Starting My 41st Year!

Today I heard myself say to Mo, "I'm hungry. Want to get a treat?" We were in Axis Natural Foods picking up, oh... you know... the usual... irish moss, carob, ascorbic acid... LOL! I always chuckle to myself when I see some of the things that end up on my shelves. Anyway, I stopped in the middle of the aisle and said, "Wait a minute. What I mean is, do you want some food?"

The definition of treat, for me, has always been something you eat out of the ordinary and that something has always been fried, loaded with crap, made of white sugar or flour, etc. And is a that is a treat?!? Putting food in categories is dangerous business because it loads up our edibles with emotional baggage.


Note: Capitalized recipes are my own.

Day 8

• 8a, 1 c. hot jasmine green tea with honey
• 9:45a, Mo's Garbage Cereal: 1/2 c. raw oats, 1/4 c. raisins, 1/4 c. walnuts, 1 banana, 1 T. coconut flakes, 1 T. goji berries, 1 tsp. chia, 1.5 c. almond mylk
  (Only ending up eating about 2/3's of this... made too much AGAIN! Arg!)
• 12:30p, 3 mulberries, 2 goji berries, 8 jungle peanuts
  
• 1p, 1.5 c. spring water
• 2:30p, 2 oz. Woodstock Farms™ Veggie Chips
• 2:45p, 1 medium tomato
• 3:15p, 1/2 of a medium cucumber with Easy Peasy Vinaigrette (only had about 1/3 of this recipe: 2 T. olive oil, 2 T. balsamic vinegar, 1 clove garlic, 1 T. honey)
• 6:30p, 1/3 of the following salad concoction: 1.5 bunch of kale, 2 large tomatoes, 1/3 c. conventional olives, 3 pinches of sea salt, 3 T. hemp oil, 3 T. balsamic vinegar, 1/3 c. sunflower seeds, 3 T. chia seeds, 1/3 c. nutritional yeast, 1/4 tsp. black pepper
• 6:30p, 1.5 c. spring water, 1 c. cold horsetail tea
  
• 7p, 1 piece of Cherry Ripple Pie: crust was 1 c. dried apricots, 1/2 c. walnuts, 1 c. macs, 1/2 c. almonds, pinch of sea salt, 1 T. almond flour (for dusting pie plate); filling was 3 avocados, 10 oz. cherries, 1/4 c. coconut oil, 3 T. honey, pinch of sea salt; ripple topping was 1/2 c. carob, 1/2 c. cacao powder, 1/2 c. honey, 2 T. coconut oil, 1/2 tsp. MacaPro™,1/4 tsp. sea salt

Today's Observations
Veggie Chips? Not a good choice. Thought they'd be low-key, but ugh. I felt a little sick after eating just that small amount. Must have been the oil in them. The pie tasted great, but sat a little heavy on my stomach. I even thought about making the filling mac-based, but decided to use avos instead to lighten it up a bit. I've been so into mono and/or simpler meals; good thing I only do these on holiday-type days. Overall though, another good day.