Simple Raw and Natural

I finally got out to walk yesterday.  Travis and I walked around the block once and that was all I could do. Travis fixed us green smoothies for lunch.  I don't know what all he put in them, but I do know it had dandelion greens, grapes, bananas, and kiwi.  The dandelion greens came up as volunteers in a pot of flowers in front of our house.  He also put in five dates.  It was super sweet. This is volunteer dandelion greens that found a home in our pot of ornamentals in front of our house. Lunch was green smoothie, watermelon, orange, avocado and a goody ball.  The watermelon is not so good.  I think it's too old.  We bought a new one at Walmart last night.  Hopefully, it will taste better. I was craving salt last night, so I ate three bowls of sauerkraut.  Dinner was sauerkraut; green salad (made with romaine, cucumber, parsley, chives, oregano, mushrooms, tomato, and orange juice); and almonds.  I had a few bites of water...

Lunch yesterday was the juice of four oranges and an orange.  I felt good after the fast, but still weak.  I was dreading driving into Hot Springs for my flute lesson, so it was a relief when Travis volunteered to drive me.  I had a really good lesson which was surprising since I didn't practice very much last week.  Travis went to the mall while I had my lesson. We went to Kroger on the way home to see what organics they had in stock.  We got cucumbers, zucchini, grapefruit, portabella mushrooms, beets, celery, romaine, carrots, and lemons.  We also got some prepared organic food...veggie burgers, crackers, chili, and vegetable soup.  And we got some chocolate chip cookie dough to take to church....special request from one of the children at church. For dinner, I had watermelon and orange juice.  Travis fixed himself some organic vegetarian chili with organic stoneground wheat crackers. It's citrus season!  Oranges, grapefruit, and l...

For some reason, the summer completely got away from me.  I went to the beach in Florida and directly from the beach to Philadelphia with the family.  A couple of weeks later I went back to Philadelphia and stayed two weeks to help Harris and Amy get their house ready to move to San Francisco.  (I look forward to discovering the fruits and vegetables in the Bay area.)  I went to Shreveport and Dallas with Molly and Ashlyn to go back-to-school shopping.  Then I went to Las Vegas for the National Flute Convention.  I was able to get fresh foods in Philadelphia.  In Dallas we had a couple of meals at Whole Foods.  And in Las Vegas I caught a bus to a Whole Foods and had a meal and brought food back to my hotel room to get me through the convention.  Nevertheless, there was some eating in restaurants from time to time. When I got home from Dallas, we had a wonderful three-day meeting at our church, but as soon as it was over I started to fast t...