FROM MIAMI TO ALBERT TOWN, TRELAWNY - MARGATE GIRL IN JAMAICA

So after getting off the plain from Miami, I went straight to Albert Town in Trelawney instead of going back to Negril, here is some of what I got up to!

BROWN STEW VEGGIE CHUNKS - MARGATE GIRL IN JAMAICA

I was hungry as always so I made this for a Sunday dinner while I was in Jamaica, it makes me hungry just thinking about this dinner lol

WEEK BEGINNING 18TH JULY 2016

WEEK BEGINNING 18TH JULY 2016

CURRENT WEIGHT 17st, 9lbs loss of 28lbs

Can you believe it I have made it to day 33 raw! And so far and if I am not mistaken I have lost 2 stone, is that possible in just over a month unless I am getting the calculations wrong.  Today is Wednesday 20th July and that is what I weighed in at.  At the beginning of this journey I started at 19st 7lbs, you do the maths!

Now that I have got into my fifth week of going raw I thought instead of doing a daily journal so to speak I thought I would carry on from here on weekly basis until the end of the month and then monthly as daily, and for me in particular, it can get really boring and repetitive and to be honest I out did myself keeping the daily blogging up for so long lol.  Instead I will do highlights of my week/month and anything that I have done different that I have not shown before.  I thought I would also share some recipes I have been using and add them into the blog as well has doing some you tube videos as there is nothing like seeing yourself in the raw (so to speak) to make yourself accountable.

What have I learnt so far?  That you can be on a raw food diet and still not lose weight, why? Because in the beginning all the raw gurus say eat anything you want but make sure its raw.  Now if you are loading up on nuts like me in the beginning, loads of dehydrated stuff, lots of oils in your dressing and in your food and going for all the raw chocolate you can eat the weight loss is not going to happen, I guess it did not affect me so much in the beginning as I have a lot of weight to lose and I am still at the beginning of my journey and still have at least another 4 stone to lose if not more, so I say everything in moderation, treat yourself but don’t make it a habit is what I say!

This week so far, I have gotten rid of Able and Cole organic boxes and gone local instead.  I found 2 local organic boxes in my area the first one is called Windmill Veg Box Scheme and it’s a community garden around the corner from where I live who grow organic and might I add (speaking as a Londoner or course), really cheap weekly veg box and although I will be paying for it monthly its works out that I pay £6 per week, score!  Their website is www.thanet.veg-box.org.  if you get the chance go check the website as it has an interesting story as to how they started, I almost wanted to go and volunteer (but not quite ready for that yet lol). That one I do for just veg which is mostly salad stuff at the moment in their boxes and the other one which I do for fruit is www.kentvegbox.com .  When I was in London eating organic was so expensive but I am spending £16 on organic fruit and veg and if I am desperate I just run down to Aldi to stock up and typically I am spending all together around £40 per week on fruit, veg and coincidentals. 

Check out where I collect my veg box from!

What I am excited about this week is how well my wheat grass is growing, I bought some wheat grass seeds from amazon, a kilo cost me the grand total of 1.95 and it looks fantastic not bad for a novice, only thing is I don’t have the correct juicer to make the most of the wheatgrass so what I am going to do it blend it with as little water as possible then add it to my juices or smoothies to get the benefits.

Its Thursday and I went along the sea front to collect my veg box and to my surprise there was a vegetable that I have never seen before I looked it up and it turns out it’s a Kohlrabi, apparently its part of the brassica family and the best thing is it is best eaten raw so I cropped a piece off, diced it and put it in my salad this evening and it was lovely, its crunchy and its like having a raw crouton  but this is what it looks like, looks like something out of space lol but it was actually very nice will try grating it next time.

Anyway this is the salad I made with the strange looking veg.

Friday was gym day and it is really becoming a habit and in this hot weather the aqua aerobics was a god send, also went and saw Tarzan at my £2.50 cinema and I really enjoyed it.

Saturday was another hot day and in Margate on a Saturday the beach is always packed, I passed the sea front on the way to the post office and by the time I got back it was so hot I did not feel like eating anything so, I did a lot of juicing, my first juice was 2 oranges, 1 grapefruit, 1 lime, and 1 pineapple, it was divine and it made over a pint of juice, that went in one go I have to say.  Here's how I made it:

After that I made a veg juice with celery, apple, cucumber, carrots, ginger and lime and I made enough to have 2 large cups so saved some for tomorrow.  Afterwards I went down stairs to watch the sun set, they are spectacular in Margate.

DAY THIRTY TWO

DAY THIRTY TWO

Half of melon

Other half of melon blended made 2 pint glasses of melon juice

Sipping infused water with orange
    

                                                   
Tub of strawberries

Salad – gem lettuce with mix of cucumbers, plum tomatoes and green and black olives from yesterday

Dressing – basil pesto, basil, garlic, pine nuts, avocado, nutritional yeast, sea salt lemon, chilli flakes from yesterday

Smoothie – almond milk, banana  and agave nectar
Hand full of almonds

I am so upset, I didn’t get to go to the sauna as my period was still so heavy, I did some research and it turns out that the culprit might be too much fat in my diet, the nuts, and avocado all the dips with nuts in them, will have to wean myself off them for a while and see if it makes a difference, went to bed about 11pm and woke up in about 5am leaking everywhere (TMI I know), the warning should have been the tummy pain; when I get that it’s a sure sign to look out.

SHOP, PACK, BOX AND SHOP TO JAMAICA!

SHOP, PACK, BOX AND SHOP TO JAMAICA!

I am off to Jamaica very soon and will be staying for a couple of months so I have shipped some food to Jamaica via a shipping company.  This video is all about what we got up to at the shipping company and how much it costs to ship!

Would love to know all about your shipping experience and how you did it as i have sent barrels in the past as with most people sending to Jamaica but have you thought how wasteful to do it that way is?  Think about it, the barrel is round so is a restriction already.  barrels are also more expensive and bulky which usually means you have to have it delivered and picked up when full adding to the cost.

The way i did it, flat pack boxes costing £6 (barrels start from around £36 with less space), can take the volume of 2 standard barrels.  Please note we got our boxes from another shipping company as the one we sent it with had smaller boxes.

ANOTHER BIRTHDAY

ANOTHER BIRTHDAY

This is the day after I went shopping for shipping, it my friends birthday and we had too much of a good time.........