The PH Miracle

So after all this tumor talk and chemo talk I got looking around at "cancer cure diets". Everything I read online talked about ditching the sugar and getting the blood ph level alkaline. I knew enough about acid vs alkaline to know this made sence. I found this book via YouTube and ran out and got a copy. Its not the most fun read. Alot of the same info is online as well. But, I am really glad I got the book as it has a ton of detailed info on why alkaline is the way to go when you are trying to get and stay healthy. Its also got a bunch of good recipes to get ya started.

Alkaline Recipes

As I start to show off some of my alkaline recipes I want to first say that I am not a perfect or fancy cook. I like to keep things simple. I prefer meals in a bowl...often in bite sizes....and in soup form is my ideal. I don't do a lot of measuring. If I read a recipe I almost always alter it. I also cook based on cravings...so you will see a lot of repetition of ingredients....like tofu, tofu, tofu then collards, collards. I let my body tell me what I need. This is something that started to come easily to me after I became a vegetarian.

Also- I am new to being alkaline. I started on Nov 17, 2010. I am trying to be 100% alkaline as I go through chemo but I am not perfect. My recipe ideas are aiming for perfect alkalinity but they may not be exact so don't just trust me on this stuff. Please do your own research.

Recipe Above...
Roasted green beans. Fresh green beans drizzeled with olive oil and roasted for about 10 min.
Quinoa (Keen-Wa). Saute can of diced tomatoes in juice w lots of garlic, onion, basil and collard greens chopped tiny.
This was very, very good. I made this again for a pot luck dinner and it got rave reviews. :)

Quinao and kale

Quinoa is a complete protein. Its kind of ricey. We recently discovered it and I love it!

Here I cooked the quinoa in veg broth. I tossed some tofu, carrot slivers, lots of kale

around w/ some onion in a little oil....just till the kale was limp and carrots tender. Mixed it all together and served with salt or braggs to taste.

This was very good.

Crackers and almond butter

A simple snack.

These crackers are made of brown rice, millet, flax and quinoa I think....hmmm. They are not perfectly alkaline but are super close! Put some unsweetened almond butter on um and mmmm. Good enough!

Salad

Salad.

When you are going alkaline its very important to eat alot of raw foods. I cannot stand cold food all the time so I have a few warm meals a day...like soup for breakfast and a quinoa dish for dinner and I aim for a raw food meal at mid day.

This salad has all kinds of greens, almonds, raw garlic, olives & cucumer. I use the dressing recipe from below.

Cucumber breakfast

This is an easy breakfast or on the go lunch.

Chop up cucumber, avocado, packaged sprouts and tofu. Drizzle with an easy salad dressing...

Dressing...Revised from The PH Miracle
About 1/3 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup olive oil
Tbs Braggs
a BIG pinch of oregano
basil
dried garlic
dried onion.
Shake

Zucchini saute

Zucchini saute

Easy stuff. In this case I just chopped up some left over zucchini, kale, onion, garlic & tofu. Tossed it all around in olive oil till tender. Served with left over butternut squash and vegan butter.

Kale chips

Kale chips.

I was psyched to make these and then less than thrilled with the outcome.

Take pieces of kale, drizzle olive oil and salt over them and bake till crisp. They taste ok but the texture is super crisp and brittle.

Broccoli Cauliflower Soup

Broccoli Cauliflower Soup

This soup was good. I used a recipe from the book The PH Miracle.

Here it is....

1-2 C Broc
1-2 C Caul
1 cup veg broth
1/2 cup soaked almonds
1 clove garlic
1/4 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp curry powder
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 Tbs Bragg Liquid Aminos
Real salt to taste

Steam the veggies in broth. Blend everything in blender till smooth. Heat and eat.

Barley biscuits

Barley biscuits.

I took a regular biscuit recipe and swapped the flour for Barley and millet flour. Some of each. I used vegan butter instead of shortening. They are very heavy on the barley flavor but pretty darn good especially when you are desperate for a bread product 30 days into an Alkaline diet.

Veggy Soup

This is what I like to call "End of Week Soup". I make this soup every 7 or 10 days. Whenever I have an overflow of veggy ends or things are heading towards getting wilty.

Its very easy.

Put a box of organic vegetable stock in a pot. Add carrots, celery, onion or leaks, cabbage, & collards. You can use anything! Add broccoli, spinach, sea weed, scallions....pretty much anything. (I'd skip the tomatoes and peppers for this recipe though)

Toss in some barley or brown rice too.

If you are keeping it alkaline- be sure to leave out potatoes, corn and noodles.

Simmer -preferably on the wood stove :)- until everything is tender.

Stuffed zucchini

Stuffed zucchini.
Split zucchini up the middle and scoop out seed. Cook wild rice in veg broth. Stir in extra zucchini, minced broccoli, a little basil and some sunflower seeds. Stuff zucs and broil for a moment.
Tofu with grilled garlic slices. Cook a slice of tofu and garlic in a skillet w/ a little oil. Salt to taste.

I was not super impressed with this. It was fussy to make. I would have been happier to have the zucs chunked up inside the rice.

Quinoa w brustle sprouts

This is red quinoa (keen-wa) with brustle sprouts.

Cook quinoa- one part quinoa/ two parts water or veg broth.

Saute quartered brustle sprouts with onions, garlic and a tomato.

Butter nut squash on the side. Split squash open, take out seeds, bake face down on cookie sheet for 45 min @ 400

Vegan butter.

I just made this up. It was really good. A good way to eat brustle sprouts.

Alvacodo Soup

Avocado soup.

This is a really good, simple soup to make. Saute some onions in a little olive oil. Throw in blender with a couple of ripe avocados. Heat and eat with a little real salt. I like this one for breakfast.

Nutrition what?

With all this "C" talk what about nutrition?

According to the doctors nutrition has nothing to do with any of this. They all say visit the American Cancer Society website. Well the ACS site says something like 2/3 of all cases are due to nutrition issues.Yet, no one will acknowledge that nutrition may have an effect on cleaning this mess up. As a matter of fact the morning after they hacked a hunk of my colon out the first thing they offered me was coffee. Coffee? Um.....not so much!

I did my own research and have made some big changes in eating. I have gone totally alkaline. As of today I have gone 36 days without sugar, dairy, meat (well I have been a vegetarian for 2 yrs actually). Being alkaline feels great. I have found and made up several recipes. (see above)

Power Port in.

In preparation for chemo next week I went in the other day and had yet another operation.

Ouch. The power port is in. This port is a convenient spot for the chemo docs to insert the needle.

Now what?

So here I am. Home after having my colon hacked up TWICE!!! I feel fantastic but the docs say that in order to avoid a "recurrence" I have to do 6 mo of chemotherapy. OK. Well, I gotta do what I gotta do, right? Well this leaves me twisted. If they "got it all" then why do I have to dump chemicals in my body to fight what is gone? I guess the answer is "just in case". Just in case they tossed some cells around when they were stirring up my guts.

So that's whats next. 6 mo of chemo.

Sexy scar

Here is the wound all healed up. It runs from my belly button to my pubic bone.

The dots are from the first surgery and the big ol line is mostly from the second.

I lived!

I lived!

The emergency surgery revealed that the resected colon had popped open, leaking all of its contents into my belly. :( NOT good. I nearly died!

But- I did not :)

This time I ended up all patched back together. I had 2 drains a catheter and sadly for me- an ostomy. After my 9 day stay this time...bringing me to the end of Oct... I was sent home with the lovely ostomy and a wide open wound. It took about 2 months for the wound to heal with the help of a wound care clinic and a wound vac. After a lot of tears and several weeks of virtual depression I decided to get my head on straight and get back to real life.

Now I am fine...well, considering :)

Back I go!

After the Oct 12 surgery I was sent home looking and feeling fine. After being home just 36 hrs I started to vomit. My mother (who had come from Florida to help me after the surgery) took me back the hospital for "fluids". Well it turns out fluids is not what I needed. What I "needed" was an emergency surgery. :(

Colon Surgery

On Oct 12 I went in for colon surgery. This was a planned surgery and it went well. They removed the tumor, a fallopian tube, ovary and 37 lymph nodes. They tested the mess and said they got it all. "It" being stage 2 colon cancer. The lymph nodes were all clear and that's a really good sign. I stayed in the hospital 6 days and then I was sent home all stapled up and good to go....

Or so we thought!