portland.

we went to portland for a week! i discovered the challenges of eating raw while flying standby and having to wait around in airports ($1 per piece of conventional fruit! $6 for a disgusting-looking salad with iceburg lettuce!) and also that, while there is a lot of really great raw food in portland, the stuff at restaurants is generally overpriced and very small in portion. despite all that, it was a fun exploration and we did get some good eats (chai raweos! cashew sour cream and cashew hummus from blossoming lotus!)

now that i am back, i am thinking more about what i eat...when i have the most control, in my own home. i first craved grains and beans when i got home, so i thought i better start eating those in addition to my usual raw stuff. i ate some (cooked)millet, but havent really eaten any of the black beans i made. now im soaking kamut and just made some buckwheat cakes. so maybe sprouted grains will be all i need.

today:

pineapple buckwheat cake (a strange concoction of a buckwheat carrot cake base and pineapple preserves on top, all raw and homemade)
chococarob sunflower shake (banana, soaked sunflower seeds, carob, cacao powder)

1/2 avocado mashed up with garlic and red pepper
three buckwheat crusts, homemade
1 fuji apple
a handful of cherries

a bit of mango (as i cut them up to freeze, cleaning off the pits with my teeth)
one banana mashed with some coconut butter and carob
a small bowl of sauerkraut, homemade

kind of a weird day for eating. probably will have some more before the day is through, hopefully a big salad. its been mostly fruit and grains (buckwheat) today. i feel pretty good though, a little bit hungry at the moment...but i will wait for "dinner".