Day 7 - A Month of Harcombe

Bacon and eggs. With coffee.

Omelette thing with pumpkin and cheese and bacon

Pork Chops with vegies in cream

Month of Food--Post 3

Started the day with coffee as usual.

The best thing about my morning coffee is that I know that it is part of the way my beloved expresses his affection for me. The second best thing is that I usually take it as an opportunity to collect my thoughts for the day while sitting in this awesome radio chair that we picked up at an auction several years ago.






Then morning fruit.


I broke the rules at lunch time and had this delicious banana bread (bad fruit/starch combo) but it was sooo delicious looking that I chose not to resist--and it tasted as good as it looked :)



A little later on I added a salad--this was made of some left over roast veggies diced up and added to some fresh greens and herbs that came from a friends garden, some olive oil and a little salt and pepper.



Dinner was greens from my garden plus some kale, sauteed with a little water, a massel stock cube and a handful of sprouted mung beans. Some steamed veggies and a small serve of gnocchi with a rather large helping of sauce left over from the other night's pasta.


I love lightly cooked mung beans, they seem to fill the same spot as corn kernels for me, but milder and less starchy tasting.



No, really, there *is* gnocchi under there, honest!

Day 6 - A Month of Harcombe

Scrambled eggs with oven roasted pumpkin and bacon

Coleslaw, japanese style tinned tuna, green salad with pumpkin

Corned beef hash, followed up with some cheese

Month of Food--Post 2

Okay, I didn't eat all of this fruit today, it was left over from last nights dinner gathering as I was going to offer it for desert, but we were all stuffed full from the pasta. Since I had so much available I was considering doing a fruit fast for the day but in the end decided not too when sushi called.


Black coffee lovingly made by Mr X. Check out that crema!



Vegetarian sushi for lunch, how could I say no.



Some left over roast veggies as a late afternoon snack.


Steamed veggies with falafel and a little gravy--I use the Orgran gravy mix because it is free of all my allergens, but I believe that good old Gravox is actually vegan too, who would have thought?

Joining the Month of Food

I have decided to join Sarah P in her month of food posts. I find it really interesting that our diets follow very similar rules with the only really big difference being that they are completely opposite in terms of the main ingredients.

I am currently trialing careful food combining based mostly on Leslie Kenton's Biogenic Diet and Donna Gates' Body Ecology Diet. So, just like Sarah P, I don't eat processed foods and I don't combine protein with starches. In addition I only eat fruit on its own and I try and have as much 'living' food as possible i.e sprouts, just picked greens, and fermented or cultured foods--foods high in enzymes and gut friendly bacteria.

The theory behind food combining (or, to be more accurate, not combining) is that different levels of acidity are required to digest different types of food and by only eating foods that require the same environment at any one time we can make the digestion process easier and more efficient and thus help to eliminate a host of digestive problems, particularly those that are related to 'leaky gut syndrome'.

The big difference between mine and Sarah's diets is that I have been vegan for over 2 years now so while many of our diet 'rules' are the same my diet is entirely plant based and much lower in protein foods.

Today's meals:

As suggested by Kenton I am trialing eating only fruit until midday. I find that I need to eat quite a bit for this to work for me. This morning's fruit was 2 apples, a pear, a peach, a plum and a couple of lychees, yum! I eat most of it early on in the day and have a couple of pieces for a mid morning snack.



Lunch today was two slices of sprouted spelt bread (this is sprouted, mushed together and cooked at a very low temperature so it is still full of enzymee goodness, it makes for a very thick, moist and relatively sweet bread) topped with half an avocado, salt and cracked pepper, and baby spinach leaves. I finished it off with a coconut water drink.



Dinner was fettuccine with a rich tomato based veggie sauce. The main flavours were mushrooms, zucchini, and roasted capsicum. I took the picture above just before I added the passata so that you could see what was in it--talk about eating a rainbow!



I had guests over tonight so I was cooking for ten, a great chance to put my new stove to the test :)

Day 5 - A Month of Harcombe

Bacon and eggs. Again. Oh, and some cheese on the eggs to make it more interesting.

Salad! Tiny cubes of cheese, grated carrot, lettuce,capsicum, with a orange and lime vinaigrette

Corned beef brisket with carrots and cabbage. Plus the corned beef sauce from the Golden Wattle cookbook. More sugar than I am used to but eh. Two tablespoons of it between the four of us isn't huge.

Day 4 - A Month of Harcombe

Scrambled eggs with the leftover veggies from 2 nights ago (the ones with the green beans and carrots) with bacon. And coffee of course!

I forgot my lunch photo! I had the left over salmon from last night with a salad and a home made vinaigrette of lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. It was delicious! Salad was mostly carrot and lettuce, and then some red capsicum and a sliced mushroom.

UFO - Unidentified Frozen Object. Turned out to be a slow cooked chicken tomato capsicum dish which I remembered disliking the first time around due to the capsicum. I pulled some out, added some basil paste, pulled out the bones, added the ratatouille from last night and served it up with lots of cheese and salt and pepper. Much better this time around! Also: kids loved it.

Day 3 - A Month of Harcombe

Lunch was Red Rooster Quarter Chicken and Salad with Carrots and Dressing

Dinner was chilli and lime marinaded salmon from coles. It had no heat to it but it was delicious! Lots of lemon grass and coconut flavours. Vegies were sort of like a ratatoille.

I thought I had caught breakfast too, but apparently not! That's easy to fix though - check out yesterday's pic for breakfast. Bacon, eggs, and tomato. :)

Day 2 - A Month of Harcombe

Breakfast! Bacon, eggs, tomato

Lunch! Avocado with ranch dressing, steak under a chunky steak sauce. (Capsicum, onion, mushroom, Worcestershire sauce) Not 100% Harcombe - Zoe recommends waiting on the avocado as it has both carbs and fats.

Dinner! Marinaded pepper and garlic steak from the butcher (hoping a little bit of marinade won't be trouble) and braised green beans, onion, carrots, celery, capsicum in stock.

Some cooking for a friend.

Sarah P

Prawn and Cucumber Soup

Mealplan and books, ready to go!

Steak and salad for lunch!

Prawn and Cucumber Soup