August 2012 30 Day Raw Challenge

[Willpower]

Count me in!!!

[happylife]

Hi Willpower. If your name suits you, it will be a charm to be in the challenge. Glad you are here.

[SunshineMN]

I'm committing to another 30 days since last month was a little less than successful. Hopefully this month I'll be able to start having grass juices and hopefully other green juices. I'm excited to see several new faces joining us this month!

[MysticTree]

Here we are for another 30 days. All the best everyone.

[robh]

cablegirl, I don't know of any way to ease caffeine headaches. Just hang in there, they will go away. Also, congrats on getting your husband to do some raw. Having someone to support you at home is huge.

happylife, I have seen you post several times in the past few pays. You are excited about this. That's great! You'll fit right in.

Welcome back MysticTree, SunshineMN, LexieW and the others that joined us last month. It's a new month and a fresh beginning. I don't know about you all, but my will kind of fell apart at the end of the month. I am ready to get back on the 100% raw wagon and see if I can make it longer than 17 days - heh.

Hello to those joining us this month: ciks08, cablegirl, happylife, Jeff_from_mi, PinkieKitty, BeWell, Willpower.


New folks, be sure to subscribe to the thread! click "Go Advanced" -> check the "subscribe to this thread" box -> select "daily, using email" Also, we can only support you if you tell us how you are doing. I cannot count the number of times someone has joined the thread just to never post again. Let us know that you are serious, keep posting!


I am in for August! I had a 100% raw day yesterday. Lately, I have been having "after shocks" from a cooked food binge that I went on during vacation last month. Having a 100% day yesterday has helped me to shake off those cravings.

Today's eating plan:

I only eat when I am hungry. That means I will have just water until around noon today. I may go longer. Yesterday, I started eating because it was noon and not because I was hungry. We shall see.

I will start my first meal with fruit: an orange and then a banana. Then I'll soak the 4 tablespoons of chia seeds in about a 1/2 cup of water. I will stir the chia seeds in the water frequently for a good 10 minutes. Then, I will slice up a banana and add it to the gooey mix. After that, I will work in a teaspoon or so of raw honey (very sticky stuff). Then, I will wait for my body to tell me that it wants more food (probably 20-30 minutes because fruit makes me hungry). The fat in the banana-honey-chia-seed pudding will keep me full for a while. (It also tastes good.)

A few hours later, when I am hungry again, I will mix 4 tablespoons of ground up sesame seeds with agave, raw honey and sunflower seed butter. I will then slice up an apple and enjoy the nice, yummy, fatty snack. This will keep my full until dinner.

For dinner, I always do greens and veggies first and then fat last. I typically make a romaine salad topped with baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices and I'll come up with a dressing (or I'll use the famous rawfoodtalk cashew ranch dressing). After I eat my salad, I make some dip with an avocado. Usually it's guacamole, but last night I made a nice spinach-avocado dip. I typically have sliced veggies or flax crackers with my avo-dip. After I make all this stuff, my salad has had enough time to move along and I feel hungry again. After I eat the fatty avocado dip, I am always very full and very satisfied. I try not eat before I go to bed but sometimes I will snack on soaked raw almonds or sunflower seeds.

Also, if I stop eating four hours before bed, I sleep better. I think the body cannot sleep well while it is digesting. I always wake up tired if I eat close to bed time.

Sorry for the long drawn out explanation, but I never knew "what to eat" when I started raw and when I joined these threads what other people were eating was very helpful. It took me a long time to learn that fats keep me full and that I have to eat them last. I hope this helps someone.

[MysticTree]

Hello Rob,

Welcome back to you too. I know that the feelings of wanting to eat off-plan will actually pass. I won't die if I don't eat that thing I crave right that minute. I find some of the phrases from AA quite helpful - in this instance the phrase "This too shall pass." is the one I think of when I get cooked food cravings.

I plan to take some pictures tonight if it's not too gloomy and will post tomorrow. I feel like sharing the exuberance of my pea-shoots and other sprouting friends.

Lots of fruit so far today and some kale chips (cheesy with purple corn) very good but they do break the bank to buy. I need to get something sorted so I can dehydrate some foods so I have sent off for a book on DIY 12 volt solar power. Where there's a will there's a way :o)

Me and the BF are in again for the month. I want to be 100%, he is happy with a less strict scenario but I have noticed that his bread slips are fewer and further between and we are both missing our green juices (production is not keeping up with demand!).

[ReneeH]

Hi!!!! I'm STILL here! Starting my day with Watermelon!!!



On day 2 of making my Rejuvelac for my Land & Sea for next week! I haven't had it since my Alissa Level 3 Class with her, so I'm excited to finally make it!!!

I got some curly Kale to make some Kale Chips!!!!!! I hate the store bought ones...YUK!!! But I like 'um when I make them myself! Gonna make some cheesy with Nut Yeast and some with just Sea Salt & EVOO. Hopefully I can stay out of the dehydrator!!!! :-)

Making Candied Pecans and Almonds too!!!

So glad to see so many here!!!! :-)

[ReneeH]

OOOHHH!!!! Mystic I just saw that you use Purple Corn!!! Here's the one I got from Mike Adams (Natural News editor) when I was his raw chef for the summer:



Is this what you use? What's your recipe for your Chips using it? Pls share!!!! :-D

[MysticTree]

OOOHHH!!!! Mystic I just saw that you use Purple Corn!!! Here's the one I got from Mike Adams (Natural News editor) when I was his raw chef for the summer:



Is this what you use? What's your recipe for your Chips using it? Pls share!!!! :-D

I don't use it in recipes. It is in a raw product that I buy.

When I finally get some electricity sorted out I will see if there is enough to run a dehydrator (bf is looking at a making a solar powered one but we get very little sun). If a dehydrator becomes a possibility I will probably get whatever purple corn Kate Magic uses.

[ReneeH]

I see a recipe for Kale Chips on RFFE on page 374, but it uses Tahini Dressing and I don't care for Tahini. I may try that one and just omit the Dressing, cuz the rest sounds great! But I'd love to taste the one with the Purple Corn...

[happylife]

Cablegirl..What part of Wisc are you in.. I'm in Appleton..

[happylife]

This is my 5th day raw. I do not take credit for being 100% raw yet. I still do drink coffee, have cut it down to decaf and only have it once a day.
Breakfast was bananas
Lunch will be an extra large salad at Golden Corral with a long lost friend. Many raw choices to eat there. Instead of getting a full sized plate to pile about 4-5 different kinds of baked desserts on, I will get a soup cup and put melon in it.
Supper is going to be Mock Salmon Pate with corn chips..
I have had a lot of changes in the past month, eating right, new apt,new friends etc. I'm now on my way to retirement, that will be a completely different life. I have worked hard since I was 12 years old. I started in the bean, strawberry,and pickle fields,to a tree farm, waitress,business owner,and many other things to feed my family. Oh My, what shall I do lol.
Good luck everyone. I am in your corner, we can learn a lot from each other.

[MysticTree]

I see a recipe for Kale Chips on RFFE on page 374, but it uses Tahini Dressing and I don't care for Tahini. I may try that one and just omit the Dressing, cuz the rest sounds great! But I'd love to taste the one with the Purple Corn...

I don't know if it makes much difference to the taste but it sure looks pretty!

[harkly]

Joining the group!

1st day going a little rough, but I am sticking with it, just keeping thinking how much better off I will be.

Bk - was my bk juice - 2 oranges, 3 apple, 3 carrot & kale
LN - lettuce, green & red leaf & iceburg, spinach, broccoli slaw and some very fresh tomatoes topped with lime juice
DN - will be another salad & a banana, pear, spinach smoothie
Snacks will be - fresh green bell peppers, cauliflower, watermelon

[Divine Soul]

Wooo another 30 days! Made that cashew cream sauce thing this morning at 6am because I woke up randomly and it literally tastes like cheese good thing I didn't make a lout I hate cheese lol...maybe my family will eat it ^_^ it made me sick though, so I ate half a cantaloupe and made a yummy smoothie!

edit: I forgot, I got tendinitis or tendinitis not sure which- from running in my ankle . Guess can't do cardio now depending on which one it is it can last from couple of days to TEN WEEKS but I can do weights !