Juice!

Today's Juice:

1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup black berries
1/2 cup raspberries
1 banana
Hemp protein powder

Win!  Purple goodness.

Juicing: A bloody mess

I am calling this one a bloody mess:

4 beets
4 carrots
1 inch of ginger

Masticate and put in the blender with

2 tangelos
4 oz of frozen pineapple
3 ice cubes
Protein powder.

Yields 32 oz of juicy wonder.

Pulpy Pom Wonder

I am calling this one the Pulpy Pom Wonder!

1 16 oz Pom Wonderful
8 oz of frozen pineapple
2 giant navel oranges

Blend until smoothish.  I also added 1 scoop of Plantfusion.  I love this stuff.

Hopefully this will scare away the cold my husband and child have.

Fasting can help protect the brain..

This interesting article on brain health claims:

Cutting daily food intake to around 500 calories – which amounts to little more than a few vegetables and some tea – for two days out of seven had clear beneficial effects in their studies, claimed Mattson, who is also professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.


This is an easy(ish) challenge with juicing.  


Read the article here.

Pink is the new Green

This is a wonderfully healthy "green" juice.

4 small beets with greens
a bunch of spinach
5 carrots
6 or 7 pieces of frozen pineapple.


I ran out of ginger so I sub-ed in the pineapple




Ok, I admit it.  I am not always fond of green juices.  But this is a pretty good combo.

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(No actual food photographers were used or harmed in this blog.  #phonephoto)

Sweet Juice

Today's sweet juice:

2 navel oranges
several carrots
1 bosc pear
1 green apple

All win!

Juicing Day One

Day one of my Juice/raw food vegi fast.

Cheating:  2 cups coffee

Breakfast:
1/2 cup plain fat free yogurt
1/2 cup blue berries
1 cup frozen pineapple
191 calories

Ginger tea

Juice:
2 green apples
4 carrots
1 small cabbage
2 beets with greens
1 cucumber
365 calories in 16 oz of juice

2 cups green beans (cooked in water)
6 cloves garlic
76 calories

1 small avocado
161 calories

Cheating:  A bit of brandy


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Even with the brandy to take the edge off, still a little hungry, though I feel like I have been eating all day.  This all added up to just under 1300 calories with my cheating.  I am ok with that.  I am not positive I can give up coffee and booze.  


Tune in, and find out!

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..........