Day 1
So to start with I wanted to pay tribute to one of my favorite super heroes: Captain Vegetable! What a great character from Sesame street. "It is I, Captain Vegetable, with my carrot and my celery. Eating crunchy vegetables is good for me...".
Supported with information on wellness from Dr. Fuhrman, fueled with cauliflower and corn, and motivated after watching "Forks over Knives and "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead", I have decided to make drastic changes in my life. I have decided I am tired of being fat, lethargic, and in pathetic shape. I am going to commit fully to eating a nutritionally dense, plant based-whole foods diet and exercising. I am cutting all animal products, processed foods, white flour, white sugar, fast food, and other lacking food items. My exceptions to this will be for the grain-fed,cage-free eggs we use in our baking and weekly Saturday morning pancakes (DH has been making the pancakes every Saturday for over 14 years for us using his time tested recipe-and is not ready to change this) . I also am including honey, for this reason I say I am almost vegan--perhaps 95%? My main focus is currently my personal health, however I do have many ethical reasons to not use animals for silencing stomach grumblings or fashion wants.
I call this day one because, although I have adding a huge amount and variety of vegetables and fruits to our diet for years, I have not been excluding the unhealthy foods. Today feels new--new home, new school year, and new mindset. I filled the shelves today with many healthful foods. This was an event in itself. We moved two weeks ago to MI. We now live in a small town where I am able to walk to almost everything I need: grocery store, library, YMCA, parks, and downtown. I am completely in love with our new town. So keeping with my commitment to walk every place under one mile, we brought our canvas bags to the friendly market to shop. We did pretty good, however, for variety I will have to supplement with farmers market (when open) and larger stores (there were no fresh greens-think kale--but we did find some frozen collard greens). The kids and I carried our food home to unload it in the fridge, counter, and on the wire shelves lining the far kitchen wall. I can not use my cabinets right now as we are in process of painting them and then they will have to cure.
So now for the meal...nothing fancy--remember I did just moved and have not unpacked most of my kitchen.
Dinner tonight:
Large Salad (Romaine lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, and tomatoes topped with Balsamic vinegar and oil.)
Cauliflower steamed
Corn--We ate the whole box of pasta and everyone was still hungry so Ted cooked some frozen corn to fill the gap.
About 3/4 c of whole wheat pasta topped with roughly equal amount of tomato sauce and beans and a sprinkling of nutritional yeast.
water
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