luni, 27 februarie 2012

Animals, 2012 and Ascension



We are in the midst of Ascension and 2012.
Indeed, much goodness is happening, both in the visible and subtle realms

However, there are some highly sensitive matters and topics that seem to be non present in any of our world’s major spiritual awakening and healing sources.

Thank you for the wondrous Light and messages for the planet during these times. I am one of the many earthly Light workers being involved in a multitude of tasks as a volunteer, since I was a small child. My global activism (self created, initiated grass roots) has taken many different forms according to one priority or another of the moment.
Right now, as I'm creating a few other efficient ways of reaching out to as many souls as possible, I found myself on a stumbling block of confusion about one urgent task, so evident which needs our collective attention yet so rarely mentioned or touched upon in 99.99% of all spiritual sources of planetary healing.
For this reason, I've created a page about it, on one of my global activism blogs and send it around to our most powerful Light Divine Love anchoring rods Light workers, such as yourself and others, in order to obtain some more insight about the why's and how's around this highly important and sensitive topic which seem almost forgotten or overlooked or unaware of, by many Light workers.
The reason we need more clarity and some specifics from the Heaven, on this particular matter it is so that many of us, Light workers doing this kind of activism among many other types, can obtain inner suffering, confusion and desperation relief and being able to make full use of our inner Lights and radiate and beam and attract our highest LIGHT potential for the planet.
Many like me find it very hard to move up and move on because of this overlooked heavy overload and almost never discussed issue of such immense importance affecting every living soul on our planet, at every level, consciously or not, 24/7. I've gathered that only through deeper and clearer insight can we move on instead of brushing it under the carpet, conscious detachment and ignoring it.
It is a most powerful task for all of us to tackle, the least known and talked about but nevertheless imminent to properly deal with it with help from the Legions of Heaven and from our Mother Father God. On behalf of countless lightworkers who are in pain and want to do more and more for the planet but are unable to move beyond THIS particular untackeled and overlooked topic, we are truly looking forward for some deep and clearer insight/relief information from our Creator through you and any other Angel on earth in human form there is out there and in here.
It would be beyond needed and priceless if Father Mother God would dedicate through you, a monthly newsletter to this particular topic. Preparing our bodies for Ascension involves stopping from ingesting destructive energies as a foremost foundation starting point and this is also covered in my blog/link in this message.
I’ve searched far and wide and with the exception of a very few, including http://www.soulacademy.ca/ and the animals’ rights groups, most of our spiritually channeled sources have not touched the subject yet, to the extent that it MAY need to be discussed and touched upon, considering that we are months away from December 2012.
so
May I please ask the Divine some highly important questions through any of you, most powerful channels of the Divine, on our beloved planet? Some of the very few who can bring forth an as accurate as it can be, feedback on the topic.
These are long time pondering questions within my consciousness and a source of so much inner suffering. And so are for many others Light workers in similar situation. Making it hard to carry on our missions because of the confusion we experience regarding this hugely important issue.
I am deeply grateful on behalf of many, for ANY insight on this

As a lifelong animals and people lover and helper but only 2 yrs a vegan in becoming, I've started to ask questions about Creation in general and received some inner feedback through higher self but still…there is perhaps a one last huge bit of information which I feel I still need some higher order confirmation to my intuitive sourced answer.
Over the last 15 years, I have read and seen many books, articles, clips and documentaries on reincarnation, NDE, OBE, life between lives.
In the books I read, it was explained how EVERY SOUL before projecting into the next life, based on the cumulative karmic effect up until that point and based on some available options which resonate with the souls BEST potential choice for further learning and karmic work, the soul FREE WILLS his/her OUTWARD physical projection into that whatever INCARNATING scenario is best benefitting his spiritual needs and karmic deeds.

I read how souls, through LIVE PREVIEW can actually PIERCE through the veil BEFORE projecting and get a TASTE of what WILL IT BE LIKE throughout their chosen incarnation circumstance, KNOWING AHEAD of time the parents, conditions, good and bad alike...

and this resonates with me deeply
What other thing that resonates deeply is that ANIMALS SOULS also get to CHOSE based on the same principle, the life that would BEST suit THEIR CURRENT SPIRITUAL PATH/STATE and also THEIR POTENTIAL KARMIC DEEDS AND DEBTS too
just like humans
so, if this is the case, observing in 3D LIFE the SENTIENCE of LAMBS, GOATS, COWS and other farm animals BORN INTO FARM INDUSTRIES death camps
I'm basically obsessing with the question:
WHY in the world did they CHOSE by FREE WILL to project themselves in such shocking, tormented, imprisoned filled life and ending it in such horrific way in a slaughterhouse?

Sure, there are many farms where these amazing beings live free and somewhat happier regardless of ending up getting killed by the very hands that FED them food

EACH of this SPECIE was an animal being living in the WILD, natural spaces, doing energy work for the planet and living their lives
UNTIL mankind kidnapped them and BRED them, "domesticating" them...
COWS, SHEEP, GOATS, PIGS, CHICKENS, TURKEYS
so, before becoming SOURCE (food, shoes, clothing, pillows, furniture, "entertainment", lab experiment "objects" for humans, the same way as humans have become source for parasitical entities), they actually HAD another purpose on our planet and based on inspirational reading through many wonderful Light sources and intuitive channeling, their TRUE purpose here is very much  so like that of humans: to serve as ENERGY ANCHORING RODS into Mother Earth to bring IN Higher dimensional energies in order to transmute the low frequencies, the souls trapped through the guilt vortex into the rocky planetary shields and to help Mother Earth to restore her initial CRYSTALINE STATE.

That’s why animals touch with their bare feet the earth, to properly ground higher energies…
Unlike humans who “modernized” and BLOCK this through “shoes” and of course the need for shoes in colder climates until tropical weather will come back for the entire planet…
So, considering some of these possible facts, I can’t help but wonder:
How on EARTH are the animals suppose to HELP anchor in HIGHER energies when:
More than 6 million farm animals are killed every HOUR around the globe and over 60 billion each year.
And
§  EVERY MINUTE, in the world: 2000 RABBITS, 900 SHEEP, 500 CATTLE, 2,600 PIGS, 3,000 DUCKS, 1,200 TURKEYS, 84,000 CHICKENS, plus many more animals, get SLAUGHTERED and consumed as FOOD...based on these charts
§  AND
§  http://www.circleofcompassion.org/, mid home page the left side...

Isn’t this MORE damaging to the energetic planetary field than healing through their presence in utter misery filled lives and deaths?

If some of us believe that they have volunteering their incarnation here to do Light work, how are their tormented lives able to help raise our planetary frequencies?

If they came here for personal karmic purposes, why have BILLIONS of souls have been encouraged to be here now living such traumatic lives, when planetary energies need to be moving higher and higher?

How is ASCENSION occurring while these shocking facts at this astonishing rate are taking place on our planet every minute?
Creating the ENERGETIC ETHERIC SOUP we breathe in and out second by second?
Being in the brink of ASCENSION, we can’t help but wonder HOW  are we ascending when THIS genocide STILL takes place on the same physical planet which is to be ASCENDING…
I’m pretty sure there must be an esoteric BIG PICTURE explanation to this which I can’t fathom…but needs to be discussed among us.

Would it be possible to get some special insight from any of you about WHY would 60 BILLION souls, in SENTIENT, GENTLE beings, WILLFULLY project in animal bodies EACH YEAR only to live in torture and be killed afterwards?
And what is the SPIRITUAL BENEFIT in doing so, IF ANY for them and the planet?

How really damaging to the soul matrix is this kind of life?
REVELATORIUM (http://www.revelatorium.com/)  was saying how FORCING A SOUL ATOM out of his/her body BEFORE the natural time is very detrimental at spiritual level based on universal law, using the example of ELECTRICAL CHAIR executions
Reading this, I’ve pondered on how humanity is doing this to at least 60,000,000,000 sentient, harmless, gentle, loving  beings EACH and EVERY YEAR
I wonder about the KARMICAL implications for us as a RACE  because most of us participate in it directly or indirectly (as consumers)
Also, I’ve put together 2 blogs as a global activist that I’ve found myself to become, this being my 2nd and working on the  3rd which will encompass many more topics, bridging the big picture where REVELATORIUM and its much needed teachings will have its own page.
In this link I’ve put together related stuff to the above topic and this blog is entirely dedicated to heal our planet through healing human animal planetary relation
Eating Meat and its effects on Spiritual Vibration Frequency 
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/eating-meat-and-its-effects-on.html

I am so desperate to learn RIGHT FROM THE SOURCE the reason for these atrocities at THIS HUGE SCALE and what BIG PICTURE benefit is IN for these poor souls and WHY have they chosen to come here?



Because if they DIDN’T WANT TO come HERE, NOW then this means they were “forced” to
Which doesn’t make sense

If they came here to benefit from the Ascension, how are they able to do so, through their untimely shortened cruelty filled lives, departing from here already with so much trauma in their souls?

But WANTING to be here under such debilitating conditions to the soul, doesn’t make sense either…

The way I see sometimes, on our planet, is a LIFE/SOULS RECYCLING, with huge #s of soul atoms coming and going…

I can see why someone who’d inflicted pain in the past to other/s  would chose a pain filled life to pay MERITED karmic debt
But when I look into these SENTIENT, divine, gentle, magnificent, healing, magical, lambs, cows, calves, goats being SOURCED I wonder WHY are they here by FREE WILL, knowing in ADVANCE of the AHEAD life based on LIFE PREVIEW.

To project as a DEER, or BUFFALO, even if you are hunted, AT LEAST you’ve had a fair share of “freedom” and joy.

But in the animal industry farming holocaust is a different story…

ZSL was mentioning in one of his articles how “COWS CAN’T WAIT to leave from here”
That’s when I’ve started to ask WHY did they come to such cruelty?



I don’t see how we can meditate and reiki our way out of this without ACTION based, WILLFUL COMMITMENT

We continue to Recreate the CAUSE of our sufferings, time and again, merry go round through our eating habits and quite ignorant attitudes towards the rest of Creation  

What is even more confusing is how many Lighworkers are completely unaware of this and they continue to INGEST animal flesh without thinking twice about the extremely negative effects on their LIGHT and physical bodies. They continue to do so while they anchor Higher dimensional frequencies onto our planet. And in most Light sources websites, the importance of first clearing our emotional, mental, physical bodies from this energy and ingesting high frequency, cruelty free foods, is hardly mentioned and heavily overlooked.
And of course, the elephants imprisoned in circuses and dolphins in marine parks and many other sources of pain for animals...but it is our day by day eating habbits issue that it's most urgent to deal with at many levels and obtain some much needed Divine guidance.


I’ve got SOME of the answers within but Divine feedback would make an entire Universe of difference to Light workers everywhere who have difficulties doing more for the planet because of this unresolved issue.

This is a general link with all other links in my 2nd blog
HEALING from the GROUND UP
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2012/01/all-links-healing-from-ground-up.html


I dream that someday, all of our planetary LIGHTWORKERS' websites will have an entire chapter dedicated to the karmic effects of human supremacism over other species and the reasons why we are experiencing this still massive animal genocide in the peak of Ascension, as well as a more in depth insight on the topic of  animals and spirituality exclusively.



They are our teachers and healers in so many ways and humanity owes a huge apology and karmic debt to them in my spiritual view

I’ve put the bigger picture of this here (long read)  but I’m not too sure if it is close enough to the ULTIMATE truth

Supremacism, elitism, specism, racism, how it all began
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/11/agn-veg-global-red-pill-how-it-all.html

When I woke up to these facts on our planet, I didn’t want to be here anymore and have gone through countless breaking points and sobbing, purging so much of the animals suffering through my bodies

Now I know that being here, doing this is how I can BEST help them and CREATION and I see myself doing this for as long as is needed in Creation

I intent to manifest a NEW EARTH conscious guiding school to help younger generations awaken, understanding these truths and heal.

And this will be among the MAIN SUBJECT studies.

Suppressed knowledge and spirituality will also be shared plus healing from the deepest cause of our spiritual and physical problems.

That’s why beloved Angels your insight on this topic is so needed, to be able to stir and guide in as accurate direction as possible, inviting others’ to also rediscover these truths. Healing our deeply wounded healers souls and helping others to CONNECT the dots for world peace and healing.






Your feedback on this topic would be beyond PRICELESS.

2012 has come; here we are ASCENDING while all this is happening still…is it possible and how so? What more, besides awakening the masses on this subject are we suppose to do about it?

Which nevertheless is both very hard because we remain in this extremely sad energy but also liberating because the heavy weight is gradually lifted off our tired shoulders and hearts. Are some of us who feel that this is the closest and truest to our hearts to do so for the planet will remain behind in 3D worlds to continue this work, thus unable to ascend into our new 5D world?

Because if this is so, I would personally choose to remain behind and continue the awakening of the masses instead of Ascending.

However, it is very hard for us to envision how the SAME ascending physical planet, our very Mother Earth is able to ascend with her physical body if these traumatic daily events continue on her surface and within her emotional body. The world is certainly awakening to this but it will take many years for a tangible, more evident transformation…given that December 2012 is so very near, we wonder how all this is tied together?

From our Alpha and Omega, Father Mother Creator perspective, I wonder how all this looks like


Endless GRATITUDE and Infinite Love for your precious, priceless ongoing work on our planet and beyond!






 
Animals, 2012 and Ascension

Dear Human, Earthly, Heavenly Angels and Guides, please help us with your Divine guidance and much needed insight!

luni, 6 februarie 2012

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http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/veg-pets.html



duminică, 5 februarie 2012

RAW foods on a Budget tips


17 Tips on How to Eat Well on a Budget
via
http://rawgourmet.com/

On food budgets both large and small one can eat poorly or
one can eat well. The following contains some simple
guidelines I have come up with to reinforce your healthy
high raw or all raw diet on a tight budget.
 
I have also included a few survival tips as I have am very
interested in Smart Survival Methods for Raw Foodists.
 
When times are hard, our stress levels often drive us to
treat our mind/body less than optimally, shall we say. But
during any type of hard-times,  it is more important than
ever to eat right in order to maintain physical health and a
high level of immunity.
 
By maintaining your own equilibrium -physically, mentally
and spiritually-you are better able to do what is necessary;
whether that means dealing with basic survival for yourself
and those close to you, or reaching out to those in need 
and contributing your best to make your country and your
world a better place to be. 
 
When you are feeling secure about the high level of your
natural immunity, it is easier to steer clear of the kind of
mass fear that the evening news promotes. This kind of
self-confidence in your own health and energy can not happen
overnight.
 
Now is the time to renew your 'I am going to be
healthier' vows, and hopefully what I have to say about how
to eat well without it costing more than you can afford will
serve as motivation. I hope so.
 
I invite you, friends and readers of my newsletter to email
me your successful budget busting tips too, I will include
them in the next newsletter.  Please send your ideas to me at: nomi@rawgourmet.com.  (with subject line: budget busting tips)
 
Here are some strategies to help you eat in a healthy way so
you can develop and maintain the energy and vitality
necessary to function on a high level during difficult or
good times. Economics are specifically taken into
consideration so that your health and immunity will remain
high on a tight budget.
 
This will allow you to contribute the maximum amount of energy
to the causes you feel the most important whether they be related
to family values, work, ministry, survival, charity, or world health/peace.
 
1. It is important that you know the best places to obtain
ingredients in your area. Always check out the seasonal
produce and sales. Take advantage of them. 
 
2. Don't go to the same stores all the time. Shake it up.
Check out all the stores in your town even the small, out
of the way ones and especially the ethnic ones such as
Asian, Phillipino and Latin markets. If you don't know what
something is, ask.

Try the farmers markets-grow something yourself even in a
pot on your patio-cherry tomatoes and strawberries or herbs
work well in that type of environment.
 
3. Apples, oranges, bananas, carrots and cabbage are
available year round and are usually affordable. 
 
4. Get together with a group to purchase your food.
Belonging to a food co-op saves money. Sometimes large
groups can arrange for wholesale prices. You will especially
notice savings on the more exotic or expensive items like
tropical fruits, nuts and nut butters. 
 
5. Consider simplifying even more and foregoing the more
exotic and expensive items. 
 
6. Carefully look over the reduced price produce-it is often
still good; just not pretty -but usually very ripe and ready
to eat on the same day as purchase. Produce departments are
likely to mark down very ripe and spotted bananas, which are
perfect for freezing to use in smoothies and desserts.
Likewise, very ripe and soft fruit gets bruised then marked
down but 
 is edible and a good buy. 
 
7. Young coconuts can be purchased in many cities for a dollar
 or less  each, and comprise a meal by themselves. Check
 in Asian markets for young coconuts, inexpensive pea
sprouts and other interesting greens.

If you are lucky enough to have an Asian market within range
they are filled with all kinds of greens and interesting
flavors.
8. Don't waste anything. If there is one inch of red pepper
left, save it for raw soup. 
 
9. Root vegetables are inexpensive, last quite awhile in the
refrigerator and are full of nutrients, minerals and fiber.
If you eat cooked food, they are an excellent choice for
baking or steaming. Served raw either grated or turned into
pasta with a saladacco ( spiral slicer) they become a
gourmet item. Look for parsnips, turnips, rutabaga, parsley
root, celery root and don't forget beets, carrots and yams.

10. Eat monomeals four or five times a week; for example,
just melon or just apples or just greens at one meal. Not
only can you take advantage of local produce and sales
prices this way, but you also save time in food prep and
lots of digestive energy! 
 
11. Most Americans eat too much. According to a study in the
August 1996 issue of Scientific American, we spent $33
billion annually on weight-loss products and schemes. The
message here is: cut back on your quantities. (This advice
does not apply to children, they need calories, fat and
protein for proper growth and development.)
 
12. Don't be put off by the high per pound price of mixed
greens (called mesclun in some areas). Even at $7.99 a
pound, a good -sized bag will cost less than half of that.
Greens are light. Be sure they are dry when purchased, they
will weigh less and keep longer. One helpful tip especially
if you are buying for one or two people, is compare the
salad bar by weight prices with the price per pound of the
greens over in the produce department, sometimes you can do
better to buy your greens at the salad bar.
 
13. If you juice regularly, feed some of the pulp to your
pets mixed in with their other food, it adds a lot of
bulk/fiber to their diet, helps them to feel full but
doesn't stuff them with calories and fat. You can also put
some of your pulp into salad, carrot pulp is especially good
for this. Pulp is also a great addition to dehydrated
crackers.  There's even a recipe for carrot cake in my
book, The Raw Gourmet that calls for 6 cups of carrot pulp.
 
14. Take the time now to learn as much as you can about
local foraging. Unless you live in the high desert, there is
almost always edible food in the woods and fields around
you, probably even in your yard. A good illustrated book is
helpful, I like Edible Wild Plants, by Thomas Elias and
Peter Dykeman, and there are many others. Try to find a book
that specializes in your geographical area.
 
See if you can locate a master herbalist in your area that
specializes in wild edible foods. Get a group of friends
together and learn how to forage in your area. This is great
fun for the whole family, can supplement your purchased food,
and even save your life in times of crisis. 
 
My favorite season for foraging is fall,  grapes are
plentiful as well as dandelion, plantain and rocket.  When I
lived in Sedona AZ, all of winter and spring I picked
bowls-full of mustard greens on my daily walks near my home
.
Later in the season, I picked the yellow blossoms from the
mustard plants. And, even when the heat of summer began I
could still find mustard greens in the shade and along
streams. Over half of my greens intake for several months of
the year was foraged mustard. Perhaps it is my imagination,
but I notice higher energy levels when I eat foraged greens
rather than store bought ones.
 
Now that I live in Southern California I am able to find four or
more identifiable foods during each season. They include things
like: malva, nasturtium, miners lettuce, Lamb's Quarters, stinging
nettle, anise (stalk, flowers, seeds and root) and  plantain. My land
(a raw fooders dream come late in life and a work in progress) also
has 2 Tangerine trees, a navel orange tree and two avocado trees.
I have room for many more trees and have plans for that when I can.
 
If you too live in an area where there are many fruit trees, have you
noticed how many people just let them rot and fall from the tree?
Ring their doorbell! Ask if you can pick the fruit from their trees! I often
pick up fallen fruit from the road (citrus and avocados) I wash it very
thoroughly and it tastes all the sweeter being free.
 
Did you know that all pine needles are edible? To chew or make up
a tea, as is their innner bark, you can make a flour from it. And cat-tails?
You can use their pollen for flour, and their stalks are edible as well as
their 'tail' in certain seasons, foraging books tell you how to prepare them
as many 'foragables' must be cooked.
 
When I lived overlooking a pond on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, I
found out that all those lily pads that covered the pond in summer
had edible tubers one could dive for under the ice in winter and cook
up like a potato. I didn't try that but it was comforting to know I had
an enormous food supply if I truly needed it.
 
If you are lucky enough to live near woods, spring and summer
will offer up quite a bounty. While there are ways to discover
for yourself if something is edible, save that for emergencies
and buy some good foraging books or get some from the library.
 
This kind of information doesn't go out of style so you may find
some great books in vintage book stores as well.
 
To me, knowing at least the basics about foraging, being
able to identify 4 or 5 or more edibles in your own area for
each season is like insurance. For now, it is fun to find it and
eat it as you go or bring it home to supplement what you buy.
 
But also if, heaven forbid, there were a true catastrophe and
there were no food to buy, wouldn't you feel better if you knew
you could survive because you knew where you could find edible food?
(Especially if you have some non-perishable food put aside to 
combine with any fresh food you can find,  like quinoa, non wheat
pasta, well-dehydrated crackers, etc.)
 
There is even a lot available to eat in the cold of winter if you know
where to look for it. Peace of mind is such a good thing, don't you
think?
 
15. It is extremely economical to grow your own sprouts, not
just the jar-grown variety but the type grown in soil in
nursery flats or cafeteria trays. The most highly nutritious
sprouts are soil grown sunflower and buckwheat. If you
decide to soil sprout at home, consider also growing baby
lettuce greens at the same time. Other delicious sprouts to
grow include: cabbage, turnip, peas, radish, mustard,
spinach, kale and Fenugreek.. My book, The Raw Gourmet
has general instructions and growing charts.
 
I recommend The Sprout Garden by Mark Braunstein for more
in- depth sprouting information. By growing soil grown sunflower,
buckwheat, pea and other sprouts at home, you are getting the
very best food known to man in the least expensive way possible.
 
It will cost you only pennies for a pound of high protein, high
chlorophyll, high vitamin, high mineral and high enzyme food.
 
If you are interested in preparing sprouts for survival purposes, you
will need to store soil, flats, seeds and any other equipment you
may need for your crops. And water. Or, look into the various types
of sprouters that allow you to grow the sprouts that you normally
grow in the soil hydroponically.
 
In times of true crisis, other than what you can forage, sprouts could
most likely be the only fresh food you will be able to obtain. (If you
have a clean supply of water.)
 
16. If you own a dehydrator, make up simple flax seed crackers in
quantity and replenish when the stock gets low.  Each time I make
flax seed crackers I do them up differently but here is a guideline.
For savory flax crackers: Take 5-6 cups of brown or golden flax
seeds and add 5-6 cups of pure water.

Allow to stand at room temperature for 4-6 hours. Then, fill your
blender container (to the top) with some or all of the
following: 3 to 5 cups of pureed tomatoes, 1 cup rehydrated
sun dried tomatoes, juice from 1 lemon plus a bit of lemon
rind, 2-3 whole onions, 6-10 garlic cloves, any other spices
or herbs you think that you will enjoy. Stir the flax seeds
and this mixture together, do not blend as you do not want
to break open the flax seeds, that will cause them to start
spoiling before they can finish dehydrating, flax seed oil
is very volatile -it spoils quite quickly. I love the taste
of caraway seeds so I add in 4-6 tablespoonfuls of whole
caraway seeds to the mixture, but you might prefer fresh or
dried cayenne, italian herbs, bits of chopped olive, etc...

Spread mixture on teflex trays about 1/4 inch thick or less. Set
your dehydrator at 140 until the crackers are warm to the touch
on top, then lower the temperature to 115-120. When dry on top,
score crackers to the size you want (I usually do 2 X 2 inches).
 
Flip crackers over, and carefully lift the teflex sheets off, leaving the
crackers to finish drying on the mesh screens that come with the
trays.
 
Be sure your crackers are utterly dry thoughout so that they won't spoil. 
Run the dehydrator for an extra half-day if need to be, just to be sure.
They will not get over done. Store in an airtight container like a jar with a
tight lid or zip lock plastic bags.

By the way, two things to know are:

1. The food never reaches the temperature you set the
dehydrator at. Too many raw fooders think they are being
smart by setting the thermostat at 90 degrees F. What they
are really doing is drying the food so slowly,the food probably
never reachingt over 75 or 80 degrees that they are most probably
creating mold that they will be eating. It just makes no sense to set
a dehydrator so low.
You can get all fancy and buy a thermometer if you want, but
I just check the crackers by touching them, when they are
quite warm and dry that is when I lower the temperature.

Certainly cold wet crackers will take many hours before they
even begin to heat up, there is no reason to worry about
killing enzymes until they are warm and dry. Do not make the
mistake of running your dehydrator at only 90 degrees, by
doing this you are creating unhealthy food.
 
2. I read a rant recently in a forum about how crazy
people are to use teflex sheets because they have teflon in
them. Well as far as I know, there isn't a problem with
teflon unless it reaches high temperatures, as in frying. A
dehydrator is never going to be too hot to release anything
from the teflex sheets that I know of. 
 
Another yummy flax seed cracker "recipe" is a sweet one.
Start with the same 5-6 cups of seeds and water. Only this
time your blender will be filled with sweet things, not
savory. I like using 6-8 ripe bananas, a handful of dates
along with water and maybe a little cinnamon, then dehydrate
as above.
 
Another great favorite of mine is apple crackers. I often
make one batch of half apple and half banana. Start with the
flax seeds and water mixture. Then fill your blender up with
applesauce made from fresh whole apples, as well as a
handful of dates and lots of cinnamon. Lately I have been
making up about 3/4 of a blender of apple/date mixture and
roughly grating 4 or five apples and mixing all together,
the large grated pieces are yummy in the cracker and it
looks very cool too. 
 
All these flax seed cracker recipes keep indefinitely. Great
for travel and for emergencies. The sweet ones taste
wonderful with a little bit of almond butter spread on them
and the savory ones are great with sliced avocado or some
pate.
 
17. Stock up one time on pantry essentials, then replenish
as needed. Buying in bulk saves money if you buy wisely-
purchase only food that you know that you will use.

If you live far from a reasonable source for these items,
remember too that the more you order at one time from a mail
order company the less per pound the shipping will cost.

For those of you lucky enough to live near a Trader Joe's they
usually have the following items raw and organic: nuts,
almond butter, some dried fruit.
Some basic pantry essentials are: (least expensive are in bold)
raw tahini (inexpensive especially compared to almond
butter)
raw nut butters
sunflower seeds (hulled)
nuts such as walnut or almond, hulled
Inshell nuts for snacks
flax seeds
olive oil
nama shoyu (similar to soy sauce but supposed to be raw) or sea salt
olives
sea weeds: dulse, kelp
sprouting items
Your favorite dried herbs and spices
Carob or cacao
Dried fruit such as dates and apricots
 
I hope that this information helps you to look at the economics of
food shopping (and finding) in new ways, by changing out your
routine and checking all food sources in your area.
 
Yours in Good Health
Nomi Shannon
The Raw Gourmet