Day 8 October 8th 7:29 PM

Food Eaten: Bananas, Apples, Dates, Baby Carrots
Quality of Life: Strangely lucid calm
Activity Level: If not for work, probably wouldn't have left the bed
Raw Food Percentage: 100%

Looks like I've been forgetting the percentage lately, I suppose if I don't think about it I'm not worried about it, so its probably 100.

More Z-pasta for dinner last night, and probably tonight too. Its easy and quick and I don't want the sauce to go bad. What to eat tommorrow is an interesting question as I have the late shift at work. And won't be off till midnight. I guess I'll have to make lunch my heavier meal and just get some fruit for dinner. I'm not quite comfortable enough with this diet to be able to adapt to new circumstances very effectively though, I strongly suspect I'll be going to bed hungry that night.

Speaking of hungry, I seem to be having more trouble being satisfied by meals. I'm not sure if the average raw foodist has less of an appetite than I generally do, or alternately if my body is still adapting to not getting a massive load of carbohydrates and protein to sit in the stomach and remind me I'm full, but I need to snack regularly throughout the day.

The baby carrots are good, and so are the dates I've been eating. Both are cheap, delicious, portable and have a lot of good stuff in them, especially the dates. Still, I kind of miss the feeling of finality after a really good meal. Guess I just have to keep looking for recipes and trying stuff out. Interestingly enough I have found talk of the raw sandwich. Its made from a hollowed out cucumber. Its also called a gorilla sandwich if you want to buy the storemade version. http://www.gorillasandwich.com/ tells the story of its design and development, with perhaps a bit more fanfare than is deserved for salad in a cucumber.

I will once again be able to eat sandwiches, after a fashion. Though likely the experience will be similar to the Z-pasta, the resemblance is more a matter of me belieiving it to be the same than it having much in common. Still, its worth a shot, I just have to work out what my raw sandwich fixings are going to be, and find a cucmber big enough to replicate a dagwood.