Yesterday was the 7th day that sugar was in my body, a week since New Year's Eve and partying. I heard that sugar stays in the body for seven days, so today it should be gone. I think the candida know that — they've been clamoring for more sugar, making my ears ring even louder all week long. But actually, I noticed that today the ringing has been subsiding, so we'll see.
I had a rather unusual breakfast this morning because I wanted to have it quickly and be ready to go. (It's Saturday and we were heading up the coast to take some pictures.) So, I had a small cup of 1-bag twig tea, a small bowl of strong barley-miso soup (without any seaweed, unlike what I had yesterday), and a bowl of 3 kinds of dry cereal flakes with boiling water poured over them — corn flakes, buckwheat maple flakes, and kushi wheat flakes (all organic and fruit-juice sweetened). After it cooled down a little and "rested," it formed a warm, moist cake-like consistency that was chewable rather than mushy or watery. It was pretty good.
Normally, I would have had steamed leftover rice or quinoa or a pot of oatmeal, but all my pots and pans were dirty and I didn't want to take the time to wash them. (Now I know why it's always a good idea to clean as much as you can while you're working in the kitchen so just this sort of thing doesn't happen!) Anyway, I managed to be ready in time, and off we went for a scenic drive up the coast.
We went to Pescadero for lunch, at Duarte's Tavern. It's a wonderful old place, filled with warm, friendly people and good food, and it's comfortable. They have a limited menu for practicing Macrobiotics and vegetarians. In other words, there were no whole grains available of any kind (except maybe they have oatmeal at breakfast time?) and chicken broth was in most of the soups. But the grilled cheese sandwich on wheat tasted really good and the hot tea selection was a lot of fun. I chose "Organic African Nectar" tea from Mighty Leaf Tea, which I had never heard of before. It had "organic African rooibos leaves" — also known as "red tea" — "teeming with mango, vanilla, and blossoms" and it smelled and tasted wonderful.
Afterwards, we had a nice long walk around town. Pescadero, California has several interesting shops and grocery stores, a post office, a couple of photographic churches, two cemetaries side-by-side, chickens, cows, goats, a really good bean farm (Phipps Ranch), and I know personally of at least one Great Blue Heron!
