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Day 5-The 30 Day Juicing Challenge
Left over salad works!
Day 5 was a Saturday and it was almost going to be a no juicing day. On the weekends we have a lot of people in and out of the house and usually eating, so I didn’t have much of a chance to get close to the extractor or the veggies.
Dinner time came and my sister-in-law and mother were here for dinner so they helped themselves to leftovers in the refrigerator from the Valentine’s dinner we had on Friday night. I saw my sister-in-law grab my special organic veggie mixture I use for juicing to make a salad. I thought, oh well, I may have to miss a day of juicing but that’s how it is. They also heated up the stuffed shells which is a no-no on my diet of no gluten or high glycemic foods, so I grabbed a glass of water and went to my room to read.
After awhile I came back to the kitchen and they were finishing up eating dinner and I looked and saw the bowl of salad with a lot of the greens left over; plus fresh tomatoes from the garden and cucumber slices. Perfect!
I got the extractor out and put the veggies through with blueberries, celery, and an apple. Plus, I added powdered ginger. (I still haven’t bought the fresh ginger.)
Everyone wanted a taste and they all agreed it tasted pretty good. My sister-in-law made a comment that last night she noticed that i was getting my waist back. That’s a good thing! Oh yea!
I made everyone hot fudge sundaes with home-made caramel and salt ice cream for dessert (a neighbor made the ice cream) which is amazing we still had because the normal is that if there was any ice cream in the freezer I would have consumed it all in one sitting, but it was still there and since the juicing I have had no cravings for sweets and I had no sundae and didn’t even lick the spoon. That’s new to me and didn’t really see that one coming. Shocking! Shocking, that the juice fills me up so much and satisfies me.
Day 5 done. Check!
Day 2-The Juicing Challenge
Earth Origins
Today I went to Earth Origins that has a juice bar. The guy next to me was ordering a “shot” (one ounce) of wheat grass; the miracle juice drink that has supposedly a major amount of nutrients and minerals in one tiny shot. Most people slug it back like it was a shot of whiskey. I have tried and let me tell you, it tasted like stuff that grows on your lawn. In fact, I have done it twice trying to acquire a taste for it but I’d rather eat kale. If you know me well, you know my opinion of kale.
Then the guy who just drank the wheat grass tells the juicer girl with the dreadlocks that he has his 83 year-old mother drinking wheat grass and her hair is returning to its original brown color. I take a good look at the guy and he looks like he has seen a few too many insides of a bar room with deep wrinkles and stringy gray hair in a pony tail. Hmmmm
I order something off the menu that has carrots, celery, apple, spinach, and some vanilla whey protein. It cost $4.99 and it looked and tasted terrible. She may have left out the apple because there wasn’t a hint of sweetness in the drink and it was warm. I also could not taste the vanilla whey protein which I saw her put in but she might have used plain instead of vanilla. What I do know is that I sucked it down as fast as I could, all 8oz.of it. A Bloody Mary would have tasted a lot better.
Day 2 completed. Check!
D5 Creation