In the Raw

I bought a 14 cup food processor this weekend and last night it made it's way out of the box. I think it was pretty excited to join the crowded counter top to create some raw nut "meat" and chili. YUM!

1 C Raw Almonds

1 C Raw Walnuts

3 large tomatoes that I dehydrated earlier that day

1 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp cayenne

4 tbsp cold pressed olive oil

This tasted great right out of the food processor. I have it in the refrigerator now and plan to top the chili with this mixture. If it all turns out I'll share the chili recipe tomorrow!

half way?

I committed to 30 days raw. Yesterday was day 15.... wooo half way! I am always surrounded by cookies and have found it hard to resist, but I have. I even froze some cookie dough so I can have some when I complete the challenge. haha.

I started juicing this week. It's a nice addition to my morning routine. I may have to get up earlier to get it all done but that's ok! The juice is perfect because whatever doesn't fit in my "to go" cup for work I put in the blender to make my morning smoothie. I think this makes my smoothie way better!

I ordered the Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator today so maybe this raw thing will last longer than 30 days....

Slackerville

Not coming into the office due to snow made me not want to sit at my computer... hence not any blogging happened in the past couple of days. I have been good about taking pictures with my phone for the time that I came back to the blog.

What have I discovered on my raw journey thus far (2 weeks).

I am the smoothie queen!

I will now eat raw broccoli if I can dip it in raw cashew butter

I have bought 3 raw cookbooks, and have yet to open them

I'll dehydrate, blend, juice just about anything because I think it's an interesting experiment

Raw food diet is not causing weight loss... I find this peculiar

And for the gem in my pantry:

Favorite Creation...

That's right... I finally figured something out! I was addicted to my Blend Tech. I have been blending the heck out of everything. I wasn't always getting the result I wanted but I was forging ahead anyway. Then I thought, "I should grab my food processor" And then I made magic happen.

My phone camera does not do this justice

-two tomatoes

-package of mushrooms

-two cloves of garlic

I spread this on some Love Force raw crackers and in some celery! Holla!

I also had more dehydrated fun. I juiced yesterday morning and thought I shouldn't waste what I'm not drinking. So I added some raw agave, mixed it up and dehydrated. So now I have carrot, broccoli, apple, agave chip things... ha!

Keep on Keepin' On

I've passed the one week point, SUCCESS! Yay.

Yesterday I just played around with some stuff. I put mushrooms, tahini, garlic, mixed greens, braggs and tomatoes in the blender (I later learned the food processor would have been a better choice) and went to town.

Below is yesterday's Lunch = Portabella Mushroom stuffed with the stuff I blended, sprouts and sauerkraut on the side. Not to bad!

Then a light snack before bed and all favorite gone raw = Celery and Almond butter.

one week

I thought magically when I put my jeans on this morning they would be too big for me. I'm not doing the raw diet to lose weight, but I thought it would be a great benefit. I'm reporting, my jeans fit just as they always have. I don't have a scale meaning I have no clue if I've lost pounds.

I had a great weekend, during my prenatal yoga teacher training a special raw dish was made for me by the amazing Mark Stroud both days. It was so good that all I did this weekend was smoothies in the morning, great lunch that I didn't have to prepare, and then some butternut squash chips at dinner time.

I lucked out last night at the grocery store finding reduced fresh cut fruit and some almost out of date mushrooms that I'm going to get creative with today! I think my favorite two things are my blender and dehydrator!

Rawk On!

not much to report, but didn't want to leave you hanging

Happy Saturday! I have yoga training all weekend so I don't have a ton of time to report out on the raw diet. My first go at dehydrating turned out well. The result is almost chip like. It's a happy medium of sweet and salty. I was thinking of cutting really thin potatoes, soaking them in sea salt water and then dehydrating. I wonder what will happen if i did this. Then I thought, "wow you really will find junk food in any diet you have" haha.

Anyway, the daily smoothie has been a big win for me. I love it, and I'm adding a daily dose of flax to my diet which is supposedly good :)

Today it will be my standard, strawberry, banana, greens, flax, cashew milk.