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

[Steven]

What all I managed to consume today:
Chocolate breakfast smoothie - banana, date, cacao powder, hemp protein powder
3 tsp spirulina w/ water
GS - parsley, banana, date, lemon, fuji apple
3 small green apples
Handful almonds
3 large carrots
2 Livin' sprout Pizza Crackers
Handful cashews
Raisans & raw coconut flakes
Salad - variety of different lettuces

I want to start adding in more salads and green smoothies the next few days, as I havent been eating them as much.

[Clara Verde]

Rushed off to work on Monday after gulping down a morning mix of micronutrition, only to discover later that my nosetip had become brightly chlorella-green...no wonder the busdriver smiled so warmly...!

@seRAWnity - that's great perseverance in the quest for fresh food at café
@cookiemonster - your avatar is such a harmonious picture
@Blackcat - workout before work = inspiring
@Speltrong - sounds great to do this with your partner

Monday was fruits in the morning & zucchinisoup w. sprouts for lunch & dinner, and snacking on trailmix. Am making raw brownies today as a housewarming-gift for a vegan friend, and will most likely make some extra for my sweet tooth...

A question regarding the Tribest personal blender, if anyone here has experience with it (effortless vegan, I remember you mentioning it in the March thread?): how does it work for blending sturdier greens like kale, fresh nettles, etc? Thanks!

[seRAWnity]

SeRAWnity - that strawberry salad looks great ! Is there anything else that needs to be added - this is a keeper !

The strawberry salad is really simple, any type of greens you like, sliced up some strawberries, I toss in some sesame seeds, thin sliced red onion, and to make the raspberry balsamic I mix : a 1/4 cup of olive oil, a tbsp of raspberry balsamic vinegar, and a bit of agave to sweeten it up, then I toss the salad

[meowimacat]

seRAWnity - i know what i'm going to have for my dinner tonight thank you!! sounds delicious, although i don't think i will be able to get hold of any raspberry balsamic.

this weekend was difficult, i can't believe how hard it is to eat out!! in the town i live in it seems like nowhere caters for vegans! was back on track yesterday though with full force! not gonna beat myself up about it. just thinking about what i ate that was raw.
yesterday:
breakfast - banana & apple rings
lunch - apple slices and almond butter
dinner - nori rolls made with the alfalfa sprouts i have been sprouting! then as a snack i had some more apple rings in the evening.
we went for a 5 mile walk last night, and i felt sooo engergised, especially considering i hadn't eaten much in the day. this time a few months ago that walk would've killed me!

today i had a banana for breakfast and walked for 2 miles, for lunch i'm going to have a green smoothie and maybe a fruit salad. and for my dinner i'm going to try that lovely strawberry salad!!

everyone is doing sooo well and eating yummy food!

[jhodi]

just checking in. Still 100%

[appifanie]

last night was a pasta recipe from raw food real world and a banana w/ almond butter

breakfast is about to be a smoothie - frozen banana, almond milk, lucuma.

[Cookie Monster Gone Raw]

CLARA VERDA-thank you, I thought my avatar looked harmonious too.

CHANGE IS GOOD- thank you for the warm welcome!

Wow, everyone’s posts is really inspiring, everything sounds so delicious!

Good luck everyone and have a wonderful day!

[lilahrose8]

Hi to all,

I am a little late joining the April challenge , but I didn't want that to deter me in not joining you all....................I was raw for part of March about 20 days, then blew it on a bunch of cooked food.....I haven't been able to kick it again til now..........so excited to have other people with an understanding of how important it is to eat raw, but sometimes the will power fails me............I have been eating some love force bars and having a smoothie for breakfast, it helps to get my day off to a great start..............I have 9 kids, and homeschool....this life is not at all about me, so I have to force mysef to chose to be raw every day.....thanks for all the ideas and the encouragement !!blessings, sue

[appifanie]

sleepy and migrainey! ho hum.

[BirdSong]

Been raw since 4/1...

Things have been really good up until today. Having a really difficult time, and experiencing some serious cravings. I almost broke down at lunch! There are a variety of random things I'm craving...is this happening to anybody else? I feel like it's too soon for me to be going through this...

I need support, and advice on how to fight the temptation!!!

Thanks!

[speltrong]

Here's what I had today:

Breakfast was a Fuji apple
Lunch was a big green salad (a mix of romaine and spinach), with shredded carrot on top, and a couple of raw olives, with some raw vegan parm sprinkled on and a little bit of balsamic vinegar. Oh, and a Lydia's Organics Fiesta cracker on the side.
For a snack I had a Pixie Tangerine.
Dinner is going to be fabulous... I'm currently dehydrating mushroom "meat"balls, and I'm going to blend up a nice raw marinara sauce and then put all of that over "noodles" that I have fashioned out of raw zucchini and carrots. I will post a pic later if dinner comes out pic-worthy!

[appifanie]

Been raw since 4/1...

Things have been really good up until today. Having a really difficult time, and experiencing some serious cravings. I almost broke down at lunch! There are a variety of random things I'm craving...is this happening to anybody else? I feel like it's too soon for me to be going through this...

I need support, and advice on how to fight the temptation!!!

Thanks!

i'm fairly convinced you can get a good raw substitute to whatever it is you want :) when in doubt, eat raw chocolate

that being said.

uhmmm...
banana
apple with raw almond butter
salad w/ caesar dressing from cafe gratitude's book (topped with my raw vegan "parm" which is 1 part walnuts to 1 part nutritional yeast ground in the food processor)
chocolate truffle
strawberry apple juice

[speltrong]

Here's a pic of the raw pasta marinara with meatballs that I had for dinner (pasta was zucchini), (meatballs were a mix of nuts, mushrooms, seeds, spices).

[changeisgood]

I'm eating a delicious fruit salad - grapefruit, orange, kiwi with shredded coconut. Finally realized it was apples bloating me up. Since giving them up, I'm back to feeling light as a feather !

Working backwards, for lunch I had sprouted bread, goji berries (wow! yummy and took away the feeling of hypoglycemia-amazing), and flax crackers and a spoon of coconut butter.

Breakfast I made a blueberry smoothie with coconut milk, collard greens, shredded coconut (can you tell I love coconut !),spirulina, hemp seeds and all the fixin's. And a tangerine a couple of hours afterward.

Birdsong - go to the other forum - there is plenty of info on how to free yourself of cravings with other foods, etc. or start a post and tell them what you are specifically craving and someone will know what to eat in it's place.

Well, fruit salad is finished, gotta go and figure out how to get my face to fit in the bowl so I can lick it clean!

Have a good night, everyone.

[Steven]

Today:
3 banana
GS- date, banana, pear, chia seed, collard
Raw Revolution Tropical Mango bar
3 small green apple
Pear w/ raw macadamia nut butter (this is SO good, I highly recommended Artisana raw nut butters!)
GS- banana, hemp protein powder, ground flax seed, bee pollen, baby bok choy, apple
2 tsp spirulina w/ water
Handful cashews

speltrong, that pasta looks really good!