When:  

Time: 6:00pm

Where: Mill Valley Private Home

RSVP: Email miknru@greenyourspirit.com or RSVP on Meetup

A rare evening with Dr. Brian Clement - discover the “newest and hottest” information on the Living and Raw Foods Lifestyle and the “dirty little secrets” in National Food Trends that are taking the nation by storm including Genetically Engineered Labeling, and the Fish Industry.  Learn the latest on his recent soon to be released book, “Killer Fish” and the impact on lives.

Get your many questions answered and sample wonderful raw food dishes. Please bring your favorite raw food dish if you wish to contribute and share for this evening – not mandatory, yet greatly appreciated!

Payment:

Early Bird before April 22nd 2012: $10.00

After April 22nd 2012: $13.00

at the door: $15.00

*All payments will be donated to the POP CAMPAIGN’S GMO labeling efforts… extra donations are appreciated!

(Please bring your checkbooks to support The POP Campaign and/or MOMS4POP  and/or The Sprout Foundation, if you are moved)

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED – SPACE LIMITED:
Call Rudi @ 415-999-9414 or email miknru@greenyourspirit.com for address and to secure your space!

“If we do not stand up today and demand 100% labeling of GE food to know honestly and clearly what products we are buying, we are complicit criminals in creating a slippery slope that will reduce Homo Erectus to Home Extinctus.” – Dr. Brian Clement

“Renewing peoples lives, feeding their families, improving the health of the planet is a world vision I fully support. Driving the POP Campaign and MOMS4POP is superfood MILA by Lifemax - the most complete form of nutrition I have ever seen. Mila is simply the best source of essential fatty acids that can be found in the world today and also offers the body a complete protein with all the essential amino acids. This is a food, if eaten daily, every man, woman, and child on the earth can greatly benefit from.” – Dr. Brian Clement

“When MOMS4POP and MILA join together, you have a clear way to nourish your body, your family, and your economic status, while supporting The Pop Campaign initiatives.” Become  a MILA distributor under the Pop Campaign and support the cause.”

GMO Issues Are Heating Up in Washington and around the Country  - Join Us through the POP Campaign in Getting Specific Legislative Action

The POP Campaign has been busy in Washington with genetically modified and engineered (GMO/GE) food issues and seeking TRUTH in the labeling of these lab-created “franken” foods.

There are a number of issues in motion on this topic (POP is showing up) …help all of us preserve access to PURE ORGANIC FOODS and to choose vibrant health for our inner AND outer environment.

You can make a BIG difference NOW by taking actions on www.popcampaign.org TODAY!

There are a number of issues in motion on this topic including an effort to make this issue part of the 2012 campaign discussion and debate at all levels.

Two immediate efforts are in play:

• Bi-Cameral Letter: Senate & House joint letter to the FDA requesting Mandatory Labeling

• GMO/GE Bills: Three pieces of legislation introduced by Congressman Dennis Kucinich regarding GMO/GE foods and seeds. (POP is also seeking a Senate version)

What can you do to help?

Please visit the POPCampaign.org website and get the letter template you can send to your representatives – please note a target date.

Also, Get involved in talking to candidates at all levels of government during this 2012 election cycle and let them know that protecting organic foods and farming is important to you and that you want mandatory labeling of all genetically engineered foods.

Stay in touch with and support any more Citizen Petitions and the Labeling Signature gathering in California.

Please Donate to POP if you care about these issues:

Click Here for Paypal

or send a check to:

The POP Campaign
20 Sunnyside Ave, Suite A113
Mill Valley, CA 94941

Create your own sprout salads with a wide variety of different sprouts that you grow yourself, or find at farmer’s markets & some health food stores.

Mik’s Sunday Farmer’s Market Creation:

- Sunflower Sprouts

- Pea Sprouts

- Micro Greens Mix (Broccoli, Arugula, Buckwheat…)

- Clover, Fenu Greek, Onion, Broccoli and Alfalfa Sprouts

- Sprouted Bean Sprout Mix (red and green lentils, garbanzo and mung beans)

Side of Red Cabbage, Freshly Picked Radishes & Carrots and don’t forget Sauerkraut!

Avocado Dressing:

Water, Avocado, Lemon, Garlic, Cayenne, Turmeric, Dulse Flakes, Kelp Powder
(Braggs Liquid Aminos or Himalayan Salt optional)

*Blend until smooth and pour over salad

Sprinkle Dulse Leaf and Nori on top for added vitamins and minerals and to boost immune system and help with energy and inflammation.

When: 

Where: Upper Cervical Health Center

Price: $2 Donation if you don’t bring your own plates & utensils

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Please bring a friend or two! Tell everyone you know!  

This event is ALL ABOUT YOU – sharing what you do in the community regarding vibrant health, wellness, raw food, art, music, ideas, concepts for the “NEW EARTH” and more… please share, meet the community, network and have fun!!

The old paradigms are falling and the “New Earth” is rising… let’s talk about our unique contributions in the community and how to collaborate in the LIGHT.  Also, how to prepare for all the changes that are already taking place, to make it easier to dance through the remainder of the “old stuff” on it’s way out.

What to Bring:

Your favorite raw, organic, vegan dish to share with 15+ people! If you are new to raw food, or you prefer to eat more simply, you can bring a veggie salad or some fruit.  You may also bring raw crackers or other raw dishes from Wholefoods, Cafe Gratitude or some other neighborhood store, if you don’t want to prepare anything this time.

- Please bring only organic raw vegan food to share (no animal flesh or eggs, no dairy, no cheese).

-Please write your name and list your ingredients on an index card to place next to your dish.

- In the SPIRIT of being GREEN, please bring your own plate and utensils.  If you forget, we will have some available for $2 donation!

-Most importantly, bring your beautiful self and be ready to learn, share, meet new people, and enjoy vibrant, delicious food!

We hope you can make it!! PLEASE RSVP!!

When: 

Where: 1345 17th St, San Francisco, CA

Price: $25

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Your Admission Includes:

Goodie Bags with Best of Raw Products

Raffle Ticket for Great Prizes

Opportunity to Bid in Silent Auction

Five Dollar Voucher for Raw Food Booth

Free Tastings of the Final Contestants for Best Raw Chocolate, Best Sweet Snack and Best Raw Kale Chips

Opportunity for LIVE in person voting for Best Raw Chocolate, Best Sweet Snack and Best Raw Kale Chips!

Raw Celebrity Announcers Live Music and Performances

Live Awards Presentations for 2011 Best of Raw!

Dress Fabulously for Red Carpet Entry and Photo Opportunity

RSVP Here Advance Payment Recommended…

This event will sell out!

When: 

Where: Upper Cervical Health Center

Price: $5 Donation

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RAW POTLUCK with with Brandi Rollins Lecture: Raw Foods on a Budget

Description

Learning how to live raw foods on a budget is more than just about finding cheap produce. It’s a way of LIFE!

Author of Raw Foods on a Budget, Brandi Rollins takes a holistic approach to food budgeting by teaching people HOW and WHERE to buy inexpensive, high-quality produce; how to PREPARE, STORE, and EAT raw food in ways that stretch their dollar; how to create and maintain a BUDGET; and even how to embrace the ABUNDANCE and JOY a budget can bring to their life!

In this talk, Brandi will teach you powerful strategies to reduce your food bills by 15 to 50%!

Brandi’s most recent book, Raw Foods on a Budget (Special Color Edition), will be available for sale for 19.95 (20% OFF). This 300-page book contains over 70 detailed strategies for enjoying a budget-conscious raw foods diet, and 90 delicious, low-cost recipes—each with their own cost estimates, money-saving tips, and nutrition information.

Read Brandi’d Bio Here:

http://www.rawfoodsonabudget.com/the-book/a…

Workshop Materials for Audience

Handout

How To Go and Stay Raw (10 page color booklet)

Free Online Materials

Brandi’s Favorite Budget Strategies (http://tinyurl.com/rfbudgetsampler)

8 Strategies to Starting a RAW Foods Diet Right Now (http://tinyurl.com/8rawstrategies)

Raw Foods on a Budget Book Preview (http://tinyurl.com/rawfoodsbudgetpreview)

Confessions of an East Coast Raw Vegan Book Preview (http://tinyurl.com/confessionspreview)

POTLUCK:

What to Bring:  -A lovingly prepared dish that is 100% raw and vegan and organic to serve 8-10 people. (Nothing cooked, and no animal products please).

-If you’re really new to this, feel free to ask us for suggestions or just bring some cut up organic fruit, veggies or your favorite vegan salad. You may also bring raw crackers or other raw dishes from Wholefoods, Cafe Gratitude or some other neighborhood store, if you don’t want to prepare anything this time.
-Please list your ingredients on an index card to place next to your dish.

In the spirit of being GREEN, please bring your own plate and utinsils. We will have some available just in case you forget – and if you do, please drop some extra $ in the donation bucket!

-Most importantly, bring your beautiful self and be ready to learn, share, and enjoy vibrant, delicious food!

Registration

$5 donation for Meetup and Potluck Expenses

To the Chef: Apple Almond MILA granola cookies take some early preparation so start sprouting the buckwheat 3 days before you are ready to make this special treat. The nuts need to be soaked 12 to 24 hours and the sunflower seeds for 6 to 12 hours. Dehydrating will take 6 to 8 hours. Purchase true cinnamon which is also called Ceylon cinnamon and use only an organic ginger powder without preservatives.
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Buckwheat Sprouts

1 cup raw unhulled buckwheat

Dry Mixture

3 cups dried shredded coconut, unsweetened

2 cups raw almonds or other nuts, soaked 12 to 24 hours, drain & rinse

1 cup raw sunflower seeds, soaked 6 to 12 hours, drain & rinse

1 cup currants or dried blueberries

1 cup mesquite powder, optional

3/4 cup coconut palm sugar

2 tablespoons cinnamon powder

2 tablespoons ginger powder

1 teaspoon Celtic sea salt or other full spectrum salt

4 Granny Smith apples, grated large

2 pear or more apples, grated large

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Wet Mixture

2 cups purified water

½ cup MILA

½ cup coconut oil, softened

Buckwheat Sprouts

In a wide mouth quart mason jar, put the buckwheat and cover generously with purified water. Secure a screen or cheese cloth over the mouth of the jar using a rubber band or metal canning ring. Let soak 6 to 12 hours. Discard soaking water and rinse buckwheat until water is runs clear. Put the jar on a 45º angle in your dish drainer or other convenient place so it can drain further and get plenty of air. Cover with a cloth so it is out of the light. Rinse, drain and return to a 45º angle twice a day until the sprout tails are about the same length as a single grain of buckwheat, about 2 days.

Dry Mixture

In a large mixing bowl, put all the ingredients under Dry Mixture and stir together.

Wet Mixture (instructions are different for high speed blender & home blender, both included).  In a high speed blender, put all the ingredients under Wet Mixture and blend until smooth..

Combine Wet & Dry Ingredients

Pour the Wet Mixture into the Dry Mixture and stir to combine well.

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Dehydrate

On a dehydrator tray covered with a teflex sheet or natural kitchen parchment paper, spread the granola cookie mixture evenly to slightly more than 1/8-inch thick. Use cookie cutters of your choice to cut out fun shapes.  We like hearts because they are easy cut out and it’s an expression of love.

Put the trays of cookies in the dehydrator and dehydrate at 145ºF for 2 hours. Turn dehydrator down to 115ºF and continue to dehydrate until the cookies pull away easily from the teflex sheet or parchment (in other words, when you lift the cookie it’s underside is not sticky), about 3 hours. Remove the cookies from the teflex sheets or parchment and put it on the mesh screens that came with the dehydrator. Dehydrate until very dry and crunchy, about 2 more hours.

Serving Ideas

Serve Apple Almond MILA Granola cookies as a morning breakfast or enjoy as a quick energy snack when on the trail or on the go and serve as a treat or dessert.

How to Store

Let the granola cookies cool completely then immediately put it into a container or jars and fasten on the lid. If left out on your counter too long it will rehydrate and you may have to put it back into dehydrator before storing. Store in a dark cool part of your kitchen. Apple Almond MILA Granola Cookies will keep for several months if dehydrated properly (meaning all the moisture was removed).

When:

Where: 60 Post Street, San Francisco, CA

Price: $5

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Together we, as individuals and as a meet up community, are manifesting a powerful collective vision of raising awareness around conscious nutrition and healthful  sustainable living in the Bay Area and beyond.

In service of the collective vision you are cordially invited to come
together for the “First Annual Bay Area Raw Collective Holiday Celebration”.

This will be gathering of Bay Area Raw Food Meet Up Groups including:
Marin Raw Food and Vibrant Health Group led by Mikaële Holzer & Rudi Leonardi

East Bay Raw Food Group led by Darcy Crossman

San Francisco Organic Natural Health and Raw Food Group led by Amber Zuckerswert

Raw Vegan Food and Yoga Group led by Briksha

South Bay Raw Group led by Joni Sare

The Table of Life Group & Better World Cuisine Group led by Anna Coulter

Raw Food Kingdom led by Natalie Barber

Revolutionary Raw Conscious Cuisine led by Jillian Love:

This collective holiday potluck will include some light entertainment and opportunity to mix, mingle, network and show our unity and support for one another in a the spirit of empowering the conscious food and lifestyle movement.

Enjoy a Holiday Address from our key note Speaker Erin Ross

Connector & Social Activist of the Heart:
As an author, workshop facilitator for Café Gratitude, former Challenge Day Program Leader, coach, teacherand honored mother of two amazing adults, Erin has inspired, educated and empowered thousands – fromstudents and artists to entrepreneurs and organizational leaders – to take positive action toward living theirlives fully expressed and empowered. Her compassion, insight and transparency combined with her honestenthusiasm and deep love for humanity engender spaces for growth and celebration in every environment.
Through the Get That You Matter movement, Erin hopes to inspire 70 million more to remember who they are,to get that they matter and to Be their greatest contribution to the world. You are the hero you are waiting for!
www.getthatyoumatter.com

www.facebook.com/getthatyoumatter

twitter:https://twitter.com/#!/getthatumatter
Enjoy Samples and Raffle Gifts provided by our Generous Sponsors:

Some products may also be available for purchase so be sure to bring some extra cash.

*Blessings Alive and Radiant Foods - http://blessingsaliveandradiantfoods.com/

*Kaia Foods - http://www.kaiafoods.com/links.html

*Amazing Meal - http://amazinggrass.com/

*Nutiva - http://nutiva.com/

*Bethanne Wanamaker – www.ediblegoddess.com

Each Meet Up leader will be preparing a special holiday dish and will share the recipe as a gift for all members who attend the event.

Each guest is requested to bring a holiday potluck dish to share.

There will be a $5 requested donation to support the productions costs associated with this event.  Your donation will entitle you to one raffle ticket.

This event will be held at the beautiful Compo Clay gallery at 60 post street SF.  It is easily accessible by public transit and metered street parking is free after 6PM.

*Special Thanks to Jon and Shelly for sponsoring the Bay Area Raw Meet Up community by hosting this event.

Stay tuned for more exciting details to be revealed…

Volunteers needed to help – email me if you would like to contribute to the creation of this wonderful event.