Smoothies and fruits combination

Why do I think it's better not to mix the fruits?
Simply because it's tastier to eat them like that. You can blend them or juice if you like, but if you add any other fruit taste will be changed and according to my experience any "mixture" slows down digestion. Or may be it's because when I first tried to mix fruits I've already had couple of years experience eating mono and for me mixing didn't work.

Mangoes and grapes = ok?  

May be according to someone else's categories they are subacids or whatever, I just tell you based on my experience and I don't care about these categories. To tell you the truth grapes are no-no with any other fruits , because they easily get  fermented as well as melons. Why then mix grapes??? Make a juice just out of grapes.
Why are raisins best soaked?
You're right, there is no reason for raisins to be soaked if you blend them with other watery fruits. If raisins should be soaked, then it'd be logical not use raisins but use normal grapes. Raisins are OK, but for sure grapes are better :)

Cirtus+strawberry?

For me it doesn't sound like a good idea. Citrus would cover the smell of strawberry if you see what I mean. And at the same time citrus , especially lemons and grapefruits are very intense, very strong and if you add up them to any smoothy or a salad it should be a minimum.

Other thoughts concerning your tastes and dietary preferences:
From what you've written smoothies you make like mango+banana+romain which tastes like chocolate chips it gives me an idea you still like tastes of processed food/cooked food whatever you call it and because of that you still like mixing. It would be better if you could try to develop your "likes" for a natural taste of fruits. May be you can do it in the future. The problem with mixing and finding new tastes or something that reminds of already known tastes from cooked food only maintains the existing habit for trying new tastes and leads to experimenting with new tastes. It works like an addiction to all processed/cooked food. Well, people say give it a try when they speak about new diet and they think in terms of 30 days or 3 months or so . I'd say give it a try it means 1 year. I understand why people say give it a try of one month - They just want to get a new follower and not everyone will be as decisive to give a try if this try would last for a year. But at the same time if people would realize it's not just another diet for a while and that it needs determination they would think twice or more of consequences of changing the diet.

So, IMO give it a try for a year and better if you start with 2 days fasting on water if your physical conditions will allow you to do that. After two days of fasting, start you next day with a juice about 200 ml or with a smoothy the same amount . I don't see a lot of difference between juice and smoothy after juice 2 days of fasting. Nothing bad happens if you eat a smoothy. Of course if we talk of 3+ days fasting then there is a big difference between eating a smoothy or a juice.

For your ulcer: greens such as okra will do good for you.

If you have some more questions just write them and I will answer or may be will write another post based on them. Hopefully it might be of any help to you and some other people.

 

 

I've been thinking for a long time about food and why people eat as they eat and actually I came to a conclusion  that the problem with people is that we like tastes that's why all this mess with different dishes, how to vary the daily menu,  etc.  Probably it's one of the reasons why I didn't have a blog in English, because when I see people talking about raw food they usually talk about mixing ingredients and they offer a cook book or videos or anything else that has to do with cooking( mixing). and if one makes a blog about just eating one thing at a time or mono eating and eating less than 3000 kcal a day....what one can expect? what is it to read on such a blog ? :)  I found couple of such blogs with mono eating, but still they  write something about nutrients and even provide quite good tables with fruit/veggies nutrient content.....it's ok, sometimes it works, I mean I don't even believe in nutrients, because human body can build itself deriving nutrient not just from the food. If you ask me how I know it , I just think for example some people live in California and have vit D deficiency, while others live in North don't have it. It's the same about other nutrients.  I think now what is more important is how to eat I mean not overeat even on fruits, work on energy including breath ( simple, not for a yoga competition or another competition :). in this case food becomes just a part of this program of human body evolution as it should be, because as I deeply believe  human beings have different sources of "nutrition". Everything depends on energy and how much energy one has.  Energy doesn't come only from food, food is just one source. Other sources can be sunlight, energy ( prana) surrounding us, even physical exercises, good emotions. Well, actually everything from above is energy, so the question becomes how to get this energy , how to accumulate it from different sources? It's an open question. I have just some ideas on how it might work, I'm not ready to give a profound answer for this question, but I work on it and I trying to find some practical knowledge based on my lifestyle. Recently I've bee practicing meditation ( after reading Anne Wise book, it's a research about different brainwaves) and I'm making quite a good progress in it. Before I never was interested in meditation, I thought it was boring and not for me, just sit quite and concentrate on something! well, it made me laugh...it was really far from being anything practical for me, but now I do it and it is practical, but may be I have to say that meditation becomes practical only when you start practicing deep meditation, otherwise all these15-20 min of sittings called meditation give only some rest to the body, but you can't reach your deeper self. I mean if you've been practicing quite for a while any meditation you can reach this state of mind quite quickly , but then after you're in you will not get out of it just in 15 minutes, time runs much faster while you're in such a mind state and when you're awake again you see almost an hour passed. But I must say that I'm still a beginner and for me one hour it's quite a time for a meditation, but I know people who can stay in a meditation for several hours. I'm not talking about transcendental meditation , I haven't tried it, but according to a description of  what I've read about it such a state of mind can be reached through a normal meditation, especially the well known sensation of "falling down" is quite normal for a common meditation as well.

OK, enough for this post. I think next one will be about food. I'll try to put some of my ideas into few posts.