how can we have more kitchen explosions for 2010
It is the end of our second day on Eat To Live. We both feel like we are going to die (perhaps we are DETOXING) so I think we will relax a little from now on…
Here Chris O is sad because he wants to have pancakes and instead he is having fruits, almonds, and oatmeal. This is what we had yesterday. The oatmeal has NO SALT and NO SUGAR. For lunch we had giant salads. For dinner we had little salads and 12-bean soup made in my brand new fancy pressure cooker:
The pressure cooker is AMAZING in its ability to cook beans, but I am not too keen on making soups in there. For one thing, you cannot see what is going on because if you open the lid you will explode. Also it makes vegetables have a weird texture. I think it is doing something weird to them on a molecular level. For example those carrots are very odd now. Maybe they are just overcooked. Also this soup has no salt, as per Dr. Fuhrman. I never thought I cared much about salt but it turns out that I like it. Then we had applesauce with a few raisins for dessert even though dry fruit is FORBIDDEN.
Today we had salt-less tofu scramble for breakfast with a piece of dry whole wheat toast and some grapes. Then we had leftover soup, cut-up vegetables, and oil-free hummus for lunch. Then we had this lentil and potato thing for dinner along with the big salad. It was so ugly that I will not show it. Basically potatoes take way less time than lentils in the pressure cooker so they liquified and it was a total waste of my starchy vegetable of the day. The goal for the rest of the week is not to make gloppy brown things for dinner.
So far we both feel awful (we might be getting colds) so I think we are going to not limit our starchy vegetables and whole grains as much and add back a little olive oil. Perhaps we will also use a bit of salt as having no salt makes me resent the amount of time it takes to cook something that tastes so blechy. But we will still eat our enormous salads (basically I have no choice but to do this since the only vegan thing at lunch is the salad bar, it is just a matter of not loading it up with olives) and we are not going to have any sugar, non-whole grains, or processed items. I definitely see how this diet could work for very overweight unhealthy people and how they would lose weight very quickly. I bet they are pretty unhappy on the third day though. Basically you can eat as much as you want of your salads and vegetables, so you end up eating a ton and then you are really full but then a couple hours later you are hungry again. I find this type of thing very frustrating because I get annoyed at how long it takes to eat a salad and it is all just WASTED. There is just so much CHEWING. And for what?? No caloric usefulness! So I think this is a good diet for people who like to eat in general but personally I think eating is a pain. I only like to eat cookies. And pie.