Quiet Day

Hi Journal,

Today has been a quiet lazy day. Hubby has been playing on pc game or sleeping. I got up today at 6 am for some reason and could not go back to sleep. Went to the sofa so as not to bother hubby. He has enough problems sleeping and I do not want to add to that. Snoozed on sofa for about an hour. By then hubby had gotten up too.

Sat. Are usually lazy..

What I had today:
In the morning I made a smoothie with sunflower seed milk, banana, and cinnamon. While that was blending I decided to make a salad for later if I got hungry.

Salad consisted of spinach greens, grated carrots, green onions, and ice burg lettuce.. (Yeah I know not much nutrients there.. But was all I had.). I also made a dressing out of some of the sunflower milk, hemp oil, half an organic banana, rosemary, oregano and a splash of apple cider vinegar. The dressing turned out pretty good. Needed to be a bit thicker... Was kind of watery.. Probably did not need the milk.. But it added a sweetness along with a part of a banana.

I had the salad later about 1pm. A large plate adding a bit of sunflower seeds also.... Finding I just can not eat onions of any kind. Even the green onions. Darn and I so like them.

About 4:30 PM I had just grated carrots with my dressing.. YUMMMMMY! And another plate of salad.

About 7 decided I wanted something sweet so I am making (it is now in dehydrator) halvah. Had a spoon full or two while making it and that satisfied me enough to wait.

Have had a lot of water today.. Had about 3-32 oz glasses, 4 bottles...Tomorrow we go for groceries.. But probably can not get a lot of my stuff...

Over all a pretty good Raw day. I am happy.. Feel light in mind and body.

Time is Dragging

It has been a few days. I have been bad.. Hanging head. lack of money has forced this hand. Hubby did grocery shopping and did not buy much I could eat. So I have been mostly eating sandwiches. But Today I had some oranges and bananas with celery and what was left of my parsley.. So I have been making smoothies. Fruit is almost gone but have given the go ahead to get some more. Think I might go look at some almonds or walnuts and dates to make a pie. I have been wanting some since all the recipe pics I have been seein are sweets. Sometimes I wonder just how good these are for us. We have just traded SAD food sweets for a lesser..maybe better for you sweet. Can they really be THAT good for you. A lot of nuts there in some recipes.

I am just happy I will be getting something I can eat again. When I get my first paycheck.. well I am getting cases of foods.. oranges, bananas, apples. A flat of strawberries lots of blueberries. I will probably have to freeze some but hey they were fresh when I got them. Oh need lots of spinach too.

Other then having little money and depressed because time is just not passing fast enough to get restocked.. I am feeling ok. On to another day..

Food today has been two smoothies with two oranges, two bananas, parsley..lots of water, and celery.

I took a short quiz and since I am a dragon at heart I wanted to post this today....

I am a A Bronze Dragon!
Hey, I took the http://dragonhame.com online Inner Dragon quiz and found out I am a Bronze Dragon on the inside.

In the war between good and evil, Bronze Dragons take the side of the noble and good....When it comes to the powers of Chaos vs. those of Law and Order, your inner dragon walks a fine line between Law and Chaos....As far as magical tendancies, a Bronze Dragon's nature does not lend itself well to the ways of Magic....

During combat situations, a true Bronze Dragon prefers to defeat opponents by the use of spells and other tactics....The inquisitive bronze dragons live along the beaches and shores of the remote islands. The Bronze Cliffs house many lairs, with open portals looking out upon the churning sea high up stone face, and entrances located deep below the surface of the water.

No matter their age, bronze dragons tend to be the most cheerful and good-natured of dragonkind.'They love the simple challenges of riddles and harmless contests, and often number master riddlers among their demihuman vassals. They are fascinated by warfare in all its forms, eagerly looking for just causes to champion with their armies of dragons and demihumans.'

Bronze hatchlings have yellow scales tinged with green. Only a hint of bronze shines upon these overlapping plates. This color deepens as the dragon ages, slowly turning to a rich bronze tone that darkens as the centuries pass. Bronze Dragons have a deep and abiding love for the sea and its good creatures, while they enjoy feasting on aquatic plant and sharks. Dragon lords especially appreciate gifts of pearls, which they consider to be delicacies.'

This Dragons favorite elements are: Bronze, Pearls, and Nobility
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9:30am- blended one organic orange, 1/4 cup blueberries (were fresh but I froze them when i got home from the store), 1 medium banana, 5 strawberries (same as blueberries), water....

12:30pm- blended green shake of 2 medium bananas, 3 strawberries, 1/4 c blueberries, 1 small organic orange, 1/2 tender spinach greens, water thoughts..

1:00pm.. doing pretty good so far... will probably need to eat a real salad to get crunchies in.. looking forward to it... might make some halvah for snack.

7:00Pm Didn't make the halvah.. just too lazy... not really hungry.. ate about 1/2 cup soaked almonds. Some olives.. don't think canned olives are raw but I was in the mood..

Drank water with each meal but feel the need for something other then water to drink.

8:00pm snack... 2 frozen bananas blended smooth.. a touch of carob powder.. kind of like chocolate ice cream...stuffed happy for bed..

Being Easter today I rather stayed away from everyone. This helped me. Also the fruit helped not want ice cream or chocolate.

Another day another banana... Hahahaha...

Life has been going well.. Been pretty much raw except some Wheatthins here and there.

Today I had a mango, 2 bananas, and orange blended together for breakfast after my usual lemon and warm water. Wasn't really hungry after..

12:00- juiced three oranges
not hungry today-- feel kind of swollen..around eyes but look ok. rather sleep went back to bed at 2 and slept til 5 got up at 5.

5:00pm ate two dinner plates of salad with red leaf lettuce, dandelion greens, tomatoes, cucumbers and TI dressing (Not Raw).
drank water for drink.. full now.. but tummy kind of in slight pain for having so many greens...

Great Day!

Here I am again, playing catch up. Still doing the 100% raw thing and doing well. No major problems.. Going pretty easy. This is not hard to keep up as a way of life. The hardest part is keeping the fruit and veggies in the house..

6:30am- 16 oz water with lemon

7:45am- smoothie of one banana, 1/4 cup blueberries, water

11:30am- salad consisting of dandelion greens, Romaine lettuce, red leaf lettuce, grated carrots, raisins, sunflower seeds...water 32 oz

2:00pm -- 1/2 cup walnuts ...water

6 oz6:00pm -- blended salad consisting of dandelion greens, romaine lettuce, red leaf lettuce, grated carrots, sunflower seeds, lemon juice, water.... water to drink 48oz

8:30pm- finally went to the store.. got fruit.. had two bananas with 5 strawberries

Breakfast: quart of green smoothie containing-- banana sliced and frozen, fresh juice of 4 oranges, big whopping hand full spinach leaves , small hand full parsley, half cucumber peeled, tomato

Lunch: salad of mixed greens, cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans, sprouted mung beans, dressing was not raw. Was Thousand Island.

snack: 2 small boxes raisins organic

Was pretty busy today getting eBay auctions mpacked up and mailed off. Had to make a couple collars too along with cleaning house. I did get two jobs one will start on the 18th the other will start on the 3rd of May. I am torn which one I want. Should I go with one that is more interesting or more pay??.. Both are call center which I hate. We shall see.

Been doing pretty good raw. There are some things that just are not able to be had now so I have to continue with partial SAD due to finances.. I missed a few posts but the days have been essentially the same give or take a banana here or there.

Got on the scale last night.. And unless this scale is wrong I have lost 10 lbs..Makes me at 270.... Whoo hooo! Doesn't seem to be showing anywhere yet tho.. Strange........

Busy Day

Boy it was a busy day today!

Had to go for an interview today so the day started pretty early. Interview was at 10.. So we had to leave at 9:15.. I was up at about 8 am checked email and my auctions... Then got a blender full of spinach, parsley, bananas, blueberries, water. This filled up the blender after it was blended also. I drank 32 oz of this while getting ready to go. Put the rest in a mason jar with tight lid. I had made some banana leather the night before for snacks.

Went to the interview.. Was supposed to only take about 1 1/2 hours took about 4 because they were in a meeting.. Boy oh boy... I had forgotten my leather and was starved on the way home. But we decided to bypass the eating joints to save money and eat what was at home. Such restraint..LOL...

Got home and got my jar of fruit mix and drank that while making a nice salad of romaine, carrots, ice burg, parsley, cucumbers, tomatoes, sprouted mung beans and sprouted lentiles. I have got to find a recipe for Thousand Island dressing. Maybe croutons too. After drinking my fruit.. About thirty minutes later had a large plate of the salad.

Later this evening I made some corn crackers with frozen corn, flax seed, cayenne pepper, and Celtic sea salt. Put in a few squashed cloves of garlic while at it so I could grind up my own garlic powder..

Here it is 11:15PM and not hungry at all drank water the rest of the night...

Re-stocked Some

I have re-stocked my kitchen some for a week. Did not get any nuts as they were too expensive.. So I will need to find other outlets in my creativeness. When I got home from the store I made a salad of fruits.. Orange slices, chopped up apples, bananas, and some blueberries. Made a sauce of sorts with juice of an orange and blueberries.. Yum. I made a big salad bowl full so I could have some to snack on. Hubby wanted some so shared with him. Later in the night around 8 I ate the rest of the bowl.. Whew! Also had two bananas whole while blending up some bananas for some crepes. Recipe found in Alissa Cohen's book "Living on Live Food". ( A wonderful book I might add. Think I said that yesterday huh??) I spent $53.00 on foods for me. Plus some cheese and tostada shells for hubby. Forgot all about needing fish food, paper towels and cat litter... Heavy sigh...

Hoping this will last me a week. I really feel guilty buying all this as we need insurance on the car and bills to be paid... But hubby said we needed food and all he wanted was oranges... LOL(evil grin).

Well, that is about it for today.. Not real exciting huh? Sorry..

Alissa Cohen's Book

I finally was able to get Alissa Cohen's book "Living on Live Food" (Thanks to a wonderful angel). I tell you it is a must read! The book is written in simple language to where anyone can understand the importance of eating raw foods without all the technical bits of info. There are many other books out there that give that info if this was something someone wanted.

In her book she gives testimonials of people who have been helped through many health problems by eating the raw food living food lifestyle. This book shows how caring and thoughtful Alissa is in her teachings. It shows her passion for this lifestyle and passions to help other people.

I can not wait to get going again on live foods. And if finances slow me down.. Well, this will be a time of fasting for me..I refuse to do the cooked food thing again.. I have dillie dallied for too long and have only hurt my body in doing so. Like some people in the testimonials.. I thought I was too old to mess with being serious about health..But wanted better health. I could go out and get run over by a bus or something too.. So I want to live to the fullest.. Healthiest, happiest.

Look out world!!! Here I come!!!
WHEEEEEEEEE!