Clean, fresh, RAW Challenge for JULY!!!

I love juices for breakfast - the one I normally have is a dan the man special:
1 lemon
3/4 hot green chillis
1 cucumber
1 bunch celery
1 bunch coriander (cilantro for yanks)
1 bunch parsley
I also throw in a load of kale that I have growing in my garden.
oh and some ginger!

Its amazing!!!!

I have a question for everyone that juices. I have a very picky 7 year old who refuses almost every vegetable. So I was wondering if anyone has juice recipes that use fruit and veggies and taste sweet and not too much like veggies??? I can get her to drink the carrot apple juice that I make, so I am hopeful I can get more of a variety of veggies into her body if I juice them.

I ate breakfast and some more raw yesterday for dinner too. I got to bed after 10:00pm, in fact way, way later than that but I have a goal to change that to 10:00 pm this month and thereafter as I do know it is healthier. DH works nights though..

Now, July 2nd, I’m doing wonderful today!! Just saying that I can see I am going to become more positive staying on this way of life!!!

Today I rose early and did oil pulling which I do regularly each morning, I brushed and flossed then drank lots of water not one liter though but I am still sitting here drinking some. Maybe that gets easier all at a time? I then had about 27 chunks of cantaloupe, which are approximately 3lbs as per Dr. Graham’s menu plan you listed!

I then lay in light sun for 15 minutes (I have to up my intake of sun by a lot) I live in Canada and don’t get out a lot during sunny hours.

I then did light exercise for ½ hour. I have to get back into this as well. I am too sedentary at home and have being like that for a long time. Saying that, I am not overweight, if anything I am underweight. I ate quite healthy for my body for the last 5 years (with tons of food allergies I deal with) and just want to do this challenge to make myself in optimum health and why not increase better sex as well.

I do try to eat local and organic when I can. I don’t drink our city tap water for all it’s chemicals, I drink spring water only. I am not vegan at this point so I do consume local unpasturised honey (raw). I am dairy free but noticed you have yogurt in one of the menus, I know that raw type is meant but do you recommend that? I understand dairy to be more bad than good. Saying that I don’t consume milk and haven’t for a long time and here is one recipe worth a raw try, Sesame Mylk, my own recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/sesame-tahini-milk-dairy-free-392870

I loved my experience with sprouting quinoa and would like to do it again and try other sorts of sproutings as well.

I don’t eat kiwis as I find my lips tingle and swell a bit if I eat them.

I tried to access your files on http://bit.ly and signed up as well but I still can’t open them once downloaded.

When should we drink (water) before or after eating and by how much? I always thought you are better off drinking after eating although that contradicts the before breakfast ritual.

For optimal well being, I have to play more and not on the computer, specifically RecipeZaar I need more security in my life. I am in quite a precarious situation and my environment is not very pleasant right now.

May I know which diary you are referring to related to the contest as I would like to be in

http://www.greathealth247.com/ph-acid-alkaline-food-chart.html

thought this was neat.

I have a glow today. I don't remember ever looking like this and this is my first full raw day! Also with the little excersize. I wonder what I will make for dinner..

Ahh!! I feel so behind on everything! My husband came home yesterday & we also got two itty bitty puppies yesterday AM so I've been running around like a crazy woman. Puppies are bathed and husband is at work. You have all been quite busy!! Glad to have you join us Ummbinat!!
So far here is the list of RAWkin peeps:
Ummbinat
Sailady
RMcCully
Yentess
MoreVeggiesPlease
Rahshe03
Eliblish
Butterfly08uk

Ummbinat, the diary is the food log here on MFP - you can also refer it to a RZ recipe & i don't mind checking it out - I might even make it too!! Congrats on your first full raw day - glad your feeling great!! Your day sounded amazing!! I can't wait until things mellow down around here and I get some "health & happiness" time - hopefully tomorrow.

Way to go Sailady! I would love to try Bikram - they don't offer anything like that around here though. You are doing a very easy detox through raw foods & I would think that bikram would cause detox anyway. I would just make sure to drink plenty of water and just know that you are eating the best foods possible!!!

Yentess - cutting veggie juice with fruit is probably the easiest. Apples & pears are great for that. Cucumber, carrot, and celery are easy to disguise. I can even put a couple handfuls of spinach into smoothies and not even taste it - usually turns out green but its thick and bubbly because of the smoothie & you could tell him its slime!!!! Slime is tasty - most kids know this

Keep rawkin' it out beauties!!

I will try adding the diary here and refer to RZ recipes if I used them in this thread

I made http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/pear-slush-390605 Pear Slush as a snack just now. I am just guessing some amounts in my Food Diary since I don't measure. Since I didn't have a food diary before, the first two days I added what I remember.