Just posting a new juicing recipe. Combine an apple, celery and cucumber in your juicer. With apples coming into season, incorporate them into juices, meals and snacks. The orchards nearby have an amazing variety of apples that ripen in turn all the way to Thanksgiving. Develop your own new recipes and send them to me.
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90 Day Vegetarian Adventure Day 19 Just So You Know
Just so you know, I’ve been in an earthquake, moved my youngest to college and am now watching a hurricane outside my window. Quite the eventful week and vegan eating has taken a backseat.
Just so you know, over the last 6 days I’ve eaten a taco with beef, a chicken breast, milk duds and iced tea with caffeine. The taste of the beef was very strong and gamey, the chicken breast was rather bland, the milk duds and ice tea gave me migraine headaches complete with a visual aura.
Just so you know, I’m not a perfect, always eat the best choice vegan. However, the goal is when I fall off the healthy eating wagon, I get back on as soon as possible. I am committed to the 90 Day Vegan Adventure and will be posting daily new recipes, challenges and victories along the way.
90 Day Vegetarian Adventure Day 13 – Passing the test
Yesterday was a major test of the vegan eating plan. My extended family met at the Utica Picnic and had a family style fried chicken and ham dinner. The Utica Picnic is a yearly fundraiser for the local church. It takes place in a wooded area that has hosted this picnic for decades. The locals come out in droves and the church members serve lots of home cooking, family style and al a carte. From hot beef sandwiches and full fat ice cream to fresh garden vegetables and country ham it is a major test of willpower.
This year I made it about spending time with family, and not about the food. Avoiding the meats, rolls, and cake left lots of room for fresh garden tomatoes, potato salad, pepper slaw, peaches, apple sauce, green beans, homemade beet and cucumber pickles. The food was delicious but not necessary for a great time.
So, I passed the test and really enjoyed seeing my family. No one asked why I wasn’t eating meat or gave me a hard time, though my brother did offer me a piece of vanilla cake with peanut butter frosting. I wasn’t even tempted.
90 Day Vegetarian Adventure Day 10 Retro-Eating
When planning the evening meal I think about what my grandparents ate during the summer. They raised families during the depression and lived on small farms with chickens, pigs, vegetable gardens, and a variety of fruit trees. New potatoes cooked in their jackets, freshly picked corn on the cob and ripe tomatoes were standard fare this time of year. This evening we had black-eyed peas, corn and collard greens from the garden. The flavors are complementary and I feel deeply satisfied when I’m finished. This is retro-eating at it’s finest.
90 Day Vegetarian Adventure Day 9 Struggling
At the beginning of the week I had my blood work drawn and had a conference with my Doctor about my knees and cholesterol. The LDL number is high enough to treat with medication. My knees are slightly arthritic and the left knee has a bone fragment that is floating. Even though surgery is in the near future, a lower weight would help all of these conditions. So, the 90 Day Vegan Adventure isn’t only about a new eating habit, it’s also about weight loss. The catch-22 is exercising with a bum knee. Yoga has worked for flexibility and strength but I need an inexpensive form of aerobic exercise that doesn’t cause knee pain. Recommendations are welcome.
90 Day Vegetarian Adventure Day 5 Reformer
Ever since the juice fast I feel like I’m on the outside of the American food experience looking in, realizing how very unhealthy the typical US diet is and how oblivious everyone is to what they are putting into their bodies and the effect it has on wellness.
I also feel like someone who has quit smoking and is on a crusade to reform everyone they know who smokes. So, I promise to record my own experiences and not to get up on the soap box preaching reform to all of you who don’t give a darn. But I just have to say one thing. It is difficult to order an entrée in an American restaurant that is not meat-based and slathered in cheese.
Vegetarian Adventure Day 3 Potato Chips
A word for anyone who wants to transform their eating habits, keep the junk food out of the house! I wanted Potato Chips with my veggie burger this evening but there weren’t any in the house so I had steamed green beans and rice instead. If chips had been here I would have eaten more than I really wanted and felt the grease at the back of my throat and the unnatural thirst from too much salt. Now I feel satisfied and glad that the junk is out of the house!
Favorite Summer Recipe
Spaghetti squash baked in the oven, with nonfat plain yogurt, fresh chopped tomatoes and fresh basil for the sauce.
90 Day Vegetarian Adventure Day 2 – Eating Out
Today I worked with my husband in the Rockville area and found the most wonderful restaurant for lunch. We decided that with the Vegan Adventure, eating in a typical American restaurant would be meat based for the most part and high in fat. So, we stopped at a Mediterranean hole-in-the-wall that advertised falafel. The vegetarian falafel was just what I wanted. The vegetables and falafel were wrapped in fresh, homemade bread with a delicious yogurt sauce on the side. I also ordered some Persian Rice Pudding which was made with saffron and rose-water. For those of you who work in the Rockville area, the name of the restaurant is Mediterranean House of Kabob located at the White Flint Station Center.
Lesson Learned: I love working with my husband, and when looking for good vegetarian food try Mediterranean.
Library – Recommended Reading
Roth, Geneen. Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating. A Signet Book, New American Library, 1984.
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