Month: January 2011

I’ve switched from monitoring my daily intake via nutridiary.com to http://nutritiondata.self.com/
Nutrition Data has FAR more information, and while you can’t have a ‘historical’ log of what you ate on a given day, you can track a single day’s intake easily enough.

I found my eyebrows raising somewhat when I saw that the overall ‘inflamation factor of my consumed foods on Friday was high!!

APPLES!!! Apples are moderately inflammatory!
Bananas are too, to a much lesser extent.

What does that tell me?

I NEED MORE GREENS!!

I’ve been 60-70% raw per day for over a week now.

For the first week, I started each day with a smoothie of 2 bananas & very large handful of kale, ate a further 2 bananas, 3 oranges, 1 kiwi, 1 pear, and 1 apple while at work, and then had a small cooked meal accompanied by a salad at night.

Continue reading “Raw update”

Before, it used to take around 1c. almonds and 2 cups of water to make a good almond milk.

With my Vitamix, I made a really yummy almond milk with 1/4 cup almonds and 4 cups of water!!

It’s paying for itself already!!

One of the main reasons why I stopped the whole raw thing last year was because nuts were becoming too expensive to keep buying.

I borrowed a huge number of Raw Food books from my local library, and started going crazy jotting down recipes.

I wasn’t overly keen on the lack of variation that a life of salad would include, so these ‘gourmet’ recipes really intrigued me. Many of the recipies had nuts as a base … so I bought lots and lots of nuts.

This time around, I’ve been reading more about nutrition and less about fancy recipes. Continue reading “Too nutty about nuts.”