In place of mayo, use fresh hummus. I get mine from the local Mediterranean deli (on Old Canton by Hancock’s, for you locals). Tomato and sprouts would be a good additions to this. I limit my use of plastic where I can, so glass containers are preferred.
Build a Sandwich
August 18th, 2009
Quick and Easy
August 16th, 2009Meal or snack, these two sandwiches are good, nutritious, and each incorporates a raw food.
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- Whole Wheat Bread, Raw Almond Butter, Fresh Apple
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- Whole Wheat Bread, Hummus, Cucumber
Mango-Kiwi Frosty
August 15th, 2009Packed with vitamins and minerals, this is a delicious dessert or snack. I just had it for a mid-day snack on my Saturday at home - a refershing break from house cleaning. RECIPE: One small mango, one kiwi, crushed ice, small amount of water, little stevia and agave nectar, blend until smooth.
- Mango-Kiwi Frosty
One Week Post-Surgery
August 15th, 2009One week following surgery on my squash plants to remove the squash worm – I find that a few of the plants survived. Had I gotten to this sooner, more would have lived. I was delighted to find one yellow squash – I watched it all week and had it for dinner last night. Was too hungry to find the camera and take a picture of the dish, but this RECIPE is so fast, easy and scrumptious:
GRATED SQUASH RECIPE - You can use yellow squash or zucchini, or a combination of the two. Grate the squash. I use a salad shooter, but a hand grater works also. Add a little (takes just a very small amount) gray salt, olive oil, and apple cider vinegar. You will be surprised at the wonderful taste of simply squash. This is also good to add to a green salad. Instead of sprinkling cheese on top of your salad, sprinkle shredded squash. Yum!
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- Survivors
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- Yea! Dinner!
Arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! They’re back!
August 9th, 2009I had noticed that the squash plants were beginning to wilt, but thought all the rain had something to do with it. Late yesterday afternoon, I was finally able to get back into the garden (after a month of neglect followed by a week of rain). I pulled up dead squash plants and began burying the stems of the others. Then, I began to notice the little orange stuff oozing from spots in the stems. With a sharp knife, I slit open the stem of one, and there he was, that drated little critter that robs me of my wonderful summer squash – the squash worm. I spent the next several hours performing surgery on all the plants, pulling out worms, and burying the stems (when my surgery didn’t kill the plant). Hopefully, a few will survive. I did this same “cut, pull, smash” on the worms in the spring and most of the plants lived. Next year, I will not plant squash in hills, but in wide rows so the stems can grow straight out and I can cover them as they do.
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- Sign of Squash Worm
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- Squash Worm
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- Three in one spot.
Saturday 8/8/09
August 8th, 2009Todays food (besides the Barley Green):
Breakfast - Smoothie (apple-strawberry-blueberry)
Snack - Protein bar
Lunch - Organic tortilla filled with hummus and fresh tomatoes.
Snack - Watermelon
Dinner - Pizza and Avacado – sounds peculiar together, but was really good. I ate two servings (plate below is one serving) and was stuffed. This took like 2 minutes to make. If I had not been lazy, I could have added some veggies to the pizza, like onion, green/red peppers.
Snack: Pear & Peach Smoothie
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- Cheese Pizza Toppings
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- Yum!
Desheila, Just for You!
August 6th, 2009I just finished juicing for tomorrow, and have posted pictures below. About a dozen big carrots, 3 cucumbers, 1 small beet, 1 small zuchinni. It made 5 of the 8-oz jars. I usually juice in the mornings so it’ll be fresh for the day, but did this tonight for you.
I went to Baton Rouge today, and eating raw can be a challenge – especially when the person you are traveling with doesn’t eat raw unless forced to. 
However, I went prepared.
- Breakfast: Barley Green in water, smoothie of apple, strawberries, blueberries
- Lunch: Mexican Restaurant – guacamole, black bean dip, baked Scoops (I take my own in with me – those chips you get there are BAD for you).
- Snacks: Apple, nut chips, ThinkGreen bar
- Dinner: Watermelon
- Drinks: Water only and a lot of it.
Click on the pictures to read more comments.
Now, let me know how you do on Monday.
Love ya, Brenda
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- Barley Green – detox
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- Juicing Preparations
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- Veggies prepared for juicing
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- Strain the juice
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- Fresh juice
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- Ready for the day
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- Scraps for Compost Pile
Raw Slaw
August 2nd, 2009
Raw Slaw
Everyone loves this dish, and I often get asked for the recipe. I don’t use a recipe. Each time I make it, the ingredients depend on what I have on hand. Although I try to only use organics, it isn’t always possible. I like to always begin with raw corn. Be careful if not buying organic. Smell the tassle end, and if you smell chemicals or pesticides, don’t buy it. I find good non-organic corn still in the husk at Good Foods and Fresh Market.
The bowl pictured has raw corn cut off the cob, chopped red bell peppers, chopped broccoli, yellow squash cut into small pieces, chopped red onion. The dressing is apple cider vinegar, olive oil, tiny bit of celtic sea salt, and 1 Tblsp of tofu mayo. If you want to sweeten it, add a little raw honey or agave nectar.
This can be eaten as slaw, but my favorite way is to spread fresh-made hummus onto either a ww pita, tortilla or bread and then fill with the slaw. Yum!
Or, make a green salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber) and top with this. No other dressing is necessary.
Let me know if you try this.
Blessings………..Brenda
August Garden
August 2nd, 2009As we enter into the month of August, the summer garden is showing signs of stress from a week of heavy rains following a month of neglect. My job required so many man hours during the month of July, that the poor garden was fortunate to get watered occasionally. Still, it produced an abundance of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, green peppers, okra and green beans. It’s still producing, but the squash are in pretty bad shape.
On top of that, the deer attacked last night. They stomped down fencing to get in. They chomped the leaves off most of the okra, munched on green beans, ate tomatoes and peppers, and stomped down the squash and watermelons. We unloaded and installed more wooden pallets – our cattlegaps. The pallets seem to be working, but it’s taking a while to collect enough to totally surround the garden. We’ve even used a few old windows. In addition to the pallets, we’ve hung plastic bags around the garden – a tip from my son-in-law’s grandmother. We also have deer netting put up as a fence around the areas that don’t have pallets. The plan is to eventually paint the pallets green to blend in with the grass.
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- Summer Bounty
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- Hands off!
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- Lemon Cucumbers
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- Herb Garden Site
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- Garden Mess
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- Deer attack orka
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- Deer Watermelons
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- Deer Prints
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- Makeshift Cattlegap