1. Baked tofu + green beans

(extra firm tofu, pressed with paper towels & baked for 20 minutes with seseme oil + bragg’s liquid aminos + spices, flipped half way through, at 425)

2. Smoked salmon chunk + carrots + peanut and pumpkin butter + brussels sprouts and parsley from the garden

3. Spicy Black Beans from scratch (these have such an amazing texture compared to canned beans. Plus, NO SODIUM!)

Instructions: Soak beans overnight (or in the morning before you go to work/school) with double/triple the water. After 8-12 hours, rinse beans thoroughly. Add fresh water (double the amount) to your pot/pan and with the rinsed beans and slowly bring the water to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1-2 hours, or until your beans are the consistency you want and the water is absorbed. Easy!

4. Snack Plate: Celery + almond butter + raisins, pumpkin and cinnamon

5. Tortilla Pizza + Veggies + Cheese
(high protein La Tortilla Factory tortilla’s or Flat Out Wraps)

6. Dessert lately has been alot of Greek yogurt + toppings:
Raspberries + dark chocolate chips + pom seeds + crushed Newman’s o cookie

Random eats but good ones, especially the new addition of yogurt to my dessert menu (18 grams protein/serving)

*some snacks/meals that don’t exactly follow my protein theme of the day*

Brussels Sprouts + Shallots (before)

After:

These were awesome! I have never pan “fried” brussels sprouts before, I always roast them in oil + maple syrup

Lots of veggie salads + Annie’s salad dressing (the best!)

ORGANIC DARK CHOCOLATE

Sorry for the overload of eats!

Dark skies and rain outside, sweet smells of baking inside.

Be sure to not attempt piping frosting with these cupcakes, the Newman-O chunks will get stuck.

Ta-da!

Next up: Vegan Pumpkin Choco Chip Muffins, also from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World….or MY world…

My house smelled of pumpkin goodness while making these, the aroma in you home they create is enough reason to make them. They are a perfect Fall day recipe. I have all the ingredients and amounts on sparkrecipes…

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however, I highly suggest you all invest in the amazing cookbook where all of these beauties come from. So far I have made:

Basic Vanilla Cupcakes
Basic Cocolate Cupcakes (have not appeared on the blog) but very rich and dark
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Cookies n Cream Cupcakes

So delicious and low fat. Nutrition info and recipe can be found in my recipe box here

My recipe was inspired form the famous Veganomicon book! My recipe makes 15 slices and each are roughly 155 calories. Perfect morning on the go snack, plus it fills your home with amazing aromas in the oven.

The addition of chocolate chips are optional, but make this bread a sweeter treat.

Sweet + Savory

Perfectly golden top and gooey inside! You must make this amazing recipe.

Toppings are the most fun:) Vegan Newman O’s, vegan chocolate covered almonds, vegan chocolate chips, vegan sprinks, vegan licorice, dried fruit, culinary lavender…

These cupcakes instantly make me happy, as well as anyone else who looks their way.

The butter cream frosting reminds me of fluffly clouds, and tastes like heaven.

The cakes themselves are “springy,” delicately spongy as well as perfectly moist and crumbly all at the same time. I truly adore them.

The recipe from VCTOTW (though with my exact ingredients) includes:
Organic unsweetened soymilk
Apple Cider Vinegar
Organic Vanilla Extract
Organic Evaporated Cane Juice Sugar
Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
Organic Canola Oil
Organic Baking Soda (aluminum free)
Organic Baking Powder (aluminum free)
Sea Salt

And the super amazing fluffy vanilla butter cream frosting includes:
Organic Vegan Shortening
Organic Vegan Buttery Sticks
Organic Powdered Sugar
Vanill Extract
Soymilk Creamer

If you are interested in the nutrition/measuring amounts, you can check out the recipe in my spark recipes box here OR, in my little widget:

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I will be sharing my chocolate version of these dreamy little gems soon.

I started by making dips and spreads, and then saved up for a dehydrator!! I was ESTATIC! Looking back on that time of my life is intriguing. I spent hours looking for different recipes to experiment with (which I do do now, but it was so NEW to me!) I think I made just about everything in Ani’s book, minus a few desserts! Although other desserts were definitly in the works. Cheezecakes, pies, tarts, puddings ect! Well lets just say I “over did it” on the nuts/seeds!!

Rather than thinking simplictically about raw foods (as I do now and so does the wonderful Gena, whom I have learned alot from!) I was making EVERYTHING with tons of nuts/seeds! So just a heads up, if embarking on raw foodism, try to limit your nut/seed consumption to one meal per day!! TRUST ME!

Annywaysss…I still do LOVE raw foods, hence my raw snacks all day long! But I also love warm comforting foods too:) While checking out the blogworld today, I noticed that Gena of Choosing Raw and Jenna of EatLiveRUn are restarting their Raw Food Wednesday Challenge! I have decided to join this fun challenge:) So from my snack photo today, you can omit the Kombucha and string cheese! It was random that I chose my raw banana bread flax bar today for a snack, but was surely meant to be, as I was planning a PRODCUT REVIEW for you all!

So without further ado…

The ingredient list is spectacular:
Sprouted Organic Flax Seeds
Organic Banana
Organic Coconut (unsulphured)
Organic Date
These are SO awesome for people trying to increase their raw food consumption but don’t have enough time for food prep! They are also perfect for your children’s lunchbox And let me just tell you, they are absolutley delicious! If you like bananas or banana bread, you will fall in love with these!

Texture: they are soft, chewy and quite pliable. The texture might be my favorite part, as I have tried the other flavors of this bar, which include pumpkin seed, spirulina and flax granola which are much more crunchy/cracker-like.

Nutrition: In one bar there are 120 calories, 5g fat, 15g carbohydrates, 6g fiber, 4g protein as well as Vitamin C, Calcium and Iron!!

I highly suggest you try these (obviously!) and if you like them, I find that it is best to buy them in bulk as they are more pricy than your average food bar. But hey, they aren’t full of FAKE and GROSS ingredients. They are made with integrity, all the nuts/seeds in their products are sprouted (which makes for easier digestion and nutrient absorption) and they are made with REAL FOOD!

Okay, so there is my rant for you today!! Here were the snacks I packed for the day from which you can omit the string cheese and kombucha and you can ADD a handful of almonds and guacamole! Good thing for NO cheese, as it is VEGAN MOFO month! So in celebration of such, let me just mention that I will be making some vegan treats this week/weekend!! I have been vegan for long periods in my life, so I am excited to be a part of the third year of Vegan MoFo month! Click the link to see all participating blogs!

So there you have it, my raw foods for the day! For dinner I have dreaming of creating some sort of pumpkin souflee but healthier type thing!? It will most likely NOT be raw because I have been craving tofu latley too! But ya never know, I might save that creation for tomorrow and do a bit more brainstorming! Well, you will find out soon enough!

Here is a quick preview of the raw dessert I will be indulging in tonight!! My famous (in my family at least!) Raw Nanaimo Bar!! Click the link if you aren’t even sure what a ‘normal’ nanaimo bar is!! Needless to say, they are amazing, if I do say so myself!!

xo,
D