What do I eat everyday?
If you asked me this question early last year, I’d be hard pressed to tell you what a typical raw food intake day was like because I was experimenting wildly with new recipes every week.
As mentioned, I’ve “graduated” from eating a nut heavy diet to a more fruit and veggies based one. In the beginning, I would have a large strawberry cobbler for breakfast (or a nut based fruit “cereal”), then maybe a raw taco lunch (romaine wraps with a nut filling) and then a cooked dinner of miso soup or a grilled piece of salmon with salad. For snacks, I had nut milk based smoothies and the occasional green smoothie.
I didn’t consciously decrease my nut intake because I naturally stopped wanting so much raw bread or flax crackers as they felt too dense and I suffered from heart burn sometimes.
So here is a rough sketch of a typical day:
Morning: Green juice
Mid-morning: Green smoothie
Lunch: Nut pate with flax crackers or raw savoury soup with avocado
Snack: Chia seed pudding
Dinner: Cooked vegetarian meal (stir-fried veggies with buckwheat noodles or quinoa, or brown rice, or lentil curry or soup, or miso soup with rice noodles)
Dessert: I tend to eat this only when the non-raw fiancé is around. I make raw pies or truffles or ice-cream. Occasionally I may have “cooked” ice-cream or cheesecake. But I usually stop at dinner when he’s away on business.
*The dessert thing does show that I tend to eat so that I can bond with loved ones…
For a more detailed snapshot of what I eat, here is what I had yesterday:
Green smoothie: banana, spinach, blueberries, strawberries, large scoop of hemp powder, water
Banana
Green soup: cucumber, tomato, celery, green onion, avocado, green chilli, curry powder, dried dill, and dulse flakes sprinkled on top
Raw “butterscotch” smoothie: banana, cinnamon, pecan and cashew milk, maca powder, vanilla essence
Green smoothie: mango, parsley, passionfruit, water
Chia seed pudding: dates, blueberries, cinnamon, cashew and pecan milk
Dinner: stir-fried napa cabbage, bok choy, oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, garlic, white onion, green onion, ponzu sauce (shoyu with Japanese mandarin zest, called yuzu), and egg
I had a very hectic busy day so I whizzed up many raw drinks but when I have more time for lunch, I will make something more exciting.
What do you eat in a day?
On a good day – berry smoothie for breakfast -with flax seeds. always with flax seeds. Lunch I’ll have a salad.usually with cooked beans and/or lentils, sometimes sprouted. I’ll snack on cacao nibs and dates and some fruit. At home I’ll have a big salad, or green soup (my fave for now is spinach/orange/lime/selery/parsley/sesame soup. Sometimes I make a more elaborate meal like this: http://www.choosingraw.com/dehydrator-free-raw-lafel/. But that is as far as I go. I found the recipies in Brendan Brazier’s “The Thrive Diet” to be supersimple and good to have around for a busy person like me. In the evening I might snack on bananas through the evening, and dates – oh the dates (my weakness). In the weekends I make nut milk, so then I’ll have the nut pulp as a breakfast with cinnamon and fruit. But usually I do not eat too much nuts or heavy fruits like avocado, – it’s just way to fatty for me.
On bad days I have way more cooked food than that.
Simple is the best, isn’t it? I’m really not for fancy recipes too. Quick and easy suit my lifestyle much better.
hehe I was coming by to comment and then noticed you linked to my blog. Thank you
Your green smoothies sound AWESOME!
Cheers XOXO,
Kristen
I really need to get a blender for smoothies again… can I ask where you get hemp powder? Do you get it from the States and bring it, or order it? Or is it possible to find in Japan? Thanks
I bought hemp powder from Whole Foods and brought it back to Japan but I have bought it online at The Raw Food World (online store for raw foods) because a few of the vendors on Amazon don’t ship to Japan. Anyway, I have found The Raw Food World to have competitive prices and they do have a wide variety of products. Another store for such things is Natural Zing and they have excellent service.
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