Other Shakes and food

Sunday came and went - a bit to fast for me. But I did manage to make anther shake with nectarines. I can't recommend it - I mean it tasted well but you can't blend the nectarine. Maybe because it was not totally ripe - it was drinking a Peach Melba yogurt. So not to bad. Dinner was dal (a la roommate - since she made it!) and grilled aubergines with garlic - mmmh a new favourite food. For lunch I had meat again - tough I was promising my self to try and avoid it since soon it will be over for a while - and it is not like I crave it but what can you do when you get invited for a free meal and they serve salad and grilled meat??? I was good though - but I had to much - I really have to start saying NO.
Speaking of No - I did manage in morning of Saturday on my way to Massage to say no to a lady who wanted to give me something read. We all know what that means Jehovah - not my thing - and where I usually would feel uncomtable and stop and talk - I right away said NO!!! Jubii I managed....

First Almond Milk and Shake...

Ok, as I'm trying to prepare my self for my first detox or cleanse ever - I'm experimenting doing all these different kind of food and drinks. So today's big project was making almond milk. Sounded pretty easy almonds, water, Marple syrup and cinnamon. As what often happens when I don't double check I remembered 240g of almond for 1 portion. So yesterday I got 3 bags of bio almonds with 200g in each and soaked them all over night. This morning I need peeled them! Only to find out that it was 240ml of almonds!!!! for 1 l of water --- quite a difference. I hope I can dry up the rest of the soaked ones for next time.
As for taste I have to say it was a pleasant surprise - it taste really well and it does become white like milk. Next project of the morning was trying to make a banana shake using the newly made almond milk. So 1 1/2 banana got into the blender, a squeeze of almond milk, some Cinnamon, maple syrup and spurilina. Ha, I guess I didn't take into consideration that the spurilina would make the drink dark green like Pesto... So testing it was a bit hard. I am quite sensitive when it comes to drink and food and I knew if I was not thinking right I world puke... But again a surprise - it tasted really nice. Not the last time I will try that.
My next big challenge is to sit down and plan my food for the week. I hate planning when it comes to food. I am such a mode eater. Today I want this and then I won't eat it again for a long time. Bit of a problem when in Europe the supermarket are stilled focused on Family packs. I will try to look in some of my cook books which I have tons of but never use. I think I will go for easy, green and good!

Out of Touch...

OK, So again I haven't written for a while, I was very keen i the beginning and I still am. I though that since nobody (or almost apart from Liz and Sara) would know of this place I would feel OK about writing stuff about my self. But I guess I should know from all the dairy book (empty!) that it would still be hard for me to share ideas and thoughts. I have this bad habit of judging my self on what you can and can't do. Which of cause means that you can't just write about nothing... I am you need to have something interesting to say right? But who will judge that.. maybe somebody out there will pass by my site and find it interesting. Anyway I have decided that I need to stop worry so much and just do it. So more to follow soon....

What we get from our parents...

How come that once a year or so, when I am sick, I still feel like I am lying when I call in sick? How come we are raised to believe that if we are not almost dead then we are not really sick? How many time have I not been well but still gone to work - cause maybe I'm not really sick..and then it takes me week to get over a cold? Has it all to do with our parents looking at us when we tried to fake a day of school and telling us "go to school if you don't feel better at lunch time you can come home".. or is it because we have all worked in a place where at least one colleague have faked a sick day or use the day for no-certificed sick leave as leave - because the needed to do something or go somewhere?
Or is the reall dead that we are dead scared that something interesting will happen at work at we would miss out? Why this guilt as we were doing someting illigal?
You might just wonder why I write we - well because most time when I ask my girls friends this question they all say the same - "my parents raised me to feel that if I was not almost dead then I was not really sick".... Can you tell, I'm home sick today and feel very guilty about it even though I shouldn't. I have not really been inspired to write lately and also I guess I am not that use to sharing - I'm better at listning....