Dec 2012 - 30 day raw challenge... join any time of the month!

[appifanie]

hi juicin! glad things are going well!

i have a blech sore throat drinking chamomile tea with agave and ginger slices.

question: i buy fresh local honey and it's solidifying and getting crystalline and it tastes GROSS - i tried to give my coughing kid some last night and she cried and said "no honey, no honey!" while sobbing and I didn't understand until I tried it today. ick.

[appifanie]

throat still store! made some tea, added some honey, it was too gross to drink. ate a pear.

[Shine]

Weekends are SO HARD for me. Did okay but poor enough to make me groggy and tired. I need to carve out some time to pre-make some food I can have for those "emergencies" and try to check in here over the weekends too. Glad you all did better than I!

Clementines this morning. Lots of clementines! I have spinach and strawberries for a salad for lunch and I think I'll pop out and get an avo and some nuts at the HFS to add to it.

[2 husky girl]

Had a great, all raw day yesterday! Chia seed pudding for breakfast, marinated veggie wrap for lunch, and cucumber/watercrest soup and salad for dinner. Alissa's granola and almond milk for breakfast today. I've had such a hard time adding pictures lately, so I just changed websites. I think they're working now. Here is a picture of Alissa's reubon sandwich from last weekend and my granola today:


Reubon 2 by 2huskygirl, on Flickr


Granola with Milk by 2huskygirl, on Flickr

[appifanie]

looks yummy!! i've got to make some granola . . . and buy almonds for milk!

had a smoothie with 2 bananas and an orange. had nori. got horrible tummy ache so just drank some water and now have some peppermint tea. not sure what else i'll have today - liquids it's looking like, if anything.

tacos tomorrow i think! and a kale salad.

[Shine]

appifaine - I hope you are feeling better! Peppermint tea always helps me :)

A small tweaked version of Alissa's Key Lime Pie (LOLF) was dinner tonight. Just made it with fewer dates and more coconut butter. Holy Cow yummy!!! and baby liked it to

[Shine]

Have a giant green smoothie to start my day. Some clementines for a snack. Large amount of greens with olives for lunch (need to add some more veggies to this one.....) and carrots for another snack. I wanted to make Alissa's Sunny Pate last night for a dip for today but it didn't get done. Maybe tonight! Or Mock Salmon as that one goes a bit faster I think. Happy Tuesday!

[appifanie]

Shine, thanks! It did help a lot :) Getting coconut oil into the baby is awesome! I'm going to try to make the key lime pie soon too - I bought a ton of limes but my nuts are low and they're so expensive where I am that I like to get them in Raleigh but that's like an hour away.

Yesterday I was all raw except for like 1/2 of my morning coffee (I'm weaning off to help avoid migraines) which is the best I've done in awhile! Right now I'm having a juice I made out of my kale stems, 2 stalks of celery, 1/4 lemon, about 1" of ginger, and a green apple. I don't like eating green apples but they're great in juice!

It's getting to be that time of the month so I bought some raw cacao nibs yesterday. I put them in a smoothie last night but that didn't feature them enough so I'll be thinking on that. I also bought a citrus kombucha - yum yum. No one around here who sells their SCOBYs on Craigslist will email me back, so I'm still working on that.

[appifanie]

chia seeds on sale at the vitamin shoppe! woo! got some coconut oil too - unexpired coconut oil

[appifanie]

green smoothie for lunch!

taco salads for dinner - vegan for the kid and hubs, raw vegan for me! same lettuce, same salsa, same avocado, diff "meat", diff "sour cream"

[appifanie]

this morning's green juice - cuke, celery, pear, lemon, ginger. normally I would juice a pear but I cut it open and it wasn't ripe enough to eat.

when I think about eating some cooked food i remind myself of all the raw food I have that I haven't tried yet and I hold off.

maybe some pumpkin mylk chia pudding next, and a green smoothie for lunch and a kale salad for dinner. snacks of apples and/or bananas. yummy :) oranges too!

sometimes I wonder if I'm getting enough calories and I start to track food, but quite frankly, one of the reasons I'm doing raw is b/c I am SO SICK of counting calories. honestly.

[Shine]

Another Key Lime Pie for dinner and what's left for breakfast - although I wish there was more!!! Kinda stuck on this right now but whatever works!!

Blended soup for lunch and more clementines for a snack. Woke up late so not so creative as I would like to be!! Like your taco idea appifaine so maybe I'll do some for dinner tonight!

[robh]

appifanie and Shine, you're doing great. :)

I'm still here. Aside from the normal fruit and salad, I have been eating sprouted grains in moderation. I find it helps fill the calorie gap left by the lack of fruit this time of year. Last night, I had the RTF raw ranch with broccoli. I love broccoli, but it causes a weird stomach sensation that lasts for days after eating it. I was hoping after months and months of being raw that I could finally eat it again (I can eat raw onions again, after all). Doesn't seem to be the case. I have that sensation again.

Anyway, good luck being raw folks.

[appifanie]

hi rob!

i just had an awesome green smoothie. 2 handfuls kale, 1 small celery stalk, 1 orange (w/o peel), 1/2 tbsp coconut oil, 1 tbsp ground flax, 2 medium bananas. really yummy.

[appifanie]

dinner is going to be a kale salad - kale, evoo, salt, avocado, cayenne, carrot shreds. i made up a dessert - 1/2 dried cherries, 1/2 a mix of cashews/coconut/walnuts