Raw day 4 & 5

No picture updates as I have been really busy and haven't been making anything! I've just been eating basic fruits and veggies no awesome snacks or salads! Just delicious peaches oranges mangos and my all time favorite farmers market corn on the cob and peas!! 

Raw goodies!!

So the last 3 days have felt like they have been dragging out. It doesn't help that my husband eats everything and anything fried or fast food! Day 1 he eats fired chicken while I'm adjusting to eating raw. The sweet smell of crispy fried chicken and the crunch when he takes a bit...ok ok back to the raw food!! So I'm kinda bummed out that I can't have any "good" food while on this cleanse! (I was vegan before so i still couldn't have any but raw made the craving more intense) So I do a little research and find some delicious raw goodie recipes.. I have come to love the website    Ihttp://www.therawtarian.com/ it breaks everything down into categories and all the recipes are super easy and don't call for many ingredients! Tonight I ventured a into the land of raw vanilla drop cookies and chocolate mousse and then combined the 2 and made a pie!! What's better then pie?? Pie that is made with avocados,bananas,coconut and a few other things!! And I really mean only a few other things! If your like me it's stuff that's already in your pantry!! I linked the website where all the recipes can be found above!! Here's how mine came out  vanilla cookie link http://www.therawtarian.com/raw-vanilla-drop-cookies

Mousse link http://www.therawtarian.com/raw-chocolate-mousse-recipe

Needless to say I'm in heaven right now! I think I might even skip dinner and just have some cucumber and mango salad ! 

Raw day 3

Breakfast was on the go as it was Liam's first day of preschool! So we all had some bananas 

Lunch! Raw corn chowder! 

Here's the original recipe!! http://www.therawtarian.com/raw-corn-chowder-recipe

Raw day 2

Breakfast!! Wild Berry and peach with flaxseed smoothie! 

Lunch! Leftover from dinner yesterday thrown into spinach leaves 

Dinner!! Last nights dinner was so good I had it again! The "meat" was so tasty!! It looks like crap but tastes soo good! 

 

Raw day 1

Breakfast kiwi, apples, peaches, strawberries and ground flaxseed 

Lunch!! A little bit of everything raw with fresh squeezed lemon and lime juice! 

Dinner raw taco salad! Mine doesn't look no where near as nice and my cashew sour cream came out lumpy :-/ I defiantly need a vitamix blender!! But it taste amazing! 

Here's the original recipie! 

http://www.eatingvibrantly.com/raw-taco-salad/

Raw food diet!!!

For the next 2 weeks I will  be eating only raw food! Most raw food diets say you can "cook" foods with a temperature no higher then 180*  well I should say you can dehydrate food. The whole idea behind dehydrating is so  you can make breads and chips and so forth. But  since I'm only doing the raw diet for 2 weeks I don't relly need to make chips or bread. 

Why did I chose to go raw?

I chose to try the raw diet because I'm finding myself seeking out vegan comfort food. while having a piece of cake or bag of chips here and there isn't bad I tend to chose the grab and go goodies over the heathy options! So I think it's time to detox my body Nd remind it that fruit and veggies are just as good! 

What will I eat? 

 

 Fruits and veggies! For breakfast I'm going to stick to smoothies with ground flaxseed.  Lunches will most likely be a simple salad and dinner will be a variety. I've never eaten fully raw so this will be a challenge. I've found a great we site called fullyrawkristina.com and she has some great recipes. I will definitely feature. Bunch of her recipes on my blog! And don't forget Snacks.. Snack time is why most fully raw people dehydrate food so that when snack time rolls around you can just grab a bag of "chips" but I on the other hand will only eat fruit or veggies!   

Wait aren't you breastfeeding your toddler? How will it affect him?

 

Yes I am still nursing my toddler but not  very often. He nurses every few days and we are just about done. He turns  3 in November and I have. A feeling he will barley make it till then. So it won't affect our nursing relationship as we are just about done anyways!  But I will be taking a vitamin supplement on the side just to make sure I'm getting everything we need!  

Overall I'm looking forward to giving this a try! I'm doing a test run and doing this for 2 weeks if I find that I really love it I will continue! 

   Thanks for reading my little blurt if you have any questions tips or advice feel free to share!! I will be updating daily on my progress!! ✌Peace & love❤