Wild Rice Yam Pancakes

I plan to start the Thrive diet tomorrow.

I decided to go ahead and make the batter for the first meal, Wild Rice Yam Pancakes, this evening.  I made twice as much since I had the extra ingredients.  It was a disaster in several dimensions:  I filled the food processor too full, and it overflowed through a hidden hole all over my table; the overflow was mainly water.  I went ahead with the process; it seems like a good choice since the pancake batter didn't seem too thin even with the lost water.  I think they would have been too runny with all that water.

Next, I forgot to close another hole in the processor and when I started the processor it started spewing out of the spew hole.  It got on me, my table, and my carpet.  Luckily I have my Little Girl here and she was kind enough to lick it up.

Also, it was a huge amount of batter.  I am stuffed.

Finally, the pancakes would not become firm.  Basically I ate hot batter with some agave nectar.  Thankfully, since my big toe would taste good drenched in agave nectar, they tasted fine.

I'm still totally committed to trying the thrive diet.

Over a year

It's been a year since my last post.  It's funny to me that my last post was about this crazy new health food store, since I've been shopping there almost exclusively for the past year.  I weigh about 178 now; I'd like to get on down to 150.

I've been vegan for about a year now.  I'm loving it, and I really don't see ever going back.

I'm going to start following the Thrive diet and Turbulence Training Bodyweight Manual for exercise.

More to come!

PS - My dog is doing great.

Health Food Store

Hello world.

Last night I watched the movie Food Matters on Netflix. It got me even more fired up about trying vegan/vegetarian food. I even bought the PDF file that they sell at the website. I doubt I'll go through their detox program, but I thought the recipes were interesting. I also liked reading about the superfoods. I went to this Health food store today, for the first time, called MaMa Jean's. They had all kinds of things. I bought an expensive juicer, and all of this healthy food (often organic, vegan, or locally grown): kale, spinach, avocado, blueberries, whole coconut, ginseng capsules, raw vitamin C, bananas, oranges, apples, goji berries, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, figs, kelp noodles, vegenaise, carrots, agave nectar, apricots, parsley, alfalfa sprouts, hummus, kiwi, grapefruit, beet root, ginger root, tofurkey and another tofu meat-replacement, local milk, portabello mushrooms, flax crackers, raw cacao beans, and celery. Not a bad start on a super-healthy diet. Let's see how it pans out.

Here's a picture of a few of the things that didn't make it to the refrigerator.

Veganism

Hello world.

Lately I've been considering going vegan. A big part of my reasoning is health, but also I guess I'm an animal lover, if by "love", you mean "the lack of a desire to chop something up and eat it."

For instance, if your significant other asks "Do you love me?", you might respond, "Well, I have no desire to chop you up and eat you, if that's what you mean."

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Here's a picture of my computer screen for no good reason.

First post

Hello world. This is my first blog post. Here is a picture of my dog. Pretty cute, eh? She's very sweet, smart, and obedient. I give her lots of love, good food, and exercise. Her name is Little Girl.