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 Kiani on -
On week 7 now. Missed one week to update everyone. I wanted to stop, but Lucas questioned why. I decided to continue, but I just need to expand upon which foods I allow myself to buy in order to function and perform optimally. The foods I have been buying are greens like lettuce, romaine, and celery for juicing, and foods for fermenting like cabbage for making sauerkraut and rejuvelac.
This has become a way of life for me. I totally felt the difference in the quality of fruit when I compared a fresh picked local mango and a commercial pineapple from overseas. It was scary how bad that pineapple was. Well, it was also hybridized and I haven't been eating any hybridized fruit. My Banana tree won't produce any (hybridized) Bananas for another month.
I am not sure if can ever buy fruit in the store any more. It is just not appetizing or appealing to me in any way. I just look down on it as something that the farmer was throwing out as an excess to all the fresh picked, fully ripened fruit there.
Lots of experiences to share with those interested. Feel free to leave a message on my wall or send a private message.
Aloha from Hawaii!
The Land of Tropical Delights
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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Still going strong on week 10 now. Still no need to buy fruits or nuts. Much too much abundance. Have to give away and throw away a lot of fruits. Got some red sea lettuce today. The other green ones too. I wonder what will happen when mango season ends. I still look at commercial fruits as trash that the land's caretakers discard as rubbish for many reasons. People are becoming amazed at how far and long I have taken this. It is not that hard for me. Many years of experience led up to this becoming possible.
Now that I am single and dating again, something has come to my attention. Guys I know that are interested in raw foods and health see me as being healthy because of my abilities like opening coconuts, climbing trees, hiking, rock climbing, kayaking, swimming, bodysurfing etc. The women I am around seem to think to be healthy, a person has to have the body of a model. For me to say I am into health would require that I appear healthy in their eyes. I have started to overlap the wild food challenge with some cleanses to improve my body image. Wish me luck!
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