The stuff nightmares are made of

We tried a new juice today for dinner. We were both scared. These ingredients are the stuff out of a kid's nightmare for dinner. Purple Cabbage, Beets, Carrots! I got the recipe from the rebootwithjoe website. They call it the BBQ Blow Out! I'm not really sure why.

The ingredients are scary, but this juice tasted surprisingly good!

I asked Pig to help me check out some of the ingredients. 

sniff sniff....First we looked at the purple cabbage. 

Then we checked out the beet. 

Seems okay. But, she wanted a little taste. 

mmmm! Beet Greens!

This made about 40 ounces of juice, enough for both of us to have a big glass. 

1/2 a purple cabbage

1 beet 

3 apples

3 carrots

1 lemon

It is a really pretty dark purple color. We will be having this again. 

No. Just No.

What's good? 

Kale

Apple 

Pear 

What's not good?

Bok Choy

Apple 

Pear

Yak! I made the bok choy, pear, apple for lunch. I had to use the citrus reamer to juice a giant lemon into it just to make it drinkable. Blah! Never again.

3 Day Juice Fast Starts........NOW!

After our 27 day juice fast a few weeks ago, Chris and I started drinking juice twice a day and then having a healthy meal. Except once a week, usually Saturday, we had an "eat what ever you want" day. We had a few "eat what ever you want today and tomorrow" a few times. Even on those "bad days" we still had at least one juice. Then the ice storm hit us and we went without power for 27 hours. Without power, we had no way to use the juicer. We couldn't use the stove or oven either, but we do have a wood burning stove so Chris cooked us up a few things on there. By the time the roads were safe, we were freezing (despite the stove) and we were HUNGRY! We really wanted some hot food, so we went to have a big meal at a Mexican restaurant. Now, here we are a few days later, and we want to get back on track. Even though we have gone back to 2 juices and a dinner, the dinners haven't been super healthy, and we are feeling it. We really miss our vegetables and the way they make us feel refreshed and healthy. 

So we are doing a 3 Day Reboot 

and then going back to our 2 juices and a HEALTHY dinner. 

One of the juices I actually look forward to having, even though it has a beet in it,  is one we had yesterday for breakfast. I found it on this girl's website. www.andherlittledogtoo.com

Beet Juice

1 beet

3 carrots

1 lemon

1 lime

a hunk of ginger

2 apples (supposed to be 3, but we were out so I added...)

1 pear

Both Chris and I liked this one. It was kind of odd and spicy. 

I said "it's weird" and Chris said "but I don't hate it."  

Pineapple Beet Juice

I decided to try a new juice this morning. 

Seemed like it would taste good, and I had a pineapple on hand. 

The recipe called for a cup of pineapple chunks, but I decided to use the whole thing so I would have enough for two people. It also called for a cucumber and a beet. I thought the pineapple would work like a lemon in contrast to the beet, since I don't like the beet taste.

After I got it all juiced, I took a sip. NOPE! I didn't like it at all, and I thought Chris would hate it too. He doesn't like cucumber, and pineapple is one of his least favorite juices. The taste was very cucumbery and bitter from the beet. So, I added a lemon.

I had already cleaned the juicer, so I used an the old fashioned kind to squeeze in the lemon.

It tasted much better. After the lemon, I kind of liked it. Chris thought it was too sweet from the pineapple. Noodles thought it was pretty.

Awesome; Terrible, and Meh..

Three new juices for us this week. The first one was really good. Very refreshing and nice.

2 Sweet Potatoes

3 Oranges

4 or 5 carrots

hunk of Ginger

It makes two glasses of yummy. Do it! It is good.

Terrible: Any juice involving a melon is like licking Satan's butt-hole.

We have officially sworn off any and all recipes involving melons of any type. 

Here is one we tried, it was like drinking bile. 

1 Cantaloupe

5 or 6 Carrots

I thought that this would be bad, so I added a lemon. 

It was still bad.

Yak!

This next one is called "The Immune Booster!"

I didn't think it was bad. It was very "carroty" tasting. 

Chris thought it was "meh..."

3 Carrots

3 Apples

1/2 Lemon

Hunk of Ginger

Looks bright and cheery! 

Sweet Potatoes: Beta-carotene = 

Vitamin A= healthy skin, mucus membranes, immune system, and good eye health and vision.

Carrots: among other things: Potassium=

helps maintain healthy sodium levels in the body, thereby helping to reduce elevated blood pressure levels.

Oranges: rich in Citrus Limonoids= 

proven to help fight a variety of cancers including that of the skin, lung, breast, stomach and colon.

Lemon Juice: raises Citrate Levels in the urine=prevents kidney stones.

Ginger: an excellent Carminative=eliminating gastrointestinal stress

Cantaloupe: Vitamin C=

protects your cells from oxidative damage -damage to your DNA, proteins and cell membranes as a side effect of your metabolism.

Apples: Alkalinity in apples assists in cleansing the destructive toxins/waste by-products from the liver.

The previous list was compiled after I Googled "why is X good for you" 

and listed some of the answers here for you.

Some Experiments

We had snow days last week and we were not able to get to the grocery store. Therefore, I had to do some experiments to see what would be good using just the fruits and veggies we had on hand. My main concern was breakfast juices. We did the "Joe's Mean Green" for lunch just about everyday. 

I had to use up these beets we had, but I didn't have any carrots!  

So we did a beet, lemon, and orange juice. It was good, but didn't make a lot. 

But, it was a really pretty color. 

I still had some beets left, but now I was out of oranges too! But, I did have some clementines. 

Beets

Clementines

Lemon

(and Grapefruit for Chris)

This ended up being one of Chris's favorite.

It turned out a pretty color too.

Pig didn't care.

Neither did Peepers.  

When I did make it to the grocery store, I got 2 containers of strawberries. I wanted to use them before they went bad. So I looked up some recipes  and found one for Strawberry Limeade. But, it didn't seem healthy enough, so I added some other ingredients. 

Strawberry Limeade. 

Strawberries

Green Apples

Lime

Carrots

Kale

It looks real pretty before you stir it. 

Looks like butt juice after you stir it. 

I thought it was good. Chris said it "tastes like meat". 

Here is a picture of Noodles.