Easy Dairy-Free Pesto

I love this recipe – it takes about 5 minutes and you’ve got a perfect dip, spread, sauce or salad or pasta dressing. It tastes just like the real thing! You’d never know it didn’t have Parmesan in it (not that there’s anything wrong with Parmesan – I have a particular soft spot for smelly cheeses for some bizarre reason but if you’re wanting to add something else tasty to your dairy-free and vegan arsenal of yummyness, this could be perfect!).

• 1 bunch of herbs – basil / coriander / parsley – whatever smell you are most drawn to
• 1/2 cup of nuts – pine nuts / almonds / pepitas / sunflower seeds / brazil / macadamias or any other nut you’ve got on hand (peanuts probably wouldn’t work too well here though as they’ve got a really strong flavour)
• 1 glove of garlic (optional)
• juice of half a lemon
• as much olive oil as you need to make the food processor turn easily
• salt and pepper to taste

Chuck all ingredients in a food processor and press go! (Warning: don’t try this with a blender, it doesn’t work out too well!) This pesto keeps well in the fridge for 3 days so you can munch out on it in a variety of vibrantly healthy ways (mmmm… corn chips… mmmm…. carrot and zucchini sticks… mmmm… mixed with more olive oil and poured over salad… mmmm…. on top of roast sweet potatoes… mmmm… I could go on…)

Give thanks, smile, eat and enjoy!

I’ll Have My Fruit & Vegies Without The Chemicals, thanks!

I’ve been eating organic fruit and veg for about 10 years now and I love it! The higher price to me is without question worth the added benefit of NOT being served poisonous stuff on my food. The taste too makes it impossible to go back to conventional F & V for those of us eating plant-based diet especially. There’s also a certain lifestyle that accompanies eating this way – the greater sense of appreciation and connection with the earth that produces the food and the people who grow it – the awareness of how much goes into getting this glorious sweet potato on my plate and the company of the community of people who agree with eating and living this way.

Knowing my passionate and abiding love for all things organic and nutritious, a friend mentioned a recent 60 Minutes segment on the danger of pesticides and other chemicals in our food (it was aired on March 18, 2010). The fact that this information is beginning to touch the wider world has caused an indescribable tingling excitement in my belly – there is so much potential here for our personal health, the health and vitality of our children, our children’s children and the health and wellbeing of our planet. Watch the short videos below and see what you reckon.

What are your thoughts about the virtues and relevance of eating organic food today?
Why do you eat the way you do? Have you noticed a difference between organic and conventional food (aside from price)? What factors determine your food choice for your family?

I’d love to hear your ideas! Oh, and if you’re on the Gold Coast and the vids below stimulate something check out the Gold Coast Organic Markets – every Sunday at Miami High School.

Raw Food For Thirty Days…

On our recent 30 Day Raw Food Challenge my husband and I lost weight, yelled at each other, felt vibrantly healthy, slept heaps, became depressed, watched our skin glow and effortlessly ate amazing food and much more. For some background info on what motivated us to do this, have a squiz at the Preamble. Below are a few key things I learned about myself and the raw food diet:

Weight loss
Losing weight is many people’s primary motivation behind transitioning to a raw food diet – it’s really hard to get fat when you’re eating nothing but food in it’s natural state. Raw food also cleanses and heals the body so digestion, liver and bowel function improve allowing the body to drop weight safely and sustainably. Weight loss has never really been a motivator for me (I’m more interested in feeling amazingly healthy all the time) but for my husband it was a big factor in our decision to do this. He had noticed a gradual change in his health as we started eating more mindfully after my big fast but was finding his excess weight difficult to shift. We both lost weight toward the end of the fast – me with loose pants an him with doing up 2 extra belt holes. It also gave Charles the clarity of mind to commit to the Gold Coast Kokoda Challenge and a daily yoga practice (both of which he’d wanted to do for ages but hadn’t).

It was all really quite easy
This is a rather funny statement but it’s true. Eating this way felt like food somehow became less important in my day to day. I rarely thought about food. I was rarely hungry. I felt satisfied all the time and never really wanted for anything – cravings just didn’t exist for me. I got a bit tired of chewing though I must admit.

But we felt like crap all the time
Looking back, I basically wrote off an entire month. I didn’t create anything worthwhile, socialising was a mammoth effort and there was very little connection between Charles and I. We were not expecting this. From all of our reading and self-education, people were raving about the incredible highs and surges of energy they had on this diet pretty much from the word go. Not us. Utter crap. Post 30 Days Raw though, energy just continues to get better and better! The most profound thing is the consistency of it – no ups and downs, no sharp plummets in mood and focus – just mental clarity and physical ease in all situations from the moment we wake up to the moment we put our head back on the pillow. It’s great!

The “But It’s the weekend” Syndrome
Sound familiar? Monday to Thursday it’s easy to stick to a routine and do the right thing but come Friday afternoon… all bets are off, it’s time to let your hair down! The thoughts about food and alcohol started coming thick and fast the first couple of Fridays and continued on through the entire weekend. Habitual thinking is dangerous. It’s a trap. Thankfully this passed though and by the 3rd weekend, we hardly batted an eyelid – we had conquered our weekend food patterns and didn’t give it a second thought.

“I’m finding myself sitting on the couch relaxing after a busy day doing Saturday stuff like shopping and running teenagers around and missing the fact that I’m not looking forward to eating. I’m not fantasising about the special, extra yummy treat that we’ve got to eat for dinner tonight. Strange – like a space in my mind that was once attached to the pleasure I would get out of our special weekend treat. Odd.” (from Day 14 of our 30 Day Raw Food Challenge)

I can’t be a recreational sugar user.
It’s true, I can pretend no longer. Sugar is poison to my body and mind and I’m better off without it. Apart from my extended fast last year – this is longest period of time I’ve ever had off all refined sugar in my life and I’ve had a LOT of sugar over the years. I’m becoming fascinated by the way sugar affects us and how it’s advent into our culture marks the beginning of so many degenerative diseases. Sugar has been linked to depression, anxiety, arthritis, muscular tension, cravings, mood disorders, stomach and digestive conditions, auto-immune diseases, skin and weight issues and cancer.

I’m also intrigued by the idea that sugar is actually the underlying addiction behind every addiction from alcoholism to gambling to shopping to cocaine to sex. Perhaps this is real reason why we felt like crap for so long? Just how long do withdrawals from sugar take anyway? I’m not sure but I do know that sugar has a hold over me that is uncomfortable. I do know that I am healthier and happier without it in my diet.

“The fear and sadness that that thought brings up is incredible – a sinking in my heart about all the good yummyness I’ll be missing out on – that my life will be less worth living and I’ll be forever depriving myself of any genuine pleasure and satisfaction from food. I do not want this realisation. I want to fight it and continue to deny it’s truth. To hide my head under the covers of rationalisations that pretend I can deal with life without sugar. That I can just have a coffee every now and then – that I can control this.
It’s crap though – the past year with getting off coffee then getting back on again numerous times has shown me that.” (from Day 20 of our 30 Day Raw Food Challenge)

Keep it simple
Raw food recipe books and websites are full of decadent recipes that make you drool contemplating how good they’ll taste. A lot of these recipes however require special equipment (like food dehydrators and nut butter machines and wheat grass juicers and $2000 blenders). We do have a food dehydrator, a food processor and cheap blender (which is brilliant) but because of our general feeling like crap state, we weren’t particularly adventurous in what we chose to make for ourselves. Many of these recipes are also extraordinarily complicated and time-consuming to make. We weren’t going to do that so we kept things really, really simple. We still found ourselves putting a fair bit of time into food preparation each day but the what to eat was always simple and readily available.

This focus on simplicity also allowed us to explore food in a new way – to realise that tomatoes don’t actually need salt to make them taste better and that avocadoes taste awesome with honey. This was like a rebirth and cleansing for our tastebuds. We became more sensitive to the subtle layers of flavour in foods in their natural state and how food really doesn’t need all that much to make it taste better, we just think it does.

The skin thing
WOW! Talk about smooth and silky and vibrantly aglow with life and youth from the inside out! Our skin felt amazing – so soft and clear and clean and magnificent. A noticeable difference. This diet without a doubt does the body’s largest organ a HUGE favour!

Indigestion be gone
Charles has been taking off and on quick-eze chewy things for the past couple of years. His diet has always been pretty good but a couple of times a week, he would get bad indigestion. No more! It’s totally gone – he hasn’t had any tummy troubles for the past 2 months at all!

Alcohol is a no go
Downhill from the very first sip of Cabernet Merlot organic wine touching my lips – I immediately started thinking about how good baked potatoes smothered in butter would taste – the more intoxicated I got – the stronger the cravings. All the next day I could feel it too – like it was easier to rationalise and make ok breaking the fast because we had alcohol in our systems.

Note to self: avoid at all costs any mind-altering substance when on a fast or cleanse of any kind.

(As a side note, did you know that wine isn’t vegan? We spent a while researching it on the net – initially to discover if wine was raw. Yes, it is! Yay! But it’s not very animal friendly and is mostly made to look all crystal clear through the use this stuff called isinglass which is ground up fish bladders!!!??? Us humans are incredible! How on earth did we discover that ground up fish bladders makes wine clear???? If not fish bladders, wine is clarified with egg albumin. You can get some brands that are clarified with clay apparently but more research is needed here as to what vineyards do it this way. We so rarely drink wine that we’ll leave that research to the true connoisseurs.)

Superfoods here we come!
So just why did we feel like crap for so long? One possible answer we uncovered was that even though we were eating the most amazingly vibrant and fresh organic food we still weren’t getting quite what we needed. Meat or dairy products with their abundance of B12 and amino acids would appear to be the answer but I’m not so sure about this mainly because of how little I thought about them. In the past, my mind and body send me clear signals about precisely what they need in the form of cravings and images of particular foods. We had no cravings. None (apart from the habitual weekend stuff) so I think there’s more to the story for my particular body.

Superfoods like cacao (the raw stuff chocolate comes from), maca, spirulina, coconuts, bee pollen, chlorella, goji berries, acai berries, honey, chia seeds, lacuma and other exotic sounding whole foods appear to fill in the gaps. Superfoods contain massive amounts of everything good. Mega doses of anti-oxidants, essential fatty acids, vitamins, live minerals, natural hormone balancers and more can be found in abundance in these whole and unprocessed foods. I like superfoods because they’re not segmented or adulterated (unlike man-made supplements) – they are complete and can be eaten as grown in their natural state. Whole foods do more for us than any vitamin and mineral around.

My catch cry has become – why eat just food when you can eat SUPER food!

100% Raw Food diet on a budget
Hah! Did I hear someone say oxymoron? Raw food organic diet and the word “budget” have no place existing on the same page together let alone in the same sentence! Eating this way is expensive, no doubt about it. I’ve been buying organic fruit and veg and shopping at health food stores for 10 years or so, so I’m used to spending a bit more on my food. I don’t mind this – the taste, vitality and sustainability are worth it to me but eating raw food for 30 days did occasionally make us cringe going through the checkout. Growing it yourself is one excellent way of course to keep costs down and at the moment we’re researching wholesale superfoods and bulk orders. Anyone interested in a superfood co-op?

The Verdict
Good experience. Will definitely do it again. I’m particularly interested in how different I would feel being totally free of all refined carbohydrates and sugar for a year or so. I know. I’m a freak but I’m learning to love it more and more each day!

What would motivate you to want to begin a raw food diet? How have you dealt with feeling deprived on diets before?
What have you heard about raw food and it’s benefits?

Raw For Thirty Days Preamable

A bit extreme I hear you say? Nothing but raw, vegan food for the next month? Yes. Lots of fruit, all kinds of vegetables, olives (they’re raw), herbs, pickles (yum!), nuts, seeds, dried fruit and sprouts. That’s it. No sugar, coffee, tea, processed carbohydrates, cheese and other dairy products, meat (we thought about some raw fish at one point but couldn’t be bothered when it came to it), pasta, bread, condiments (apart from olive oil and apple cider vinegar which are both raw), rice, grains, takeaway or fast food of any kind. Phew! Yes, a little extreme but an incredible experiment.

It all began when my husband and I watched this brilliant DVD over the Christmas holidays called Raw For 30 Days – it follows the journey of 6 people who have type 1 and type 2 diabetes. They are flown in from across the US to a health retreat in Arizona and put on a 100% raw food diet. The documentary is about their challenges and incredible success in getting off their medication purely through diet. Extremely inspiring! It made me cry at one point – seeing the wonder and awe of a couple of the residents discovering for the first time what it meant to feel good – really good.

So inspired we were that we decided to start our own 30 day raw challenge. Nothing heated over 42 degrees celsius to pass our lips for the next month. We don’t have diabetes but we do want to feel excellent all the time and know that all diets (no matter how well regarded or promoted, advertised or supported by the medical profession) are purely experiential – they must be tried to understand the full effects on the individual’s particular body and mind.

Generally going totally raw is not something people just jump into. I completed a 40 day fast last year and since then, we’ve been eating about 70 – 80% raw and living food. It just seemed natural for me and quite effortless. Through my research I also kept coming across the idea of raw food being the original diet – the way we are meant to eat. Certainly the evidence is clear and undeniable – as soon as food is cooked, vitamins, minerals and almost every other nutrient in it is depleted and sometimes even completely destroyed. Therefore, eating more raw food is one easy way to make sure you are getting the most out of the food you are eating.

It wasn’t a huge change of tack for us to undertake 30 day raw. It’s just, we’ve never been that strict with ourselves before.
We generally follow the 80:20 rule – eat well 80% of the time and the other 20% eat whatever you like.

Here we go!

My Favourite Three Ingredient Salad

If you haven’t already picked up on this – I’m rather lazy. I don’t cook. I like things I can bung together in under 5 minutes. I like simple flavours full of freshness and natural seasoning. I like salad. I like tomatoes. I like olives. I really like onions (for some bizarre reason).

Who says a salad can’t be a meal? Just eat more of it!

• tomatoes – any and all however much you like
• olives – green / black whatever
• purple onion / shallots / eschallots / white onion / leek

Enjoy!

Join Us For Kokoda Challenge Training!

YAY! We’ve got our boots, camelbacks, hats, band aids, rain slickers and men who can read maps and we’re ready to go! Gold Coast Kokoda Challenge are you ready?  Looooooong walks, lots of green and magnificent fresh air are ours for the taking (I’m purposefully not mentioning the mosquitoes, chafing, muddy mishaps, ticks, blisters, fatigue, sore knees, sweat, blood and tears that will no doubt be thrust upon us at some point – having a positive outlook is essential to success they tell me!).

To complete the 96 kms of the track in under 39 hours we must train so training we are! Join us on any or all of our weekly training walks between now and the Challenge in July. If you want to lose a bit of weight and need some motivation, if you want to do some brilliant and exhilarating exercise, if you want to have a few laughs over some utterly profoundly philosophical conversational meanderings or if you’re just looking for an excuse to press the pause button… come for a walk with us!

Please note though – the training bush walks we will be doing are TOUGH – you must have  moderate fitness level. Lots of the walks include extremely steep climbs or rocky and slippery tracks and so are not for those new to bush walking. These tracks are also not for young kids. We’re starting with about 12 – 15 kms each week, with 22 kms per day over Easter then increasing from there. The walks will take between 3 and 8 hours.

If it all sounds like a bit too much hard work (you’re right) we’d LOVE a donation – simply to go Kokoka Challenge Donations - where it says “Select Team” click on Epic Journeyers (that’s us!) and make your contribution via credit card. We need to raise $1000 dollars and it’s all for the great cause of taking groups of local teenagers from SE Queensland, putting them through some tough and character building training for 9 months, then taking them to walk the real Kokoda Track in PNG.

If you’re still keen, have a squiz at the training guidelines from The Kokoda Challenge folk too.

Below is our schedule of Sunday walks with meeting places and times. for the next couple of months. I’ll be publishing more walks as we schedule them in the future. The walks below are not circuits so we will need to do a bit of car pooling to get each other back to our cars after our adventures. I’ve also included a zipped file for you to download detailed descriptions of each training route with precise GPS coordinates, distances and UBD references.

Our normal monthly bush walks (usually from 6 – 10 kms) through the Gold Coast Hinterland will be resuming after the Challenge in August 2010.

Our Kokoda Training Schedule.pdf

Kokoda Training Routes & Maps.zip

With love, sweat and leeches,
The Epic Journeyers
Charles, Susan, Shirley and Jerry

Freedom From Food Addiction & Emotional Eating

Many of us use food to numb ourselves, to prop us up when we’re down, to quiet our mind or to fill us up when we feel empty. At first glance, food seems like the easiest and quickest solution in so many ways. Food is cheap, legal and simple to obtain, available in every corner shop, cafe, restaurant, home, office, vending machine and lunch bag! In other words, food is a drug and when we come right down to it – we use drugs because they work. At least for a little while…

But then something happens. We find that we don’t like our behaviours or ourselves much anymore. We start looking for solutions.

To create a step by step model of beating food addiction and emotional eating we need a highly personalised and comprehensive plan. Freedom from emotional eating must work in your day to day life for you or it won’t work at all. For me, the entire point is to enjoy and celebrate the gift of food every day in a stress-free and easy manner. Below are a few vital notes to keep in mind when it comes to developing a healthy relationship with food.

1.  Use your food as medicine.
If we can see every morsel that passes our lips as either contributing to our health and wellbeing or taking away from it, we are in a much better position to take control of our food habits. When the food we eat has little nutritional value it impacts on our state of mind – we cannot produce the perfect levels of neurotransmitters so our mood fluctuates. Because we in the habit of using food like processed carbohydrates or caffeine to make ourselves feel better and because they are quick and easy, we eat them and so perpetuate the cycle of poor food, leading to poor state of mind, leading to poor food choices and so on. When we start to take in the best quality, nutrient-dense, freshest and most vibrant food we can get our hands on, our physical, mental and emotional health will flourish.

2.  Eliminate completely all addictive substances from your diet. With food, start with MSG, then move on to sugar.
There’s no two ways about it. MSG and sugar are drugs that cause a consistent and reliable chemical shift in our bodies and our brains. They are damaging and addictive. Start slowly. Begin by learning why they’re so bad for us. Learn how to recognise them and how they’re hidden in our packaged, canned, frozen and processed food. Then look for substitutes that are more natural and do not contain addictive food chemicals. Find out how many of the foods in your pantry and fridge contain sugar and MSG and start eliminating them. Every person I’ve ever worked with who has removed sugar and MSG from their diet feels profoundly different – strong and clear and much, much more energetic and healthy. The bottom line is, it’s really hard, if not impossible to change your eating habits if you continue to ingest addictive substances daily. I’m not talking about a life of never enjoying a glass of wine or chocolate, rather, recognising that these substances do have power over some of us and taking back control.

3.  Be easy on yourself.
Food and mood are intimately connected and have been since the day you were born. By choosing to educate and enlighten yourself around your food habits and comfort eating, you are in many ways, going against the grain and reversing ways of eating that have been in place for many years. This does not happen overnight. Or, it may happen overnight, only to prove unsustainable so you go back again and again to comfort and compulsive eating. The majority of us have been taught by well meaning and loving parents to use food as a reward (be quiet and you’ll get McDonalds for dinner!), as punishment (if you don’t eat your greens you won’t get desert) and as a distraction (when crying children are given something to eat, they generally shut up immediately). This is not about blame, more about seeing the biggest possible picture of who you are and your intricate relationship with food. What is your food story? What did you learn about food as a child?

By beginning to integrate these concepts we come up with much more than a simple, step by step guide to beating emotional eating and putting an end to strict discipline and self-control – we come up with a way of life and a way to live in harmony with the health of our bodies, the health of our families, the health of our communities and our homes and the health of our earth. By taking charge of your food habits, you will discover an inner freedom that will allow you to do anything you want and more!

The MOST Incredible Chocolate Pie You’ve Ever Tasted!

It’s true, I swear! Utterly decadent, rich, creamy, but healthy all at the same time. This is not like a traditional pie that can be overpoweringly sweet or makes you feel heavy in the tummy after eating – this pie must be tried to be believed and will have folks begging for more!

Filling

• 1 cup cacao powder (you can use cocoa but cacao is less processed and refined and so retains more nutrients)
• 4 big avocados
• 3/4 cup agave or honey
• 1 tsp pure vanilla essence (make sure you splurge on the good stuff not that vanilla flavouring fake stuff – you can really taste the difference!)

Pie Crust

• 2 cups almonds / macadamias / walnuts / brazil nuts / pecans (or any nut you like really! Peanuts are probably a bit too, well, peanutty though)
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut
• 1 cup of firmly packed dates
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries  (I can’t stand cranberry sauce so just adding a bit of the Christmas dinner shine here but without the turkey)

Method

1. Soak the dates for 10 mins or so in water
2. Combine all the crust ingredients in a food processor (unless your food processor breaks down halfway through crushing the nuts and you have to put the remainder inside a plastic bag and wrap it in a tea towel and go outside and find some cement and smash the nuts with a meat masher that your brilliant 15 year old stepson made in Metalworks). Use the water from the date soaking to lubricate the mix. Don’t add too much date water, just enough for the mix to move through your processor until it’s a nice, crusty consistency. It doesn’t have to be too smooth.
3. Grab a pie dish and line it with baking paper. Press your crust mix evenly into your pie dish going up the sides and everywhere.
4. Now for the filling. Combine all the filling ingredients too a deliciously smooth texture. You can use a food processor if you like (once you’ve cleaned out the filling remnants) but by hand in a big bowl works quite well too. Make sure you stick a finger in along the way and try it – SOOOOO yummy!
5. Pour the filling into your pie crust.
6. Freeze your pie for 2 – 3 hours. It will go pretty solid and it’s quite easy to slice. You can carefully pull it out all in one piece for easy slicing of pieces once the cake has frozen.
7. For best eating results, slice and serve the pie and wait about 15 minutes for the filling to gently soften for the absolute chocolate melt in your mouth experience. You decorate the top with strawberries or blueberries or sprigs of mint or sprinkles of coconut – whatever you like!

The start of a new Christmas tradition methinks…

The 3 Most Important Things In Living A Long & Healthy Life

This 20 minute talk by Dan Buettner is an inspiration for those of us wanting life to be a continual celebration that gets better and better as we age not just a slow, steady unavoidable decline. From his travels and studies of the most long-lived communities on earth, he has clearly identified the most important things we need to know about living a long and healthy life:

1. Eat a plant based diet
2. Move naturally – organise your life so that you can exercise doing what you need to do. For example, sit on the floor so you burn calories getting up, mix things by hand rather than using a food processor, walk to the shops rather than allowing convenience to make all your choices for you.
3. Be part of a community, belong and feel at home with the people you move through life with. Cultivate a healthy outlook on life and always, always, have a reason to get up in the morning that fills you with joy.

The most important realisation seems to be that our ability to live long and healthy lives is not about one thing in particular – it’s not about diet or drinking red wine every day. It’s not about cardiovascular health or hygiene or having all of our physical needs met. It’s not just about feeling good and being happy either (although, I think most of us would settle for this no matter how long we live!). Longevity is about the rhythm and flow of life and having a connection to and understanding of the bigger picture.

It seems in our western culture many of us often wind up feeling isolated, alone and purposeless with no real sense of connection to others. I’ve felt my life being drawn down this same path over the past few years – maintaining and building friendships seem like too much hard work and it’s easier after a long days work to relax with my husband, do what we need to do for our boys and just sit and watch a DVD while life cruises along.

Recently however, a small tendril of hope has been seen wisping gently out of my heart – I want to feel part of something again! I’ve been part of spiritual communities in the past and of course, at school and college and networking events it’s easy to relate to those around you and feel connected but I let that get run over somewhere along the mad highway of a busy life . So, I’ve decided to create my own community around me by my actions and by the wise distribution of my time. I’ve begun to really nourish and give to the people in my life – to show them my appreciation by my presence and by helping them out with the simple things – by listening, by vacuuming the floor, by using a skill I’ve been trained in. This giving is not born out of some sense of obligation normally reserved for family. I’m not doing it because I’m getting paid to or because of some future merit I’m earning. I’m doing it because I can. Pure and simple.

This kind of giving isn’t easy for me – it doesn’t come naturally and requires effort but the sense of connection and of how by just being me and showing up I can impact on the lives of those around me is satisfying in a whole new way. This is a way I want to continue for as long as I possibly can!

How do you create these elements of longevity in your life now?
How do you create and nourish your community?

Green Wraps

Talk about simple! These green wraps are a great substitute for traditional sandwiches. I once heard bread referred to as “bum glue” by a naturopath so if you’re wanting to reduce your carbohydrate intake, these are a brilliant, yummy and utterly healthy idea. Very satisfying too.

Ingredients

• a few large leafy green pieces – collard is good or cos lettuce (it doesn’t matter what you use as long as it’s green!)
• something to put inside it – tomatoes, olives, hommus, pesto, nut butter, zucchini, cucumber, onion, capsicum, sprouts, avocado, all of these or anything else that takes your fancy!

Method

1. Wash and rinse your green leaves
2. Put your filling inside it
3. Wrap it up and roll it
4. Enjoy!

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