6-6-17, didn't measure it. coconut water on the go apricots followed by sugar snap peas at Safeway seating for lunch with Darrel some mixed color "baby" carrots on the go salad of: baby lettuce mix dressed with blended frozen mango and 3 chopped fresh roma tomatoes 1  large mammey sapote Here's food for 6-7-17: 3 cups fresh squeezed juice from local navel oranges (1 cup I drank straight-up, while blending the other 2 cups with about 2 1/2 cups frozen strawberries: this yielded about 4 cups smoothie) I took photos of the steps of this and the food for the rest of the day (and next day). I will post them later, along with a recent Food for the Week-ish photo. 7 apple bananas 2 Hearts of Romaine heads of lettuce 4 mixed col...

Food: Fresh squeezed orange juice Longan Banana Coconut water Papaya Mountain apples Half of a large pineapple Some of my apple, date, celery dish from a few days ago A little broccoli and cauliflower ** Exercise: Darrel and I went to the Mayor-A-Thon today. It was fun! :) It's a community events put on by the county, and heavily sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, Gieko, and local businesses. It's not a race, more like a fitness and social family event. You pick the length you go: anywhere up to 8 miles. They have turn around points marked for various lengths.  You can run, walk, bike, roller blade on the cement path that goes along the shoreline. We walked and ran this time...I think it was 4-7 miles, not sure...didn't pay attention to length, was noting time to turn around in order to get back for prizes and zumba. We were out on the path for 2 hours. They have contests like hula hoop, cooperative group teams, etc for prizes...and drawings ...

Long story short: remodel of this website has been delayed, but not the content anymore. I was going to wait until I had the blog categories more separated, but I just can't wait for that anymore. That means if you subscribe you'll be getting a larger range of topics. Later, when the new website is up I'll be sorting them by some popular more general categories for those who want to stay more focused on a certain area. Those of you who want it all, well, you're in luck! ☺ I'll be posting about things in a somewhat random way for a while, and may settle into a pattern, but most likely not. Missed ya', hope you are all doing well! Aloha!