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My eating habits are (and have been for almost two years) almost exclusively mono-sweet fruit. My main staple is pineapple, and I sometimes eat apples, grapefruit, persimmons, mangos, or green grapes.

I really love wakame, nori, carrots, tomatoes, lemons, limes, kale, spinach, chard, dulse, laver, ginger, cayenne, shiitake mushrooms, nutritional yeast, kombucha tea, and fatty things like avocadoes, nuts, and seeds.

Unfortuately, I feel heavy, bloated, constipated, and depressed when I eat something other than sweet fruit. (Green juices are fine, and some greens, carrot and tomato is slright too.) However, when I've only eaten pineapple (and maybe other fruit and/or green juice or carrot/greens/tomato) for several days I crave my favorite recipe:

4 oz dried wakame
sundried tomates
juice of 1 lime or lemon
1/2 cup of nutritional yeast
1/4-1/3 cup dulse flakes
a kettle of 100 degree water

This makes a delicious soup. I also enjoy putting ground flax, hemp, or sesame seeds in it, or an avocado. I've cut out the fat to see if that helped me to digest better.

I take two cascara sagrada vegan capsules daily and walk frequently.

Also, I am in a very tough financial situation. Thusly I am going to need to drop my pineapple habit- I can't continue to buy 6 per day anymore, even though I get them cheap at a farmer's market. It looks like all I can afford fruit-wise will be apples, with pineapples, grapes, oranges, and grapefruit only occationally. I can proably still get greens, seaweeds, nutritional yeast, shiitakes, and sundried tomatoes, but I am afraid that I will not feel well if sweet pineapple is no longer my staple. Do you think that I will feel less well if my daily menu changes to something like this:

8:00 breakfast: 4-6 apples
12:45 lunch: 4-6 apples
6:30 dinner: large dish of greens, some carrots or beets, tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, shiitakes, celery, and dressing made with 1/2 cup nutritional yeast, lemon or lime juice, and dulse flakes.

What if I had my seaweed soup for dinner? What if I start eating nuts, seeds, and/or avocados?
Please let me know.

Oh, and I am a 5 5", 110ish lb. female.

[jaurequi]

Hi,

Not really sure what you're asking, but I would add green smoothies into your diet.
I think apples are fantastic and very nutritious (great for the skin too). I also think it's probably better not to consume so much pineapple.
Try to get more variety, if you can. How about berries? They are the highest in nutrients. Even frozen is better.

You could add the nuts and seeds into your smoothies or use them in salad dressings or other sauces for much easier digestion. Soak ahead, if you can, but, if not, just blending them helps with digestion too.
You can eat them as snacks as well.

Have your soup whenever you feel like it :)

Best,

[faith4u]

I also agree that more variety would be a good thing.

If you want to stick with mostly sweet fruits bananas are pretty cheap.

I strongly recommend that you try Alissa's enzymes. They help me so much when I eat raw foods that are hard on my system.