CHOCOLATE.PEANUT BUTTER.BANANA.SHAKE.

HOLD THE PRESSES. HEALTH FOOD JUST GOT WAY CLOSER TO JUNK FOOD

You will need:

• a hand blender (or just a blender I guess)
• 1 banana - frozen or fresh
• 2 cups unsweetened chocolate almond milk
• 4 tbs cocoa powder
• a dollop of maple syrup (sweeten to your preference)
• 3 heaping tbsp natural smooth peanut butter
• 1 tbsp natural cashew butter (optional)
• dash of cinnamon (organic fair trade not made in Sri Lanka tastes best)
• a splash of vanilla

NOW TAP THAT SHIT.

IT'S LIKE BILL COSBY'S CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR BREAKFAST, WITHOUT THE CONNIPTION FIT.

3 months minus christmas and weekends

Drawing by Mikkel Sommer

So I set out to try this for a month.

and I did.

The way my math works, if you take three months and give or a take Christmas and weekends you end up with one full month.

Even though the pile of clothes I would some day like to fit into, is still a pile, and it is not yet someday, I've learned some things.

I've learned that I feel much better when I don't eat all of those white things.

That my hands and body and skin feel swollen and tight when I do.

I've learned that I like to eat whatever someone serves me for dinner and dessert.

That I can pass on some things, take smaller servings of others and take much bigger servings of foods made without the white things.

I've learned that it's really hard to find pre-made food that is not made with the white things, and that it's really easy and enjoyable to make food that is.

I have learned about beef shawarma plate with no rice or potatoes.

I've learned that it's a pretty easy eating habit to pick up and that while I never want to be militant about anything especially avoiding yummy food, I really like the choices I make when I steer away from the white things in my day to day.

I have also found that the foods and meals I eat regularly has really changed. There are several foods that I can not live without now, and many, I never really eat before. I eat so many nuts now that I put a warning sign on my office door in case anyone was allergic.

Foods I can not live without now:

• unsweetened regular/vanilla/chocolate almond milk
• Puy lentils
• leeks
• cold pressed coconut oil
• almond hazelnut butter
• cashew butter
• brown rice cakes
• NUTS so MANY NUTS
• eggs
• apples
• MEAT so MUCH MEAT
• maple syrup / honey
• bananas
• whiskey (malt or rye)

drawing by Sarah Morrissey

Stove top apple crisp

I discovered this yummy dessert when AK and I were in the Rockies and had nothing but a package of instant oatmeal, 2 apples and a small bottle of honey. I just re-did it with a few more ingredients and it's actually better then baked apple crisp and faster!

in a pot, simmer until apples are soft:

• 3 sliced apples
  
• vanilla
• Cinnamon
• ground all spice
• 1/4 c maple syrup
• 1 cup water or so
  

in a pan cook over med-low heat until crispy, toasted goodness:

• 1 tbsp cold pressed coconut oil
• toast 2 cups organic steel cut oats
• sprinkle Cinnamon
• 1 tbsp date sugar
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• add coconut oil as need.

dish out apples and sprinkle on oats!