Thursday, December 31st, 2009

High Raw, All Vegan Food Intake – Pregnancy Food Journal – Wednesday

by Kristen in daiya, hemp protein, hemp seeds, kim chi, kindle 2, Manitoba Harvest, Mother Earth Chocolate, mountain rose herbs, playful parenting, rejuvenative, unconditional parenting, vegan cheese, zpizza

I keep getting emails and comments from people interested in my food intake, so here is today’s. It’s another day of delicious food.

Breakfast

Organic Hemp Protein Smoothie made from: 1.5 cups water, 1/4 cup Manitoba Harvest Hemp Protein Powder, 2 Tablespoons Manitoba Harvest Hemp Seeds, 2 bananas (I recently bought a 25 pound bucket of seeds from Manitoba Harvest! I transferred them to glass mason jars and they’re all stored in my freezer now. I’m going to enjoy giving a couple of jars away to friends and family as gifts; I’ll even tie a little bow on it. That’s the gift of health!)

Mid-morning Snack

I was cold and still a little hungry after my protein shake so I had the following nourishing, warming foods. Let me tell you, they warmed my body right up, literally in minutes.

~1 cup organic miso soup from South River Miso (dandelion leek flavor – one of my faves!)

~1/2 cup organic kim-chi by Rejuvenative (they were so kind to send me samples – yum!).

Second Little Snack

While shopping at Whole Foods, I bought GoRaw’s little chocolate cookies and opened the bag in the store, eating 3 of them.

Lunch

~Large organic Delicious Apple (this was so delicious and juicy)

~Large organic salad with romaine, cucumber ($2.50 each now at Whole Foods – yikes!), tomato, and another batch of Cayenne Tahini Recipe I talked about in yesterday’s post. This batch I made last night around midnight and added a big handful of organic cilantro that I had in the fridge. When I gave my husband his salad he said, “Honey, thanks so much for making me so healthy with all the food you make.” I replied, “Of course! I want us to be centenarians together!”

~1 piece of Mother Earth Chocolate

We went to Starbucks to read (these are the books I’m reading on my Kindle2 right now: Playful Parenting and Unconditional Parenting). On a side note… I absolutely love my Kindle and it’s one of the best things we ever bought. While we were there I had some organic herbal tea (Mountain Rose Herbs) that I brought with me in a Starbucks thermos and glass mug.

Dinner

~Huge Salad (same as above)

~Rejuvenative’s Kim-Chi (same as above)

~Vegan Pizza! ZPizza makes the yummiest vegan pizza and they use Daiya cheese. If you haven’t had Daiya cheese, and if you have some cooked vegan food from time to time, then you’re truly missing out. This is reputed as the cheese to keep vegans as vegans (for those of you feeling like life isn’t the same without cheese). It’s life changing for many. It’s non-dairy, non-soy, non-gluten, non-rice, non-corn, non-nut, non-preservatives. For the most part, only a handful of restaurants around the country have access to it (ZPizza, Blossom, etc), but it’s supposed to be available for retail stores like Whole Foods in 2010. Furthermore, I did hear a rumor that it’s actually available in some Whole Foods now, but that they have been running out of it because it’s so popular. Anyway, back to ZPizza… they offer a whole wheat crust made with organic wheat and they also have organic vegan sauce. I top my cooked pizza with fresh veggie toppings to get some extra Raw into the meal.

After Dinner Snack

Large Organic Apple

Late Snack

Cucumber Wheat Grass Refresher (recipe in this post)

High Raw, All Vegan Food Intake – Monday

by Kristen in gomacro, GoRaw, Mother Earth Chocolate, protein, raw chocolate

Here is my food journal for today. Yum Yum! Everything is organic. :) I separated the meals below with the dotted lines so you can see what I ate at different times.

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2 cups organic Teeccino

1 bowl GoRaw’s buckwheat cereal (apple cinnamon flavor) with rice milk

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Cucumber Wheat Grass Refresher (yield 3 cups)

Awesome. Delightful. Super nutritious. I juiced it with my Hurom juicer (one of the greatest juicers ever).

1/4-1/2 cup water

2 large cucumbers

2 small apples

1/2 lemon

1 tablespoon wheat grass powder (stir this in after juicing the other ingredients)

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Miso soup made with my favorite brand of organic miso, South River Miso. This particular soup was made with one of their soy-free miso options. It was deliciously warming for my body on this chilly Arizona winter day. I love miso soup. It’s wonderful for digestion.

Large salad of romaine lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber topped with one of my all time favorite dressings, Cayenne Tahini Dressing. I love this simple dressing so much that I can’t wait to make salads and find things to dip into it. I always lick the spoon after dressing the salad and I lick the bowl after eating the salad. I’ve been eating it for about 5 days in a row now. :)

Hhhmmm…. I bet you want the recipe, huh? Well, guess what? You can get it in my salad and dressing book. That’s kind of mean of me though, you think? Here I am teasing the heck out of you by telling you how delicious it is, and I’m not giving you the recipe. OK, OK, I’ll give it to you. I’ll include it in my next email newsletter. If you’re not signed up for it, sign up here and expect my New Year email newsletter to arrive in your inbox sometime in the next 1-2 weeks. Oh, and by the way, I also made a super wonderful kale salad recipe last week and I’ve made it three times since. It’s sooo good. My husband LOVES it! I named it Must-Make-Kale-Salad and will be sharing the recipe in my next email newsletter, too.

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The salad was so good that I had earlier, that I made another one, but this time it was simply romaine lettuce with my scrumptious Cayenne Tahini Dressing on top.

Protein Bar – GoMacro (Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip) - These are not Raw. They are vegan, macrobiotic, mostly organic, non-gmo, and even though they are probably not the healthiest bar on the planet, they are darn tasty. Four main things I like about them. 1) Taste – as bars go, I really enjoy these (my mom even loves them). 2) Convenience – packaged foods like this can be a life saver when I’m on the run or simply a starving pregnant woman. 3) High protein – protein grams aren’t something I really count when I’m not pregnant, but when I’m pregnant, I take stock of my protein every couple of days. And, 4) crap, what was the 4th thing I was thinking about?… mmmm…. mommy brain taking place right now…. OH! It just came to me! They fill me up like no bar ever has before now. I like having foods available that can keep me satisfied for extended periods of time. I tried my first one at Whole Foods, where I paid over $3 for it. I found them online, through Amazon (linked above), and bought a box, which makes them less than $2 each.

2 prunes

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1 cup organic Teeccino

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Another… large salad! This time it was romaine, cucumber, and Cayenne Tahini Dressing.

2 Raw Tacos – my husband and I chowed down on these – yum! It’s a new recipe of mine, but somewhat similar to the one in my entree book. The main difference is that I created a new “taco meat” recipe – and it’s easy, amazing, and fun! The cheese sauce you see in the picture is none other than my Cheezy Hemp Nacho Sauce! (Y’all know by now where to get that recipe; I’ve written about it enough – lol. For newbies to my blog, it’s here.)

1 bowl GoRaw’s buckwheat cereal (apple cinnamon flavor) with rice milk. I was still hungry after my salad and raw tacos that I gobbled up a bowl of raw cereal.

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2 pieces of Raw chocolate candy, more specifically it’s Mother Earth Chocolate (recipe available in my book, Kristen Suzanne’s Ultimate Raw Vegan Chocolate book and ebook. It has Vitamineral Green Powder in it (one of the best green powders ever), as well as chia seeds, dulse, and many other yummies. When I was biting into it, I said to my husband, “Thank god for raw chocolate candy that is already made and waiting to be eaten in my freezer!” It saved me from going crazy. :)

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Today’s exercise: I walked for about 45 minutes today. I started my walking program a few days ago and have not missed a day. I decided that walking 5-6 times a week is a priority for my mind, body, soul, and baby. Now that I simply “decided” this, I’m determined and I look forward to it, rain, cold, or shine. It’s now as important to me as eating healthy is.