apb1172
04-20-2009, 09:17 PM
I had the blendtec sitting in the shopping cart inside my head all weekend long. I kept at myself to not give into my more baser instincts. I made myself explain why I wanted to make this purchase and how I intended to make sure that it wasn't a waste of several hundred dollars. I came to terms with the issues that I didn't want to deal with. The biggest one being my daughter. This girl could exist solely on bean salad, couscous salad and rice if I let her, but if I even mention the word vegetarian, she throws up resistance so I haven't even mentioned the word "raw" to her! LOL
Somehow today though I realized that I'm the mom. While I don't want to create a situation where she ends up with food issues by my making her eat food she thinks she doesn't want, it is still my responsibility to protect her health and provide her with the proper eating building blocks for life. And to be honest, I'm NOT doing that right now. I came to the compromise that when she is with me, she eats what I cook/uncook. When she is with her dad or at school, she can make her own choices as to what she wants to eat, but this is something that I need to do for myself as well and I'm not willing to give that up so she can have crap for dinner every night. Besides, I don't think she realizes that I know her better than she does...she'll chose what I cook because I know it's really what she likes.
I also figured out that I don't need to try to go 100% raw right away. I know I can go no meat cold turkey, so I will go 100% vegetarian now and work my way into 100% raw. I'm not on anyone elses schedule but my own so why stress myself?
After a lot of shut up and reading on my part, I realized 1. I need to read even more, so I purchased some books. MAN I love Amazon! And 2. that I don't need to have every piece of equipment known to man in order to do this. I was gifted a Jack LaLane during a previous attempt to go raw and now I have a blender on the way and that's all I need for now. Well maybe a mason jar with holes in the lid or a couple of hemp bags, but I digress! LOL I don't need a dehydrator, I can use my oven and a fan for now. I don't need non-stick mats because I'm not going to try to dehydrate anything for now. I don't need to buy every seed sprouting kit because I'm not going to be sproutin right away either, well I might be though, we'll see what I can find locally first, but who cares when I try my next new raw thing because I'm not being graded.
I'm going to stock up on the following:
oranges
apples
bananas
spinach
kale
avocados and whatever other cheap produce I can find. I am so lucky to have a FABULOUS organic produce market in the bulding that I live in so I don't even have to brave the elements to get food! Also I might try to make a gourmet meal once a week or so. Definatley on the nights that my girl is home for dinner! But I DON'T need to go out and buy out the local co-op and TJ's. Simple with foods that I like and are easy to make will definatley work best with my 12 hour work days.
Otherwise, I'm not going to stress about this, I'm just going to take it one meal at a time. There are things that I want to try like green smoothies, sprouts and onion bread, but I'm going to be patient because I want this soooooooo bad I can literally taste it. My body is literally CRAVING to eat nothing cooked at all! But I REALLY lack follow through. This is my biggest flaw and I have accepted this, but I want to stop embracing it so much. Does that make any sense?
Well I'm done rambling. Thanks for listening!
Somehow today though I realized that I'm the mom. While I don't want to create a situation where she ends up with food issues by my making her eat food she thinks she doesn't want, it is still my responsibility to protect her health and provide her with the proper eating building blocks for life. And to be honest, I'm NOT doing that right now. I came to the compromise that when she is with me, she eats what I cook/uncook. When she is with her dad or at school, she can make her own choices as to what she wants to eat, but this is something that I need to do for myself as well and I'm not willing to give that up so she can have crap for dinner every night. Besides, I don't think she realizes that I know her better than she does...she'll chose what I cook because I know it's really what she likes.
I also figured out that I don't need to try to go 100% raw right away. I know I can go no meat cold turkey, so I will go 100% vegetarian now and work my way into 100% raw. I'm not on anyone elses schedule but my own so why stress myself?
After a lot of shut up and reading on my part, I realized 1. I need to read even more, so I purchased some books. MAN I love Amazon! And 2. that I don't need to have every piece of equipment known to man in order to do this. I was gifted a Jack LaLane during a previous attempt to go raw and now I have a blender on the way and that's all I need for now. Well maybe a mason jar with holes in the lid or a couple of hemp bags, but I digress! LOL I don't need a dehydrator, I can use my oven and a fan for now. I don't need non-stick mats because I'm not going to try to dehydrate anything for now. I don't need to buy every seed sprouting kit because I'm not going to be sproutin right away either, well I might be though, we'll see what I can find locally first, but who cares when I try my next new raw thing because I'm not being graded.
I'm going to stock up on the following:
oranges
apples
bananas
spinach
kale
avocados and whatever other cheap produce I can find. I am so lucky to have a FABULOUS organic produce market in the bulding that I live in so I don't even have to brave the elements to get food! Also I might try to make a gourmet meal once a week or so. Definatley on the nights that my girl is home for dinner! But I DON'T need to go out and buy out the local co-op and TJ's. Simple with foods that I like and are easy to make will definatley work best with my 12 hour work days.
Otherwise, I'm not going to stress about this, I'm just going to take it one meal at a time. There are things that I want to try like green smoothies, sprouts and onion bread, but I'm going to be patient because I want this soooooooo bad I can literally taste it. My body is literally CRAVING to eat nothing cooked at all! But I REALLY lack follow through. This is my biggest flaw and I have accepted this, but I want to stop embracing it so much. Does that make any sense?
Well I'm done rambling. Thanks for listening!