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Alissa

Metamorphosis

Serving for ONE, Please!

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RawKnitster

on 03-06-2009 at 02:48 AM (607 Views)

I started the day with a fruit salad of sorts, sliced banana, chopped apple, Lydia's Grainless Cereal, all mixed together with some almond butter thinned with water.

Lunch was a Green Smoothie; orange, chard, kale, kiwi, frozen strawberries, and 1 T green powder. The organic kiwi from my CSA box had a flavor better than kiwis I've had before. Made for a really special smoothie.

I was feeling pretty good about my day, proud of my choices. Then I started to think about the two recipes I have had floating around for several days on a piece of scrap paper. Today was their day. I could have had something else, but no. I chose to drive to the store for a bottle of raw agave, they were out so I bought raw honey. I've been out of both and have been trying to hold out as long as possible. I got the honey, came home and made the macaroons. Very nice. Couldn't resist eating half.

Of course, I couldn't change my dinner plans. Oh no! Even though something was telling me the macaroons were my dinner, I had my mind set on making the other recipe, Cashew-Mushroom Sauce on zuchinni noodles, with a salad. I should have stopped halfway through. I listened to myself about that, then proceeded to ignore the warning and ate the second half of the sauce. I don't even want to think about how many nuts that adds up to. Have I learned my lesson? Perhaps. I feel like a pig. Oink, Oink.

Alright, tomorrow is a new day. I'm going to look into rawchic's daylight eating method. Perhaps I can find the same inspiration she found from Paul Nison's ideas on that. Heaven knows I need to do something.

If I ever do write a recipe book, all the recipes are going to be serving sizes for ONE! First I have to figure out how to make recipes for one.

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contessa20 - 03-06-2009 06:13 AM
Recipes for one... oh how awesome that would be!!!!!
IamLoved - 03-06-2009 08:35 AM
You are so creative with your food.

I have done the same thing that you did when I was binging on SAD. I just had to have (blank) so I would make a special trip to the grocery store, dragging all the children along with me and buy tons of junk food at the store.

Last night I may have overdid it with the chocolate sauce on top of my banana ice cream but I ended up not finishing it all.

I too would be interested in one person servings since I am the only one eating raw here, but I tend to stick to pretty simple stuff for the most part anyway. I usually cut any recipes I try in half if not fourths. That way if I hate it, which has happened before, I did not waste so many ingredients.

Right now I love oranges and can't get enough of those. Mmmmmmm
rawchic - 03-06-2009 11:08 AM
darn - I left the kiwis out of my box this week!

Oh my gosh, someone totally needs to make a raw servings for 1 book. I feel like every recipe I see would feed an army. That's partly why I end up overeating because I made this huge dish, and it's so good that I eat the entire thing. Just like you were describing with your dinner. I know I don't need it all and should stop eating, but something compulsive inside of me wants to finish every last drop.

Even when I tell myself, this will be enough for today and tomorrow - I'll save half and have leftovers. Often times, I finish the one plate, and then get the"leftovers" and eat those too. So ridiculous!

This week I've actually just been making 1 serving of things. It's more work because I have to prep food every day, but it's been worth it from an overeating standpoint. I've also only been taking one day's worth of food to work each day. Normally, on Monday I take at least 3 days worth of food, but I was finding that I would finish it in 2 days...sometimes even 1 - eek! Again, it's more work to have to carry a bag of food every day instead of every 3 days, but it have solved the problem so it's been worth it.
RawKnitster - 03-06-2009 12:24 PM
That is very encouraging! :) I'm going to get right on that. First thing I need to do is be realistic about how big a serving should be for us girls that want to weigh around 120lbs. Because I'm always too generous with my serving sizes. If a recipe says it serves 1-2, I only see the 1. If I want to weigh 120 then I need to eat like 120 which means cutting that recipe for 1-2 in half. Why does that make me sad? Silly, just plain silly.
islesgirl - 03-06-2009 08:36 PM
Hi RawKnitster. Do you really think like I do - or dream as I do - that maybe we will get down to 120 one of these days? Ooooh, that would be dreamy! We're doing so well working on it. Yeah for us and raw! That cashew mushroom sauce sounds divine!
RawKnitster - 03-07-2009 06:33 PM
YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!