Hi, I'm back. Things spiraled down for a while, and taking care of business trumped food issues.
The combination of dire financial straits and tooth pain from raw foods has forced me to revamp this experiment. As soon as I figure out how to do so, I will erase the previous entries from this blog, and I didn't want any regulars to pull a "Dude, where's your blog?!". The New Improved version of Out of the Frying Pan is this: rather than pick a raw percentage and hold to it (or try to), the focus will be on eating only whole foods, and I'll see whatever percentage of rawness emerges.
The reasons for this are that I can no longer afford to eat only raw foods, with fruits that cost $2 each and nuts that cost $25/lb. I am not chewing them up anyway, with my teeth hurting so much. Last week, as I stumbled into a tornado of activity to salvage my businesses, I didn't give a RIP about food, and ate whatever I could. Needless to say, I didn't choose an abundance of hard fibery food that takes an hour to chew! And sure enough, my teeth stopped hurting.
I also went ballistic on coffee again, and by only the end of the week, the magic had worn off. It sure was fun to fly high and kick out some serious work, but the evidence is pretty obvious that I don't have the reserves to burn my candle at both ends much longer.
And after all, my "trigger" foods that I gorge on are all refined, and I still don't fully believe that mildly steamed soup is that bad for my health.
I had sanctimonious ideas to start on Memorial Day, throwing out any leftover refined little devils; however, when I went out to pick greens from the garden that has been neglected in a week of rain, I discovered to my horror that most of my starts have been chomped by slugs or are covered with aphid eggs -- GRRRRR!! Instead of being able to eat a significant protion of my meals by now as I'd planned, I'm still going to be reliant upon grocery foods. It just felt too wasteful to dump whole wheat rolls and frozen Marsala burgers in the trash.
So the day's food looked like this: tea with lots of yerba mate, green smoothy with garden greens and two messy mangoes; vegan oatmeal-cheese with home dehydrated onions and green powder, on Manna bread with half a long English cuke; the two Indian burgers, openfaced on a wheat English muffin with mashed avocado and most of a bag of mache, a wonderful green that grows in little rosettes.
I also intend to quit eating while watching the telly, but after a day of labor and stress, I was still physically hungry and splurged with my favorite olive/cahsew mix. Not bad.
However, today I have had another smoothy and an avocado-based salad with more Manna, and by the end of the long meal, my teeth started to hurt again. Soup tonight, then ... and so far, still a little enthusiastic about a fresh start, I am fine without the exciting foods I had gotten used to again so easily.