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 :)