Every so often we (the community I live in) wants to have a celebration! so we have a random party!! and Eat tons of food and then Folk Dance!

For Lunch 

Black Soybean Rice

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Baked Vegetables Carrots, Onions, Cauliflower,

baked with Cumin, Turmeric, Shoyu, Dark Sesame Oil, and some water

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Blanched Radishes with Lemon

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For Lunch Yesterday (yes I skipped Dinner)

Cauliflower puree soup

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Brown Rice

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Roasted Sunflower Seeds

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Adzuki beans cooked with corn

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Sauteed Daikon greens

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Shoyu Pickles

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For Dinner (the night we wanted to have a party)

we had Tacos!!

 with

Jasmine rice cooked with corn

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Fried Seitan

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Tomato Salsa

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Raw Salad with Olives, Cucumbers and Avocados 

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Tofu fried with radishes 

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Tortillas 

 Yesterday we had

For Lunch

Buckwheat fried with onions

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Blanched Easter Egg Radises!

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Split Pea soup with vegetables and Garlic!

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For Dinner

Brown Rice balls coverd in Nori with Umeboshi Plum inside 

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

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Shoyu Pickles

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Nishime with Carrots, Onions, Squash

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Noodle Vegetable Soup!

 The third and last day of the chewing food game has been very inspiring, and hopefully I can keep up my good momentum of Chewing (wish me luck)!!

For lunch 

Brown Rice with whole winter wheat!

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Roasted Almonds

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Pressed Salad 

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Homeade Natto 

(Natto you either love or hate...I LOVE IT yumm give me that slime!)

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Blanched Daikon from the Garden!

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For Dinner

Brown Rice 

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Sunflower Seeds Roasted 

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Shoyu Daikon Pickles

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Blanched Easter egg Radishes!

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Lentil Soup

 I love the summer when all the garden vegetables are in full force!!

I am trying to slow down and chew my food, Cause I notice how it helps to digesting and just the food seems to leave my system alone , I don't feel wiped out from eating to much or ill from bad digestion..
So the Second day of the Food the food game we played for three days we had 

For Lunch

Brown Rice 

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Roasted and Ground Sesame Seeds

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Shoyu Pickles 

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Fried Dulse (I LOVE DULSE!!)

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Garden Napa Cabbage and Tatsoi 

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Squash Puree Soup

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For Dinner

Sweet Vegetable Millet

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 Pickles (It is nice to have Pickles to digest well)
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Blanched Cabbage salad with Tahini Sauce!

So we have decided to play a food game here in Ionia for three days (we love playing games!)

We are focusing on chewing! and not eating in between meals (so no snacking)

chewing is very hard for a lot of people I know, so we thought to try and make foods that encourage chewing a little more, and make less so people don't over eat....I have been enjoying just putting the intention there to chew (even though I am not very good at it either) it makes me feel more calmed down! 

I don't count my chews I just try to wait until it gets sweet and liquidity!

 

For Lunch

Brown rice cooked with Pumpkin Seeds

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Umeboshi (as a pickle, I love umeboshi with Pumpkin seeds Rice)

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Kinpira made with Carrots, Burdock and Ginger

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Garden Radishes blanched

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Bancha Tea

 

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For Dinner

Brown Rice balls 

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Nishime made with Onions, Carrots, Squash

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Sunflower Seeds roasted

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Miso Soup

 The Other day we had a big ole Sushi feast to celebrate the solstice!!

we had Noodle sushi 

Rice sushi 

with everything in them

Avocado

Tofu

some had

Tempeh

Carrots

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and we had Tan-Pops with a tofu wasabi Sauce!

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Raw Salad with Olives and sprouts!

For Lunch

Brown Rice 

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Shio Kombu Pickle

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Sauteed Wakeme with Diakon

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Pressed Salad with Avocado

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Blanched Garden Radishes 

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Lentil Soup

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For Dinner

Sweet Vegetable Millet

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Sauteed Kale

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Monk vegetable Soup!