Deepak Chopra on Iraq I just stumbled onto this looking up Deepak Chopra on Wikipedia... As ludicrous as it sounds at first, if you really think about it...This may have been a much better way to go!
Ideas on the current war with Iraq In March 2003, shortly before the US-led Invasion of Iraq, Chopra, upon being asked for creative ideas, gave ten suggestions. These suggestions included that Iraq could be disarmed without force; that religious leaders meet in Baghdad; increasing UN forces by ten-fold; sponsoring 25,000 Iraq exchange students to the West; etc. He also suggested that a new Disney World theme park in the Middle East would help to reduce fear and anger in children and that residents of Iraq should be provided free access to CNN, MTV and Nickelodeon [2] to expose them to the rest of the world.
Okay, so, my two least favorite housekeeping things are Dishes (cuz I'm usually utterly worn out by the time I'm done cooking) and Vacuuming. Those are the two things I know I need to do more often than I do. This week I've had a surplus of energy, so I've done pretty good w/the dishes (mostly using disposable stuff, but I cook, and try to avoid the microwave as little as possible, and there aren't any disposable pots & pans that I know of yet!) but the vacuuming was really eluding me. (I've been extra stiff lately too, energy or not, ug.) Anyways, so watching the lovely sunset, and when it was done I felt nice & relaxed & started planning out what I have to do tmo, and I was trying to fit the vacuuming in there, when I realized, uhhh, it's like 5:30pm...and even if the sun's gone down it's still light out, and still early! And I still have energy! So I decided I would go home & do it.
Warmed up some peanut curry tofu & brown rice from last night, picked stuff up off the floor so I could vacuum, and got to it. It was very rewarding. While it lasted! Which was about umm...I'm not sure, but I only got about half my aparment done, and not much of the actual LIVING area before I heard a weird noise. (Yes, I WAS looking where I was vacuuming, I didn't see anything.) Stopped it, turned it over, & saw nothing. So I turned it back over & started again. It worked just fine for a couple of minutes at least... And that's when I started smelling the smell. Like burnt rubber! Eeek!
Well, after much deliberation, and a spasm in my back (I knew there was a reason I don't like to do this! lol) I've given up. Apparently these days you need a screw driver to look under the thingy. And I just gave my dad his back :( Well no one can say I didn't try! Maybe I'll try again later. Once something similar happened, and it worked just fine the next time I tried. Maybe it just didn't appreciate being woken up?
Those free spirited artists with great imaginations find you interesting. They are usually interesting themselves, so its not a bad thing, but they CAN be a bit wifty and choose odd goals. If you like life to always be a bit 'different' from the norm, but not too extreme in any one direction, these are the people for you. If you seek logical decision making skills and good money management, you may want to change something in the way you appear. Artsy people are fun for adventure and exploring, so, have fun! (smoking weed helps too)
ticsHeard part of this last night on tv, but I found an e-mail in my Inbox today... Kucinich is running for Prez again!
Is it too much to hope that Bush, with all his blunders of the past eight years, could actually have been a good thing, in making people realize that pretty much everything Kucinich stands for is what we as a country want and need? Things like bringing our troops home from Iraq, and getting SERIOUS about the environment?
It almost seems like if there was any time America was ready to escape the 2 party system it would be now...But then...it could just mean that we'll stay predictable & just go for a Democrat this time... Personally, I think the only way I could be tempted to do that is if the candidate was a woman... She'd still have to be as qualified as I think he is though.
Well, either way we all have an important choice to make, so here's some info about my guy :) Oh shit. I just realized! He's running as a Democrat again! YEAH!
Well here's the text of the e-mail:
Announcement of Candidacy for President of the United States
Dear Friend,
We are living in a time of great tests of our humanity, which also present great opportunities for transformation. The war in Iraq is a veil that shrouds our creativity and our potential for prosperity. It cuts us off from the world at a time when it is imperative that we acknowledge our interdependence and interconnectedness.
This is a moment with a profound feeling of destiny. America has been an extraordinary international power to manifest that which we focus our energies upon. This power is true of individuals as well as nations.
In a way, when we focus on terror, we bring to ourselves that which we fear. We focused on terror in Iraq and paradoxically helped to create the circumstances, which have propelled Iraq into civil war and chaos.
The prestigious Lancet report on excess casualties in Iraq estimates that the war in Iraq has caused 655,000 Iraqi deaths, and that 20% of those deaths are a direct result of the actions of coalition forces.
This war sacrifices the lives of innocent Iraqis, the lives of our troops, and the physical resources and good will of our nation. We are sacrificing our financial future, borrowing money from Beijing to occupy Baghdad in a war that military generals and the Iraqi Study Group have concluded is impossible to win militarily.
We are focusing our resources on the power of destruction rather than the vision of a world in which we want to live: A world of prosperity and peace, equity, beauty and justice. It is time for us to stand together to bring the troops home and stand by the people of Iraq through implementing a real policy for the security, recovery, reconciliation and restoration of their nation.
We as a nation have the opportunity to embrace the challenges of our time and take a new direction, starting with ending the war in Iraq. The leaders of my party have said that they will not stop funding the war, and are openly supporting a supplementary appropriations bill for an additional one hundred and sixty billion dollars ($160,000,000,000), on top of the $70,000,000,000 that was appropriated to Iraq for financial year 2007, back in October of this year. This would bring war expenditure for 2007 to $230 billion, double the expenditure of 2006, and by far the largest appropriation of the war so far.
Today, I announced my candidacy for President of the United States in a quest to call my party to courage and integrity on this issue. This is a journey upon which I hope you will join together with me to ensure that our country calls forth our great potential with the same courage of our forefathers and mothers who birthed the vision for our great nation.
Hi Everyone. Just wanted to let you all know I'm still here. Just hurting! My shoulders are burning like crazy, almost non-stop. Got to the point where I was almost hyperventilating this afternoon. Reminds me how much respect I should have for those of you whose main problem w/Fibro is the neverending pain! I usually have aches & pains but they are usually stuff I can ignore. This is different. So hope you all are having a good night! I'm off to rest! Thank goodness it's been a good day otherwise!
I don't know why it took me so long to get here. Usually, I'm a problem solver. I've done this before...
Dishes have been the bane of my existence lately. I've been so tired, & so unmotivated. I just keep letting them pile up. Don't say I should just wash them as I use 'em, cuz that just doesn't work for me. In the morning, my fingers are way too stiff, and I have a sneaking suspicion I might just end up breaking them all.
In the evening, I usually (when I'm up for it) cook, and then I get tired, and there are usually pots & pans to worry about. UGH!
And then I run out of dishes, cups, & utensils. And eating starts seeming less attractive. (Or maybe it was seeming less attractive anyway? Gawd, I just seem to be becoming everything I hate lately!)
So, as much as I hate being environmentally unfriendly...I've gone back to all disposible plates, cups, and utensils. There are more important things to use my energy for! I picked up some X-mas decorations while I was at it. I'm thinking I might get a tree as well! I saw these little two footers at Target for $8 something.
Anyways. Yay. Medium is back on! I like Medium. :)
Now, if only I could find a guy with a nice healthy back to help me get some boxes down to my storage thingy...
Both the Holistic MD and Chiro I visited agreed on one thing: they suspect my adrenals aren't functioning.
I found this doctor's website when I was googling Taurine, left it up, & thought I'd explore more. Guess I'd better start aiming for a way earlier bedtime!
Well, the sun didn't quite make it out today, like it was supposed to, but the good news is, I'm feeling much better. After 24 hours of drinking Gookinaid Hydralyte, I'm feeling a LOT better. The palpitations have calmed down, the elephant sitting on my chest has shrunken down to the size of my kitty. I still keep finding myself out of breath, and feeling kinda crappy, but the improvements have been enough to allow me to see the light again. Yay! (W/Fibro I feel like a lot of the time I'm propelling myself through sheer will, so if my mind's not in a good place, I'm screwed!)
I added back some Whey Protein as well. Had some Chocolate flavored Designer Whey lying around. I generally don't like all the extras in it (the Splenda for starters, don't trust that stuff)and I was worried about the Taurine in it, cuz the first thing it brought to mind was Red Bull, but I Googled it, & it turns out it's good for your heart! I now have my nice regular Vanilla Stevia-Sweetened kind though. I am my family's nutritional supplement vacuum cleaner!
I'm looking forward to tackling some of the cleaning tomorrow! It's funny how one can be grateful for things like that!
So glad I have another appt w/the chiro tmo, too. (The X-tra Strength tension headaches are seriously threatening a comeback.)
Well night-night, and I'm sending good thoughts out to all of you!
So. I've never been good at lying. I was always taught it was wrong. Maybe I took the lesson too far. I find it hard even when it's easier that telling the truth. Sometimes, maybe I take it too far. I've tried to pretend at times, but eventually it all gets too complicated.
So here I am, once again, telling it how it is. I'm not doing it to complain. Maybe just to get rid of it, or figure out what to do with it. Or maybe it will help people understand, somewhere out there, how important it is to find a way to fix this nightmare that is FMS/CFIDS/CFS/ME.
My soul is weary. Just when I'd decided I was going to quit letting life pass me by, that there were things more important than proving to myself, and others that I could work. My life was empty besides work. And it's not like it was some fabulous career I was doing well at. So I was willing to consider giving it up. To just focus on me, and trying to get as healthy as possible, get as much peace of mind as possible, and start a more normal life for someone my age, one with friends, and fun (albeit a different version of what I used to call it) and at least make a try at real happiness.
But through some strange turn of events, instead of my health improving after ridding myself from the stress of manipulating my mind and body to keep working, of getting that part of things under control, instead of getting better, I've just gotten sicker. And sicker. I guess maybe the stress of taking that step, plus some choices I'd made in the past couple of months, ironically to try and ensure that I could keep working. (Or maybe I had myself too well convinced that I was hanging in there, and I'd already pushed too far?)
I've spent the last couple of days in utter hell. I'd forgotten it could be this bad. Actually, I'm not sure I've ever felt as sick as I have in the last 3 days or so.
It's gone roughly something like this: within a couple of hours of waking up (well except for today, when it was actually what woke me up) my heart starts beating like I'm running some kind of race. It's really uncomfortable. That's actually been going on randomly for weeks. Maybe even a month. I've had this before, and since I have so many odd symptoms associated w/my illness, I tried not to pay much attention. Usually it's a lot more random though, and not so often.
Then there's this other problem I've had before, which is a lot harder to deal with. I start feeling like I'm not getting enough air. I've sometimes thought I'm somehow forgetting to breathe, but I'm not sure that's the case, though every breath does seem shallower. It's an awful feeling, like being very slowly strangled. The biggest problem that comes to mind is, not only do I feel like I'm not getting enough of air, I feel like I have no energy, like my blood's not circulating or my heart's not pumping enough, or something. It also makes it very hard to think. Which I already have major trouble with. I tried coffee as a remedy when I was still working full-time. It just got my heart going crazy, pretty much as described above, and of course, did nothing to increase my energy. It's almost like it's pumping on empty. And then there's that unpleasant feeling to contend with too so...
Only now, the lack of oxygen thing comes with something new. (Or maybe it's a seperate thing, but they both seem to happen pretty close to each other.)I have this feeling of squeezing pressure on my chest, mainly on the left side, like something's sitting on it. Sometimes like someone's got my heart in a loose but steady grip.
I'm afraid to do much for fear of making it worse. Even leave the apartment by myself, since that involves two flights of stairs, one very steep. (If my heart's pounding lying completely still...?) My apartment's a disaster cuz I can't clean. Eating makes me tired.(Probably mostly from preparing the food.) I'd gone & signed up on a dating site, cuz I thought getting out would do me good, but now I know I'm too sick to hide it. (I've tried dating when I was a little less sick than this, and despite my best efforts, they knew something was wrong). I think last time I was this bad it was summertime. It's bad enough to know the beach is a 10 minute drive away and that people your age are out enjoying themselves & having all kinds of fun, but at least you can get the sunshine. In the winter it's not so sunny, and everyone is out doing holiday things, which you can't do when you're broke & jobless...)Needless to say I was getting pretty depressed there for awhile. Not to mention very uncomfortable and a little panicky. (I even checked online to see if it could be panic attacks, though I was pretty positive I knew what a panic attack felt like...but between checking, and the unusually, for me, high amount of tranquilizers I've taken hoping it would help I'm now 99.999 percent sure that's not what they are. No, screw that. Make it 100%) But I won't go to the hospital. I can't imagine they could do anymore tests (or else wouldn't they have?) and from what I've read, they might not be able to make anything of them even if they did, and like I said before, the weird IV bruises (still trying to figure out how I have bruises on both sides of my wrist so far away from where the needle was!) & holes & the rooms that are so cold you'd think they're trying to cryogenically freeze you. Oh and there're the insurance copays that are adding up.
I managed to do some research though, and a lot of pieces are falling into place. The same old Mitochondrial Dysfunction theories, and Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy, and something called Diastolic Dysfunciton I think. As far as I can tell, stuff they won't find in a normal workup. So today I got myself some stuff called "Gookinaid" which seemed to help the tiniest bit. And I found out that the crucial mis-step I may have taken might have been letting up on my Whey Protein intake (glutathione precursor) when I ran out a week or so after starting the Raw Foods. (As well of course, as the Raw Foods diet itself, mainly the not including enough salt?)
So I guess I won't go to the gym to see what happens if I try a nice run on the treadmill w/my heart acting like this for now.
An old friend called & left me a voicemail though. I'd been thinking of him recently, thought about calling to see what he was up to, back a few weeks ago when my life at least had a semblance of normalcy. I just don't know what I'll say when he asks what I've been up to. My get tells me to lie through my teeth. But like I said, I'm not good at that. I can come up with maybe 3 sentences that leave much to be desired. But I'm not sure I can come up with enough gloss to cover over 5 whole years of my life. Well maybe the first couple, when I could still manage to be who I was, and any gaps where just temporary. But now...
Oh well. I'm gonna go back to trying to watch TV or maybe even get to sleep. That's one thing I can do a lot more of lately, usually at times I normally couldn't like, 5pm. Not likely today though, as my 99% of the time quiet neighbors seem to be celebrating Ramadan, or as I called it before I found it was Ramadan: "Persian Oktoberfest".
Oh thank goodness, the celebration seems to be winding down, earlier they were playing some techno-y stuff & my heartbeat and soon my head were starting to keep time with it...
I am sooo tired now. But I was so excited about my little trip to the grocery store, I'm gonna make myself stay & post this.
If you read my last post, you know about my suspicion that I have NMH, a condition where your blood pressure doesn't regulate itself right, and gets too low, so you pass out when you get up, or nearly pass out. If not, I just told you, lol.
So I think I've had milder versions of this on & off, but that my diet may be causing this to rear it's head again, and badly! I haven't posted my menus daily like I wanted, but you can probably tell I eat a lot of fruit, and some salad, but mostly fruits, fresh & dried. I've cut out a lot of the fats to lose weight, detox quicker, and to get my skin clearer, cuz it was getting really oily & breaking out like crazy.
So basically my salt intake has gone from probably around normal, to ZERO, or close to it!
So increasing it is important, and technically, regular table salt is NOT RAW.
I went to Whole Foods, planning on getting some Celtic Sea Salt, but they only had one kind (out of a whole 3' x 6' section of nothing but salt!) and it cost $14.99. So I ended up getting another kind; Pacific Salt, an Unrefined, Solar Dried Sea Salt. (I checked the one Celtic Salt they had, and it was solar dried as well so...) It has no additives, and contains trace minerals, which I could use as well (Calcium, Magnesium, Sulphate, Iron, & Copper) it says it was "Extracted from the "Clean Southern Seas Surrounding New Zealand and Australia". It was only $2.99.
I also decided to splurge & get some other stuff: (I'd also decided over the weekend that I need to boost my protein intake, I'm just really scared of losing any muscle, especially in my legs, as that has caused major problems before w/my knees.)
Raw Wheat Free Crusts: They're organic cracker type things made from flax seeds, sesame seeds, red bell pepper, parsley, sea salt, and water. It says "All seeds have been germinated & dehydrated at 105 degrees thereby preserving enzymes & oxygen".
Raw Tahini: Some of you may know I've been craving this! They didn't have it in the refrigerated section, but they had it in the regular section. It specifically says raw though, so...
and
Raw Bee Pollen: Yeah, I know, that makes me not Vegan. But I never was before anyway. I'm a vegetarian for Ethical reasons, but I really think the bees will be okay! (I read that they can take the bee pollen in a way that doesn't harm them, and they make sure to leave behind plenty to meet the hive's needs, so...)
I also got some of my favorite Raw "candy" food: Dried Medjool Dates! I love those things! And the ones at Whole Foods are HUGE! (As soon as I got home & opened the tahini, I started trying a teeny bit w/different things: My favorite was cutting the dates to take the pit out, then filling them w/Tahini! Yummm!
I got some Dried Black Figs as well. They're not as sweet as the Dates, but they're sweet enough to take care of sweet cravings, and fibery/chewy enough so I feel fulfilled after eating just a couple. (Unlike the dates, which I pig out on!) They're like Fig Newtons, w/more fig & now newtons! Yum! The things I've discovered being Raw!
So for dinner, besides the little experiments I tried w/the Tahini, I had a nice big salad w/lettuce (American Salad Mix from Trader Joe's, they were out of my Spring Greens cuz of the stupid Spinach scare) sliced bell peppers, pickling cucumbers, red onions, julienned carrots, and and a 1/4 avocado in a an EFA/Apple Cider Vinegar/Garlic Dressing w/Sea Salt sprinkles lightly on it. I also had some pieces of the Raw Wheat Crusts. I feel so very satisfied!
*I'm gonna try seperating my regular posts from my Raw Food-related posts, so as not to bore anyone who is more interested in one or the other, or whatever... :)
Wow, this is pretty much the first time I've gotten online today. Well, at least to look at my personal e-mail & stuff. I wasn't able to be on much yesterday either, and the rest of the weekend I was obsessing over Myspace, promoting my business on there, cuz I haven't done ANYTHING on it lately, and I need the money!
Had the day off yesterday, but I wasn't feeling well at ALL. So I called the doctor to make an appointment, thinking it would be a couple of weeks away, but they had one in today. So it was a rather "early" (for me anyways) doctor's appointment this morning.
I hadn't been feeling well, I guess pretty much since Saturday. Some of it started a few weeks back; weird headaches, extra foggy brain, and head rushes upon standing that were getting worse and more frequent. (When I say "head rushes" I mean that feeling you get when you've been sitting for a long time & you stand up too quickly; for me they're accompanied by seeing bright sparks & this blackish& blueness that spreads until I can't see and a feeling like someone is cutting off my air.) They're usually not too bad, but they've been getting worse, and non-stop by Sunday, every time I got up from the couch, the computer, etc., I'd get them. I also had that rag doll/no energy feeling which those of you with Fibromyalgia may be familiar with: basically, it felt like it took mental willpower to even make myself sit up, like I could just melt off my chair onto the floor. But when I got one of those headrushes getting out of the car, that's when I decided I'd had enough, and remembered something about Fibro & CFS patients being prone to a condition that caused overly low blood pressure, and decided to look it up as soon as I walked in the door.
As soon as I read about it, it all started falling into place: the head rushes, the headaches, the brain fog, the fatigue after my little workout on Saturday...even the reason why I have the bad habit of sitting at the computer with my legs crossed! (Which I've desperately been trying to break since I heard it can cause varicose veins!)
So anyways, yesterday I started my new schedule, w/Mondays off & a full day on Friday (wish me luck!) and I had big plans for my day, but after several of those headrushes my head had this uncomfortable heaviness, and the only way to make it stop was to lie down, FLAT on my back, w/only my special cervical pillow, no being propped up.
So I had all these plans, but all I wanted to do was lie down. I got myself down to the beach, but I was sooo tired, I literally wanted to go to sleep (usually my fatigue just makes me feel weary, but not sleepy) so all I did was lie down on this grassy knoll above the beach (& close to where I parked my car) close my eyes & listen to the water. Needless to say, I didn't get my laundry done! (Climbing the stairs aggravates the headache, and gets me out of breath, gets my heart pounding like crazy now, and my legs burn like crazy by the time I get to my door I'm ready to collapse!)
So that's when I called the doctor's office. I just told them I was having trouble w/my blood pressure, and voila, I was in for today.
I think an aggravating factor may be my new diet. I was reading how they encourage people w/this condition to consume extra salt, and I've been eating practically NO salt. And less water too, cuz I started just buying gallons instead of cases of small bottles from Costco.
I tried having some salt Sunday night, but it didn't seem to help. Tried it last night again, and today it was a little better. Still bugged me a lot at work, since I'm so busy, I'm always turning this way and that, and every time I turned my head I got dizzy. I went to the kitchen & got some salt & downed about a teaspon, & that seemed to help. Ugh, but my brain! It felt like a wall, at one point I walked over to a cabinet, opened it, and couldn't remember why. Turns out I had a woman on hold waiting for me to check a form for her!
So anyways, my bp wasn't too low, 110/70, but that doesn't mean anything, they have to do a special test, called a Tilt Table test, which sounds awful given how I feel when I get up suddenly...I don't think I'll manage to stay conscious if they turn me suddenly! My pulse was also super fast. The doc wanted to check my thyroid & electroylytes/bloodcount first, based on that he'll decide if he wants to order the tilt test. Ick.
The good news is, I've broken the 125lb barrier! 124.4 baby! lol
Nothing much exciting today. Couldn't sleep well from about 7am on, finally got back to deep sleep around 9:30, and my tv turned on at 10am to wake me up. I was soooo sleepy! And my were feeling unhappy. (Sore, stiff, twitchy.) I swear, I think it was the Brownies I ate yesterday. Yup, I gave in & ate brownies. They were my favorites, these brownie bit things w/almost molten middles. They ALWAYS buy them for parties at work. They're soooo good! Right after I ate them though, I felt my throat close up to about half its usual size. Felt weird, but I was in a really good mood, so I didn't worry about it too much. My head got kind of achey too. Then on the way home, my legs started feeling all twitchy. I really think it WAS the brownies. I ate FOUR. (They're the size of mini-cupcakes, but still!)
So anyways, I talked to my dad, then I went to the Farmer's Market for my wheatgrass juice. I only brought three dollars w/me, and the guy offered me 6 for $5! (An ounce is usually $1.99 at a juice stop, so that was reallllly good.) Oh well next time.
I went by my dad's & got some pumpkin seeds, cuz I left mine at work, and I was feeling really crabby, & thought they might help. Then I came home, whipped out the Young Coconut I'd been saving all week, and set about hacking it open. (Using a big knife and a mallet.) Some of the juice spilled in the process, but I still got about 10 ounces.
So then I poured out 3 ounces into a cup, and mixed it w/two ounces of Wheatgrass Juice. It was actually pretty good! I liked it better than either of them alone. Much sweeter. I'd read that Young Coconut juice/water/milk, whatever you call it, is high in electolytes, and plasma, which is part of what makes up blood. Wheatgrass is high in chlorophyll, which is supposed to be like the plant version of hemoglobin. So in theory, combing the two is supposed to be like getting a blood transfusion. Hmm. Well I'm sure it's at least healthy!
I was supposed to go hang out w/a friend today, but then she never called, and I found out my aunt is in the hospital again, so I thought I should go visit. Then my dad called to say my mom wasn't feelng well, so they were going to go tomorrow. So now I have nothing to do. I'm annoyed. Oh well, I'm getting sleepy, maybe I'll go take a nap.
It's a fabulous THREE-IN-ONE Blender! I got a fabulous Raw Recipe book yesterday, and the recipes are sooo easy, but most of them require a blender, food processor, or something else I don't have (dehydrator, etc.) Now, I HAD a blender a few months back, but I had a bad case of Fibro-fumble and I broke it.
Here are some pictures of the much coveted object:
ISn't it FABULOUS??????
Oh yeah, and let me know if any of you have ever tried a Back-to-Basics brand appliance! I'd love to hear your experience.
Nothing on "regular tv" tonight, so I left it on Spanish TV for my background noise. A news show came on just now, and they had a story that caught my ear.
It appears that in Colombia, where my mother is from, there's a town where they're having a very unique (well unique for it to be en masse!) strike. They're calling it "The Crossed Legs Strike". Basically, the women of the town have decided that they aren't going to put out until their men get rid of all their guns! (Apparently there are a lot of gangs and guerillas in that area.) LOL!
My Myspace blog readers know I have a thing for Gael Garcia Bernal. (Best known for The Motorcycle Diaries.) He's hot as ever, w/that adorable British/Spanish accent of his, and he only ever picks the best of films to do... This one looks awesome. Who wants to take me to see it? lol
Okay, I guess I'd better start keeping my food diary again. I'll probably see results much more easily this way anyhow, and be able to track things like possible detox effects. (Which I think I may have experienced the other night!) Though I am cheating a bit with the kefir, just to be consistent...
Breakfast
Kefir Papaya Kiwi
Lunch Chocolate Lara Bar 70% Organic Handful of Cashews (not much time!)
Snack Apple
Dinner
Tomato Pesto Spring Greens Salad Cucumbers 1/4 Avocado
When I got home tonight, nothing sounded appealing, so I decided to make something to tantalize my taste buds, and this is what I came up with:
Sundried Tomatoes, soaked in water overnight, drained Cashews, crushed to a the consistency of parmesan cheese Minced garlic Dried basil to taste Salt and Ground Pepper to taste Olive oil to cover
Mix ingredients, eat as a topping/dressing for an green salad or let soak to let flavors sink in & meld (in fridge). I think it would probably go well with Zucchini "pasta" as well.
I ate my first batch right away, then made some more for tomorrow.
I made a yummy guacamole bowl today (sliced a large tomato in half, scooped the flesh out, mixed it w/green onions, mashed avocado, and a little bit of garlic, and put it back in w/some salt & pepper) but it was nothing like this stuff! From www.goodmoodfood.com :
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