Ate a fresh raw vegetable today?

Saturday, I had a beautiful zucchini plant. Looks like a squash vine borer got to it since.

Raw kale, celery and cucumber and cooked sweet potato. Plus a banana. Was going to have some cherries but then discovered the reason they were so cheap is because they were way past eating.

If you buy from a retail vendor, it's not fresh. I ate an incompletely rotted stalk of celery today and an incompletely rotted onion.

Homegrown romaine, spinach, grape tomatoes, olives, red onion, homegrown cucumber- all in a salad with a hard-boiled egg, bleu cheese, and olive oil & balsamic.

MamaFunky wrote: »

Lisa_Ookoo wrote: »

Home-grown tomatoes and avocado from my yard.

You grow your own Avocados!? How hard are they to grow? What type of climate do you live in. I never even thought about growing them? That would be awesome to have your own Avocado tree.

My personal trainer is trying to grow one inside. (This is Chicago, so definitely not the right climate outside.)

I suspect he will not be successful, but hope he is.

Tomatoes from the garden. I also picked basil that I will make into pesto sauce tomorrow. I also picked Japanese eggplant, tarragon, thyme and chives. I use the herbs in my morning omelette. Eggplant will be grilled tomorrow and served with pesto chicken.

I generally have a fruit w/ my breakfast & recently changed from banana to strawberries b/c berries have lower carb & sugar count.

Lunch is usually some version of a large mixed greens salad w/ beans for protein, onions, mushroom, berries, seeds for omega-3s and lemon or vinegar for dressing (Dr. Fuhrman's Nutritarian Diet).

I started juicing veggies again and at least one of my meals is juice.

CAUTION: I am learning that to be successful in weigh loss, choosing veggies & fruits w/ low glycemic count is important. That's where MyFitnessPal's macronutrients info has been helpful to my success.

Hornsby wrote: »

I picked a pizza from my pizza tree last night and ate it.

What sort of climate do you need to grow a pizza tree?

lemurcat12 wrote: »

I continue to think the idea that only raw counts is bizarre, but I ate all the raw vegetables planned yesterday, so yay me, I guess.

Today I will probably have mostly cooked vegetables, although I might have some more gazpacho for lunch (lunch might also be skipped because I have a poorly-timed dentist appointment). Raw fennel and kale in my breakfast, though.

What's interesting is that there are many vegetables for which you actually get more nutrients when you cook them. I'm not sure where this idea came about that cooking vegetables is somehow a bad thing.

Alluminati wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

So far today I've had carrots, celery, onion, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, spinach, lettuce, and cucumber. I'll have some okra with dinner tonight. I've also had mushrooms, which aren't vegetables but are kinda filed in the "vegetable" category in my mind).

Objection your honer, objection! You can't participate, you are vegan. This is cheating, CHEATING!


Your honer, I move to strike the record.

The system is rigged, I tell you! Rigged!

For breakfast, I had some store brand frozen berries that I cooked into a protein crumble. Lunch was leftover chicken vindaloo that had tomatoes, onions, and potatoes in, but they were cooked too, so don't count either. I have raw carrots for a snack, but there's a 70/30 chance they won't get eaten because I have no peanut butter to dip them. I guess I lose at this game.

No raw veggies until dinner again today, but then we'll be having slaw (cabbage, carrots, onion) along with a fresh raw veggie salad (zucchini, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers).