Food Journal

Before I begin this food journal that I tracked for the past several days, I wanted to take a moment and let you know that it's not just me who eats this way in my family. When I started the raw journey I was a sassy single gal, but it wasn't long before I met my boyfriend (via eHarmony - deets here on how he was an omnivore when we met but converted to an herbivore after 8 months) who later became my husband. So, for the most part, when I post these food journals, my husband is eating along with me. He doesn't usually eat the single pieces of fruit as much or the granola for example (although he does take bites of mine - lol); rather he gets his "snacks" in the form of protein grenades.

Thursday

High Raw - All Vegan - All Organic

All Nutritious - All Delicious

Supplements: same as usual... vitamin D2, digestive enzymes, chlorella, wheat grass tablets, probiotics, calcium,vitamin B12, vegan DHA

Green juice: broccoli, lime, celery, cucumber, zucchini

Cooked oat groats with raisins and raw almond milk

Sprouted Protein Bar (recipe will be posted soon on my facebook fan page - exclusive to fans only!)
Large Salad loaded with homegrown sprouts, red bell pepper, minneola, romaine, and an awesome 4-ingredient dressing I'm now calling 4-Ingredient Magic Dressing because it's so magical it'll make anyone you give salad to LOVE IT!

1 quart Purple Passion Smoothie with a twist. Frozen blueberries, 2 oranges, 3 purple kale leaves, almond milk, stevia, chia powder

Cooked oat groats with raisins and raw almond milk

Part of a small decaf soy latte (we met up at Starbucks with my former doula and had a blast!) It's NOT my habit to get a drink at Starbucks when we go there, not so much because it's "cooked" but because it's not organic coffee. I rarely drink coffee these days, but on occasion when I brew it at home, I use organic and fair trade coffee. Read how to kick the caffeine addiction here.

Salad: romaine, broccoli, red bell pepper, sprouts, apple, carrot, 4-Ingredient Magic Dressing

1 Apple
1 small spoonful Rawtella (Read my praising review of Rawtella here)

Protein shake: Sun Warrior (this link takes you to the Natural flavor, but I also love the chocolate!), hemp protein powder, homemade curry powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, water

Friday

High Raw - All Vegan - All Organic

All Nutritious - All Delicious

Green Juice: bok choy, celery, zucchini, cucumber, basil, romaine

Cooked oat groats with raw almond milk and raisins

1 quart Purple Passion Smoothie with a twist. Frozen blueberries, 2 oranges, 3 purple kale leaves, raw almond milk, stevia, chia powder

Giant Salad: romaine, orange bell pepper, tomato, apple, sprouts, olives, and you know the dressing... 4-Ingredient Magic Dressing

Raw granola cereal with raw almond milk

Cooked Tempeh
1 Apple
Cheezy Kale chips

Green Juice - I made the same recipe as I made in the morning

Saturday

All Raw - All Vegan - All Organic

All Nutritious - All Delicious

Herbal tea brewed in the sun

Green juice - broccoli, kale, celery, cucumber, zucchini, pear

Grapefruit
Kiwi


Pure Bar - Trail Mix flavor

2 kiwi
Cheezy Kale chips (I buy Blue Mountain Organics - read about my love for them here along with directions on how to make your own!)

Giant salad with sprouts, romaine, cabbage, carrots, tomato, raisins, green onion and 4-Ingredient Magic Dressing (this dressing makes you WANT TO EAT SALAD!)

Banana Blueberry Chocolate Nut Butter Soft Serve (Mmmm big ol' bowl)

Protein shake (1 serving Sun Warrior and 1 serving hemp) with cinnamon, plus 1T hemp seeds, and 2t Greener Grasses) with 1.5 cups almond milk. At the end of drinking this and I had one gulp left, I added about 1/2t dulse granules.

Grapefruit - I had this in the middle of the night. I couldn't sleep. Too much energy from the all raw diet! I went downstairs, had a pink grapefruit (rich with lycopene by the way), and watched Jon Stewart.

Sunday's food was all raw, too, but I forgot to write it all down.

Monday

All Raw - All Vegan - All Organic

All Nutritious - All Delicious

Red raspberry leaf tea
Sprouted Protein Bar with raw almond butter and sliced banana

1 kiwi

Quart green juice: kale, cucumber, celery, kiwi

2 giant salads: I loved it so much that I at two of them back to back. It had my 4-Ingredient Magic Dressing... Will share recipe soon! Romaine, red bell pepper, purple cabbage, and a few raisins. I had my step-dad taste the recipe and he asked if he could just eat it like a soup he loved it so much - lol. Mom and Greg are raving fans, too.

Blue Mountain Organics Cacao Crunch Brownie

1 quart Green Smoothie: 2 small bananas, raw almond milk, 2 big leaves red rainbow chard, 1 small orange, 1 serving hemp protein powder

Dinner: I haven't eaten yet, but I'm going to make raw pizza. I made the crusts a couple of days ago and made the cheese Saturday night. I'm going to also top them with fresh sliced tomatoes and basil. Yum!

Dessert: Banana soft serve!

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