Monday, July 13, 2009

I slept from about 10am to 4pm I think? Maybe I went to bed at 9am. Not sure. I slept well. I read the news. I showered. I harvsted my farm.

I just had a salad of green & red leaf lettice, plus unshelled snap peas. I've probably had red leaf lettice before, but while I've enjoyed eating snap peas fresh from the pod in the past, today is the first time I've ever eaten the pods as well! Still yummy. Also had more of my organic vegan salad dressing, which I love. I had fritos with this, as I am with all my salad type stuff, as I'm hoping this will prevent unfortunate gastro side effects from eating so much salad. It seems to be working.

I was going to have some melon with my salad but Carrie warned me that this is a bad mix. Apparently your stomach digests them at different rates or something, and the way they interact can make you heave. So I'm saving the melon / fruit as a snack for later, with some more peanut butter toast.

About the bread that I got. I was raised on white WonderBread. As far as I know, nobody in my household ever had anything else. I've been told over the years that there's nothing really good that comes from eating white bread, and I've tried others, but white bread comforts me as one of the foods that I ate growing up that wasn't exactly junk food.

The new white bread I got from Whole Foods is a smaller loaf then I usually get. I'm not sure if it's any better for me than the white bread I've been buying from Kroger the last decade, and I've not paid attention to the ingrediants of that Kroger product to notice any differences, but the bread feels different; it's more compacted; more firm. And the packackage says there are no preservativs and no additives and that it's chemical free. It says that the finished product meets or exceeds the written standards of excellence by the Circle of Excellence(?). The ingrediants: unbleached white spelt flour, water, honey, expeller pressed canola oil, yeast & sea salt. That sounds pretty simple. And I've heard that sea salt is better for digestion than regular table salt. I'm now curious to see what's in the stuff I've been eating for years.

This is the kind of thing I've been thinking about the last couple months. Food. Not to lose weight, cause that's not a problem for me. But to feel healthy. To be healthy. Or at least more healthy than I have been. For so long I couldn't have much of anything, and when I did I was terribly sick. I was losing so much weight and it scared me, and my life was miserable. When it was suddenly possible to eat so much that I'd been deprived of, I kind of jumped to all the bad stuff, and I stayed there, for a very long time. But I think I'm finally coming out of that place. It was like I was making up for lost time, but I think I can stop that now and not feel cheated.

I'm drinking organic Chamomile Herb Tea, which I like quite a lot. This is another tea that I've had in the cubbard for a long while. Aside from fritos, everything I've had for the last 24 hours has been health food type stuff. And I'm ok with that. It's been a good mix of things.

   posted by Bald Jason at 07:11 PM
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