I’m asked frequently as to whether Kamea will eat all raw or not. The answer is… not. Our diet (Greg’s and mine), while primarily raw, does have cooked organic vegan food in it, and I don’t see why Kamea would be any different. However, I will delay introducing cooked foods to her for quite awhile. Right now we have so many wonderful raw options, and I don’t see the need for cooked foods. After all, her primary nourishment is from breastmilk. The solids are just an added bonus. To read more about Kamea’s introduction to solids… visit my Green Mommy Blog.
Saturday’s Food Journal (High Raw-ish) and Boku Bar Mini-Review
Geesh, where does the time go? Sorry for the lack of blogging, but we’ve been busy. Lots of Kristen’s Raw projects under way, among other things… being a mommy…. taxes (ugh!)… and fun news… we bought a mini van! I’m officially a mom now. ;) I promised my husband that it doesn’t mean I’ll start wearing sweat pants with elastic waist bands all the time. And, my friend said that so long as I didn’t start referring to dinner as “supper” then it’s all cool. I have to say though… I love it! It’s soooo roomy, even with a car seat and a big dog. When we go for outings, which I want to take Kamea everywhere now so she can experience all kinds of sights and sounds, we pack a crap load of stuff. Plus, our Orbit car seat seems to take up a lot of space due to its 360 degree rotation nature. We got a white Toyota Sienna and I’m in love. I feel like I’m driving around my living room it’s so comfy.
Anyway… those things kept me super busy this week so I’m going to quickly post my food for today and get back to work on other stuff. [Read more…] about Saturday’s Food Journal (High Raw-ish) and Boku Bar Mini-Review
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3 cups Cucumber Cayenne Green Juice – cucumber juice with a dash of cayenne served on ice. I would’ve liked more cayenne in it, but thought I’d play it safe since I’m breastfeeding.
Cheezy Kale chips from Blue Mountain Organics… while I worked on taxes. I ate almost the whole bag.
Gigantic(!) Salad with 4-Ingredient Magic Dressing – romaine, red bell pepper, carrot, cabbage, raisins, broccoli sprouts, yellow cauliflower, and cucumber
Chocolate Mint Icee
I thought I was done eating for the day… but I thought again. ;)
2-3 cups popcorn
1 Choco lot Kookie
Exciting Kamea news… today she crawled to me saying “Mama Mama Mama” —>>> heart melts :)
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New Raw Vegan Organic Restaurant & Academy In Town! Chef Sara
I was using my VegOut app a few weeks ago (that’s how I found out about the vegan french toast I posted about here from Scramble), and I also saw there was a restaurant (and academy) serving (mostly) locally sourced, all raw, vegan, and organic food not far from where I live. WTF?! Seriously? And, I didn’t know? Well, turns out, it had just opened up (the cafe) and I believe the academy is opening soon.
It’s by Chef Sara and it’s called Chef Sara’s Raw Vegan Academy & Cafe. Location: Cave Creek, AZ. Today, we decided to pack Kamea (and the car full of any potential “we’re-out-and-about-with-a-baby” must haves) and take a little drive up to Care Free / Cave Creek areas, where we met my mom and her friends for lunch. Cave Creek is a darling little town packed with all kinds of fun treasures. Including… The Town Dump.
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Homemade granola with homemade almond milk – I recently read an article detailing the increase in non-dairy sales. That’s very exciting. Apparently, almond milk is getting a lot of favor from consumers. I’d have to agree, although I’d add that making my own raw vegan almond milk is the best and most nutritious way to go.
1 large salad of red leaf lettuce topped with red bell pepper, raisins, orange, and 4-Ingredient Magic Dressing (recipe here)
Cheezy Kale Chips
1 locally grown yellow grapefruit
2 locally grown small oranges
2 locally grown small apples
3 cups green juice – It’s been a week or so since I’ve had green juice. I like to take little breaks from time to time. It was such a welcome treat today. Yum! 2 cucumbers, 1/3 bunch celery, and 1 large collard green leaf
2 scoops Sun Warrior Chocolate protein shake with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and a shake of nutmeg
Wizard’s Broccoli (new recipe for my next book)
Chocolate Crunch Frosty
PS. Kamea crawled for the first time! She took two wobbly crawling “steps” yesterday, but here she is today doing it full blown. Talk about exciting!
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Review: Kookie Karma
Have you ever heard of Juli Novotny or her company, Kookie Karma? Kookie Karma is a company with healthy snack options that are great for raw foodies, vegan foodies, and gluten-free foodies.
“Kookie Karma snacks and kookies are all handmade in our very own gluten-free commercial kitchen. We strive to offer you the freshest, best tasting raw and holistic snack products that we can. To do so we like to make everything fresh each week.
Kookie Karma was created in Santa Monica, CA by Juli Novotny in 2004 {she was only 24 at the time}. Juli has since worked hard to not only sell her products wholesale to West Coast markets and directly to consumers but to also educate people on the importance of including raw superfoods in and removing processed sugar/ flour/ dairy from their otherwise normal diet & lifestyle.”
You can imagine my excitement when they offered to send me some of their snacks to try. I eat a mostly raw diet, but I keep some room for cooked vegan foods when the time comes (you read about my french toast adventure here). When my package of samples arrived, I was like a kid in a candy store. I might have had my raw food planned for the day already, but that plan went out the door as I tore into cookie (or should I say, “kookie”) after cookie. I mean, how can compare each one to the other unless I try them all!? Right?! :) I can’t remember how many they sent me… maybe 5? Two cooked and the rest raw. I didn’t eat them all by myself though. I had Greg there to help me sample them.
Kookie Karma has a number of products ranging from crackers (“krackers”) to cookies (“kookies”) to granola (“krunchies”) to kale chips (“krackers”). Many of the products are raw, but they also offer some low-glycemic, gluten-free cookies that are cooked vegan. And, not all of the ingredients are organic in some of the products, but many of them are. My samples included cookies (both raw and cooked varieties) as well as granolas.
Turns out, I prefer the cooked cookies over the raw cookies. I like the Chocolate Chip and Choco-lot Holistic Cookies. They are dense, sweet, and satisfying. I like that they have a little extra protein in them, too. I’m not a protein freak or anything, but as a breastfeeding mama, I like to increase my protein a bit. My husband appreciated the extra protein in them, too, since he’s very active with strength training and building his body. I’m excited about these cookies because there are times that I just want a cooked cookie, ya know? Until now, I would occasionally indulge in one of ABC’s (Alternative Baking Company) Cranberry Orange vegan cookies. Now that I’ve had Juli Novotny’s holistic Chocolate Chip and Choco-lot Kookies, which are a healthier option than ABCs cookies, I am happier.
How about the other cookies? I enjoyed the raw cookies (they didn’t send me all the raw flavors), but I found the raw cookies to be less sweet. Nothing wrong with that. However, when I want a cookie, it’s usually because I want something sweet so I’ll stick to their cooked cookies. ;) They offer a beautiful selection of raw cookies though.
The granolas (“krunchies”) were very good. In particular, I really enjoyed the Goji Lime. The flavor is fresh and light. I love the pistachios in it. I heard on Dr. Oz recently that eating a serving of pistachios with your food reduces the glycemic index of the food you’re eating at the time. Sounds good to me!
After I polished off my samples, I knew I needed some stocked in my kitchen for snacking. So, I ordered a case of the Chocolate Chip (cooked) Kookies, Choco Lot (cooked) Kookies, and Goji Lime (raw) Krunchies.
When they arrived yesterday… well, I had my raw food planned for the day, but hello(!) cookies arrived. I had one of each. :)
If you’d like to order some for yourself… Kookie Karma
Have you tried Kookie Karma foods? What do you think? The cooked cookies have xylitol in them, what are you thoughts on that?