Day Four

So I'm almost done with my fourth day, and my enthusiasm is waning. As my wife has been known to say, "I want something deep fried and bad for me!" Might I add, "And I want it NOW!!!"

I'm still committed to seeing this through, I'm just not having the best time today. I knew it would happen, as it happened about this same time when I did it for a week. I haven't eaten very much of the food that's been provided me by the folks at EJ Ranch, not because I don't have an appetite but because I don't have an appetite for this type of food. I want chicken! Or a steak. Hell, even a baked potato sounds fantastic right now.

I can already see some effects of this diet on my body. My system has been uh... cleaning itself out these past two days. My diet shortly before I started this adventure was poor. We usually it well in the Morin household, but after the baby was born, we relied heavily on fast food and quick, microwaveable meals (think burritos, chicken nuggets, etc). Anyway, that is all getting flushed out now. I'm hoping that, after day seven, I'll have developed a better taste for raw foods!

Spinach Wrap

I had an idea today that turned out pretty tasty. I took about a teaspoon of yogurt and spread it on a spinach leaf. To that I added a sprinkle of pink Himalayan sea salt, a tsp of pate, and some crumbled raw blue cheese. I rolled that up and nested it in another spinach leaf and just chomped on it. Very, very good.

The Second Day the Second

So, I didn't eat a whole lot today. I had a banana for breakfast and a salad for lunch. Pretty standard stuff. Dinner, however, was really good. I had wild caught yellow-fin tuna from Whole Foods, the same type if salad I had for lunch, and a flax seed cracker with a tomato sauce and veggie-patty.

I do have to say that the cracker and patty really didn't go with the rest of the meal. Don't get me wrong, I like it just fine, just not with sushi! But yeah, I took the baby romaine, drizzled it with the olive oil and Nama...
and then did the same to the fish. In all, pretty tasty!

I'm Back Baby! (Second Day 1)

So, a little over half a year later, and I'm doin' 30 Days of Raw again (for real)! Things got kicked off with dinner (raw of course) at the Everything Jesus Ranch in Seguin, TX. Today was my first full day of raw eating, and the rules are pretty much the same as before: only raw, organic foods, milk, and a gallon of alkaline water a day. I started my day with some yogurt, honey and Nutzola. For lunch I had a couple of salads which were very delicious. You take whatever greens your using (I went with baby romaine), drizzle them in olive oil, add a splash or two of Nama Shoyu (unpastuerized soy sauce), and add garlic and pepper. By far, this is the best way to eat a salad, as far as I'm concerned.

For dinner, I had the following:

At the bottom of the plate is a cracker made from dehydrated corn and some spices topped with butter, a pate, guacamole, and onions. Top left is a salad of corn, cabbage, and onion that's been marinated in whey. Top right is my favorite of the evening: kelp noodles served with whey marinated green beans, corn, broccoli, mushrooms, and carrots. Kelp, if you did not know, is an excellent source of iodide (the stuff they put in most table salts).

Well, that's all for the day. I snacked on some organic oranges and some dessert thing that the folks at EJ Ranch made up for me that, for the life of me, I can't remember what they're made of. In case you were wondering, I'm in it for the full 30 days this time round. I have the cash saved up and everything. So, check back here daily for menu items and updates on how the diet is affecting me!