Juicing

Like thousands of other people, we watched Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead and have since become juice converts. We did a juice fast for two weeks and it was amazing how it changed us. We felt great, we were never hungry, our skin glowed, we slept amazing, and woke up energized. It was a hard commitment to make, but seeing how good we felt is what kept us going.

Now going into the holidays and the cold winter days that bring on colds, I'm back to thinking of juicing and getting more veggies into our bodies. It's early today and my sweet P has waken up yet, so I'm going to jot down some juice recipes and links I found this morning.

P.s. we're here in Salt Lake for another week so I thought I'd throw together my own quick five-day plan to get us through this week (and my scant supply of kitchenware). These are very fruit-heavy at the beginning of the week, based off of a strategy from a 30-day plan from the Williams-Sonoma site. Sounds like a good way to convince a toddler of juicing.

Now: adapted plan from Williams-Sonoma
Whenever: solid recipes from Raw Foods Diet
After Thanksgiving: 15-day food-juice reboot plan from Reboot your Life


Mucus Buster
- 1/2 pineapple
- 2 plums
- 2 grapefruit

Detox
- 5 carrots
- 4 celery
- 1 small cucumber
- 1 beet
- 1 apple
- 1/2 lemon


Day 1
- 1/2 pineapple
- 1 c. strawberries
- 1 pear
- 30 mint leaves

Day 2
- 2 c blueberries
- 2 kiwi
- 16 strawberries
- 2 c mint leaves

Day 3
- 1 small orange
- 1/8 pineapple
- 2 carrots
- 1/2 lemon

Day 4
- 1/4 pineapple
- 6 kale
- 2 c. spinach
- 1/2 cucumber

Day 5
- 6 kale
- 2 c spinach
- 1/2 cucumber
- 4 celery
- 2 apple
- 1 piece ginger
- 1/2 lemon

Day 6
- 1 pear
- 1 apple
- 1 beet
- 1 carrot
- 1.5 c chard