Day 12, Wednesday June 22, 2011

Let me just start by saying that I have not had one drop off coffee in 12 days!!!!!! Nada drop, zilch, nil, ningun, zero, zip, and cero!!!!!

How is that possible? Read today’s post and the previous posts for more information.

Breakfast: We had another wonderful fruit salad consisting of what else other than fruit. See the pic to determine the fruits incorporated in our morning fuel J

Snack: My spouse was sent with two bananas (they were beginning to spot badly) and a tablespoon of natural peanut butter. I had a banana and watermelon. My grandmother shared her watermelon that she purchased on our last farmer’s market excursion on Monday and it is truly sweet! We have pretty much made Mondays in the late spring and summer a family outing for farmer’s market (my grandmother, my aunt, and I).

Lunch:  My spouse had an ear of corn and an edamame salad with tomatoes, onions, carrots, and pickles (I thought it was a nice change-up from the traditional salad).  For some reason I ate like a king or queen rather. I finished up the oven roasted vegetables (with mushrooms, onions, peppers, garlic, and yellow squash) about a cup of it, an ear of corn on the cob, and a side of tomato salad consisting of tomatoes with Himalayan salt and pepper, green olives, and Vidalia onion.

Snack: My spouse had a handful of carrots and a cup of eclipse melon. I had more watermelon and it was still awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Dinner: Red Kidney beans with an ear of corn and a salad filled with avocado, romaine lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, and green olives. It was a quite yummy dinner. The avocado as usual added a layer of healthy goodness (texture and mouth feel) including healthy fat and fiber to our meal.

Snack: We shared my granny smith apple with a tablespoon of natural peanut butter on each side. We also had a cup of Oolong citrus organic tea with cotton honey. Unfortunately we ran out of both the white tea and our beloved sour wood honey. When I went to the store today that sold the sour wood honey (it was the best I ever had) that is also locally produced (as we are trying to purchase as much locally produced produce and products possibly while keeping our eye on our wallet).

Overall: We keep moving forward towards our goals and not looking back at the way we and things were. We realize and can admit that what we were doing previously was not working out well for us, so a more drastic approach was needed to kick-start us on the right path. You may have noticed or have tired of our overuse of the words sweet and tasty to describe a lot of the fruits we have purchased lately. The reason we use those terms a lot is that by eating much healthier we have allowed our taste buds to heal and repair and we are more in tune to the taste of the natural sugars in our fruits and vegetables that we would not have noticed before.  It has also been good for us all to get out, see, explore, and purchase an array of freshness. It has (our family outings to the farmer’s market) been good for family bonding and spending quality time. We can all (the family members that go with me from time to time) that what we can get locally at the market taste a lot better and is often cheaper. The good stuff that our bodies need to keep going the right way and to heal and repair itself. There is truly something to be said about the freshest forms of produce (if it does not come from your own garden) is that buying locally is a great benefit for everyone involved. When buying locally you  help support a local small business owner  who in turns helps to support your local economy in more ways than one (including  hiring staff, purchasing needed supplies and products for his or her harvest, etc.).