Day 4 Juicing/veg diet

Today's craving is a creamy delicious risotto.  Instead I had this:


5 dry Turkish Apricots. (Organic)

2 leaves of lettuce with a glob of hummus on them

Cabbage Soup

And a big ole' green juice.

Mia Culpa for missing a bit.  I am keeping track, I just fell off the blogger tread mill.

Juice/Veg Fast Day The Second

Holy cow did I want to eat food today.  Well, not food, french fries.  I wanted grease soaked fries.  Instead, I had this:

Coffee

2 8oz glasses of Simply orange juice

Sweet juice:

One lemon

1 large beet

3 carrots

1 green apple

1/2 inch of ginger

1 1/2 cup of pineapple.

394 calories

Ginger Beer

I made this cabbage soup based on the cabbage soup diet, which is just weird.  6 bananas a day?  I don't think so.  This is very warming when garnished with hirachi sauce.  Very yummy and filling.

Cabbage Soup.

• 8 cups Organic Vegetable Stock
• 1 head Cabbage, Cooked
• 2 cups Carrots
• 1 cup Chopped Celery
• 4 Garlic Clove
• 1 Leek
• 1 medium raw Green-bell Pepper
• 1/4 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
• 1/4 tsp Chili Powder
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 2 cups Italian Style Diced Tomatoes

DIRECTIONS

Sweat everything but cabbage in a large pot, in a very small portion of olive oil. Add Veg stock,and tomatoes then cabbage. Mix and then add spices to taste. I used what is mentioned plus a bit of thyme. Some salt and pepper. This isn't strictly a cabbage diet soup. It's a warming soup I am consuming during a juice fast.

How My Ass Got This Way, a Foodies Back Story.

When I watched "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" towards the end of last year, I got really energized about juicing.  We got a middle end juicer ($250) and I juiced almost daily from July to October.  My back went out, unfortunately so I wasn't getting around enough to do the prep work involved for a while and I started to back slide on the juicing when our farm share went fallow for the winter..........