Showing posts with label salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salad. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Cabbage Salad

I threw this together to take with me to work today. I think it may be my new favourite salad concoction.

(sorry for the poor quality phone photo,
but I wanted to get a pic before I ate it all!)

sweetheart cabbage
shaved carrot
green onion
mixed sprouts
raisins
chopped pecans
nutritional yeast
fresh lemon juice
sunflower pate
(in a food processor: soaked sunflower seeds, lemon juice, sea salt, paprika, water - all to taste)

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Apple + Raisin Salad


Dinner last night:

Leaf lettuce
1 large apple
raisins (soaked briefly)
1/2 avocado
chopped pecans
green onion
lemon juice + balsamic vinegar
celtic sea salt

Saturday, 13 March 2010

Transition Foods

Halfway through my walk home from watching rugby with the gang at my bf's place (Wales lost, boo!), I started to feel really light headed and weak. Generally when this has happened before (usually when I hadn't eaten for a while and was starving), I would just eat a spoonful of peanut butter and I would feel better. Tonight I was also craving cooked foods a bit, like crisps or chips (chips and french fries for the non-Brits ;).

So when I got home I made myself a salad with lentils. A healthy transitional meal, yes? I have to say, I'm not feeling so hot right now. Not in that light-headed way, but in that too full, lethargic way. The last few nights I've been alternating between an all-raw meal (usually a large salad) and a raw one with cooked veggies meal (salad plus a sweet potato or maybe some peas, etc).

I think that tonight I've learned to lay off the lentils for a bit, and if I want something cooked, to give some root vegetables a go (I do love my sweet potatoes). Maybe I'm ready to go more raw than I thought. I think I will at least be listening more to what my body tells me.

Anyway, here are a couple of pics from some of my dinners the last few nights (I just love the colours!)


Romaine, beets, red peppers, organic mixed sprouts, nutritional yeast, lemon juice + balsamic vinegar


Sprouts from my first batch!

Romaine, carrots, beets, red pepper, organic alfalfa sprouts, sunflower seeds, nut. yeast, lemon juice + bal. vinegar

PS It seems my allergies have started to kick in. They haven't been a problem for a while, but I think moving to a new place may have triggered them again. I don't particularly want to take allergy pills - anyone have a more natural method for a runny nose, sneezing, and itchy eyes?