As I feel my body asking for less and less animal protein, an ancient fear rears its furry head. Don't vegetarians have to make sure to eat complementary foods, combine certain foods, to unleash their full protein potential? I remember horror stories of pale, black bagged people wandering zombielike, their hair falling out in patches, due to a B12 deficiency. Am I in danger somehow? Are we supposed to eat meat? We have incisors, after all. Maybe not the digestive system of a meat eater - I don't know. Everywhere I look I read conflicting reports.
One website even said that apple cider vinegar was bad bad bad for you (as opposed to all of the websites that say it is good good good for you!). One website had a detailed chart on what green vegetables to pair with which grain, and during which month. I'm either not that smart, or not that dedicated. That seems silly to me. Isn't it just possible to eat what my body craves?
This morning I ate my bucatini noodles, organic spaghetti sauce, fresh corn, broccoli and green beans. Ah - just right. I know, interesting breakfast food, but I was in the mood for it, so I ate it. I also ate watermelon, Rainier cherries, and half an orange. Oh wait - fruit's BAD for you! Which website was that information from?
What's happened to common sense? Thinking for ourselves? Has the natural health industry gotten as bad as Western medicine in just bullying us into doing what THEY say? Then what IS the Truth? Who IS an authority? Is it possible that I can be my own authority? Even if my bloodtype is A positive (I call it A plus), and theoretically I do best as a vegetarian, I may still want some animal protein. I may not. I can't tell yet what my body is going to want tomorrow.
I shy away from vitamins and supplements because I still think it's possible to EAT everything you need, in the form of nourishment. People say you can't - we live in too toxic an environment. So I do the ion cleanse every other day and call it good (oh, DISGUSTING again, by the way - thanks for asking). I make sure to have a huge variety of fresh food in the fridge as well as solid staples in my pantry. In fact, I'm quite certain we could live for 5 years on what we've got stocked up in the pantry.
Hubby got home from a weeklong trip and saw a big empty box on the floor in the kitchen (I know, I'm not buying anything more, right? But this purchase was done BEFORE I'd made the commitment). "What did you get?" he asked, nicely, but warily - I buy a lot of things.
"20 packages of bucatini," I answer.
"No, really," he says.
"Really really," I say, and show him the large stack of blue packs sitting neatly in the pasta section of my shelves.
"Wow," he says. I'm not quite sure what that means, so I'm adding, "don't buy any more pasta until we eat what we've got" to my list of what I won't buy until 2012. Also on that list: shower soap, lipstick, pens, paper, books, and blankets. Food combining? I don't think it's necessary, but I'm still not quite sure, so I'll keep researching it for a while, pondering the possibilities as I munch on my organic apple.
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