Jungle Janie's Raw Vegan Blogspot

Happy New Year Everyone!!! :) :) :) Sleep:  awake at 7:45am, up at 8:30am to sleep for night last night at: 11:30pm Food: breakfast: 6 (or 7?) organic California Page mandarins lunch: 9 Fuyu persimmons (3 lbs) dinner: TBD -- probably a mandarin or two, followed by salad of: head of green cabbage cut into ribbons with dressing of tahini, lemon, carrot juice, freeze dried kale powder ... and maybe some partially dehydrated summer squash slices on the side or with the dressing as dip (possibly dipping "baby" carrots too) ... and maybe some carrot juice afterward I've been eating persimmons pretty much every day for a while now. They are SO delicious, and they store really well here, so I can get over a month's worth at a time, which I absolutely love! They hold up well without refrigeration and are a terrific staple or back-up because they're the kind that you can eat whether they are hard or soft. I got a great deal on them at CostCo in California when Da...

6-23-17 Fresh squeezed orange juice blended with frozen strawberries Fresh harvested mountain apples from yard 7 Saba bananas Oops, forgot to record the rest of this day and the next... now I have forgotten. Think this is the night I made a kind of salsa chutney ish thing one of these two nights. It was 3/4 of a fruity avocado mashed a bit still chunky, some minced chives, 2 roma tomatoes chopped, and a touch of lemon juice. I started eating it with celery, but then Darrel started eating his guacamole which makes his breath bother me if I don’t have some. It's raw vegan so I will put some in my stuff sometimes so his breath doesn't bother me. I added some to mine and decided to put that in dried nori sheets in a row lengthwise with a stick of celery lengthwise across as well before rolling it and eating it. Neither the spicy guacamole nor the dried nori are my ideal foods, but they are acceptable at times. This was one of those times (obviously). Lol 6-24...

Water from coconut from yard About 1/2 a pear offered to me when out in the field at the refuge with the biologist A couple of figs from yard eaten at the tree :) Lots of mountain apples harvested fresh from yard Fresh squeezed orange juice Mix of zuke, cuke, multicolor carrot noodles with sauce of some of the OJ blended with celery, zucchini, and a touch of tahini, sprinkled with minced fresh chives Photos to be posted later Today was a big birding day for me: spent morning on state-wide nene survey, then the rest of the day doing photo review and writing up observations of a moorhen nest from the motion detection camera's SD card I got from an intern. So interesting! Love all of it! :) Darrel went to farm today to see if there was anything new to harvest, and discovered more theft and vandalism. :( They cut our starfruit tree so severely that it might not survive. 😓 It had the best starfruit I have ever tasted... was planted from a tree that had the best starf...

Saturday June 17, 2017 Fresh squeezed orange juice 1 Tuscan melon Lychee Darrel and I spent time to try out Agile Scrum framework for figuring out our life in the next year, in order to help prioritize all the things we were feeling need to be done, feel driven to do and/or have deadlines to finish before we go to the FoodnSport retreats in September. It really helped! Yay! :) Sunday June 18, 2017 Father's Day! :) 1 Tuscan melon Mountain apples Apple bananas Hearts of romaine head lettuce Hearts of romaine head lettuce 3 large roma tomatoes Mustard  (not ideal) Darrel had something with a lot of mustard on it and I decided to have some mustard too. I wedged the roma tomatoes lengthwise, and placed them on the lettuce leaves lengthwise, then put a bit of mustard down the length of that, folded the leaves over the top and ate them that way. It hit the spot. Mustard is not ideal because of its spiciness, but it's one of the exceptions I have been making over the last ...

Large fresh squeezed OJ at Jamba Juice while out White pineapple and Blueberries More OJ I squeezed myself Blended OJ with frozen mango and mint as sauce for: Veggie dish with Brussels sprouts, multicolor carrots, celery, sections from juiced oranges Hearts of romaine head on the side Touch of Darrel's guacamole mixed in so we have the same breath :)

Today was a hodge podge... and little of this, little of that... A few golden figs from yard 2 Jamaican lilikoi from yard 3 mountain apples from yard 1/2 large white pineapple from farmers market 2 ears corn from farmers market Blueberries from store 2 hearts of romaine heads lettuce from store Lychee from farmers market Yesterday Fresh squeezed orange juice Smoothie with some of the OJ and frozen strawberries Mamey sapot e 1/2 pound baby lettuce spring mix with olive oil and spices on it (not ideal, but tasty) 1-2 tablespoons tahini with lemon juice as spread onto dried nori sheets (not ideal) wrapped around small wedges of roma tomatoes  (2 large) Yeah, too much fat for one day, more than one type of fat, oil and spices, and nori all are not my ideal. I realized that and decided it was acceptable enough for me, and I don't regret it. I felt like having the mix spiced like I used to spice popcorn, so I did, and ate it like that. Call it my rarely-occassionally th...

Monday 6/12/17 Coconut water Hmm. don't remember lunch anymore  (it's after lunch on Tuesday now)... not sure if I actually had lunch... think I didn't Salad: 1 pound baby lettuce spring mix with dressing of blended: 1 cup-ish frozen mango, 2 large roma tomatoes, 4 or 5 sticks celery T uesday  6/13/17 (so far) Fresh squeezed orange juice  (about 3 or 4 cups) 1 Sunrise papaya friends left behind 1 Mammy sapote Fresh squeezed orange juice  (about 3 or 4 cups) Made dressing to take with me with blending some of the OJ, about a tablespoon or 2 of tahini, and a couple of celery stalks  Salad at bar and grill: chopped: romaine lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, with grated carrots and a few mung bean sprouts. Used the dressing I made earlier on it. We went out dancing tonight at a bar and grill, and ate dinner there. It was fun. We haven't done that in a while and it was good to see people and dance again. :)

For those of you wanting the scoop on what's been going on in my life... I'll do an update and all another time.  For now I'm just gonna' start back into this as I can... (UPDATED 6/11/17) Here's food for 6-6-17, didn't measure it. coconut water on the go apricots followed by sugar snap peas at Safeway seating for lunch with Darrel some mixed color "baby" carrots on the go salad of: baby lettuce mix dressed with blended frozen mango and 3 chopped fresh roma tomatoes 1  large mammey sapote Here's food for 6-7-17: 3 cups fresh squeezed juice from local navel oranges (1 cup I drank straight-up, while blending the other 2 cups with about 2 1/2 cups frozen strawberries: this yielded about 4 cups smoothie) I took photos of the steps of this and the food for the rest of the day (and next day). I will post them later, along with a recent Food for the Week-ish photo. 7 apple bananas 2 Hearts of Romaine heads of lettuce 4 mixed col...

Sleep: woke at 7 am, up at 7:30am, went to sleep at 10:30pm the night before Yesterday's Food: Meal 1: banana-date-spinach smoothie: 7 Cavendish bananas 9 California Deglet Nour dates 5 oz baby spinach filtered water Meal 2: orange juice-strawberry drink, then ate the orange sections 8 Kauai Valencia oranges 4-5 C frozen strawberries Snack: 1/2 brazilnut   Today's Food: Breakfast: banana-date-spinach smoothie: 3 Cavendish bananas 16 California Deglet Nour dates 5 oz baby spinach filtered water Lunch: 1,836 grams strawberry Sunrise papaya 1 stick celery I plan to update it as I eat more... okay, so I didn't go back soon enough, sorry about that. I thought I recorded what I ate, but apparently I didn't put it in my nutrition trackers like I thought I did. Here's a picture of dinner though: I think it was just shredded cabbage with orange-strawberry dressing, and the orange garnish. After I took the photo, I put it in a bowl a...

Food: Opened 3 coconuts and shared some with Darrel: Here is what I drank of the water (with the flesh aside for later, that I didn't end up eating): This is the rest of the water from these coconuts which is what Darrel drank: So, my share was 1,482 grams of coconut water . Next I had 1,377 grams of papayas : And later I had 809 grams of saba bananas : And later I had juice from these 7 navel oranges , which turned out to be about 3.6 Cups and weighed 930 grams : I was going to have a romaine and katuk salad with a mango, tomato, celery, basil dressing, but was so full from the orange juice that I didn't end up eating before I went out for the night with Darrel. I would have LOVED that salad! Note to self: make the salad and take it with you anyway next time. There was a Art Walk in Kapaa, and we had a blast. We parked our electric car about a mile-ish down the road where we could charge it up and walked down to everything. When we got there I h...

I'm working on getting back into the swing of posting things here again, and appreciate your patience with the ebb and flow of it all. :) Today I photographed, weighed, and logged what I ate as a start on this. I'll do some videos of this sort of thing in the future as well as other areas once I get more efficient at editing them. People want to know what kinds of things I'm eating these days, so here's a day's worth of food... on a day I did mostly computer work. You may notice that I'm not eating very many calories in comparison to what I used to. This is partly from a lower activity level overall, and today specifically. I've also found I seem to be utilizing the calories more efficiently than I did early on with this diet. It's been a gradual process over time. I don't seem to need as many calories for the same activity levels as I used to. It turns out well, because I used to love that I could eat so much and now I love that I don't ne...