So I’m back now. Back to colder weather, but healthier food! Portugal (Algarve) was great, but I didn’t manage to eat much healthy food except some fruit in the morning. The food was ok, not great, but I guess it’s typical beach resort food – grilled/fried fish and meat, pizzas and burgers with fries, rather boring salads – they had iceberg lettuce, tomato, onion and olives on the menu which could be called raw, and even olives are not raw as such… And lot’s of Sangria and Capirinhias were consumed, which taste great but are definitely not healthy!
Now it’s back to reality – work, menu planning and laborious food shopping. Yes, I hate every minute of it, and online shopping is not making it any easier, have tried. Plus you cannot really buy fruit and veggies online; you’ll just get out-of-date, horrible stuff. Note to myself - must find a good organic veggie box company who can delivery after 6 pm…
My plan is to start my raw food transition all over again; I guess I’m still a bit of novice to manage to stick to raw food when on holiday. I read loads of raw food blogs for tips of staying healthy on holiday, but all that knowledge was suppressed somewhere in back of my brain as soon as I entered the airport. I did pack fruit salad and raw snacks for flight, but fruit salad goes slimy and horrible in the bag so most of it had to be binned.
So this week I've been getting up extra early (5.30!) to be able to do my green smoothies AND juices, I've had 3 large glasses of banana, pineapple, kale smoothie with added hemp protein powder every morning after few glasses of green lemonade. Maya's been having almost a glass of smoothie too, well done my little green warrior! For breakfast I have been having sprouted bread with goat cheese or Marmite toast, lunch raw salad and dinner cooked vegetarian or fish dish. I've also noticed that my carb cravings are back, hence the Marmite toast... Must add more good healthy protein to the diet again.
My little green warrior went off the food when on holiday, maybe it was hot or maybe she was tired of all the sandwiches, grilled chickens and fries (on the Infant menu, as it was called) she was offered. She did eat salad when I had it and olives, also fruit, especially oranges, which are nice and sweet over there. Luckily she seems to have got her appetite back again, and have been enjoying lot's of vegetables this week. Her favourites are sprouts, but she also likes raw salad onion (she calls it "spicy") and avocados.
I'm also making sure that she gets lots of superfoods: besides green smoothies, sprouts and avocados she also has black-strap molasses, bee bollen, raw cacao, maca powder, Linwoods organic milled flax, sunflower, pumpkin seed and goji berry mix on her breakfast etc. I'm hoping this will boost her immune system, important now when she has started the nursery, where all the viruses are lurking around. She started on Thursday, 2 days a week, I’m really hoping she will not go through all the horrible illnesses she had last time she was at nursery. In fact, she hasn’t been ill since she stopped going to nursery, except chicken pox, so I’m treading this whole thing a bit. But on the bright side, the nursery is lovely, they have home cooked food with lot’s of variety (even quorn and other more unusual foods), lot’s of activities and the rooms are age divided and not too crowded. The first two day's have been success, they love Maya!
Have to go now, I promise to start taking pictures soon again, the blog looks a bit bleak without them...
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