Still plugging away at the diet but have introduced more foods since the initial first couple weeks of chicken soup and friends. I'm eating salmon and tuna, more veggies and raw fruit in smoothies and snacks. I've also added what I call "Glorious Nuggets of Joy", a spontaneous name that clearly came from desperation for sweet snacky-type things. They're a concoction of mashed dates, shredded coconut, sunflower seeds ground into flour and peanut butter, all rolled into two-bite balls and coated in crushed sunflower seeds. It's amazing how cravings for sweets still persist but not for the traditional baked goods and sugar-laden desserts. These little beauties satisfy that end-of-meal treat that I've missed these past few weeks, but are still well within allowed parameters. The silly name was maybe created to boost their appeal and to delight in the notion that yes, dessert still exists in some form on this diet.
Speaking of dessert, my darling daughter, freshly home from college, shared a new recipe with me— she made me a batch of banana 'ice-cream' which is nothing more than frozen sliced bananas and creamy peanut butter pureed in the blender. OMG, (I usually save that expression for my writing young adult novels), this stuff is spectacular! Totally unexpected! It's creamy and sweet and cold...can't be described, you must try it to believe how good it is. Somehow it's more than mashed frozen baby-food banana. And I'm not just saying that because I can't eat dairy. The commercial coconut milk ice cream has some serious competition on my palate, but it has sugar. Not my new banana whip (must think of a better name).
I baked a real cheesecake for my son's birthday today and though I looked longingly at the creamy middle and graham cracker crust, I instead enjoyed a bowl of the leftover surface decorations: strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. I mixed in some fresh chunks of papaya and I was all set.
Life goes on. Maybe on his next birthday I'll have a big slice.
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