Love this, raw food nut bar recipe, seriously easy, and good. And of course modified by me.

Hurry Up Vegan: Five Minute, No-Bake Sunflower Oat Bars

totally stole this photo from Gena's website. Link above, and she has other ways to cook/dehydrate this bar as well.

No-Bake Seed/nut and Oat Bars (vegan/raw/gluten free, and 100% good for your pooper!)

Makes 5-10 bars-ish

-1/2 cup rolled or quick oats (substitute gluten free oats if needed)
-1/2 cup sunflower seeds (raw or toasted) [mix in any seed/nut, pumpkin, walnuts, sliced or crushed almonds, shelled hemp seeds, get creative] 

-1/8 cup dried fruit, and/or cacao nibs

-1 cup peanut butter, or nut/seed butter of choice

-1 T coconut oil [cold pressed, virgin, unfiltered if possible]
-Spices: sprinkle to taste powder ginger and turmeric powder. Both are cancer fighting,
anti-inflammatory, and the ginger will cancel out the turmeric.

If you want a sweet and salty bar, drizzle local honey, unprocessed/unpasteurized, on top when done and sprinkle some Himalayan or Celtic sea salt on top, the more critters/minerals in the salt the better :)

1) Mix oats, sunflower seeds, raisins, and whatever else you want in a large bowl.

2) Use a fork and mix together nut butter and coconut oil. Pour into oat mixture, and mix well, till everything is combined. If it’s too dry, add more nut butter.

3) Cover hands in coconut oil and press mixture into bars or sticks or balls :) and place in a glass baking dish, and refrigerate for 4 hours. When done wrap in baking paper, and keep refrigerated till ready to use eat.

FYI coconut oil melts in your hand, so may be messy, but soooooo good :)

Hmmmm...Something to mull over, foods that inhibit sleep!

The Worst Foods For Sleep

Water, Grapefruit, Spicy Food, Alcohol, Steak, High fat foods, Chocolate, and Coffee [of course].

read more here

And who is to blame for our cravings of 'bad' foods? sometimes NOT ourselves.

How The Food Industry Manipulates Taste Buds With 'Salt Sugar Fat'

A book worth getting in my opinion if you want to educate yourself on you minute addictions that little did you know were not necessarily in your control, nor are you to blame for it. Your biology and the Food Industry are. Take your power back people. Get educated, then make choices.

“Dealing Coke to customers called "heavy users." Selling to teens in an attempt to hook them for life. Scientifically tweaking ratios of salt, sugar and fat to optimize consumer bliss. 

In his new book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss goes inside the world of processed and packaged foods.”

Read more here

FAT! Can be good for you, if its the right kind!

As said below, who knew our ancestors were so smart, naturally, and we classically, first needed to  make food so fake and far removed from our normal way of eating, that it starts killing people, and now only to find out that its normal and healthy to eat a high fat diet. Lessons learned, at a cost.

"Pour on the olive oil in good conscience, and add some nuts while you're at it.

A careful test of the so-called Mediterranean diet involving more than 7,000 people at a high risk of having heart attacks and strokes found the diet reduced them when compared with a low-fat diet. A regular diet of Mediterranean cuisine also reduced the risk of dying.

The findings, published online by The New England Journal of Medicine, come from a study conducted right in the heart of Mediterranean country: Spain."

Read more here