RAWSOME!!!!!!!!!

So, the latest craze for some time now is going "raw." In reality it's the original diet, Adam and Eve were put in a garden and told they could eat of all the fruit on the trees, but one....but that's a whooole 'nother topic....


So....I've been putting off trying the whole 100% raw thing for over a year now. I thought "Well I'm pregnant, I don't want to "limit" myself... now I'm nursing so I have felt the same way..."Oh I can't be limiting myself" Then it hit me...you're not limiting yourself when you go raw, you are actually opening up new avenues, new taste bud adventures....so I've adopted a "semi-raw" diet....I know, I know, it's not "raw" in the sense that it's not 100%, but hey I'm happy with it!!! =) It's simple too, just means I try to eat something raw with every meal.

For example: Breakfast I'll have museli (basically raw granola) with bananas and a little agave with some chopped walnuts and some type of nut milk. Lunch I'll have bean enchiladas with chopped up tomatoes & onion on top. For dinner I'll have fruit, toast with butter or peanut butter and a soy smoothie.

Of course, I'll mix it up, this isn't what I have EVERYDAY! I gotta have variety. Sometimes I'll make pasta with raw homemade tomato sauce and raw nut cheese or bean pupusa with raw homemade salsita de tomate (which is typically cooked, boiled even) and so on and so forth. Basically with raw you don't need to cook anything, if you do apply heat to anything it's usually in the form of a dehydrator, the reason being is it is believe that food loses it's vitality and enzymes when cooked over 115 degrees (approx.)..... I'm going gaga over the Excalibur 3900....


http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=excaliber+food+dehydrator&tag=googhydr-20&index=garden&hvadid=3117817697&ref=pd_sl_132egpk98j_b

Anyway....I love legumes! Especially right now I need all the calories I can get while nursing a big boy!!! (My little love is almost 9 months and over 20 lbs!) Anyway, I love Spanish rice, brown rice, beans, lentils, etc.....and those items as we all know require cooking.


As I type, my professional little crawler himself is crawling all over me trying to take the keyboard buttons off my keyboard! (Thank goodness they snap back on ;) I feel like I'm in a wrestling match with the baby and the laptop is the midst of it all......hahahaha!!!!

All the while hubby is singing in the background while shaving his beard.....

Oh I love the loves of my life.....

Whole-wheat, Agave sweetened, vegan butter, carob-chip cookies with soy milk.....

Something I don't eat anything raw with....COOKIES!!!!!!!!! Can you tell I have a sweet tooth?!?!?!?! ;)