Frugal Feeds | Raw Diet Day 21

Raw Diet Day 21:

For breakfast I had two Valencia oranges.

For morning snack I made a juice of 6 small apples, 1 cup of defrosted cranberries and 2 thumbs of ginger root. It was very sweet, spicy and tangy. Loved it. I found that the ginger did help clear up quite a bit of the congestion but still sneezing like crazy. The juice made a very pretty rose colored drink:

Too bad I drank most of it before I thought to take a picture :\

For lunch I had a small mixed Italian lettuce salad with mixed sea vegetables and a 1/4 cup of cashews. I also had half of a slice of manna bread with raw nut butter and raw honey. On the side I had 4 sugar snap peas and 4 baby carrots. I made another rosy juice to drink.

For snack I had a large blueberry and banana smoothie. Two medium bananas, 1 cup frozen  blueberries and 1 cup vanilla almond milk sweetened with raw honey. It came out like a dark concord grape color and very delicious. It made 2 1/2 cups.

I signed up for SparkPeople recipe database. I will put the recipes in as I go along. To start off I added the Raw Rosy Juice and the Raw Blueberry Banana Smoothie with Almond Milk.  Under the Nutritional Info label is a link to "View full nutritional breakdown", in that link a pop-up window will tell you about the vitamins and minerals in the recipe.

For dinner I had 1 1/2 cups kelp noodles covered in a raw alfredo sauce. You can find this recipe here. The noodles were warmed under running hot water. The alfredo sauce was made up of a cup of pureed cashews with water (enough to blend), a large pinch of sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon of raw garlic (you might want to cut that down, I am trying to clear congestion), a squeeze of fresh lemon (a Tablespoon?), fresh black pepper and parsley. Makes enough sauce for two servings.

Frugal Feeds | Raw Diet Day 9

Raw Diet Day 9:


For breakfast I wasn't very hungry so just had an orange.

For lunch I was pretty hungry so had a smoothie made up of a cup of blueberries, a cup of pineapple, 1/2 of a bosc pear and a half inch of ginger. Along with that I was craving Indonesia-style noodles so I mixed together 2 Tablespoons raw pecan butter, about a 1/4 teaspoon fresh green chili, juice from 1/16th of a lime, 1/4 cup shredded coconut and Braggs Amino Acids, to taste, maybe 1/2 a teaspoon? I rinsed kelp noodles under hot water, drained them and then tossed with the pecan sauce. Pretty good. Met my craving for the Indo-sauce even without peanuts. I really enjoyed the kelp noodles. They had the right mouth feel and they had a crispness to them that was refreshing. I will use those again. At my local store it was just over $2 for the 2.5 ounce serving, so alot higher than regular ramen noodles but they were filling, healthy, raw and thoroughly enjoyable and they didn't leave a heavy feeling in my stomach afterward.

Tonight we are going to have tacos. I have seen many recipes that call for raw corn and ground flaxseed in a 10 part corn, 1 part flax ratio for making raw corn tortillas. I used one of those recipes, pureed the corn with the flax and placed it on teflex trays at 105 for 6 hours and then flipped them for another two hours. Lousy! They are probably going to work for tonights dinner but the taste and texture are poor at best and they stick terribly to your teeth! Think of lumpy fruit roll ups--extra dried out-- and you'd have an idea of the texture. Fruit roll ups would make better tortillas than these. Anyway, I'll be trying a different recipe next time. So far I haven't had much luck with other people's recipes. When I wing it the food generally turns out pretty good, but when I use recipes from the many books I have checked out on this diet they are either very complicated with hard to find exotic ingredients or they just don't work very well, with just a few exceptions.

I do like the book I got today though, Raw Food real world by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngallis. It seems to have the best recipes I have seen yet. Unfortunately for tonights tacos I didn't get this until today so I can't use their tortilla recipe this time around. I will be using their taco filling recipe except that I will use walnuts instead of sunflower seeds. And I am going to try their Tart Sour Cream made up of macadamia nuts and cashews (pg. 303), so we'll see how it all turns out. If I find their recipes to my liking I see that they have a few more cookbooks that came after this one that I can try too.

I still haven't figured out what is up with my camera so I will probably not be taking pictures today. I may try using my cell phone in the interim. The picture quality won't be great but it won't be blurry.