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10:10 AM Breakfast, rejuvelac and a mango. I was awake at 6 AM not hungry.

The Rejuvelac

This batch is made with rye kernels. They have proven by far to be the absolute best berries to use to make the rejuvelac. I love the fresh lemony taste which is much fresher tasting than the rejuvelac made with oat berries. Possibly the gluten is important to the fermentation process? I don't know. Someone informed me that rye berries keep on sprouting during the fermenting of the drink. Tomorrow I will make toast from the berries and see how I react to it. Oat berry toast proved to be too heavy for my digestive track. It could be that the oat berries had soured in the process and grown a tinge of bad bacteria.(they smelled quite different than the rye berries smell)

1:20 PM Thought of food propelled me to eat my lunch at this time. I wasn't planning on it. Salad greens with mustard vinaigrette, grape tomatoes and avocado, veggie/fruit juice with half a scoop of phytogreens and some veggie dehydrated crackers.

5:16 snack or supper possibly. Veggie crackers with hemp butter and sliced kiwi fruit. I love the look of the kiwi sliced. The combination was interesting to my palate and a 'must have another time' as well!

10 minutes later it was a bosc pear that popped in with a 'gotta have' feel, so I ate one.

approx 9:15 PM after grocery shopping-- BC cherries :)

The pulp from juicing.

adding ground flax seed

the golden ground flax seed ready to mix into the pulp

the mixture dehydrating into crackers!



It feels like a varicose vein condition that was advancing in my right leg is subsiding. After drinking rejuvelac one day the veins and circulation felt over active with a feeling of pressure all over. The next day they felt better than quite some time. Since then they seem to improve almost daily. I notice the varicose veins markings in my eyes is also clearing (Iridology). Could be I am just doing much less driving. I don't know, yet.

Out and About the Island

A good morning; early, and met with fresh squeezed lemon juice mixed with rejuvelac. More on this batch of rejuvelac tomorrow. There is a definite difference to it.

The rejuvelac sat beside a bowl of orange pieces and bee pollen, covered with almond milk topped and BC cherries. I couldn't finish the whole breakfast so most of the rejuvelac went with me on the road again.

I forgot to take food with me today so I did the cooked challenge. I had an organic coffee, second one this week with a straight up commercial bagel that actually flattened into a spongy dough 'substance' as it cooled after being toasted. That was the weirdest bagel ever to cross my lips. It spoke to me that I was most likely eating inorganic chemicals (of inanimate, not biological origin).

Later I carried on to explore eating a cooked meal, again. Seems to me that January was the last time I decided to eat a cooked meal. I ate Mexican; a vegetarian quesadilla. The picture shows the waitress serving me the meal.

The first few bites held a flavour of sorts and soon it made no sense in my mouth. My mouth became desensitized to the food. That was an odd experience!

The Menu

The table decoration and the dessert menu

I had absolutely no interest in any dessert!

When I returned home, I devoured fresh whole cherries.

During the meal I stayed mindful of my reaction to the cooked eating experience. There was little life left in the food and I maintained a neutral reaction to what I ate. The coffee was deelish!

One of the exciting points of today was finding and purchasing this book!!



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On my way home I thought about the idea of addiction. I think addiction is merely the denial of having made a choice. An unwillingness to acknowledge a personal choice has been made; pretending that something/someone is in control. That can run deep.

In effect a not knowing how to be at peace with ones choice.

Following this day, a night time dream brought me face to face with an aspect of myself that is no doubt tied up with an emotional component of eating. The dream portrayed this aspect as a domineering man. I was mindful of him in my dream as I was mindful of myself during the cooked meal. He was of a controlling nature, thinking everything around him ought to be as he spelled it out to be. I only watched him; I offer no judgement about his ways. I felt fine with who I am and what I did and the choices I made for myself even though he made it clear that he wasn't.

Tuesday July 26, 2011

Breakfast!!

11:58 AM a mango superb! :)

12:50 PM thank you makers of juicers! veggie/fruit juice squeezed from celery, dandelion, black kale, cucumber, carrot, beet, granny smith apple with a half scoop of phytogreen powder added.

Also part of the 12:50 PM meal was a bosc pear spread with hemp butter.

Then at approximately 3:30 PM a friend and I stopped at Bliss Cafe where I ordered a matcha tea, a shot of wheat grass juice and 2 bliss balls. Buzzed again. It is 1:36 AM and I am still energized. Really I don't know if I will get any sleep tonight.

Google Matcha to find out all about it. It is the green tea used in Japanese Ceremonial Tea.

Taken from the web: 'The health benefits of matcha tea exceed those of green tea because when you drink matcha you ingest the whole leaf, not just the brewed water.
One glass of matcha is the equivalent of 10 glasses of green tea in terms of its nutritional value and antioxidant content.'

I don't know, is matcha together with wheat grass juice possibly overkill? A way to get to know oneself is to experiment and find out.
Yeh, it is overkill-overkill for me.

At 3:30 PM at Bliss Cafe I bought two Bliss Balls as well. Drinking the tea and eating the bliss balls stretched over the next hour as my friend Brenda and I went health food store shopping and then back to my residence.

I ate some organic BC cherries before going to bed. It had been 6 hours since the tea, shot of wheat grass and Bliss Balls.

I am starving and look forward to breakfast!

Hey, it is Brenda! Her and I were on a walk at Island View Beach! Brenda is visiting until tomorrow night then heading back east to Ontario where she lives.



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When I was waiting for the shot of wheat grass juice to be served to me I saw it sitting on the counter and I wanted to drink the juice right away. The server seemed to be moving excessively slowly and was chatting with a visitor and left the little glass of juice sit on the counter where there was risk it would become stale. Now that was hard to watch. I wanted to drink the juice as fresh as possible and it wasn't like he was swept off his feet and couldn't hand it over the counter to me. I asked if that was in fact my juice and was told yes and that it would be given to me when the matcha tea was ready to serve. So I was patient and waited and as soon as the shot of juice was set in front of me I tossed it into my mouth and swallowed. That seemed like the only sane thing to do.

It was mindfulness at work again. I was well aware of all my feelings and thoughts the entire time. I also listened to myself whine a little complaint to Bren.
There is a lot of funny stuff that spills forth during each day. The funny stuff is what we make of the goings on.

A Perfect Vinaigrette

The organic rye berries that grew into these spectacular sprouts were purchased at 'Planet Organic', Victoria B.C.

First thing this morning is to rinse these beautiful sprouted rye berries, cover with water and set them to ferment into a new batch of Rejuvelac! Wow, just look at those thriving delicacices! (click and double click on the picture to enlarge)

The jar containing the rejuvelac mixture is covered with double-layered cloth and set in the indoor garden unit. The grow lights provide heat that will aid the fermentation process.

11:30 AM today’s eating commenced with a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice diluted with water, peaches cut up and mixed with pepitas that were soaked and dehydrated; both covered with almond milk make a fresh dish that sets a pace of liveliness.

12:56 PM a mango!

3:43 PM 2 tunaish rolls-- walnut salad layered with red onion and cucumber, using cabbage as the wrap.

5:58 PM A bosc pear eaten with hemp butter. It is a terrific combination with the smooth rich hemp butter spread upon the sweet pear.

7:31 PM salad of mixed young greens and avocado with a sprinkling of hemp seeds drizzled with a potently scrumptious dressing(!) whipped of lemon juice, salt, chopped garlic, stone ground mustard, black pepper and avocado oil.

How to make the dressing.

8:56 PM to gratify a sorbet craving I enjoyed eating a juiced combination of frozen strawberry, mango and almond/coconut.




It has been two days since ingesting a coffee together with something not only cooked but sugar sweet. Coffee withdrawal was a cinch compared to coffee withdrawal when I was more toxic. The symptoms felt 75% lessoned. A left over effect was a gnawing feeling to eat something cooked. I felt that the feeling could be satisfied with cooked quinoa which I prepared and ate a small bowlful with a little butter, salt and peppered. The quinoa was eaten with my supper salad.
It is merely the facts.

Simply Simple

at precisely 12:30 PM- I ate a mango… it was a most tender, juicy, sweet and tantalizing fruit in the history of my eating; well maybe. Truly though, it was sublime! And that one turned into two. Just like that. Simply Supreme.

1:15 PM a goblet of silky home prepared almond milk with 1/2 scoop of energy inspiring phytogreens powder.

3:07 PM a pear that ignited a 2 plus hour walk on the beach in the glorious sunshine with my skin loving the skillful breeze that brushed it warmly. Simply Sensational.

at approximately 7:30 PM pulling together lively home grown mung beans, organic red vine ripe tomato, brilliant purple onion, soft & smooth avocado, refreshing cucumber, and well aged sunflower/pepita seed cheese created a treat of a salad to dine for. Adding a few squirts of stone ground mustard made eating it an experience of pzazz. (Sorry, I was distracted and forgot to take a photo.)

That's it, meals for today were Seriously Simply Simple.

The goblet was fashioned and created by a local Japanese artist who sells his finished works of pottery at 'Moss Street Market' Victoria, B.C.

On The Road to visit a New Cafe

8:30 AM breakfast was some of the juice that I processed last night. I added a small amount of almond milk for the protein and extra nutrients and a scoop of phytogreens powder; packed up some pears, a nectarine, pistachios, water, dehydrated cracker/chips and headed to Nanaimo to pick up a friend.

1:30ish friend Pat and I ate at ‘Rawthentic’ Eatery' in 'Qualicum Beach', further north on Vancouver Island. I found Qualicum Beach to be an attractive and stimulating community.
For lunch Pat ordered a veggies sandwich of some kind; she loved it
I ordered a wrap and smoothie and was surprised and grateful to receive the generous amounts that were served. The taste of the wrap was delectable(!) filled with almond cheese and shredded veggies with a toothsome dressing that offered a slight mustard hot bite. The smoothie was made of mango, strawberries, almond milk and pineapple. The meal was aces eaten!

All out thumbs up for this restaurant. I highly recommend that you too eat at
'Rawthentic Eatery' in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island!

These two pictures are of cracker chips I conjured up last night using the pulp that was left from juicing. The juice was all veggie with the exception of one apple. I seasoned the crackers with various spices and sea salt. They turned out amazing tasting (!) and work well to be eaten as crackers or a snack as chips. Tomorrow I will experiment to make another batch.

The crackers are displayed in a vintage hand painted in Japan serving dish.

It was evening by the time I headed for home after parting with Pat. I was some tired and decided to have an organic coffee. In the moment I opted for a piece of gluten free lemon poppy seed loaf as well. It was not organic; it was commercial and bland tasting. The coffee was, ok. I got high from the coffee, no rush of energy though, and after having eaten the poppy seed cake my mind held a memory of a nothing taste for it. The cake countered the effects of the caffeine so I got a good night sleep. My dreams following the day were interesting; Picasso formation.

There is more and more an enormous contrast for me in comparison of eating raw/living foods to eating anything commercially cooked! I have to work hard at convincing myself to eat anything cooked. It is good to challenge my system now and then with undernourished foods to see how I react and what the experience and contrast to raw/living shows. My health is steadily improving with the raw/living/vegan lifestyle!

The picture shows rye berries that are covered in water to soak; the beginnings of another batch of rejuvelac. I don't know if the berries had been steam processed and the store clerk didn't know either. The clerk suggested I try the kernels and if they don't sprout the store will refund my money. I ought to be able to tell by tomorrow night if they are all or partially alive or dead.

The Vintage Dish that displayed the dehydrated crackers

Pat and I were entertained by a couple of crows that were finding what looked to be nuts, in amongst the bushes at the parking lot. Initially every time I took out the camera the crows flew away. We looked through the bushes ourselves to see what it was the birds were eating. We found Nothing!

July 22, 2011

I will to learn not to indulge in heavy eating so late in the evening. Last night the combination of a whole avocado, seed cheese, past 9:00 PM; is a not to be repeated action.

1:45 PM a delicious orange!

2:30 PM the by far, best mango I have ever eaten! I promptly returned to the retailer and bought this case of mangoes.

3:20 PM flax crackers with hemp butter and green onions dipped in Himalayan salt.

5:49 PM an orange, strawberry, almond milk-- smoothie WOW(!) no kidding! Nothing else added either. I remembered to take a picture when I was nearly finished drinking the large glass full.

7:56 PM a very large glass of fresh juiced carrot, black kale, celery, beet, dandelion leaves, gala apple (1), cucumber; I added a scoop of phytogreens powder for the extra sponge effect for heavy metals. Again, I remembered to take a photo only when I was nearly finished drinking the juice!

I am currently experiencing very low-level detox symptoms when a point of healing occurs, which is rare.

Oh and, today I mindlessly ate some raw chocolate; it was strictly from an emotional need at the time. It was a very little bit and I forgot about it with no urge for more, within a couple of minutes. I experienced a burn sensation in my mouth after having eaten the chocolate.

New specs. Interesting that on the way to pick up my glasses I could read my hand writing with ease, extremely minimal blur. My hope is to heal my right eye that has 20/50 vision. It is the eye with an astigmatism issue. My left eye has 20/20 vision. My intention is to heal by means of healing my mind, and/or this diet plus exercises recommended by ‘Meir Schneider’ whom I took a couple of weekend trainings from back in the 80’s or early 90’s. Schneider does amazing work in teaching self healing techniques and I have been lazy following his teachings. You may have to copy/paste the link http://www.self-healing.org/navigation/instructors/meir-schneider/ .

I noticed my eyesight had drastically improved yesterday right after I 'saw' something clearly in my mind, a shift in perception equalled a shift in eyesight as well, a healing. May it continue.