Pizza Pic This Time

Early - cantaloupe ice smoothie, Bliss Ball with cashew icing. Blame it on eating sweeter foods lately.

My belly was growling for food first thing this morning. That is just wild crazy. I know it is an imbalance of microbes causing all the fuss, too much of on the sweet side of eating lately.
I kind of craved a coffee today to drink tonight. Going out to a cafe appealed to me. It wasn't actually a crave, it was more like thinking about it and seeking a change. An aspect of me wants me to stay up late. Maybe tomorrow night I will do that. I'll see.

2:28 PM Rejuvelac and sushi topped with mango chutney, a side of tuna-ish salad, sushi filled with yellow beans, Bubbies dill pickle, cucumber and veggie crackers

wow I was going to use some shredded carrot I had stored in a plastic bag in the fridge and it tasted like chemicals, plastic flavour. I like to use glass for storing food in, so more glass it is.
My taste buds have jumped to a more finely tuned level of sensitivity. Psychic awareness has been strong lately. It is like I can feel people thinking, a lot. This has always been the case for me, at least for most of my life. It is clearer to me right now.

8:00 PM Pizza & Carrot Juice.

The pizza is comprised of veggie cracker made large and round and cut into triangles. Cashew cheese, mariana sauce, raw dehydrated olives, red onion, mung bean sprouts, thin slices of cucumber. The fat slices of cucumber hold cashew cheese, mariana sauce and a cut in half raw olive. (they taste so spectacular!) The pizza tastes like a daily menu, it won't be though.

I carrot juice toast you, Cheers!

a Beautiful little find in the back yard, I doubt it is edible. It sure is pretty!

'What I eat doesn't eat me'

Morning, early:
Grapefruit juiced with orange
Rejuvelac

mid morning:
a square with a layer of chocolate from Bliss Cafe

Red Raspberry herb was put in filtered water cleaned and energized by a magnet and sits in the sun steeping for later tea. yes!

red raspberry leaf tea steeping room temperature water

The tea which I tasted at supper tastes flowery unlike when it is steeped in hot water. I love the taste and lightness of the tea. I warmed it on the warming section of the stove top.

The crackers prepared yesterday of pulp from juicing turned out crispy crunchy crunch and choice with taste.

More crackers are in the dehydrator now… another experiment of grapefruit & almonds.

Prepared felafel and it too is dehydrating as I type.

3:45 PM a salad with tuna-ish and cashew cheese. Again I forgot to take a picture and offer up a substitute picture without the cashew cheese and tuna-ish salad.

4:00 PM water to drink

Making mango chutney tomorrow, I thought I was going to make it today.

Pizza for supper and I forgot to take pictures! It was oh so surprisingly select!

Carrot Cake for dessert and it tastes better than a day ago. Wowsy. and I am tired.

Raw Carrot Cake

First you make a 'Raw Unsweetened Carrot Cake', stay up until 3:00 AM chatting a grand time with friend Ellie in Oregon, sleep, early morning 'rise and shine' ready for breakfast, remove the cake from the spring form pan...

voila(!) Raw Carrot Cake

cut a slice, prepare icing from cashew cheese that has been probiotic fermenting all night, ice your piece of cake...

pour your own hand squeezed apple juice mixed with rejuvelac into a 'Leanne Pizio' art piece pottery vessel…

sip don't gulp Fresh hand Squeezed 'Apple Juice' mixed with rejuvelac that fills a 'Leanne Pizio' made drinking vessel

and bite into a 'GLORY BE' raw cake experience! Then you realize you are eating cake for breakfast and hoot out a 'rah-raw' with both thumbs Up joy for this fully nutritious breakfast meal. I ask you; 'How about that there?'

The cake is made of carrot, coconut, date, fresh apple, dried apple, dried pineapple, cinnamon and nutmeg. Eat with or without the icing. The icing is made of cashew cheese (probiotic fermented), almond flavouring and coconut crystals as a sweetener(I substituted coconut crystals for the agave the recipe called for). Recipe by 'Jennifer Cornbleet', my teacher in the fundamentals course of 'Living Light Culinary Arts Institute'. Much gratitude to you Jennifer and to Living Light!

a Birds Eye view of the drinking vessel by 'Leanne Pizio'

'HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mother'! I called her. Mum loved the book card showing highlights of the year she was boon in.

A day of feeling like I am eating a lot, again. More than I need, for sure. It shows me how little food I need because really I have not eaten a lot, it only seems so. The pieces of cake were small and certainly were not high in calories.

Later on I ate an orange. I was hungry, then some kale chips, testing some at Planet Organic. prefer my home made chips. Mine are more primitive looking and tasting, less commercial looking and tasting. Somewhere in there I ate a bliss ball, too.

A bite of a chocolate/raspberry cheese cake Mr. Roomy brought from Bliss Cafe. The fruit/cheese was layered alternately with a layer of chocolate. The next time I make chocolate cake that is what I will do, a chocolate layer alternated with a predominately fruit layer. I don't often eat chocolate because I experience strong withdrawal so lately I am out of my norm. I feel like I want coffee when I eat chocolate. And coffee also throws me into a strong withdrawal reaction, even after one cup. The withdrawal always comes two days following the day I ate it. It has me feeling depressed and also a slight headache.

Then I drank a fruit/almond milk smoothie. It was a pint size smoothie. I drank 4 oz of rejuvelac moments prior to drinking the smoothie. This is classified as over consumption. Our Western Society is brimming over with Queen and Kings of over eating. We do it so well. We do it without looking, thinking, with or without exercise, without discipline, we are masters in the ability to over eat.

So far I never let myself get beyond 128 lb after it happened once, not including during pregnancy, then I corrected my eating habits and learned how to be bodily heavy or light, and making it my choice at my will to be what weight I wanted to be. It surprises me that when my weight has inched to 128 pounds how relatively easy it was to reverse since I had made a decision that that was my limit and I wholly agreed to that decision. The heaviest I have been while not pregnant was 132 which gave me enough of a comparison to decide between my heavy and my slight. During pregnancy I bellowed to 137 lb (a 30 lb gain) birthing 8lb 6oz to 8lb 15oz babies, 4 times. Easily the excess weight of 12 pounds melted away during breast feeding.

Once you reverse your actions for even one day you are on your way. Stick with it and let the results show you how quickly the body will follow the lead of your intention. I like to be slender rather than meaty, for the most part and have been quite fanatical about weight through the years. At one point I dropped to 100 lb and one day I saw how horribly boney I was when I stood before a mirror. Odd I that hadn't noticed it before that one time. Something must have shifted within to allow myself to see clearly.

red pepper dressing and tuna-ish salad with lettuce greens, tomato, avocado, orange, olives

I ate another piece of carrot cake, with icing. The icing is light with mild sweetness. And I had a red raspberry leaf tea which I did steep in hot water. I keep forgetting to soak it in room temp water.

I think I am still hungry yet how can that possibly be. Interesting how eating sweet things begs for more. Sitting with the feeling is interesting. It moves about my abdomen. I never noticed it moving before. Of course the food will be moving while digestion is going on. Wow, it never occurred to me before that I don't like this feeling and know the feeling will change and not feel the same way if I eat again. The feeling that would stop me from eating more is a stuck feeling, a too full feeling. It is revealing to blog. The feeling also would stop if I eat something like citrus fruit, a grapefruit is what I keep thinking about, or more cake. Ok, I am opting for the grapefruit and will see how I feel afterward(I do in fact see feelings). I also don't like to be distracted by the body.

Wow, grapefruit is so potent. The feeling is changed to enough yet I didn't stop at enough. I was enjoying the eating of the grapefruit, immensely, and am now left with a feeling bordering 'stuffed'. And that is how it goes folks, do you recognize yourself?
Welp, it was worth the experiment.

Later gator!

Fresh 'hand pressed' Apple Juice

So-so hungry today; what I ate tasted really swell though.

Between 12:00 PM and 12:26 PM it was rejuvelac cut with veggie/fruit juice. (need a new juicer. It feels like I am killing my champion by using so much leafy greens and I love juicing them! I desire a greens juicer.)

Then rejuvelac cut with cantaloupe, blueberries and apple, blended. A sweet smoothie, no sweetener required.

The juice on the left; the fruit ready to be juiced on the right

Sunflower seeds soaked overnight then sprouted for a few hours. See the sprouted ends? That boosts the enzyme and energy content significantly.

Sprouted Sunflower seeds processed with soaked walnuts, lemon juice, garlic, coconut aminos, dulse powdered, a bit of water.

Tuna-ish salad using the walnuts and sunflower seeds as the base. Tomorrow's eats. Some prolly will be frozen for when the notion to eat more tuna-ish takes hold. Chopped red onion, chopped celery, kelp granules, parsley, more minced garlic.

4:30 PM a Bliss ball from Planet Organic(they carry a couple of raw Bliss Balls)

Linguine made from turnip, zucchini, sea vegetables, and beet

5:00 PM Linguine of turnip, zucchini and sea vegetables was mixed with sun dried tomato pesto, the beet linguine was tossed with sesame tahini dressing. Also on the plate is sunflower pate. I found the meal was filling and satisfying and very easy to enjoy!

the best apple juice I ever tasted!

This evening I made a carrot cake. The icing will be made with cashew cheese which is fermenting overnight. Btw, my garden plants were fed the last two batches of rejuvelac. For some reason both batches spoiled. I think I left two batches to ferment the first round too long. Rejuvelac does seem excessively tricky to prepare. Hopefully I will soon gain an intuitive rapport with it.

The apple juice I juiced by squeezing julienned apples. It is surprising how the juice, and so much of it, comes away easily. I used sprout bags and with my hands squeezed as hard as I can to get much of the juice from the julienned apples.

In the evening I felt like so peeled and ate a grapefruit. My weight is dropping, I guess. It certainly shows so in the fit of my clothing.

Grapefruit will help you cleanse and facilitate weight loss at the same time. Do not sweeten it. Enjoy eating grapefruit in the same manner you eat an orange, peel, section, eat.

Oh Boy! Raw Carrot Cake tomorrow. No sweetener used. Right now it smells like-- gimmee it, gimmee it!

Track what you eat, write it down! All of it!

Today has not been much of an eating day for me, t'was more like a picking licking day.

Rejuvelac, to start it off. I knew I ought to have written it all down. I cleaned some of the refrigerator and didn't even feel like eating anything much. I wasn't hungry. Now I remember, I ate an orange with some hempbutter later in the morning. The early afternoon it was a nectarine and a handful of walnuts and some pecans. That was good, that was very very good.

Supper was a juice of fruits and veggies, yam, zucchini, cucumber, celery, carrots, kale, dandelion leaves, whole lemon with added phytogreens powder.

My mind then ventured to pistachio land where they are raw, in shells, and I combined them with goji berries, a likely mix. I added a wee bit of himalayan salt. Ate a couple of crackers when I was filling the cracker jar and that was it. wow. Do you ever track what you eat? You prolly will be surprised to see it in writing!

Tomorrows lunch is in the fridge. It is a secret until tomorrow, though.

Buh bye now; See ya tomorrow!

P.S.-- it is tomorrow and my stomach is still off since eating those bagels. It tells me something deeper is going on. Interesting dream last night. I love dreams, they talk.

Let Your Little Light Shine

August 13, 2011

late night meditation to 'The Moola Mantra' with candle light

Breakfast outside, in the welcomed beating sunshine :)

Rejuvelac

orange, kiwi, hempbutter

Lunch-- still eating leftovers with a Bubbies raw dill pickle.

No real supper today, a bit of frozen fruit with coconut milk. Then I ate the two small gluten free bagels that were in the freezer. They are not raw and indigestion is setting in. I wasn't craving them and it was a ho hum decision to eat one then the other. According to my indigestion it wasn't a brilliant idea.

Non stop Eating … what is going on?

8:30 AM I went straight for orange and nuts.

11:13 Another 2 oranges and nuts!! with added hemp seed butter and kiwi!

orange, hemp seed butter and kiwi

Rejuvelac throughout the day, 3 glasses full, one with lemon juice added.

From then on for hours it was nothing but spicy veggie crackers with Crane's raw honey. My mind is on bee pollen and the bee pollen is still between here and the apiary, shipped from Ontario. I did eat a very small dish of left over fettuccine with tomato/olives pesto. It tasted like more yet I only stuck with the crackers and honey, until I was saturated, a sudden want to stop although not at all feeling full. It feels like I have eaten like an elephant yet it doesn't seem that way when I look at what I have eaten. The calories are low. I think if chocolate was here I would eat it. In this moment I am thinking of making something with chocolate powder which is on hand; so are chocolate beans and I haven't touched them. Really though, nah, that would keep me up all night and I aim at early rising. There is a lot to accomplish tomorrow.

What I like is that craves for anything I consider unhealthy are like the odd little spark of thought that jumps in and out of my mind, now and then. Nothing frequent. Nothing that grabs me. The thoughts are more like light grey shadows, entertainment-- something to notice with a jab of a feeling, rather than something that drives me to eat it. The only thing that came to mind was a gluten free bagel and only because I saw one!

Today's visitor cleaning up the yard