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My EAT IT RAW Class Recap!

Monday, March 25th, 2013

This weekend was a success! Not only did we have 200 families come Saturday to pick up their huge boxes of Rawfully Organic goodness, but also my EAT IT RAW class this weekend was completely sold-out with 100 attendees! For this 2 hour class, I prepared a 3-course sample meal for each person, using ingredients only found in our ROC’N boxes! Newbies came too, and we even had people drive from places like Austin and out-of-state of come! I feel so honored to be able to share this message of FullyRaw health with everyone, and I cannot wait until the next class on May 5th! I will send out a new newsletter soon for early sign-ups. To sign up for class announcements, free recipes, videos, and more, please sign up for the email newsletters on www.rawfullyorganic.com and www.fullyraw.com.

In the class, we covered several topics:

Rawfully Organic
How I Started Rawfully Organic
My Story of Health
Branching Out to New Forms of Alternative Health/Medicine
Inspiring One’s Family to Eat Healthier
How to Eat FullyRaw
Exercise
Juicing vs. Blending
Rawfully Organic Product Merchandise
Food Combining
Weight-Loss
Why People Fail Eating FullyRaw
Why Vegan is Important
Colon Health / Elimination
Easy Green Smoothie Recipes
Salad Recipe/ Burrito Buffet Line
FullyRaw Carrot Cupcakes
Endless FAQ’s for Kristina!

Each person was fed a green smoothie, a FullyRaw Burrito (that they made themselves), and FullyRaw Carrot Cupcakes in honor of my birthday! The entire venue was filled with smiles and gratitude, and I feel nothing but gratitude for having everyone come to enjoy the Sunday afternoon with me. For anyone thinking of coming to one of my classes, please do! The next Summer class will feature all new recipes with a focus on juicing, smoothies, summer weight-loss, co-op involvement, and more! You are welcome, and we discuss all matter of being FullyRaw at hand. For those who were not able to make it, please enjoy these pictures as if you were there! Hope to see you at the next Summer class!

An Healthy Nation: Lettuce BELIEVE!

Friday, November 9th, 2012

I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF FRUITS AND VEGGIES. DO YOU?

Our nation is unhealthy. While some may be practicing good health, more are unhealthy than healthy. I think now more than ever people are looking for health. Not just any type of health, but a solution to unease; a means to dissatisfaction. Society continuously searches for the “quick fix” to some of the most deep-rooted issues; yet, these self-destructive habits cannot be changed overnight. The solution seems to be complicated, but it is actually simple. The question is: are you brave enough to embark on the journey to ultimate body freedom?

When I first went FullyRaw almost 8 years ago, I had no idea the transformation that would take place. Fruits and vegetables would change my life? Really? Sure, why not. If you eat them you feel better physically, right? YES. As a result, I found perfect physical health! Ironically, I didn’t expect for the rest of my life to change. My mindset changed, my emotions changed, and my heart changed. All of the things that I truly wanted for myself, I finally envisioned the manifestation for these possibilities. More importantly, I saw myself as worthy to have them. Then, I developed the bravery to take the steps towards making them happen. What desires and dreams and I speaking of specifically?

Before when I was hyperglycemic, I always dreamed of having the perfect health, perfect body, and perfect confidence. Ironically, I saw this “Kristina” in my head, but I never acted like her in real life. She was my prototype. Becoming FullyRaw was like skydiving: I took the leap with complete faith that the person I wanted to become would manifest as a beacon of health inspiration to show the world what is possible through raw living. Eat raw isn’t just about the food, but it is just about the food. My transformation started with fruits and veggies; here I still stand with fruits and veggies. Am I in the same place? Yes and no. I eat just as clean as I did when I first started this journey; however, I stand before you transformed. I’m in a new element of confidence, happiness, healthiness, self-love, community love, family love, and hope.

I do believe in the power of fruits and veggies. Anyone who has tried a bite of what raw wants another bite. There is something about eating raw that not only makes you CRAVE the fresh food, but also the image of what your body would be like completely PURE. Not to mention, there is something about being totally tied to the earth in a way that connects you with all living things. You turn ON, and there is no going back without an inner subconscious battle. So why not do it? Why not serve as a light, an inspiration to everyone you know?

Drug companies dish out a different type of drug that has our nation in a downward spiral. Smoking. Drinking. Hate. Contamination. Littering. Pesticides. Hate. Self-Banter. Rudeness. Our nation is unhealthy. Fewer live in harmonic peace with their bodies and with the earth than not. But, this HARMONY is what we SEEK. It is that of which we dream. Take that step. What can help us? What can get to the root of the problem? What has the power to CHANGE our NATION? What has the power to save humanity when everything else feels like it’s crumbling beneath our feet? Can the solution be as simple as fruits and vegetables?

Deceivingly enough, the simple solution is not a pill. While a pill appears to be a small, harmless antidote, it serves as a metaphoric representation of evil. It is white, colorless, and lifeless. Place it next to a perfectly juicy and plump blueberry and physically see the difference. One oozes juice; the other does not. One has life; the other does not. When we eat REAL FOOD, we have life. Real food HAS LIFE. Raw food is life: LIFE-GIVING.

I believe in the power of fruits and veggies to create change infinitely. I often imagine a world where fruits and veggies are growing EVERYWHERE. A healthy nation where everyone is in-tune with their bodies and with the earth and where everyone is truly blissful. I have a dream of living in perfect, respectful, and loving harmony with all living creatures. Do you see this vision? I hope that you do, and I hope that you help me to create it one fruit and veggie at a time. If you struggle with eating raw, take it one day at a time. Start with simply enjoying meals of fruit and enjoying the abundance before you. Watch this transform you, and enjoy this journey. Open your heart to change and LOVE every experience. YOU CAN HELP OUR NATION. I’ll be right there beside you enjoying the same.

I BELIEVE. DO YOU?

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Eat FullyRaw and Live Socially

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

Do you feel like it is too hard to eat raw and still keep your social life? I’m here to tell you that being FullyRaw is about sharing your lifestyle and your passion for eating healthy foods with the world! When we eat foods that make us feel good, we want to share this amazing feeling with family and friends as well! Shine bright and enjoy your social life, even if you are eating raw! Here are my top tips and tricks on how you can Live FullyRaw and Eat Socially!

Before I share my tips and tricks, I want to share a few important realizations that I have had. Realize that our society highly revolves around food. Relationships are more than just about food—relationships include your relationship with yourself and with others. I’ve realized that being raw has allowed me to bond with people on a much deeper level. My interactions with people are not just non-challant meetings over lunch, but they include activities that interest both of us, and we have FUN doing them! We go running, walking, co-operating, rock climbing, swimming, surfing, tree hugging, etc. We get in an activity that we both enjoy, and we get the chance to talk more because our mouths aren’t filled with food.

Here are my simple tips and tricks to help you increase your social life when eating FullyRaw:

Invite people over for dinner. Make them the BEST raw meal ever. SHARE it with them. Introduce your passion to them and allow them to be exposed and potentially allow them to become passionate about it as well.
When you go to a restaurant, call before and ask what their options may be. Order a salad or a fruit plate.
You can even bring your own food to a restaurant….I share my story about how I handled eating dinner at a restaurant for my sister’s birthday in my youtube video on my http://www.youtube.com/fullyrawkristina channel.
Create and share a fun picnic!
Use your online resources such as Happy Cow or Meetup.com and learn about your local community. Find your nearest raw vegan restaurant, juice stores, etc. ASK the chefs if they don’t mind preparing something for you. They don’t mind, and if they do, they will let you know.
Find a potluck! Bring fruit to share!
Go to a movie? Bring your own baggie of fruit or carrots or okra or dates! Dates are WAY better than popcorn lol!
Create a community of friends with the same common interest as you.

Even when you think that you are alone, you are NOT alone. There are SO many out there who want to be healthy who feel the same way. Get on our FullyRawKristina facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/fullyrawkristina). Post and ask if there are people on your area. Get on meetup.com and search for meetups. Look on 30 bananas a day. If you’re in Houston, come hang out at Rawfully Organic (http://www.rawfullyorganic.com). We have the LARGEST raw food vegan co-op in the US with the most amazing people! CREATE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

Use these simple ideas to help you branch out in your community. When you share this gift with others, you not only feel good about yourself, but you make others feel good as well! You are sharing the amazing gift of health with them by living as an example! What a blessing!

Please feel free to share these thoughts with others or share this video with family and friends. You can also leave your comments or additional ideas below. I LOVE reading your suggestions!

Sending my hugs and love to you! Now get out there and enjoy this amazing health of yours…and share it with the world!

Kristina

My California Trip!

Friday, July 27th, 2012

This past weekend I flew away to California for part of the week, and boy did I enjoy my adventure! I visited friends, made videos, tasted AMAZING fruits, and gave many hugs! This trip was spontaneous and fun, and I got to experience a little bit more of life on the way. I’ve put together a collection of my favorite photos from the trip to share with you all. Some are of me, some are of people, and many are of food! Hope that you enjoy these little snapshots from my trip and little trinket thoughts. Hugs!

When I first arrived in California, I visited this beautiful place behind me, marking my official arrival in the Sunshine State.

I visited my friend Drew Canole of www.fitlife.tv, and we made a really fun juicing video together. A cool surprise was that Jay and Linda Kordich (juicing legends) decided to pop in for a visit. We made a quick nut-milk video, and we spent quality time talking and enjoying good conversation. I’ll be posting these videos soon on my www.youtube.com/fullyrawkristina Channel, so please subscribe and keep a look-out for them there! I am SO EXCITED about these!

Ok, so I had to make a quick stop for some juice! After-all, I was visiting 5 cities in 4 days trying to see as many of my close friends as I could! I asked the juice bar if they would make my lemon-ginger blast, and it blasted me away! YUM!

Need not forget I stopped by a market and loaded up on some AMAZING figs! Did I mention that I love figs?! Trips are only good when they involve good fruit! Heck yes! We don’t have these figs everywhere in Texas like the Brown Turkeys, so I ate them until my mouth burned…literally! Heaven in my mouth!

YA BABY!

No knife, no spoon, no fork, no problem. Dinner just the way nature intended! Had this gorgeous bowl of white peaches, heirloom tomatoes, and kale for dinner one night. Chacho belly very happy!

Before I left San Diego, I got to visit with my newly found soul-sister Alicia! Love her!

I stayed in Costa Mesa with my friend Steph! We enjoyed a gorgeous and sunny run along the pier!

Then, for a brief few hours, I was BLESSED to have met Sheleana and Caleb of www.youngandraw.com, and we spent a beautiful afternoon together chatting! Here is the gorgeous Sheleana here with me now

Caleb is taking the pic!

An after run reward…can you see the juice dripping off the end?! Can you see that?! PURE BLISS!!

Shortly after, I visited my friends Dara, Jeff, Robby, and Bryan in LA. We talked about Forks Over Knives and even recipe books and …my bracelets! I had dinner with them and visited all night! It was truly a magical and fun evening to spend time with so many beautiful people at once!

My last day was spent in Oakland, where I got to visit with my friend Dan and meet his new girlfriend Sophia. We went to the Berkeley Market and loaded up on the most tasty fruits! These were so tasty that I literally bought a whole box to bring with me on the plane!

Don’t tell anyone in the store that I was snitching these! YUM!

Holy Cherries Batman! Pop me one NOW!

Me and Dan doing some Life Regenerating

Did I mention that Cherry Tomatoes and Heirlooms are my favorites?!

The perfect ending to my trip was my splurge in the golden colored cherry tomatoes. HEAVEN.

Hope that you all enjoy these photos! I’ll try to add more in as I find them. I am so blessed to be able to have gone to Cali, and I am excited to share this experience with you all. Hope that you can feel the love and taste the amazing fruits through these pics! Sending all my love and hugs! Kristina

7 Years FullyRaw & Still Un-Ripe!

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

Seven years ago I adapted a 100% Raw Foods Lifestyle. It’s crazy to think that I have not eaten cooked foods in 7 years, but it’s true! When I look at how much my life has changed since then, it is nothing short of miraculous. From physical to emotional and spiritual, I have seen myself transform from a feeble, insecure girl to a confident, capable, and utterly loving woman. Looking back, I never thought I would be able to surpass negative generational patterns, but this is exactly what I have done; both consciously and unconsciously.

When I was 18 years old, I discovered a raw foods diet midst exploring the bulk items section in Whole Foods. An angel named John Rose approached me and began to tell me about this alien nonsense that he ate 10 lbs of fruits and vegetables in a day and that he hadn’t eaten cooked foods in about 18 years at the time. I listened out of curiosity, but I went home thinking that I had literally just met a rabbit manifested in human form. Being ill from hyperglycemia, I was underweight and continuously sick from migraines, nausea, vomiting, weakness, etc. The next day after meeting John, I was admitted into the hospital for more vomiting and hyperglycemic symptoms. When I was released, I called John for help. After he explained to me why my body was reacting the way that it was, I felt the need to try a change of diet. I walked out of Whole Foods that day with 80 pounds of peaches! Yes, it was almost the size of my body weight at the time.

After 3 days of eating nothing but peaches, I noticed an enormous difference in the way that I felt physically. I had not had one migraine, I hadn’t felt nauseous, and I could actually walk around with a tiny ping of energy. Could food really have changed the way that I felt?? Absolutely! Within less than a week, it had already begun to change my aura!

After a month of eating 100% raw, I knew there was something to it because my blood sugar levels had stabilized. I never told myself that I was not going to eat cooked foods again, but I did tell myself that I was going to continue to take this journey one step at a time. Eventually, I became like a sponge, reading, researching, and experimenting, simply to understand what my body had been through.

I knew that I was destined to be FullyRaw for life right after high school graduation. I won the high school raffle: a microwave. Yes, this is ironically true! I made it through my first year of college in an 8 x 8 ft single dorm room with no kitchen. All I had was a knife, cutting board, simple blender, and a salad bowl. I even made it on a college budget! It was my college experience and transferring schools that bought me to Houston, where I sat on the Environmental Committee at Rice and helped to start the Tuesday Farmer’s Market. You can see that it was not long before I was inspired to create this little co-operative out of my garage…it was called Rawfully Organic. Little did I know that this community effort would turn into what is now the LARGEST Organic & Raw Foods Produce Co-operative in the United States. I am floored and incredibly honored.

So much has happened since then, but it’s not hard to sum up. Rawfully Organic has grown into an entity of it’s own, and it birthed its sister company FullyRaw, dedicated to educated families and friends how to live a raw foods lifestyle. While I live my life doing SO many things and fulfilling so many passions, I spend much of my time fulfilling these life passions. Fresh food has the power to change us; it feeds us. It feeds us physical, mental, and spiritual nutrition so that we can become the most powerful “us” that we can become.

Transformation begins with a single step. Although I have been raw for seven years, I feel that I am still un-ripe. There is still SO much fruit left to eat and still SO many people left to touch. I hope to be able to inspire everyone that I meet: living as an example. I have SO much living and learning left to do. The next 7 years of my raw journey will be vivacious, flourishing, and beautiful. I am merely grateful to have EACH of you as my partner in fruity deliciousness.

Thank you for being YOU. Thank you for wanting to improve yourself and find health. Thank you for being inspired to merely eat healthier and to feel alive. Thank you for spreading THIS joy with others. Thank you for spreading this message. You have become my support, my inspiration, and my family. I have nothing by love, appreciation, and hugs for you!

All my love,

Kristina

How to Eat FullyRaw

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

FullyRaw Recipe Competition!

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Live Raw to Fully Inspire!

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Why am I FullyRaw? The answer is simple: I live raw to Fully Inspire! When we eat foods rich in nutrients, we feel love of life! When we feel good, we become inspired to inspire others! I receive joy in sharing my thoughts and my passions with all of you! Take this light, and please use it to help generate more self-love! Take your love and shine your light with others!

LIVE RAW
TO FULLY INSPIRE!

Shake it baby! Co-op is tomorrow, and it’s time to get our FRUIT ON! Inspire yourself with colorful bounty! Cantaloupes and baby watermelons will be coming, as well as other delicious treats for your dancing feet! Please remember to reserve your shares early!! See what is in the box!

ROC A BOX!

Summer is nearly here, and we are celebrating our first cantaloupes of the season! Melons are best eaten alone for digestion, and this recipe is easy and true to proper food combining! Best when savored in the sun! Enjoy this cool treat!

CANTALOUPE
MINT SORBET!

This past week, I have had may last two EAT IT RAW Classes before Summer, and I have just posted gorgeously fun pictures of the food prep and dishes! See pictures at FullyRaw!

RAW FOOD CLASS PICTURES!

Are you consuming too many fats? Many are unaware of how many fats that they are consuming daily. Your diet may be high-fat, and you may not even realize it! Here are 3 EASY TIPS to avoid eating high amounts of fat:

WHY LOW FAT IS IMPORTANT

See daily pictures of co-operators, raw food recipes, and box updates on our facebook page! Join Kristina as she pioneers our ROC’N community to keep us inspired, on-track, and ROC’N it here in Houston! You can go raw with her on her FullyRawKristina Facebook Page or simply stay inspired with her on her personal KristinaCarrillo-Bucaram Facebook Page!

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While Rawfully Organic provides you with the most rawesome fruits and veggies, its sister site FullyRaw is designed to help you eat raw! Please subscribe to Kristina’s New FullyRawKristina YouTube Channel (as well as Rawfully Organic YouTube Channel) to enjoy all of the videos. Also, follow us on facebook and twitter to get daily reminders and updates! Comment, share, and enjoy!

FullyRaw

Rawfully Organic Facebook Page

FullyRaw Facebook Page

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Rawfully Organic YouTube Channel

FullyRaw YouTube Channel

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Recipe of the Week

Co-operators of the Month

Raw Fettuccine Alfredo! (Low Fat & Oil Free)

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

EAT IT RAW Salads & Gazpachos!

Monday, April 9th, 2012

The Salads & Gazpacho EAT IT RAW Class is coming up this Sunday at Sur la Table in City Centre! Have fun using ingredients from your ROC boxes while meeting other co-operators! There are also a Juice & Smoothie Class as well as a Desserts Class! All of my classes have been sold out, so please sign up early!

SIGN UP!

This is our LAST week for local greens and strawberries! The new summer crop is on its way! Load up with our Spring bounty! Reserve your shares early, and see what is potentially in the box this week!

ROC A BOX!

Have you ever been to an organic farm? This Wednesday, I (Kristina) will take you on a video trip to one of our Rawfully Organic farms called Gundermann Acres! I show you what real produce looks like before it is picked, I give you local green smoothie recipes, and I even announce our new recipe competition coming up! Look out for the video in the Wednesday email!

STAY TUNED WEDNESDAY TO VISIT THE FARM!

What am I up to now-a-days? Scroll down to find out and even read a co-operator’s testimonial! Last week I shared with you the top 3 reasons why eating fully raw can change your life!

WHY EAT FULLY RAW?

While Rawfully Organic provides you with the most rawesome fruits and veggies, FullyRaw is designed to help eat more raw! Please subscribe to my New FullyRawKristina YouTube Channel and the Rawfully Organic YouTube Channel to enjoy all of our videos. Also, follow us on facebook and twitter to get daily reminders and updates! Comment, enjoy, and share!

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