veggies

For those of you taking bets on how long I would last, I caved. And then again, I didn't. Most raw foodists consider 75%+ of your diet to be a successful raw diet. I've gone three and a half days at probably 95% raw foods. Tonight I needed something hot. lol

Tonight, I'm having a lovely mexican chicken soup. Apart from the microscopic bites of chicken, it is all veggies, and the calories are really great, so even this isn't a defeat. Pretty much everyone agrees that there's no way to go on a raw food diet cold tofurkey. Ha! I made a vegan joke. Somebody shoot me.

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I got my kids not only to eat their spinach, but to come back again and again asking for more! We ran out and they still wanted more.

How did I do it?

Gotta love media motivation. My kids recently saw the movie Cars, so the boys especially are in love with Lightning McQueen. We told them that eating spinach would help make them super fast, just like Lightning McQueen. They each took a bite, then raced around the room, and we exclaimed about how super fast they were! That got them excited, so they kept coming back for more, and, at least according to us, getting faster and faster each time they ran around the room.

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