April 2011 - 30 Day Challenge Thread - Join anytime in April

[Aleesha Sattva]

Welcome welcome welcome!!!

Welcome to the 30 day challenge. and welcome to our new monthly format.

This is our monthly challenge thread. We are choosing to do one (or perhaps split into two) continual threads so we can create a community of support within this challenge. You can join this thread at any time during the month. Don't be shy... we love new posters!!! So if you want to join us... please do!

I welcome people who are already 100% raw to join in the conversation - supporting our challengers in their quest!

This thread is specifically for those of you who are eager to commit to 30 consecutive days of eating 100% raw foods and seeing miraculous results!

I will start a new challenge thread on the first of every month. If I forget... send me a quick email and remind me... I'll get the challenge thread online for you quickly.

The focus of the monthly challenge is on staying raw and accountability. Therefore, if you have eaten all raw and then slip up and have something cooked, don't beat yourself up over it or dwell on it - but this is not space to discuss it. You are more than welcome to document it in your journal/blog or ask for help in the discussion area, but it is not necessary (and not allowed) to discuss your slip-up here in the challenge threads, just get right back on track and keep going! This thread is about celebrating what you are eating that IS raw!

I welcome you all to share pics of your dishes, ask questions, share what you are consuming (as long as it's raw). We are here to listen to your emotional and physical challenges. So share share share!!!

OH and the best part of this (not only the support but...) you can subscribe to this thread and get notified every time someone posts to it. This way you will be connected!

So let's get this party started!!!

[Aleesha Sattva]

Please wait until April 1st to write in this thread... until then please continue to contribute to the March 2011 thread.

Thanks,
Admin

[monkapotapus]

Morning everyone!!

I'm starting my day off with a nice cup of tea~

I will be making my morning smoothie soon....adding bananas, strawberries, blueberries + my Raw protein powder & all my other powdered supplements......I call it my "kitchen sink" smoothie!! lol

Happy Friday Everyone!!

[seRAWnity]

Good Morning, getting snowed in here in the Northeast!!!

Started today with a huge fruit salad: black grapes, pink lady apple, and mucho strawberries!! Topped off with shredded coconut, YUM

Lunch I already have salad made up, and dinner is a mystery so far!!

TGIF!

[jhodi]

Good Morning and Happy April 1st!!!

It is rainy and cool here in the Ozarks but we are expecting sunny and in the 70's this weekend. yey!!! Our Farmer's Market, which is FABULOUS, opens tomorrow. There will be wonderful vendors, crafts, street musicians of the most amazing quality, all around our historic square in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

I am starting my morning with a smoothie and DID NOT think about my Hemp protein/fiber powder possibly not being raw!!!! So I have some research to do.

Love to all of you for a successful month.


edit! YEY!! it IS RAW

[Lady Green Jeans]

Good morning all.

Sunny and beautiful here in Southern California today. We have had a spell of cold and rainy so very glad to get to be outdoors working on putting together my square foot garden area.

Started my day with carob chia pudding with raspberries on top. Lunch will be a big salad with lots of colorful veggies. Dinner I hope will be pizza if they are done enough from the dehydrator. Have an event tonight at church and all the men will be serving the ladies dessert before the speakers present. Will be taking my own dessert so I don't feel left out or tempted.

Sooo glad to be here for the April challenge!!

[macrae.bridget]

Heeeey! So this morning I had a smoothie with chard, raspberries, strawberries, kiwi ice and it was _alright_ but I need to work on my recipes hahaha. For lunch I am about to have the bomb salad with mixed green, mango, orange, grapefruit, white onion, cherry tomatoes and avocado with some mustard, thyme and olive oil dressing. I also made some tabouli with sprouted quinoa in case I'm still hungry. But I have _no_ clue what I'm going to have for dinner. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

[meowimacat]

happy first day of april!!! i hope you are all kicking raw butt today!
here is my grub for today with photos below - i hope people dont mind me posting photos so often, but i find it keeps me motivated and excited about my food!

breakfast - apple porridge with banana and strawberry.
lunch - the most delicious green smoothie that has ever passed my lips (mango, nana & spinach - was much tastier than usual)
snack - ...see below.
dinner - tomato, basil and spinach soup. looks gross but tasted beautiful!!

i also attempted to make brownies (2nd pic). carob brownies. i have been waiting for my carob powder to arrive for ages, and boy was i disappointed. all i could taste was petfood. it smelt just like a petshop i go in. i was soooo disappointed and it put a real downer on my day! it just made me want a real life chocolate brownie. so after i wallowed for a while i realised that actually, i dont need to make food that mimics SAD food, i am fine without it, and don't crave it unless i try and substitute it. so for me, the simpler the better!! when i do have a chocolate urge i nibble on a choc orange nakd bar. if you are in the uk try these!! they are tasty!

[changeisgood]

Hi everyone - it will be in the mid-80s today. Finally!

I had orange, grapefruit, lemon and ginger juiced with some pulp this AM after my lemon water.

lunch will be left over grapefruit and orange segments. I'll have some flax crackers mid-morning to munch on with plenty of water.

Perhaps an apple for a snack

Dinner, I'm thinking the blueberry pancakes. While I'm waiting for them to dehydrate (although delich the way it is made) I'll have a small salad.

Kiwi or an apple after dinner
I'm dehydrating sweet potato chips.

Kiwi ice sounds really good - I love kiwis - can you tell me what the recipie is?


Hi Monk - good to see you here - I was hoping some of the old crowd would be here.

Have a agreat day everyone !

[appifanie]

I'll copy my post from the other April thread :)


Hi everyone!

A 2 part breakfast because we're going to be out and about for awhile today.

Buckwheat flake cereal, raisins, raw almond milk.
Smoothie - raw almond milk, peaches, banana, nutmeg, vanilla.

eta: I didn't take a pic today, but the cereal was like this one, but no apples today - I was hungry and just wanted to throw stuff in a bowl and eat



Okay, for lunch I was out of the house for longer than expected. When I got in I had one of those date/coconut roll things while I made lunch.

For lunch I wanted to make teh carrot soup recipe from Cafe Gratitude's book but it involves juicing carrots, and I've wanted to see if I can get into making juice with teh vitamix. Anyway, that probably messed up the seasonings a bit and I know it changed the texture and it was too creamy for me. Next time I make carrot soup I'm just going to try raw-ing the carrot soup recipe i know and love that is vegan but not raw.

So after my unfinished soup (I'll try to fix it) I ate a raw crunch bar.

[amarryth]

So far I'm at lemon water, a head of romaine, half a cucumber, some sundried tomatoes, small handful of almonds, with olive oil and salt and pepper, and then about 6 brazil nuts.

Yesterday I fell below my weight number that I have been stuck at for years. It's only been 5 lbs. I've been trying to lose.. but those last few have been the hardest!

Maybe I will make it through this challenge after all!

[LVN Wells]

Hi everyone,
I am so happy that I found this site today. I have been raw since 3/28/2011, and enjoy challenges. I have been researching and believe that by the end of this challenge I will be a healthy raw eater. I will post my meals starting tomorrow.
Thanks for letting me join.

My goals is to dissolve fibroadnoma breast tumors. Lose weight. My weight this morning was 155.5. This evening it's 157.5.

My long term goal is to run a marthon in October 2011.

[jhodi]

So the ordered-in gourmet raw meals did not work out for me....don't want to complain here but just wanna say it didnt work out and ....

Now....I gotta quick learn how to prepare my own raw meals. Green smoothie for breakfast, veggie salad for lunch....WHAT can I make for dinners?

I am a busy busy workin girl as most of you.

Here is my equipment: greenstar elite juicer, excaliber 9 tray, good blender, etc...

But I stocked my kitchen with all of that thinking I could take my time learning how to do it all....now I need some recipes!!! Ordering Alissa's cookbooks STAT.

[appifanie]

bad food combining day bourne of panic from a day off schedule.

those gone raw cookies
green smoothie

I forget what else! raw though. too many nuts and seeds probably - i'm going to clean that up for tomorrow.

[appifanie]

The plan for tomorrow is:

Breakfast - Buckwheat cereal or smoothie
Snack - Banana(s)
Lunch - Sushi with jicama for the rice
Snack - Apple
Dinner - Mushroom and tomato fettucini from Raw Food Real World