Dear Friends,

Once, when I was ten years old, my father told me that the best gifts are the gifts we give ourselves. I didn’t believe him. “It cannot be so”, I thought. On my next birthday my father invited me to go to the mountains to pick wild strawberries and blueberries so that my mother could prepare a jam from them for the winter.

We left early in the morning even before the buses started running and walked all the way from our apartment to the forest and hiked all day long with a short break for lunch. We found lots of berries and gorged on them until our mouths became sore from eating them.

We returned home in the late afternoon carrying lots of berries. My father brought a large bucket and I carried a smaller container, approximately three liters (3 quarts) in size. I was tired and proud of all my accomplishments, helping family and being able to work all day. I remember how my father explained that we covered about sixteen kilometers (10 miles) that day. My father and I returned home just in time for a special supper my mother prepared for my birthday. The food seemed to be super tasty. My parents presented me with some toy; I don’t remember now what it was. At the table father asked me if I had a good birthday. “I had the best birthday!” I replied, feeling deeply happy inside. I finally understood what my father had meant about the gifts we give ourselves.

Since then, I have always tried to gift myself in this way on special occasions. I enjoyed jumping in a ice-cold rivers on New Eve’s Days, finishing books by my birthday, participated in races, and even fasting on water on Mother’s Day.

Naturally, I encouraged my three children to adopt this way of celebrating and they love doing so. Today, November 27, Sergei is celebrating his 28th birthday. He has created a new song, and has put together a new funny video clip to go with it. Enjoy!

Green Smoothie iPhone App Update

Coincidentally, today we have posted an update to the Green Smoothies App making it version 4.0. We included the ability to rotate the screen, it now has native support for iPad. We have further improved this program and made it compatible with the new IOS version 6 and iPhone 5/iPad 4 devices.
If you own this app please update it.
You may find more information Here.

Thistle Green Smoothie

Can we really eat that thorny looking thing? That’s what Valya and I asked Sergei when he began cutting the sow thistle into the bucket during our morning walk.

“You are in for a big surprise,” he replied.

That was the best green smoothie I’ve tasted so far! I went back to the path and took some photos to share with you. If you have them growing in your proximities, you are in for a treat. Invite somebody who owns a good high-speed blender to hike with you, because you will need one for this plant.

You will need gloves, whether rubber, plastic or cloth, and scissors. Cut the sticky plants directly into the bucket, then go straight home and blended it.Five minutes after picking the greens with Sergei, Valya and I were sipping this scrumptious smoothie. It doesn’t get fresher than that!

Sow thistle

Thistle Green Smoothie Recipe

Jawcerciser Patented

Dear Friends,

Last week I have finally received a large yellow envelope with the U.S. patent for my jawcercisers inside.

I am very happy that my invention has now been officially recognized because I believe that this is a miraculous device that has strong potential to improve dental health naturally, especially for children.

Now that I have a patent, I would like to sell the rights to this invention to a professional company, as I am not a dentist and don’t have the capacity to market and distribute it properly. I have received several offers from large corporations, but I would prefer to see my jawcercisers go to a holistic dental company that is interested in preventive medicine as well as in natural medicine approach.

I was very happy to notice that often the same people have been purchasing jaw exercisers on an ongoing basis, including several naturopathic doctors, a choir director from New York, and a speech-language therapist from Los Angeles. The jaw exerciser improves one’s jawbone density when it’s used on a regular basis.

As always we would greatly appreciate anyone’s honest and constructive feedback about your experience with jawcercisers. To send us your comments, please Click Here

One common question we receive from customers is, what is the difference between white (resin) and tan (silicon) jawcercisers, and why are they different in price? The silicon jaw exercisers are made for those who have an allergy to resin. Unfortunately, they don’t last as long. The resin (white) exercisers last several times longer and that’s why we have discounted the silicon jawcercisers.

To celebrate our patent, we offer a special deal on jaw exercisers for the rest of this month.

Natural resin (white) jaw exerciser – $15.01
Natural silicone (tan) jaw exerciser – $10.01

To order, please Click Here.

Dr. Lodi’s Cancer Conference

I deeply respect and appreciate my dear friend Dr. Lodi. Last year when Valya and I went to interview him, we witnessed his knowledge, integrity, and softness with his patience. Please find Valya’s 3-minute video with Dr. Lodi here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuZh4Z0CuxU

“Raw Vegan Radio” host, Steve Prussak, is now introducing the Healing Cancer Naturally from Home program with Dr. Tom Lodi, in which Dr. Lodi answers many audience questions – live! You may listen to a replay of yesterday’s conference at this link:

http://nanacast.com/vp/105942/11034/

Sergei has continued to collect new information about wild edibles, researching their possible uses. He summed up his latest findings in the following four videos, each about 11 minutes long. By watching this video I discovered at least two plants that I myself didn’t know were edible. I’m excited to use them in the future.

Enjoy these highly informative videos.

 You can also learn about wild edibles with Sergie’s Iphone app. To purchase the app for $2.99 go here.

Dear Friends, 

Three months ago we created an iPhone app called, “Green Smoothies.” It became very popular all over the world and gained 5-star ratings for its valuable and accurate content.

Now we have put together a Green Smoothie Recipe Web App that works on any modern mobile device such as an Android, Blackberry, iPad, and even the computer.   The Green Smoothie Recipe Web App can be found at http://greensmoothiesblog.com/recipes/

We have decided to let you use it absolutely free!

With this web app you can have instant access to countless green smoothie recipes. What makes my program unique: It contains nutrition data that accompanies every ingredient and each recipe. Along with this data, I have included the nutritional highlights of what foods are beneficial for particular health conditions. For example, raspberries are associated with colon cancer protective properties, parsley has been shown to inhibit tumor formation in the lungs, and lemons are useful in conditions like colds, flu’s, and recurrent ear infections. All of my nutritional highlights come from the best, most trusted sources one of which is http://nutritiondata.self.com/.

We recommend you bookmark this site so you can easily access it anytime. You may save a bookmark to your mobile device’s home screen to quickly open “The Green Smoothies Recipe Web App.”

Those of you who own iPhones now have two choices:

• You may view the free web app on your internet capable phone or computer.
• You can still purchase the iPhone app for $1.99 for the sake of its extra convenience in use. For more information or to purchase the iPhone app – Visit the App Store

Enjoy new green smoothies every day anywhere in the world!

Love, Victoria

Welcome to the official Green Smoothies Recipes Web App!

For Green Smoothie Recipes and Ingredients please go to the Green Smoothies login page.