Twins Plan of Attack

Good Morning luvs,

Happy Tuesday to you all!

After seeing this delicious recipe of sesame seed milk got me thinking what a great idea. So Michelle and I decided to make some and put our own little twist on it.

We made sunflower sesame seed milk!

We soaked our seeds and drained and rinsed them before placing in blender

We like our nut or seed milks a little thicker than you will see in other recipes. We do about 5 cups of water to about 2 cups of seeds (sometimes a little more water or a little less).

Next put everything in blender and blend till smooth! It is that easy

Than you get a large bowl and strainer and strain out any pulp

And you are left with creamy dairy free, gluten free, nut free, and unsweetened milk!

We add our Stevia to our individual cups when we drink it! But you can always add any sweetener of your choice to your milk while blending if you prefer

Here is what our pulp looked like… not sure yet what we are going to do with it! Deciding what little creation we can do with it!

Here is what we enjoyed last night before heading to bed… not a bad way to end the night

Topped our sunflower sesame seed milk with some cinnamon and sweetend with stevia

This morning we started our day with a simple and delicious grapefruit romaine smoothie

I wanted to share with all of you a quick glimpse of what my plan of attack is for my Candida cleanse (as I like to call it)!

I will be taking those recommended supplements that I mentioned yesterday along with a strict food plan. The biggest thing is watching my sugar because that is what the parasites and bad bacteria are living off of.

Besides only having Stevia as my sweetener I plan to only have grapefruit, lemons, granny smith apples (tart not sweet) and berries if I need a ‘fruit”. These are the ones with the least amount of sugar. I also plan on not having any nuts which I have been doing for the past week ( and so far my face is starting to calm down)

I still do plan on having green smoothies though they are going to be a little different due to not putting much fruit in them. Other food meals I plan on enjoying will be soups, wilted salads, avocado pudding, zucchini pasta, and seed based milks and anything else that I can think of! And a big part of my food is going to be fermented foods

Another thing that I did in my last Candida cleanse ( I did one a while back – before I was blogging) was rotating my foods. I will do my best to do that again.

Things that I still plan on having though sparingly are: raw chocolate (cacao), carob, quinoa, amaranth, millet, root vegetables, nutritional yeast, sea weeds.

Yes, Michelle is doing this candida cleanse with me because we both still feel that is a majority issue for the both of us! She has in the past taken a lot of antibiotics and was on birth control too. Which we learned from our colon therapist that there are studies coming out showing that birth control does kill off the good bacteria inside us, so for all those years being on the pill we have completely depleted our source of friendly bacteria. This explains why lately we always crave foods that are fermented (raw sauerkraut, Kombucha, etc) because there are NATURALLY full of good bacteria. Our body needs good bacteria!!!!

I will post my eats for the day and how both of us are feeling to let you all know how our Candida cleanse is going. And how we both are doing emotional and physically. We still plan to continue our training for our marathon. And I know some of you maybe thinking that we should not be doing such a dramatic diet change before a big race. Well, that is true. But for us and where we are in our raw lifestyle journey it just fits at this moment. (With that being said please remember this might not be the best to do for everyone). We were running out of things to do to help our hormones and this Candida cleanse kinda just seems right! Now we are not eating that much different than we were before we are just reducing our fruit intake more and watching all our snacks and miscellaneous ingredients more carefully! And try to up our fermented foods even more.

And here is a quick re-cap of how our older sister is doing on her trip with all those raw vegan goodies. She is loving everything we made her and best of all her tummy is HAPPY! She will be back home today sometime! And she really wants to get more of her questions answered and start eating a more raw vegan based diet!!! Love that! She is so sick of being sick that she finally realizes that eating a more plant based diet will be able to heal her so she can live a healthy normal life again!

Till next time,

The Twins

L&M