We are vehemently against the purchasing, transportation and consumption of packaged food. BUT, this is the ONE item that we have NO replacement for. . . .  This is our CRACK. That's our word for the items that you can't let go of, like drugs to an addict. We have tried local dehydrated seaweed for salads and it just didn't work. I don't know what we did wrong, but once we found these sea vegetables from Sea Tangle Noodle Company, we haven't been able to stop! No, we don't eat them daily (yet). But I'm sure we would if we could! Right now they are a special treat. We found them when we were out of town at a natural health food store and we were pleasantly surprised when we found them at our local organic market. The two serving package only costs $4.39... (less if you shop around online). Yes they are packaged in plastic, yes they are shipped from a far off location, yes they scream of everything we do not want to support! But man do they taste good!

Here's a photo of the package. Find the nutritional value and ingredients here: Mixed Sea Vegetables

Here's the finished product, we must brag about this photo, it DID taste as good as it looks!



This is the package,  I know, it's plastic.

They are so easy to prepare, you simply rinse the salt off that they are packaged in with filtered water. They finish looking like fresh seaweed. Warning: If you don't like the smell and taste of the fresh ocean breeze. Don't eat this. I grew up waiting on the reef for my Dad to come back from scuba diving. So, I naturally LOVE the taste and smell of anything to do with the ocean. If you live away from the coast and have never experienced the smells and sounds of the ocean, go experience it for yourself. I hope it's something you will never forget!

Tonight we served them in a bowl of butter lettuce (use anything you have on hand) with a couple of salad fixings and Damon's light Asian dressing. It was light and tasty!

Damon's Light Asian Dressing

1/8 cup Agave Syrup
2 Tablespoons organic rice wine vinegar
1 Tablespoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon raw sesame seeds
1 teaspoon Nama shoyu (soy sauce)
squeeze of citrus (lemon, lime, orange or whatever you have available)
optional pinch of Black, White or Szechuan pepper

Mix all of the above ingredients and pour over veggies.

Here's a video of our cat Pat who enjoys seaweed also. She likes Nori better, so we gave her a couple strips....


We try not to feel guilty about eating this delicious, nutritious, tasty, inexpensive, packaged in plastic food, but if it's the worst we do on our daily quest to eat more raw living foods.... than shoot us! Although it is what it is, we do fully realize from end to end the process that it went through to get to our table. We do appreciate where it came from, the path and resources it took to get to our home and the end result of tossing the package into the garbage....and even where it goes from there.

Don't judge us by what we do, judge us by what we represent and how far we have come. We still have leaps and bounds to overcome in order to become who we want to be.... we may even take a couple of steps backward here and there but we will always take more steps forward toward our ultimate goal. The control of our health through our nutritional daily intake. No, we are not free of the threats of this polluted world, but we hope by eating the best food and nutrients possible we will slow or reverse the process of decimation that we were predisposed to by our past (and our parents past) eating habits. We both come from parents who have been hit by major health issues that are suspiciously avoidable. Obviously some are not, but our family health history is very scary to say the least. We refuse to repeat any of it. We refuse to let our children continue it.

What is your family health history and what are you doing to stop the vicious cycle?