Hello all-
Ginny has asked me: could we put together a menu for her so she knows what to buy and make to get started?
She is so overwhelmed right now that she can't get her head around anything new but if we tell her what to get, she can do that.
What do you think? Here is your chance to reach back and help the next set! :)
So-if each of you would list what you would suggest she lay in...what worked for you for your first week, and what would you tell her to stock up on? These are the tricks that worked for you, and that from your wisdom you can offer out to her.
Anyone game? Post it here, and we can assemble a starter's kit for her.
4 comments:
I always started the day with fruit because I read it was best to eat fruit on an empty stomach. So a couple of bananas. An hour or so later an apple. An hour or so later I ate an orange or clementines, or a persimmon And then an hour or so after that it was lunch time. I brought veggies like carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, celery, zucchini etc., to cut up for a salad for lunch. I used lemon, oil (either Udos or Cold Pressed Olive Oil) and salt as a dressing. I always included one or two avacodos. I'm using a different dressing now it's 1 c balsamic vineagar, 1/4 c olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. Add all ingredients to blender except the oil which is added slowly after you've blended everything else for a couple minutes.
Dinner's were harder for me, but generally involved another avacado and some cut up veggies. That first week I was eating a lot more raw cashews too. At some point Lara bars became dinner for a while. Simmered raw soup of cut up veggies, was good too that first week. I used vegetable broth and cut up veggies in a pot on low heat till it simmered for a while.
Ingredients per day:
2 bananas, an orange, apple, and other fruit
2 avacodos, carrots, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, bell peppers
You can use the left over veggies from lunch to make a soup or another salad. I would have an avocado again at dinner.
I recommend doing careful research and saving your money for a good juicer. Being able to get a lot of nutrients from veggies quickly with all those live enzymes is really important. It's made a big difference to me. I drink green juice now everyday. It usually contains a whole head or bunch of some kind of leafy green vegetable like kale, collard greens, spinach, green leafy lettuce etc. It also usually contains a whole head/bunch of celery or a cucumber. I add a couple of apples, a lemon and an inch or two of ginger. The ginger is good for digestion and it adds a nice zing to the flavor. The lemon keeps the juice from tasting like you're licking a lawn mower.
Good luck. Ask lots of questions. Read lots of books. I recommend 12 steps to Raw by Victoria Buetenko (sp?) and The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose and The Wheatgrass Book by Ann Wigmore
Remember that no one is an expert, everyone is a pioneer at this, and just because someone wrote a book doesn't mean they know how your body works.
And kudos to you for trying!!!! :)
You are amazing! :)
Why should I be surprised that the mapmaker would have the way so organized. LOL
I almost forgot the best dinner EVER. I have many nights in a row eaten a young coconut for dinner. I love the water. I like the meat. I've used the meat to make chocolate pudding. And that is surprisingly satisfying.
Ditto on what Rebecca said....I still find that I don't prepare enought food...so get those ginsu knives a workin....I found just throwing a bunch of things together and coming up with my own concoctions were cool. Remember to play in your food, that is part of the process...what we discovered about ourselves was partly because we found something out about the food...some of the adventure was just exploring what the food meant to us...
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