Day-5
What's new today?
Dried fruit
Wild goose chase for carob chips
How is this new?
Well I like food, found out today I don't like dried fruit. Not to say that I can't ever Luke it, but it just didnt taste great.
Until today I had no idea what carob chips, powder, chunks, etc. were. Google it!
Why this?
After a conversation with a friend I had almost resolved to go try a few new vegetables. I found myself standing in front of several vegetables asking myself if I really wanted to try them right them. The answer was no. I stood there for probably 5 minutes before deciding to go find something else new to try. When I couldn't find carob things I decided on dried fruit. My thought was, "it is fruit, only dried ... It has to be good." Well I go the kind with no additives, no preservatives, and no sugar just plain old dried fruit. So I ended up with pineapple and banana. Let's just say I know a few people who will be happy with me tomorrow since it will wind up in their offices. Just didn't like the taste or texture. Having a hard time overcoming the texture thing.
I went to a couple of places this evening to find carob chips, it is the raw food version of chocolate. It is only day 2 of raw food eating and I am practically desperate for chocolate. This is a problem because it sadly proves to me my self proclaimed addiction. Not proud of this addiction, or any addiction (not that I have many addictions- hole digging just getting deeper). Anyway I couldn't find carob chips and am now going to put out a city wide search on them.
Is this something that will be continued?
Yes, I mean I am going to keep trying new things (including dried fruits- craisins are fantastic!)
I am definitely going to continue my search for carob chips. I mean come on, really, why wouldn't I?
Are there any negatives to this?
Yes, I am realizing my sad addiction to food. Which is funny because before I started this whole March thing I was noticing food no longer was satisfying. Nothing sounded good to eat anymore and yet I kept shoving it in my face. It reminded me that we are all creatures of habit and sometimes when we don't know what else to do we do what is habitual for us. Like food, we may not know what we want to eat because we are "kind of hungry" or in the "I could eat" mood. So in these cases we choose something primarily out of habit. We aren't literally starving like some African children, we aren't in a major famine where it is hard to get fresh produce and eat in a manner that will benefit our bodies, we aren't so poor that we don't know where our next meal is coming from. God has blessed so many of us to have the things we have and yet we find ourselves addicted to them, including food. It is so easy for us to be distracted by what we have and ignore what others do not have when we can easily provide that for them.
The main draw back to forcing myself to eat fresh raw foods is the little voice in the back of my head that reminds me this is how God intended it on being. It wasnt until after the flood that God granted permission to people to eat meat. Have you ever thought about that? Adam and Eve and Seth and Enoch and all of the others at this time were actually vegitarians until the flood. Trust me, I am not going to become a vegitarian after this, God gave us free reign on meant and meant is good! What I am saying is not everything we put in our bodies is healthy and we should do a better job of taking care of the temple God has given us to be stewards of for the time we have here.
PS Didn't mean to be on a soap box on the end there, oops!
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