I am so ready to get going and ready to try new things and vlog. I have uploaded a new video. My video's are private so you will need to subscribe to view them and then I will add you to the view list. Rawlief link on the left of this page.
Now I am going to update a few pages here.

I bought a few things last week and here they are.

 

Above photo. A water filter and it is FANTASTIC! My hubby plummed it into our kitchen water supply. We will get reminders every 6 months to change the filters.

 

An order or rawder as we call them from Raw Living. Always look forward to Raw Living orders.

 

I bought a few more things but I haven't got photo's taken yet.

 

Updated Pages:

Weigh In
Progress
Beauty Rota

I know I need to catch up.

I have been engrossed in a lovely vlog called, Reach4Raw. This lady is doing FANTASTICALLY WELL! Check her vlog out here: Reach4Raw. There is also a website too here: Reach4Raw Website so go check this lady out!

Anyway, this lady is really starting to inspire me to do lots of vlogs, so next week I might be vlogging a lot more.

I have put the links on the left of my page under, My Favourites, scroll down slightly.

I should be back tomorrow.

I have to say that this week has been difficult which I am putting down to lady things and other things that have been going on that I mentioned in Day 10 but no matter what the reasons I STILL should have been on track, this is a lifestyle change not a limited time despite giving myself 28 days, this 28 days is a period of time to get myself organised and my taste buds changing but to carry on with raw foods for always.
I am going to get more on track so I can be at least 75% raw for this 28 days.

I have decided to go back through my Russell James course and start from the beginning and to maybe come up with the occasional recipe of my own, well, you never know, I might just manage it if I take my time with the courses, courses because I have the first and the dessert course:)

I had my two grandsons here tonight. It is Jaydens 1st Birthday tomorrow..BLESS! He is a very cute baby boy but then I am biased, any gran is biased of their grandchildren:)

I bought a few groceries this morning: Kale, cucumber, romaine, iceberg, tomatoes, aubergines and oranges YUM!
I also ordered a new raw DVD which hopefully wont take too long to arrive.

I am going to do a big grocery shop in a week or so and I may do a video of what I have bought to stock up my fridge with.

Just to mention, I don't paticularly enjoy the Cheezly vegan cheese very much, I would say that the firm raw cheese I make from the book is MUCH nicer, more cheesey flavoured I think, so the homemade cheese is what I will be sticking with in future, I wouldn't care but I have another 2 packets of the bought Cheezly in my fridge still, I wont waste it, I can eat it but I will sprinkle it with nutritional yeast to give it a more cheesey flavour.

Well that is all for now. I will be starting my Russell James course tomorrow and I will keep you posted on here.

Night, Night

I weighed in on Monday and I was very pleased with my weigh in because I lost 4.3/4lb...YES! I'm not sure what my next weigh in will be because I have been eating more snacks, raw snacks of course and nut butters, I have been craving them and I haven't exercised at all this week either. I have had a few things going on hence the snacking and lack of exercise, an excuse? Maybe but at the same time it can be a tad difficult. I'm still doing okay though and I am feeling a lot better in myself in general:)

I popped into the new Morrisons supermarket tonight and I discovered vegan cheese, I was going to make some raw cheese but it will be handy to have some of this in the fridge. You can view the product here: CHEEZLY.

I made some of the raw things that I had on my list but still more to make.

We went to my Mam's tonight and WOW did we have a laugh, my Mam and step Dad are so funny and my husband can really give us a laugh when he winds my Mam up:)

Back tomorrow

Another good day. I made a breakfast that I watched MrsLeafyGreens make on her You Tube. It was made with a base of cauliflower and I have to say, it was rather nice and refreshing, of course you need to like cauli as it can be tasted.

 

Shredded Cauliflower

Coconut

Blueberries

Dates

Agave

Almond Milk

 

MrsLeafyGreens used slightly different ingredients but it is basically the same and I did enjoy it and I will be having it again..YUM!

I had the above for my breakast and a lovely, DELICIOUS, big salad for my evening meal. I am so into my salads!!

 

I have managed to get some of the foods made that I had on my list. Sprouts; mung bean and alfalfa...Two of my favourites! And buckwheat to make buckwheaties. I will maybe dehydrate the buckwheat tomorrow depending on if they have little tails.

 

 

Also, I made these little beauties below that are in the dehydrator now.

 

 

Kate Magic's flapjacks, page 215 'Raw Living'. I have made these before and they are AMAZING! I also made vanilla macaroons with a 1/2 tsp of almond extract in also...WOW! That almond extract smells just like marzipan..LOVE marzipan!!

 

Tomorrow I plan on making Russell James' bread and almond crackers, fakin bacon and maybe some cheesie kale chips, and then on Sunday I will make some more things, I want that freezer stocked up a tad.

 

I had to have my Cuisinart food processor changed for a new one last year because the first one just stopped working so Cuisinart very kindly just replaced my food processor for the same model and tonight was the first time I have used it:) I suspect I will be using it a tad more again now.

 

The snow had cleared in my town but today it started snowing again and now we are back to square one with the snow...boohoo - ah well!

 

Well, that is all for today.

Night, Night

Another good day but no exercise today, I am hoping to get some exercise in tomorrow but if not then Monday I will exercise. I have still done more exercise this week than I have done in a LONG time!! I have done two sessions of Tae Bo and vacuumed my bedrooms, landing and stairs and other housework this week which I do housework anyway..of course, but I have still been more active than I have been for ages.

I am planning on having a raw un-cook day tomorrow and maybe over this weekend so I will be stocked up on snacks. I am going to have a freezer or a couple of freezer shelves dedicated to just raw foods.

These are the foods I am planning on making:
Buckwheaties
Start some sprouts growing
Make raw butter
Protein balls
Caesar or Ranch dressing
Kate Magic raw flap jacks...these are soo yumcious!
Raw Vegan cheese
Fakin Bacon
Cheesie kale chips
Marinated mushroom
Macaroons
Kate Magic Raw chocolate cake
Russell James' bread
Russell James' crackers
And possibly some raw cupcakes:)

I also want to do something with some brown coconuts that I have, I might attempt making some raw yogurt with these, I have done this before.
I am also wanting to make some eggless salad, YUM! Love this stuff!
There you have it, how much I manage to make is anyone's guess but I am going to see how much I can do.

I am THOROUGHLY ENJOYING this raw at the moment and plan to be organised food wise with this!
I am going to make different breakfasts over these coming days that I have found on You Tube, so that should be fun!

I am still feeling a lot better in myself, a tad headachey today but I didn't feel the need to take anything for it, it did go itself..woohoo

Well, I'm off to start soaking a few things to make some of the above.
Back tomorrow and I will attempt to get a video done also, I did upload a video yesterday, not great but a video:)

Night, Night

Still going great guns...WooHoo I exercised again this morning, I done Tae Bo, so that is twice this week...YES! My raw is going great ANNND I haven't been craving naughties, maybe I have finally realised that I want to get fit and healthy, maybe it has FINALLY sunk in!!

I made a dessert this afternoon, well, actually it was meant to be a smoothie but maybe I was meant to put water in also, anyway, it was a recipe from, 'Yourproduceguy' on You Tube. I used the can of coconut, a little agave and two mango's but it came out thick like a yogurt consistency, but oh so yummy! I am going to make everyday video's so this is the sort of thing when I make something that I will video and upload each day.

I haven't any more vegan mayo that I love to have on my salads so this evening I just used a little olive oil and WOW! My salad was THE BEST YET!
I used shredded iceberg (no romaine in my fridge:()
Tomato
Grapes
Persimmon
Avocado
Nutritional yeast
and because I had a small amount of cheesie Purple Corn kale chips left I decided to throw them onto my salad also to give it a little crunch, these just finished my salad off..PERFECT! And I didn't miss the vegan mayo either.

I am still going to be using vegan mayo, nutritional yeast, canned coconut and one or two other small things that aren't officially raw but are sometimes used in the raw world. Maybe canned coconut is raw, I'm not sure, I don't think so, I will have to check on that one.

Today I didn't feel the overwhelming need to sleep but I did still have a nap but I could well have not had the nap.
I am feeling more energetic, just better in myself and my tummy is feeling good, no nausea which I often feel, this might sound odd but my tummy is feeling clean inside, that is the only way I can describe it;) and it is certainly feeling less bloated.
I can do this, EASY!

I still have some of the coconut and mango dessert left so I am thinking of having that for my breakfast in the morning.

Back tomorrow, and I MUST do some vlogging!!

Night, Night