DAY FOUR - Diary of a Raw Foodist

August 4, 2009 - Toronto, ON - Turns out the day wasn't so nice, unless you're a fan of hail and thunderstorms. Nevertheless, the food continues to be amazing. Here's what was for lunch and dinner for day FOUR of the raw food challenge:

Lunch: Pumpkin Pie in a Bowl
Ingredients:

• 2 cups of carrot juice
• 3/4 cup chopped butternut squash
• 1/4 avocado
• 1 tsp of agave nectar
• generous sprinkle of cinnamon
• small sprinkle of nutmeg
• dash of salt

Directions:
Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth and creamy. sooooooo GOOD!


Dinner: Spicy Corn Guacamole in lettuce wraps
Ingredients:

• 1 avocado
• juice of half a lime
• 1/4 cup of chopped tomatoes
• 1 chipotle pepper (or however spicy you like it)
• 1 clove of garlic
• dash of salt and pepper
• 1/2 corn from the cob
• large leafed lettuce (I used a unique head of lettuce I picked up at the market on the weekend)

Directions:
Scoop out the avocado meat and place in a bowl with the chopped tomatoes, corn and minced garlic, salt and pepper. Add the chopped chipotle pepper slowly adjusting to the spicyness you want. mash all together with a fork until you get a smoother consistency. place a spoonful on the leaf of lettuce and roll up like a fajita to eat!
(One of my favourite meals!!!)

DAY THREE - Diary of a Raw Foodist

August 3, 2009 - Toronto, ON - Because of last night's festivities, I didn't have much time today to prepare my lunch at 8am this morning (as much sleep as I could get was in my books). I opted to bring some macadamia nuts and a banana to snack on.

At around 2pm I started getting hungry, so I decided to try my hand at ordering something. I ended up at Reggie's Old Fashioned Sandwiches which is conveniently across the street from my office and went with the make your own salad for $8. Here's what was in this delicious bowl:

Reggie's Build Your Own Salad

• Spinach


• Chick Peas


• Cucumber


• Snow peas


• Sprouts


• Avocado


• Grapes


• Green Apple

* With a light mustard vinagrette (Not positive if everything was raw... probably not, but it was a pretty good effort all in all!)

Day One - Diary of a Raw Foodist

August 1, 2009 - Toronto, ON - Here are the recipes of what I made for Lunch and Dinner today, all inspired from the websites, blogs, movies and books I've been following. Try them out yourself!


Lunch - Minty Fresh Smoothie ( I made this a couple days and froze half of it, and used it today)

Ingredients:

• 2 medium bananas
• 1 medium cucumber
• 2 tbsp fresh basil
• 1 tbsp fresh mint
• 2 small peaches or 1 apple

Directions:
Put all ingredients in blender, and blend until smooth.


Dinner - Cauliflower Curry

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of chopped cauliflower
• 1 medium carrot chopped
• 6 soaked sundried tomatoes
• 1/2 avocado
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1cm piece of ginger root
• 1 tsp tumeric
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1/2 cup dried coconut
• 1 tbsp flaxseed
• 1 cup of water

Directions:
Blend all ingredients until well combined and finely chopped. Serve in a bowl with alfalfa sprouts. OR serve on top of cucumber rounds topped with sprouts.

Thanks to:
http://thekitchendispensary.wordpress.com