Day 2 of 10 day challenge

Day 70

RAW

Well, I did it. 100%, whew! It was a little hard because I had an emotional day and am just wiped out. I told a good friend I was going to schedule 2 days to lay on the floor. That I typed it into my outlook calendar "lay on floor" and then when it said duration, I choose "two days". Now, will I actually lie on the floor for 2 days? probably not, but I am planning some laying on the floor time, a lot of it.

WHAT I ATE TODAY

Breakfast- Almond butter and banana smoothie

Snack- watermelon Popsicle

Lunch- trio of mini salads... A caesar (my new fave), left over zucchini 'pasta' pesto, and I made the mock tuna salad from RAWvolution.. that was OK , but will take doing it again to really see.

I have my new food processor and I am not really sure how to work it well. So I ended up accidentally processing some of the celery in. I ate it, and it was pretty good, but not really.

Snack- fruit leather

Dinner- left over Thai Salad and I made vegan Pad Thai for Vyk and Astrid.

YESTERDAY

I wanted to post a little more about my New Years Day meal.

I already posted what I had planned.

Mock mashed potatoes from RAWvolution

A salad

Black eyed peas

I actually tried sprouting the black eyed peas, to put them in the salad and be 100% raw, but it was a failed attempt.

Also, Whole Foods had these brilliant and giant local grown cawliflower for like 1.99 or something like that. It took a whole shopping bag just for it.

The mock mashed potatoes were smooth and looked like mashed potatoes, but they were just OK and I decided... (MY new Mashed Potato Theory) I eat mashed potatoes like 2-3 times a year and they are really not my down fall... so when I want mashed potatoes I am going to have my vegan mashed potatoes and when I want cauliflower I am going to have the following salad because it ROCKED!!!!

PERFECT NEW YEARS DAY SALAD

Baby Spinach

Cauliflower florets

Tahini dressing

Black eyed peas sprinkled on top (by next year I will figure out the sprouting thing)

Cauliflower crumbled on top (this is actually a great salad topper- who would have thought)

Perfect, what did I tell you?

FAMILY UPDATE

My husband has been raw for 6 days and he is through detox and starting to feel good. I asked him today if he thought he was going to do this all the time and he said yes.. so, huh? We will see. This plus a lot of un cooking and ALOT of no's has finally gotten my daughter over the hurdle of the changes in me and now in her daddy. She (and I swear I am not exaggerating) asked for candy about a thousand times since I have started this journey. And she was kind of not eating much food. I would make her something she would sniff it and ask for candy. I swear to you. And this is a child who has heard no a lot from me with sugar, and should and does know not to even ask. So, I would just put up the food and when she asked I would tell her all the things she could eat. I know a lot of this was some mixed messages my husband and I were sending and some attitude she was getting from her Uncle (18). So Vyk and I being on the same page is really helping.

Now, this sounds strange. But we took her to see a movie (Charolette's Web) today for her last day of vacation and as we were leaving.. she all of the sudden wanted something... just wanted something, something to eat, to play a game, to take a picture, something. I don't know if you have ever noticed and if you are not the same kind of parent as me maybe you wouldn't but the entry and exit of these kinds of places are intentionally set up to subvert any decent parenting. Intentionally! They are loud and flash and glare and sucked in like flies to honey. We had brought fruit leathers and water to the movie. And we are tight on money right now. I told her when we got home I would pop her some popcorn, and it would be healthy and free. She started kind of loosing it and asking for a game. And saying "other children my size play those games, I saw them.. why do you always say no". You say no to everything. We are trying to just leave and not answering.. so then she says "can I have a picture?" I say maybe next time, right now we do not have enough money. Well she looses it, for the first time in gosh maybe 4-6 months. She just comes undone. And we carry her out, whining "I want a picture" over and over.

She cries the whole way home and when we get there she has a time out and then I talk to her... She cries and flails around telling me all about it. Then, she calms down I love on her and we go out to make dinner. She helps set the table and then as I am cooking she comes over and says "I am having some candy... some purple candy" she shows me a grape. Then she goes back to the fridge and says "I am having an orange candy" and shows me a carrot. I say, "can I have one, will you share?" she says "yes". And it was a breakthrough moment. She asked for an orange with dinner and she ate everything. Later that evening she asked "what can I have for a snack?" I gave her the list of options and then she went and got one of them. Breakthrough.

Now, keep in mind I had an emotional day, and so did she... so it was not all about the food. But it was a breakthrough, I promise. I can feel it. For us both.