Drinking my food........

          This time around I'm forced to drink my daily sustenance. I can't chew. But I'm pretty happy really. It's been a while since I had vegetable + fruit juice as meals. The last time I faithfully kept to this diet [50% of the time] was way back in 2010. Back when the current house was being built. When getting vegetables and fruits meant crossing the street to the supermarket a hundred meters away. When there was a "pasar malam" [night market] three nights a week...a mere 5-minute walk away. When "cooking" really meant tossing green, red, yellow stuff into a blender. Or into a steamer. Meals ready within minutes. I miss that.....
          Just as I got the kids hooked on raw/steamed food, we had to move into our new home. Utter chaos! It wasn't fully completed but our tenancy agreement had expired and we didn't want to renew it. Food and drinking water were delivered/bought every single day. For almost a year. By the time it was habitable, it was hari raya. Then came the holidays. Kitchen still unused.
          By the time the kitchen became operational, everyone else except me was cooking. There are many cooks in my family! I was the "filler" chef - when no one was available. Which didn't happen often. Mum was still up and about then, and she loved to cook. Which suited me fine.
          So I ate mostly cooked food. And to be back to raw food is great. My system loves it. But I know I'll be back to cooked food real soon as I'll be away on a short holiday to the land of good food....with very hospitable hosts.
          However, for the last couple of days, my grandkids have been asking for vege juice. They've enjoyed the simple ones I rustled up. Their tastebuds are slowly remembering the real taste of food. Further impetus for me to get back to raw eating.
          And I have little Khadeeja, my latest addition to the grandkids, for me to work on. So she'll grow up eating real food instead of the commercialised stuff. My daughter likes the idea.

          My sister thinks having fresh vegetables and fruits right at our doorstep is grand. The grandkids are looking forward to growing "their" favourites....though I'm not too sure about Auni's request for strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackcurrants. But I've seen strawberries being successfully grown in Uganda on youtube!
          So, yea, maybe the garden isn't going to be a pipe dream after all..........I'll probably start with bean sprouts in a jar ;)