Memorial Day Weekend Adventures: Part 1

Hey Everyone! Happy 3-day weekend (for those in the U.S.). I hope you all are enjoying it as much as I am! Life couldn't be better! The weather has been perfect, I am feeling great, and life is just so beautiful in every way right now! :) I hope this joy for all of you!

Anyway, first thing is first, the winner of the EcoMom.com $25 gift code is: BITT! Congrats Bitt, I think this is the second giveaway you have won from me! Lucky gal! Random.org seems to like you! Ha ha! Please email me your address and email so they can contact you about your prize.

This is going to be a 3 part post, so here goes the first part. Friday, T and I did our grocery shopping at Whole Foods and hung out at home. I made a left over Sunshine Burger (Ani Phyo's recipe from her book Ani's Raw Food Kitchen). I had it on a romaine leaf with avocado and raw Bubbies pickles. On the side I made some sweet potato fries in the oven with rosemary, Himalayan sea salt and some ground pepper. This was a perfect "high raw" meal!
On Saturday we headed to the shore to visit our families for the day. We saw my grandparents, parents and had dinner at my mother in laws house. T made pizza again! :) Along with the help of his brothers, mother, future sister in law and myself of course! Here are the two offerings I enjoyed from: Sauce with roasted eggplant, zucchini, garlic and basil on a gluten free crust.
And my favorite pizza to enjoy: broccoli rabe with garlic and a touch of sauce, on a gluten free crust of course!
My future sister in law (she is also my bestie!) and I made a raw vegan strawberry cheesecake! We used this recipe and it came out perrrrrfect! This was a hit! My mother in law and future sis in law are both vegan and my mother in law is pretty high raw, my future sis in law is getting into it now too! I even got her drinking green smoothies for breakfast now! She was so impressed after Zoe's demonstration class that she couldn't help but want to eat more raw!
Onto Sunday.. T and I took a trip to a pick your own farm to pick.. STRAWBERRIES! Obviously, strawberries are a major craving for me right now! Unfortunately, there aren't any organic farms in NJ that have pick-your-own strawberries! We went to one that practices IPM farming, which means they use minimal chemicals on their crops. Of course I soaked the strawberries in veggie wash before we enjoyed any. Next month we are going to go a pick-your-own blueberries that is ONLY ORGANIC! Whoo!

Look at this cutie! She was jumping up on the fence looking for attention. I just loved her!
The landscape was beautiful. Country air is always appreciated. The weather was perfect, hot but no humidity, there was even a beautiful breeze! Look at that sky, not a cloud!
So we walked and followed the signs..
More signs..
Almost there..
Finally (sheesh, don't they know I am pregnant?).. ;)
The golden ticket..
So fresh and beautiful!
Our pickings! Wow, that was quick.. we went strawberry crazy! T was proud to show off our little gems!
Come back Wednesday to see what we did with all these yummy strawberries and some more 3 day weekend fun! Have a great day everyone! XO