Happy Oasis, Part III: What She Eats and Her Favorite Superfoods

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 by: Kevin Gianni
Tags: raw foods, health news, Natural News

(NewsTarget) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Renegade Roundtable, which can be found at http://www.RenegadeRoundtable.com. In this excerpt, Happy Oasis shares on what she eats and favorite superfoods.

Renegade Roundtable with Happy Oasis. Happy is the Chief Visionary Officer of the Raw Spirit Festival, a motivational speaker and author of Uncivilized Ecstasies and Bliss Conscious Communication.

Kevin: Sara says you really inspired her on the Rawkathon. She wants to know, you talked about foraging food but what do you eat? Do you fix it yourself? Is it simple? Is it gourmet? What's daily fare?

Happy: Well, first of all, thank you Sara. You inspire me. I love this mirroring of inspiration because it always encourages me to go on. I have the option to just go back and be a hermit. I'm so content like that. So thank you, Sara.

What do I eat? Well, I try to be versatile. However I'm more or less pretty much raw vegan. I'll say 99 percent raw vegan. Once in a while I will eat something else but it's so rare that I can't even remember the last time I had something else. This morning I had juice. I'm home so I had some carrot, apple, celery. Then I went into the garden. We grow a garden here four seasons. I'm up in the mountains but I put a piece of plastic over our garden. I raise it up a little bit in the winter. We also have a sun room. That sun room is part living area and part indoor raised bed gardens. So we have lounge chairs, a French dining table and we also have these vegetables growing. I love to grow greens. In Arizona by the time the greens get here they can be a week old. So I ate some parsley and cilantro. Almost everything I eat in the green category is from the garden here. Our garden is just lush right now. I love arugula. It's one of my favorites. I love the mustard family. Chard sometimes, and lots of spinach in the winter. I'm not so into lettuce because I like the dark, leafy greens for their nutritional value even more. Then after the juice - oh, a little bit of ginger and lemon in it. Sometimes I'll throw a couple tablespoons of spirulina in there. I'm pretty simple.

I'm really into fresh fruits. I usually only eat locally, as much as possible, and fresh, organic. I go to the farmer's markets. I went to the farmer's market in California three days ago and ate [indecipherable] and some blood oranges that had just come off of somebody's tree.

Then there are these potluck celebrations which have more complex foods. However this digestive tract is other than able to digest gourmet foods with a lot of ease because of so many years of eating wild, edible plants and mono foods. If you know what I mean. Just like eating one cucumber. One of my favorite meals or snacks is just to eat a cucumber. Sometimes for my teeth I'll just eat celery or a big carrot. I love beets as well.

Then in the tropics, I just came from a couple of months in Hawaii, I was having coconut every day, fresh coconut right off the tree. It would plunk down in the middle of the night. You can hear the avocados falling down on the ground, as well, at night. I go easy on bananas. I really try to avoid those. But coconut every day. Papaya. In the tropics it's really easy to eat too much fruit so I try to start my day with salad. I used to be diabetic. And then try to end my day with a salad. Then I have fruit in between as my snacks. That's it. Pretty simple.

I almost never eat dried fruit. I don't do any raisins, Gobi berries, dates, or any of that because of the diabetes and also I find it very dehydrating and more difficult to digest. I also go easy on the nuts. I try to eat a lot more olives and avocados for my main source of fat. And flax seed oil and olive oil.

I'm pre-superfoods. I've been raw vegan for 14 years. The word "superfood" I'd never heard of. They kind of came in as this big fad. This has been going on for a few years. In the long run the superfoods are great and it's really about fresh, organic produce and sprouting your own mung beans and other sprouts and your own garden and foraging. That's really the sustainable, long-term diet of the millennia.

Kevin: Right. It makes a lot of sense. Gail does ask, "What is your favorite superfood?" So I imagine that even though you're pre-superfood I'm sure that you've eaten a few of them. What would be your favorite one?

Happy: I would say my favorite superfood is loving kindness. It just feeds me. When people are really loving and kind and funny. When people are really hilarious, it just giggles me forth and it gives me so much energy. I love affection. I love to hug people and be hugged. And just living in nature is the finest superfood. But on that level that I know what you're talking about, I would say spirulina. I'm not gourmet, please understand. That will just do it for me. I eat to live. I don't live to eat. People are sometimes shocked that I'm not a gourmet chef. I leave that to other people. I love the gourmet food on very occasional occasions.

Superfoods, I eat dulse. Dulse is wonderful. Sometimes nori sheets. But I don't really take anything out of a bottle personally. However, if those people are in transition or they feel that they're even busier than I am and they prefer eating out of a bottle then more power to them. However for me and for my budget, because I have a non-profit salary, so for my budget and for my vitality I just love fresh greens and fresh fruits.

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