Delicious Revolution + Nuts Online Review

I was just surfing the vegan web and came across this AMAZING site. It's run by Joy Houston, a raw food nutritionist and chef. I'm reading through the articles and was shocked by how similar her views matched with ours. When she says: "getting off the roller coaster most don't know they're even on" that really resonated with me (us).

I watched her videos about the "Body Battle Plan" and that's almost exactly what Jenn and I have done except not knowing it, or having a plan for that matter...lol

Basically she advocates: Cleanse, Customize and Create. So first you cleanse (ie. raw food diet) then you slowly introduce different foods to your diet to see which foods are helping you and which ones aren't. You then create recipes with the foods that are kind to you and limit your intake of foods that are not. 

All of her articles are so awesome! Some that really jumped out at me:

Why Avoid Soy? Top Ten Reasons to Avoid Soy

Almond Milk: Boxed or Fresh

Raw Cacao: Naughty or Nice

Food Hangover

Healthy Eating on a Budget

Top 5 Alkaline Food Recipes

Also yummy recipes: Orange Cream Cacao Bark

...by the way this is really unlike me to voluntarily endorse like this but I just couldn't help myself! I'm also a sucker for sharp graphic editing. Now onto the goods...

We received a package in the mail from Nuts Online today! They sent us the Raw Sampler Pack, which contains lots of yummy raw treats as well as raw essentials. This would be a really great gift for someone who is just getting into a healthy diet paradigm and doesn't want to spend loads of money trying out different superfoods like spirulina or maca (which are both included in this pack). All of their products are fairly priced, they offer an array of organic products, I was surprised at the variety, there were some products I've never seen before on any other site such as organic strawberry powder, which is next on my wishlist to make strawberry ice cream in the middle of winter! I would just be weary of the quality, I wouldn't compare the quality of health foods from nuts online to, for example a company like More Than Alive, or Navitas Naturals, but it's a good source for students (like us) who aren't exactly rolling in the dough. :P

Raw Sampler: Organic Quinoa, Spirulina, Turkish Figs, Organic Almonds, Organic Cacao Goji Squares, Organic Hemp Protein Powder, Organic Maca Powder, Chia Seeds, Acai Blueberry Superfood Cereal, Organic Cacao Nibs.

Our favourite was the Raw Cacao Goji Energy Squares, there's a reason why there was only one left to photograph!

Almost-Raw Banana Cream Pie Pudding (Vegan, GF)

What is with me and pie themed puddings lately? I don't know. What I do know is that I love love love banana cream pie. But I didn't want to try and figure out how to make a vegan version that is also gluten free, so I just made a pudding. It is so easy to make and is a quick and simple raw dessert. This isn't totally raw because of the coconut milk, let's just call it "almost-raw".

Pie over-head!

1/2 cup soaked cashews
1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1 tbsp raw honey or agave syrup
1/2 cup coconut milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp ground chia seeds
1 tsp lemon juice
1 fresh banana

Sliced banana to layer on the bottom

Grind cashews with shredded coconut in a food processor until smooth. Blend in chia seed meal, agave, vanilla, lemon juice and coconut milk. Add in 1 fresh banana and blend until smooth. Layer fresh banana slices on the bottom of your bowl and top with cream layer. Sprinkle with nuts, coconut or cacao nibs.

Makes 3 mini servings or 1 big one.

Blueberry Breakfast!

Quick raw breakfasts featuring blueberries. We love fruit for breakfast but winter is not the most fruitful season of the year...wild frozen blueberries = our saviour!

Blueberry Chia Pudding: frozen blueberries, vanilla hemp protein powder, maca, dates, chia seeds

Blueberry Soft Serve: frozen blueberries, frozen banana, vanilla, cinnamon, topped with cacao nibs and almonds

Lucuma-Chip Ice Cream (Vegan, GF)

Lucuma! It's been on my wish list for some time. I'm always looking for alternative sweeteners since Jenn and I are super crazy sweet addicts. Lucuma is a persimmon-like fruit, in this case it's ground up into powder form for ease of use in recipes...such as ice cream! Actually Lucuma flavour ice cream is more popular in some countries than vanilla and chocolate. It tastes AMAZING. Jenn and I were skimming our previous recipes and we realized we seem over exaggerative sometimes but this time I am being dead serious. If you haven't tried Lucuma yet, you must. It made the ice cream taste like caramel drizzle-maple butter, whoa. I don't care if this sounds cheesy: It was like a symphony of flavours in my mouth. lol. So far agar-agar has turned out to be the best ice cream gelling agent, it makes the ice cream very creamy and not the icy consistency vegan ice cream is well known for.

Lucuma powder (Truly Organic Foods), Sweet Cacao Nibs (Navitas Naturals)

1 can full fat coconut milk
1 tbsp agar agar flakes
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup lucuma powder
1/4 cup + 1 tbsp raw honey or agave
3/4 tsp vanilla extract
Handful of sweet cacao nibs
Pinch of pink Himalayan sea salt


Combine agar agar flakes and water in a small saucepan. Heat on low (simmer) until flakes dissolve and turns water jelly-like. Combine coconut milk, agar jelly, lucuma, raw honey/agave, vanilla and salt. Chill in fridge until cold. Put into ice cream maker, make ice cream! Put nibs in at last minute.


Please make this! soooo amazing I almost passed out! Lucuma ice cream, where have you been my whole vegan life?!

-Jac