I have just completed one week on the "Perfect Whole Foods Diet" with NO sugar and NO refined carbohydrates and I feel good! In fact, I wouldn't say I just feel good, I am excited about the challenges presented to me by the necessity of radically altering my cooking and baking techniques and incorporating previously unheard of ingredients. Armed with fresh knowledge, as I read more and more about healty diet, each meal preparation becomes an adventure. Breakfast might be a yogurt smoothie with grilled tempeh and 100% whole wheat toast. Vegetables have been added to lunch as well as dinner and sometimes even a handful of spinach thrown into the smoothie to start the day. Various vegetable juices fill the mid-day snack role. (We have a new juicer, which makes that task a breeze.) Even the evening meal may have a few novel additions, such as quinoa or a stevia sweetened dessert.
For fun I thought I would share a little of what I am learning with you in the format of a quiz. See if you can become a member of the "Food Guru" Club.
1. Dulse is:
a) a sea vegetable
b) a soy protein
2. Kamut is:
a) a grain
b) a vegetable
3. Triticale flour is:
a) never refined
b) bleached and brominated
4. Diastatic Malt Powder is:
a) added to whole wheat bread to help it rise
b) added to vegetables for flavor
5. Kefir is:
a) the milk from a goat
b) a cultured milk product
6. Kombu is:
a) a member of the onion family
b) a sea vegetable
7. Amaranth can be:
a) cooked as a cereal
b) used as a fruit substitute
8. TVP is:
a) a low-fat meat substitute
b) an ancient grain
9. Durum is:
a) a baking term
b) wheat for making pasta
10.Job's Tears is a title for:
a) a grain
b) a fruit
ANSWERS: 1)a, 2)a, 3)a, 4)a, 5)b, 6)b, 7)a, 8)a, 9)b, 10)a
How'd you do? If you got 100% you're an automatic "Guru" club member. Any less and you are probably quite normal!! After tasting my stevia cheesecake my husband thinks I'm a bit obsessed, but I'm enjoying "the ride", anyway.
On to week two and more new recipes. Can't wait!
3 comments:
Nancy, I wish it were a year. I've done that before. It's by the end of the year as in December, that's why I've got to get to work. I did yesterday and 10 chapters is no joke.
haha I missed one on your quiz, good luck and Im anxious to hear how everything goes. Please let me know if you and Hunter are ever in the San Francisco or Seattle area
Nancy,
Much success to you as you re-create your food world. David and I did a Specific Carbohydrate Diet plan in order to heal our digestive tracts and improve our immune systems, etc. in 2006-7. It was a little different in its restrictions but did wonders for my digestion. I still make my special muffins and yogurt. Hope you feel better with every passing day. Don't forget we're outside Memphis when you are criss-crossing the country. Hugs.
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