Day twenty seven…it’s very green

We’re now on day twenty seven, and it’s half past six in the evening and I’m just home from work and I’m absolutely shattered, so I just want something really quick and easy to do for dinner and I’m doing something I’ve never done before and I’ve bought some frozen cabbage. So I’m having cabbage, broad beans and peas, and I’m adding a little bit of salt and a little bit of butter on there to season it, and I’ve got some cod to go on the top of that, so it’s going to be nice, it looks very green if I’m honest. I’m looking forward to having a curry, I really am.I think that’s the only downside to all of this, when I see all the spices that are available now, and the wide range of fruit and vegetables that are available to us now, I’m like ‘ooh, I wouldn’t mind a bit of that’, but, as you know, I only have a few more days to go, and the food that I am eating I am still loving it, it’s not that I’ve gone off it, I’m looking at my meal now and I’m really looking forward to eating it. And if, at the end of this month when - not once - have I binged, or gone and bought chocolate or biscuits. Not once. Not once. NOT ONCE!!! I can’t even think of a week when that hasn’t gone by before, never mind a month, so this is just amazing. I’m still reflecting on how the bodies in the fifteenth century would have been different to that of today, and yes, people could still eat badly, they could stuff themselves full of fruit and honey. People could still have bad diets, and not get the right nutrients for a balanced diet, but on the whole the foods that they were eating were so much better than the processed junk that we have nowadays. So how would herbs have impacted their bodies differently? Well I’ve noticed that when I’ve taken something, had a deep decoction of rose or meadowsweet, or wood betony, I do feel mellow sooner, I do notice the difference to me sooner. I guess it’s because when their aim is to calm you down, affect your mental state, you’ve not got all the additives in your body that  would be making your body work harder and straining the supplies that are there. I think that when the Lord created herbs and when He created the plants and the food that we had in the past, they did work together to nourish our body a lot better, so I really do think that by taking out the rubbish and impurities that we’ve started taking in, it’s got to be good. So when I take the herbs, when I take the meadowsweet for a headache…I can’t remember the last time I had a headache…oh wait, it was day two or three wasn’t it, when I cut out sugar and caffeine, but when I need to take these herbs for therapeutic reasons I believe they will have a much better impact on my body.