In that first year, it's hard to say what else I ate regularly, but raw milk was the volumetric bulk of my diet. It was also the caloric bulk, as I was not eating a lot, although I didn't count calories. I was originally planning to drink a gallon a day, but I just wasn't that hungry.
I sometimes had home-cooked eggs and bacon for breakfast, and for dinner I had some variety of home cooked rice, cooked meat and uncooked, very sour kimchi meal at dinner. I also sometimes had fresh fruit such as apples, blueberries, ripe (brown) bananas, peaches, etc., but not a lot. Pretty much the same breakfast and dinner as I had before I started on the milk, but dinner was in smaller portions, and my mid-day meals and junk snacks were eliminated. Sometimes I had freshly made pizza for lunch, but I haven't done that in while. I haven't had bacon or pizza in many months.
In general I was trying to cut out anything not prepared at home, and much anything not raw, and exerted control over all ingredients - everything had to be as close to pre-industrial as possible (organic, pastured, etc.). The milk reduced my appetite for cooked meals even at home, and gradually my breakfast became raw milk cheese and apples, and/or raw pastured eggs, but sometimes I had a cooked omelet. Sometimes my wife would buy junk like potato chips, gelato, or a slice of chocolate cake from a gourmet who sells items at farmers markets; I would eat some of that, in part so she wouldn't eat all of it herself (the sacrifices I had to make), but I asked her not to get that stuff any more and she buys it less and less often (or successfully hides it from me).
I generally crave something to chew on during the day at work or I end up buying chips or similar junk; raw cheese and apples meet that need; raw eggs don't. I may try eating raw meat at work - my diet is now in evolution towards eating raw meat, but I don't have any plans to eliminate the milk.
One reason I tried and stuck with the raw milk program was that it really helped my digestion. I also no longer felt exhausted without taking vitamins, so I was able to stop taking vitamins (I took Vitamin D boosts, 5000-10000 IU, maybe three times during the first three months, but nothing after that). Many other benefits followed, pretty shocking really, which is what gave credibility in my mind to the claims Aajonus makes for raw dairy and meat.
For the last month, my dinner has been a quarter to half pound of grassfed beef for dinner; it's pre-frozen steak, to make it easier to cut. My wife chops it up and mixes it with fresh crushed garlic, some high quality sesame oil, sesame seeds, fresh ground black pepper, salt (I asked her to stop when I found out), and a small amount of sugar (rapadura, but I asked her to replace it with unheated honey or nothing at all), which she places on a plate of sliced pears and tops with a pastured egg yolk. Maybe a bit too "gourmet" and not ideal, but it's what I started with and it's very tasty. It would do a restaurant proud, but I'd probably be OK at this point with just eating the chopped beef straight. It's hard to describe, but I was literally angry when I first tried the beef: I was so angry that I'd wasted my whole life not eating this stuff (I'm over 40).
I could say a lot more, so I'll stop.
Wow! Dats a lotta cow juice!
What else do you eat regularly?
I was LI also with pasteurized milk but with raw I have no problems. I consume roughly 12 litres in 14 days.
