Rice and Beans
Well, it's about time I post about rice and beans again, eh? I must confess this month has been a challenge, but it has been a really valuable learning experience! It has been 20 full days of eating almost nothing but rice and beans (I am 2/3 of the way through!). I have allowed myself to eat some fruit (mostly apples and oranges - nothing extravagant) so that I don't completely starve my body of the nutrients it was so used to getting every single day before March 1!!
The first week of rice and beans month was the hardest. But in that first week, I had a bunch of other people out here at camp doing it with me! Not long after the first couple of days, 2 of them quit. The one family that was doing it did it just for 2 weeks as opposed to the whole month (but that had been their plan the whole time). So as of now, there is only one other person doing it with me - and he is going on a canoe trip this week where he has to eat other foods, so I will pretty much be all alone! It's a bit more difficult when you are the only one.
After the first week, things got a lot easier. I got used to smelling delicious foods and not getting to taste them. I got used to watching other people eat scrumptious foods and then going back to my house after they ate and heating up my rice and beans. And it is so much easier now than it was the first time around!!
I am amazed that I am not totally sick of rice and beans by now. But I'm not! I still really like them! I haven't really had a whole lot of variety - I purchased several different kinds of beans but have only made pinto beans and lentils up to this point. I think a large part of that is I forget to soak the beans overnight and so I just don't cook them. But it is weird - I do look forward to my rice and beans!
As of last weekend, I have lost 7 pounds. I don't know where I lost it from, but I'm not complaining!
And don't get me wrong, I am totally looking forward to eating "normal" foods again. I am looking forward to eating WITH other people and not by myself. I am looking forward to cooking tasty foods again! And I have some recipes I can't wait to try!
10 days. The countdown is ON!
The first week of rice and beans month was the hardest. But in that first week, I had a bunch of other people out here at camp doing it with me! Not long after the first couple of days, 2 of them quit. The one family that was doing it did it just for 2 weeks as opposed to the whole month (but that had been their plan the whole time). So as of now, there is only one other person doing it with me - and he is going on a canoe trip this week where he has to eat other foods, so I will pretty much be all alone! It's a bit more difficult when you are the only one.
After the first week, things got a lot easier. I got used to smelling delicious foods and not getting to taste them. I got used to watching other people eat scrumptious foods and then going back to my house after they ate and heating up my rice and beans. And it is so much easier now than it was the first time around!!
I am amazed that I am not totally sick of rice and beans by now. But I'm not! I still really like them! I haven't really had a whole lot of variety - I purchased several different kinds of beans but have only made pinto beans and lentils up to this point. I think a large part of that is I forget to soak the beans overnight and so I just don't cook them. But it is weird - I do look forward to my rice and beans!
As of last weekend, I have lost 7 pounds. I don't know where I lost it from, but I'm not complaining!
And don't get me wrong, I am totally looking forward to eating "normal" foods again. I am looking forward to eating WITH other people and not by myself. I am looking forward to cooking tasty foods again! And I have some recipes I can't wait to try!
10 days. The countdown is ON!
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