Hi Everyone,
I thought that I would start a topic where we could all record our daily adventures with raw. Here we can share our daily food intake (with references to recipes on this site), our joys, struggles, support for one another and questions. Everyone at every stage of raw is welcome, of course :)
As someone who has wanted to become raw but has struggled..I think that it is valuable to record the foods that I eat (to become more conscious), and read about the day-to day experience of others. I hope that others feel the same! :)
I was thinking that we could follow a format so that it is easy to read…
Each post could start with:
The date
Food Intake – e.g. Recipe from Gone Raw – Spinach Salad
Thoughts for the Day
What does everyone think?
I just think that it is so valuable to share experieces., and to learn from and support one another. I feel that the entire board is a great support systyem, I love it, but would like to share the day-to-day.
Well, I’m off to bed and here’s to going going gone raw tomorrow!
Best,
Sunrise
Comments
December 1st – omshanti, your day sounds very tasty!
Today I had an apple, a handful of raw almonds, I went to a great vegetarian restaurant and had a plate full of marinated cucumber with dill, beets, marinated cabbage, avocado and tomato salad, and dandelion greens. I found the dandelion greens bitter so couldn’t eat them all. I went to a farmer’s market and bought raw nori rolls. I ate most of one, but my stomach became upset. I think that the cashew filling may be too rich for me right now – I am sipping on lemon water to try and settle my stomach.
Thought for the day – I am grateful that I live in a place and a time where I can choose how to nourish myself.
Dec 3 – Omshanti – All the best for your week ahead!
Shane – your smoothies sound delish!
(I am skipping my food for December 2 – I think that a better approach will be for me to write what I am going to eat for the day – plan ahead!) So here it goes – I am going to eat lightly today…
Morning coffee (am going to gradually quit) and a green iced tea (will stop drinking those as well)
Two apples, two tangerines, a few handfuls of almonds, a pure fruit drink from Booster juice,
a few large carrots, a radish maybe and lots of water.
I know that this isn’t much food but I want to cleanse a little. My plan is to eat something small every two hours.
Thought for the day: I am blessed to have winter clothes and a place to call home.
December 3
Great idea!
Breakfast: Banana
Snack: onion bread and creamy cashew herbed cheese
Lunch: spinach, tomato and pinapple soup with cilantro, tomato herbed bread (I’m into tomatoe’s currently :) )
Dinner: Green smoothie
I am so grateful for the wonderful sunshine today and for my DH
December 4th-
Well yesterday I ate raw all day and then had a veggie burger for dinner. I think that I am an emotional eater – especially since I gave up smoking about 5 years ago.
Oh well, as Shane said “You get to start over again and again. Every meal is a choice, and our bodies forgive even when we don
December 4
Great day, all raw yesterday and feeling great.
Today’s menu plan:
Lemon and water
Green Smoothie breakfast
Onion Bread and Herbed Cashew Spread snack
Marinated Broccli, Spinach, Tomato lunch
Green Smoothie dinner
What are you grateful for?
I am grateful for the wonderful fruits and veggies provided for my family and myself.
I am grateful to share this experience with others.
Have a wonderful day.
December 5th -
Today I’ve had my usual coffee, green iced tea
Fruit cup
A sprout salad (store bought, pretty good)
Two bites of a store bought raw curry nori wrap – couldn’t eat it!
A raw carob fudge cookie (made myself eat it because it was $6.00) – not very good
A maui juice from Booster juice
A carrot
Going to have a blooming tea with a friend
Thought for the day – I noticed that I buy a lot of things already made from the store – and I don’t really enjoy them. I am going to spend the time to make more things fresh!
Hi Shane,
I think that your mind craves when you want and your body craves when you need.
I think that when your body needs something it is more objective and when your mind wants something it is subjective. So, when you have a handful of roasted peanuts, you find them pleasurable and you want more – your mind is telling you that the taste of the nuts was satisfying.
But then you ask your body – why did I enjoy those nuts so much, why do I want more of them? Do I need some salt? Would some cucumbers with sea salt suffice? Etc, etc.
Failing that, you could always follow Bluedolfin’s method!
December 8th
Breakfast: green smoothie avec lime juice, clementine juice and savoy cabbage YUM
Lunch: avocado and 4 dates
Appetizer: green smoothie with small handful of watermelon, 1/2 ruby red grapefruit and key lime
Dinner: 2 asian pears, another green smoothie (other half of grapefruit, another key lime, no watermelon) and tonight I’m going to a non-raw girls-night for boardgames…they are having wine, I’ll bring pineapple.
...maybe another green smoothie if I can’t wait for breakfast =D
I’m FULL. Hey ever since ‘they’ let seedless watermelon take over, I find there is (what appears to be) fat or starch within most of the melon. I used to love black-seeded watermelon SO much, but I can’t even stand this seedless stuff in my mouth, I gag thinking about the texture. There was only 2 handfuls of what I consider to be ‘real’ smooth red watermelon in this big one I bought. Any thoughts on the watermelon nowadays?