Plant Blood (a.k.a. Green Juice) - 2 cups
celery, kale, cucumber, cabbage, and lemon
Green Smoothie - 3 cups
1 mango (are those a doozy to cut up, or what? with that pit and all you have to cut around!), fresh cut sunflower sprouts, fresh cut pea sprouts, and 1 frozen banana
Tropical Spicy Protein Smoothie - 3 cups
1.5 cups water, 2 frozen bananas, 1/2 cup mango (or more), 1/4 cup hemp seeds, 1/4 cup hemp protein powder, 1/8 teaspoon cayenne, dash vanilla extract
LOTS of Salad!
I'm crazy for romaine salads lately... like I eat 3 bowls in a row! Must be the Monkey growing in me, eh? The usual easy, simple combo: romaine, cucumber, red bell pepper, and topped with a dressing of lemon juice, raw olive oil, Himalayan crystal salt, and black pepper.
Dinner is not here yet, but here is my plan! Kale Salad and Crunchy Buckwheat Biscuits
Marinated kale salad topped with avocado, cucumber, red bell pepper. Crunchy Buckwheat Biscuits have a wonderful cheesy flavor (I use nutritional yeast - not raw, but everything else is). I dehydrated thoroughly where they're a thick, crunchy biscuit. Yum! I will post the recipe soon!
PRUNES!
Yum, I love prunes. Deliciously sweet and packed with antioxidants and nutrients.
Update: My kale salad at dinner was a bit different from what I posted above, and let me tell you... We LOVED it! My husband said three times, "Wow! This is soooo good!" I'll post the exact recipe another day, but the ingredients were marinated kale, garlic, avocado, pineapple, and orange. I'm calling it Pineapple Orange Kale Salad.
Your Tropical Spicy Protein Smoothie looks awesome! Love the spicy part! Enjoy all that great green food and salads. Can't wait to hear about the buckwheat biscuits!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lucky baby sipping on green drinks, he must be so happy!
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Awesome day, Kristen! I love when you post your meals, it always inspires me!
ReplyDeleteI have been eating tons of kale salads, I guess my pre-monkey body wants it! HA HA! :)
Hi ladies! Thanks for reading and chiming in!
ReplyDeleteHey HippieMom... "HE?" LOL --> You know something I don't know? ;)
those biscuits looks so yummy! on the edge of my seat for the recipe.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the buckwheat biscuits! I love raw foods, and some recent concerns about gluten and corn allergies have me frantically searching for recipes I CAN eat right now, raw or not. Everything else looks super tasty too!
ReplyDeleteThe comments requesting the recipe makes it more of a priority for me to get it to you! Will do soon! They're SO full of flavor, they knock my socks off!
ReplyDeleteCheers XOXO,
Kristen
Yes, I too would like the recipe please! :)
ReplyDeleteyour day looks amazing. this is what i will be trying to eat more like this for the next 14 weeks as I go through the police academy. i want to be as healthy as possible and have plenty of energy.
ReplyDeleteThose buckwheat biscuits sound delicious. If only people who think being raw mean deprivation could see how delicious and satisfying our way of eating can be. Man I love this way of eating. Hugs SS xx
ReplyDeleteThose biscuits look AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteEverything looks so delicious and belly-friendly :) Are you coming out with a new raw food weight loss book? I thought I heard about it in an interview... I'm a new follower so I may be a bit late on the news!
ReplyDeleteThose green juices are a must have for sure! I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for that biscuit recipe : )
ReplyDeleteI had a kale salad similar to that at my co-op, it was SO yummy! I hope you post that recipe too.
wow.. i love the way that you eat!! you seriously make eating raw look SO APPEALING
ReplyDeleteHi ktbwood,
ReplyDeleteI feel so amazingly great when I eat clean, green, and nutrient packed foods like this. It's like living on another plane of life.
Cheers,
Kristen
GORGEOUS food as always! Your green smoothies always look so incredibly refreshing and beautiful, you always inspire me to throw new things in my blender.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm...a nice bowl of salad sounds great right about now. Maybe that is what I'll do for lunch.
Hi Kristen,
ReplyDeleteI have mainly be doing smoothies as I purchased the vitamix but I don’t have a juicer. What is the main difference between the two? I presume smoothies have more fiber but besides the texture is there anything I am missing by not juicing? I don’t want to purchase the juicer as if in my gift registry :) yeah...we are getting marry next year :)
I LOVE kale but have yet to try it raw...will have to do that soon!!
ReplyDeleteHey Kristen,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great post.
I love romaine salads also- so crunchy!
Best, Kimberly
Hi Cinnamon Girl,
ReplyDeleteBasically, juicing requires a lot more produce to yield the same amount of liquid that you'd get in a smoothie; therefore, it's said that you get far more nutrients in a juice. You're right that you're extracting out the pulp/fiber, which takes up a lot of space in your yield. Also, the juice is assimilated and digested at a rapid speed because the fiber is not there slowing it down, so the nourishment gets to your cells straight away.
That all being said... I think it's important to have both in your life. They both bring different elements of nutrition.
Cheers,
Kristen
Bravo for the raw food diet but I do have to comment because something is so ironic to me.
ReplyDeleteThe granola, raw food, vegan enthusiasts who don't dare consume evil Advil for a headache or, heaven forbid, submit to a medicated birth...
These women seem to have no problem whatsoever doing ALL THINGS UNNATURAL when it comes to conceiving.
Why not just trust NATURAL conception? Why inject yourself with artificial hormones and create life in petri dishes in the MOST scientific, western medicine way you can?
Because when the rubber meets the road, you're just as UNnatural as the rest of us - we just draw the lines in different places. That's all.
What hypocrisy!
Don't ya just love those "anonymous" comments? I sure get a kick out of them! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Kristen
ReplyDeleteI love your blog! Very inspiring. :)
When you have celery in your green smoothies.. do you use the celery stalk or the leaves or both?
Thanks
Natasha :)
There aren't many leaves to begin with, and I use both. :)
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