This Day is Given Me

I think I am eating too much the last two weeks. It feels like food is stuffing me up, stuffing me up as in making my body feel dense. So I am going to notice when gluttony sets in and what I reach for. Nuts for sure especially in combination with avocado are more difficult for me to utilize the energy of.

8:00 AM a pink grapefruit :)!

1:37 PM a smoothie of (now pay attention to this combination, eh) heh… I cleaned up the fridge, to use up bits of foods. Carrot, spinach, celery, kale, zucchini, orange, fresh picked this morning blackberries, phytogreens powder. (with 6 caps of phytogreens and Orti C-- I aim to soak up the mercury).

5:47 PM 2 tarts, Blackberry tarts that look like raspberry because of the orange juice added.

I made 22 Blackberry tarts today. The shell is almond and pecan based. All raw of course.

9:00 PM a chai tea with almond milk and a coconut macaroon from Bliss Cafe. I was out and about heading home and had this snack waiting for me, in my car. (I picked the tea and macaroon up before running errands)

9:13 PM salad of garden lettuce, lemon thyme, chives, parsley, green beans, added almond/pecan cheese, pear and mustard dressing(sounds like last night, huh). It is a repeat of last night only with pear instead of tomato. I was hungry and it tasted so very fine. :)

Water intake is down to 24 oz. today… I need a bigger bladder.

Colour Me Purpled

Good Morning Greetz and Salutations with 16.5 oz of water

8:30 AM smoothie of goji berries, blackberries, almond cheese whey, hemp butter, cucumber peeled, celery stiks, mango, ice cubes, phytogreens pwd.

11:57 PM the other half of the smoothie

12:27 PM linguini as I had last evening, 6 phytogreens caps and 2 orti C caps

4:03 PM 3/4 pink grapefruit and a few pecans

6:30 PM smoothie of fresh picked wild blackberries with a very ripe frozen bananas and phytogreens powder & Orti C

7:48 PM salad of fresh picked green beans, lemon thyme, parsley, chives, lettuce with added tomato, avocado, home made almond cheese, drizzled with homemade mustard dressing

8:45 PM I have had a craving for eating tastes all evening. Out came the almond cheese & mango chutney scooped up with veggie chips. HOLY Tastes(!)! This is definitely a taste combo to repeat.

I know, this picture is not clear, it is the only one I have though

I am feeling tonight that I hopefully can develop more creativity with the food.

water today was another 2 7/8 cups x's 2. Also exercise of a 1 hour walk. I thought to walk or bike more, and didn't.

'Eat Food, Eat Real Food'

8:30 AM a smoothie of cantaloupe, kiwi, blackberries, ice, phytogreens powder. Also phytogreens cap and orate C

12:30ish PM butternut squash salad with tuna-ish salad

3:20 PM 1/2 of a large pink grapefruit

6:30 PM linguini made from turnip and yam and sea vegetable strip; mariana sauce with extra garlic. appetizer was two crackers with a wee bit of mango chutney.

Before bed (ack!) a small bowl of blackberries topped with blended almond in water with probiotic (making almond cheese)

This day I am thrilled to have picked a quart of certified organic blueberries and nearly 4 quarts of 'wild blackberries'. The blackberries are free for the finding! Soon I hope to be able to pick more blueberries. Blueberry season will be running another month probably. I will definitely be dehydrating some blueberries!

wild blackberries

certified organic blueberries

It has been highly energizing to harvest wild blackberries and eat them 'freshly' picked. I have been missing wild harvesting. And the berries are spectacular and huge!

I am so happy to find Island sources of organic blueberries for self picking.

A walk of 1.5 hours added some well appreciated exercise.

Eat and Support Certified Organics!

8:20 AM smoothie of Kale, cantaloupe, orange, phyogreens both caps and pwd. and Orti C, pear, zucchini, ice

12:00 Noon lasagne (left overs!)

Roadside blackberry picking today. They are huge!

2:23 PM icy blackberry/very ripe banana, smoothie WOW!

water 2 x's 2 7/8 cups

5:56 PM butternut squash salad, crackers, cherry tart, smoothie of blackberries, cantaloupe, ice and some pecan nuts

quite a while later I finished off the days eating with the left over quinoa mixed with mango and some coconut crystals??? huh??

I still have no symptoms of caffeine withdrawal from those two cups of coffee.

(woke this morning to a feeling that brought on a thought of maybe I am having a heart attack. It was mid chest, was dull sharp pain and radiated prickly discomfort. I noticed it and let go of my thinking. It passed. I am left with a sense it has to do with the mercury clearing and something viral that had attached to it, releasing of it).

Water

This morning I ached all over my body- prolly pushing more mercury to the surface after the long brisk walk yesterday. Thus I socked a lot of phytogreens into me today. The aching didn't last very long. I was pleasantly surprised. I am in better shape than I thought I was.

8:30 AM 16 oz. of water-- not just any water, either. It is reverse osmosis cleaned water that is cleared with the north side of a magnet and recharged with the south side of a magnet. Words such as 'inner peace', 'perfect health' and 'love' are printed on the outside of the containers. AND(!) I set the bottle in use on a copy of the urtext. I LOVE and nurture my water! I shake the 11L bottle of water when enough water has been used from the container in order to create a vortex which energizes the water. If there was a place to gather fresh clean spring water near by, that would be my preference.

I find that my water intake has dipped back too much since I don't feel thirsty very often when eating raw so I am purposely drinking more water and will reflect same in the blog. What alerts me to a need to drink more water is my left kidney becomes easily irritated and drinking water improves it within a few short minutes.

12:26 PM smoothie of kiwi, cantaloupe, cucumber(peeled), phytogreens powder 1 scoop along with 6 phytogreen caps and 2 orti C (creating a huge mercury sponge).

3:45 PM 16 oz of water

5:00 PM 2 bowls(!) of butternut squash salad. (I was very hungry and the salad tasted fantastic thus the 2 bowls full), plus 2 falafel and a wee bit of mango chutney (6 more phytogreen caps and 2 orati C).

the OMG, Far Out, Most amazing butternut squash salad by 'The Minimalist Mark Bittman

This evening while I wait for the wraps prepared today, to finish dehydrating, I ate a grapefruit with some hemp butter. I am very tired wanting the wraps to hurry and dehydrate enough so I can go to bed. They are a soft flexible wrap.

I didn't feel like a coffee today even though I passed by it in two health food stores. I feel emotionally brighter as well… I shifted emotionally on a deeper level, on a level of better looking after myself, in an emotionally healthier way. I can feel that. I thought I would be wanting coffee for a week or at least a few days. The coffee didn't rev me up like usual, either. And I had good night sleeps, both nights and became really tired before midnight, both nights.

Also what is different I have felt absolutely no coffee withdrawal effect. Not even a tinge of a headache. No depressed feelings or negative thinking, either. My withdrawal effect hits on two days after drinking a cup of coffee. All it takes is one cup, once. I will see what tomorrow brings.

Wraps are done 11:56 PM… I am heading to bed!

Hi! tis me again, the blogger

Walking, YES!

11:26 AM Rejuvelac followed by a Smoothie of mango, ice cubes, pear, apricot, cucumber(peeled), phytogreens pad., Kiwi, a few pecans.

It was crunchy with ice. I figure it must be the super healthy or even healthy version of a slurpy cept with not as much ice, which I have never had and shan't, either.

1:29 PM a piece of the lasagne with spiced up mariana. The lasagne was tastier the second day even without the spiced up sauce added yet the sauce definitely enhanced the flavour.

3:43 PM embarked upon a 10 km walk. Completed it in 2.5 hours. It was on a gravel pathway through bush up and down sloppy uneven terrain. A thoroughly enjoyable walk. My legs and feet started to ache a little over 6 km into the walk. OOOPS(!) new shoes not broken in. Egads me. I stopped once for a rest on a bench, 5 or 10 minutes and twice stopped to pick and eat wild blackberries. What a treat! Reminded me of biking from Niagara Falls to Queenston Heights where I would stop to pick and feast upon wild raspberries, for breakfast.

The trail here near where I live circles around two lakes, Elk and Beaver.

Supper 6something PM I felt like having a bit of cooked quinoa so cooked some up and topped it with some of the mango chutney I had prepared for supper. A quick trot to the garden and got me some fresh lettuce and used it as a bed for mango chutney. 4 felafels lay atop the chutney. mmmmm it was. The quinoa not so much. I didn't enjoy it so much. There is such a difference between cooked and raw food. Old tastes really fall away.

Coffee drinking for me seems to be directly linked to an earlier emotional wound which is somehow connected to an emotional issue currently in my life. The initial emotional wound came about at a time in my life when I was a coffee drinker. I am talking 43 years ago! I notice the two issues are linked and something emotional about them is linked to drinking coffee. I didn't want a coffee today. The craving and any thoughts of wanting one, ceased. It seems different like if I want a coffee it would be no big deal. This is hard to put into words when I am tired.

I have been tardy again, sorry; tally ho and on to tomorrow.

Are you in physical pain?

**Refined Sugar increases physical pain. Remove it completely from your diet and notice how pain changes.

10:30 AM rejuvelac and a handful of grapefruit/orange/carrot/ chips

early afternoon: a tart. :), a smoothie with a few grapes, apricot, phytogreens powder, orange, cucumber, mango, ice

3:25 PM lunch I suppose it was lunch. The watermelon/tomato salad, what was left of it was used to mix with some sprouts and pecan nuts. That tasted good enough to satisfy me.

5:30ish PM a Bliss ball from Planet Organic and an organic coffee. I felt like coffee again. I am emotionally off. I don't know, I might do coffee more this week. Will see. I am open to it for a change. It is the withdrawal effect I don't like. My naturopath tested me for coffee and the result was it is ok for me according to his findings. According to D'adamo my blood type is the type that is compatible with coffee. This coffee is nice tasting organic/fair trade coffee. I notice my left ear ringing after drinking it. This reaction is not exclusive to coffee.

I think this is a low caffeine coffee or I grabbed a decaf by mistake. I am falling asleep as I type. Or maybe my system is neutralizing the effect of coffee now. Last night I had half decaf and half caffeine coffee and quickly come 11:00 PM became mega tired.


I made a lasagne and have it warming in the dehydrator. It is layered zucchini, spinach, avocado, mariana sauce and the top layer includes cashew sun dried tomato cheese. Excitement is rising while I give it some time to warm and become tastier even. It would be disastrous if it turned to tasting like vinegar like last time. I doubt it will; this batch of cheese is made with probiotic rather than rejuvelac. I am much sure it was the revuelac that fermented it further into vinegar, last time I made lasagne.

Lasagne before dehydrator warming

Lasagne ready to eat

I forgot to add both the salt and the oregano! I had both on the counter and put them away thinking I had already used them. I know where my mind was and I was struggling to keep it on what I was doing. Result the lasagne tasted rather bland. Olives helped to improve its taste at supper. Luckily I had some remaining mariana sauce and can use it to enhance what is left. The oregano and salt I added before sleeping last night.

Craved pink grapefruit, big time, so bought two when I was out picking up some supplies and ate both before bed. One I ate with hemp butter. Hemp butter only gets better tasting every time I eat it! (store hemp butter in the freezer to best preserve it)