Strawberry Buckwheat Oatmeal/Yogurt

I don't know what would be the right term for this meal… It has the grains that oatmeal usually does but it's entirely smooth like yogurt… But the taste is still a bit more "oatmealy" then "yogurty" if you know what I mean!

Oh, and it's also delicious (and insanely healthy!) while being completely raw!

Strawberry Buckwheat [raw, vegan] (serves 1)

      3/4 dl whole buckwheat groats (soaked in water during the night) (about 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp)

      100 grams strawberries, both frozen & fresh should be okay (I used frozen)

      3 fresh dates

      a dash of pure vanilla

Directions:

Drain the buckwheat groats well so that all the "slime" disappears then place them in a small mixer together with the dates, strawberries and the vanilla. Mix until desired consistency is reached. Some like their oatmeal with a little more texture but I mixed mine until it almost resembled yogurt!

I topped my raw oatmeal bowl with a banana, almond butter mixed with unprocessed cacao and homemade cashew milk. I also threw on some chia seeds and some shredded coconut! Unsurprisingly it was delicious and generally amazing! I just love raw food! It gives me all the energy in the world! 

Here we have a nutrition label for the entire recipe and

to me it looks just about excellent! 

Great amounts of fibre to keep you full until lunchtime!

Low fat which gives us the opportunity to drench it in 

chocolate sauce and nut butters!

A decent amount of protein that can easily be boosted with

another 5 grams via chia seeds, various nut butters or 

just chopped nuts in general! The choice is all yours!

Oh… and you'll also get all the vitamin C that you'll

be needing for the day!

Sugar Free Waffles!

I hurt my hip this Wednesday and quite frankly it hurts a lot. So I can't train, not even the teeny tiniest bit of yoga… So naturally I will spend all day cooking instead, because comfort food is a must when you can barely waddle around!

We've been working with waffles in school the past few days, leaving me with a desperate longing for them. So I figured that I'd whip up a single serving of fibre rich, sugar free and most of all delicious waffles!

Ingredients (serves 1)
      1 dl buckwheat flour (a bit less then 1/2 cup)
      1/4 tsp baking powder
      1-2 tbsp erythritol or another sugar substitute/just regular dry sweetener
      1/8 tsp xanthan gum
      1/4 vanilla pod or vanilla extract
      4 tbsp eggwhite
      3 tbsp unsweetened applesauce
      1/2 tbsp melted coconut oil
      a dash of salt

Directions:
Mix all the dry ingredients together carefully, they tend to get all over the place otherwise. Pour in the wet ingredients and mix until completely smooth, make sure that there is no lumps at all! Heat your waffle iron and grease it with coconut oil if that's needed. Place half of the mixture in the iron and press down. Wait for about 2-5 minutes (this really depends on what waffle iron you're using so please make sure to check on the waffles the first time you make these). Take out the finished waffle and cook the rest of the mixture.

Top with whatever you fancy but I strongly recommend fruits and chocolate sauce!

Here is a nutrition label for these two waffles. As you can see

they have quite a low amount of calories so topping them with
everything that you have on hand won't be a problem!

They also contain a decent amount of protein as well
as a good chunk of your needed fibre for the day! Meaning
that they will keep you full forever! Even I, who usually
get hungry two hours after eating, stood my ground
for at least four hours! But that probably has more to do
with me being unable to move around.

So go outside lovely people! Enjoy your movability
because I can tell you that it sucks not being able to
tie your own shoelaces…
But at least I can comfort eat on my homemade almond
cups, and that's pretty sweet!

A day of liquids!

My "liquid only day" truly did what it was supposed to do! It gave me back my energy and general excitement for life but also made my hungry. Not just hungry for food (even though that was a nice feeling after being sluggishly full for days) but hungry for cooking, learning and exercise! Since I was only consuming liquids I didn't do any intense exercise though! I'll save that for when I am more experienced with fast and the different varieties of it. I did some really great yoga though!

So since this was my first time doing something like this I decided to post pictures of my drinks and quickly go through what I had in them!

Breakfast consisted of a smoothie...

… that contained strawberries, milk, avocado and banana! Really delicious and put together in two minutes. The fact that we lacked spinach made me kinda sad though, since I was really looking forward to a huge, green smoothie first thing in the morning. But as I got a taste of this I decided that I would do just fine even without spinach!

For lunch I had something warm, more specifically this soup…

… that contained broccoli, peas and the spinach that I went to obtain. Deliciously green and a serious health bomb! Might post the recipe for this wonderful and wholesome soup when I have the time to snap some better pictures!

A few hours after lunch I felt kinda low on energy so I made a juice…

… that consisted of the broccoli stalks that got left over from the soup, some carrots and a few oranges. Really nom and really refreshing, just what I needed in order for me to keep on studying for another few hours.

Later during the afternoon I started to get a bit hungry again so I made a smoothie that would serve as a pre-workout snack since I was planning to do yoga within half an hour or so.

I threw some coconut milk, cacao, unsweetened protein powder, a banana and some spinach into my blender and prayed for the best. It turned out really nice and really boosted me for my yoga!

After my yoga I spent the evening chilling with my little sister and as we were watching yet another horse show I made myself an evening snack…

… which may not look very pretty (since it was dark) but it tasted divine! There is some spinach, banana and milk in there in case you were wondering. Really simple and easy!

So that's about it for today. I have really gotten my spirit back and I feel ready for the two long days that is about to come. Seems as if I have a tendency for taking on just a tad too much work… I have to learn how to say no! But that's for another day!

Tomorrow I am planning on breaking my liquid fast with banana pancakes and then I will move on to a potato salad made with heaps of steamed veggies! Aaaaand… then I don't really have any further plans, except for heaps and heaps of raw fruits and veggies of course!

Eating the rainbow!

With an addition of chocolate, of course. Life wouldn't be as good without heaps and heaps of chocolate in all its shapes. Since I make my own chocolate its always sugar free and raw, which is just a huge bonus seen from a nutritional perspective! And also a huge bonus seen from the perspective of my, way too sensitive, stomach...

Now even though I have consumed a considerable amount of chocolate today my breakfast happened to be chocolate free! But not fruit free! I guess that yesterdays low intake of fruit is what caused me to crave it like crazy today.

My breakfast was positively delicious, even though it lacked chocolate, and consisted of an apple layered with mashed dates and almond butter. And some sundried mulberries on the side! Completely raw breakfasts always make me feel so energized and full of life!

Studying on the other hand, makes me feel nothing but tired and stressed. So naturally I procrastinated it by working out, then realizing that I was lacking bananas so I ran to the store to buy some. Now I was actually planning on having a cooked lunch but as I walked into the store I saw that both the grapes AND the strawberries were cheap! And all of a sudden lunch also turned out to be completely raw!

Mmm… bananas… strawberries… omnomnom!

And lets not forget the bowl of almond/chocolate butter that I made for me and me alone. Luxury. Seriously though, fruits (especially strawberries) are just the best! Especially when paired with chocolate!

After lunch I actually got some studying done though, until I started to bake! The recipe for these babies will be up tomorrow since I have some pictures left to take before I can post. But I can tell you this; they are really, really good! And very good for you with their good fats and low sugar content! And did I mention that they taste a like a little bit of heaven? And that they're completely raw?

As you can see I didn't have the patience to wait for them to solidify completely so it got a bit messy as I ate them… also I made waaaaay too much chocolate coating so I was left with a bowl half filled with chocolate. I solved this by eating more fruits out in the garden, dipped in chocolate of course!

Ah… I really need to eat some vegetables now… and study…