Raw Diet Day Six: Crunchy Munchies and Oozing Yams

I’m in the home stretch now! Actually, I’m on my last day of the semi-raw diet, but the last post will have to wait until tomorrow.

Raw Diet Day 6 Menu

• 1/2 cup Cabot fat free cottage cheese
• Handful of raw cashews
• Anjou pear
• Raw nachos “rawchos”: raw flax seed hemp crackers, nutritional yeast, bell pepper, celery, an entire avocado mashed into fresh guac with a squeeze of lime juice, grape tomatoes, Fage Total 0% plain Greek strained yogurt, and lots of hot sauce
• Roasted sweet potato with raw almond butter (didn’t eat much of it)
• Ginormous salad with romaine, fresh baby spinach, no salt added cheddar cheese, carrots, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, and sugar snap peas dressed with cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, raw honey, fig infused white balsamic vinegar, and black pepper
• 2 pieces organic nectars raw 70% cacao bar
• Licks of almond butter
• 2 slices Sargento reduced fat Swiss cheese with Hellmann’s olive oil mayo
• PURE organic raw fruit + nut bar

Rawchos (mostly raw nachos)

My “cheez and sour cream” components…

Nutritional yeast is so awesome, but not a raw food unfortunately. Smells like popcorn to me, tastes cheesy.

Tell me fresh guacamole isn’t one of life’s greatest gifts.

These were RAWsome!! After a few splashes of Tabasco and a big blob of Greek yogurt, it was a lot like eating regular nachos. LOVED them! Wasn’t too crazy about the raw hemp flax seed crackers due to the earthy taste which doesn’t belong in a plate of nachos, they got extra Tabasco. Loved the bell peppers and celery as my chips, though. So. much. volume. I ended up leaving half of the guac and yogurt, but ate everything else. Super delicious!

Something went terribly wrong with the sweet potato I roasted for dinner. I thought I’d be rebellious and have a baked sweet potato with my dinner salad, so I asked my mom to pop one in the oven for me when she made whatever she was eating. She comes up to our office awhile later to inform me that something weird happened to the potato: half of it oozed out! What the hell????!!

I’ve never seen this happen before. The potato literally exploded and oozed out, but only half of it. It must have had a very high water content or something. So strange. My mom said it was perfectly normal before she put it in. So, I don’t know if I was a little freaked out by it knowing that it exploded in the oven, or if I’m just out of touch with warm, mushy foods, but I took 2 bites and threw the rest out. It tasted ok, I just wasn’t interested in it. *shrugs*

Such a shame. I liked the raw almond butter on it, but I just wasn’t feeling it.

My salad was phenomenal, though. I love salads, they’re definitely in my top 10 favorite meals, even when I’m off of the raw kick. hehe

By now I am officially done with my raw diet trial, but I still have today’s food to do in an update tomorrow. I’ll give my thoughts and scale results in my last update. I’ll tell you one thing, I have a major energy deficit this week; I’m exhausted! Can’t wait to hit the hay — or eat it!!! No, no, no. I can have cooked food starting tomorrow. SO EXCITED!!!! It feels like Christmas Eve. Can’t wait to sleep and wake up to warmth in my belly.

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