Balance Is Beauty

Hi my friends!

What a crazy weekend – Friday night hubby and I were out at his annual baseball banquet – I will spare you the crazy details, but lets just say hubby was feeling a little under the weather the next morning! It was quite the wild party – and guess what I was – the DD!!! I must say, it was a lot of fun watching everyone make fools of themselves – and the best part about it was I woke up Saturday feeling fantastic!!! Saturday was spent studying all day – I have a final exam tomorrow for my Fundamentals of Nutrition class – although the material is not super complicated – there is just SO much of it – it’s hard to know where to focus your studying because there is so much! Anyways – everyone say a quick prayer for me Wednesday night around 8pm as that is when I’ll be writing it! I spent Sunday studying more (blah so boring!) and also preparing some food for the week ahead. I made another batch of my raw bread and another batch of kale chips. I was so excited when I saw hubby scraping the end of the bag trying to get every last kale chip out – that meant HE LIKED THEM! I had a few requests for my recipe for my raw bread so here it is:

4 cups vegetables (I used carrots, cauliflower, red cabbage and zuchhini in mine – but you can use whatever combination you like)

1 cup ground flaxseed

2 tbsp lemon juice

2tbsp nama shoyu

2tbsp nutritional yeast

2tbsp fresh herbs (I used basil, thyme and cinnamon – use whatever you like – I also didn’t use fresh)

1/2 tsp pepper

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 cup filtered water (if needed – I need it)

Blend everything in food processor (adding water as necessary). Dehydrate at 110 for 15-18 hrs (flip halfway through).

I decided to make them square this time to make it feel more like “real” bread. The recipe that I based these off of actually call them pizza crusts – so you could eat them that way as well! I find that a lot of raw recipes can be very nut and oil heavy so I really like this one because it is basically all veggies! If you give it a try, let me know what you think!

Last nights dinner consisted of a very special star who has been missing in action for some time now. Enter the Kabocha sqaush:

OMG – I decided to roast it this time – as I have seen this to be most popular in the blog world – and it was TO DIE FOR! So creamy! I roasted the whole thing and honestly it is not going to be around for long! Normally I cut it up and steam it, which is still very good, but I think roasting it is the way to go!

To accompany the squash I threw together a big salad – with everything I could find in the fridge!

Avocado, tomato, cauliflower, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower sprouts and a new addition to most of my salads dulse! (which is a great source of minerals especially iodine)

All in all it was a lovely dinner!

One more piece of exciting news before I leave. Since I have one of the most loving, supportive husbands ever, he came home with a surprise for me the other day, which I thought I would share with you all! I have been talking a lot about sprouts, I plan to do a post on all of the great benefits of them, and was mentioning to him that the next thing on my wish list would be to get a sprouter of my own so I could make them at home! Well being the wonderful guy that he is, this is what he showed up with after work one day:

Apparently this is not just any sprouter – this is the KING of sprouters! I can’t wait to try it out – I will give you a review of what I think, apparently it is does all the work for you (waters them and everything!). As soon as I find time to get it going I will report back!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day! Don’t forget to think happy thoughts for me tomorrow at 8pm when I am writing my final exam!

xoxo

Krissy

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