Carlos & Kerry from Raw Food Group Gifts from Gaia are hosting a Fiesta Potluck Dinner complete with Salsa dance lessons! And Paso Doble Demonstration - complete with
costumes, cape, Passion.... and Aggression.Raw Food Group

This event has been made available to our group with the understanding that we bring a raw food dish to share and strictly adhere to the Potluck Guidelines - See below.

Theme: Salsa of course! So any Latin American, Spanish, Mexican sort
of dish will be fun!

If you are not so hot at cooking and don't want to attempt it (like me) then just think creatively about taking something simple like a salad and follow the guidelines below.

DIRECTIONS
If traveling in a westward direction the studio is shortly after the
Johnston Street intersection, and is before the next set of lights on the
right side. Please note that once you pass thru the Johnston street
intersection, it is not possible to turn right until you get to Norton
street, Leichhardt. You can park on Parramatta road or side streets; Young
street and Annandale street.

from 5.30pm (for dance class). Everybody ready to eat at 7.30pm (will fit the dance demo in
somewhere, preferrably before we eat)

POTLUCK GUIDELINES - ANY QUESTIONS PLSE EMAIL ME - WE NEED TO FOLLOW THESE EXACTLY & CAREFULLY FOR THIS EVENT.
The following recommendations are made in consideration of general raw
food, vegan, and vegetarian dietary guidelines.

What to bring:

- A raw-vegan dish to generously serve 6 or more people, preferably
organic if you can. If there are two of you, bring enough to serve 12 or two
different dishes.

Raw food includes: fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts & seeds, raw nut
butters, "live" sauerkraut, sprouted grains, or other seeds.
Please do not bring food processed by heat or chemicals, containing
dairy, honey, animal products. As a guide, use nothing from a box,
can, or bottle.

Please also bring:
- Serving utensil(s) for your dish
- Plate(s), napkin(s), and utensils for yourself
- A mat or blanket to sit on
- Water and cup for yourself if desired
- An ingredients label. Also label what is organic.

-Please use organic ingredients to the fullest extent practicable,
many of us use a combination of conventional and organic as our
budgets allow.

-A raw-vegan dish contains no animal products and no cooked ingredients.

-Vegan means no animal products such as dairy, eggs, honey, and fish.

-Please refrain from bringing any food that has been genetically modified.

-When serving yourself at the potluck, your serving size should be in
proportion to the number of people present. Please ensure everyone has
had some of the dish before taking the last piece/spoonful.

-Please provide a quick list of ingredients and indicate what is (and
isn't) organic. In addition to helping all of us make informed food
choices, such a list is a great tool to stimulate conversation about
wonderful food.

-Please be sure that all fruits and vegetables have been properly
washed and are ready to be enjoyed as is.

-Should an item contain nuts and/or seeds, please label whether or not
it was soaked.

-Please ensure that any cut or prepared food is properly refrigerated
prior to the potluck. Once a fruit or vegetable is cut, enzymes begin
to break the item down and bacteria starts to grow. The results vary
from mild toxicity (which may not be noticed but affects the health of
the body) to extreme food poisoning.

-If you are bringing fruit, we especially welcome seasonal, locally
grown & organic or at least pesticide-free fruit that have been picked
when ripe. Sometimes such fruit can be found at Farmer's markets.

-Citrus can provide a great alternative to vinegar.

-Raw ingredients have not been cooked at all; specifically they have
not been subjected to the heat of cooking, which is generally
considered to be above 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Food and beverages that
have been pasteurized are not raw.

-Even many nuts and grains are not raw due to heat during processing,
although any seed that can sprout is raw. Almost all packaged foods
are not raw, including frozen vegetables. Rarely raw are oil, vinegar,
spices, and other seasonings, though we allow their inclusion in
dishes when required. No refined sugar or products containing it or
derivatives. Neither pasteurized nor canned foods are raw. Most
bottled items have been heat pasteurized when bottled. Tofu, and for
that matter virtually all soy-derived products, have been cooked and
highly processed.

-If you use oils, cold-pressed oils, extra-virgin olive oil and flax
oil, are preferred. Remember, most commercial oils are heated.

-If you use sweetners agave nectar, stevia or dried friut are prefered.

-Bragg Liquid Aminos and Tasty Yeast are not raw, though we allow
their inclusion in dishes when alternatives are not available.

Hi Group,

General discussion and social night at a great vegan/vegatarian restaurant. High quality meals at a very small cost - $10 average.

Look forward to seeing you guys and welcome to the new people.

Regards,
Karyn

Thornleigh to Cheltenham train stations. 6.8kms. Easy walk.

Meet at Thornleigh station at 11am - finish around 2-3pm.

This walk goes through some beautiful scenery and includes a great variety of vegetaion types. The middle section is so quiet etc that you feel like you're a million miles from the city.

Bring your lunch, water and of course comfortable footwear :-)

Karyn

Cool the Planet Bite by Bite - Second Annual Sydney VeganExpo

Web: www.vegansocietynsw.com
Email: info@vegansocietynsw.com
Cost: $5 entry

Enjoy a fun-filled day with great entertainment, thought provoking speakers and delicious vegan food at Cool the Planet Bite by Bite, the Second Annual Sydney VeganExpo. Listen to Deni Hines, visit some great stalls and learn how a plant based diet can help your health, your planet, without harm.

The theme of the Expo is "Cool the Planet Bite by Bite", reflecting the importance of a plant based diet in helping to reverse global warming. The Expo will showcase the latest on the environment as well as information about healthy eating and animal rights. It will feature stalls from environmental groups, vegan product producers and restaurants and animal organisations. Special guest will be Deni Hines, who will be singing "5 days of Rain" from her album "Water for Chocolate". Also featuring will be Lindsay McDougall of Frenzal Rhomb and the 2JJJ radio morning show. Other speakers will include Lee Rhiannon, leader of the NSW Greens, Brian Sherman of Voiceless, Pierce Cody of Macro Wholefoods Market, who will speak on organics and the environment, and Jonathan Balcombe, author of "Pleasurable Kingdom", the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals, like humans, enjoy themselves. Bring your family and friends! Free parking is available (enter via Fisher Street).

Hi, I am one of the walk leaders for a bushwalking club and have a walk scheduled for this weekend.

12kms - Eastwood Station to Thornleigh, via Terry's Creek & Lane Cove River, Lane Cove National Park. Mainly all bush and some urban parts. A newly created walk.

Grade - Easy/Medium

The agenda is we meet at the station, start the walk at approx 10.30am, have a morning, lunch and afternoon tea stop finishing up at Thornleigh station at approx 4-4.30pm.

If anyone wants to join us you need to call me to book and pay a visitor fee of $7 to the club. 0409104700

Bushwalking club and programme

Karyn