3rd day raw and feeling pretty good. I must say last night I did look at the rice and dinner I'd made for the family and think I would usually be tasting some, but I just did not. Instead I made some yummy cacao almond cookies, drizzled over with more chocolate. Put them in the fridge for the little munchkins tomorrow, including myself!!

This morning did my Billy Blanks Tae-bo work out again and had a good sweat. Later had my green smoothie with spinach, frozen fruit and bananas. Later had an orange, apple, banana and around 3pm made a cacao, hemp and maca pudding something I learned from Chef David when I took a training course at "dalenes" restaurant in Kirkland, Washington, the best raw vegan restaurant in the Seattle area, without question!!

Later had a glass of Royal greens superfood green mix with hemp. I also now and then snack on almonds, raisins or goji berries. I had the dehydrated crust of a pizza in the freezer too. This is the pizza I made several weeks ago. Even my 7 year old son liked it!

That's a picture of my lovely 3 year old drinking a green smoothie with lots of smiles. I took plenty of fruit to the beach and stayed raw all day.

A New Day

I have decided to finally give myself a 30 day raw challenge. I thought to my self that would start !st April 2008, but I actually started it 31st March, which was great. This challenge would be to be 100% raw as best as I could be , what with some dried herbs and spices you do not know but to the best that I can be with the fruits , vegetables, nuts and seeds that I eat, including any dehydrated goodies I make. With that said, LET THE JOURNEY BEGIN!!!

Monday March 31st

My order came in from Lucky Vitamin, with my raw superfoods ordered for the first time. Raw cacao powder, maca, cacao nibs, hemp powder, and raw cashews. I was so happy, now I can finally make some raw cacao treats. We actually went to the beach today, I have 3 beautiful children and it was a beautiful day to start my 100% raw journey with no interruptions from cooked food. I started the day by immediately making raw chocolate almond milk for everybody and that went down well.

3 cups water

1 cup almonds, blended and strained, then added maybe 1/4 cup cacao powder, agave, little vanilla, throw in a spoon of maca and voila, a delicious real milk chocolate drink.

A little while later had my green smoothie, with 2 big handfuls spinach, couple bananas, a frozen mix of papaya, pineapple and mango, tastes so good my children all get a cup!