24 May 2012

Day 4

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Breakfast: banana, mixed berries, flaxseed and oat milk
Lunch: salad at uni: lettuce, cucumber, tomato, pickled onion, jalapeño, raisins, dried onion and peanuts
**Had to pass beetroot because it was obviously boiled.
Afternoon coffee: chocolate-banana-vanilla-oatmilkshake
Dinner: salad; cabbage in vinegar, romaine, tomato, olives, yellow peas, sunflower seeds, garlic and pea shoots in olive oil; pineapple
**Peas were boiled because they didn´t really sprout and tasted bad. I´ve noticed that pineapple is quite filling -  I recommend!

Lately I´ve been walking outside a lot checking out the flora and looking for wild food to eat. Not much luck by far, excpet for the nettle. But aimless walking is always relaxing. One of my favourite sites in Vaasa is this sea shore near the hospital. It´s perfect for admiring sunsets and why not for meeting late night dog walkers.


Summer is here and even if it´s just something like +18 I see people wearing shorts and t-shirts. I´m still sticking to my scarf... Summer is the smell of freshly cut grass, crowded baseball games, chairs outside cafés, people riding bikes everywhere, flowers in bloom, boats being scrubbed and repainted, music from an open garage...


Food-wise today went well but I´m not liking this thing anymore. It´s already proved that it´s possible to live on raw food but who knows about the long-term consequences? Raw food keeps you energetic and you can keep going all day without napping. But there are just too many cravings..! Today I´m craving for crisp bread and herring among other things. I think I´m going for a burger tomorrow...

23 May 2012

Day 3

This was not a good day. I was on a bad mood so I had some comfort food. Now I have a headache and it´s cold outside.

Breakfast: smoothie out of mixed berries, apple, fresh ginger, maca, lemon and chaga tea.
Lunch: Greek salad; slice of fudge cake
**The salad was raw expect for the feta cheese. The cake, well, it was so worth it!! http://www.sweetvaasa.fi/
Afternoon coffee: rest of the smoothie; chocolate
Dinner: yesterday´s courgette and tomato sauce; tomato and olives; pineapple

Anything good about today? Errr, if I think very hard then I´d say the cake and the Canson drawing block I bought. It was very warm in the daytime and I found some nettle and I took some of it. I hung it to dry. I also cleaned up my appartment and changed the places of the rugs. That made me surprisingly content.

I´m craving for bread and cheese, chocolate cookies, salmon pasta, pancakes with jam and cream... Oh god, I don´t now why anyone would go raw for good! I think I want to end this on Friday. I´m leaving the town in the weekend anyway and visiting some people so it would be inconvenient to get weird about food.

 

Day 2


My shift ended at 7am and I headed home in a beautiful morning sunlight. I´ve felt good today, not hungry nor tired. I managed the night shift really well too, eating just one banana during those 8 hours. Here´s the dose of the day:

Night snack: tomato, cashews
**Tomatoes actually contain a lot of carbohydrates...
Breakfast: tea; smoothie with strawberries, cranberries, chaga tea, apple, sitruunamelissa, maca and lemon
Lunch: courgette “spaghetti” and tomato sauce, mushroom salad; fresh pineapple; chocolate
**”Spaghetti” is marinated in olive oil, salt, pepper and sesame seeds: my favourite thing at the moment! Tomato sauce is basically chopped tomatoes warmed in a pan with onion, garlic, chilli, thyme and other spices. Good stuff.


Afternoon coffee: cup of coffee with oat milk and chocolate
Dinner: cabbage, romaine, broccoli, tomato, onion, sunflower seeds, spirulina, chilli and olives dressed in olive oil; liquorice; banana mash and mixed berries
**Yes, I´ve been eating liquorice all day. For some reason I had a small bag at home and I felt like eating it today.


Oh, the summer started today! The semester is over for me and I went to the garden shop to get some more greens – some of them inedible this time. I bought two dahlias (yellow and pink), thyme and probably my favourite plant in the world – lavender! The scent is so invigorating I can´t get enough of it. Hope it survives in my care.

Today I was also thinking about how the way we eat is so important. There was some kind of expert in Jamie Oliver´s show who said that as soon as your jaws have chewed enough food they send a message to the brain that you are full. Meaning that the amount or quality of food doesn´t really matter. It´s kind of hard to believe when it´s also been said that it takes 20 minutes for the food to arrive in your stomach and for you to feel full. I do think chewing is important and it comes naturally when you eat in a calm place and enjoy the food. According to another "expert" it´s crucial to have different kind of textures and flavours in the food: crunchy, soft, sweet, salty, sour... That´s exactly how I like my salads because that way they are fun to eat.


Today I also updated my blog some more and now it looks more like a real website. I´m going to bring my artsy stuff here instead of a separate page. Hope you like the layout! Not completely happy myself but that´ll do.