...sounds like one of those horror movies but it has been the absolute opposite. It's been 13 days since I finished my Dr David Jubb's 14 day detox and I am still alive on Lifefood!
I am now eating about 80% lifefood, some days 90%, some days 100% and some days 70%. I think my average is actually 85.6% to be precise :P
I have basically continued with the same food as when I was on the
detox. I still have no breakfast. Instead I let my stomach rest while
just drinking some nice tea and then I eat my breakfast about 3 h after I
woke up. I actually like this as I don't feel stressed in the morning
to eat something and having just tea is relaxing and the
hunger feeling doesn't come until later anyway.
For my very late breakfast I have my very own fruit and fiber smoothie with chia porridge or amaranth porridge. Then more a salad based late lunch with an avocado as a base and sometimes cooked quinoa or amaranth. After this I am pretty much full until the late evening when I have left over smoothie or flax crackers or cake!
It is not difficult to eat lifefood while living a normal life. But I have to say you need to prepare and think a bit more than "normal". Like preparing almond milk, soak seeds the night before, make the dried bread 2 days before etc. But "if there is a will there is a way", I say.
But I have not only been eating lifefood. I have also tried other "normal" food or cooked stuff in small doses confusing my taste buds again. (Sorry to say but it has no taste anymore, these cooked things.) First I tried half a boiled small potato but that did not taste anything what so ever. Then I tried some smoked salmon, which tasted good in the moment but made my stomach twist and turn afterwards and the after taste was not good at all. Was quite surprised about this as I love salmon! So what else... I also had a pancake that made me run to the toilet and just looking at a piece of pork or chicken makes my tummy turn anti-clockwise again. Don't know why, it is just the way it is. (One reason could be that I have been watching Food Inc, Dirt the Movie and Food Matters...)
The other day, fresh from a hen, I had a boiled free ranged organic egg with yolk yellow as the sunrise. This tasted heavenly! However, I could feel it's heaviness in my stomach but it was not too bad and I will continue eating these "freshly homemade" eggs now and then as they were so yummy. A real egg like this is so different to the ones in the supermarket. Guess I have to get some hens of my own!
So people think I am fairly crazy doing this. My mum asked me today "How long will you continue eating this stuff?" "For the rest of my life" I said. "But you can't do that, you need to eat some real food as well!", she continued. "But this is just as real of maybe even better than the dead food you are cooking", I argued getting annoyed and she said no more. Maybe that was a bit mean but I truly feel people need to start thinking twice about what they eat and the aftermath.
The most common question I am getting is "Where do you get your protein from?", "and the calcium?".
Then I inform my meat lovers that you do not only get protein from meat
and calcium from milk, there are many more sources one can turn to as
avocado for protein and fat and sesame seeds for protein, calcium, zink
and many other minerals. Why don't they teach this in school?
I don't think I even thought about this before, but the food "normal" people are eating are just dead food. It is just fillers. Something to fill up the stomach with. It is not colorful, it does not taste anything unless we salt it and put spices on it, it gives us gases of all kinds and then makes us feel heavy, bloated or just too full to do anything. It is quite sad as it should be just the opposite. It should give us energy and life. We can make use of the life in the food, turn it into our advantage and not kill and remove it.
I have just never looked at food like this before and to me, right at this moment, lifefood makes so much sense. I think people have to explore and experience and then see how it feels.
So I am a meat free, dairy free and gluten free person these days. But I have a weak spot and that is bread. Fresh homemade bread straight from the oven. Yum yum yummm! I am totally ok with not eating grains as I have other seeds to turn to, such as quinoa, hemp, millet and amaranth (by the way all these you can cook).
Off to the health store I went and got me some organic quinoa and hemp flour to make me some bread. Finally!! I searched the internet to find a simple bread recipe with quinoa flour. I had to search for quite a while to find one that did not have 50 different ingredients. But I found one with just 7 ingredients and today I made a loaf of "Quinoa Gluten Free Bread". It was not only gluten but vegan also, so instead of eggs I made "chia eggs" (chia in water). I had no clue there was such a thing as chia eggs but I went for it and this is how my bread turned out. By they way, it tastes really good with some melted coconut butter on it. To make it even better I will add some sunflowers seeds and nuts to it next time.
While eating it I was wondering if I am still eating lifefood or cooked food? In lifefood you can cook quinoa seeds and this was quinoa flour baked in the oven, so did that mean it was still lifefood? Hmmm... maybe some else has an answer to that.
I am also a fan of the raw lifefood desserts. I have made quite some as I have a sweet tooth. Once I made this delicious chocolate bar with 100% cacao powder, coconut oil, honey, salt, hazelnuts and blueberries and it was just deliiiicciioussss!! Oh my gosh I had no idea a 100% chocolate bar could be so good. I should start selling it, I tell you!
I love my raw chocolate cakes so much that they are always gone. This is how it usually looks in my fridge. Empty. Even my cooked food fellows love these cakes!
