Welcome to my insanity

   So my husband brought me home a book called            
    Eat To Live by Joel Fuhrman.

In the book he outlines a Six week diet to follow, eating fresh vegetables and cooked vegetables. 

It says to cut out all meat and Dairy, no oil, no sugar, and no caffeine. And how after the six weeks you can start adding in Meat and animal products as sides to your vegetables. However after eating like this for two weeks I am loving how much better i am feeling, and I'm not missing the meat at all. 

   

   So I am feeling that i may want to continue not eating the meat or dairy longer than the six weeks that is suggested by the book. all the research i am doing says you get more protein and iron from broccoli than you could even hope to get from any kind of meat anyway. And it is easier for the body to digest it and use the nutrients from the broccoli than the meat. Anyway their is a whole lot of health reasons to eat this way. The only thing I am having trouble with is cutting out the sugar because in the book it says no sugar substitutes either. Yea.... Um-mm no not going to happen. I have cut out all white flour by making my own bread with whole ground grains. but their is no substitute for the sugar in bread. it wont raise without it.

   So I cheat and if a recipe calls for sugar i use Agave. And if it calls for Oil i use Hemp Oil because it has no saturated fats and has a tone of benefits that makes it better for you than fish oil.(look it up it is amazing stuff)So I have cut out all meat, dairy, most oils,processed sugars, and anything that says it is Bleached, Enriched, or Fortified is right out. It is great that we found this place just down the road called The Grain Mill Of Wake Forest. http://thegrainmillwf.com/  They have almost every kind of wheat and grain you can thing of and if they don't have it they are willing to order it for you. I am going to attend a class on Baking bread with whole grains on the 21st of this month. I cant wait and i'm hoping to learn something i don't already know. And my husband is going to join me witch could be really fun thing to do together.

   My plan is to post a new dish everyday that i have come up with or of a recipe i found somewhere and decided to try. And i will post my random thoughts about what it is like to cook this way when both me and my husband come from a family of big meat eaters. we will see how long i will be able to keep up with the posts.