So here we go! Day one is complete! For breakfast I had a chocolate milkshake consisting of young Thai coconut (water and meat), maca powder, cacao (chocolate) powder, banana and Peruvian mesquite powder. Somehow, the coconut makes the cacao taste more like milk chocolate than dark, which is always welcome for me, as I’ve always preferred the milk to dark. Jason (my darling partner), is going raw with me and asking his 7-year old son, Jahn, to do the same. He even got on-line today and found 5 pound bags of chocolate, maca & mesquite powder, 10 pound bags of goji berries, and clear agave in containers anywhere from 1 litre to FIFTY-FIVE GALLON DRUMS!!! Insanity. I think we’ll start with a gallon for now. ;o) But such a helpful guy! Trying to keep us raw and save us big bucks at the same time. Oh! I should state, for the record, that we aren’t just going cold turkey into raw with no prep time or education. We have been working toward this gradually for over 2 years.
For lunch I had ice cream with just 2 ingredients: cacao powder and frozen bananas. Delish! I also had chocolate chip cookies that I found at my local faboo health store, Terra Organica, and they’re made by Sun Power Natural. Just came in during the last week or so. They were so good that I ate FOUR!!! I can’t wait to try the cinnamon and fruit burst ones! Maybe if I break them up on top of chocolate-cinnamon ice cream? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm … sounds delectable!
The wee one came home from school and was delighted to find a sunny-faced snack of Clementine chunks (for the eyes), a chocolate chip cookie nose, and a dried white mulberry smile.
Jahn's Sunny-Faced after-school snack. He said, "This cookie nose is TERRIFIC!"
He is so excited that I’m doing nothing but chocolate for 30 days that now he wants to try it, too. Not too hard to get a kid to eat raw food if he thinks he can have dessert for every meal (and rightly so)! He’s having more of other things than I am, but is liking the raw cacao more and more each time he tries it. A year ago he said it was “too sour”. I think his taste is changing more toward raw food. Woo-hoo!
I experimented with a chocolate sauce for the first time today that has raw agave nectar, cacao powder and maca powder in it. Took pics of it for the book and the kiddo dipped his grapes in it for dinner. Jason had raw food of his own today (he’s not really going as hard-core into the chocolate thing like I am, but is doing all raw) and he had a chocolate-lemon candy bar this morning, some chocolate cake this afternoon, and had a chocolate milkshake in the evening. More like snacks on the chocolate front for him. For dinner, I had a plate of fruit (orange slices, banana slices, grapes [the kid suggested it] and strawberries) — and each and every bite was first dipped generously into the chocolate syrup that I mentioned above. VERY popular and successful! 1/2 a cup of chocolate sauce gone in under 6 hours. I wasn’t too fond of it on grapes, as the flavors seemed to blend together too much, but it was good on the oranges, quite good on the bananas and abso-farking-lutely UNBEATABLE on the strawberries!!!
Here's what I ate for my late-night dinner, as explained above.
I feel great right now and don’t feel a real need for sleep, although poor Jason is trying to get to sleep to the clickety-clack lullaby of the laptop keyboard. He says it’s ok, though. Sounds like he’ll be snoring soon. (I love to hear him breathe when he sleeps. So sweet.) I had a few emotional moments today … even raw chocolate can’t make EVERYthing ok … but alas, raw food does bring up your stuff for a fresh spring cleaning, dudn’t it? I’ve gone totally raw for 2 weeks twice – Once in late June/early July of 2007, as well as the first 2 weeks of 2009. I’m really hoping to stick to it this time. I loved how much energy I had when I did it, especially the first time. I detoxed too quickly the second time and got sick, then we moved and fell off the wagon. No excuse-making here, just stating what happened.
I watched a LOT of David Wolfe and Markus Rothkranz today to get and stay motivated. The oddest thing is thing is that my stomach is growling and I am craving not Sausage McMuffins, not Volcano Tacos, as I so often do (anyone who says they’re not addicted to cooked food should try giving it up completely for a month! I’ll show them and addict every time)! But SALAD! I find myself wanting it so bad that I’m wishing we had cacao nibs in the house so I could “cheat” and eat them as croutons. Who the hell ever heard of cheating on a diet by eating SALAD??? Clearly I need help. But after awhile, I guess one gets tired of the same thing. I am curious how I’ll handle it when I want something savory. There’s no such thing as chocolate cheese or chocolate-dipped olives. If anyone sees me eating those, they’ll think I’m pregnant!
Well, I’m off to bed. A successful day all around, happy that I’m doing this, and I didn’t need a nap today. That was new. For breakfast, I’ll probably have my chocolate milkshake again (it’s so easy and quick to make) because it gives me SUCH the better pick-me-up than coffee! See you when the Sun graces us with his presence again! ¡Hasta pronto, amigos!
