Eating Explorations

  My strep throat and ear infection did not subside over the weekend. And in fact, it remained the same. Therefore I stayed at home on Monday as well, continuing my diet of course, but in a lot of pain. Monday morning for breakfast, I had some homemade all wheat flatbread with onion, honey and sheep cheese And some hot water with honey... For lunch, I had a salad which was made up of kale, romaine lettuce, baby spinach, chickpeas, French lentils, and a honey-garlic olive oil dressing I made from scratch Dinner was baked lamb with olive oil, butter and thyme a top homemade hummus with a slice of the flatbread. The following morning, Tuesday, I was back to work but still in a lot of pain. For breakfast I had some grapes and only 1 mandarin. For lunch I had some baked chicken thighs which were pre-chilled in garlic and thyme for several hours...with couscous Dinner was three different slices of the wheat flatbread, one with sheep cheese and honey, another with ground lamb made with corian

  I am so excited about this diet. I have been waiting a while to do it, and it took so much research you can't even know. For weeks earlier this year, during my vast research on all of these different diets, I was trying to find a country in Africa to do - and it seemed impossible. There's a reason we're always hearing about starving children in Africa - because there seems to be no food. In all the hours and hours of research I did about the native foods to the continent, it was like there were parts where there was food, and other parts where there wasn't any. I did research on the natives, and what they ate. I did research on the different tribes and what they do eat. And no matter where I looked, it seemed it was either things that would be impossible to find here stateside (most specifically at Whole Foods), or there wasn't anything at all. In fact, in some of the research I dug up, researchers with much higher titles and degrees than mine, discovered and conc

  Week 4 of The Viking Diet went well...and it was also unexpected in some ways. Sunday evening, after I finished dinner and was headed to bed I started getting a sore throat and a terrible, horrible pain in my neck. So bad in fact, that I had to take an Advil - which, if anyone knows me, knows I'm quite holistic and don't like to take medicine. Day 1 of week 4, and I was back to work in the morning with my standard breakfast: Plain yogurt, fresh strawberries and some walnuts. For lunch, I had some smoked salmon with peas... For dinner... I made baked salmon with butter, a ground walnuts on top as a crust. Placed a top of baby spinach, honey crisp apple slices, and on top of the salmon, some of the left over spinach pesto and more of the ground walnuts as a garnish. Day 2, and because my throat was still super sore, I decided to make a strawberry smoothie with half and half but without the ice. For lunch, I had baked chicken thighs with sauteed onions, mushrooms, baked garlic a