What if you took more time off? Blogging as honestly as you do has to be a lot of outflow. If you don't mind, I'll be praying for peace and wisdom epiphanies for the next steps in your life while you're away.

Wonderful to read this morning with my purple shake. As a writer writing fiction and working toward publication, it's difficult to keep a proper perspective when agents say no, publisher say close but not enough, etc. Now, I'm thinking about what favor do they do me by this? What are the benefits I can choose as a result? Good things to ruminate. Yet I also agree with the first commenter, that knowing it and walking it are not always simultaneous.

It used to be a cheese danish, and particularly from the 7-11. Or cheese won tons. Weird, though. I ate a won ton the other day and it was pretty slow going with all that solid monochrome flavor. Can't say I'm a clean eating saint, though. it just seems that the old foods I used to inhale now aren't as flavorful or textured as what I'm eating 90% of the time. Who'da thunk it?

Okay, that's IT. I'm buying the manchego cheese today. Do you use a hard cheese grater with it? i'm pretty dangerous with a knife and a peeler. In reference to your friend's remark, I am a diva at bastardizing recipes. Good stuff usually results. however, I have been alerted on my blog Confessions of a Startled Fat Woman that pics of new comfort food bean soups which are blended are not appetizing. live and learn. http://livestartled.com/2010/05/24/craving-new-comfort-food/

I also just began reading Geneen's book and anticipate great insight and release! In the relationship arena (which has its lonely no matter if it's involved or not) I had to go supernatural, i.e., God. The deeper I looked within, the more lost I saw. Even with this relationship with God, however, I still have to remember He doesn't fail. I have a tendency to keep slogging along until i realize i'm doing it on my own again, minus His Love.

Right now, I'm a purist with roasting them with garlic and olive oil. They are crazy good. And you are COMPLETELY right on the canned thing. I hated beets as a kid because my first taste was pickled beets from a can. Ugh.

I've been experiencing tough kale lately, no matter the variety. Is that because it's not cooked enough? It's close to falling off my husband's Will Eat List.

Yep. That agave goes down pretty easy.

I'll be trolling the internet looking for a nondairy rice pudding. Might have to make up one myself. @healthypurpose has a chia seed pudding that funky to eat. I've made blueberry. Nice with a few nuts for a dessert.

Sigh. The closest Trader Joe's is in Vegas. I'll have to try pepperdews. Never heard of them. My newest "try" was black bean fudge and it's not bad. I eat it with coconut milk ice cream coffee flavor. Toss in a few almonds and I'm in sweet heaven.

We are noticing that clean eating has us eating more flavorful foods. In a recent eating of a "before" type meal of a (here goes, gulp) a pastrami cheeseburger, fries with dipping sauce, I was disappointed/relieved to find that the flavor was bland and undifferentiated compared to the colorful eating flavors I've been experiencing. A piece of friendship cake was sugary, not flavorful like a perfectly cooked yam.

I am definitely going to try this recipe. I just learned how to do fried green beans clean style. I also found Sage's chicken sausage at Good Earth, my local whole foods store that is GREAT. p.s. @loveEmmaJ has similar gravatar as you and with you both having dark hair, I get confused! What are the odds of that?

I was thinking it was just me re the wanting green stuff. I was cruising the greens section of the produce dept. and had to tell myself I HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED. Three weeks ago I couldn't have told you what most of those greens were. I picked up some curly kale and will search your site and Clean Eating for a funky way to fix it. On a side note, I'm trying a pummelo fruit today as my Something Different.

You sure are eating some beautiful food. My adventure guy and I are in week two of clean eating. We stepped away from dairy and grains and legumes for a couple of weeks. Eating butternut squash and chayote squash was a sweet sensation without the ick of a sugar buzz. I haven't had any desserty sugar in several weeks. I'm wondering if bread will taste much sweeter than before. I am sleeping better, for sure.

Your portion remarks are spot on. Cleaning up the to-go container contents can be actually two meals! I am checking into re-usable to-go containers on eco sites. I wonder how restaurants respond to them.