Ahhh, holiday eating.....

I hope that everyone was able to enjoy their Christmas and have time with family and friends.  I was able to spend some quality time with almost everyone in my family (Hey K & K - it's only a three day drive if you spend 12 hour days in the car and have good weather...just ask my kids LOL) 

As far as eating, it's the holidays, and there has been an abundance of cookies, pie, candy, more pie along with delicious meals.  And I took my time, savored and enjoyed every bite. No guilt, no "I shouldn't" and no regrets, just enjoyed the sharing of good food with others.  

This week I begin scaling back (and not replacing the desserts that are being finished off) and getting back into enjoying the foods my body finds so much more beneficial.  Not a punishing diet, not a vow to never eat that way again, just a nice shift to increasing the good fruits and veggies that I enjoy eating anyway.

To help get back on the nutrition trail, Marie and I tried another combination of juicing ingredients today. Didn't think to take photos during the process, but thought I'd report on the results.  This time we used:

2 Fuji apples
2 delicious tangerines home grown by a family friend
1/2 a lemon
1/2 a lime
1 cucumber
2 kale leaves
2 celery stalks
handful of parsley
1/2 inch of ginger root

And the official rating:

Delicious!   

It was really refreshing and we drank it up.

Have a fabulous New Year's everyone!!

Juicing? Nah, too much work. Oh, wait, that's me trying it now....

So, I've always said juicing was too much work and not very practical and didn't think it was something I would ever do.  I have my blender to make my yummy smoothies and protein shakes.  

Then I got my NutriBullet, and it's also great for making my smoothies and protein shakes, and it's EASIER than using my blender if I'm only making a single serving.  Can be used kinda like a juicer and I've been using it for a while.  
Many moons ago when I started this blog, I wrote about watching the movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (which I still highly recommend).  Really love the movie for its inspirational message about how we can turn our lives around at any point for the better.  Recently Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2 was released, and while I didn't find it quite as inspirational as the first movie, it is a great commentary on how juicing has helped so many make changes in their lives after seeing the first movie - and it also shows that juicing alone is not the answer for everyone and addresses individual challenges.

My daughter and I have both been making an effort to find fun ways to add nutrition to our daily life, and we agreed we would finally give juicing a try. Found a very reasonably priced juicer on sale at Target ($50 Woohoo!), watched some YouTube videos showing how easy it can be, and we started our experimenting.  (So easier than I thought, but still more work than I want to do on most days.)

Thought it would be fun to post some of our creations here on the blog, and have come up with a unique rating system of how successful we were in creating something we could actually drink and enjoy:

Delicious!

OK

Hmm - not sure if I like it

Not my favorite

Vitameatavegamin

So, now that the ratings are established, here's the juice we made the other night:

Ingredients:  Apple, Carrot, Kiwi, Beet, Ginger, 

Cucumber, Parsley, Celery, Spinach and Kale

After destroying all of the ingredients

The final result

And the official rating:

Not sure if I like it - a little too "healthy" tasting but I'll drink it.  

Have a great day everyone, and we'll keep you updated with our future adventures.