Top RAW Food Potluck with Guest Speaker, Mary Russo, in Scottsdale!

Join us in Scottsdale on Saturday, November 2, starting at 5:30 pm for this month's Top Raw Potluck with Mary Russo, speaking on Reversing Your Biological Age! Come and experience the grandeur, the spectacle, the wonder of the world's most succulent and tantalizing foods. You'll discover new and creative dishes, consisting of savory and satisfying flavors, from foodstuffs found only in Nature. Get Real. Have Fun. Enjoy Life. And Living Foods! Hosted by Mary. (NOTE: This is a potluck, so please bring a RAW Vegan dish [to feed 8-10 people] and bring your own plate, utensils, and drinking cup [and take them with you afterwards].)

Mary Russo has been a participant of Raw Food Potlucks in the Valley since their beginnings in the year 2000. Drawn by a passion for health and a desire for community, Mary quickly became a natural advocate and promoter of the monthly events. She has been co-hosting and hosting raw food potlucks in Phoenix and Scottsdale since 2010, recruiting health experts or group members to share testimonies to provide free health education to everyone. Mary can’t stop sharing the news that “we can take responsibility for our own health and enjoy life while on our health journeys.” On a continual quest for optimal health naturally, Mary always has fresh insights to share from her research and experience.

In this presentation, learn how you can:

• Discover how to reverse your biological age to look younger and feel your best!
• Experience restful, restorative sleep that allows your body to heal
• Maintain flexible joints, mobility, and balance no matter your age
• Enjoy natural energy, stabilized throughout the day
• Benefit from the greatest medical breakthrough of our lifetime!

This is a potluck, so please bring a Vegan RAW food dish (veggies/nuts, herbs/spices, salt, olive oil are generally acceptable ingredients for dishes), or a salad (fruits, veggies, nuts, spices), or a fruit/veggie platter for eight (or more) people, fully prepared and READY TO EAT. Don't know what to bring? There are literally 4.63 gazillion recipes on the Internet. Type in: "Raw Food Recipes" in a search engine and see what happens!

To see what others have brought at past Meetups to this event visit: https://www.meetup.com/VEGphx/photos/29509277/

This event starts at 5:30pm with food at 5:45pm. Please be on time so your dish can be featured in the line on attendees first pass through it. There is a guest speaker each month after the potluck.

HOUSE RULES at Natural Grocers: No items with gluten whatsoever are allowed, there's no soliciting or selling of anything at the store (which are the exclusive realm of the venue hosting the event). And to cut down on costs/waste, please bring your own plate, utensils, napkins, water, and drinking cup (and take each with you afterwards). Also, if you could list the ingredients of your dish, that would be helpful to people with allergy issues. Finally, we must have cleaned and vacated the potluck room (just inside the front door to the left) by 8pm. Please cooperate in that regard.

Please be advised that this is a RAW-Vegan potluck. For those persons unfamiliar with "raw," that generally means no foodstuffs that have been heavily processed/heated/cooked. In other words, "raw" typically entails foodstuffs as Nature intended (e.g., fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts/seeds, sprouts) which have all their nutrients intact, and not cooked out of existence, nor processed into oblivion. Most manufactured/canned/bottled/packaged foods, such as popcorn, chips, Veganaise, etc. are typically not "raw"; though, cold-pressed olive oil, raw coconut aminos, raw agave, spices, and salt are generally-acceptable exceptions to the non-packaging precept.

For those persons not familiar with the term "vegan," that generally means free from animal products and their derivatives. This includes all dairy products, honey, and whey. If, on the off chance that someone new attends this event, and is unfamiliar with the RAW-Vegan parameter of the event, please be in keeping with the longstanding tradition of the leadership and members of the Vegetarian Society of Phoenix to be accepting/understanding (in the moment) of all people, their current level of awareness, and their own individual paths in life. This means that if there is a particular potluck item that is not entirely "raw" and not entirely "vegan," do your part (in a calm and loving way) to help make sure that this item is clearly labeled as such, and let the participants at the event decide for themselves whether or not to indulge in it.