I’ve been tracking my food in my day planner but not on this blog – oops! Also, my parents took me out for champagne cocktails on Friday night, which was very sweet of them but that on top of the wine was a little too much for this teetotaler. So I compensated for my slight [...]
8:20am 2/3 banana with 1 tbsp all-natural crunchy PB (175 calories). 10am 1/4 apple with 1/2 tbsp homemade walnut butter (75 calories). To make walnut butter, I combine raw walnuts, cinnamon, a drizzle of maple syrup and a pinch of sea salt in the food processor. Delicious! 12pm Bowl of oatmeal with 24 grams gluten-free [...]
Today I made English muffins using this recipe – they are delicious! I used multigrain bread flour, organic cane sugar and real unsalted butter. All the other ingredients I used were the same as called for in the recipe. So that knocks another one off my 21 Foods List, which I was supposed to have [...]
French toast does not have to be unhealthy and calorific. Usually people use white bread, lots of fat to cook it in, and they douse it in piles of maple syrup. Here’s a great recipe which is certainly not unhealthy – you get whole grains, protein and healthy fats from the eggs, protein and calcium [...]
Today I made: – 4 vanilla smoothies – 2 strawberry surprise smoothies – 2 grape smoothies – 1 hearty blueberry flax smoothie I also had one pecan when I woke up this morning – I wanted to crunch on something so I figured I could let myself have a single nut Strawberry Surprise Smoothie 1/2 [...]
Today I drank a variety of green smoothies: – 3 classic green smoothies – 2 chocolate smoothies (I added some PB2 this time for a chocolate peanut butter cup smoothie!) – 3 vanilla smoothies – 2 tropical smoothies Vanilla Smoothie 1 cup cold water 1 scoop Genuine Health Vegan Natural Vanilla Protein Powder 1/2 frozen banana [...]
This morning I had a fruit salad supreme smoothie for breakfast. Throughout the morning I had several mugs chai green tea and three classic green smoothies. Fruit Salad Supreme Smoothie 1 cup cold water 1/2 frozen banana Handful fresh spinach 1/2 (heaping) cup fruit salad (apples, grapes, bananas, mangos, kiwis) In the afternoon I had [...]
Day One of my 11 days of green smoothies! This morning I drank 4 classic green smoothies, as well as quite a few mugs of organic caffeine-free rooibos tea while I was working. Classic Green Smoothie Recipe 1 cup cold water 1/2 frozen banana 1 scoop Tropical Traditions berry-flavoured antioxidants greens powder 45 grams organic [...]
9:15am Cafe Breakfast at Stella’s Cafe: 1 slice dry multigrain toast, 2 free-range soft-poached eggs, hashbrowns with ketchup, and ham –> 700 calories (?). All local and I think mostly organic. 1:15pm 40 grams sugar snap peas –> 25 calories. 2pm Salad with organic mixed spring greens, homemade dressing (cold-pressed local sunflower seed oil, local [...]
My four-day green shake fast begins today! I’m doing it as a sort of kick-start to my raw food adventure, which is beginning on April 1st. Each green shake consists of about 1 cup cold water, 50 grams organic medium firm tofu, 1/2 frozen banana, and a scoop of greens powder. I had ten green [...]
