Dietary Energy Restriction

You can find out more about this practice [here] or possibly [here].

I have a site about the topic [here].

Things I eat

• I eat mainly fresh fruit and raw vegetables.

• I like tropical fruit - [durian], mangosteen and rambutan - and berries - mulberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, juneberries, yew berries, gooseberries, all types of currants, dewberries and blackberries.

• My favourite vegetables tend to be green and leafy - rocket, coriander, watercress, water spinach, sunflower greens and wheatgrass.

• My vegetables occasionally get cooked - in my pressure cooker;

• I sprout many of the vegetables I consume in my [sprout farm] - and grow large numbers of salad vegetables in my [garden]. I also have an allottment - and I help to cultivate numerous edible plants in public spaces.

• Spread - I eat hummus, vegetarian pesto and a mixture of crushed seeds and oil - but not margarine or butter;

• Nuts and seeds - I consume a wide variety;

• Oils - I sprinkle vegetable oils on my salads. Olive oil most frequently - but I also use a wide variety of other nut, seed and fruit oils;

• I occasionally eat poultry - mainly chicken or turkey breast;

• I occasionally eat fish - sardines and sometimes mackerel;

• I very occasionally eat some other seafood - mainly crab and crayfish;

• I very occasionally eat organ meat. Livers and kidneys;

• I eat Quorn pieces - and Quorn mince;

• Water - I drink water. I generally take my own water supply with me wherever I go;

• I occasionally eat chocolate;

• I occasionally drink red wine;

• Bread - I occasionally eat a german flaxseed bread, a european-style sprouted wheat bread and a rye bread;

• While I try to avoid most unsprouted grains - I still eat rice and quinoa occasionally.

Things I don't eat

• Milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, and other dairy products - such as whey powder;

• Eggs;

• Most animal produce not explicitly mentioned above;

• Sugar - I rarely eat foods with added sugar - and tend to try to minimise my consumption of dried fruits;

• Sweetners - I avoid most [sweetners - e.g. aspartame, acesulfame-K saccharin, sorbitol. This includes many foods with added sugar, and many dried fruits;

• Most bread - including english-style breads.

• Crispbread - including rice cakes and corn cakes.

• Most beans - e.g. I don't eat the soya bean;

• Most nightshade family plants - occasionally excepting a few: mostly tomato and wolfberry;
• Fried food - or food cooked at high temperatures - e.g. crisps - and many cashew nuts and pistachio nuts;

• Yeast extract - and most other fermented vegetable products - e.g. miso and tempeh;

• Citric acid - a common food additive - present in many fruit juices;

• Malt extract - a common food additive - present in most cereals;

• Most drugs. I especially dislike stimulants like caffene. I do occasionally consume alcohol and cocoa, though;

• Monosodium glutamate - a common food additive - present in many savoury products, but often [not on the ingredients list];

• Sulphur dioxide - a common food additive - preservative, often used in dried fruit - e.g. apricots;

• "Flavouring" and "spices" - if something lists either of these as an ingredient, I won't eat it;

• Most unsprouted grains - so little or no cereals or muesli;

• Food with unknown ingredients - if I can't get access to an ingredients list - and it's not a "wholefood" or something that I recognise - I probably won't eat it;

Juice

Some of my favourite fruit juices are blueberry juice, raspberry juice and strawberry juice.

One of my favourite vegetable juices is wheatgrass juice.

I sprout my own wheatgrass - and have my own twin-gear juice extraction equipment.

You can find out more about that here.