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ziq wrote (edited )

I ate nothing but fruit and lettuce for 10 [EDIT: 12] years, AMA I guess. Lettuce grows back after you cut it btw.

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ziq wrote (edited )

how were your poos?

Regular and soft.

weren't you hungry all the time?

I was never hungry but I ate all the time.

did you eat seeds? nuts?

Pecans and almonds in the winter. But I eat tahini (sesame seed) everyday, which was very important in keeping me in peak health. And avocado from my trees, which is high in fat.

why did you stop?

Couple months ago I was dead broke so I had to start eating rice, sweetcorn, taro, zucchini aka courgette and eggplant aka aubergine. Decided to keep doing it to save money (more flexibility to pick and choose whatever is cheapest that week). I also added rice noodles to the mix the other day. Still eat mostly fruit though.

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yea completely raw, no point in cooking fruit.

what are your favorite fruit recipes? or at least the most unusual?

I mostly just eat whole fruit. Every time I got a blender for smoothies it broke really fast so I gave up. Sometimes I make sorbet with this sorbet maker I have. Just push frozen banana / grapes / mango in it and out comes sorbet. I also ate iceburg lettuce wraps everyday. I posted the recipe on f/vegkitchen once.

what fruits do you eat the most? how much do you grow yourself?

Nowadays almost all the fruit I eat I grow myself. In December I only have citrus, pitaya, passionfruit, avocado, peppers and myrtle to pick (and nuts). My staple food was always tomato. I ate tomatoes everyday in wraps and salads, plus whatever tree/vine fruit was in season. Grapes are my fave fruit, and watermelon and pitanga.

EDIT: Now that I'm eating cooked stuff, I buy several bags of cheap eggplant or zuccini and freeze it. Haven't grown those myself yet but if I decide to keep eating cooked food I'll grow them in spring. I can't grow tomatoes any more because of blight / climate change so have to buy them and they're my staple food and the price fluctuates a lot - in the summer they got really expensive and I had emergencies that drained me of cash so I had to eat rice with tomato paste instead. They're cheap again now that it cooled down tho.

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