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.

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!

A more complex tasting juice

This is a bit of a complex juice, but I like it.


One large orange
2 small clementines
several small carrots
3 stalks celery
one green apple
one big honkin' beet.





This is a fairly bright, complex juice.  Next time, I think that a bit of ginger would be nice in this.  I have been on a huge citrus kick lately.

Waiting not very patiently for spring, and more juicing options.

For when you want LOTS of Juice

Here is the juice of the day.  I will warn you that this makes 32 oz of juice.  I didn't calorie count this one.  Mostly because I wanted to just enjoy it.  Totally worth the effort.

With the masticating juicer:
4 carrots
1 large beet
2 navel oranges

When you have that done throw 2 clementines, and a cup of mangoes.  Blend together in the blender with the other juice.

I used frozen magoes, and added ice at the end.  This had a little bit more fiber and was in general kind of thick, so when I had it half finished I added some sprite.  I should have used just soda water, but I didn't.....because you can't be good all the time.  (And if you are, you are missing out on some yummy stuff!)

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.

Juicing/Fasting: Day 3

Got the good husband to go to the store to stock our shelves with lots of veg.  I feel better than I did yesterday.   This is not as hard as I thought I would be, and the soup seemed to help with the feeling of warmth.  Fasting in the winter is odd.  There are fewer fresh local choices.  Two things I am noticing is that I am not quite getting enough protein and almost no Vit. D.  I am going to supplement that. 

Coffee.  (Oh, I know...I should give it up, but there are only so many things I can work on at one time.)

One Green Apple, Raw

Cabbage Soup

Ginger Beer

Green V8 type juice:
I can honestly say this didn't taste like V8.  It was however very complex.  Almost too complex.  It was also thick.  VERY thick.  I strained it 3 times, and drank it on ice.  The taste was good.  Very fresh.  I added some lemon and old bay seasoning, and a bit of salt and pepper at the end.  The only other thing is that I think I might have blended (instead of masticating) the tomatoes, and added them at the end.

3 large tomatoes
4 ribs celery
1/4 cup of cabbage
4 carrots
2 cups spinach
3 ribs of kale
1/4 of an onion
1 clove of garlic

*no actual food photographers were injured or maimed in making this snapshot.

Broke down and had some incredibly garlicky hummus on lettuce leaves for the protein tonight.  I should probably have a protein source earlier in the evening.  This is one of the reason I never made it as a vegan.

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.

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!