Juice for Two
2 kiwis
8 cups of grapes
2 Bosch pears
1/3 of a pineapple
It was really tasty, but extrememly sweet. I drank about 18oz. of it but had a bit of a hard time with the last half. I was starting to have all the physical symptoms that I had experineced the night before, and they came on fast. By the time I was done my juice, I felt pretty sick, and cranky. I went upstairs to the bathroom for an extended sit down, then moped until afternoon.
I started thinking about methods of saving juice for later so that I could make a large juice at lunchtime, and drink it as my evening meal as well. Apparently you want to pack juice in a sealed glass container, and you want to pull all the air out of it that you can. It made me think of those gadgets for pulling the air out of a wine bottle, and bang I had my solution.
We stopped at Canadian tire and grabbed a nice little wine set on sale for $10.00. It had everything I needed except the empty bottle of wine. Luckily Crystal had a solution for that, and after one more trip to the liquor store we had a big wine bottle that would be perfect. (once she emptied it for me)
We didn't end up making the mid-day juice until about 6:00pm. My stomach was extremely empty, but I was feeling very alert. This of course only made me able to fully experience the crankiness, weakness, and sick feeling with razor sharp clarity.
Mid Day Juice (also for two)
2 apples
6 kale leaves
4 cups of salad greens
8 carrots
2 pieces of ginger (thumbsize)
This juice was awesome. I had planned on putting spinach in it as well, but forgot when we were prepping the ingredients.
Crystal found a recipe on another site (Juicing Recipes For Health) that she wanted to try. It looked like it made a lot of juice, so it would be great to help make sure I got my 4 serving for the day.
V8
6 carrots
1 beet
4 tomatoes
1 bunch of spinach
1/8 cabbage
2 Swiss chard leaves (it called for kale, but we were out)
1 red pepper
1 stalk of celery
1/4 sweet onion
1/2 clove of garlic
(add chili opowder and salt)
This juice was really good. The chili powder made it taste a fair bit like a Caesar. I drank a huge 32oz cup of it, and enjoyed the whole thing. I'm not sure if having a double dose of juice at once was the best idea though. I ended up running to the bathroom every few minutes, and had a headache by the end of the night, but these symptoms seem to be getting less severe, and last for a little while after the juice, but then go away and I feel good. We're definitely going to make another batch of the V8 tomorrow.
I found today that my sense of smell (especially when it came to food) seemed enhanced. It's probably just my brain trying to snuffle out actual food, but every restaurant we drove by smelled awesome to me. Today I had cravings for meat (steak, and pepperoni mostly) in the early part of the day, then back to salty carbs later in the day. every bit of food I saw on TV looked SO yummy.
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