Home for a quick lunch before heading out the door again. I added chia seeds to my oatmeal this morning, hoping that would buy  me some time before hunger set in. It didn’t. By 10:30 I was starving again. Luckily, I had packed some expensive tiny little vegan snack bar which was tasty but disappointingly brief, and DID NOT tide me over until lunch.

LUNCH: vegan burgers, heated up in the toaster oven, over a spinach, celery and carrot salad. And I added a few teaspoons of KimChi.

My carnivore husband, who has been surprisingly supportive of my experiment, draws the line at Kimchi. “Don’t get near me after eating that shit”, he told me. I’m not sure I want to be near myself. Ewwww. But I will be a good vegan and eat it anyway. They tell me you grow to love it.

Because I am very hungry, I was not content to top my salad with just one burger. I am having one and a half. Hopefully this will keep me going until dinner. Oh my god, what am I going to make for dinner???

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Sitting down at 4pm with a jar of almond butter and a spoon. Contemplating making some vegan cookies. I want to go very easy on flours and sweeteners. No wheat, as little cane sugar as possible. I made my own almond milk this morning and sweetened it a tad with maple syrup. Much better than the stuff from the store that is sweetened with cane juice. I’m not ready to give up coffee – even though it was suggested to me by the …

Here  might be a good place to explain the “mail slot”. I read in a book once this person describing their intuitive process : “It’s like I have a mail slot in the back of my head. Sometimes it opens, and a note drops in. I’ve found if I follow the instructions on the note, it always has a good outcome”.

That is how I live my life, mostly. By the mail slot. It tells me to do something, I do it, it produces a pleasing outcome. So the whole “Eat Light Be Light” thing came in through the mail slot. Very clear instructions to “feed my light body”.

But I like coffee and the mail slot is not insistent on this point, at least for the moment. And it is a whole lot better with homemade almond milk than storebought!