My Food Journey 2011

The past year has been a discovery journey, in many senses, but more than anything some of the discoveries have had practical implications far beyond my own imagination.

First of all, what I have learned is to use my own brain when it comes to the food that we eat. That means bye bye authorities' dietary recommendations and it also mean A LOT of reading to make my brain apt for thinking on its own.

Two, no actually three, Swedish experts have through their books had a major role to play in this journey. Anna Hallen and her personal story (Anna Hallen Blog) opened my eyes and mind and got me wanting to know more. Andreas Eenfeldt's book the Food Revolution (Diet Doctor Blog) made me seriously distrust everything government ever said to be healthy. This is also when I decided myself to change not only my diet but my lifestyle, skipping processed foods, most carbs and embracing proteins and (real) fats as my main nutrion sources. First the change was inspired by the hope of getting rid of all sorts of craving, stabilizing my terrible mood swings and I won't deny it, also to loose some weight (see Patiperra's post in Spanish "Pan da poto"). In hinsight the change in diet was quite easy, while I followed the strategy later explained to a friend interested in the diet ( "Pan da poto - pero como eliminarlo?").

After 3-4 months of strict low carbing I started to feel hunger when I was actually hungry, satisfied when my body had had enough and my mood swings were almost gone. My body seemed to be in a balance it had never experienced before. But I was also a bit bored with the high (animal) fats and the restrictive LCHF rules which excluding many valuable foods from my diet. Also, after 4 months of label reading I was painfully aware of all the additives and sugars included in the rest of the family's food. On a day of open crossfire confrontation with Kidone, I just so happened to come across Ulrika Hoffer's book about the Wise Choice family (The book, the Blog, and Patiperra's discovery: "Reclaiming the hoods"). Her message went straight to my spinal cord. Things were about to change for the rest of the family as well. But it was only almost two months later when Kidone's mood swings got worse that I decided to give Hoffer's suggestions a real try ("Let the challenge begin"). Almost over one night was sugar, wheat and most milk products thrown out of this household with remarkable results (About changing lifestyle 1, About changing lifestyle 2). Kids suddenly started eating much more veggies, real food, and just seemed so much more balanced. Gone were the days of "pataletas" (serious tantrums) and instead we had a fightfree summer! Incredible! Kidone gained weight like never before and Kidtwo, well he continued growing and eating as before.

After this experience I started investigating even more what wrong sort of food really does to our body. I watched Robert Lustig's Bitter truth about sugar (Toxic sugar, Sugar - deceitful and dangerous), all episodes of Sugar Trap from the 80's (Kids and sugar) and I started following Doctor Davis's Wheatbelly blog ("A Must Read!", Wheat Belly Blog). There was no turning back; I was hooked on information about food and its impacts on our bodies.

Since September the food issues have been of primary importance in practice but also much more challenging, as Kidtwo started daycare and I myself went off on my own endeavors. Sweetdreams has been my freetimee hobby, helping to sort out my thoughts on food but also sharing my insights and doubts with those truly interested in the subject.

We have not looked back since that last week in May when we introduced the wise choice diet in this family. It's really impossible to think we would ever return to the old habits again (which I would says were never unhealthy to begin with, we ate mostly homecooked foods, but also a lot of pastas and bread, which I know now have a bad impact on our wellbeing). But we are still accomodating ourselves to this lifestyle. I am still looking for the ultimate recipe of healthy, sustainable, and most important of all, EASY living. To accomplish all this, there is a need of activating the brain, planning weekly shopping lists, where and when to buy what, and find the time for cooking from scratch. All for the healthy, easy living. My latest blog discovery, Wellness Mama, seems to be covering much of these topics.

In 2012, I aim at more excercise (untile now this has mostly been biking from point A to B) and start sleeping decent nights again. As for food, I hope the ingredients will be more organic and locally grown - abandoning our dependence on the big hypermarket ("Going Green") and exploring alternative food supply chains, such as the community food circle and the open markets. But that,my dear friends, will be the story of 2012!


Happy New Year 2012!

Yogurt delux

I tricked the kids into thinking they had strawberry yogurt tonight. When in fact this is what was being served:

1 avocado
1 handful of almonds
1 banana
1 dl of cold coconut milk
Some frozen mangos dices (not as much as in icecream)
Some frozen strawberries (not as much as in icecream)

Mixed throughly. Served with sliced fruits/muesli. I guess you could throw in some probiotics powder to get the benefits of real yogurts (without the artificial crap and sugar).


The idea spurged from one left over diced avocado after tonight's dinner (someone claimed she would eat it at then changed her mind...just to be tricked into eating it anyhow a bit later...cruel mother).

Btw, I would really like to attend a course of how to replace conventional recommendated nutrition with this high density stuff. For example, exactly how much broccoli or almonds do you have to eat to replace the calcium intake from one glass of milk? Such knowledge would make me sleep well at night.

Jackpot!

Waow, I think I hit the jackpot of blogging mothers!

Check this out:

Wellness mama

Who needs outdated books when there are frequently updated blogs like this.

Will try to browse through it...when I have time again...maybe March...

Island observations

It's strange. When I go to my parents' place with the kids all of a sudden all kind of rule bendings are allowed. I surprise myself with buying premade meatballs and thin Swedish white bread (tunnbröd). The thin bread is some kind of natural reaction of being close to Sweden, when I was a kid I always got thin bread when we went to Sweden. Is made out of white wheat flour, and I consider it quite empty on nutrients, but hey, we are on vacation; I can allow this within the 80-20 approach... And not to talk of the ice cream session the kids had with their grandparent yesterday!!! They were literally jumping up to the roof with that treat (the kids, not the grandparents). What is so lovely with those special moments nowadays is that they are truly special moments, the kids understand that and that is what makes them so happy. When we used to have bought icecream (make our own nowadays, based on avocado and bananas) every week, the reaction was the reversed; if we didn't have it they would be let down, nagging at the icecream freezer at ther supermarket. Nowadays they walk by both the icecream and the candies without even noticing. The trick is to let them have the treats at special moments so that next time we are at the supermarket we are not faced with the whole "throw-myself-on-the-floor-and-screem-ICECREAM"- You see we  nowadays have not only one but two kids with a strong will - and that is what makes life just a little bit more exciting!

What I also found intriguing was the discussion I had with Kidone regarding our boat trip out to the island. She started talking about the candy on the boat. I immediatelly associated it with the tax free shop's 1 kg candy bags (the ones I myself used to get when I traveled over to Sweden as a kid...) and I was thinking "my oh my, I am not up for this battle". Then I promised her we would check out the treats on the way home and see if we could get something for new year. Well guess what? My daughter is still completely unaware of the big bags of candies hidden in the tax free shop. She had been talking about the small candies in the cabin, and was all so excited of getting to bring ONE of those home with her. For her the boat trip is still all about one Marianne candy and the playground ball sea - not at all associating the cruise to the "food ´& beverage experience" on the cruises. How sound. I hope it will remain that way for YEARS to come.  Best of all is that as long as we, the parents, are in control, we really can keep it that way. Feels comforting somehow.

No Poo

I've been living a shampoo free life for months now. Just using conditioner on my hair, and it has done real wonders to my otherwise so died out hair.
Well, some days ago I came across the real "No Poo" solution (google it if you want to know more) - where you also skip the conditioner and instead use baking soda (!!) and apple cider vinegar (!!!) in your hair. I tried it today.
Just asked hubby what he thinks of my hair today. He said he had been looking at it, that it looked fantastic... he almost fainted when I told him what I had put in it.... then he said he didn't want to smell and then corrected himself after smelling saying it smelled "rico". So, ladies, anyone out there with dry hair and up for treatment : No Poo it is!

Here a pic of my hair today:

Some interesting links - note to myself

These are links I need to dig into, when I have the time. For the time being I just store them here and if you want to read go ahead.

The Gluten File

How to keep feces out of your bloodstream

The case of going Gluten Free

Eating Animals

Just as I was pinnin g out the new sustainable meet policy for our family after watching the movie Food Inc, I found this link under Mark's daily Apple:

Eating Animals

Three ex vegetarians/vegans that had changed their mind about eating animals. Their current views are in line with my thoughts... and I stress, so far it is only in my thoughts, I have not brought myself to buy the meat that is three to six times more expensive than the conventional meat yet. But I will, and at the same time, meat consumption in this family is bound to go down. Healthy and sane at the same time.

Thought I should bring this article in here since I now some of my readers are vegeterians, even vegans, and my own hubby has a past in the movement. May I add that I do highly respect such choices, just doubtful whether it is the most beneficial for our bodies in the long run. However, probably a lot healthier than the exccessive meat eater diet, no doubt about that.

After watching the whole thing

In a few days I will do a summary of this year of food discoveries, all from fat, carbs in general, sugar, milk and wheat. But for now I can only say that if this year has been all about chosing the right nutrients for our food, I hope next year will be a step further, making ethic and sustainable choices that are also good for our health. After having seen Food Inc, I am definatelly done buying the cheap chicken breasts from the big supermarkets... We'll be eating Organic from the open market from now on...which also means that it won't be part of our weekly diet... I will turn to elk, reindeer, organic beef (all of these already implemented) and we really HAVE to skip the cheap salmon no matter how easy it is! If I only could figure out a way of having the children eating more beans, lenses and chickpeas...thinking of taking an Asian cooking course actually. Problem with the beans (and the coconut products) is that these are not exactly locally grown... And if we are to turn local in our food consumption then the portion of carbs in my own diet will have to increase...Kids are not either all that eager on beetroots and sprout... And we need to start storing a whole lot more of the summer harvest, building up a yearly investment plan somehow, spending a whole lot in Aug-Sept to then go on saving mode from Nov-May.
Well, still trying to figure it all out somehow. My body that is carb sensitive, sugar triggering risks and all that stuff, kids with their own special tastes and needs, hubby mostly happy with what is served but in need of easy instructions to jump in in the kitchen (and why deny it, on normal weekdays so am I!)... I think we have come some way on our food journey, but the movie I just saw made me even more painfully aware of that it is not enough... Maybe a task for 2012...

Food Inc

Ok, so I am watching Food Inc and 25 minutes into the movie and I am already done buying poultry, corn (including all processed food including corn) and beef... Its a messed up world we live in. Michael Pollan, once again, my heroe... And many others....

The alternative gingerbread house

A suggested that we would build a house out of a cardboard box. While putting the wall cover we decided to make it our gingerbread house this year, dilemma of the candy house solved! Check out the lovely bus G got as a b'day card from day care. His the driver and his friends are looking out the windows!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

The b'day party in pics and links to recipes

Here comes som illustrations from our party last Tuesday's b'day party.

The cake was a pumpkin pie, the recipe adapted from Mark Sisson's blog. Next time I will be more generous with the spices and add dates not only to the crust but also to the filling.

I also made his chocolate chip cookies chocolate chip cookies.

I had som pumpkin plum muffins, offered some of our home made wheatfree gingerbread cookies and the home made chocolates. Note, if you are going to make chocolates, do them the same day as the party, otherwise they kind of loose their glory...

The root chips were bought from a specialty store in Hakaniemi. Very good!

The Verdict

Having family over is like it must be having the Michelin star crew visiting your restaurant... No mercy. Let's see how we'll get through tonight's party. And yes, I am still true to my convictions; It'll be wheat, sugar and almost dairy-free party. And G will love it. My b'day heroe. 2 years today. Grande!

Language shift, maybe

I'm thinking of writing in Swedish and Spanish as well, again. I miss using those languages. Should I open two new blogs? Name suggestions?

What about:

Dulces sueños norteños
Söta drömmar så in i Norden!

December solutions

Earlier I wrote about my food dilemma in December. How I did not want to miss out on the Christmas spirit but was not ready to introduce ingredients that we do not consume anymore. The solution? I made my own recipe for ginger bread cookies, glögg and chocolates.  The ginger bread recipe was shared earlier. Here comes the chocolate and alcohol free glögg (kids loved it).


Chocolates:
Cacao butter
cacao powder
macademia nuts
dried ecological fruits: mango, pineapple, bananas.

I do not know exactly the amounts of each as it was a trial and error thing. Heated cacao butter until it melted, added poweder and the other ingredients (crushed and cut into small pieces). Poored into ice cube molds and muffin mold. Cooled 1h in fridge, then this is waht they looked like

So far everyone has been liking them. Oh, in this first batch I added some agave, while I still have it. In the second I left it out. Didn't seem to be a difference there.

Then the GLÖGG

Ingredients:
Water
Cinnamon stick
100% organic apple juice
glögg spices (I think it includes whole pieces of cloves, ginger, cinnamon, apples)


I used the water that was left over from cooking pumpking with a cinnamon stick yesterday, let the cinnamon stick soak in the water over night. Added apple juice and the spices, all ingredients soaked for another 2-3 hours. Heated the glögg and then got rid of the spices. Did not take a pic, sorry! But it was delicious, A couldn't stop drinking! :-)

Care for some milk? Tackling the cow...

Time to inform myself on the milk issue... I am not completely ready yet, although we have decreased our milk intake drastically since May. Still, I find it harder to give up milk than wheat and sugar. Or maybe not milk, but cheese and yogurt...In the summer I was a lot more consistent, but now as veggies and other options are not there, and the darkness somehow seems to require this extra calcium intake, I've been stocking up on ecological yoggie and butter a bit more than usual.

Really, is it only me, or is going milk free without allergies more freaky than going wheatfree?

Wheatfree honey-based gingerbread cookies

I've had to give up some of my rules to bake ginger bread cookies this year....but still, these are wheat free and refined sugar free. When I started mixing with the traditional recipe I thought to myself, the objective of this excercise is to let the kids bake the cookies, if they turn bad its no problem, we can live without cookies. However, I am quite impressed myself with the result, these taste good, if I may say so, even better than many normal ginger bread cookies. Or is it only than my tastebuds are destroyed forever? Anyway, I won't be eating too many cookies this Christmas, these are mainly for the kids (G would have eaten the whole batch already in the morning, if I hadn't stopped him) and guests (b'day party coming up in a couple of days!). Here the recipe:

Ingredients

150 gr butter
05-1 dl honey (depending on how sweet you need them to be)
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 dl buckwheatflour
1 egg
2 tsp ginger bread cookie spices (ginger, ground clove, ground orange rind, cinnamon)


Melt the butter and add the honey and spices, take off stove, let cool. Add egg. Blend soda with buckwheat flour. Add the buckwheat flour to the rest. Place in fridge over night. When making the cookies, add buckwheat flour if needed (if it is too sticky). Bake the cookies in 180 degree for aprox 10 minutes. Let cool before you remove from the baking tray.

Good thing I am baking with children! Good excuse for the mess and the somewhat bumped into cookies! So much more charming this way. Right?

Care for some coke?

Things are happening.... here a commercial fromNYC Health, creating awareness of the connection between fat and sugar! (YAK!!!!)

And here another one; showing more the addictive part of the sugar...the hidden sugar in beverage, which people do not even pay attention to:

And the last one, this one should be on national telly down in Chile.

Cashew Plum Pumpkin Muffins

Here comes a tasty recipe for Christmas. I just invented it based on what was available (ran out of almonds) and I have to say that these are the best muffins so far! Maybe it was good to replace the almonds with cashew, a lot softer in both taste and contexture.

Ingredients:

3 dl cashew nuts
200 g dried plums (no sugar added)
3 dl cooked mashed pumpkins 
3 eggs
1,5 teaspoon baking soda
3 table spoons cinnamon

Blend the cashew nuts to flour. Add plums and blend. Add mashed pumpkins, baking soda and cinnamon. Blend. Finally add the eggs and blend. In the muffin molds, into the oven, bake in 180-200 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

Enjoy!

Raisins and thirst

Hubby snapped a picture today. I almost did not recognize the woman with my son in her arms. Then I realized that it was me.
I am quite convinced it was the sugar that drained my body on liquids and kept me with a swelling face. Evidence? No. Just anecdotes. And then of course, the simple fact that every time I eat a hand full of raisins, or something that contains more sugar than what my body likes, I wake up at night thinking I am in the middle of the desert, what a thirst!

Note, I get more thirsty from a hand full of raisins than from a glas or two own wine....

My new coffee

Is called "Pukka Revitalise": organic cinnamon, cardamom and ginger tea. Best of all; its taste resembles the tast of Glögg but without the sweetness (and alcohol), which means I can now drink this drink to get into the Christmas mood... or just to get into the working mood. Monday, difficult to get started, although I have more than enough on my table, and in my head! I think I'll just have another cup of tea!

My December dilemmas!

December is difficult. Have to admit. Not that I want to eat gingerbread cookies, or bake them for that matter. Neither am I very keen on all those kilometer long aisles of chocolate. I walk by, stop to see if any of the boxes have more than 70% chocolate and then continue walking. They never do. Have enough chocolate, I mean. I laugh for myself when I think of my chocolate frenzy two years ago as I was getting more and more anxious of having my second child! A box of chocolate was just never enough then... Heh, now one piece of 70% can be more than enough. How my body (or maybe mind) has changed!!!

So what is the difficult part? Well all these expectations. My own and those that (I expect) others to have (particularly the children). For example I want to celebrate a nice traditional Christmas, because I love the spirit! But traditions for me means gingerbread cookies, rice porridge with plum soup, glögg (sweet nordic warm drink) and then; the chocolate. All kind of foods that I do not enjoy eating anymore, either because I do not like the taste of it, or because it makes me feel bad afterwards. But of course, although I do not enjoy these, doesn't mean that the rest of the family should be denied the treats...there we go, the problem of what others expect...So far I have tried inventing new recipes, borrowing some from the low carbers to be able to "eat the cake and still have it". Its time consuming, time that I do not really have before Christmas is almost over. December is, difficult.

Christmas for me, also means a lot of lights, electric and candle, and above all planning and shopping gifts. This for me is maybe the greatest challenge of all, because when I left the sugar I also stopped and thought about the meaning of shopping more useless stuff in our overcroaded home. Remember, the story of stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.org/)? So if I don't want anymore stuff, why would I like to punish others with more stuff? Or wait, maybe others do still enjoy the spirit of giving and receiving. Or wait, maybe I also enjoy it, just as long as it is stuff that both the giver and the receiver truly enjoy! But to figure that out, I need to put down a lot of efforts to the Christmas shopping. Especially to the children, since I am completely aware of that its me (and hubby) who will be trying to organize the toy mess every evening before bedtime, also after Santa's visit. Once again, December is difficult. And I am just bearly hanging in there.

Anyway, if anyone out there that think they want to buy me a gift for Christmas because they ENJOY buying a gift for me (please not, I do not expect a gift from anyone, I am just as happy without!), then I'll give some hints on what I would truly ENJOY:

1. Theater tickets to Kristina från Dufvemåla accompanied with a babysitter
2. Lekue steam case, so that I can stop buying those plastic bags for oven baked fish!
3. The followup book to the Danish healthy family living: Kärnfrisk mat

 There, that said. Now I can only concentrate on all those other things.

Regarding the food, this is how far I have come....

Today I made chocolate based on coconut oil, cacao powder, coco nut flour and some agave  (might as well use it while its there) and spiced with peppermint. Quite decent taste. Kids liked them.

I also made gingerbread muffins based on almonds (2.5 dl), coconut flour (1 dl), 2.5 bananas, 1 apple, baking powder, agave and gingerbread spices (I do not know the name of them all in English, too lazy to look them up right now). They were quite tasty, have to say. Maybe good substitute to the cookies, at least in house. When we go out the rest of the family can still enjoy the cookies of others.

Thinking I might fulfill my daughters cookie baking expectations by buying gluten free ready made dough....It was sold out in the green big grocery store yesterday. I wonder why...  Gluten free is not best choice, best choice would be to do the cookies that Anna Hallen recommended on her facebook page, both low carb and wise choice... but I do not know if I have enough energy to make it from scratch... always a balance between wise choice and easy choice...if wise choice turns out too complicated then I might as well be human and go with easy choice. The whole point of this excercise is to live a simple life. Better remember that this month more than ever!

Is this a commercial for 'Palta Hass'???

Seems too good to be true...

But anyways, I'll just add a few points:

First, what did kids have before bedtime today? Yes, good mommy, avocado based icecream (frozen mangos, frozen strawberries, 2 avocados, banana) and they ate the whole batch, thinking that it was icecream - oh, how I love this diet of ours! :-)))

Second, what did I have as a snack (and breakfast) while on my little get-away in Denmark the past two days? Yes, avocados. Excellent snack, excellent breacky (together with some serrano ham, just because its so salty that it doesn't go bad over night outside a fridge).

Third, I better give some credits to our fine taster... what was her favourite dish when she was at her most challenging eating phase? What could I always count on? What did we always carry with us when going abroad, as emergency food? Yes, avocados (and cooked eggs). Smart girl. She knew what she needed.

IF, and only IF, the above clip is not a propaganda from Chilena avocado growers for us to go out and buy more of their 'palta hass'.

Over and out, good night!

Vitamine D - the happy pill

We have increased our intake. I even try to make my dark skinned hubby understand that he needs to fuel up on 'sun in a pill' in this dark dark country up north. He just laughs at me - but I still put the pills in his had.

And no, I am not only basing my perception on this freaky film clip. Almost everyone out there, be it mainstream or freakstream, talks about the importance of vitamine D.

Here is another one (note the mentioning of skin cancer and sun blocker... )

Gluteus Minimus

For a while I've had the image of Eddie Murphy blowing up into a big fat ass in the movie 'Professor Nutty'. (don't ask me how come I've seen this movie... I definatelly got enough of Eddie back in the 80's and his performance in Beverly Hills Cops... but anyways, for some strange reason I have seen this movie).

Here is a quite interesting clip from the movie:

What if it is not a pill? What if Professor Nutty was right? There is a solution to the obesity. It's just not in a pill...No excercise, no strict calorie count... just pure and simple, real food! Hallelujah!

The sweetest poison of all

Ok, so after having digested the message of the Wheat Belly book for about a month, I am ready to take on a new mind blowing experience.

I am quite aware of the ups and mostly downs of sugar (I thank Dr Lustig's bitter truth for that), but I am still missing the whole picture. Ok, so I know that sugar has a dark history of slavery and cutting down rainforests (read a little bit on the colonial history of Brazil and you'll be amazed).  Today sugar is one of the mostly subsidized products in Europe. Regarding the subsidies, I ask myself why? If Europe is to subsidize something, why not subsidize something that contribute to human health, not destroy it. What use do we have of sugar in case we could not get other foods?  And one more point, I am not so sure the recent tax on sugar is only about saving our health. The state is desperate to get its tax incomes, just as desperate as the population is to get its sugar. Easy and quick fix: reduce income tax (people presumably happy with more money in their pocket) and increase sugar tax (you know they'll continue buying, just as they do with the alcohol... but the income reduction won't be as obvious...the state is not stupid).

Anyways, back to the topic. I found a new book today. Correction, I found a very old book today. Published already back in 1975! And this is a book I'd like to read, at some point. Sugar Blues by William Dufty. A classic. If you have the time and are interested in the topic have a look at his extract in the link below.


Sugar, the sweetest poison of all


And while you're at it, you might like to see how brown sugar became refined sugar, have a look below.
And let's give Norbert Rillieux a big cozy hug! Not only for saving the lives of millions of slaves, but because he facilitated sugar consumption and made the white stuff the most demanded drug on our planet! Hooray for the greatest invetions in our history!

Open your mind!

This film is from diet doctor's webpage. He interviewed dr Mary Vernon, a self-learned low carb pioneer medical doctor from Kansas. Wish all doctors would watch this, with an open mind!

Here some of the most important points from the clip, sorry if it isn't stylishly correct, I wrote as I listened....

"The job of insulin is to stop fat burning and enhance fat storage"

Exctract from Biochemistry book for medical school.


How do you control the body from making insulin? All you have to do is take take out the sugar and starches, the bodies won't make extra insulin, they won't store fat, they'll burn fat.

How come they teach that at biochemistry and by the time you graduate you are told differently?

What did she do? Instead of a suscription of a pill she wrote a suscription on how to eat. And what happened?

People started getting well, not only well. They started getting remarkably well, shockingly well.

Who should eat low carb?

Everyone should eat low carb.

Carb tolerance is like a body's tolerance to sun. Some can take a bit more, others have to be more careful in order not to store carbs/burn skin.

Nobody needs to count calories! Just eat right.

Sometime the body has underlined damages that cannot be fixed only by food (that is why you need a medical doctor to help you, IF you are on medication - problem is that most physicians are not train how and when to take off people off drugs). But the starting point for all is the food intake.

You start off with the right amount of Protein. What you need depends on how much muscles and bone you have to maintain, your doctor should be able to calculate this (30 g of protein every meal/ or 1 gr per kg). Then you Fuel source: fat and carbs, depending on your body. When you burn carbohydrate, energy comes and goes, but with fat the burning is more stable.

Encourage people to eat: real food, not processed food. Especially vegetables, also some roots like carrots and potatoe but with fat to stabilize blood sugar.

The process to stabilize insuline may take five years!

It is very difficult to become anorectic, your weight stabilizes.

Impressive final remark - for those of you that oppose this diet because of its harm on the environment (my comment):

If everyone was eating like this, we wouldn't have to put so much energy into disrupting the environment for making grains, instead more grasfed beef, poultry. According to some studies, people decreased their intake of food by 1000 calories a day. If everyone around the world would decrease their energy intake by 1000 calories per day, wouldn't that be great for the environment!

Gotcha! (my comment)

Coconut cream dessert

Today I made a super-druper easy dessert - and healthy, I would say, if you do not count the sugar in fruits...

Place a can of coconut cream in the fridge for a couple of hours so that the white thick cream rises up to the top. Take out the thick cream (and save the watery leftovers for a smoothie or something similar) and stir like you'd be preparing whipped cream. Add some vanilla powder (sugar free) and a selection of fresh fruits or frozen berries. I used one banana, one organge, and 1 dl of frozen raspberries. Serve immediately or place in fridge so that the coconut milk doesn't melt.

Yammy!