- Drinks are going to be way harder than food -- no soda, no flavored coffees (well, except Urban Coffee Lounge has this salted maple latte where they use maple syrup as flavoring -unprocessed!, and the honey hemp latte, although there's been some debate over whether plant milks can count as unprocessed...)
- Many things we eat every day are heavily processed without us thinking about it like that. Bread is the best example that comes to mind. Have you ever read the label on your loaf of bread? Good thing we can get Dave's Killer Bread here.
- Dried apricots don't count because they're treated with preservatives. Well, nuts. There goes half my week's menu.
Breakfast: 2 eggs, fried. Baked beans. Cantaloupe. Coffee.
This was not very different from what I'd normally have for breakfast. I did eye the Canadian Bacon wantfully but it is a mess of preservatives so I avoided it. The baked beans were leftovers and I didn't eye the can before de-canning them... I can almost guarantee they are not unprocessed. :-/ Didn't consider this until afterward. Coffee is plain black Cafe Vita beans, ground, french pressed. Pretty enjoyable without the sweeteners in it.
This is a good time to refresh my memory on the goodness of plain and simple food. I struggle with that as I always want new and different, exciting and exotic. Food as fuel has never been my thing.
Lunch: Cherry Pie Lara Bar, Banana, Almonds
So I confess. I knew that convenience meals would be the death of me. I tend to forget I need to eat until I'm running out the door for something or other. In this case, it was the gym. So I grabbed a handful of things that looked like unprocessed food and took off. Ended up being pretty good and more filling than you'd think. And Lara Bars are only kind of cheating. The rules are roughly that you can eat anything you could reasonably make in your own kitchen and Lara Bars you could totally make. Dates, almonds, cherries. That is literally it. Amazing.
Snack: Pluot, almonds, lemon bread
I'd gone to the gym and run for a half hour, I'd then gone to PAWS and lifted heavy stuff up and down hills for 5 hours. I needed food. I'd brought extra. Cuz that's how I do. I love Pluots. Did you know that? I always forget, myself. But then I'll see them and buy them and after the first one, I'm in love all over again. The skin is tart, very tart. The flesh is sweet, extremely sweet. It's such that if you didn't have both the skin AND the flesh, it wouldn't be palatable because the over sweetness or over sourness would be nasty. So they're amazing and you should try one if you haven't.
The lemon bread may have been cheating but I actually don't think so because it *appeared* that someone had made it from scratch and brought it in to share. I say it's cheating because I don't know for sure whether it was homemade or not. It was, however, delicious.
Dinner: Asparagus Pizza
I hope this is good, it sounds amazing to me. I bought a pre-made pizza crust--that was less than unprocessed of me. Guaranteed there's some sort of preservative or extracted somethingorother in it. But I didn't have time or mixer to make a crust from scratch, so sue me. And by that I mean I humbly apologize and will do better with future meals.
Day 1 Analysis:
Breakfast: 3/4
Lunch: 3/3
Snack: 2.5/3
Dinner: 5/7
Final score: 13.5/17 = 79% Not bad and I'm just warming up!
And finally:
The link for the pizza recipe in case you're intrigued: http://penniesonaplatter.com/2012/03/15/shaved-asparagus-pizza/
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