Breakfast -- smoothie of banana, orange juice, frozen raspberries and brown rice By the time I had blended the dickens out of it, you couldn't distinguish the rice from the raspberry seeds. It was intense.

A bit later, some sour cream herring (Vita this time, see Kettelman's below) on Wasa bread. Leftover carrot-orange juice. Then I made some lemon-blueberry muffins. Those for lunch, with clementines and some radishes, and later some TJ pate on Wasa. I buy a slab of pate once in a while and freeze it in little chunks. It doesn't take much for one snack.

Oh, and some Concord grape juice from the freezer. Heavy on the tartaric acid because I used the Champion juicer, which ground in some of the seeds.

Tried stuffing green peppers for the first time ever. Leftover brown rice, mushrooms, onions, raisins, pine nuts. Uh-oh, out of tomato sauce. Try El Pato enchilada sauce from the back of the cupboard. Too spicy! Cut the heat with some regular canned tomatoes.

Bob doctors legume soup he's made from one of those plastic sleeves that has layers of different dried beans and peas. They remind him of his childhood. He adds garbanzo beans, thyme and pieces of leftover cube steak. Orange juice is good accompaniment