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I attended a big dinner party last night and as expected they had nothing raw to serve. Good thing I ate a lot of raw kinilaw na dilis before going to the party.

They had scotch whiskey, beer, wine, fried peanuts, fried pork skin (chicharon) and all cooked meats and cooked rice.

I asked for the waiter if they had raw fruit juices. He said there was absolutely none.

People were having a grand time getting drunk and singing with the live band. It was a blast of course to be with friends. I just did not see the need why I should sacrifice my health to have a good time and good conversations with friends.

They ask why I’m not drinking alcohol, if it is a health issue, I nod yes. They see me getting slim and ask if I’m getting slimmer because I’ve got a lot of women, I naughtily say yes.

With all the noise happening in the party, it would be a hard stretch to explain that I’m into health and raw food only eating.

I did not eat nor drink a single thing in the party.

I find the time to buy fresh Dilis yesterday afternoon at Farmers Market. Got 2 kilos of fresh Dilis at P 120 / kilo.

At home I watched how our maids did the kilaw. First they tediously gutted the Dilis fish one by one. They had to take off the heads and the stomachs because they said these were bitter. Then roll the Dilis in Lola Conching’s organic coconut vinegar (all coconuts are organic in the Philippines) to remove the lansa or fishy slimy smell, taste and feel. I tasted the vinegar cleaned raw fish, yummy. Then put chopped onions and chopped luya / ginger in it. Then squeezed more than a dozen calamansi on it. Then chopped some fresh sili in it.

All done, ready to serve. I think we put too much sili for the children. Only my 2nd son, the 4 year old was man enough to eat it with that much sili. He did so with water beside his plate. Manang Maring our cook was absent yesterday. Seems we don’t know here secret for her Kinilaw to be child friendly like she did the other night.

I enjoyed it. I loved that much sili.

It was hard for me to track down Rizal Dairy Farms on the web. Both their websites are down. They need a better website developer and maintainer. Maybe my company can do their website. I’m a web developer remember? www.filipinowebservices.com

I finally track down a number and call their office on a Saturday morning. I was looking for raw milk and raw butter. They said they had those but only in their head office, not in the outlets such as Market Market. Good for me, Antipolo is nearer.

The way to get there is via Ortigas extension. At the end of Ortigas extension, turn left going up the mountain of Antipolo and drive up for some 10 minutes. On your right you will see Beverly Hills Village. Ask the guard for Rizal Dairy Farms. He will tell you to go straight until you see 7th Avenue. Turn right. After 5 intersections you will arrive at Magnolia street, you turn left. The last house on the left is Rizal Dairy Farms. The small green gate is the entrance to the office which has the doorbell.

The address of Rizal Diary Farms is

#5 Magnolia Drive

Beverly Hills Subdivision

Taytay, Rizal 1920

Philippines

Telephone numbers: +63-2-660-2197 / +63-2-669-8177

You must call before you drive up. Raw milk is not always available. And Raw butter has to be ordered and made for a few days.

Rizal Diary Farms is more than just milk.  They have butter, cheese, yogurt and a lot of other products in the organic category.

They also have a catering company called Petra’s Naturally – accepts private and corporate catering & offers South Beach Diet Food Order Services.

Ah the self experimenter in me is itching again. After reading Aajonus Vonderplanitz and the experts on the Raw Paleolithic Diet, I get the itch to self experiment.

I tracked down the raw milk supplier in my area. Rizal Dairy Farms is in near enough Antipolo. So I call on a Saturday and reserve some milk for myself and this morning Sunday I drive up Antipolo Mountain to Rizal Dairy Farms’ head office.

I got my 2 liters of fresh raw cow’s milk, they say it is from organic cows. In their office I couldn’t wait so I asked them for a glass so I could taste raw cow’s milk for the first time in my life. I wish I had a camera for this moment. It smelled a little like cow, and tasted real good, full cream.

I then make some chitchat and tell the nice lady about my raw food experiences and why I’m buying raw milk. I get in my car and drive home. On the way home I felt really full. Wow, must be the full fat in the raw milk. I felt sleepy too. At home I take another glass of milk so I can socially drink it as my lunch with my family. Daddy is self experimenting again. And no you kids can’t have some because I’m still experimenting. If the experiment goes well, I’ll give you some. If not, then none.

I felt sleepy and lied down a while while letting my little girl take her nap. Then I’m doing my blogging. Then I’m farting. Stomach gurgling. Hmmm… is it the live raw milk doing that? Most probably. I’ll tell you more in the next blog posts after a few days and when I consume all 2 liters of the raw milk. Maybe in 2 more days.

I ordered 1/2 kilo of Raw Butter and the nice lady estimated the raw butter will be finished by Thursday.

Some of my readers here might be wonder where I get some of my ideas for eating raw animal meat.  There is my personal observations, local folk knowledge and there are my readings.  On the internet  you can read the full spectrum of raw foodists, not just the vocal raw vegans and fruitarians.  There are the ones who advocate an all raw meat diet and there are the many more people in between.  These are the raw paleolithic diet people, a broad spectrum.  In it I can see the Wai Diet, there’s Carol Alt the model, and there is Aajonus Vonderplanitz.

What is great about Aajonus Vonderplanitz is that at first reading you might say that his stories are whoppers, tall tales.  Upon further analysis and comparison to previous teachers I have sought, Aajonus may seem just as preposterous as when I first read Barefoot Herbalist.  But they are both correct!  Barefoot achieves his optimal health, and Aajonus achieves his optimal health.

The question is, where does our personal optimal health lie?  Something for you to find out.

Back to Aajonus.  I found this interview in Karl Loren’s website and I am shamelessly saving it in this blog post in case that page disappears.  I’ve read Aajonus’ book We Want to Live but this interview says so much in so few words.  You have to learn from this.

I’ve always sought out fatty food as beneficial.  The good fats.  Avocado, extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil, coconut cream, etc.  But Aajonus has experimented with himself and many people find that fats and meats from specific animals are beneficial for specific needs in your development or healing.

This is a must read.

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