You asked for it! We listened.

We have added a small selection of juices to our menu starting this weekend.

I can honestly say, I think these juices may just replace my Bill Murray smoothie addiction.

Watch out Bill Murray! Here comes the green juices!!! 

YUM.

We are serving the 16oz size for only $5 all weekend.

Come get your juice on!

Step by step

I truly wanted to keep up on this blog last week, but got carried away with some other projects that are going on right now.

I officially have transitioned the family to raw food. YAY!!! BUT,  have encountered some battles. My oldest is not as open to eating raw as my youngest daughter. I really wish I could just make it "click" with the oldest. Those of you out there that have teens that love raw over cooked meals - you are truly lucky.

I am going to keep at it with her. Hoping that she won't be so obviously disappointed every time it's meal time.

My youngest adores everything that we have tried. Which totally gives me hope. I also make sure with our dinner meals that a sweet raw treat follows to kind of bribe them into the raw food world. Those treats have all gone off with out a hitch! Of course.

My other problem with my oldest is her school cafeteria options. Oh my!!! They have 2 slush puppy machines & serve movie style popcorn! What is it a 7-11? I really don't understand how these are good lunch time choices. I'm kind of disappointed of the menu there. It's such a trap for teens. If it's up to them to make their food choices, I'm pretty sure they'll go for the easiest quickest thing there - which isn't a good thing.

To keep us going, we are trying new recipes daily!

Which has been so fun. It's always something new, which in the past we totally would get in "easy" meal ruts.

This was one of our first meals and was so fantastic. Raw cauliflower korma!

I actually put the cauliflower in the food processor to make cauliflower rice, then put the korma sauce over it. It would have been a great one to eat using a romaine lettuce leaf as a wrap. If you do the recipe - don't forget to soak your raw cashews first! (approx. 1 hr)

Change ahead!

My little bonita banana.

This photo was taken a long time ago. When my daughter was interested in wearing costumes everyday and we weren't all that concerned about what we put into our bodies.

If I had known what I know now! How often have you said that to yourself?

Last night my youngest daughter and I watched the first 40 minutes of the documentary
 Forks over Knives  (It got late and it's a school night after all!).

After seeing the first 10 minutes of the movie, she was very effected. She decided that the whole family needs to start eating raw.

Immediately!

I had told her that maybe we could wait till October 1st? Because we will starting the Green Smoothie Breakfast Challenge with everyone from the trailer...
Nope - She can't wait that long.
We have to change our diet now.

Our quest together, is to pull a menu together for this week so we can start our new way of eating as a family. We are officially going raw!

I am hoping with a great menu the transition will be seamless.

I have gone "raw" before (For lent this year) & what kept me going was the planning ahead with the menu. Going raw does require a lot of "pre-soaking" of nuts. I found that "winging it" no longer was a option for meals for me. So I do think pre-planning is the key to success and a well thought out menu.

I'm ready for this change!

 Let's just hope she is!

Are you ready for a change?
Maybe you should consider watching Forks Over Knives, if you haven't seen it already.