Isn't it crazy that we can still be so engaged with food but not have to eat and still gain some sense of satisfaction from it?

I applaud you hosting dinner parties whilst on the MC. I haven't gone to those extremes, but I have been online looking for tasty, healthy (a couple not so healthy) recipes that I want to try when I get off the fast. The other night I even offered to make my boyfriends sandwiches for his next day rafting trip. I got so much joy out of handling the food and imagining how good the end product was going to taste without having to have some myself.

I would love to hear more about your recipes!

Happy fasting. All the best
Saltwatersux

Hey Ole Martin!

Did you know you are the dream of every female? Does your wife know how lucky she is?

I would love to take a look at your cookbook! Are you a chef?

Paulette

WOO HOO...congratulations to you AND your wife. You for coming round the bend and laying your eyes on the 30 day marker...a great accomplishment, and your wife for being loved enough to be plied with exotic dinners and all the other wonderful things youve done on your cleanse. I did a long one too but stayed AWAY from the kitchen as well as averted my eyes on food commercials. Your success may inspire me next time to be more adventuresome with my willpower...ggg,

Good Luck and Blessings on your healing path,
Zoe

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Hi ya'll.

Day 29, OH YEAH.

Well, I am not a chef, I wish I were, and I'm actually thinking about going to chef school.
I have found that cooking is the one thing that carry me through this. I can spend 6 hours in the kitchen preparing food, and cooking is what I'm looking forward to every day. I guess my wife is lucky, since her idea of cooking is popping a tv-dinner in the micro. he he..
When serving at dinner parties, it is a great advantage not to have to eat yourself. I can serve dinner, pour wine, prepare dessert.. all while they eat.

***Warning food description!!****
Last dinnerparty, I served a roast pot with a whole chicken, and tons of vegetables, rice and spices. It sat in the oven for 3 hours. I could literally just cut the chicken with a spoon afterwards. It smelled fantastic. For dessert I had made an apple pie with vanilla cream, chocolate cake with Sugar frosting, maiden farmgirls (norwegian dessert, with apple jam, crunched rusk and whipped cream layered in a bowl), waffles topped with strawberryjam, raspberryjam and sour cream and vanilla cream filled buns. (Had to do something with the vanilla left over from the apple pie ;))Everybody was stuffed afterwards!
***end of description***

Regarding my recepies, they are all online in my cookbook, but, unless you can read norwegian, I would have to translate it for you.
If there is an interest, I could post the recipe for the maiden farmgirls (norw: Tilslørte bondepiker) which is a fantastic dessert, but a little off topic in this forum :)

/Ole Martin