What I Eat in A Day, Low Fat Raw Vegan of 12 Years

Wow, I can’t believe that I am a Low Fat Raw Vegan of 12 Years and this is the first official What I Eat in a Day video I have ever done!!

Sure I have done other videos that show a day in the life and also share what I ate in the day but not a focused What I Eat in a Day Video, I hope you enjoy it! 🙂

This first What I Eat in a Day, as a Low Fat Raw Vegan of 12 years, takes place at my parent’s home in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada just before getting ready to head to Europe for all of the amazing Raw Food Festivals held this summer!!
Learn More about all the Raw Food Festivals of 2016 Here! 🙂

As a disclaimer I want to mention that this is a what I eat in a day as a low fat raw vegan of 12 years. Generally, I eat 2 big meals a day, it wasn’t always this way in fact when I am coaching people on the raw lifestyle I often recommend starting with 3-5 meals a day to make it easier to get enough calories without overburdening the digestive system. Do note that I offer Personalized 1 on 1 consultation in a basic Q&A style format by Donation as well as more in-depth holistic lifestyle coaching packages for $250.00 Monthly or $600 for 3 months. Learn More Here!

Into the Food for the Day, June 14th, 2016!

To start my day I had about 2 cups of reverse osmosis water, my first choice would be quality spring water but for me reverse osmosis or distilled is another great choice. I drink when thirsty and eat when hungry, this seems overly simple but in reality, most people do not differentiate between the two. Eating a high water content raw food diet decreases my water needs, that said a certain level of hydration is needed for optimal digestion and absorption.
My first food of the day was at 11:30 am I had 1.5 lb of fresh Okanagan Bing Cherries, so good. I followed those up with 2 Black Forest Jelly Rolls and 3 Black Forest Cinnamon Buns..

Yes, all raw and all vegan…

Boy, this raw food thing is hard!! ahah
As an aside, I do not generally eat fancy dehydrated sweet lunches like this, often it’s simply a banana smoothie, but this is what I had pre-made for a party and it didn’t finish in time.. so I had a lot!
This Black Forest Rolls recipe is based on my

Best Raw Cinnamon Buns Recipe Here.

*** The only difference is that I added Carob Powder to the Plantain Mixture, about 3 tbsp or to taste, I reduced the water in the date Paste recipe and added 1 cup of cherries, and I didn’t add “icing”! 🙂 ***

I ended up eating a bit more than I needed at this meal as it was very dense being over 2000 calories between the cherries and the rolls. That said it was an amazing treat of a meal and I don’t sweat little stuff like that as I know weight gain and loss is about what we do most of the time, not 1 meal.

A few hours later I went skateboarding for about 1.5 hours in the mid-day heat and drank just shy of 2 liters of water.

When I got home I only had 10 minutes till I had to be at my sister’s ready to go to the new X-Men Apocalypse movie so I decided to make a big smoothie for dinner. The smoothie had 15.5 bananas and 2 heaping tbsp of Barley Grass Juice Powder.

I drank it in the theater like a bad kid! haha

In the video, I show the breakdowns from my day using Cronometer.com, a great resource to get a general understanding of your needs, how many calories/nutrients are in certain foods and meals you love, and more! I do not recommend obsessing over such data, feeling a need to meet certain values every meal or day, but rather using it as a helpful tool.

I hope you found this video helpful, in my 12 years as a raw vegan I have come to know it’s more about the variety of foods/nutrients over the terms of weeks months, and years rather than micro-managing every single meal/day. Our needs fluctuate as does everything else, I encourage you to enjoy what you enjoy in the moment and continue to refine your choices until they reflect your highest values and needs.

As mentioned I offer Consultation by Donation as well as 1 & 3 Month Coaching Packages, as well as my Raw Vegan Lifestyle Success System Online Course, Learn More about them all here!

 This is something I never thought I would do, but after finding so much benefit from adding Barley Grass Juice Powder (BGJP) to my raw food lifestyle I am excited to share this amazing product with you. Convenient, delicious and jam-packed with trace minerals often lacking in commercial produce (which I often eat / can only find while traveling) I find BGJP invaluable.

After trying out numerous brands over the last 3 years I am excited to bring you

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When I first added barley grass juice powder to my diet 3 years ago I couldn’t get enough of it, I honestly felt like Scarface taking multiple tablespoons daily. After about a month of consistent use, my desire to eat it in large quantities tapered off, I now believe this was due to the micro/trace mineral content. During my first 10 years raw I ate predominantly average grocery store conventional produce, not always enough quality greens. Being that produce today is often grown for yield and shelf life / with long transport, the nutrient content and especially trace mineral content (as this is reliant on top quality soil, not so prevalent today) can be lacking. I feel that first month my body was rebalancing and refilling many trace mineral deficiencies that standard blood tests wouldn’t detect (all my blood tests have been great), once I was topped off the strong desire to take all I could subsided and now I eat it less often. 

When choosing a green juice powder it’s important to get quality, that’s why I chose and am offering Terrasoul for its superior taste and time-tested and reviewed quality. 

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As a disclaimer, if you grow your own or get your greens from a conscious farmer who supplements his healthy soil with compost/rock dust etc, you can get the most amazing quality trace mineral-rich greens. Fresh is best when you can get high quality, but instead of that, adding barley grass juice powder can help make up for that lack being a nutritional adjunct/supplement, to help bring convenience and amazing smooth texture to your green smoothies and dishes.

Raw, 100% organic, vegan, non gmo Barley Grass Juice Powder is one of the most potent sources of nutrients, often missing trace minerals, 20 amino acids, and Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), an extraordinary compound that works to fight inflammation and repair damaged cells.

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Terrasoul’s raw organic Barley Grass Juice Powder is grown in the rich soils of an ancient seabed in Utah’s west desert and harvested at its nutritional peak, pressed of its vital, nutrient-rich juice, then dried at low temperatures to ensure that it contains the highest possible levels of enzymes, chlorophyll and nutrients. Barley Grass Juice Powder is a concentrated form of barley grass, as it takes approximately twenty-five pounds of juice to make one pound of powder, and is 100% pure and always free of carriers and excipients. Barley Grass Juice Powder can help alkalize your body and provides a super-store of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes for everyday vitality and well-being. Simply add bgjp to a small amount of water to make a dip, to a full glass to enjoy instant fresh juice, or add to your favorite smoothie for a green smoothie powerhouse!

I hope you enjoy the recipes and this post for my FIRST What I Eat in a Day video as a Low Fat Raw Vegan of 12 Years, more to come!