Partial Raw....Day 2

Today is my 2nd day of eating a partial raw diet and so far so good. First, let me start out by telling you how my first day went. It went pretty well, but I felt hungry all day. I'm sure this is my body adjusting to not having any "junk"! Of course, I wasn't as prepared as I should have been yesterday either. Normally I have some kind of snack in the afternoons, but I skipped that yesterday, since I didn't really have anything raw to snack on. Needless to say at dinner time I was starving. I had 2 Boca Chik'n patties with some Newmans spaghetti sauce on top and some mushroom & spinach risotto. Shen, I ate both patties this time. :)

For breakfast I started out with a smoothie, which had several new things in it this morning. First I put a cup of water into the blender with 2 collard leaves (torn apart). I put my blender on juice and blended that for about a minute (I don't have a high speed blender). I then added 1 frozen banana, 3/4 cup frozen mango chunks, 4 frozen strawberries, about a tablespoon of lemon juice, a dollop of honey, 1/2 teaspoon maca powder, and a dash of cinnamon and ginger. I changed the setting on my blender to smoothie and blended everything until smooth and creamy. This was my first time to use water, lemon juice, and collards in a smoothie. I was really afraid that it was NOT going to be good, but to my surprise....it was awesome!

I made a couple of wraps for lunch today, but ended up eating one before lunch. I had to be at work an hour early this morning (7:00), so that messed my eating schedule up. The first wrap I made was a collard wrap, which I ate at 11:00. I spread a little hummus on it that I made from my new cookbook, Vegan Comfort Food. About the hummus...as I was putting everything into the food processor, I realized that I was out of tahini. I remembered seeing a few people use peanut butter in the place of the tahini, so I used almond butter (awesome). I then added some some sliced carrots, alfalfa sprouts and cucumber to the wrap. This was the first collard wrap that I've made/had also. I'll be having them a lot more often, but with some other veggies added to it. I'm guessing that hummus isn't considered a "raw" food, but I just had to spread something in there to go with the veggies. I didn't have any cashew cheese made up, so I went with hummus. The wrap rocked!

Onto my second wrap, which I ate at 1:00. That one collard wrap could only hold me over for a couple of hours. :) The second wrap I made was a lettuce wrap that was made out of leafy green lettuce. It had some hummus on it also along with some broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, and alfalfa sprouts. Another very yummy wrap. These two wraps were inspired by FoodFeud. Maud has been making some awesome looking wraps, which has had me craving them for several days now. Mine didn't wrap up as well as hers did though. I'm sure I'll perfect them after making them about 20 more times. lol

Sorry about the picture quality of the food lately. I'm without a camera for a while, so I have been taking pictures with my new iPhone, which I just got a couple of weeks ago. I've only been wanting one for a year now...ha

~Peace~Love~Happiness~