Odours

I've come to realize how, after cooking a meal (especially meat, which dh & dd still eat, and yes, that generally I end up cooking), the smells, the odours are seeped into my clothing. An hour or more later I'll go outside, and return into the house and instantly I'm aware of what was cooked. Fish. Meat. Pasta. Baked goods. The odours linger. Even juicing wheatgrass produces a lingering odour... although I confess I love that smell... the fresh-cut grass smell. To me it smells *clean*. (dh does NOT agree, lol) But honestly? I'm enjoying the other lingering odours less and less. As much as I try to prepare food for my family (whatever it is they choose to eat) with love and mindfulness, it's getting harder and harder to do when it's those very things I've removed from my own diet. Sure, the house will never be odourless, but why oh why do I have to go around smelling like bacon?!? :P Ugh. (it's not just my clothes, it gets into my hair, and the lingering odours in the house generally make me really uncomfortable...)

i'm getting much better about asking dh to cook the meat that he & dd will be having (and he's getting much better offering to cook it himself before i even ask). i'm just so not interested in supporting that... the purchase and consumption of meat products. i can even tell if someone close to me (in proximity) has eaten meat. i never thought i'd be able to tell, but (for example), if sitting or standing next to someone (like in a line-up or on the bus), i can often tell how 'clean' their diet is. odours ooze out of our pores and we're generally completely unaware.

and furthermore, (rant rant rant, lol) I'll have you know (and this may be wayyyyyyy tmi for some) that when you eat a primarily raw vegan diet (high raw, all vegan, organic, etc., etc.), I'll have you know that your bm's will be *significantly* less odiferous. seriously. so if that's not a reason to drop the meat and dairy, well... then i guess i'm speechless. LOL

In the end, i don't want to be pushing my raw vegan choices on anyone, so i end up sitting in meditation, releasing (with *love*) my thoughts and judgments around my family's food choices... to each their own, right? i can live happily alongside the ardent omnivore. i can share with them why i love my raw vegan food... enthusiastically, but without pushing raw veganism down their throats. Maybe one day they'll choose it on their own! :D

Today's nourishment:

• a banana
• 1/2 a piece of whole wheat toast and 1/4 of a baked potato
• 1c chia pudding (made with almond milk)
• 2 cups of nettle tea with stevia
• a cup of kyoto cherry green tea with (too much) stevia
• 2 cups of my 'homebrew' black cherry kombucha (effervescent!)
• 2L of green smoothie (green leaf lettuce, bananas, frozen berries (blue, black and rasp), maca powder, chlorella, spirulina, acai powder, hemp seeds, ground flax seeds, kelp flakes, soaked goji berries, almond milk, agave)
• a small handful of goldenberries and a handful of soaked/sprouted almonds
• Fo-Ti 2x, Borage Oil 2x, 2 vege-DHA capsules and 1 double-strength acidophilus (vege-cap)
• and water, of course...

And 5 consecutive days of daily exercise! yeeeeeeeehaaawwwww!