Today I had

Salad of zucchini, tomato, yellow squash, onion, dill, carrot, cucumber, walnut

Mixed fruit: orange, blackberry, apple, banana, and more banana

Juice: cucumber, red cabbage, green cabbage, carrot, apple

Salad of blackeyed peas, carrot, onion, walnut, dill.


We have a new grocer in town:

Strawberries are $1/lb
golden beets $1.50/bunch with their greens,
spinach $1/bunch
galia melon $1/lb
red and green cabbage $1/ 3 lbs

I am going to feast this week.

arugula Wrote:
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> Today I had
>
> Salad of zucchini, tomato, yellow squash, onion,
> dill, carrot, cucumber, walnut
>
> Mixed fruit: orange, blackberry, apple, banana,
> and more banana
>
> Juice: cucumber, red cabbage, green cabbage,
> carrot, apple
>
> Salad of blackeyed peas, carrot, onion, walnut,
> dill.
>
>
> We have a new grocer in town:
>
> Strawberries are $1/lb
> golden beets $1.50/bunch with their greens,
> spinach $1/bunch
> galia melon $1/lb
> red and green cabbage $1/ 3 lbs
>
> I am going to feast this week.


I take it you sprouted your black eyed peas? How are they? I've been curious about these myself.

I am sorry to say that I cooked them. I actually never tried sprouting blackeyed peas but they would probably be good that way because they cook quickly.

I found previously in my sprouting days that the quicker cooking beans made the best sprouts (adzuki, mung, lentil). Blackeyed peas would also be in this group.

-AFA blue-green algae, marine phytoplankton, chlorella, spirulina, camu camu, mangosteen, phycocyanin, extra-virgin coconut oil

-12 oz. sunflower green/wheatgrass juice

-Royal jelly

-Homemade raw chocolate almond milk

Today I a planning green salad, raw treats, smoothies and truly raw nuts. Maybe apple kale arugula juice. I made wheat berry sprouted pear crackers I can nibble on.

what i had today:

salad:
red leaf lettuce, cherry tomato, onion, arugula, dill, green and red bell pepper, alfalfa sprout, blackeyed pea, walnut, purple cabbage, carrot, evoo (california olive ranch, passed purity tests) (12 cups)

fruit:
blackberry, strawberry, banana, gala apple, orange (8 cups)

savory smoothie:
kale, roma tomato, golden beet, onion, garlic, curly parsley, green bell pepper (6 cups)

Strawberries, blood oranges, pomegranate

arugula Wrote:
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> Today I had
>
> Salad of zucchini, tomato, yellow squash, onion,
> dill, carrot, cucumber, walnut
>
> Mixed fruit: orange, blackberry, apple, banana,
> and more banana
>
> Juice: cucumber, red cabbage, green cabbage,
> carrot, apple
>
> Salad of blackeyed peas, carrot, onion, walnut,
> dill.
>
>
> We have a new grocer in town:
>
> Strawberries are $1/lb
> golden beets $1.50/bunch with their greens,
> spinach $1/bunch
> galia melon $1/lb
> red and green cabbage $1/ 3 lbs
>
> I am going to feast this week.


Are those organic prices?

I didn't have much fruit today but beaucoup de feuilles:

2 huge salads: redleaf, romaine, arugula, dill, parlsey, carrot, onion, tomato, red and green bell pepper, walnut (2 @ 12 cups each). I didn't get cukes this week because they weren't on sale and I am really missing them.

1 huge coleslaw, used the juice of an orange and ground sesame seeds for dressing on shredded red and green cabbage, carrot, golden delicious apple, onion, celery, and walnut (about 8 cups).

I love fruit but I am more comfortable with lots of leaves and nonsweet fruit rather than unlimited sweet fruit. It may be only psychological, knowing that there are more vitamins and minerals in leaves. Also today is my last day of a 3-day break--during breaks I have more time to lavish on salads.

Wild howler monkeys eat mainly wild figs unless they aren't available, and only then will they eat leaves. But they eat the young, tender baby leaves.

So I understand that my choices are not really natural. But neither is super super sweet fruit.

I don't have all the answers, but if I were allowed to pick one person's brain for answers it would not be the brain of a raw guru. It would probably be the brain of Luigi Fontana. At the moment I believe he is our best guiding light.

* seaweeds
* algaes
* fermented pumpkin seeds



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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2015 02:10AM by The Sproutarian Man.

3:45 PM: romaine, arugula, parsley, onion, tomato, carrot, green+red bell pepper, walnut

6 PM:
2 pts strawberries, golden delicious apple

8 PM:
saladacco'd zucchini, tomato, carrot, onion, walnut

lentil sprouts are on day 3, ready to eat tomorrow or the day after.

Had a calorie deficit yesterday and today, will make up for it this weekend. Going to bed hungry; the bananas don't have spots yet.

I gave up on my blackeyes on day 3. They were sluggish and started to feel slimy. Boiled 10 minutes and fed to the dogs (+brown rice).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2015 02:19AM by arugula.

Some of it is organic. This grocer is lucky's, here is their flyer for this week:
[www.luckysmarket.com]

Raw Vegan coleslaw


Raw Granola


Raw Nori Wrap


Besides salads and smoothies and fruit and nuts and fresh squeezed juices and wheatgrasssssss





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Apricots from my garden:



Also I just adore white nectarines:




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My menu these days:

- oranges
- choco banana milk (bananas, raw carob, water)
- apples
- plum tomatoes
- cauliflower rice with tomato dill sauce
- my homemade salt-free sauerkraut and pickled carrots, with cauliflower rice, tomato sauce (just tomatoes), cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red sweet pepper, butter lettuce leaves

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Raw vegan for life. Vegan for the animals. Raw for my health.

Soaking of a variety of seeds for sprouted meals

Fenugreek seeds, spelt, chia, alfalfa



Chickpeas, quinoa, barley, buckwheat, ?, chia, rye rejuvalic, sunflower



Notice how much of my food consists of grains = barley, quinoa, rye, spelt. Meant to photograph various legumes that day but l forgot.

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The Sproutarian Man, I love the way those jars look, they are so pretty with all the seeds

On Sunday:

- choco banana milk (bananas, raw carob, water)
- lemon and lime juice
- my raw salt-free sauerkraut and pickled carrots, cauliflower rice, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red sweet pepper, butter lettuce
- red apples

Yesterday:

- red apples
- my sauerkraut and pickled carrots
- cherry tomatoes
- cauliflower rice with tomato dill sauce
- zucchini spaghetti with tomato dill sauce
- cucumber, red sweet pepper, butter lettuce

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Raw vegan for life. Vegan for the animals. Raw for my health.

I love all the photos here -- very different diets, but all inspirational. I've really been needing that lately.

Just water and peppermint tea so far. I am preparing for a mono-diet, so for the next couple of days I will be enjoying green smoothies and mono-meals until the fridge is clean. Lots of oranges, bok choy, bell peppers.

So far though, I'm looking forward to a pineapple-cilantro smoothie for lunch and some snow peas for dinner. I am also on a cauliflower kick -- totally going to miss that while chowing down on bananas.

Ela2013 Wrote:
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> The Sproutarian Man, I love the way those jars
> look, they are so pretty with all the seeds


They do don't they.


Lunch

* hydrilla green algae mixed in coconut water
* blended fermented walnuts mixed with coconut.


Lovely, and a change from the usual hardcore meals.

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I have been loving rock melons and papayas lately.






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Red bell peppers and english cucumber with a homemade creamy garlic-hemp dressing

Summer is here, and that will mean two weeks of doing high fruit. I will feel bruised and battered after 2 weeks of apricots and will be glad when it's over, but they are one of my favourite fruits and l can do a Dr Morse and use them to cleanse me. Will be a nice change, but always glad to get back onto 90% + sprout diet.

The next 2 weeks will be on the menu:

* lots of apricots
* lots of sprouted chia seeds
* lots of fermented walnuts
* lots of coconut
* lots of sprouted greens
* seaweeds
* algaes




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The Sproutarian Man Wrote:
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> Summer is here, and that will mean two weeks of
> doing high fruit. I will feel bruised and battered
> after 2 weeks of apricots and will be glad when
> it's over, but they are one of my favourite fruits
> and l can do a Dr Morse and use them to cleanse
> me. Will be a nice change, but always glad to get
> back onto 90% + sprout diet.

I hope those apricots are good ones.

you'll need about 100 per day to put a dent in your energy needs I would think.


and what do you mean "cleanse me"? your regular diet requires periodic cleanses?

fresh Wrote:
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> The Sproutarian Man Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Summer is here, and that will mean two weeks of
> > doing high fruit. I will feel bruised and
> battered
> > after 2 weeks of apricots and will be glad when
> > it's over, but they are one of my favourite
> fruits
> > and l can do a Dr Morse and use them to cleanse
> > me. Will be a nice change, but always glad to
> get
> > back onto 90% + sprout diet.
>
> I hope those apricots are good ones.


No farm bought apricots are good ones imo, they need to be picked fully ripe straight off the tree. These are from my local farm.


>
> you'll need about 100 per day to put a dent in
> your energy needs I would think.
>

I ate my first apricot yesterday and l knew l had made a mistake by buying them. I scolded myself for being so foolish and nearly threw them all out in the compost. The sprouts taste much better than fruits (more flavour) and they also give more power. Don't feel near as good on fruit, nor do l feel satisfied. The sprouts make me feel solid, the fruit never satisfies nor stabilises...l feellike a fish out of water on the fruit, and l DON'T LIKE IT!!!

4 pieces of fruit per day is more than enough for me.


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> and what do you mean "cleanse me"?

No sure, but fruit is supposed to have special cleansing powers that other foods don't have. For eg, when l eat fruit l always get saw gums as puss rises to the surface under my teeth. My sprout diet never does this, but cleanses other areas more thoroughly.

A diet of 99.5% sprouts is my preference (1 tablespoon for sea weed and 1 tablespoon for algae, and 1 tablespoon of fat every second day and the rest sprouts). Regardless, l try to eat more fruit to increase my potassium.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2015 01:24AM by The Sproutarian Man.

TSM, don't throw out the best part of the apricots - the seeds inside the pits. That's the part I buy from apricot trees.

Today I ate a lot. I have more time for food on weekends.

A huge salad: romaine, red leaf lettuce, cuke, green bell pepper, alfalfa sprout, onion, tomato, walnut, carrot, mint.

A huge fruit salad: papaya, black grape, pineapple, gala apple, red grapefruit, navel orange, banana, walnut, pumpkin seed, blackberry, blueberry, raspberry.

Cooked soup with collard greens, red chard, yellow and green split peas, onion, carrot, sweet potato, tomato, celery, onion, mushroom.

About 2 tsp of EVOO added, plus red wine vinegar.

Groceries were only $38 this week. That's about $60 less than usual. I have found the secret: going to my local independent grocer on Friday just after lunch, they put a bunch of older stuff out half price, average $0.50/lb.

I have to eat it quickly, though. I share with my dogs.

Sprouty, Dr. Morse emphasizes astringent fruits for healing, so don't think that pure apricots is so great for cleansing. Nevertheless, because they are usually so sweet, they can be mixed with non-sweet healing things for balance. My ex business partner used to make a liver medicine with a unique Chinese vinegar and unripe apricots. So, I think unripe or fully ripe apricots have potential.

If I had that many apricots as you bought, I probably would juice some and squeeze some lemon in and mix with green juice like dinosaur kale, which is higher in calcium and a little bitter, which blends well with the sweet apricots and maybe add a little cucumber. Another idea is you like dandelions, so you could juice dandelion with the apricot. If you juice the apricot individually first, you could dehydrate the pulp.

This is how I deal with super sweet fruit and bitter greens.

I am currently SOOOO in love with Bliss bars! If you have never had one, they are organic, raw, vegan chocolate bars that are blowing my mind right now. Sugar free, and full of superfoods. I have not found a bar like this that quite compares. Their website is blisssuperfoods.com

Also, when I am in a tropical place, Soursop pretty much dominates my raw palate. I live on the west coast of the united states... so almonds, walnuts, peaches, nectarines, plums, and tons of berries are my jam. Kale chips, mustard green chips, and sun dried tomatoes too!

Giving thanks for the dehydrator and the vita mix

Last few days

RAW:
raspberries
bananas
papayas
blueberries
spirulina
cacao

Early morning breakfast:


Barley grass, rejuvalic, alfalfa sprouts, broccoli sprouts, fenugreek sprouts






The barley grass puts a nice bitter taste into the drink.

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