Frugal Feeds | Raw Diet Day 2

Raw Diet Day 2:

Although my expectation for what I would want to eat yesterday was based on eating lightly it ended up being too much food for where my appetite was. I just wasn't hungry so I ended up only having the green smoothie again at lunch. In the afternoon I had a banana and some refrigerator tea. For dinner I shared some leftover pumpkin soup with my girls and had two small avocado's with sea salt later that night. My appetite has been even less today so I have had two banana's and one cup of seaweed salad.  Here are the recipes of what I have eaten.

Green Smoothie

1 cup of water
1 large apple, diced
1/2 inch of ginger
1 cup of miner's lettuce, chopped
4 leaves of kale, chopped
1 banana


Place ingredients one at a time into a blender. Blend each ingredient until it is chopped into small bits, adding the next ingredient when those bits are small. Blend on high speed for a few minutes until it is fully smooth. Add more water if necessary to reach the consistency you want. One serving.

Vegan, not raw, Thai Pumpkin Soup

1 15 ounce can Natural Value Pumpkin Puree
1 14 ounce can Roland Organic Coconut Milk
1-3 Tablespoons Thai Kitchen Red Curry Paste
Scant 1 Tablespoon Turbinado Sugar

Place ingredients into a medium sized pot over medium heat. Depending on how spicy you want it, add 1-3 Tablespoons of curry paste. Whisk until smoothly incorporated. Stir constantly as it warms up (if you do not stir it constantly it will splatter terribly). Heat until it is the temperature you want, but don't bring it to a boil. Pumpkin soup holds heat very well so if you bring it to a boil you will want to wait ten minutes before serving it or it will be too hot to consume. Four servings.

Refrigerator Tea

In a one quart canning jar place 2 Good Earth Tea bags and 1/4 cup dried stevia leaves or a few drops of stevia liquid. Holding the bag tag, fill with water. Place canning lid and ring on mouth of jar and tighten. Place in the refrigerator for one day. Remove from refrigerator. Place a small strainer on the top of your glass and strain. Serve. Four servings.

If you want to forgo the stevia you can try Good Earth Sweet and Spicy teas, also in red tea or caffeinated. It is naturally sweetened with cinnamon and herbs so you won't need to add any sweetener.

Plain Kombu Salad

1 cup kombu, cut into thin strips
2 cups water
1 roma tomato, chopped
Black pepper

Soak kombu for 30 minutes for a chewy texture or for 12 hours for a soft texture. Drain. Toss with chopped tomato. Add black pepper to taste. One serving.


For dinner today I suspect that I will eat the salad that intended to eat yesterday and I plan on eating an orange at snack time although I still do not have an appetite and it is already mid-afternoon. If I do have the salad it will be composed of romaine, miner's lettuce, red cabbage, red leaf lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, avocado, lemon juice, roma tomatoes, green olives and red, yellow and orange bell peppers with some sea salt and fresh ground black pepper. This is one of my favorite salad combinations so I am sure I'll get a picture up of it in the near future.