Starting out the day with exercise is the best way to go — for me, anyway. It’s like supercharging my system. After a 6:30 am spin class, I take my son son to school and return home for shower and breakfast.
Breakfast is a smoothie made with almond milk, an orange, frozen blueberries, banana, and kale (fresh picked from my garden).
For lunch, I juice some carrots and add about a cup and a half of the carrot juice to yesterday’s soup. I warm it a little on the stove. It tastes much, much better, yet still quite spicy, which makes me wonder how I managed to eat it the way it was. And still garlicky.
Around 3:30 or 4:00 I’m hungry, so I have an apple and about an once of raw cheese.
We have Spanish class tonight, and I make and early dinner. For the guys, I bake some marinated chicken, steam broccoli, and heat leftover rice. For me, I marinate portobello mushrooms. I want comfort food. The chicken looks really good, even though I don’t normally eat meat. I want mashed potatoes. I can’t find the mashed potato recipe I used a few weeks ago and realize it must have been in one of the library books I returned. It’s not in any of my current books. Darn.
I get online and look for “raw mashed potato recipe.” There are a few, and they pretty much all require cauliflower, of which I have none. Darn. Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen
It’s time to eat, and my mushrooms have not marinated long enough. They are still raw inside (when they’ve marinated long enough, they take on a grilled look, feel, and taste). And my green mashed broccoli, looks awful and tastes worse. (That’s two strikes against Ani in the last couple of days. Some of her recipes have been good, though, and the jury’s still out.) I eat it anyway, gazing longingly at the chicken. But I am not going to back down.
Instead, I brush my teeth and then grab a piece of chocolate as we head out the door to class, hoping that my garlic breath will not bowl over anyone in class.
When we return, I’m feeling exhausted. I have a glass of wine and three more pieces of chocolate. I feel like I deserve the chocolate, because we had a test tonight. I worked hard to prepare for it, and I’m just glad it’s over. Before sitting down to enjoy my wine and chocolate, I make flaxseed crackers (I had put the flaxseeds to soak this morning) and put the mix in the dehydrator. I also retrieved the hazelnuts I soaked and dehydrated yesterday.
My objective is to stock my pantry with things like bread, dehydrated nuts, dressings, and crackers, so that I have more flexibility about what I eat when I’m in a hurry.
Verdict: In spite of the dinner failure, and except for the chocolate, I’ve eaten 100% raw today, made crackers, and moved forward. I have to count it as a good day. I need to plan some comfort food for tomorrow, though. Perhaps a soup …
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