My biggest mission is to get you to take 100% responsibililty for your health. If you need drastic results, detox with us and let’s get going on getting you healthier. Doctors can’t help if you don’t help them. You don’t want that kind of help, anyway.. If you have any kind of ailment, from allergies to MS, pure organic fresh food can make it better! Food is medicine and Delicious Planet is your pharmacy!
At the same time, none of this will work if you try to make yourself do it, or beat yourself up about it.. You must try to love yourself enough that this makes sense – treating your body well since it does such a great job every day for you. Now, just give it what it really wants…nourishment, not cravings from that kooky part of your brain…but real nourishment that the body needs and wants. It will reward you – I promise! Gently, change your lifestyle so that it becomes a routine. Make it normal, not “oh, Im really good because today I did this!” You must get used to spending more money because eating cheap junk is great for the wallet, but that wallet might be sitting on a bigger butt cheek than need be, right Thin and healthy does usually mean that the budget has shifted to the prevention/wellness side. High quality supplements, shopping organic, massage, alternative health care and a gym membership has to be part of your normal life. REALLY! How much would you pay per month to feel great and to know that you are setting your body up to do the best job it can do for you – forever. Oh, and the whole looking fabulous part – now that can be motivating too, eh?

I am so grateful that this ten year old business has become a “lifesaver” for so many people here in Seattle! Whether you order meals from us, detox with us every year, or if you just follow along reading our wellness tips on Facebook and Twitter, you are part of our Delicious Planet family. We want to inspire you to choose better, expect better and we want to nurture you with this excellent food and save your life! You know, the little things

Thank you for listening to me and my opinions. It is my reason for existence, to teach what I know, to try to be a good example of this lifestyle and to affect everyone I can. I love you all and want to see you happy and in excellent health  Yes, YOU!!

Those excuses we all make when we choose to eat crappy food…it’s just that part of the brain that will always try to derail us. See it for what it is – it ain’t goin away and it also ain’t the REAL you! Gently nudge it off your shoulder and come on over to the wellness side, love! It feels so darn gooooood over here.

Yeah, you would be shocked at how I eat sometimes! I have to come clean with my customers and confess. I am absolutely passionate about my mission here at Delicious Planet ..but there are those times I cave into stress, I don’t grocery shop or order from DP and I morph into the “average American”. Ugh!! I start pretending that I didn’t study nutrition and I go into this blissful ignorant world. I eat nachos, pizza, ice cream and LOTS of chocolate and I “think” I’m heaven. Well, then my ear starts hurting , the walls start shaking (not really), my nose gets stuffy, the weight creeps up, and I start needing coffee in the morning to wake up. Eventually, I will have that magical morning when I just decide ENOUGH!! I burst out of bed ready to greet the day and I eat my granola, I go back to yoga & I’m thrilled to be back in the saddle again! Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I used to beat the heck out of myself for this in the past for this behavior – “Randi, you know better”! Well, ENOUGH of that too! Nowadays, I at least know my pattern and it doesn’t last forever. I try another angle and I recognize that what I may really need is some extra gentleness with myself, rather than that stern “talking to” that tends to happen.

So what if we fall off the wagon sometimes? Self forgiveness is what I will continue to try at these valleys in my life. Good plan!

Tips for when you are in a cheatin’ mood:

1. Compromise…you don’t have to go full hog. Example – if I must have pizza, I will order from a high quality place or have frozen organic one. I will have a salad too and will drink one Emergen-C Vitamin C packet since it is a natural antihistamine and may help a bit w/the ear, nose & throat reaction that happens for some sensitive to wheat and dairy. Oh yeah, and jope rope while you wait for your pizza delivery for at least 5 minutes. I don’t do this but I just thought that this would be an excellent addition!
2. Meditate ..with the emphasis on how much you LOVE yourself AS IS. Find it “cute” that sometimes you fall off of the track (silly Randi) and how it is absolutely wonderful that you always find your way back to health. Yay!
3. Make an agreement w/yourself that at these weaker moments in life, you will make a truly nourishing plan for yourself right then. Schedule a massage, sleep in a few mornings, rent some movies – whatever truly FEEDS/NOURISHES you other food.
4. Lighten up. Shut up (the negative self talk, I mean). Do your best. LOVE yourself.
Okay, now we know that I am not a perfect little example of healthy living, but that I strive for it every single day.

Joke: What do you do if a nutritionist knocks on your door? ‘vitem in. (vitamin) 

What I realized when contemplating   my  first blog today, was that the women in my life were and still are a HUGE influence on my passion for this business and my success.  I’m going to share with you the path that’s made it obvious that my business is my destiny !

My mother was also self employed and an incredibly strong, courageous woman. She was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer at 37 years of age and was told that she had only a few months to live. She lived another 7 ½ years. I learned about courage and commitment from my mother and also that the food you choose really does matter. I saw her prolong her life with healthy food as a huge part of it. She made a huge lifestyle change, eating fresh whole foods from Gentle Strength Coop in Tempe, AZ while she was being treated at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico.

My grandma taught me about nourishment.  She loved her grandchildren unconditionally.  I remember her saying things like “honey, I love you with ALLLLL my heart”. She had no idea how much that meant to me.  It sounded like all of the love in the whole world to a kid.  I remember telling her once that a boy kept staring at me when we were at a Peter Piper Pizza when I was maybe 8 or 9 and her telling me “well, he’s staring at you because you are so beautiful!  She said it so intensely that it stopped you in your tracks.

She had a wonderful tradition of making us all an elaborate dinner for each birthday.  We had to choose the roast beef or fried chicken dinner with gravy, mashed potatoes, cucumber tomato salad, and green beans OR the fried chicken dinner with all of the previously mentioned sides – but w/chicken gravy..mmm.  This was an excruciating decision, folks.  I remember I always wanted more time to choose, but I always had to decide right away when she called me from the grocery store. And then there was the unforgettable same red velvet birthday cake.  In later years we were devastated when she refused to put the red food coloring in because she heard it caused cancer.  I own that red velvet cake recipe but it just really isn’t the same without her delivering it in person to your house in her green VW bus!  Grandma would take us to a health store Hadley’s Orchards in Phoenix so that we could buy granola, dried fruits, and scoop fresh raw nuts out of these big barrels.  Every thanksgiving she would drive 2 ½ hours north to Young’s Farm where she would buy a couple natural turkeys for us.  These turkeys were free range before free range was “hip”.  No hormones or antibiotics either.  She wanted a fresh, not frozen turkey and the drive was well worth it.  She was always reading about medicinal herbs and other alternative medicine books.  She had survived breast cancer herself and at that point in my childhood, her son, my Uncle Chuck had overcome non-Hodgkins lymphoma.  She used to go out into the desert to harvest chaparral to boil into a liver cleansing tea for him.  This is where my interest in nutrition sparked.  I loved reading her How to Herb book and it is still on my shelf today. Being surrounded by cancer on that side of the family also sparked my interest in cancer prevention – for my own sake!

When we were sick, our busy mother sent us off to grandma’s where she would have those bendy straws, Canada Dry ginger ale to settle our stomachs, and for some reason that she could never really explain to us -frozen grapes ( a Phoenix thing?). When I got a little better, she would bake one of those terrible frozen pizzas with the square pepperonis and serve it on a t.v. tray where I would get to stay up late with her to watch her shows. Now that pizza was not organic and was even partially hydrogenated, and yet on a t.v. tray in front of Fantasy Island or Murder She Wrote, that frozen Frisbee was transformed into a magical feast. I must confess that once in awhile I still go down to Pete’s Market in my neighborhood to buy one of those nasty pizzas – hoping that I don’t see anyone I know there. People expect me to be the perfect little health nut, you know.

Two incredible women, Jo Anne Carter and Mary Angelle McMurtry,  inspired me to always look at alternative solutions, that food can save your life, and that no matter what – keep on going.  It made me feel so good to share this with you! I am very passionate about our mission here and I will continue to show you how thrilled I am to do what I do.