Today I just want to give few updates on how I am doing with my Raw Vegan Diet and my cravings.
I'm working from home today so it is generally bad when I do it, because it's just me and my kitchen temptations. I love cooking and I always look
forward to find a new gourmet recipe
that I want to try, new flavours to taste and so on. So in short I ate like a pig all day basically.
Since I planned to start a 7-day Water Fast very soon, I wanted to be sure I will not waste any of the food that I bought
in the past few days, so I started to organize
all my fruits and vegetables. Let's face it fruits are very easy to freeze comparable vegetables. So I cut all the ripe fruits and stored in the freezer,
so they can be ready to thaw or to use in any smoothie, at the end anything that is frozen does not expire and can be used any time in the future – I'm sure I will
have plenty of opportunities, so I'm
not worried when I can freeze produce.
For the vegetables it's a little be tricky,
I had to do a sort of preparation, especially for the tomatoes that I really don't feel confident on just freeze them like a do
with the blueberries. To avoid wasting my Roma
tomatoes I prepared my first delicious Marinara
sauce; I found an easy recipe on
Pinterest and turned out very tasty. I used the Roma tomatoes,
some extra sweet cherry tomatoes and my organic sundried tomatoes (with no oil). At the end I filled 2 containers that could be used for my zucchini noodles in the future, plus is
a very low fat sauce and I like low fat so far.
For the huge
amount of carrots that I have a had
a different solutions, I saw a recipe of a Raw
Vegan carrots cake that I would
like to try so I shredded all my
carrots and stored in plastic bags in the freezer, so they're ready for the recipe once I'm good on
doing it, the only thing I regret of
not doing is taking note on how much
carrots I had in each bag, I should have weighted
and labelled each of them so I had an
easier way using it during the recipe execution,
oh well I guess I will figured out once I'm doing it the cake.
The 2 odd zucchini
that I bought at China Town the other day I just washed and put them in a bag,
I didn't want to do noodles really, I
might just use them for sauces or
something like that, to make the sauce creamer
as I do with regular zucchini sometimes. I do have also some chopped carrots
and zucchini in the freezer as well, I can always use for smoothies or other blended recipes done with the Vitamix, if I thaw them in the fridge
for a couple of days I'm sure they'll be ok….hopefully.
Today I prepared for the first time the vegetable wraps that I always see on those Raw Vegan recipes, I had
a bunch of organic red Swiss Chard
and I used my veggie-cheese with some carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and
zucchini noodles, it was delicious!
It is really not easy to eat them since they were falling apart but overall
the taste was great, I might not do
often though, not because they're complicated to do it but just for the general mess while eating, well
unless I improve my skills as wraps-eater.
I still need to take
care of some of the fruits left behind; I have mangoes, apples, pears,
bananas and three persimmons. Once
they're ripe enough I'll chop everything and freeze, ok maybe I'll eat a couple
of apples or bananas before then. The persimmons
are in season right now and although
I always hated this fruit growing up,
I wanted to give them a second chance this time and use it for my pumpkin
pie recipe. I might cut them and freeze for now though since I'm not planning to do any pie before I complete my 7-Day Water Fast; maybe I'll prepare a good pie to bring for my Christmas dinner invitations, let's see – this year will be a challenge
eating Raw Vegan in an Italian dinner family setup!
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