Day 14 of my juice fast and I've got 86 days to go. Whoa! Time to look a little closer at my motivations for doing this. If you're reading this, you might be saying to yourself, "this is crazy", and "I could never do that". That's what I said.
I'm going to admit here, this is not an easy diet to administer. I mean this in terms of buying produce, cleaning it, storing it, cutting it, juicing it, and cleaning up afterwards.
Today, I tried a new way of preparing my gallon of juices for the entire day. I started with 4 brand new, clean 32 oz. jars with lids, the canning type. I pulled out all the veggies and fruits I'd bought yesterday and started the process of washing them, peeling, cutting, and separating through all the leaves, stems, stickers, etc. I went through a series of chuckles and curses over the fact that each and every apple, lemon, pear, etc. has an inspection sticker on it. Comforting to some people maybe, but a nuisance when you're juicing pounds of the stuff at one time.
Then, I prepared my first juice of the day, which is more greens than other colors, more savory than sweet, but still easy to go down. Celery, parsley, cucumber, apple, lemon.
Two bunches of carrots, with some lemon, apple, cabbage, and coconut water for another jar. Later.
Five beets with greens, spinach, and peaches, along with coconut water added for another jar.
Lemonade with peaches in yet another jar, with some acorn squash added for the last jar.
I have lots of fresh tomatoes from my garden so I'll make some tomato juice later with some celery and parsley also.
This is my daily juice. One gallon, broken up into 32 oz. jars, and into 32 oz. of juice in those jars. Whew!
I'm truly grateful for Jamba Juice and The Daily Juice for the quick stops along the way. Jamba Juice has started offering 3 veggie/fruit juice smoothies that really accommodate this diet when running errands in the heat of the Texas sun.
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