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

[Clara Verde]

Welcome to all the new rawbies!
Enjoyed fresh strawberries with chocolate pudding today! Lots of beets in the fridge that might become juice shortly together with some lemon...yum.

[speltrong]

Breakfast today was a smoothie with rainbow chard, banana, and some honeydew melon that we froze a couple of days ago. This is the first time I've put something frozen in my morning smoothie, and I was surprised at how much better it tastes when it's icy cold! Yum!

Lunch today was a-m-a-z-i-n-g! I used our leftover "Free Range Chickenless Salad" from yesterday, and made a sandwich with Alissa's italian flatbread, topping it with tomatoes, red onion, and lettuce. Ohmigosh, tasty! And here's a pic:

[Lady Green Jeans]

speltrong, I want to eat at your house! Your food looks fantastic.

Todays dining:

B-mango; green smoothie with bananas, black cherries, strawberries and collards
L-small bowl of pineapple cucumber gazpacho; sm. salad; cucumber with cayenne hummus. Sounds like a lot buy each was smallish but very enjoyable.
D-hummus with cauliflower. Worked late and grabbed something easy and fast.

Hope you all had a great raw day! Welcome to all the newbies--so glad you are here for the challenge.

[Success]

hey .. thanx for the warm welcome

i cant get over how all of these pics look like they are professionally taken ..
im still cleansing, but yesterday was raw day for my fam and for breakfast, they had pink grapefruit ... morning snack was sliced mango ... lunch was tossed salad .. afternoon snack was sliced carrots and cucumbers with pistachios .. and dinner last night was fruit/veggie sushi :)

Have a beautiful day ~

[sistahonamission]

Hello RFT, I am in need of some words of experience/encouragement. I am in the process of completing 30 days of Raw Food and I am/have experience some severe detox symptoms. One night last week I was extremely cold and shivering until I had to cover up with two heavy blankets and I constantly went to the bathroom all night. In the morning I woke up to terrible head and body aches. Body aches due to the uncontrollable shivering. In all honesty it was very scary. Today I am very tired. Is this normal? Has anyone else experienced severe detox symptoms? Thanks for your help.

[speltrong]

Thanks LadyGreenJeans & Success! We really enjoy taking pics of the food I make, and it's always so nice to hear that others enjoy them too. :-)

Today has been good.. another green smoothie with banana and honeydew melon for breakfast. For lunch today, I made Alissa's Pressed Lasagne, and lemme tell you.. heaven! Even though the pic makes it look like it's all "cheese", it's actually mostly shitake mushrooms. It's a layer of zucchini topped with a tomato-macadamia ricotta cheese that has a whole pound of shitake mushrooms mixed in, and then a layer of fresh spinach, followed by a layer of sliced tomatoes.. repeat three times, press, and voila! Lasagne! So cool! Here's the pic:

[Success]

wow .. that lasagna looks soooo good! What measurements did u use for the ingredients?

Its Raw Thursday in our house and breakfast will be a strawberry milkshake with bananas, strawberries, almond milk, dates, and flax seed ... morning snack will be sliced oranges and trail mix ... lunch will be a salad with romaine, spinach, sliced pears, cucumbers, sunflower seeds, and dried cranberries ... afternoon snack will be sliced apples and carrots ... and for dinner I would love to try that lasagna dish! :

I am still cleansing and plan to start my raw challenge in May ... I am so excited!

Also, I have never experienced any rough detox symptoms, even with the cleanse I am currently doing, however I do know that it is to be expected and my best recommendation is to drink lots of water to help your body flush out the toxins.. you may even notice a significant and immediate improvement as a result .. hope that helps! good luck!

[speltrong]

Hi Success.. the measurements for the recipe are all in Alissa's Raw Food for Everyone book. I found a copy at my local bookstore, so if you want to make it tonight, you could check there? Since this is a website to promote Alissa's book, I'm actually not sure if I'd be allowed to post her recipe verbatim, since that might discourage people from buying the book. I can say this though, we've tried a bunch of recipes from that book, and there has only been one that we were on the fence about liking.. all the rest have been fabulous!

[earthyeater]

Hi Lila/Success. Welcome! It's true there is a ton of information here. I'm looking forward to seeing you kiddo.

Speltrong -- I think MY food looks good, but yours looks amazing. You're making me go work on a recipe!

As for raw, I'm still hanging in and going strong.

[Success]

Hello Earthyeater! :)

For dinner I ended up making the veggie fajita recipe I saw on here in one of the other threads (I think it was one of alyssas recipes as well) .. my kids liked it, but requested different ingredients as fillers, so once Im finished with my cleanse I will be able to play with it a bit ... cant wait! I am definitely picking up her book! thanx for the recommendation speltrong... I guess I didnt realize this was only a website to promote her book; I thought it was a place to share recipes and raw food ideas :) (now looking up at the print "a raw food community based on Alissa Cohens Book" lol) .. I have lots of my own raw food recipes as well as stuff ive come across online that I was hoping to share during my raw food experience... so perhaps Im in the wrong place?

well, off to play catch w/the kids .. hope u all have a great evening ~

[speltrong]

awww, thanks earthyeater! Can't wait to see more of your pics as well!

Success, I'm pretty new on this board, so I could actually be wrong about the recipe sharing.. but I didn't want to chance it and upset one of the moderators, ha! But maybe someone else on this thread knows if it's okay to post Alissa's recipes here? I think it's totally fine to post your own recipes though, and I think we'd all love to see them!

I didn't do anything creative with food today.. I started out with a green smoothie as always, and then we thought we'd do "breakfast for lunch" with Alissa's pancake recipe. But ohhhh my.. the pancakes were SO sweet that they made me totally sick to my stomach... and I'm certain I measured the ingredients correctly, so maybe I just need to steer away from Alissa's sweeter recipes, ugh! But hey, one recipe I don't like out of ALL the other ones I've tried ain't bad, right?

So anyway, that's all I plan on eating today, because my tummy still hurts from lunch! Tomorrow will be better, I'm sure. :-)

[Lady Green Jeans]

Success, I have been on and off here for years but there have been many who share recipes. Check the recipe section. The site is basically for sharing Alissa's recipes and philosophy. A really good place to be for some awsome ideas and support.

Today's raw:
B--1/2 avo
L--big green salad with cabbage, tomato, cucumber, carrot, hemp seed and other 1/2 avo.
D--bowl of raw cauliflower dipped in raw sun roasted tomato hummus.

Hope you all had a great raw day. Glad to be here with you all.

[Clara Verde]

Planning a day of juices today. It feels like my body is ready to go into some kind of cleanse...yay!
Hope everyone is enjoying the journey with delicious food, vibrancy & growth!

[Lady Green Jeans]

The weather is starting to warm up a little here so I hope to get out a lot this weekend--especiallly in the new garden.

Today's eating:
B-two mangos
S-banana
L-green salad with avo, cucumber, tomato, cabbage and carrots
D-cucumber with sun dried tomato hummus

Bought some nice eggplant on sale so I am planning on making the eggplant bacon recipe everyone is talking about.

Hope you all had a great raw day.

[Lady Green Jeans]

Saturday at last. Off to the farmers' market this morning to restock on avos and a few other items. Want to make several raw recipes over the weekend including alfredo, some dessert crusts for fruit pizzas (to go with my chocolate coconut hummus), the much talked about eggplant bacon, an apple crisp for Easter and some kind of fancy ravioli or raw pasta dish--something special for my Easter dinner tomorrow.

Will catch up with posting my food later today. Hope you all have a great raw day.