Juice Day 3: Lunch

A really late lunch today.  I was just getting to that point where you start to shake, and you are just beyond hungry and about to go crazy.   Almost!  I felt it coming on but was able to just get my juice made and I was good to go.

For our late lunch we had a wonderful mixture of:

• Spinach - probably 3 handfuls
• Green cabbage - about 1/5 to 1/6th of a head of cabbage
• 1/2 lemon
• 2 large carrots
• 2 apples - 1 fuji, 1 red delicious

 I will post about our latest purchase, but it made quite the difference and I loved lunch!
Also, I am finding that it's best to keep it simple with the flavors!  Too many and it tastes a little crazy!

Have a wonderful day!
~Keizie

Juice Day 2: Hit and Miss

Breakfast was a mixture of juices, and unfortunately I didn't write down what went into it.  I made 2 last night, we were going to split them.  One was quite good [watermelon and peach were the fruits, with veggies and lots of spinach], the other was terrible, lots of kale which I think  may turn bitter over time, and just 2 small apples.  I made them last night because we were heading out at 7 this morning and I didn't want to get up at 5 to make juice.

For late lunch I just put together the following:

• Water
• 2 chunks of cauliflower
• Approx 1 cup of carrots [baby or diced]
• 1/4 of a personal size watermelon [hate to pay for those but that's all they had at 2 stores]
• 2 [rather small] green apples
• 2 stalks of celery
• Lots of spinach [approx 4 handfuls]
• Juice of half a lime

I enjoyed it but either it had too much lime or I should have left the lime out altogether.  I made the juice and squeezed the half lime directly into it after.  I think I like it better blended in.  I really enjoyed it, Eugene not so much.  He can't seem to say what he didn't like about it, but I think it was a bit on the bland side.

Juice Fast: Day 1

Last night we went to one of our favorite spots for dinner.  It's a fabulous fusion of Asian and Mexican food.  Delicious!  Then we stopped by the grocery store on the way home to stock up on juice supplies.

This morning we began with juice! For breakfast I didn't focus so much on any one recipe, and it was pretty good.  Very drinkable.  Here is what went into the Vitamix:

• Some water
• Red beets
• Carrots (roughly 1 cup)
• 1/3 of a large English cucumber
• Lots of organic baby kale
• Large handful of spinach
• 1 green apple
•  Juice of half a lime
• 1 stalk of celery

For lunch I tried a variation of the Mean Green by Joe juice:

•  Some water [this is essential with the VitaMix]
• Most of one whole cucumber
• about in inch of ginger
• 2 apples
• half a lime [this time I put in the peeled lime rather than just the juice]
• Massive amounts of baby kale.

This juice was more bitter than breakfast, and the spiciness of the ginger really came through.  However, I don't think I used enough apples and there was WAY too much kale for my liking.

My biggest challenge today was that I took a nap, so I had breakfast at 8 and didn't have lunch until 3, at which time I was REALLY hungry.  I made another half juice to try and get rid of some of the hunger.  This was primarily red beets, apples, some spinach, and half a lime.

Dinner's juice was not fit for sharing, but we drank it anyway!

They recommend 4-6 16-22 oz juices per day.  It is now 10 at night and we have just finished our "dessert" which was our 5th juice.  Feeling really good actually.  Eugene [my husband] has a bit of a headache, probably from the lack of caffeine today.  I don't drink caffeinated drinks so I am hoping I won't be affected by that.  

Until tomorrow!

Kiezie