...but then I blew it by satisfying some cravings, namely for a chinese takeaway: Vegetable curry with fried rice (minus the egg – i ordered specially). While this was delicious I did kind of regret it because after that it was so hard to stick completely to raw. I developed a new salad that we ate each day for a week during the last week (hubby went off all the ‘recipes’ I had been concocting and to this day refuses to eat another raw courgette (zuchini). The salad of choice was as follows:

• soaked (cold water) sun-dried tomatoes (they count as raw because they truly were sun dried I checked!), shredded
• a whole lettuce or mixed leaves – torn
• some fresh tomatoes, chopped
• some black olives, about ten per person
• avocado – chopped up
• fresh basil leaves, torn
• freshly ground black pepper
  plus can’t remember for sure but I think a drizzle of EV Olive Oil!

You simply have to include the basil, it really makes the meal!

Anyway, I really want to start eating more raw again and need to lose several pounds too, seven to be precise. Will try to keep this in mind over the next week or two after all the holiday food has gone (why oh why do we insist on buying extra sweets and such when just about everyone buys us sweets anyway at Yule!).