We are having some of the most beautiful winter nights in Toronto this year 
There are some nasty windy cold ones, where you want to hibernate all day.
But like tonight, there are beautiful nights full of fluffy snow flakes slowly falling down and its very still (making it quite warm if you're dressed well).
I was taking a walk and felt this was the PERFECT weather for jogging!

Do you guys run in the wintertime outside?

There is something about the quiet and magical peacefulness of winter night that makes me wanna run outside, I wish every winter night was like this.
Days can be good too but the night with fluffy snow looks the best on urban streets, and there are no humans out so youre all by yourself 

Last winter I tried running during the coldest times (I have no idea why I am weird sometimes) and my lungs hurt from gasping the cold air eventually  also all my digits got extremely frozen.
Anyone who does this, what precautions do you take to comfortably run in the winter?

I happened upon this site, for Miracle Noodle.
Basically these noodles have 0 carbs, 0 sugar, 0 protein, zero everything!
Only ingredients are: Water, glucomannan (soluble fiber), calcium additive.

The only thing these noodles have is fiber...
You can read about glucomannan here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucomannan

You can read about the noodle here: http://www.miraclenoodle.com/miracle-noodle-products.html

Pretty weird stuff, what do you guys think.
I never tried it but it would be cool to have a noodle made only of fiber, that doesn't affect you in any way, may be fun to try it with some raw sauce or in a salad...hmmm...anyone heard anything about these?

I buy stew chunks of fresh grass-finished beef in small bags and when I take the chunks out the bag has lots or dark rich blood. I pour the blood into a shot glass and drink a shot every time. The most delicious, rich, salty, amazing drink I have ever had.  

I know blood is nutritious and has good amount of calcium, for example wild cats get most of their calcium from fresh blood not bones (most often they leave the bones for the scavengers)...but I don't know the details, nutritional databases do not list fresh grass-fed beef blood as a food (how useless).

Anyone know the nutritional data for this? I'd love to know, from the way it tastes and makes me feel, its very super-duper.

EDIT: I also pretend I am a vampire when I do this, its fun, lol

So lately I have lost taste for cold fresh beef out of the fridge, I like it after it has sat in the room all day, aged a little, then dried on the outside, its even better if they are aged in the fridge first in a jar and then dried, the inside becomes nice and juicy, and I share my fridge with 4 other people so I can't really hang the meat on hooks.
But now that its chillier out I got my Presto heat dish out, one of these:


And I had the bright idea (duh) of leaving small chunks of meat on top of an elevated plate so that the meat is in front of the dish.
Its like the microwave of raw meat eating, the heat is nice and gentle, very drying, and speeds up the meat aging process.
It makes the perfect dried & juicy pieces of meat I was craving, without the need to buy a dehydrator, and now I have it in my room, yummi dry-aged and perfect temperature meat within my easy reach - now I am ready for winter 

Here's a tasty salad I had for lunch today,

its sour kraut (just rotten cabbage in water and a trace of salt)
raw nori cut up
and topped with semi-spicy pickled shiitake & olives
(which I made by pickling raw olives, shiitake, a few thin slices of jalapeno, with some allspice, cumin seeds and a tiny amount of ACV for just under 24 hours)

It came out nice and crunchy...was kinda filling for some reason too. I had a big craving for spicy, sour crunchy stuff and this took care of it 

Edit: this was supposed to post in OFF Topic forum but went into the General one...weird. Dunno why.

OK so last night I came home from staying at my girlfriends for a while, so there was no good raw food in my house left at all.
I had to finish work so I couldn't even have time to go buy anything worthwhile.

I was starving though so I ate a bunch of fruits (sweet ones), which didn't satisfy but made me more hungry, so I seared some eggs sunny side up because it was the cheap factory eggs with tiny yolks and I cant eat the whites raw but I wanted to be full so I could work.

For some reason I got even hungrier, so I ate the vegetable soup my gramma made which had extremely "well-done" beef in it. I hadn't had cooked meat in a long time and it made me feel even hungrier (WTF???)

So then I ate FOUR bananas! Imagine, 4 bananas lying in my stomach on top of all the crap I just ate...

So last night I had experienced the worst stomach ache I have had in my life, I was literally in fetal position in my bed all night whimpering in pain. Thankfully by today it has all come out the other end (semi-digested) and my stomach is fine. But I am weak and afraid to eat anything...
I am eating just raw bone marrow for today and so far thats ok.

Needless to say I have learned my lesson. It's interesting, how it was so easy for my body to switch to RAF (no digestion issues) but what a difficult time I had when I ended up eating cooked meat with fruits and other crap just once. It shows that RAF is definitely the more natural diet and the other one is NOT!  

I had this for breakfast and really enjoyed it...
It's grassfed beef chunks, grainfed organic calf liver which tasted like chocolate, in the middle a ball of marrow (all had left today)
and 3 of my current favorite veggies, 2 of which are fruits lol...tomato, avocado and green onion.
I used no condiments as it was already perfect on its own.
Bon apetit!

So when I am on the rag I like to pamper myself with things that are sweet and chocolaty!
This is a great desert-dish if you love egg yolks, custard-type stuff and chocolate...it is also extremely popular with children.
In Russia these types of things are called Gogol-Mogol (lol, the name makes no sense)

Put the following in a bowl - the amounts of each item can be adjusted to your specific taste preferences:
- RAW EGG YOLKS
- ORGANIC RAW COCO POWDER
- RAW HONEY
- (optional) pinch of ground cinnamon

Mix these all with a fork until smooth and creamy...enjoy!!!
Eating this thing makes me really hyper something about the egg yolks, chocolate and sweet honey 

This is a thing I had for dinner today and it turned out very yummi...
Chopped steak which was extremely fatty, equal amount of cut up beef heart...

The 'sauce' was made with 2 chopped mushrooms, small teaspoon of honey, small amount of apple cider vinegar, 2 raw garlic grated, cumin powder and some cayenne pepper (nice and spicay)...I couldn't finish this because the steak had so much fat I got too full ha ha...so I am going to be picking at this throughout the evening while I work.

Anyone in Ontario tried ordering from Brooker's ( http://www.brookersmeat.com/ ) ?
You can order any amount you want so for me thats a good option as I have little freezer and fridge space.
It is flash frozen, anyone had it? Does it taste good?

Anyone who lives in Toronto...can you tell me if you know good places to just grab some good meat.
I already found a few but I want to know if you know something I don't know lol

I am not talking about ordering meat from good farms, but something I can grab on the go! Like when I am biking around and get hungry or have run out of supplies and didn't get my pay yet so I have to just buy a small quantity like 2 steaks.
Also whats a good butcher to get organs from in Toronto?

Also ordering big quantities of meat will mean that I have to freeze it, I don't want to freeze it, I don't like frozen things, hence why I ask where to get smaller portions so I can have them 'fresh'.

Thought I'd share some of whats growing now in my back yard...haven't had to buy any fruits at all (=
and it's nice to eat things that are in season and growing well in my area naturally.

apples:


the little animals are attacking them but I am too lazy to bring them inside...



One of the apple trees:


Redcurrants:


Red raspberries (we've had them non-stop all summer long now fall and more still coming lol):


Tomato:


White raspberries (these taste like honey!!!):


I also had a bunch of other things, like blueberries, basil, chives, parsley and sage...now that's all out of season.

Do you guys grow stuff in your yard?

I found a store where they're gonna deliver fresh deer tomorrow...so I am gonna run and grab some.
I have had it quite a while ago slow-cooked as stew and remember it was very delicious.
Now I am going to eat it raw so I am wondering what it will be like? How does it compare to raw cow?