Hi Ellie, you wrote: >I'm trying to stick to mono meals for a while. I can't afford to put a >variety on my table each day, so I try to choose at the market what I >will like. Mono meals are a good idea to go back to the lowest load on digestion. Investigating the behavior of your intestines then will give you an idea how good it is. Example: eating fish still gives me strong detox reactions from time to time. And fish is a monomeal for me mostly. So from these monomeals I know that there can be trouble and if I make things a bit more complicated, e.g. by eating veggies afterwards, I might experience even more trouble. So I know where I am. Concerning the variety on your table: nobody stated, that you have to throw away what you don't eat on one day. And of course I would buy only foods that are at least a bit attractive, so there's chance, that I can eat them, even if they are not the best choice. That's perhaps not 100% instincto, but 90% is expensive enough, isn't it? :-) Ellie: >Do you find you eat some green veggie nearly everyday? Do you mix nuts >with legumes? Do you eat honey only at lunch with fruit or could it be >eaten after protein? If cucumber counts as a green veggie: yes ;-) If not: no. Then, if herbs count as green veggies: yes (but for me herbs are herbs). Mixing nuts with legumes: no. They are both classified as proteins. I don't say it doesn't work for you. It c a n . But it is not reco- mended by the menu plan and my experience was always bad with such com- binations (although I certainly did not try them all - I was tired of the bad results and gave up). Honey: if good, this is the finish of my lunch, like durian or jack- fruit. I consider these three to be the nicest foods to be eaten at the end of your noon meal (but only one of them at one meal). So I eat honey after fruits - right. And n o t after protein (this is a sugar/protein-combination: bad). Exceptions: honey plus bee pollen should be eaten as a monomeal at noon, because pollen is classified as protein. Now I hear you ask: isn't this another example of a sugar/protein-combination? Sure! But this one ocurred frequently in nature because a honeycomb often is filled with honey and pollen. Likewise you can drink coconut juice (sugar) and eat the flesh toge- ther with it (protein). And durian + durian cores, rambutans + rambutan cores, peaches + the core (if you like hydrogenic acid), watermelon including its small cores, etc. All these are natural combinations. But pistachios + honey are not. Hope I made this issue clear. If not: ask for more! Cortex-combined wishes, Stefan