Recipe for Pick Five. Over the last 39 days, I have eaten:- 18 pounds of almonds
- 89 apples
- 10 pounds rice (uncooked weight)
- 14 pounds edamame
- 52 cups spinach
- 14.5 teaspoons salt
- 16.25 gallons of water
(I think the apples have it. Although, I don't know. 52 cups of spinach is a heck of a lot. And 14 pounds edamame... don't get me started.)
Temptations. During the course of Pick Five, I made (for various occasions):
14 custom cakes
10 dozen cookies (including ginger-molasses, chocolate chip, oatmeal cranberry and peanut butter)
3 dozen brownies
I think this is the busiest cake/cookie season I've ever had. Nary a finger licked. I hope you never have to watch cookie dough wash off your fingers into the sink. It's not for the faint of heart.
Losses:
Appetite for edamame.
12 pounds.
Half my head of hair (though that stopped when I started eating more spinach and almonds. It was an iron deficiency. Getting thicker already. Thank you for your prayers and concern.)
A few pieces of my "self" that weren't going to make it through the 40 days.
Gains:
Appreciation, empathy, humility (am I allowed to say that? I guess so.), sobriety, simplicity, preparedness.
And tomorrow, I will give you some parting thoughts. But that's enough to digest for today. (Hardy har har.)
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