Thank you Krista for your comments, always appreciate your input- and the green drink sounds good, maybe I will try it next week!! This morning I add more pear, a half of a banana and a pre mixed green smoothie from the grocery store- the result is delicious!!

Yesterday the kids and I were out for the day and once again stayed too long at the park/beach. The kids were having a blast and it is always hard to get them home. I figured making diner for them would be difficult since they would be tired and whiney, so I decided to go thru the McDonald's drive thru for them on our way home. How horrible is that? Here I am eating raw and thinking of health and living a long clean life and yet feeding my kids death. I mean really, it is dead food that is going to sit in them for days and days and basically decompose inside of them. The guilt that this imposes on my brain is hard to take. I have got to try and incorporate them into my lifestyle. I want them to eat as clean as they can and I am responsible for what they eat. I can at least make them salads at night and sit and eat with them. If they see the way I eat they make be more likely to copy me. This morning I gave them both organic berries and they loved them. Noah tried my green smoothie the other morning and gagged- I realize there are some things they will not like and that is okay. I guess I just have to make an honest effort to include them in this way of eating. I know many raw moms include their kids 100% and turn their family entirely raw, but I know for us that is not realistic. Kyle is a huge meat eater and does not want to try anything new. He supports me in the sense that he is fine with me being raw and thinks it is great for me, but he has no desire to learn about it or to try it himself. As for the kids, we are just too mainstream with our lifestyle that it would not work either. We are always around other moms and kids who eat "normal" and the temptation for them would be too much. The best I can do is to keep them as vegetarian as possible, and include as much live foods as I can.