Switching Gears... The adventure begins.

So, I have been super busy with school and kids and life and this blog has been neglected.  Truth is there wasn't much to tell.  I still fast about once a week, I have maintained my weight in the 112-114 range, and I am pretty comfortable with it.  Of course losing 5 lbs. would be great, but I am not sweating over it.

So I am about to switch gears a bit with the blog.  Two of my friends and I have decided to do a 10 day juice fast and I start Monday.  I am gearing up for it.  Yesterday I bought copious amounts of fruits and vegetables, and this morning I pulled out the juicer for its maiden voyage.  Tomorrow I go caffeine free.

I have some goals for this 10 days which I will talk about in another post.  For now, I just want to talk about making my first glass of juice.  I plan to post the ingredients, the yield, and a taste rating for each juice recipe I make.

So here is how the first juicing experience went down...

Today's recipe: "GREEN GLORY"

1 smallish Granny Smith apple
1 medium Macintosh apple (minus the small chunk I gave Nater)
1 cucumber
1 rib celery
1 small bunch of spinach
1 lemon (rind removed)

YIELD: 16 oz

Right to the top!

TASTE: 7 out of 10

NOTES: 

This first juice was not bad tasting.  I thought the cucumber was a bit strong, so I would probably cut it back to 1/2 next time.  The cucumber yielded the most juice of all.  Probably 4-6 of the total ounces.

Be careful juicing around your two year old.  Nathan was traumatized that the juicer ate the rest of his apple.  Traumatized!

I stored my juice in 8 oz. jam jars. You want to leave as little air as possible because air oxidizes (destroys) the nutrients in the juice. You also want to drink your juice as soon as possible and definitely within 24 hours.

8 oz. Jam Jars

The worst part of juicing is the clean up but it wasn't too bad, and we will compost the pulp for our garden.

The aftermath