More than 75 recipes inside!
When I was in the ninth grade, I won a drawing at a local department store.
It’s one of the few times I can remember winning something for nothing. The prize was a boom box with detachable speakers. I was young and stupid, and I loaned it to a boyfriend. Needless to say, I didn’t get it back when we broke up. (He was a jerk back then, but not so much now.)
My own naivete aside, I still love the idea of winning a prize. So I’m happy to do my first give-away from this blog!
Samantha from Color Wheel Meals has written several recipe books–all vegan, and mostly raw or high raw. She recently published Healthy Eats on the Go: Healthy Food Ideas for Life’s Busy Activities.
In this 116-page book, she’s compiled recipes from a variety of bloggers, including yours truly. Over 75 vegan recipes are included, most of which are raw or high raw.
So, you want a copy of the book, you say? I’m giving one away!
Samantha has generously offered one copy of the $12.95 book for me to give away to readers of The Raw Difference.
To enter, just leave a comment answering the Question of the Day. Next week I’ll do short posts Monday through Thursday. Every time you leave a comment answering the Question of the Day, you’ll get your name entered in the drawing again. Comment on any of those posts before 12:01 a.m. EST of Friday, July8, 2012.
Question of the Day: What’s the biggest challenge to healthy eating?
Next Friday, July 8, 2012, I’ll select a random winner. The book is delivered via email as a pdf download, so you don’t have to live in the U.S. to enter and win.
Live the difference!
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It is hard when you travel to have equipment. Blender and dehydrator don’t travel well. Not everywhere you go have raw restaurants and I get tired of salads.
Keeping up with fresh produce demands – particularly keeping fresh leafy greens on hand. These will spoil faster than other veggies, so I’m often making 2-3 trips per week to the grocery store, or organic farm, to keep fresh greens on hand.
Hunger! Often when I am super hungry I skip the food that needs a bit of prep in favor of something that is quick (and often naughty!).
For me it’s being able to afford the healthy food. My fixed income doesn’t keep up with the rising cost of food.
I don’t want to enter because I already have this cookbook; I just wanted to say that it’s such a good cookbook with SO many good recipes, and I know that the winner will love it!
I will answer your question, too, because it’s a good question.
For me, the biggest challenge is trying to juggle a very busy schedule, in my case, with business, homeschooling, kids, and special needs, and still make healthy eating a priority. That means always planning ahead and making time to do the prep work required to eat well. I don’t always succeed, but I haven’t given up, and I don’t intend to!
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Hi Candice,
Thanks so much for offering this book and thank you to Samantha as well for donating it! Awesome.
What I find that prevents me from eating healthfully is lack of energy at the end of the day. Even if I eat well all day, by the time I get home I want something savory and fast so often will do vegan m/w tamales. Healthy? Somewhat but there are really no vegetables involved.
Eating healthy most of the time is very challenging in it self
My biggest challenge is time.
Either time or trying to make healthy food that my whole family will eat.
Trying to eat healthy with lots of temptations in the house from family members who don’t want to eat healthy.
Eating enough to keep me full and energized. I am starting to like more fruits, but I still get sick sometimes if I eat a lot of fruit, and I don’t want to load up on nuts/seeds. Another challenge for me is finding recipes that I like, as most raw food recipes are too rich/heavy for me.
For me, my biggest challenge is to not get in a rut and eat the same things all the time and become bored. In my “other” life I was a gourmet cook and tried new recipes each and every week so I had lots of variety in every meal. I’m trying to learn how to juice and eat raw and I haven’t been able to do it more than a few short days in a row.
For me, it’s planning ahead and keeping healthy items on hand at all times. It can be so tiresome keeping greens stocked up, as someone said, and making sure you have ‘staples’ on hand. Not to mention going to the shop 3 or more times a week isn’t easy on the purse, particularly when you are the sole income earner in the house trying to feed yourself and the family a healthful raw vegan diet!