2 Week Wild Foods Challenge
I am challenging myself to not buy any food hardly for two weeks. Well, I know I still need to buy purified water and greens for juicing to stay healthy and maybe some supplies for sprouting Sunflower Greens later on, but everything else is on hold.
I have access to all the Coconuts, Coconut Sprouts, Seaweeds, Aloe, and Noni I can eat. There is also some wild Greens, Cucumbers, and Tomatoes I can find. I am sure there are a few more things I can find to eat too.
I am tired of getting low-quality, high-cost foods that don't do much for me. I ate $400 worth of Goji Berries in a month and sorry people, but I didn't feel any healthier. I am determined to eat more homegrown, and wild foods. I have already run out of fruit. Mango season is late so none of those right now for me.
I may be cheating because I have been a chef and just might have enough food to last me that long. I need to use that stuff up anyway.
I started on Monday and will continue at least until Monday, June 29th.
Money is not the issue, I just want to eat fresh foods and become more connected to my environment by gathering and picking an increasing amount of my own foods. Local foods are known to contain the right proportion of nutrients and anti-biotics necessary for us to live and thrive there. I'd rather spend money on gas driving all around the island to gather and pick food than to buy low quality food that has been imported from overseas and sitting around for a while or something that is local, which may or may not be organic and is not fresh-picked. I live in Hawaii which is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and most of everything we use here comes from overseas. I also enjoy challenging myself and conducting the experiment on myself. I have a feeling I will get healthier from doing this. What do you think?
Come on people! Join the challenge if possible.
This is a picture of everything that went into one of my juices recently:
I have access to all the Coconuts, Coconut Sprouts, Seaweeds, Aloe, and Noni I can eat. There is also some wild Greens, Cucumbers, and Tomatoes I can find. I am sure there are a few more things I can find to eat too.
I am tired of getting low-quality, high-cost foods that don't do much for me. I ate $400 worth of Goji Berries in a month and sorry people, but I didn't feel any healthier. I am determined to eat more homegrown, and wild foods. I have already run out of fruit. Mango season is late so none of those right now for me.
I may be cheating because I have been a chef and just might have enough food to last me that long. I need to use that stuff up anyway.
I started on Monday and will continue at least until Monday, June 29th.
Money is not the issue, I just want to eat fresh foods and become more connected to my environment by gathering and picking an increasing amount of my own foods. Local foods are known to contain the right proportion of nutrients and anti-biotics necessary for us to live and thrive there. I'd rather spend money on gas driving all around the island to gather and pick food than to buy low quality food that has been imported from overseas and sitting around for a while or something that is local, which may or may not be organic and is not fresh-picked. I live in Hawaii which is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and most of everything we use here comes from overseas. I also enjoy challenging myself and conducting the experiment on myself. I have a feeling I will get healthier from doing this. What do you think?
Come on people! Join the challenge if possible.
This is a picture of everything that went into one of my juices recently:
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Permalink Reply by Gil on -
wow Kiani,
I came back to this thread to check in and see if you were able to manage the the two weeks....four? that's awesome!!! you, my brother, officially rock!!!
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Permalink Reply by Rawstrength on -
That's so inspiring! I wish you all the best! I just drank a green smoothie with wild lambsquarters, totally awesome. I am jealous of all your coconuts! You won't find any wild coconuts here in Connecticut.
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on -
You may not have Coconuts, but ther are foods like Lamb's Quarters that I don't have here.
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Permalink Reply by Gil on
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lol, I know, right?
what will the supermarkets do when the realize that more and more people are getting their food for free? The way nature intended;)
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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The supermarkets will panic and devise an even more sinister plot to stop us from eating our own foods like we should.
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Permalink Reply by mish on -
Codex Alementarius already is plotting that, and with Monsanto, to regulate seeds and laws against organic farming. There is pure evil. Hollywood moviemaking is a reflection of reality. Remember Soilent Green? Far before it's time.
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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That goes for organic farming. Their next plot may be to destroy all the vegetation on Earth so that we will not be able to eat wild foods too.
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Permalink Reply by mish on
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Nice pix, inspiring! I got the aloe and the celery! Now you send me some o'that red sea lettuce and a big fruiting noni tree and I'll be happy. Oh, and a nice hunk of that delish gotu kola too :0
Not that that is LA all my local. But I am wishing my local changes, I am not a city girl anymore!
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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Well, it's weeks 5 now. The cravings have started to come, but they are no match for me. I feel like this has been a form of rebellion on my part. It's one thing to live off the land far from the city and another to live off the land amidst the chaos of commercialized urban food.
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