Raw Bento

Today was a great uncooking/cooking day. Not because I was feeling idle but I had a heckavua busy day and I felt the need to get super-organized to help myself be 100% alert and with it. I prepped all my ingredients in the morning — soaking nuts, dates, and lentils.

I started off with a peach banana maca spinach smoothie, then a pineapple banana hemp seed coriander smoothie after my Tracy Anderson workout, and chased that with a big bowl of chia pudding. I had a short half-hour break and whizzed up an all-time fave raw soup (celery, cucumber, dill, avocado) and then returned home to a red lentil daal curry with zucchini, cherry tomatoes, and carrot over brown rice and a simple raw Caesar salad.

Then, after wrapping up work for the evening, I made raw chocolate ice-cream parfaits with banana, vegan chocolate chips, and vegan chocolate sauce (cocoa powder with maple syrup).

The layers are not that easy to create. I found that scooping the ice-cream into the glasses messed up the sides and you have to be careful not to mush them too close to the other ingredients. It was my first time so I could hardly see any layers like these awesome ones at Sweetly Raw. But it tasted so amazing and it was like a reward at the end of a non-stop day.

I made this one first for the non-raw fiance. He loved it even though it looked quite the mess. I made the one in the first two pictures second so it looks a bit better.

I’m so going to make more raw parfaits this weekend. I adore the way the different flavours come together in my mouth. I think my next one will be a berry fruit one…