Blended Salad
Today’s Raw Food Diet
- Green Smoothie (6 bananas/2 nectarines/1/2 bunch spinach/8 oz. water)
- Grapes (27 oz.)
- Blended Salad (8 oz. tomato/8 oz. celery)
It looks like I was right about the extra weight I had accumulated. This morning I weighed in 2.5 pounds lighter than I did yesterday.
Tonight is Mexican food night at our house. The girls are having food from Berryhill Baja Grill. This has been a Friday night tradition at our house for the past year.
I used to love the food from Berryhill. But, their menu doesn’t jive with my current eating plan. So, I had to figure out how I was going to deal with that urge.
Enter the blended salad.
Tonight, I kept it simple. Since I was wanting salsa, I blended tomato and celery together. I figured that would take care of the urge to consume the salty salsa.
I have mixed feelings about the blended salad. One pound blended is only 75 calories. That’s a good thing. It’s also nice to eat something that’s not sweet without resorting to avocados (since I’m working on minimizing overt fats in my diet). I can safely say that I don’t crave salsa anymore, too!
The texture is a little different. I thought that the high water content of the tomatoes would make for a pretty thin texture. Boy, was I ever wrong! I’m still working on this thing as I write, and I’m going to need a spoon if I want to finish this before midnight!!!
I’ll have to experiment further with this. The jury is still out on whether or not I want to make this a regular part of my diet. I may wind up sticking to traditional salads and green smoothies to get my daily quotient of green vegetables.
The Princess was a little frugivore today. We were running behind getting her out the door, so she grabbed a bag of grapes and a bag of shredded carrots to eat in the car on the way to her day camp. Those were also her morning snack at the camp. At lunch, she had me split three mangos and cleaned up on them! She had a lot of questions about my way of eating today. She’s not quite ready to make as drastic a move as me, but the notion of being vegetarian (still eating dairy and eggs) is quite appealing to her.
My appetite is still pretty low today. I’ve eaten several pounds of food today, but it hasn’t been very calorie dense. Maybe my stomach is still stretching . . . or maybe my body is feeding on its considerable reserves since it’s getting far better nutrition than it used to!
