This morning I was ready to whip out my young coconut meat. Although that might be misconstrued as something inappropriate for those under 18, really it’s just me getting the scraped out guts of my young coconut from yesterday out of the refrigerator. Sorry to burst your dirty mind bubble.

I first learned about the wonder of young coconuts from The Raw Food Detox Diet.

Note that a young coconut is something different than a mature coconut – the brown hairy thing we all know and love. One of the beautiful things about a young coconut is the coconut water. The water turns to “milk” as the coconut matures. Coconut water is loaded with electrolytes, has more potassium than you can shake a banana at – it’s like all you could want from a sports drink and more.

After you slurp out the water, you are left with a relatively thin layer of soft coconut meat that you scrape out and can do a variety of fun stuff with. A smoothie seems like the best option in my mind, mainly due to the fact that I am unsure of the other “fun stuff” I speak of.

With my coconut meat booty, 1 banana lightly frozen, a little vanilla almond milk and a blender that wishes it was a VitaMix, we got down to business.

Holy goodness in a glass. You are reading the words of the human vacuum who sucked up every last bit from the bottom of the blender with that there straw once my glass was sucked dry.

Moving on.

Lunch was the last of the leftover lentil tacos, but this time as an actual taco instead of taco salad.

A whole wheat tortilla, 1/4 of a sliced avocado and some mango peach salsa.

With my favorite side of carrots and oh yes, more salsa.

After lunch we had some company – my girlfriend Sharon entrusted me with her first born while she ran some errands. During a lull we popped up some cheap entertainment.

And had a popcorn party. Apparently Max was the only one who read the invitation closely enough to notice that it was a Pink Tutu Affair.

Sitting at the table is highly overrated.

I received a look of utter disgust when I asked Maxine if she wanted to be a doggie too. I was promptly lectured on where the popcorn is supposed to be eaten.

My share, that I didn’t dare eat anywhere but the table lest I be lectured again.

Mid afternoon I was feeling the urge to eat but wasn’t actually hungry – so I continued on with Operation: Use Up Stuff in the Cupboard and remembered this Celestial Seasonings Honey Vanilla White Tea Chai.

Sweetened with a tsp of agave nectar and a splash of 1% milk – because it’s chai!

Salad for dinner is actually code for “Zak’s going to be late and I’m sick of eating leftovers”.

Red leaf, green leaf, feta cheese, a diced granny smith apple, extra firm tofu chunks, raw cashews tossed in miso dressing.

I had to snap this picture fast so I could quickly lick up that almond butter drip before it fell and I’m labeled an AB Abuser.

No almond butter was harmed in the photo shoot of the Green and Black 70% Dark Chocolate. What happened AFTER the picture was taken? Well yeah, that got pretty ugly.