Day One…no coffee
I want to find out how what you eat impacts your health, so I’m looking at the herbs from the 15th century and how we would have used them in those days, but I want to know how those herbs impacted on what the body was like anyway because we take the things today to try and heal us to make us feel better, but we're we're eating things out of season we're eating things that weren't grown locally, you know, things that are imported. So I look in my fridge, and I’ve got potatoes. And you know potatoes were thought poisonous then, so because of the nature of this experiment I'm not going to eat them. I've got carrots - we didn't have orange carrots then. I can get some meat that's not being processed, you know bacon's got loads of additives nowadays, so if I can get the natural stuff... I think I need a farm shop at some point!
It says in the Bible it says that God will provide all our needs, and He does and He provides them for where we are. So me living here in England I'm not going to need in my body the foods and the vegetables that are grown South Africa, for example, because those are provided by God for the people of that nation, there were vitamins and nutrients in them that help support their immune systems in the climate that they are living in. I need things that the Lord has provided here locally, preferably in season, to get my body in the best shape. I feel that 15th century herbs would have affected people slightly differently back then, as their bodies wouldn’t be impacted with additives and preservatives. So, I can make myself some soups, I can get some more (gluten free) oats, and I've got flax seeds. so I'm going to make some flax seed bread.
OK, so this is day one and I've already realised I can't have coffee so that's going to be interesting! I'm looking at making some flax bread later, but I can't use baking powder so I’m going to have a go at making some with yeast, and it may end up like a brick but we will find out.
One of my biggest challenges is that I won't be able to eat vegan cheese and drink soy milk, I'm going to have to have the proper stuff, so I'm sort of hoping that because I won't be having tomatoes - because they weren't around in 15th century (not for us anyway), that with not having that and not having sugar, I'll be counteracting the fact that I'm having dairy, so it won't impact my sinuses so much.
I'm excited to try this because I know the health benefits are going to be amazing, I’m also a bit nervous as to how long I can actually stick to this. I’ve had two hard boiled eggs today for breakfast - I’ve looked in the fridge and realised that apart from one onion, there’s not really much in here that I would have had in the 15th century. I mean I've got my tinctures in there, but I'm going to be off the wall if I just live on those today! So I'm going to need to get to the shops and get some more peas and cabbage and onion so that I can make up a pottage later.
This is day one, so obviously I'm at the “Hey this is exciting, hey I could do this” stage. It will be a challenge, but my hope is that this experiment gives me a better insight into how they would have use what they had available to them in the 15th century and I'm hoping that because obviously I'm not eating anything processed, the impact on my health and my emotions should be positive, it’s going to cut back on those food cravings, and food triggers. Coffee is going to be my biggest challenge. I've got herbal teas coming out my ears so that's not going to be a problem during the day, but I normally get up in the morning and get myself a cup of coffee, go back to bed and slowly wake up, so that is going to be my biggest thing. I don't want to grind up acorns because that sounds disgusting.
It's an experiment worth doing, so let's see how I get on.