Would any of you happen to know if mold growing on plants such as cauliflower is beneficial or benign? I figure there's no reason to be afraid of this mold like most Americans are. Think that's reasonable?

Here's something exceedingly helpful: http://www.drbass.com/sequential.html

This is really an advanced form of food combining: by eating your foods separately in a meal (preferably waiting 3-5 min between foods for assured separation in the stomach), you have optimum digestion at all times. Eat foods according to the digestion times at the bottom of the page. There's a note there that digestion times for raw meats are much faster than cooked, so I'm not sure how that translates, but you can use it as a general guideline: eat chicken before beef, eggs before chicken, etc.

I eat one meal of around 2800 calories a day because of these principles. It consists of 1.5 LB of blended salad, 6 raw egg yolks, and 2.5 LB of raw chicken thighs, one after the other, in perfect digestion. I usually drink one glass of water before I eat everything, because I tend to get thirsty after the meal if I don't. It's advised to not drink water during or after meals if possible, because it impedes digestion.

I highly recommend other links from drbass.com as well; it's completely correct material in regards to proper health guidelines.

But contrary to what people say about food combining, sequential eating says that you can in fact have eggs directly after fruits (5 min after, with the residue in mouth completely gone, just to be safe) and not have any digestive difficulty because the stomach separates the foods into layers. I don't really know how this work considering milk, though, as it isn't mentioned anywhere in the chart on this site. But yes, I must repeat, you can have any foods together in the meal, as long as you eat them in the proper sequential order; you will certainly have no digestive difficulty, if done this way.