RAWsome Treats Fit for Spiderman

 

 Check out this little cutie eating his Green Tara Energy Bites.  He's one happy camper!  He asked what was in them and his mom told him the ingredient list:  spirulina (a plant from a lake), banana, sesame seeds & coconut, to which he replied, "I didn't know bananas came in green squares!" And then he asked if Spiderman eats them...

RAWK ON!  And thanks, Green Tara for sharing your fab treats with us.  They are rawsome!

Spirulina Treats in the Fairy House

We have a fairy house that adorns our walls and it is home to two lovely fairies named Madeline & Harry.  These fairies love kids and they leave my niece and nephew little notes every week and an occasional gift too.  This week there were lots of squeals when Avery arrived to discover Madeline & Harry had left a present.

Green Tara Energy Bites were waiting for her & she couldn't have been happier.  Madeline & Harry wrote her a little note on the packaging and explained that spirulina is a a fresh water algae that is so good for us ... it's a rawtastic source of protein and also contains iron, calcium, magnesium & all kinds of other vitamins & minerals.  The fairies said that they loved these treats and that they thought she and her brother would like them too.

Avery opened the packet and she and her brother sampled them. And of course, they liked them too!  Yummmm!

THANK YOU, GREEN TARA for sharing your spirulina energy bites with the fairies in our home & the kids who visit.

Order your own Energy Bites & Spirulina Crunchies HERE.

Chocolate Treats ... make 'em & eat 'em!

Making raw vegan chocolates is soooo much fun ... as you can see by looking at this little girl's face.

Get your ingredients out & let's make some Valentine chocolates that the whole family can enjoy.

Kids Gone Raw Chocolate
1/4 cup of melted coconut oil (melt in the dehydrator)
1/4 cup of melted cacao butter (melt in the dehydrator)
1/4 cup of agave or maple syrup
1/4 cup of raw cacao powder
pinch of sea salt
*You can use all coconut oil or all cacao butter

1.  Place your coconut oil & cacao butter in bowls in the dehydrator at 115 for 1/2 hour to melt them.
2.  Combine all ingredients together in a bowl that pours or a liquid measuring cup.
3.  Stir together with a wisk until really well combined.
4.  Pour chocolate mixture into ice cube trays, silicone ice molds, chocolate molds or onto wax paper boats that will contain the chocolate.
5.  Sprinkle all if your favorite things into the molds:  raisins, cashews, pecans, shredded coconut, chia seeds and a little sea salt.  YUMMMM!
7.  Place chocolates in freezer to set for 10 minutes.
8.  Remove them from freezer and pop them out of their molds.  Arrange chocolates on a plate & store them in the fridge until you are ready to eat them.
 OR  
4.  Dip fresh fruit into the chocolate mixture, then dip chocolate covered fruit in shredded coconut & place on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
5.  Place cookie tray with fruit into the freezer to set for 10 minutes.
6.  Remove cookie sheet from freezer, arrange fruit on a plate & place in fridge until you are ready to eat them.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!  We love YOU! 

Green Poop & Plant Pee ... JUICING with kids!

 Who knew the juicer would bring so much joy to these 2 kids!?  I mean they LOVE this thing!!!!!!!!  I asked my niece for help juicing--she pretty much loves to help with anything I do in the kitchen & the next thing I know, I have my 19 month old nephew crawling up on a stool to pitch in too.

The funny thing about using the juicer is that it was so intuitive for them.  Of course, they have seen it in action before & my niece has certainly helped me on different occasions, but this time, they just took over & needed very little guidance.  It was the cutest thing! <3  They would have juiced & juiced & juiced ... too bad I ran out of fruits & veggies!

I think what they love about it is seeing something go in whole & come out  as "green poop" & "plant pee" to use the words of my niece.  And of course it tastes good too!  The last thing she said to me before her dad came to get her was, "Can we make juice EVERY Wednesday?"  OF COURSE!!!!!!

The juice we made was a carrot fruit juice:
2 carrots
1 apple
1 pear
1/4 cup of cranberries
 Note:  they also like sweet green juices

The Practice of Gratitude

In the spirit of giving, Kids Gone Raw is giving away RAWsome “PLANT STRONG” green bracelets!  Wooo-hooooooo!

Simply “LIKE” Kids Gone Raw on facebook & leave a comment, share a picture, a relevant link or something fun on our page.  Once you have liked us & placed a comment, e-mail us your snail mail address to info@kidsgoneraw.com & we’ll send you a bracelet!  We have adult sizes & kid sizes, so let us know how many you need.  It’s that easy!  :-)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  We are Grateful for you!

What are you grateful for?

Apple Peelers & Cranberry Apple Sauce

If you have kids in your life & don't have an apple peeler, I highly recommend getting one!  They cost about $25 & will give you lots of good times in the kitchen.  You can slice & peel dozens of apples in no time at all to use in apple pies, cobblers, dehydrated apple slices, apple sauces & just for eating plain.  The options are endless & it's such a fun tool.  Kids love the apple peeler!  My little helper peeled four apples yesterday & would have kept going if we had had more apples to peel.  :-)

Once we peeled the apples I asked Avery to help me create a delicious new recipe.  We brainstormed for a minute & then threw our ingredients into the blender to work its magic.  We decided on a cranberry apple sauce & the outcome is delicious!  See recipe below & ENJOY!

Cranberry Apple Sauce  

by Girl Gone Raw & Miss Avery  :-)
serves 3-4

4 large apples, peeled & cored
3/4 cup of fresh cranberries
1 tsp of cinnamon
2 Tbs raw coconut sugar, honey or maple syrup
Place ingredients in a high speed blender or food processor & blend until smooth & creamy.   Eat up!  :-

3 Halloween Treats from Girl Gone Raw

Pumpkin Bites

makes about 12 pumpkin bites

bites:

1 cup of cashews

1/4 cup plus 1 Tbs of goji berries, soaked 10-15 minutes on water

1 Tbs coconut oil

1 1/2 Tbs raw coconut sugar OR agave, honey or maple syrup

pinch of sea salt

Place ingredients together in a food processor & blend until a doughy mixture forms.  Shape into balls. 

pumpkin features:

2 Tbs raisins

fresh herb stems cut into 1/2 inch pieces

Flatten raisins with your finger & then cut into quarters to create the eyes.  Cut raisins in half to create the mouths.  Gently press features into pumpkin bites.  Cut herb stems into pieces & stick in the top of your pumpkins.  Place pumpkins in fridge to firm up.  ENJOY!

Ice Cream Sand-Witch Hats

makes about ice cream 12 sand-witch hats

ice cream:

3 bananas, peeled, broken into pieces & frozen

1 cup of spinach, chopped

2 Tbs of raw coconut sugar, agave nectar or maple syrup

1-2 Tbs water

Place ingredients in a high speed blender or a food processor & blend until a soft serve ice cream consistency is achieved.  If you are using the food processor, you may have to scrape it down a few times & add a little more water.  Place "ice cream" in a bowl & place in freezer for 1-2 hours to harden a little more.  

cookie:

1 cup of walnuts

1 cup of pitted medjool dates

3 Tbs of carob or cacao (cocoa) powder

Place ingredients in a food processor & blend until a dough forms.  Sprinkle some almond flour down on a cutting board & roll dough out to 1/4 inch thinkness.  Cut into triangles & then shape each triangle into a witch hat by hand.  

assembly:

Remove "ice cream" from freezer & scoop a little out onto a witch hat cookie.  Form the ice cream to the shape of the hat, about 1/2-1 inch high, with your hands & then top with another witch hat cookie.  Repeat until you have finished all of the witch hats.  Freeze sand-witches for an hour or 2 before eating.  Yummmmmmmm!

Worms & Dirt Pudding

worms:
2 apples or pears, shredded
1/2 lemon, juiced
Use the shredding disc from the food processor to quickly shred the fruit & then place it in a bowl.  Squeeze the juice from 1/2 a lemon over the shredded fruit & set aside.

pudding:
1 banana
1 avocado
1/2 cup of almond milk (or simply add 1/4 cup of almonds & 1/2 cup of water)
3 Tbs raw coconut sugar OR agave nectar, honey or maple syrup
3 Tbs carob or cacao (cocoa) powder
pinch of sea salt
Place ingredients in a high speed blender or food processor & blend until smooth & creamy.  Mix pudding in with the "worms"  & eat up! Store in fridge.

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Dempsey Challenge 2011

We were set up at the Dempsey Challenge in Lewiston making rawsome SUPER HERO smoothies & rawkin' applesauce in the KidZone on Oct 8th & 9th & we had so much fun!  It was great to connect with Dempsey Challenge participants & their families over a celebration of healthy living through nutrition & physical activity.


The rawsome snack shack was a big hit!  There were lots of adorable green smoothie mustaches going on & lots of smiles over the apple sauce.

The Dempsey Challenge is an INCREDIBLE event!  WOW ... it is so organized & thoughtfully put together & the staff & volunteers were out-of-this-world!  We were in awe of all that happened here & grateful to have been a part of the festivities!  THANK YOU!

Click HERE to see more photos from the weekend.

Let the Kids Shop

I picked my 4 year old niece up from school yesterday & asked her what she wanted to do on this beautiful afternoon.  "Go to the Market," she said.  I think she was reading my mind.  :-)  Off to the Market we went with her little brother in tow.

We parked, loaded the sleeping brother into the stroller, grabbed a shopping bag & away we went.  As we were walking to the market I asked her what she was most excited to get & she said, "TOMATOES!"  

First things first, we went on the perfect cherry tomato hunt.  We found a display of little orange tomatoes, red tomatoes, mutli-colored tomatoes ... and after much deliberation, she picked out a pint of bright red cherry tomaotes.  They were so yummy & disappeared so quickly that I never got a picture of her enjoying them.  I did however get some pictures of the remainder of our shopping experience.  :-)

My niece had so much fun helping me pick out produce, take it to the farmers to weigh & then pay for it that I thought she was going to explode!  And she learned a lot too.  We talked about veggies & what we can make with them, we talked about weighing food & money to pay for it.

The cutest thing was that when she woke up from an afternoon nap, the first thing she said to my partner was, "I got to buy food at the Farmers' Market all by myself!"  She then got up & helped me unpack the food & arrange it in a huge bowl on the kitchen counter.  Happiness is ...

Let the kids shop, I say!  Take them to a Farmers' Market near you ... it makes for a great outing for everyone!

Smiles,  :-)  Elizabeth, aka Girl Gone Raw

WELCOME

Who said there can be too many cooks in the kitchen?  Elizabeth and Maggie welcome you to our KIDS GONE RAW blog.  Our site and forth coming un-cook book will empower kids (and their people) to take control of their health through fabulous RAW snacks and goodies.

Here on our blog you will find all kinds of tasty bites, healthy living tips &  MORE!

Stay tuned ...