A chill in the air on last day of November

 Well it's Day 5 of the Pancreas Healing Diet.  It was a good day to have the oven on and making a pot of beef stew, but I've been hand washing colorful containers in the 1929 farmhouse sink. They were advertised on the Free Curbside Page on Social Media in my Village this Summer, and I'd left them outside for months.  They needed sanitation with 10% bleach solution.  My purpose is to have an indoor garden this Winter by the South & West facing windows.  I've already started one using lettuce plants I found growing in the spent veg garden out back. 


For today's meals I was very simplistic.  I surprised myself what I intuited I should prepare.  Mostly raw.  Happy because the stove and sink are clean, and no extra work involved.  Chewing raw veggies hopefully aided digestion process.  I need to eliminate solid waste soon or I'll have a real problem.  It normally takes up to 72 hours to pass food from the mouth to the rectum and it's past that.  

                      1/2 cup each frozen blueberries and 4% cottage cheese 
English nuffin with butter and smidge organic penaut butter & raspberry jam
Baked whole wheat crackers with humus and halved cherry tomatoes
Poached pear with fresh ginger root

Reheated 2 small millet pancakes, 1/4 cup cottage cheese, 2 Bibb lettuce leaves, 4 grape tomatoes, celery with humus, garden carrot, 19 grapes, 2 baby cukes. 

6:30 PM, Tuesday, 11/30/2021 ~  Good night!  Be well.  Stay safe and treat your body like a temple for you to healthfully reside in.  <3  

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