Items in Fridge and Freezer

Refrigerated I try to keep the items marked with an * on hand
Asparagus	In steamable bags
Berries*	Blueberries*, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries
Broccoli	I keep frozen too
Cabbage*	Bok Choy*, red and green
Carrots*	Regular and baby
Cauliflower	I prefer fresh to frozen
Celery*	I keep the tops to use in soup
Citrus	Grapefruit and tangerines
Cucumber	The baby ones are good
Green beans	I keep frozen too
Jicama	Love it raw in salads
Lettuce*	Leafy green and red, romaine
Lemons*	I use one in morning drink
Milk*	Oat or Rice
Peppers	Bell green and red
Picante sauce	For my breakfast burritos
Scallions	They are good raw or cooked
Salsa	Great on my baked potatoes
Tofu	Firm, soft and silken
Tortillas	Ezekial sprouted and corn
Zucchini	I prefer to just munch on them
I try to buy the produce that is in season here in Texas. I pamper myself with organic grapes whenever possible and I prefer to be able to shop every other day for my produce. I am about to start a walking program inside one of the larger supermarkets so will be able to pick up my produce daily...yeah!

Frozen I fill my freezer up and when it gets empty I panic:)
365 or Green Giant	Broccoli - chopped - and broccoli and carrots
365	Brown rice and black beans
365	Brown rice and red beans
Ezekial 4:9	Bread and rolls
Ore-Ida	Hash browns
Yves	Hot dogs
365	Mustard greens
365	Peas
365	Peas and Carrots
365	Sweet corn white
365	Sweet corn yellow
Amy’s	Various veggie burgers w/low fat
I keep a variety of veggies in the freezer that I pick up when they are on sale. They are very convenient and tasty when I am pressed for time or just tired and don’t want to cook.

　

Pantry

Almost everything on the list is organic. Most of your larger food companies (Libby's, Green Giant, etc.) are now putting out canned and frozen organic veggies and fruits. I check all labels as I am limiting calories from fat from 0 to 15 per serving. Most of the items I have are 0 to 10 calories from fat. Gets tricky sometimes because I need to read the ingredients carefully.

Canned or Bottled
365 365 Eden 365 365 Hatch Hatch Muir Glen Eden Farmers Market 365 365 365 Muir Glen Muir Glen Muir Glen 365 Chili Man	Apple Sauce, unsweetened Black Beans Cajun rice and beans Cannellini Beans Garbanzo Beans Green Chili Diced...hot and medium Green enchilada sauce Mushrooms Pasta Sauce...garden vegetable Pinto bean and spelt Chile Pumpkin Refried Pinto Beans Refried Pinto Beans-chili and lime Sliced Beets Tomato Paste Tomato Sauce Tomatoes Diced Vegetable broth Vegetarian Chile
Snack Goodies
Rhythm foods 365 365 365	Kale Chips-Ranch Sesame Rice Crackers Tamari Rice Crackers Wasabi Rice Crackers

Spices, Sauces and Seasonings
Bragg Simply Organic Huy Fong Foods Frontier McCormick Frontier Simply Organic Selina Naturally Simply Organic 365 McCormick McCormick Selina Naturally Whole Foods Simply Organic Eat Raw Frontier Frontier Modern Products Frontier Frontier McCormick	Amino Acid Liquid Cayenne Chili Garlic Sauce Cinnamon Cumin Seeds Curry Powder Sill Weed Dulse Sprinkle Garlic Powder German Mustard Ground Ginger Ground Mustard Kelp Sprinkle Nutritional Yeast Onion Powder Parma-Chipotle Cayenne & Regular Parsley Rosemary Spike - original Thyme Turmeric White Pepper
Packaged
DeBoles Lundberg Near East McDougall’s DeBoles 365 365 Delallo Ancient Harvest	Angel Hair (rice0 Brown Rice Couscous Cups of Soups and Soups Fettuccine High Fiber Cereal Oatmeal - plain and flavored Penne Rigate Quinoa
Mixes
Road’s End Fantastic	Alfredo Style CHREESE Sauce Mix Tofu Scrambler and others

I also try to keep some small Yukon potatoes, baby reds,
yellow and red onions, sweet potatoes and yams on hand.

Chit Chat

The food list posts were brief but presented a basis for the Solar Nutrition time periods which offer the greatest nutritional benefit from our food.  I am hoping your curiosity was peaked enough that you will go to the internet for a more detailed look at Solar Nutrition.

I am not following a strict Solar Nutrition program at this point.  I do prefer to eat my fruit in the mornings but I also have oatmeal and some dry cereals on hand.  I use oat or almond milk for my dry cereals.  I try to keep blueberries and blackberries on hand to add to my dry cereal.  While it is best to eat your fruit alone and before other foods, I have been known to ignore that fact from time to time:)

My lunches and dinners vary from small roasted yukon potatoes with carrots and garlic bulbs to beans and rice to a baked sweet potato to a very large salad with a selection of raw veggies mixed in.  Sometimes I open a can of chili that has spelt and beans and a great taste or I will have a bowl of miso soup.  I don't work from daily or weekly menus.  I prefer to choose as I become hungry or as my body indicates its desire for certain tastes and/or nutrients.  When in doubt as to what is going on where food is concerned, I pull out my trusty pendulum and start asking questions.

I like my salads to have lots of color. Some of the items I try to have on hand are several different types of lettuce, jicama, cucumber, tomato, celery, carrots, water chestnuts, baby corn, snap peas, scallions, asparagus, broccoli, red cabbage and cauliflower. There is a broccoli slaw mix that is great to add...very crunchy. Naturally I don’t use all of them in one salad, but it is nice to have a variety of items to choose from.

The Solar Nutrition list of night foods comprises most of my favorites.  Have to be careful of too much starch because I could live on potatoes.  A good mixture of cooked bok choy, carrots, potatoes, onions, celery served over brown rice with a bit of Braggs Amino Acids and nutritional yeast sprinkled on it is very satisfying to my pallet.

Next post will let you in on what my pantry and fridge and freezer look like.  I am going to mention some of the brands I have chosen to use because I know their reputation and because they contain no or very few calories from fat.  They are almost all organic and contain no preservatives or chemicals.  I keep the calories from fat from 0 to 10 or 15 at the most on any canned, frozen or packaged item I buy.

Night Foods

Night Food List
(from Adano Ley's Solar Nutrition Class)

  

Night 6 PM to 9 PM
Vegetables
artichoke asparagus bamboo shoots beets bok choy (bottom 4") cactus carrots celery (bottom half) daikon garlic ginger root hearts of palm horseradish jicama kohlrabi leeks (bottom 5")	lotus root mushrooms onions parsnips potatoes radishes scallions (bottom 4") from the sea: sea cucumber, dulse, kelp, wakame, nori, arame all sea vegetables sweet potatoes - yams turnips water cress water chestnuts yucca root
Fruits:  aloe, pineapple, prickly pear cactus

Foods Available Anytime:  Brown rice, ghee (clarified butter-which I used before Veganism)

Mid Day and Evening Times Only:  Apple cider vinegar, brewers yeast, miso, tamari, soy sauce, tofu, vegemeats.

Soy Products:  braggs liquid amino acids, tofu.

Mid-Day Foods

Mid-Day Food List

(from Adano Ley's Solar Nutrition Class)

Mid-Day Noon to 6 P.M.
Vegetables
Artichoke Bell Pepper Bok Choy-top half Broccoli Cabbage Cauliflower Celery-top half Corn (is a grain) Cucumber Eggplant	Endive Green Onion-top half Greens-beet, kale, mustard, spinach lettuce Kohlrabi Parsley Sprouts Squash Tomato (really a fruit)

Berries: (best eaten 3-5 pm) blueberries, blackberries, boysenberries, cranberries, dewberries, grapes, raisins, raspberries, strawberries

Grains: alfalfa, amaranth, barley, Couscous, millet, oats, quinoa, spelt, wheat, wheat grass.

Legumes and Beans:  all varieties, lentils, peas (all kinds

Melons:  (must be eaten alone, 3-7pm) cantalopue, casaba, honeydew, watermelon, bitter melon.

Seeds:  aniseed, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel,mustard, poppy, pumpkin, sesame, sunflower.

I have not listed any dairy, meats, sweeteners, cheeses as I don't use them as a Vegan.  However, you can find them included on several of the on-line sites if you are interested.

Morning Foods

Morning Food Lists
(from Adano Ley's Solar Nutrition Class)

MORNING 7 AM to 9 AM
apples apricots avocados bananas cherries dates figs guavas mangoes kiwis	lychee nectarines papayas peaches pears plaintains plums pomegranates prunes tamarind
NUTS
acorns almonds apricot kernals beachnut brazilnut butternut cashews chestnuts	coconuts chestnuts hazelnut macadamia pecan pine (pinion) pistachio walnuts
Citrus Fruit: (best 9-11 am, eaten alone)
Oranges Grapefruit Lemons	Limes Tangerines

Seeds:	annato, nutmeg
Oils:	almond, apricot, avocado, coconut, olive, walnut
Sweeteners:	honey, maple syrup, maple, sugar.
Special Foods	mountain grown coffee, cocoa, unsweetened chocolate

Solar Nutrition’s Timing

"It's not what you eat, it's when you eat it..."　

The following brief explanation I give you is taken directly from notes I took while attending Solar Nutrition classes presented by Adano Ley in Houston, Texas.

I first met Adano in 1962 in Los Angeles and much later, 1979, I moved to Houston and worked briefly at his clinic and became a true believer in the correctness and validity of solar nutrition.
Solar Nutrition is a time-determined eating system. It is based on the energy received by plants, bushes and trees at specific times of the day. Morning energy, 7 to 9 am, would be concentrated on nut and fruit trees, and any bush 4 foot or taller. Mid day energy, 12 to 6 pm, would be based on vegetables, grains and berries that grow to 4 ft in height.

Evening energy, 6 to 9 pm would be based mostly on root vegetables.

Brown Rice is a neutral food and can be eaten anytime and we used Bokchoy almost every lunch and dinner meal. The top half of the bokchoy for lunch and the bottom for dinner.
By following Solar Nutrition guidelines, the foods with the greatest life giving energies are put into our bodies at the proper times. It deals with the absorption, assimilation, and utilization of the energy of the sun in our bodies, minds and spirits through the foods we eat. It also takes into consideration the items that non-vegans and non-vegetarians ingest such as meat, eggs and dairy.I am posting a brief list of the foods for the three periods of the day so you can get a better picture of what I am talking about. Adano also listed the foods by blood type and often said "if you don I have never forgotten that. My blood type is AB and I make an effort to take that into consideration when choosing my foods.

There are many sites on line regarding Solar Nutrition and Adano Ley. If you are interested I suggest you look them up. Just google Solar Nutrition and/or Adano Ley. I think it will be well worth your time to find out more about solar nutrition and about Adano Ley. He was the teacher and friend that put my feet on a spiritual path and pushed until I learned to walk. My favorite sites is ’t know your blood type, don’t monkey around with nutrition."http://www.livingtolive.com/adano.html but there are many more.