RAW Living and Learning

Here is a pic of most of my food for the big 3-day juice fast/feast!! I am so excited it is queer. Missing from the pic is my broccoli, some more kale, collards and tomatoes from my square foot garden, parsley from my herb garden, some radish sprouts and three large cucumbers from my sweet neighbor across the canal. For my records I am going to bore you with my food list and the cost. I want to keep track and compare to future juice fasts. 3 (5lb) bags of organic carrots $11.97 1  organic honeydew $4.99 1  bunch organic spinach $2.99 2 bunches of greens $5.98 (organic dandelion greens and organic dino kale) 3.08 lbs organic tangerines $5.21 3.31 lbs organic valencia oranges $5.59 5 organic lemons $4.45 2.89 lbs organic green cabbage $2.57 1.78 lbs  organic green pears $3.54 2 (3 lb) bags of organic red and green apples $9.98 1 box  organic Detox Tea $4.69 1 bottle of Mountain Valley Sparkling water $1.89 (for melon and lemon spritzers) 1 ...

Today's lunch inspiration came from a vegan magazine titled "Healing Foods". It had a lot of cooked foods in it and only a few salads so I opted not to buy it. I was happy to see an article on sea vegetables, but the recipes were for using it cooked. I eat my sea vegetable raw so all of their vital nutrients are intact. I was a bit baffled with the title, "Healing Foods" since the majority of the foods were cooked??  But I did take the time to make note of a fantastic looking salad. I changed it a bit and love how it tasted. I really like that the dressing is oil free. The original recipe called for arugula but I used mixed baby greens. It also called for shallots but I only had one scallion left so I substituted that instead. I also added a pummelo and a clementine in addition to the grapefruit and orange that it called for. And of course I had to add some fresh home grown sprouts!! The dressing is definitely Asian style so I will call it "Asian Citrus Sal...