I hope that you have had an amazing weekend, filled with local strawberry delights! Hundreds came to celebrate the unbelievable local bounty last week, and I’m currently blasting our facebook page with new photos of everyone’s boxes! This week will be even more of a celebration of community and food! Can’t wait!
This Wednesday, EAT IT RAW Salads & Gazpacho Class is @ Sur la Table, and there are 2 spots left! The next one is the Raw Desserts on the 18th. You can sign up here! For those who missed Rawpalooza (my interview aired to 6000 people!), you can still listen in for free until midnight tonight! After that, I will have a link where you can purchase the audios!
I am always dancing in my kitchen and preparing gorgeous rawness! A friend and I thought it would be hilarious if I made an ethnic salad celebrating my Lebanese & Ecuadorian culture while dancing! Everyone loves music, and everyone WANTS to dance whether they admit it or not! Therefore, I have just uploaded a new YouTube called Raw Mediterranean Tabouli & Belly Dancing! Haha! I hope that you enjoy this EPIC and fun video! Please share it with family and friends to inspire them to eat healthier too!
Keep your eyes open for an email this Wednesday! I will be making a special announcement! I am super excited about this one! Meanwhile, I am posting new recipes, videos, events, and ideas to our facebook page to motivate you to eat raw! Please “like” the page or friend me (Kristina!) to get our updates! For more inspiration, please see my blog!
You all have become my family, and you are the reason why I love this co-op so much. We share GORGEOUS food, heart-felt friendships, and zest for inspirational change. Thank you thank you for co-operating with me!
Hugs!
Kristina
The world is changing for the better, and everyone is trying to be GREEN and follow through with their New Year’s resolutions. Now is the time where you begin to see everyone “fall off the healthy wagon.” Are you one of those people, or can you keep motivated to truly achieve the place of health satisfaction that you want to reach? We as a co-op community this week want to focus on keeping motivated to make our resolutions integrate into our lifestyle so that being healthy is as easy as breathing, laughing, and hugging! We will be posting 
Before you grab that pastry, coffee, or fast food, ask yourself: why did I resolute to be healthy? Why did I want to make the choice to FEEL BETTER? The answer is most likely that you want to not only feel confident and alive in your skin, but also that you did not feel good after eating so much “junk” over the holidays. Were you eating food or product? Were you consuming “food” or were you stuffing emotions? Where is the root of your motivation? Before you can move forward, you must find this source of inspiration, and you must hold onto that feeling. This yearning in your gut combined with the vision of where you see yourself moves you forward! Time to manifest!
There are a few things to remember before you defeat yourself. Firstly, change takes time. Your body will not magically mystify itself overnight. Make a plan and take this stride one day at a time. Secondly, be patient and compassionate with yourself. You will not do everything perfectly, so come up with some “pick me up” phrases to tell yourself when you feel like you have done something wrong. Ironically enough, there is no wrong on the journey of health as long as you use each experience as a growth opportunity! Thirdly, find a team to support you through this if not partake in the adventure with you! This should be easy seeing that you have a co-op community of over 4700 people who are trying to do the same thing as you! When you pick up your box this week, make a goal to meet 2 new people! This is about the journey and not the destination. Who knows who or what is in store?!
You CAN do this, and there are steps that you can take to keep yourself motivated! Hopefully, this newsletter motivated YOU to keep with your New Year’s resolutions so that you can fly through the year with light, love, confidence, and happiness! Lettuce change this world one happy smile at a time. We only feel vibrant when we feel uplifted and at our healthy best! We have SO many local items coming in, I can’t even name them here, so check our list below! Keep it up everyone! You can order your box by seeing the link below or by 
We all have ONE thing in common this New Year, and I see that EVERYONE wants positive change not only in their lives, but also in the world. More than before, I have seen individuals put forth an effort to do GOOD for others and spread positive thoughts, emails, recommendations, businesses, support, and hugs. In particular, more have made the connection between happiness, eating well, and better health, and we are ALL wishing to share this gift with others! We FEEL the difference in how being healthier makes us feel, and we WANT this joy for everyone who we love. When one has better nutrition and self-confidence, his or her life is more satisfied.
The beginning of the New Year is ALWAYS a great start to begin fresh and create new positive affirmations and habits. Why not? This is the time to envision ALL that you want this year to become and to make it happen. It has been proven that when one actually sets a goal and makes notes of its execution, it is 75% more likely to happen! Last year, I wrote that I wanted to inspire more people to go Raw and to spread this message. I also wrote that I wanted to see more than 300 families coming to co-op each week. Goal GRANTED!
New Year’s goals are overrated because no one ever wants to follow through with them after January. I disagree. I love execution! Discipline is a matter of envisioning proper planning and taking steps. I believe that some goals never happen because people make goals that are too “self-oriented” or not realistic. Ironically, we tend to follow through with goals that are directed towards helping others more than ourselves. So why not HELP OTHERS and in return, help ourselves?
Everyone has heard that in order to change the world, one must first start with himself. “Lettuce” put a spin on this. I have a proposition for ALL of you. This year, make goals to HELP OTHERS. You will find that you reap more from this endeavor than making a million far-fetched goals for yourself. Ironically, helping others to create change motivates us to do even more for ourselves! This is where inspiration begins, and this is where heart happens. In turn, we develop ourselves and we change the world!
People have always said that I inspire. What people do not know about me is that I aim to give. In this, I find inspiration, and this soul purpose touches others. This ripple effect cannot be stopped, and I only wish to spread our message of eating raw fruits and vegetables with the world! One box at a time we can touch not only our physical beings, our mentalities, and our spirits, but also we influence those who surround us and who are enlightened by merely our presence.
If you have no other goals for yourself this year, then make one: to help others find better health. This can be as easy as handing a co-op flyer to a friend or even planting a tree. Find significance in making change for our world. This year, I pledge to help inspire raw health. Who is with me?!