Kitty, OMG I LOVE HONEYCRIPS!!!!! They are my FAVORITE apples :) I just went to get 10 of them tonight. They are so good to eat on their own, but you what also good? I make apples sauce with them. I'll put 4 apples with maybe 10 strawberries, a bit of lemon juice and cinnamon...yum! It's so sweet because the apples are already sweet on their own.
I ate lots of apples when I first went raw (mostly giant fujis from Fresh Market, but also honeycrisp). I tend to stay away from apples now, but I've been eating more of them this Fall.
Pears are pretty good, too, but I have to peel them. The texture of the skin is just too weird for me!
About 4 c. blueberries
4 HONEYCRISP apples (Yes, I love them, too. :))
1 pear
1 whole papaya
2 Champagne mangoes
4 c. strawberries
10 c. spinach
10 c. spring mix
5 c. frisee
smoothie - pineapple juice, banana, spinach
apples
more apples accompanied by walnuts, raisins, cinnamon & soya yoghurt
buckwheat porridge with blueberries
later on my BF is cooking so it'll be stir fried veggies with rice
dessert will probably be banana whip as it's been a little while since my last fix!
I'm really loving organic Valencia oranges right now. Whole Foods has them in 4lb bags for $4. My supermarket sells conventional 4lb bags for $3.49, so it's definitely worth the little extra.
meal 1- smoothie of 4 bananas, 3 oranges, and 1/2 pineapple- i've been really tropical lately... if it even makes sense to describe myself as tropical PAAHAHAH
meal 2- applesauce of 3 apples (2 golden delicious and 1 granny smith) with 6 pitted dates (the crappy packaged ones- where are all my gorgeous medjools this time of year?)
snack- 1 banana
meal 3- huge salad of half head of lettuce, 6 cups spinach, 3 cups spaghetti squash, sesame oil, 1 big tomato, some onion, and sea salt
meal 4- smoothie of 3 bananas, 8 pitted dates, and 2 cups grapes
exercise today- 1 hour cycling and about 1 hr 15 min of abs, upper body, and powerlifting
joannabanana - I had some medjool dates today that were TO DIE FOR! They melted in my mouth as soon as I put them in, they were so soft and sweet. I was thinking of you as I was eating them because I know how much you love dates!
avl, i've been so sad without them!! my grocery store only has the hard, crunchy ones in the packages- nothing like fresh dates. i just love the flavor they give my banana smoothies- add a little saigon cinnamon and it is heavenly.
Ha Ha!!! It's funny how we associate people on this site with certain foods :)
It would be funny if we all met and we'd be like "oh, so you're the one that eats all the bananas. And you, you're the one that likes green smoothies...Hi, I'm the one that eats tons of melon"
banana & blueberry almond milk shake
apples with soya yoghurt and raisins
falafal
sunflower & pumpkin seed, goji berries and cranberries
carrot & hummus
sweet potato wedges, crazy bread crackers (off this site), coleslaw and a side salad
champagne (it's my 30th tomorrow so was celebrating!)
Today I was feeling rough so went a little off the rails:
jacket potato with baked beans
crackers with salsa & hummus
apples with soya yoghurt and raisins
crisps
popcorn
peanut bar
veggie thai green curry & rice
yesterday was a green smoothie, 2 bananas for snack, "better than mashed potatoes" and a salad for lunch, and I went on an eating spree when I got home (not enough calories) and ate coconut meat, a little "raw" cacao bar, and raw cucumber tahini soup (yum) for dinner.
Today:
green smoothie with some macadamia nuts to hopefully cut off the calorie problem, grapes for a snack, a yummy salad with celery, carrots, zuchini, and a tiny bit of onion in a raw lemon marinade I whipped up over kale and arugula. Snack will probably be a pear and more grapes and I'm planning on either raw taco "meat" and pomegranite guac on a portabello mushroom or carrot/squash raw soup. Maybe both! :)
Somebody who was vegan asked me if I was losing my hair yet as she did after 6 months and it made me a little nervous... I think it was an iron/b12 issue :P
I am still suffering from lack of sleep and drinking too much champagne on Sat night. Feel so spaced out and sluggish. Been juicing lots to try and get more energy.
Today I've had:
Juice - carrot & apple
Juice - celery, cucumber, apple, lemon and ginger
Chopped apples, raisins, buckwheaties and cashews covered in soya yoghurt
later I'll have a banana and dates before Zamba.
Dinner will be soup of some kind.
Yeah - I just started classes last week! It's great fun and a real workout too. I couldn't stop laughing at how silly I looked and how my body kept doing totally different thing to what my brain was telling it to do! I'd def recommend it!
ok yesterday was a crap day. i ate ramen noodles!!! ahahaha i don't feel guilty about it because they tasted amazing, but i am going shopping for some food today. it's always whenever i'm out of food i go for what my family usually eats.
SV3 - i'm putting buckwheat on next week's shopping list, as reading your posts has made me really want to try that recipe, it sounds great for the weather right now. - Same to Joannabanana's apple sauce, i'm going to try that as soon as I get some more medjools on monday!
Today:
6 Clementines
6 Gala Apples (with cinnamon)
2 Oranges
2 Sharons (yuuuum!)
Green Juice (kale, lettuce, cucumber and celery)
Later I'll be having a bland unseasonal cantaloupe, a salad with sauerkraut, and if still hungry I'll have a banana.
Going easy cause i'm detoxing all those lentils! :o)
- lots of water
- a cup of hot lemon water with lavender honey
- a white tea with vanilla
- two apples
- spinach, wakame, sea spaghetti, rosemary, avocado, vine tomatoes, purple sprouting broccoli, hemp seeds, lemon juice, olive oil, himalayan salt
- a small organic banana
- chopped banana, cherimoya and blueberries with chocolate sauce (agave, cacao powder)
- more blueberries and chocolate sauce
lulushka, it makes me so happy when i see you've eaten sharon fruit!!! we haven't had them in the grocery store since august. i miss them : (
i hope you like the applesauce. i basically eat it every day. if i use medjools, i only need 2 or 3 (with 3-4 apples- depends how big the medjools and apples are). if i'm using crappy packaged dates, then i use 6.
so far today...
smoothie of 3 bananas, 2 cups grapes, and a crapload of spinach.
i'm so full from that so i won't be eating for a while. i'm working on a diabetes presentation about how sugar does not cause diabetes. it's really interesting!! back in the roman times, doctors would drink diabetic's pee to see if it tasted like honey- that's why they thought sugar was the cause. it was called "sweet urine." i can't wait to tell my class about this hahaha
sharing raw, vegan recipes and advice
Kitty, OMG I LOVE HONEYCRIPS!!!!! They are my FAVORITE apples :) I just went to get 10 of them tonight. They are so good to eat on their own, but you what also good? I make apples sauce with them. I'll put 4 apples with maybe 10 strawberries, a bit of lemon juice and cinnamon...yum! It's so sweet because the apples are already sweet on their own.
I ate lots of apples when I first went raw (mostly giant fujis from Fresh Market, but also honeycrisp). I tend to stay away from apples now, but I've been eating more of them this Fall.
Pears are pretty good, too, but I have to peel them. The texture of the skin is just too weird for me!
Swayze
www.fitonraw.com
About 4 c. blueberries
4 HONEYCRISP apples (Yes, I love them, too. :))
1 pear
1 whole papaya
2 Champagne mangoes
4 c. strawberries
10 c. spinach
10 c. spring mix
5 c. frisee
smoothie - pineapple juice, banana, spinach
apples
more apples accompanied by walnuts, raisins, cinnamon & soya yoghurt
buckwheat porridge with blueberries
later on my BF is cooking so it'll be stir fried veggies with rice
dessert will probably be banana whip as it's been a little while since my last fix!
I'm really loving organic Valencia oranges right now. Whole Foods has them in 4lb bags for $4. My supermarket sells conventional 4lb bags for $3.49, so it's definitely worth the little extra.
Best OJ EVER! :D
Swayze
www.fitonraw.com
pineapple, mixed berry and spinach smoothie
slice of buckwheat bread (Russell James' recipe - v good!)
mixed apples/raisins/walnuts/soy yoghurt/cinnamon
couple of bananas
having a veg & sweet potato thai curry for dinner and then banana whip for dessert. Perfect!
meal 1- smoothie of 4 bananas, 3 oranges, and 1/2 pineapple- i've been really tropical lately... if it even makes sense to describe myself as tropical PAAHAHAH
meal 2- applesauce of 3 apples (2 golden delicious and 1 granny smith) with 6 pitted dates (the crappy packaged ones- where are all my gorgeous medjools this time of year?)
snack- 1 banana
meal 3- huge salad of half head of lettuce, 6 cups spinach, 3 cups spaghetti squash, sesame oil, 1 big tomato, some onion, and sea salt
meal 4- smoothie of 3 bananas, 8 pitted dates, and 2 cups grapes
exercise today- 1 hour cycling and about 1 hr 15 min of abs, upper body, and powerlifting
joannabanana - I had some medjool dates today that were TO DIE FOR! They melted in my mouth as soon as I put them in, they were so soft and sweet. I was thinking of you as I was eating them because I know how much you love dates!
avl, i've been so sad without them!! my grocery store only has the hard, crunchy ones in the packages- nothing like fresh dates. i just love the flavor they give my banana smoothies- add a little saigon cinnamon and it is heavenly.
i associate you with melons!! haha
Ha Ha!!! It's funny how we associate people on this site with certain foods :)
It would be funny if we all met and we'd be like "oh, so you're the one that eats all the bananas. And you, you're the one that likes green smoothies...Hi, I'm the one that eats tons of melon"
Yesterday:
banana & blueberry almond milk shake
apples with soya yoghurt and raisins
falafal
sunflower & pumpkin seed, goji berries and cranberries
carrot & hummus
sweet potato wedges, crazy bread crackers (off this site), coleslaw and a side salad
champagne (it's my 30th tomorrow so was celebrating!)
Today I was feeling rough so went a little off the rails:
jacket potato with baked beans
crackers with salsa & hummus
apples with soya yoghurt and raisins
crisps
popcorn
peanut bar
veggie thai green curry & rice
Ooh, can I be "the girl who picks her own peaches"??? :D
Swayze
www.fitonraw.com
Breakfast: muesli with dried cranberries and soy milk
Lunch: Tribeca mushroom "pizza" and a strawberry shake (no soy milk)
Snack: cashew crunch and plain cashews and a mango papaya shake (no soy milk)
Dinner: marinated portobello mushrooms, sprouts, and cashew nut spread *plus* another mango papaya shake (I love the blender!)
Snack: banana
I'm the girl who can't seem to stay raw through the winter then.
Today i'm 100% raw though.
I'm eating fruit - apples, bananas, sharons, and blueberries. Oh and green juice.
yesterday was a green smoothie, 2 bananas for snack, "better than mashed potatoes" and a salad for lunch, and I went on an eating spree when I got home (not enough calories) and ate coconut meat, a little "raw" cacao bar, and raw cucumber tahini soup (yum) for dinner.
Today:
green smoothie with some macadamia nuts to hopefully cut off the calorie problem, grapes for a snack, a yummy salad with celery, carrots, zuchini, and a tiny bit of onion in a raw lemon marinade I whipped up over kale and arugula. Snack will probably be a pear and more grapes and I'm planning on either raw taco "meat" and pomegranite guac on a portabello mushroom or carrot/squash raw soup. Maybe both! :)
Somebody who was vegan asked me if I was losing my hair yet as she did after 6 months and it made me a little nervous... I think it was an iron/b12 issue :P
Sure swayze, you can be the girl who picks her own peaches! And lulushka8, you can be the girls who is raw 3/4 of the year!
Agreed AVL :)
I am still suffering from lack of sleep and drinking too much champagne on Sat night. Feel so spaced out and sluggish. Been juicing lots to try and get more energy.
Today I've had:
Juice - carrot & apple
Juice - celery, cucumber, apple, lemon and ginger
Chopped apples, raisins, buckwheaties and cashews covered in soya yoghurt
later I'll have a banana and dates before Zamba.
Dinner will be soup of some kind.
you're going to ZAMBA! I want to do that so much, I wonder if there are any classes in my area...
Yeah - I just started classes last week! It's great fun and a real workout too. I couldn't stop laughing at how silly I looked and how my body kept doing totally different thing to what my brain was telling it to do! I'd def recommend it!
sounds like so much fun sv3! I bet it doesn't even feel like exercise. Although i reckon i'd look a mess since I have no arm-leg coordination!
Yesterday I had:
8 Large Gala Apples
4 Oranges
2 Sharon fruits
Green juice (spinach, romaine, celery, cucumber, courgette)
Salad with sauerkraut and few olives
I wasn't as hungry as usual.
Today i'm having apples, blueberries, sharons, oranges, green juice and salad.
i'm experiencing bloating and bad detox so I don't want to eat any bananas today that bung me up.
And my cantaloupe smells so unripe despite almost moulding on the outside! Definately not the right season for eating melon i think.
ok yesterday was a crap day. i ate ramen noodles!!! ahahaha i don't feel guilty about it because they tasted amazing, but i am going shopping for some food today. it's always whenever i'm out of food i go for what my family usually eats.
Melon - wasn't as sweet as I'd hoped
apples, buckwheaties, cashews, raisins & hemp seeds topped with soya yoghurt
banana & raisins
couple of dates
For dinner I'm having curried soup. YUM!
Breakfast - fresh pineapple and fresh canteloupe melon
Lunch - celery, apple, grape and walnut salad with almond mayonnaise
Dinner - walnut & mushroom burger with kalamata olive tapenade and kale, avocado and tomato salad.
Bloody lovely!
SV3 - i'm putting buckwheat on next week's shopping list, as reading your posts has made me really want to try that recipe, it sounds great for the weather right now. - Same to Joannabanana's apple sauce, i'm going to try that as soon as I get some more medjools on monday!
Today:
6 Clementines
6 Gala Apples (with cinnamon)
2 Oranges
2 Sharons (yuuuum!)
Green Juice (kale, lettuce, cucumber and celery)
Later I'll be having a bland unseasonal cantaloupe, a salad with sauerkraut, and if still hungry I'll have a banana.
Going easy cause i'm detoxing all those lentils! :o)
gemmaray I want what you had!
- lots of water
- a cup of hot lemon water with lavender honey
- a white tea with vanilla
- two apples
- spinach, wakame, sea spaghetti, rosemary, avocado, vine tomatoes, purple sprouting broccoli, hemp seeds, lemon juice, olive oil, himalayan salt
- a small organic banana
- chopped banana, cherimoya and blueberries with chocolate sauce (agave, cacao powder)
- more blueberries and chocolate sauce
why don't I always eat raw?
So far today:
2 Sharon fruit
6 Gala Apples
4 Bananas
Cantaloupe
Usual green juice
Usual salad
I have oranges for later.
lulushka, it makes me so happy when i see you've eaten sharon fruit!!! we haven't had them in the grocery store since august. i miss them : (
i hope you like the applesauce. i basically eat it every day. if i use medjools, i only need 2 or 3 (with 3-4 apples- depends how big the medjools and apples are). if i'm using crappy packaged dates, then i use 6.
so far today...
smoothie of 3 bananas, 2 cups grapes, and a crapload of spinach.
i'm so full from that so i won't be eating for a while. i'm working on a diabetes presentation about how sugar does not cause diabetes. it's really interesting!! back in the roman times, doctors would drink diabetic's pee to see if it tasted like honey- that's why they thought sugar was the cause. it was called "sweet urine." i can't wait to tell my class about this hahaha