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Formerly The Raw Project - Running on a Healthy Vegan Diet

WIAW & Spaghetti Squash Marinara

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I’ve finally decided to participate in What I Ate Wednesday.

It’s not easy taking pictures of everything I ate on a work day! Obvious from my half awake picture of my breakfast smoothie.

Breakfast

Hemp protein powder, a banana, kale, two small carrots, chia seeds, and some alfalfa sprouts in a neat smoothie to go. It disappeared fast on the drive into work this morning.

Lunch

Salad leftovers topped with nutritional yeast and hemp seeds with homemade kale chips.

And some popcorn with a little garlic olive oil and salt while I dived into an issue of Vogue.

Truthfully flipping through clothes I would never wear kind of bored me. How often do you see women in public looking like this?

Then I came across this inspirational article about a mother-daughter running team, Ida and Shelly Keeling.

Ida is 96-years-old and picked up running at 67-years-old! How cool is this?

I love inspirational stories like this that prove you’re never too old to pick up a new hobby and reinvent yourself.

Snack – Apple at work. Sorry, no picture. I was juggling a few calls and issues at work while snacking. :-)

Dinner

I scored a lot of free tomatoes from a friend’s garden today and they needed to be used up pretty quick.

So I threw them into the food processor with other ingredients for a hemp seed marinara sauce and let hubby do the rest.

While I chopped into a another garden freebie, the mutant pumpkin/spaghetti squash I got from my dad.

Chopping into it was no easy task! I had to switch between a few knives to saw into it and wedge it apart.

Rind of steel! Inside it looked more like a pumpkin than a spaghetti squash. I seeded and ghetto-steamed the halves in the microwave for 10-minutes cut side down on a plate of water.

Then served the halves loaded with the fresh raw marinara sauce.

The squash was good, it had a spaghetti squash-like texture, but a mild pumpkin flavor – kind of trippy. But I was a little disappointed it wasn’t a full-blown noodle-like spaghetti squash.

Then we dived into a huge bowl of chopped watermelon for dessert.

Comments

  1. Wow your pics have new perspective and dimension in this post…love the new things you are trying photographically.

    Vogue…I was like whoa? she reads Vogue?! So do I but I didnt think you would…til you said you got bored. lol I dont subscribe anymore. Truthfully all mags get boring to me! It’s like replayed content, month in, month out.

    • Thanks on the pics, I’ve been playing around with LR3.

      Lol, yes I do read Vogue and Cosmo from time to time. :-) I sometimes like the fashion for inspiration, but rarely see myself rocking it and the prices freak me out.

  2. Aw I loved that video! She is so cute!!! Thanks so much for sharing that :) Your spaghetti squash looks great too!

  5. Ida is totally an inspiration! ahh i feel so lazy right now! must. run. must. be active!!!

    ahhhhhh you did it you did it you did it! *jumping up and down* Christine you rock! hope you had a fab WIAW!

  7. hey! I love WIAW because it leads me to wonderful blogs like yours! It’s fab! I’ll be back for sure :-) That running story is so inspirational!