Eating all day

Be forewarned … this may or may not be the most random blog post ever.

Normally this time in the week I would be sharing a delicious recipe, but I just don’t have a fun recipe to share! Thus, I thought I’d post some normal, boring, day to day things with you instead. My typical breakfasts, snacks, and meals generally vary depending on the season, and whatever I'm feeling like having. When it comes to food, I’m sorta the type of person that has something, loves it, and then has it all the time until I get tired of it and move onto the next thing. I like it this way. Here’s some current favorites:

Morning Beverage

Every morning I have some type of drink when I wake up.

It’s usually either raw vegan chocolate milk, a green smoothie, or a huge fresh juice courtesy of good old Jack LaLanne! I love getting some veggies in first thing, and I find it quite refreshing in the morning hours, ha.

Snacks

Sometimes I feel like I’m literally eating all day. Especially working from home. It’s so easy to just pop into the kitchen and grab something. I don’t mind. Snacks are my friend.

My snacks usually involve raw fruits and vegetables combined with nut butters, nuts and/or hummus. And when we have some on hand, raw pies!

It combines the raw fruit and nuts but in a much more exciting way. In fact, I’ve been known to have raw pie for breakfast, snack, or dessert. Or all three.

Lunch

Lunch lately is a gigantic salad full of avocado goodness, leftovers from the night before, or some type of tasty quinoa dish.

Afternoon Treat

Okay, this is technically a snack, but it feels much more like a treat, I promise. I’m all about afternoon smoothie time!

This consists of whatever fruit I feel like throwing in the blender, a little agave, frozen banana, and a little ice. Always delicious, and so perfect for hot summer afternoons!

Dinner

If you’re a regular reader, you’ve seen plenty of our dinners! They include lots of veggies, some type of bean/legume/quinoa, pasta and copious amount of cashew cheese.

Dessert

We love dessert! My favorite “meal”, I’m quite sure. Dessert is usually cashew ice cream, raw pies, raw peanut butter cup, or fresh fruit.

And that’s about it!

What’s your favorite meal??

Raw Cashew Ice Cream

Hope everyone has had a wonderful week!

It’s been HOT in Kansas City this week but I can’t say that I mind … I’d always much rather be hot than cold. That being said … I’m all about cold drinks and treats during the dog days of summer. Therefore, today on Lesley Lifting Life we’re featuring smoothies and cashew ice cream!

Raw Cashew Ice Cream

I posted my first experience with homemade cashew ice cream on Twitter and Facebook not long ago, and after having made it a few more times, I’m confident this is a fool proof, very tasty recipe!

Ingredients:
-- 1 C raw cashews
-- 1 1/2 C water
-- 1/3 C raw agave nectar
-- pinch of salt
-- 1 vanilla bean
-- 1-2 TB coconut oil

Directions:
- Throw it all in a blender and let it form a smooth liquid. Place the liquid in ice cream maker, and let it do it’s thing until it’s reached your favorite consistency.

We topped ours with raw chocolate syrup that Erik made, alongside a slice of raw raspberry pie and some more raw chocolate. Perfect dessert trio, yum!!

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Smoothies have been an essential part of my complete, balanced breakfast summer, especially when it’s over 100 degrees!

Today’s smoothie consisted of:

- 1 C (ish) frozen strawberries
- 1 banana
- A squirt of agave
- Splash of water
- Ice, to preference

Simple, delicious, and refreshing!

What’s your favorite smoothie mixture??

Stay cool,