Day 11 of 90 and Raw Food Joy!

Join me June 5th at East Village Books for Sheree Clark's Raw Food Demo! It starts at 6pm and you can sign up here: http://rawfood.meetup.com/360

Yesterday (the last day of May) was such a blast! In the morning I was at the Downtown Farmers Market to buy food from my friends Robin Moyer and Kelly Ayers of RAWphoriaLIVE as they launched their fabulous raw food line in beautiful eco-friendly packaging! I took a few pictures of these amazing women and their booth and then some pics up close of the food and packaging at home.

After market, Kerri from Fresh Cafe and Market in West Des Moines, called to say she had some meals to deliver! I have pictures of one of them - I dove into the other meal before remembering I was going to take pictures. I can tell you the Eggless Salad was delightful and filling. She used fermented tofu and other delicious ingredients. Fresh Cafe and Market is closed right now until June 9. When they re-open they will be sporting a brand new menu offering raw cuisine and many dishes from their previous menu. She uses organic produce and has funky eco-friendly silverware and plates.

I have eaten VERY well this weekend! This afternoon a smoothie sounded good and what I have discovered is that bananas dominate the taste if you allow them to! I used fresh produce from Campbell's Nutrition:

• one banana
• 7 or 8 strawberries
• spinach greens (half the bag)
• one half of a cucumber
• a bit of filtered water

I love bananas, so it was easy to drink this down - the spinach is not even evident in the flavor. I think it would also be great with a half a banana and 10-12 strawberries. And no matter what you do, this drink will be green in color! They think I am crazy at work when I have this thick green drink on my desk, but they are packed with nutrition and they really are tasty! Campbell's Nutrition has a cafe and they make some of the best smoothies ever! Stop by the 42nd & University location to try one out!

As fellow raw foodist Bunny says at each sign off: Eat your veggies! (Link to her blog on side bar.)