people who made it

people who made it

nate
brittany
ari
nichole
nishali
regina
jen
jason







people who didn't make it

claire
emily
kasey
erin
liz
liz

congrats, you animals

Yessss!

Congrats all who made it. We rock.

And, I have three kinds of naan. It smelled too good and out-competed the entrees.

Wow, I'm Out

Kendel, you didn't even have to buy me a beer and I didn't even have to decide to be out. Just one of those involuntary collapses right at the end.
So I was just leaving Jewel of India with some delicious food we'll be eating tonight and I couldn't help but stop to look in the container to see and smell the food better. I didn't realize it but a small amount of it lined the hinge of my index finger which I thoughtlessly brought to my mouth and tasted...
Except I actually wiped it off on my jeans, I'm still in the competition and Patrick Duffy is in my shower even though I dreamed an entire year after he had quite publicly died.
This reminds me of Step by Step for some reason:

i logged on hoping that some of you tenacious fuckers have given up, but alas.

good game, chaps. three more hours!

FUCK!

dude, you guys. this weekend my sister, my neighbor and i were in a 48 hour film competition. i slept only 3 hours of the 48 and didn't have any caffein. luckily red delicious apples became delicious again.

Fasting to the Finish

I'm fasting for the last 12 hours of this thing because I'm so excited for the food at midnight and because I don't want anymore of my Gawdawaful 7 ever again.

final day

the thought of oncoming deliciousness carries me through to the midnight grub-down

Yet again, mmm...

I made spinach and cheese filled crepes. In one word, yummy.

And someone offered me pickleweed and I had to turn them down. :( When will I next be offered pickleweed?!?

And my roommate is being nice now and dehydrated apples for me. Yay!

I'm looking forward to breaking this with peanut butter, chocolate and toast tomorrow night. And indian food, if I can get a hold of some. You guys?

vegan sock hop

tonight, i fried a bunch of pieces of tofu in olive oil and then salted them. they kind of resembled fries. i paired this with a yogurt and banana smoothie, which is almost a milkshake. i was *this* close to making a burger with a tomato for the patty and spinach leaves for the buns. i was tempted to put on buddy holly and do the twist in my kitchen.

home stretch...

it's been one hell of a week. the closest i came to quitting was day 3 i think. but now i'm over the hump, and even though i almost sold my soul for a flight of wine, i'm definitely in it until the end.

apples, spinach, and rice await

ice cream

i want ice cream. i cannot have ice cream. but i can have yet another delicious chicken and rice dish. i now fill the breast with the carrots and green peppers then bake it. its good really good.
i'm still going strong still going strong still going strong. one more day

I can't believe it's almost done

I really don't feel that constrained by it anymore. Don't get me wrong, I slightly worried that this diet will cause some new kind of organism to rupture out my body, but I mostly feel fine.
Ari

People gave me the WEIRDEST looks...

So I went to a faculty student discussion on sustainability last night. They provided dinner.

I wandered around, looking at the food, hungry but unable to eat anything. Then I saw the steamed vegetables.

So I picked a plate full of carrots out of the steamed vegetables. And then added some raw carrot slices from the other veggie tray. I turned around and my friend who was also there looked at my orange plate, looked confused, and then said, "Ah. Carrots." He was trying so hard not to laugh. Then I went outside with everyone, and all of these professors from all over Puget Sound were looking at me like I was crazy while I carefully picked all the little seeds from other vegetables off of my carrots before eating each one slowly and appreciating it fully.

It was amazing. No one asked me what the hell I was doing. They all just accepted it for some reason.

Going into hibernation for the weekend

(at least till midnight on Sunday)

I think fasting would be easier. You don't have to keep reminding yourself of what you can and can't have. You just can't have anything.

But I will be eating of course, I just will be a bit of a hermit this weekend to avoid mindless grazing - it will probably help me get some reading done.

i ate soy sauce

so two days before this thing started i asked claire if soy sauce was one of the "free" ingredients. she said "yeah, totally." so i've been using it here and there since the beginning. i guess she forgot about this or something, because yesterday when she saw me eating some she was like "what?!". so nichole, regina, nishali, brittany (and sort of ari) and I decided that i could still be in if i leave garlic (one of my ingredients) behind as well as soy sauce.

if anyone thinks i should be out i'd gladly quit and cry into a tub of ice cream and cheeseburgers and beer and vinaigrette and crepes and chocolate and lemonade and pasta and tomatoes and bread and corn and avocados and bleu cheese and bacon and steak and tacos and beans and rice(not rice) and cake and pie and tiramisu and human flesh all night.

Delishishness

Right now I'm drinking OJ + yogurt, and I am in heaven.

I still crave runny eggs + couscous.

This is how I know I will win.

Even if it means I'm boring, it's somehow comforting that I'm such a winner.

soon so so soon

i'll make it! my delicious chicken and rice dish gets better everyday...
sunday at midnight sunday at midnight sunday at midnight sunday atmidnight sundayat midnight sunday at midnight sundeay atmidnight sundayatmidnightsundayatnidmigth sunday atnmiday msuantuay

i will announce my retirement...

... if you can bribe me out of the contest. i could finish, no question, but i'm open to offers.

and why am i really doing this? for some beer? a couch? a blender?

you want a bigger pot of money and i want something for the effort. let's talk.

midnight potluck

i think that is such a good idea.

art building? sunday at midnight? anything and everything plus a blender?

what do you all think?

I love my friends

So I had a game night tonight with some of my friends and they just proved how awesome they all are again. I showed up, they were having pizza, we talked about the 7X7 challenge for a while, and then made a QFC run to get apple and cheddar cheese products to experiment. They tried some of my fried apples (although they had ice cream and cinnamon with them, which I've been thinking would be AMAZING with them), and we fried applesauce with grated sharp cheddar. It was interesting. Very weird. Like applesauce texture cheese flavor. I still ate it. They ate it on crackers. Anyway, a good night for the mid week overall. I can totally do this. No luck getting me to back down, anyone.
I had to work pretty hard to convince one of them that however similar a pear and an apple might appear to be, I could not eat pear syrup in a drink, aside from the fact that I couldn't drink vodka because the vodka was potato derived.
Oh, and I'm making ravioli tomorrow, stuffed with cheese and spinach and in a creamy cheese sauce, with sweet tender cooked carrots on the side. Anyone jealous?

don't think about it

Grapes
Tea
Milk
Oatmeal
Black beans
Spinach
Rice

Grapes Tea Milk Oatmeal Black Beans Spinach Rice Grapes Plain Old Black Tea (No Frills)
Milk Oatmeal Black Beans Spinach White Rice Grapes Plain old black tea (no frills) milk
oatmeal black beans spinach rice grapes plain old black tea no frills milk oatmeal black
beans spinach spinach spinach rice grapes plain frills old black tea no milk oatmeal
beans black rice rice milk black tea black beans grapes rice grapes oatmeal milk milk
no milk frills oatmeal no no plain tea tea plain plain plain

dinner today:

(hand indicates original size of cheese at the beginning of dinner).

yeah i know i'm disgusting. don't judge me!

all things considering, i should probably want to punch myself in the face right now for signing up for this, but i actually feel alright. think my body is resigning itself to the punishing torture that i'm subjecting it to.

The other thing I learned today

I'm fuckin broke, and now thankful for dietary restrictions.

quit! i'll bribe you

this is less fun today! dont get me wrong i am still in it to win it, but not drinking beer all weekend, having chicken and rice one more day, and oh god i need coffee! to top it off, right now i'll only make like $6.25 if no one else quits. here is the deal: first, ari beer is on me this weekend (offer good until sunday night, one beer only)... second, anyone else i'm up for negotiationing a means to end your run. lets be reasonable people. now its not enough to win it - i want to make money too.

here is a graph depicting our dilema.

I realized I could eat GRAPES!!!

Though I might have eaten too many = (

Stuck in a Rut? Grill It, Girl!

Sorry, I couldn't resist the Cosmopolitan-esque headline with assonance and alliteration.

I grilled my tofu tonight. It tasted preeeeeetty good. Looks like that's what I'll be doing from now on. Also some experiments with frying, which I have not attempted yet.

THREE DAYS TO GO.

Today.. I AM

the spinach man..

Party

Well, I went to a social gathering where I sort of knew one other person last night, and managed to generate 2 hours of conversation based on the 7X7 challenge. Thank you. Then the host microwaved me some fresh eggs from his chickens that were running around. I felt the love.

What Has Made This A Little Easier

for me is the fact that I leave for work at 7:30 in the morning, and have to take whatever I want to consume for the day with me. My schedule allows for a half-hour break for lunch, so there's no mindless wandering, wondering what or where to eat.

However, this weekend will be hard. With no schedule dictating my meals, I might be prone to grazing.

today's lesson

coffee can be and is an excellent food substitute.

i would have taken pictures of the potato egg mash that i made for dinner, but you can probably imagine it pretty easily by taking the plate that i posted from day one, and then picturing it...all mixed together. (my taste buds were not deceived by this tactic to simulate food variety).

it's day three, i've had more coffee than one human being should be able to legally consume, and i'm feelin' fine.

Oatmeal and Grapes? Who knew?!

It's surprisingly delicious! I found a new favorite breakfast, or lunch, or dinner, whatever.

By the way, oatmeal and spinach DO NOT mix.

What I've learned so far is...

you can't auto-pilot on what you eat as most people do in their busy lifestyles.

Food becomes another thing to think about rather than just an object to drop into your mouth to satiate yourself. You need to plan out, put some mental effort into how to make a meal out of a limited number of resources and remember to refrain from what's not on your list.
And when you actually eat, you taste, you notice every small morsel that goes into your mouth. And maybe through your digestive tract. At least you do if you have beans on your list.

It might be part of why we've had a rash of dropouts. Food is one too many items on your mental plate. It's frustrating, especially when it was something taken without a second thought before.

Here is the Human? I am the HUMAN

Why do I move like this? What am I thinking now? What did I eat for lunch? I at a salad composed of fresh thinly sliced soy curd, golden raisins and walnuts deliciously seasoned with salt and pepper.

The elixir of sanity

TEA!!!

day 3: what i've learned

today i learned to separate my foods. i've mostly been eating everything as a mash, which isn't really doing it for me today. i'm also salting things less (something i thought i'd never do)

the good news is that i realized that i can eat rice cakes (rice, salt, water) apple juice (100 percent apples) and rice noodles (rice, water). a little more expensive but it gives my taste buds the illusion of variety.

what i miss: tomatoes. cheese. hmm pizza....

i' m in until the end. no question.

Day 3 and going strong

My meals have all been the same. Rice and chicken for lunch and dinner. broccoli and cheddar cheese has been my favorite snack. I slept through breakfast this morning, which is actually a relief. I feel fine, food tastes fine so far, and I am in to the end.

Creativity Crisis

High point of yesterday: Bananas+Yogurt+Ice=Smoothie! Delicious!

Low point: Eating spinach straight out of the bag. Not so delicious.

i keep breaking out in goosebumps for no reason, is that normal

things i ate today:
five apples.

...really.

mostly because i was too lazy to cook. no, actually, that's a lie. i was feeling too malnourished to really summon the effort to pull something together. so it really is a bit of a vicious cycle.

another thing that happened: as i was buying contact solution at safeway, a coupon for chocolate printed out to my receipt. "WOW IT'S YOUR LUCKY DAY," chirped to the clerk as he handed it to me. needless to say, i almost cried.

things i have wanted to eat today: would be too exhaustive to name all of them. although i think it would be safe to say that wine has been the most prevalent leading lady in my food fantasies.

i feel fine, no really..

i froze apple juice. it takes me back. aside from this i ate like a metric ton of chicken breast. i wish i had put mushrooms on my list. its the end of morel season...
things i've wanted to eat: cookies, beer, soda, vinegar, mustard, basil, kale, beans, phad thai.

first to come, first to leave

If there's one thing you should take from the 7vs7 challenge, it's that rumors are true.

After a solid breakfast of milk, honey, and apple juice, I got off my 11:30 shift at Parnassus to head home and make a spinach/tomato salad. It took me about an hour to make it to the fridge -- I got home, sat on my bed, forgot what I was doing, rearranged my library books, wondered where the ones I'd returned had gone, fretted about my afternoon meeting at the film forum, changed my shirt for no apparent reason, changed it back when I realized what I had done, wondered if it was cool enough outside to change into pants, and then remembered that the reason my head was pounding and I'd lost my will to live was because I was hungry.

I opened the fridge to retrieve my tomatoes, they'd disappeared. A rogue housemate could have eaten them, or maybe I was so delirious I just couldn't find them. Either way, at that point, I knew I was out.

But I didn't know for sure. After eating an apple with raw honey and making a few awkward work-related phone calls, I headed to Trabant to do some reading. I didn't know what to order: the thought of steamed milk made me want to run in front of the 49. So I ordered the only other thing I could order: a bottle of water. It was humiliating. I went and sat with my bottle of water, and then a girl who doesn't like me very much came in, saw me, said hi, and (I swear it!) smirked at me and my bottle of water.

So I called Emily in Parnassus and asked her on a date to Cedars to celebrate our resignation.


first to come, first to leave from Claire Fox on Vimeo.

whew

ok guys... after feeling fatigued from lack of coffee and not enough protein. i'm sad to say that i'm a quitter on day 2, but i need my brain for school, and my body to get me there, so goodluck to the rest of you, and may the best person win!

(i will be enjoying something aside from broccoli and brown rice tomorrow for breakfast)

i owe you $10

i...i suck.

I JUST HAD A REALLY BAD HEADACHE AND I GUESS APPLES AREN'T ENOUGH TO ROLL WITH ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.

so now i'm eating easy mac. sorrrrry guysssssssss. at least i (theoretically) held out longer than claire, and that'll be cool. we can share guilty looks when we hang out on sautrday night.

can i just publish photos of myself eating a wide variety of foods in the next few days? while looking sad? SLASH SMUG?

Gets creative

Sort of. Hot cereal (plain, of course) and spinach for breakfast.

The rest of my cheesy-spinach-sauce and pasta for lunch.

Carrots. While the rest of the group I was with ate delicious taco truck tacos and gave me are-you-crazy? looks when I turned down my teachers offer for money to buy lunch.

Whole emmer grains and cooked carrots.

A poached egg.

Fried apple slices.

Slices of sharp cheddar smoked with apples.

I think I'm going to try making more pasta now.

And I really, really want peanut butter and a glass of milk.

But I won't crack. Everything is still pretty tasty. Except for cheese, which was supposed to be my yummy pleasure food for the week. It's failing a little bit, just plain. It would be so much better with a cracker. Or pepperoni. This is somehow making a vegetarian who hasn't craved meat for 5 months crave pepperoni.

day 2: a little shaky but feelin fine

mmm i think i underestimated the drop my body would feel after

no meat no cheese no bread no sugar

BUT

my mash of rice beans broc and spinach is still hitting the spot.

plus oatmeal + apples = winning this competition.

BRILLIANT INVENTION:

(YOGURT + ICE + ORANGE JUICE) / BLENDER =

DELICIOUSNESS.

Ok, not so brilliant, but it was surprisingly good.

Word on the grapevine is that Claire AND Emily are OUT.

Snicker.

Day Two

I ate some food today, it was similar to yesterday and it took a lot of time.

Day 2 Breakfast and such

I had my delicious chicken and rice dish twice yesterday. It is quick, easy, and delicious. Breakfast this morning was a bit more exciting: cheddar, green peppers, and scrambled eggs.

Things I wanted to eat but couldn't: brownies, ice cream, coffee, and beer (not all at once, but maybe a different challenge we can make that concoction).

Yo, gurt! Yuck, it hurts...

I ate a pound of plain yogurt today.

I really wish I was kidding.

lame-ness

so after a trip to hell this morning [i.e. creepy dentist, mine's out of town] -- i'm now on 2 meds that require my immune system to be intact. i am wussing out and have to forfeit and think i might have a fever. this is lame, i was thinking about this week all through last week and got way too excited. well, good luck troopers, i did get through today and it was pretty easy yet still greatly torturous, maybe i'll do it just because next week....hulkout!

oh Sunday, thou goest too quickly

My seven:

Grapes
Plain Old Black Tea, no frills
Milk
Oatmeal (I'll regret this one)
Black beans
Spinach
White Rice

Sunday: A highly nutritious dinner of manufactured, highly processed, delicious canned soup with grilled cheese sandwiches and a Klondike bar.

Monday: well, the poorly-lighted picture says it all

One nice point though - it's much easier to decide on what to make for dinner.

why didn't i put peanuts on my list?

I want to drink beer

Drinking olive oil, picking off pretzel salt, peeing frequently because of increased water, handling lettuce, sniffing oregano mint tomatoes cucumbers balsamic vinegar and rosemary. In fact when I ate my dinner I could overly the slight scent of rosemary by smelling the finger I had plucked it with earlier. It was gentle and beautiful.
I'm cooking pasta in preparation for tomorrow. Happy eating!

owing to general forgetfulness, breakfast and lunch were nonexistent (or, alternatively, both consisting of coffee)...

dinner today: scrambled eggs with onions with some...hashbrown-esque things. i got too impatient for them to crisp thoroughly. now that i think about it, my lack of willpower even in this small instance doesn't really bode well for the next six days...



i forsee that this will be a week of breakfast! all the time!

nearing the end of day one...

9:00pm, day one

after the first successful day of the 7 for 7, i'm happy to say that i managed to eat some decent meals and make it through a full day of work surrounded by pasteries and delicious coffee! it was pretty brutal, but i kept some brown rice handy, and drank a good amount of wine upon returning home. i miss cheese and bread most of all.. but this is a good experience. i am beginning to feel cleansed.... ( :

mmm dinner...

because it was the first night i thought i would dive right in and eat everything on my list mashed together in a blissful concoction of raw foods. oh yeah!

What I Have Learned Thus Far

I am going to have to be creative with my cooking.

Thus far: yogurt, bananas, yogurt with bananas, and spinach+tomatoes+olive oil+tofu concoction.

But what I sacrifice in variety and flavor I gain in.........clout? Ability to say that one time during college I went for a week on basically a raw foods diet?

I'm not as tired or hungry or irritable as I thought I would be. It has only been a day, though.

It worked.

Ha! I made pasta! From egg and emmer flour (and water and salt!) and a delicious cheese spinach sauce for it. And there's even some left for lunch tomorrow. It only took like a dedicated hour of cooking... (I can't do that every night...) but totally worth it YUM.
I regret not having olive oil on my list. The fried egg wasn't as good as it could have been.
And I hope the grains in my rice cooker finish cooking soon. And don't fail.
I converted the yogurt in my fridge into frozen strawberry yogurt because it would otherwise have gone bad in the week. And am looking forward to opening it up next Monday and digging in.
That's all, y'all.

day one of far too many days

just to begin with, i'd like to thank the good people at blogger for making my first tag option 'scooters.' i appreciate their concern for my frequent scooter usage and discussion. good on you, guys!!

okay, so i probably would have lost on day 1 if i hadn't slept in until noon...since i forgot that this was starting today. but! so it goes.

went to the store and stocked up on a variety of apples, plus extra chunky pb (chosen because it has this bear on the front that is just, it is just so saucy looking. maybe picture evidence tomorrow) and a jar of raw honey and a tub of plain yogurt.

lunch/breakfast/dinner (utilitarian, okay) was apples dipped in a big bowl of yogurt with honey mixed in. later i found a little jug of apple cider (NOTHING ADDED!) and downed it.

would have been better with tortillas.

and now i'm hanging out with my impulse buy of the first two seasons of six feet under. ohhhh yesssss.

tomorrow: pictures, fruit galore and, god willing, TORTILLAS.

My list ('ello i'm Erin):

oatmeal
brown rice
broccoli
white wine
chicken
green tea
bananas

claire's day one documentation

I really miss coffee.


7vs7 challenge: day one from Claire Fox on Vimeo.

first day of bland week

my list:

apples (definitely becoming my key to survival)
brown rice
cottage cheese
avocato
red wine
spinach
broccoli

how do you like them apples

the list:

coffee
apples
potatoes
onions
olive oil
sharp cheddar cheese
eggs

alright. okay.

That's me, coming to eat a small variety of non-cookable things. strategy? i need no strategy. i do what i WANT.

and I do it with:
-apples
-bananas
-honey
-yogurt
-peanuts (manifested as PEANUT BUTTER)
and, most importantly
-coffee

you may notice that this leaves one ingredient free...this is because i have not yet thought of it and claire is awful and won't let me use tortillas.

awful.

NATE

The list:

1 Apples

2 Oatmeal

3 Brown Rice

4 Pinto Beans

5 Spinach

6 Broccoli

7 Red Wine

Will I regret oatmeal? probably. red wine? never.

Pictures of me eating and not standing coming soon

There are beans all over my microbiology notes and my ballet slippers

My list is as follows:

coffee
milk
eggs
broccoli
peaches (a significant source of vit. c!)
brown rice
black beans

The beans that I packed for lunch today leaked all over my bag. Also, beans are a really boring lunch.

JASON

chicken
rice
olive oil
garlic
parmesan
lettuce
apples

Hey everyone

Hi guys

Just wanted to post about my first meal: lunch today was white rice and grilled chicken seasoned perfectly with some salt and pepper. yum yum

My seven:
carrots, broccoli, chicken, rice, eggs, cheddar cheese, and green peppers

Mmmm... tasty. (I hope)

Hey all... here's my list:
Eggs
Cheddar cheese
Emmer
Broccoli
Apples
Carrots
Spinach

I've been Vermonstered, bad

tofu
walnuts
golden raisins
spaghetti
yogurt
olive oil
broccoli

Yikes

Me with food I will not be able to eat for the next seven days:


Food I will be able to eat:
~olive oil
~bananas
~yogurt
~tofu
~yerba mate
~tomatoes
~spinach

here goes

[[too much time on my hands.....]]
1. lettuce
2. eggs
3. oranges
4. rice
5. beef
6. cheddar cheese
7. tomatoes

i'm doing a 48 hr film festival fri-sat...high stress levels + no sleep for + getting through last days of eating the above...should be interesting...i may have to get a root canal too, so that might help

Listerino

Yogurt
Oranges
Coffee
Eggs
Mozzarella cheese
Spinach
Couscous

the gold standard

milk
honey
quinoa
spinach
olive oil
tomatoes
apples