Pure delight and nourishment for body and soul!

A handful of raw Cacao beens,  often called food for the Gods ,is feeding us in a godly way and opens our heart energy. It´s the bitter taste that goes into the heart meridian and  as we have experienced many times ,  makes us happy. It is also the food with the most antioxidants!

A handfull of almonds ;good oils that our body and cells loves and calsium that is the mineral our body needs the most of every day.
10 soft and fleshy dates ,gives sweetnes without raising our glucose index too high.
A vanilla pod that gives its heavenly flavour to lift our spirit.(the seeds )

Grind the cacao beens and the almonds.

Mix dates, cacao , almonds and vanilla with 4 big sppons of  virgin coconut oil (an other of these oils our body really likes...)

I mix it all with a fork til its become smooth and well blended.

Put a food paper on a plate and fork the chocolte out 1 cm thick ,press an other piece of paper on the to to make it smooth  and let it cool in the fridge or outside in the cold winter-air.

Cut up in squares and store in a glass container with a lid in the fridge.
A good white tea or a chamomille tea makes a wonderful company to the chocolate.

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I would like to give you a gift....

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It has come to the time where I really have to re-pot some of my plants. And the Aloe plants are the most urgent ones. When they start to break their pots because of too many roots, I guess I have to do something. The problem is that they become so plenty-full and get so many children that I soon have to, like in Monty Python , send my children to "medical experiments"....Of course I would not do that to my little babies. But I would like to give them new homes since I don´t have room for a thousand Aloe plants!
So let me do some advertising for these wonderful beings : If you would like to have a plant that nearly takes care of it self, you can go away for weeks and come home to your" still going strong Aloe"...It grows to become a big, sculptural and decorative plant that also survive the Norwegian summer outside. . It never get sick and is a pleasure to have around.
 And of course,as everybody knows, it is olso a great healer for your skin if you have been so unlucky to burn your self in the sun or on something  hot, or gotten otherwise soar and burning skin. You only break off part of one of the fleshy leaves ,slice it open in the middle and smear the cooling and healing gel on your  burning skin....a medicinal plant that should be in every home, I would say...
Well then, do you need an Aloe plant?
If you are lucky enough to live round the corner to where we live, I would be very glad to give you some of mine. Please come by and become the proud owner of an Aloe baby!

Thank you pappa !

Thank you .dear pappa for giving my life
Thank you ,dear pappa, for creating my safe and loving home for growing up
Thank you pappa, for giving me freedom to choose what I wanted to study and do
Thank you for always supporting me in my life choices
Thank you for showing your emotions and tears when I would come to visit after long times away
Thank you for crying with me when I was sad...
Thank you pappa for beeing the very best pappa I could have...I love you and will forever miss you

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Sowing the seed of recycling!

Isn´t this a great idee? Take an old and beautiful book, take some little seeds and put between the pages that you have made wet and press together, and tie a ribbon around to keep it like that.

Water regularly and soon you have a wonderful, green sprout appearing.

When the plant is getting bigger,just plant the whole book into the soil and the book will go back to it´s origins..

The idea I got from a great face-book site about recycling that is worth wile checking out!

https://www.facebook.com/GiSoppeletNyttLiv

Happy new year, birds!

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It seems we have hundreds of birds here these days. And I love it! I think they all are born under our roof and thus belongs to our family. And of course they also deserve some festivities!
I have made melted fat and thrown in whatever I had in my cupord of cereals, millet, corn,sunflower seeds, etc. Then I put it into my muffin forms,with a thread in the middle. Then out in the cold for half an hour before I took them out of my muffins forms and hung them up outside.
I have used melted animal fat, but could have used coconut fat or any other fat that goes hard when cooled down.

Light in the dark...

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