More health nut foodie adventures

[fabulousfrock]

A couple of months ago, I stayed with my parents for a few days to visit. My mom has been increasingly moving toward a raw diet. At the time I visited, my parents were both eating almost totally raw food, and I wondered if I would go crazy in three days

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[fabulousfrock]

I've found that a salad keeps me full if I put enough fat and protein in it. Avocados, nuts, seeds, cheese... Denser veggies seem to help too, beets or carrots. Well, and make sure it's a big enough salad. I've gotten used to eating my lunch out of the biggest bowl I own. Sometimes I do still need some fruit for a snack before I make my dinner... Also, if you're kind of active during the day you might need more food...I'm totally...not, except for a little bit of exercise...

[brennayovanoff]

I got an 8-dollar copy of that Savannah cookbook we were looking at in . . . Savannah, and it has my new favorite fruit salad of all time--chunks of watermelon with olive oil and champagne vinegar, shaved red onion, black pepper and feta, and some mint to garnish.

Also, pear and baby spinach with pear-infused vinegar is an old stand-by (so apparently I just really like fruit in my salad).

[fabulousfrock]

Ooooh, that sounds excellent. I've been wanting to make more salad with watermelon, but all summer we ate it before it could turn into anything but itself...

[robinellen]

My MIL is a raw foodie...she's made some interesting things for us, but my favorite is probably her raw sushi ;)

[fabulousfrock]

Well, I'm always up for sushi! =D

I totally had one of those salads you posted about a year ago, too.

[automatonne]

Cool! I think your salad making is pretty darn creative and I've loved the ones that I tried from recipes you sent me (beet and apple salad, holla!!)...(yeah, I just holla-ed a beet salad).

But then I am a HUGE Caesar salad fan, which is the granddaddy of unhip awful salads, but I can never, ever get enough of those. I could live on Caesar salads for weeks.

However, now that it is cold here, I'm often not interested in salads.

(And right now I have a large caffeinated national-coffee-chain coffee and a donut at my elbow at 12:15 AM).

Re: I totally had one of those salads you posted about a year ago, too.

[fabulousfrock]

Oh, I LOVE a good Caesar myself. How can you NOT? I enjoy unhip classic things sometimes. Just not encased in Jell-O or mayo. Or maybe anything else that ends in "o".

[boreal_owl]

M and I are trying to lose weight. We usually have a large salad for lunch. I always include a low-fat protein. And we're drinking lots more water.

[fabulousfrock]

Sounds like a good plan! I lost a little weight doing this too. I know, I know, I don't have much to lose anyway, but some of that vintage dress collection is very unforgiving...