Day 22

It's Day 22 and I've already had my first juice.  It was a delicious Spinach Strawberry concoction that I absolutely love.  Here's the recipe, if you'd like to taste it for yourself.

Strawberry Spinach Juice
10-12 strawberries
3/4 in. ginger root
1 small cucumber
3 handfuls of spinach (approx. 4 cups)
3 apples
1/2 lemon

I then went grocery shopping, since I was down to only 1/4 head of cabbage, 1 red pepper, and a few collard green leaves.  Ouch.  I couldn't really make anything tasty (at least to me) with that.

I typically go to QFC, because it's the closest to my house and it's also on a bus line, if my haul becomes too heavy to carry home.  That usually happens, and it did again today!

I ended up buying:

• 2 black plums
• 2 pears
• 2 bunches of organic kale
• 1 bunch of organic collards
• 1 lime
• some ginger
• 1 bunch of celery
• 4 cucumbers
• 13 apples (two bags, which was probably closer to 20)
• 1 box of strawberries
• 4 oranges
• 1 green pepper
• 1 cantaloupe
• 3 beets
• 2 peaches (they're out of season, but I wanted to try a new juice)
• 1 bunch of green seedless grapes
• 2 grapefruit (Anyone who know me knows that this is pretty big for me.  I don't tend to like this fruit at all.)
• Dill
• 1 bag of carrots
• 2 heads of broccoli
• 2 bunches of spinach
• 1 red yam
• 1 whole pineapple (QFC didn't have the cored pineapples available)
• 3 lemon
• 1 mango (mangoes were on sale for $1 each, so check them out!) 

 My grand total came to a whopping $75.77. OUCH!!! That's probably the most I've spent so far.  And it will only last me 7-8 days.  Ugh.

In a few minutes I'm going to head over to the kitchen and whip up a batch of Pear, Kale, and Lemon juice.  Here's the recipe for you to try out. 

Pear, Kale & Lime Juice
1 bunch kale (any kind is fine)
1 pear
1/2 lime
2 inches ginger root


Personally, I didn't much care for this juice.  Out of all the citrus out there, limes are my least favorite.  I might try this again with a lemon and see how it tastes.  It's also very gingery. If you like ginger, you'll most likely like this juice.

After juicing I went to meeting at a French pastry shop!  Holy crap, did it smell good in there.  It has been a while since I was really tempted by smelling something delicious, but I could have definitely gone for a croissant.  Yummy!

Instead, I had my juice.  Yay me! (*sarcasm)

For dinner, I ended up making myself a Grape Heart Juice.  Again, this had ingredients I wouldn't normally choose, but I thought I should experiment a little. 

Grape Heart
2 cups red grapes (I substituted green for red)
1 grapefruit, cut into quarters and peeled
1 tsp powered dried linden flowers (I have no idea what these are so I omitted them)

For someone who doesn't care for the taste of grapefruit, I was surprised at how much I liked this juice. It was sweet with just a bit of tart in there.  Very nice.  I would suggest chilling this for a bit before serving, because I like the colder version more than the room temperature one.

Overall, today's juices were pretty good.  They were very refreshing, which was nice!

I had loads of energy on my walk from Wallingford to the U District, and I think the juice is a big factor in that.

Tomorrow I won't have as many fruity drinks.  I like to balance fruits with veggies so I can get as many nutrients as possible, while keeping my sugar intake down.

I hope tomorrow's choices will be even yummier than today's!