Day 17

Milk day.  We were out and about all day, including a reception at my friends' place where there was just a ton of delicious-smelling and -looking food.  Managed to not give in and just stuck to my milk for the day.  When we came home, I made an altered version of the onion soup, replacing the cilantro with thyme, and most of the water with milk, so it was more of a creamy onion soup.  It was quite good and very satisfying.  The whole house smells of onion though! 

I still feel like I'm doing pretty well, and today's test was pretty good for me, to know that I can definitely say no to things and be content about it.

Tomorrow will be another milk day, and again, we'll be out and about all day.  Should be interesting.  I'm really curious about my progress this week, so I'm looking forward to heading in on Tuesday for the next round to begin.

Day 16

Fruit/veggie day. Finished my traveling today and arrived at my parents house. My dad and I went golfing, and I had a banana on the course. Then it was time to figure out a Sadkhin friendly dinner in a non-Sadkhin house. We picked up some eggplant, zucchini,and onion, and I said "You figure out your meat, I'll do the veggies."

Mom and Dad had salmon burgers, and I grilled up the eggplant and zucchini. I also made onion soup. They turned theirs into French Onion soup by adding croutons and cheese. I left mine as-is. It was a good dinner!

Milk day tomorrow.

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Day 14-15

Milk day, then fruit/veggie day.  As I posted earlier, I'm taking a trip this weekend, and discovering the difficulties of traveling with the limitations of this diet.  Traveling on a milk day isn't so bad - it's the fruit/veggie day that's weird.  I packed some stuff to eat, but, well, blah.  Got to my 2nd destination a wee bit early so I found a local Starbucks (like that's hard to do) and took a peek at the Naked smoothies that they sell.  These appear to be Sadkhin friendly.  If V8 is allowed to replace the fruit/veggie day, these must also qualify - they are nothing but purees with a little juice to liquefy them.  I probably chose poorly for the one I'm currently consuming - it's all fruit, it mixes mango and banana, and it has orange in it.  But it's so tasty!  There's this green one, too, that is basically V8 without the tomato, but  I've tried that one before and it was really nasty.  So, today will just simply be all fruit.  I had an all veggie day, so it'll do.  Makes me a lot less nervous about trying to be traveling knowing this option is out here.  Plus I think I'll have to find some of this stuff to purchase for home.

The biggest hassle has been the stupid balls.  Driving takes so much longer when you have to pull over every hour and a half or so to do the rotations.  Sometimes there's just not a place to stop.  Stayed pretty close, though.

Nothing much else to report.  I would have done an unofficial mid-week weigh in today, but I'm nowhere near a scale that I'm familiar enough with to trust.  Alas, I will just have to wait it out until Tuesday when I go back to see Andre again.

Day 13

Milk day.  I like milk days.  Have I mentioned that before?  I just like milk days.  I meant to have the onion soup today that I made last night, but I ran out of time and I just wasn't hungry for it.  Ah well.  Nothing really out of the ordinary for today.  Feeling good.

Tomorrow, however, I'm heading away for the weekend.  Milk for work all day.  Not quite sure how I'm going to handle travel day 2, a fruit/veggie day.  Then I have to keep this up while running around with family for the weekend.  I can do this... I can.  I must!

So, there may or may not be a post tomorrow and Thursday. 

I just want to pause here to say thank you to everyone who's been following along and encouraging me.  It really helps!!

Day 12

Fruit/veggie day.  I had jury duty today.  Packed up the remaining pepper/onion/carrot mix from the fajitas, and threw an apple in the bag and called it good, hoping there would be a microwave available for the pepper mix.  I ate the apple for lunch, and ended up being dismissed before eating the pepper mix, so it came home with me.  An inspiration struck me on the way home - why not throw the pepper mix into some vegetable stock, heat it up and call it soup?  So I did.  8oz of stock + leftover pepper mix = Tri-Pepper Soup.  Then, as I was eating the soup, I was reminded of simple, humble onion soup.  Since onion is a free thing that I can have any day, including milk days, I decided to play around and come up with a purely free onion soup for milk days.  Not that milk days need any help, mind you, but it's nice to have for bringing to work so I can actually have lunch with the coworkers.  It's no French Onion Soup, since I can't have the beef broth or the bread or the cheese, but this turned out pretty well and will definitely do.

I didn't get much sleep last night, and it wasn't the best sleep - probably anxiety for the jury duty today.  After I got home (before the pepper soup), I just passed out for a little while.  Sitting around all day waiting (I was never called up), with nothing to do but sit and wait (and rotate the spheres), really sucks the life out of you.  Missed the 4pm rotation - slept right through it.  Oops.  I feel better now though!  And that soup was really good!!!

Back to milk tomorrow, with onion soup in tow!  Ooh, I could probably make a creamy onion soup on milk days by replacing some of the water with milk...

Free Onion Soup - may be consumed on any day
1 sweet onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tsp honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 Tbsp dried basil
1 Tbsp dried rosemary
handful chopped fresh cilantro
2 tsp sea salt
1/2 cup white wine
2 cups water

Cut off ends of onion and chop in half, removing outer peel.  Slice to form half-moons.  Heat a large saucepan on medium-high heat.  Add honey and vanilla and allow honey to thin.  Add garlic.  Place a layer of onions in the pot, then sprinkle 1 tsp salt over it, then another layer topped with remainder of salt.  Leave it alone for a little while to let the onions caramelize - it'll take a good 15 minutes.  You want them to be nice and soft - don't worry about the inevitable burning on the bottom of the pan, we'll take care of that.

Add in the basil, rosemary, and cilantro, and stir.  Add in the wine - this will deglaze the bottom of the pan and bring back all those flavors stuck down there.  Allow the wine to completely cook away, stirring frequently.  Finally, add the water and bring to a simmer.  Allow to simmer for about 10 minutes.  Serve.

You can also strain out the onions and herbs and reserve the liquid as a stock for cooking other stuff.

Day 11

Fruit/veggie day. Today I ended up going to the Gaelic League for their St. Patrick's Day celebration. Guinness counts as a vegetable, right? No? Oh well, so I slipped, but there had to be a Guinness.

Since I was out and about all day with a friend, we needed to find somewhere to eat. I am pleased to say that Ruby Tuesday is Sadkhin friendly. I got the salad bar, and had the mixed baby greens, zucchini, and carrots, then squeezed some lemon juice over it all. Really delicious, and it's nice to know there are options. I could also have ordered the steamed broccoli side.

Today also begins the supplements. Two vitamins and an herb in the morning, one of each in the evening.

Feeling great today. I feel more alert, like my eyes are just more open.

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