(Recipe from The PaleoDiet by Loren Cordain and Joe Friel, p248)
Serves 6
1 large cucumber, cut into half slices
2 medium tomatoes, cut into eighths
¼ red onion, very thinly sliced
½ green bell pepper, sliced thinly
¼ cup lemon juice
2 tbs extra-virgin olive oil
Freshly ground black pepper
Mix the cucumber, tomatoes, onion, and bell pepper in a bowl. Toss with the lemon juice and oil. Add black pepper to taste.
My thoughts: Very tasty, simple/fast to make. Next time I will put less red onion in since it kind of overpowered the rest of the salad (especially after sitting over night in the fridge). More green pepper.
Day two on the Island (aka the diet) and the natives are getting restless. I could have cheerfully chewed off a couple of fingers and toes (protein, right?!) around 11pm last night when I woke up absolutely ravenous with nothing in the house to eat. Luckily, Stella and Quinn were willing to share their carrot stick treats so I could eat and go back to sleep. Stella paid me back with four ice cold feet to the lower back. Good thing she's cute...
Today's food choices consisted of banana and apple slices for breakfast, plain water, a banana pre-run, rest of the curry for lunch, an orange for an afternoon snack, a lightly peppered piece of beef for dinner before heading out to derby practice, a banana and some walnuts for my evening snack. I felt pretty good all day, even slogged out a 2 mile run (first time since November). Managed to make it through the afternoon without dying for something sweet and sugary. But that doesn't mean there wasn't a weird craving. It just hit later in the day. Weird Craving of the Day (WCotD) was for Easy Cheese. You know that awful yet oh so delicious stuff in a can? Yeah. That. Anyone who shows up at my front door on Day 31 with a can of that $h!t will be mine FOREVER.
Would go great with Bacon Vodka. Just saying.
I've been looking at recipes out of the Paleo Diet book (the original, not the cookbook) and some of the recipes look pretty tasty!! Lemon Pepper Pork Steaks - I'm looking at you. I've also ordered a couple other books from the library based on recommendations from friends. Bought a tub of coconut oil. Chunky. Different. We'll see how that goes...
I'm pretty sure I'll dream of cheese again tonight. Yummy, nasty stuff from a can. What can I say, healthy body...sick, sick mind. I'll leave you with Operation Ivy singing the song of the day - the lyrics are pretty accurate:
Expensive vitamin pills and wheat germ on your windowsill
Schedule's hectic and you got no time to kill
Earning money and you're spending it the right way
Just in such a rush
You don't know if it's night or day
5:30 get up, run run run
Then you work eight hours slaving under the gun
Your little world's based on lies lies lies
Always rushing but you're never ever satisfied...
Healthy body sick mind
Working overtime
Healthy body sick mind
Too hectic, too hectic
Healthy body sick mind
Why don't you justify
It's just a matter of time
Sick body sick mind
The money you spend on running shoes could feed me for a week
Your plans are laid so well you can't even sleep
Pursuit of happiness got your life locked under martial law
You got everything to lose so you're paranoid about some fatal flaw
