Recipe: Mostly Raw Cinco De Mayo Salad

New exciting mostly raw salad. It could be easily modified to be raw... but right now its only about 80%.

Salad includes: Romaine with black beans, grape tomatoes, english cucumber, minced red onion, raw corn from the cob, red bell pepper, mango, fresh cilantro, roasted cumin seeds and lime juice.

My Raw Journey: Getting Back on Track.

So, stress wreaks havoc on life... I know this. I am living this. However, I have let my foundations become unhinged by my stressors (school, finance, school, fitness, school). Though following through with my raw plan for several weeks, I gained weight, not much but some. This was mostly due to my reaction to stress. I binge and in this case that meant lots of Larabars, nuts and nut butters. Anything remotely decadent. Leave it to me to find a way. Anyway, I need to get back to a more structured way of eating (and living). It really does give me a sense of order and peace; knowing that I am nourishing my body without having to think about it each meal. So, back to the drawing board to create a weekly meal plan. This week, I give you a meal plan that includes room for adaptation. It is raw-ish, vegan, and low calorie, a total of 1000 Kcal to be precise. This gives me some degree of room to play... add popcorn, extra fruit, extra snacky thing...

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WEEK 1 Morning Snack: Banana Milk using soymilk. (100 cal) Breakfast: Raw oatmeal with cinnamon, almonds, raisins and apples. (270 cal) Lunch: BLT salad with homemade sprouted croutons (170 cal) Afternoon Snack: Carrot rounds and hummus (85 cal) Dinner: Thai Vegetable Stew [The Everyday Vegan] (200 cal) Sweet Snack: Some fruit. (75 cal) TOTAL: 1000 calories. (I can post full nutritional stats after I do them up for myself)

Going Raw-ish. (Day 1)

So previously (unrecorded here - see main blog), I attempted a raw vegan detox. It went fairly well, aside from the fact that juice is a good way to go broke. With the onset of spring and some fairly poor eating choices lately, I have decided that going 1/2 raw is absolutely achievable.

To kick it off, I give you my recipe for yummy thai lettuce wraps.

The most important part is the sauce. Mine is fairly straight forward.

- 6 T natural raw peanut butter

- Juice of 1 lemon or 2 limes

- 2 T soy sauce

- 1 T raw agave nectar

- 2 cloves garlic, minced

- 1.5" grated ginger

Put in food processor and blend.

For the rolls themselves,

Use a nice piece of lettuce as your wrap, and fill it full of goodness.

In this case, I tossed shredded green cabbage and my sauce, layers sliced mango and grated carrots, avocado, and finally some fresh basil and cilantro.