Raw Food: Day 1, Cappy

So.  For breakfast, I had a bowl of oatmeal (not raw, but I looooove oatmeal, and even though it's cooked I consider oatmeal to be good for me, so I'm allowing myself to have it--it's Quaker Weight Control oatmeal, and it's flavored so I don't add anything to it) and a veggie/fruit smoothie.  Now, believe it or not, this was my first time ever using a blender.  And it took me a good 15 minutes to convince myself that the glass pitcher was on there good enough (it kept feeling like it was about to slide off or something--it just didn't feel steady) before I started it up.  And I wasn't sure which speed to use, so I was just guessing with it.  The smoothie itself was interesting.  It was very pulpy.  VERY pulpy.  So the texture took some getting used to.  


This was a recipe from the raw foods book I've been reading, 12 Steps to Raw Foods:  How to End Your Dependency On Cooked Food, by Victoria Boutenko.  It has romaine lettuce, strawberries, and bananas in it.  I think I'm going to just need to play around with different recipes and experiment to find one that I really like.  But one thing that this book stressed was the importance of including a lot of raw greens in your diet, and she said she's found that the best way for her to include that much greens without getting sick of them was to put them in smoothies.  And she went on to say how energized she felt throughout the day after having a veggie smoothie in the morning.  I did feel a bit more energy this morning than what I would normally expect the first morning back to work after the switch to daylight savings time, but I guess time will tell if that was because of the smoothie or because of some other reason.


For a mid-morning snack, I ate a handful of raw almonds.  YUM.  And I had a cup of black coffee, with one packet of artificial sweetener.  I'm hoping to eventually wean myself off of sweetener, but that's going to take a while.


Lunchtime, I ate a salad with lemon juice drizzled on top, and with 1/3 can of tuna.  Yes, the tuna is cooked, but again, I'm not shooting for 100% raw right now, and I feel the pros of tuna outweigh the cons at the moment.  I needed some protein.  I also ate a small apple with lunch, and then proceeded to have another apple and a banana later in the afternoon.


For supper tonight I had another veggie/fruit smoothie and a salad with spinach, chopped tomatoes, and a teaspoon of olive and a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar for dressing.  I plan to eat some grapes here in a few minutes for dessert.


So, first day?  Went pretty good.  I didn't eat as much as I should of veggies because I forgot to get snack veggies when I went grocery shopping.  I plan to get those tomorrow.


I took the day off from exercising.


Happymaker of the day:  Finding out how tasty raw almonds are.  Once again:  YUM.


Cappy