The Original Potato Chip

You would not believe how MANY different kinds of vegans there are in this little subculture. There are fruitarians, high carb low fat raw vegan, gourmet raw vegan, cooked vegan, junk food vegan, macrobiotic, vegans who only eat local, dumpster diver vegans (yes you read correctly), liquidarian and even the vegans who call themselves vegan but still eat a fair amount of animals foods...and the list goes on. It also seems we are all striving to encourage each other to progress further on our path to health, or enlightenment or whatever the reason we have chosen this life style. I am not claiming to be anything other than someone who abstains from eating animal products....I'm not 100% healthy, I'm not 100% raw, I'm not not colorful or even gourmet...I'm just sharing the things that we eat on a regular basis. Right now I'm doing this little challenge called "Eat most of what you've got before you go to the grocery again"....tough one for me :) I think I'm a foodie...or a shopaholic or whatever you would call it when you buy more than what you need just because...well...you can. i know it sounds spoiled but I guess we. just. are. There is nothing more in the world that I would love to do at this time than eat a simpler diet of maybe even mono fruit for a while (easier said than done) but I'm just not there yet. Sigh....so in the mean time I'm extremely grateful for what we've been given and I will share with whomever wants to know about our lifestyle. So in the process of "Eating whatever is here instead of going shopping again" it has stretched me a bit. I have this compulsion to have a certain amount of fresh food on my plate in order for the meal to feel balanced. It's been ingrained in me over almost 11 years of raw food brainwashing...which is not always a bad thing ;) So we've been eating potatoes (gasp) and cans beans (yikes) and buttered toast....it's painful to admit. After all my husband owns a raw food company so to a degree my ego has always been on guard. But worse things have happened in the world than buttered toast...I'm sure of it~
For snack today, I found a bag of organic potatoes (potatoes are extremely important to eat organic because they are a root and therefor soak in a tremendous amount of pesticides) and peeled off the little buds that were starting to grow and washed them up to look perfect and new again. Then I sliced them halfway down about 8 or 9 times to make slits in them. You can either drizzle olive oil over top or stuff the potato slits with crushed garlic...I just left them plain and cooked them unwrapped for a long time on 375 degrees. It was well over an hour (I didn't realize it takes so long to cook a potato!) But when they came out they were delicious and you can just rip off each chunk and dip it in a sauce (for kids) or just eat them plain like me. My kids loved them so much. And of course I had sliced apples and some sour pickles on the side. Baby T ate the apples and the boys each ate two whole potatoes. They were not too thrilled at first when they saw what I was making because apparently it looked too plain (spoiled much?) but in the end they gave high accolades and I got to say "told ya so"....always a plus around here!


This picture is what Baby T had on his high chair. He gobbled up the green juice that I made for everyone (kale, apple, celery) and yes they "got to" drink it before eating :) They secretly loved it......