[greenbunny]

Sorry so long to get back to you Lapisrose - lost track.

You are very lucky - what you crave is easily interchanged for live food alternatives that will satisfy your cravings and be good for you.

1) Chocolate. I eat raw chocolate all the time!!!! It's incredibly good for you and full of antioxidants. It can help balance the endocrine system and simply make you happier. I use powered raw chocolate (two teaspoons) put in 4 medjool dates and mush it with a fork until it becomes a yummy paste. My husband and mother get their 2 teaspoons with 4 teaspoons of raw agave nectar (easier to mix). With agave you can put it on fruit (strawberries are heavenly). I'm sure that there are many better recipes but these are so very simply and only necessitate a bowl, a spoon and a fork to make.

2) Icecream. Have you ever made banana icecream? Same texture and cold and sweet of the milk stuff but so very good for you. Peel bananas, put them in a plastic bag, freeze them and then put them through a champion juicer without the juice thingie in it so it goes straight through, or put it in a food processor for just a quick moment (so it doesn't turn to juice) or put it in a vitamix (also just long enough to be creamy - using plunger). If you want you can put the chocolate sauce on the icecream or make a hot apple pie to in your dehydrator to eat it with (can tell you how to make that too if you want).

3) Pizza. Pizza ia the craving for cheese, tomatoes and bread. If you are really craving dough you can get something called Manna bread which is bread cooked at a lower temp than normal bread - but questionable if raw - but much better than pizza crust. Then you can get raw cheese and put tomatoes on it and slobber the thing in italian herbs and lots of salt (see below).

4) Salt. These was one of my great cravings so I learned all I could about it and found out that the body desperately needs salt for the minerals but regular salt and even sea salt are denatured so horribly that they become bad for you. They take the expensive minerals out and sell them seperately. Celtic or hand raked salt from France is a whole salt that isn't heated and nothing is removed and it a perfectly balanced mineral supplement that is great for the body. I love the Flower of the Ocean. It actually tastes a bit sweet and is whitened by the sun only. Salt is needed for the cells to get and hold water. You are probably craving it because you need it. So eat it on your pizza! Pizza is drowned in salt and it might be mostly the salt in the pizza you are craving.

Don't fight - substitute and enjoy!

greenbunny