Raw Breaky…

Thank you SO much for all your suggestions regarding lunch – I highly recommend you go back and check out the suggestions!

One of my favourite suggestions was to check out City Life Eats.  I have found SO much inspiration on Valerie’s blog.  I’m trying to make my way through the whole thing!

Her blog has inspired me to have some more raw foods in my life!!  This morning I made a raw breaky!

Swiss Chard wraps

3x chard wraps

slices of red pepper

cucumber

Nut cheese (see below)

Raw Nori

Wrap it all up and nom nom nom

I used more nori than this, but it didn’t look as pretty for the picture!

Nut Cheese

1/2 cup cashews (soaked at least an hour – I did overnight)

1/2 cup almonds

2 tsp lemon juice

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp nutritional yeast

1 TBSP sundried tomatoes

Blend everything in food processor until desired consistency

Done!!  It made enough for about 10 wraps!! (yay left overs!!)

Love it!! I’ll see what kind of staying power it has though!! It would be good in lunches too, as the wraps wouldn't’ get soggy.

 

More Raw Goodness!

Dawn from Raw Elements.ca sent me some samples of Sun Warrior Powder!  I was SO excited as I love adding stuff to my smoothies, but I’ve been burned a few times ordering a huge jar and not liking it!

So far I have tried the vanilla and the chocolate and I have to say I REALLY like this product!!  And even better – no tummy problems!!

The vanilla I put in a smoothie with strawberries, banana and water

The taste was subtle, but nice… usually rice powder is gritty, but this stuff wasn’t at all..

I tried the chocolate in a a mango smoothie with Chia seeds

Not pretty, but what can you do?! ha

I really liked the chocolate too, but I think I would order the vanilla because it’s more plain and you can always add cacao powder if you are craving chocolate!

Overall, I really like Sun Warrior!  I still have some left and I think I might make Amazeballs!

Thank you Dawn!!

Also, make sure to check out City Life Eats for a TON of inspiration!!

Question of the day.

What’s your FAVORITE breakfast???

Fresh Macca Flavored Almond Milk!

I was SO inspired this morning when one of my readers, Jana mentioned that she made fresh almond milk!!   I remember when I was doing my raw foods course last summer, we made almond milk, hemp milk and a few other nutty milks and they were so good!

This is the recipe she sent me!

Of course I didn’t follow the rules!  

Macca Flavored Almond Milk (Unsweetened!)

1 cup raw almonds

1 tsp macca powder (would up it to 1 TBSP next time)

3 cups water

a tsp good quality vanilla (Mine was from Mexico – sooo good)

BLEND UP 1 cup of almonds and 1 cup water, macca and vanilla

Once almonds look a bit smooth, add other 2 cups of water… until it looks like this.

Frothy goodness.

Then pour it through a strainer bag (mine is for nut milk, but you could use panty hose, a pudding bag (for any Newfoundlanders reading) or whatever you have!)  You can usually find these at the health food store!

Keep pouring

Once it’s all in there…  Lift it up and let it strain

Until it starts getting a little dry… and then squeeze all the last bits of goodness out

And that’s it!!  The entire process was under 10 minutes!   And SO worth it!

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From there I made a creamy, dreamy breakfast smoothie

3 huge handfuls spinach

1 frozen banana

2 tsp macca powder (oh yes, I heart this stuff)

1 tbsp Vega Shake and Go Almond Vanilla (SO GOOD)

Blend it up with about 3/4 cup of your fresh creamy almond milk!

This smoothie should be illegal!  It is SO amazing.

And it feels like it will fill me up too!

Thank you SO much Jana for the inspiration – I think you’ve created a monster!!

ps.  I’m going to play with the pulp from the almonds and see what I can come up with!!

Any suggestions – let er rip!

Ps… because I know someone will ask.  I buy my macca at either Navitas Naturals or Real Raw Foods