So we have decided to try juicing

We decided to try juicing. We are going to do a 3 day fast of just juice. But first we need to eat all the junk food in the house. We know that we will not be able to stick with it, if there is temptation in the house. For starters, we did a juice for lunch today. Just to introduce it a little at a time, in case our bodies (our stomachs) get angry with being flooded with so many vitamins and fiber after a lifetime of sweet sugary and fatty goodness.

I bought a Breville Juice Fountain from Bed Bath and Beyond. It was $199.00 but I had one of those 20% off one item coupons and used it, so my total was only about $160.00. Then I headed to the grocery store to get enough fruits and veggies to get me through one or two juices. I didn't have time to come up with an entire grocery list for the fast yet.

This is what we tried the first day. Sorry I don't have pictures. I didn't think of writing about our experience until today.

I tried "Rainbow Juice". I think I got the recipe from rebootwithjoe.com
5 stalks celery
1/2 cucumber
1 tomato
1 carrot
1 pear (you could use peaches, but they are not in season right now)
1 orange

The formula actually called for 1/2 a pear (peach) and 1/2 orange. I tried the juice and said "oh, hell no!" and I added the rest of the pear and orange. Otherwise it wouldn't have been drinkable. Way too much celery!!! This tasted so bad, it took me 2 hours to get half the glass down. It tasted like bad Bloody Mary mix with too much celery. I'm not sure I will try it again. If you try it, definitely cut down the celery to about 2 or 3 pieces. Yak!

I knew that my husband, Chris, hated celery and cucumber so the Rainbow Juice wouldn't be a good first start for him. I made him a "Carrot Apple Ginger Juice." I thought it tasted really good. He didn't like it so much.

3 carrots
2 apples
1 small cube of ginger

It is good! I swear.

Now to the next day. I went grocery shopping to get us enough produce for 3 days of just juice for meals. It cost $70 (at Publix)! ahh! that was a shocker. I'll worry about how to pay for more groceries in 3 days. Hopefully, the benefits of juicing will be so great, that I won't worry about the cost. Here is a picture of what I got.

I got all the stuff listed on the grocery list from http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/RBWJ_5-Dayplan-11-05.pdf  

This is the 3 day plan found on the Reboot with Joe Website. 

Our lunch today was the Green Lemonade Juice. 

6-8 leaves of Kale

3 handfuls of spinach

1 green apple

1 cucumber

2 celery

1 lemon

I just knew this was going to be terrible! I mean KALE! yuck. "Oh Lordy Jesus not Kale!". That's how I felt. And Chris was giving the stink eye to the cucumber. So, I decided to go ahead and make another juice as a "chaser". One I found on Pinterest (that also happens to be on Reboot with Joe) that got good reviews. 

Crazy for Cranberries Juice

1 cup cranberries

2 peeled oranges

5 carrots

I made both juices, and we started drinking the Green Lemonade Juice. Hey, not so bad. Not bad at all. Chris said that 1 cucumber was the threshold of what he could handle. He apparently could taste it and could barely deal with it. The juice smelled like Kale, so I thought it was going to be awful. But, it tasted like Lemonade! Whoo Hoo!  Here is a link from another website that lists the benefits of the Green Lemonade Juice.    http://juicerecipes.com/recipes/green-lemonade-41

We also had a glass of the Crazy for Cranberries Juice to down too. So, bottoms up! I liked it. It tasted like orange juice. Both of these recipes will stay on the "Let's do it again" list for sure. And the best thing is, is that neither one of us are hungry. I thought we might be, I mean, who's stomach is going to be satisfied with just juice?