May 8th 2009 Raw Challenge - Day Eight

[bowie]

Welcome to day 8!!!!

[mstrish]

Day 46 for me and I have lost 17 lbs. so far. Yesterday I ended up sick...guess my body didn't want me to eat, so had water and juiced watermelon. Today I will attempt to eat:
B- Watermelon
S- pye
L- Kelp noodles w/ olive oil and garlic, tomatos, onion
D- Salad

I was thinking of doing a juice feast for a few days to help get the toxins out.
Have a rawkin day

[GurlyGirlOne]

Day 8. Yay!

Had a showdown with some fries in the kitchen but I talked myself into slowly backing out of the kitchen like I was talking someone down from a ledge. Whew!

Still raw. Have a tummy ache (gastritis?). Maybe from too many nuts. More fruit today.

Have a great day!

[commoncents]

mstrish: I hope you are feeling better.

Happy Friday to All: I went to a Raw food preparation class last night and I had so much fun. A gentleman from my church teaches them and the food was soooooo good. This is what we made:

Bananna/Strawberry "Milk" Shake
Eggless Egg Salad
Marinated Baby Bok Choy
Portabello Mushrooms Guacamole boates
Blueberry/Coconut Scones w/Honey Butter and Blueberry Jam

There are a total of three classes and next week, I will not eat before class because we taste everything and also they give you left-over's to take home. I feel my Raw prep. skills have gotten so much better since I've been taking classes. So, this is what is on the munu today:

Pre B: Two glasses of Water with lemon. (really gets things moving)
B: GS (Spinich, Mango, Orange, Bananna, Rejuvelac)
B2: Blueberry/Coconut Scone w/Honey Butter and Blueberry Jam
L: Ginger Almond Nori Rolls/Creamy Spinich
S: Fruit
D: Strawberry/Cocunut Oil, Vanilla Bean, Cashew/Rejuvelac Shake

With all of this great food, I have not had a single craving. This proves to me that 100% Raw is the only way for me to go from here on out.

I so glad I took this challenge. I feel and look good. Life is bright and sunny!!!!

Blessings All.

[kidkid]

life is bright and sunny! amen to that!

Has anyone ever seen a purple coconut? I cracked open a young green coconut today for breaki and was shocked to see pink coconut water pour out into my bowl. And then when I looked at the coconut meat it was the most beautiful shade of soft lavender! It was total princess food. smelled and tasted fine so i just laughed and ate it.

[Susan123]

Ms trish- Hope you're feeling better soon!!

Commoncents- What an awesome church you attend!! I should ask around my church because I know there was a lady that went on a mission recently that was doing eating a raw diet for healing.

Today so far---
B- GS- spinach, bananas, strawberries, blueberries and a pear (I like the added texture)

S- banana and a few strawberries

L- Kale salad, small handful of almonds, cut up carrots and cucs

[commoncents]

life is bright and sunny! amen to that!

Has anyone ever seen a purple coconut? I cracked open a young green coconut today for breaki and was shocked to see pink coconut water pour out into my bowl. And then when I looked at the coconut meat it was the most beautiful shade of soft lavender! It was total princess food. smelled and tasted fine so i just laughed and ate it.

Never seen one kid. I did not know that they existed.

[commoncents]

Ms trish- Hope you're feeling better soon!!

Commoncents- What an awesome church you attend!! I should ask around my church because I know there was a lady that went on a mission recently that was doing eating a raw diet for healing.

Today so far---
B- GS- spinach, bananas, strawberries, blueberries and a pear (I like the added texture)

S- banana and a few strawberries

L- Kale salad, small handful of almonds, cut up carrots and cucs

Thank you Susan. I am so blessed to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a bastion for Raw foods and alternative lifestyles. There are so many restaurants and people all over that indulge in this lifestyle that it makes it so easy to maintain a Raw food eating pattern.

Maybe you can teach classes at your church?

[lisab201]

Im not hungry and I dont think I'm eating enough. yesterday I broke down and had an icecream. The temptations are all at work. theres always junk laying around but most of the time it doesnt bother me.

[mstrish]

mstrish: I hope you are feeling better.


Blueberry/Coconut Scones w/Honey Butter and Blueberry Jam

There are a total of three classes and next week, I will not eat before class because we taste everything and also they give you left-over's to take home. I feel my Raw prep. skills have gotten so much better since I've been taking classes.

Thanks for the get well greetings....I would love the recipe for the scones

Thanks.

[Blessedw/6]

Hello everyone! I am on day 27! I am feeling so good on this diet. It's not really a diet though. It is something that you need to believe is right and stick with it! I am still discouraged with my weight. What is going on? I just stay the same. I am 5'11" and I weigh 165. I was 155 before my last (6th) baby so I know I have weight to lose. I want to be 140. So that's a huge turkey that I need to lose. Imagine carrying around a 25 lb turkey that's a lot! :) Anyway, I'm going to stick with it. Last night we had taco salad with a very yummy "meat". It's 3 c walnuts, 1/3 c braggs, 1t ground coriander, and 1t cumin, food process to a meal and you have some very yummy taco meat. My children like it way better than normal taco meat. Today we have kimchee salads with avocado. I also just made my own kimchee! It is going to be very good. I have sunburgers dehydrating but they probably won't be ready until tomorrow, so not sure what we'll have tonight.
I will be needing encouragement because in 3 days our 30 challenge is over so then I'm on my own. I am pretty sure my husband wants to go to 80/20. However there are alot of meals that I am incorporating into the family menu, like raw pizza, raw spaghetti, raw tacos, and the sunburgers so far. Anyway, I think he will want to go out to a resteraunt which will be hard for me.
Okay good going everyone! Kepp it up!

[Cerellia]

As allways, I started with fruits and as allways, I couldn't stop *g* First, I had a pineapple, as soon as I had digested it, a melon, then a banana (or maybe 2 ;) ). Thanks god, I got myself occupied with shopping, sports and gathering wild greens, before I could eat more.
For lunch, I had rockets, deadnettles and tomatos, which saturated me for quite a long time. Later I ate a Kiwi and (too many) nuts, which I think, I should not have done :-/ And now, I have just finished a cucumber.
I know, that I eat as much as a wolverine, I hope this will even out as time passes.
I'm feeling great, so far. Not much more to say, actually.

[Springtime]

Hiya, fellow travellers!

Today i woke up at 7 am even though it was my day off. Raw energy! Stayed in bed until 11, though, just because i felt like taking it easy.
First day of my period, which is a day of many horrors: pain, moodswings, fatigue...
And even though i've read about people having easier periods when raw, that's nothing i've experienced today

So i took an ibuprofen, which got me out of the pain-coma at about 2 pm, so i could go grocery shopping and do other stuff.

This is what i've eaten today:

B - Water and Detox tea
B2 - Buckwheat porrige w banana, rasins and sunflower seeds
L - Butternut soup, which was absolutley disgusting (since i decided to listend to that inner voice of experimental cooking who told me that cloves and dried herbes would make a great combo...), Avocado, sprouts
S - 2 brazil nuts
S - green juice: pear/parsley (ok, it was supposed to be a green smoothie, but my blender didin't liquify parsley stalks very well, so i strained it)
D - Spring-thai-m's Thai Fool'd (see post in recipe section)
S - various cacao puddings with dates, banana, seeds, honey and mylk

my stomach is a bit upsed from the strong spices and the cacao, and there's always a lot of extra action when i have period pains. Well, i guess a lot is better than a little.. lol

Peace

[murphydoodle]

Springtime- I hope you feel better!

I'm still raw and I'm still here! This is the longest I have ever been 100%. I went to the produce store this afternoon and was shocked by all the good deals. I got a big bunch of slender asparagus for $0.89. I got artichokes (for DH and DS) 2 for a dollar, and I got these strange small yellow mangoes 2 for a dollar. They taste like lemon, so I'm not sure if they're unripe or if they're supposed to taste like that.

B: GS with spinach, kale, strawberries, peaches
S: watermelon
L: orange and 2 pears
S: fresh pineapple- the best I've had in years
D: asparagus and ?

Does anyone know if you can eat artichokes raw?

[commoncents]

Thanks for the get well greetings....I would love the recipe for the scones

Thanks.

Here you go mstrish:

Blueberry/Cocunut Scones w/ Honey "Butter" Spread

Ingridents:

4 1/2 cups packed almond pulp (leftover from making almond milk)
1 cup olive or unscented cocunut oil
1 cup flax seeds ground into meal (1 1/2 cups meal)
1/2 cup date paste, honey, agave or maple syrup
1-2 tsp. cinnamon
Two half pints of blueberries
2 cups shredded cocunut
2 tsp. Celtic sea salt

Mix amond meal and flax meal together by hand in a large mixing bowl
Add the remaining ingredients and mix well with your hands
Cut the batter in 1/2 and shape into 2 round 1 inch thich loaves
Cut the circular loaves into 8 small triangles
Dry at 145 for about 2 hours
Reduce heat to around 110 and dry for 8-10 hours
Store in the refrigerator for up to a weel or freeze in a ziplock bag and remove scones and warm as desired


Honey: Butter

1/2 cup cocunut oil
2 Tbs. Raw honey or agave
1/8 tsp salt
a ver small dash of turmeric for color

Mix in a food processor or by hand in a small bowl with a firm spatula or fork.

(This looks exactly like margerine and it is really good) Store in the refrigerator or at room temp in a glass jar.

Blueberry Jam:

1 cup dates
1/2 cup water
2 cups fresh blueberries

Puree or blend the dates and water until they become paste
Mash the blueberries with a fork in a bowl until well mashed
Mix in the date paste by hand
Store in a glass jar and serve with Honey "Butter" on top of scone.

Enjoy.