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Janie's June 2002 Journal I actually started a little before this - about 6/18/2002,
but I don't have those logs anymore. Sorry. Wed 6/26: Hubby got up before me & had half a mango, leaving the other half for me. When I got up I couldn't resist even though I wasn't hungry... Breakfast (7am): 1/2 mango As I said, I wasn't hungry yet, so I got full really quickly. It was kind of a bummer 'cause I really, really wanted to eat more pineapple. This was a very special pineapple & it's also the best one we've ever tasted. It's not just the white fleshed kind, which is low acid, but we planted it ourselves from a top that came from an excellent pineapple some organic farmer friends gave us. We grew it organically and let it ripen on the plant - well as much as we thought we could. After we picked it we thought it wasn't quite ripe - didn't smell quite there. It took a couple of days, but it was ready today! It was the juiciest, sweetest, and tastiest we've ever had! Even the core was tender and sweet - as much as the sides usually are in a regular tasty white pineapple! Wow! I can't wait until lunch! Lunch (Noon): more of the pineapple I wasn't hungry until lunch this time & then got full pretty quickly. My husband ate about 1/3 of the pineapple in the morning, I had my breakfast before from it & my son had a little less than I had at breakfast. For lunch the amount was about half of what was left after all that (1/4 of the pineapple?) Snack (3pm): water from 2-3 coconuts, waited 45min., 'meat' from coconuts - mix of jelly type and medium ~ 1 cup Dinner (7:30pm): 5-6 cups salad (lettuce, tat tsai, mushrooms, cilantro, tamari sunflower seeds, brown sesame seeds, walnuts, carrot, chayote, arugula) with olive oil, lemon juice and nutritional yeast, was still hungry a little after finishing it, so had about 6-8 baby carrots I realize that's alot of stuff all together & I probably shouldn't combine the nuts, seeds and olive oil - or have tamari sunflower seeds, but I'm also sharing this salad with the rest of my family (that aren't doing this with me right now). Thurs 6/27: Breakfast? Lunch Snack 4:30pm: small sample slice of soursop at farmer's market Dinner 7:30pm: 1 small avocado, leaves from ~2 heads leaf lettuce, 4 or 5 bites of flat parsley, 1 small cherry tomato Fri. 6/28: 11am: 2 apricots 1pm: banana, mango & kiwi smoothie (I usually have lunch with a friend on Fridays & she was inspired by my new eating, so she wanted to have a smoothie with me. I wouldn't usually have kiwi in there with banana [& won't again 'cause it didn't agree with me], but she was really into having it & I couldn't remember if it was an acid fruit or not. Due to my reaction, I'm pretty sure it is an acid fruit. LOL). 3:30pm: 1 apple banana 7pm: large salad with tahini lemon dressing - included lettuce, tat tsai, tamari sunflower seeds (I'm almost out & will do plain ones after that), brown sesame seeds, walnuts, tomato, celery (it does taste salty now), a bit of flat parsley, raw wheat germ (probably technically not raw - may have been heated too much in the grinding process), chayote, carrot I know I didn't eat enough fruit today - Fridays are my busiest day away from home & I haven't gotten it down yet. I was fine after the salad though... I was going to bring the coco water with me today, but my hubby forgot to check them all before dumping them into the container & one was bad - spoiled the whole lot. :-( Oh well, live and learn - they were free & we've got more. Sat 6/29: Hubby decided to go on a day-long hike solo today & asked me to pack up raw meals for him like I would for myself (yay!)- and then increase the amounts. It was really fun! I packed everything in tupperware type of containers so it wouldn't get squashed in his backpack. Here's what I packed for him: watermelon for breakfast (cut up & off the rind) a mix of juicy fruits for brunch (~7 or 8 blackberries, 1 mountain apple, 2 apricots, 2 plums. 2 strawberries) sweet & neutral fruit for lunch (10 bananas [he'll be hiking all day] & ~6 or 7 lychee) I also packed some dried fruit in case (he hasn't been doing raw food lately - or even close) & instructed him to try to not eat it 'cause it would dehydrate him (~1/4cup raisins, 1/2 dried banana, 1 frozen date) salad & nuts for dinner (lettuce, tat tsai, fresh picked green beans [he loves those], tomato, walnuts, almonds, the rest of the tamari sunflower seeds, pecans), he also brought a couple of large bottles of water. I'll let you know how it went for him. I'll post what I ate today later tonight or tomorrow. Hubby came back after 7 1/2 hrs. - spent all but 1/2 hour of it hiking. He had eaten all of the food except 4 bananas, the dried fruit & dinner so far. So that would make 6 bananas for him. He also ate about 6 Jamaican Lilikoi (a kind of passion fruit) he found while hiking. I told him to eat a celery stick when he got home, which he did. Later, after a nap (he was sunburnt) he ate his dinner with a tahini lemon dip (the dressing I make without the added water). He had a cheese craving, and had ~ 2 cups? (in shell) raw pistacios (sp?) instead of the nuts I packed this morning. He also didn't eat the tomato & about half of the beans. Looks like it worked out pretty well for him today! I don't know if he has plans to keep up with raw past today or not - I'll just have to see what happens tomorrow. Here's what I ate: 10am: big fat slice (~2-4" thick x ~14" diameter) of watermelon! It's so good for breakfast. 2:30pm: 3 apple bananas (I guess they're sort-of sub-acid rather than sweet), 1/2 of the mystery fruit I got at the farmer's market the other day - I'll tell you more about it after this. 5:30pm: salad with tahini lemon dressing (~ 5-7 cups lettuce & tat tsai, ~ 1/3 stick celery, 14 walnuts [counted them this time LOL], ~ 2 Tbsp. brown sesame seeds, 3 leaf groupings of flat parsley, 5 long chives, 1 paste tomato; dressing was ~ 1/2 - 1 cup raw tahini, 1/4-3/4 cup lemon juice mixed then ~ 1/8 cup water to thin) My guinea pigs are going to get sooo fat with me eating raw food! I give them the rinds of the watermelon (then need to change their bedding 'cause it makes them pee lots too), the peel to the bananas (they like it better than the fruit - works our great), the lettuce I don't want but is still good, and all kinds of other things. They didn't like the mystery fruit though. I took out our "Fruits of Warm Climates" book (by Julia F. Morton) to see if I could figure out what the mystery fruit is (rather than wait until next Thursday to ask & write down the name - which I'll do anyway). I think it might be called biriba, but I'm not sure - it doesn't talk about the taste for that one, but the rest sounds/looks like it. The mystery fruit is quite different - I ate half & I'm still not sure whether I like it or not - really. LOL At first it kind of reminded me of the rice cerial I used to give my son when he was a baby - but different. I knew it tasted like something I've had before... I then determined that it tasted like how I remember rice pudding to taste like - but with a bit of lemon added. I never have liked rice pudding, but like lemon - so I wasn't sure what to think. I decided to eat half of it & save the other half for my hubby to eat to see what he thought it tasted like. He likes rice pudding. I figured I should give it a good try & I'd know what I thought by the time I'd eaten half of it. Wrong. I still don't know - I do know I can stomach it better than rice pudding & it did kind of grow on me, but I don't know if I'd choose it regularly... While I had the book out I noticed that there are food value tables for every fruit listed - cool, I had forgotten about that! I found out that biriba has 80 calories per 100 grams of fruit as well as 2.8 grams protein, .2 grams lipids, 24 mg calcium, 26 mg phosphorous, 1.2 mg iron and other things. I decided to look up soursop to find out its info. & found that for every 100 grams of edible fruit it has 61.3 - 53.1 calories, 1 gram protein, .97 grams fat, 14.63 grams carbohydrates, 10.3 mg calcium, 27.7 mg phosphorus, .64mg iron along with other things. It has this info. on lots of different tropical fruits - cool! Maybe I'll see if I can find that old nutrition database, update it and use it again... Sunday 6/30: Hubby woke me up to help him - he had really intense dizziness & nausea. It got really bad with the room spinning for him and intense ringing in his ears with vomiting. He thought he was going to pass out & couldn't even move his head slightly without vomiting. We thought it might be a heat exhaustion thing from yesterday so we took him into the doctor (an hour's drive). It certainly didn't seem like a cleanse either. The walk-in clinic was closed so we had to go to the emergency room. They said it wasn't heat exhaustion, but something relating to his inner ear which could have been caused by a virus (he had a sensation of a full or stuffed up head the day before) or could have been Labyrinthitus or Meniere's Disease. They gave him some motion sickness med. & it helped him recover from the spinning. After he was feeling better enough to go home, we did - after he got some cooked food for lunch. He said he does want to move into raw & is moving back towards vegetarianism naturally, but was just too hungry by then to do it now. It was already after lunch and neither of us had eaten anything - except the little bit of watermelon that he ate this morning that didn't stay down. It was interesting - when he threw up the watermelon, it didn't smell bad. We theorized that it was due to the fact that he'd been eating all raw yesterday and this morning. He said it was a good testament to the correctness of eating raw - neither your poop or barf smells badly (if you happen to barf, which is less likely on raw). Gee, I hope that doesn't gross anyone out too much. Sorry. Anyway, I stayed raw (even though I was hungry) but ended up not eating until later in the day than usual. I couldn't eat when worried, so the meals are a little closer together than they'd usually be... 1 or 1:30pm: 5 apricots 3:30pm: watermelon 5:30 or 6pm: 5 bananas 9pm: small salad (~1/4-1/2 cup katuk, 1 stick celery, 2 paste tomatoes, 3 leaf groups of parsley, ~1/4-1/2 avocado, lemon juice) It was actually a whole avocado, but the seed was so large & had stained the 'meat' that the amount I actually ate was the equivalent to 1/4 - 1/2 a reg. avocado. I'm sure I ate too close to when I went to sleep. I was unsure whether to just skip the meal & go to sleep or eat it and stay up... I hadn't had my official fat for the day or any veggies & I didn't want to end up too hungry in the morning. I think it would have been better at that point to just go to sleep (and make up for the veggies and fat the next day). Oh well - I'll know next time.
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