My Typical Day

Many people have asked me what I eat like throughout the day.  Each day it is different. This is just a general idea.  I have between 1-2 smoothies a day to help clarify as you read this.  

Breakfast:

I will sometimes have a smoothie right when I wake up or organic cereal with almond milk and fruit.  I also hate to admit it....BUT I am addicted to my large Dunkin Donuts ice coffees.  I will be kicking this addiction in May when school is out with a 10 day juice fast. I will keep you posted on that.  (A lot of times I have 2 a day!  Uggghh!)

Here are a list of raw snacks that I pick on throughout the day:  (Not all of them everyday)

Apples

Clementines

Grapes

Strawberries

Carrots with Hummus

Almonds

Bananas

Organic trail mix (non-granola)

Non raw: (limited to one time a day sometimes 2)

Nature Valley Granola Bars

One of my sweeter smoothies which still contain raw ingredients, but they may include chocolate/vanilla almond milk or organic peanut butter

Lunch:

Sometimes I do not even have a lunch because I am full from my snacks.  Sometimes I will have a smoothie or I may have a baby spinach salad with strawberries and a sweet homemade dressing...recipe to follow shortly.   Other times I  like to have black beans and chick peas with  2 spoonfuls of salsa.  My salad is loaded with baby spinach.

Dinner:

Dinner is different ever night of course.  A lot of times they are cooked meals for Matt and Noah and I will drink a smoothie because I'm off to school.  Meals are usually still heavy in veggies, sometimes cooked.  We still eat meat, but have cut down dramatically recently.  Sometime it will be a fish or chicken with gluten free brown rice and veggies.  I like making soups like chicken, minestrone (with ground turkey) or lentil.  My mother-in-law calls me the soup queen!.  Although, I have not made it recently, I made my own home-made pizza dough.  I'm looking into healthier recipes, but for now I make them on flax seed wraps and are so yummy!  I just got my veggie spiralizer in today so I look forward to making more raw recipes with that...and sharing them of course!!!

Dessert:

I usually do not have dessert, but if I ever have a craving  at any point in the day it may be my sweet smoothie with a banana, chocolate almond milk, and organic peanut butter.  It seriously may be the best thing I ever had!  I also enjoy the raw homemade ice cream recipe Melissa posted.   When I have a sweet tooth though, grapes are great in a pinch.  When I crave something smothered in garlic or salty carrots with garlic hummus works wonders!  

I am still looking to add more raw foods to my diet.  I just need to learn new recipes.  As I use them I will post them.  In a couple weeks I will be able to put more time into learning more recipes once the spring semester ends...as well as kick my terrible and expensive dunkin donuts ice coffee!  :)