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To prep for my juice cleanse, which I plan to begin on Monday, I hit the grocery store today & spent 35 minutes exploring the produce section. (I will not tell a lie, typically my shopping trips involve a quick walk through the produce, grabbing some bananas, tomatoes, and the occasional yellow pepper before I move on to the aisles of pasta, bread, cheese, and… frozen pizza). Bearing that confession in mind, I had a lot of fun reading and comparing the labels on the fruits and veggies, and stocking my cart with an abundance of fresh, colorful foods.

I bought pounds of apples and oranges, carrots, cucumbers, kale (which I had never heard of until recently) and other delicious fruit and veggie options. This weekend will be for experimentation.

I’m trying to ease myself into this new diet plan, by replacing a meal (sometimes two) a day over the past week with a fresh juice. This morning I had delicious orange & apple juice, and after returning home from the store I set about my first real attempt at a super green, super healthy veggie-packed juice.

I made this concoction up (after browsing a few juice recipes), and I decided to name it The Sour Cucumber.

Here are my ingredients, all prepped and ready to juice:

green and yellow

I used:

2 kale leaves

1 organic cucumber, peeled

2 small green apples

1 lemon, peeled

1 tiny piece of ginger root (about a 1/2 inch), peeled

The prep took about 5 minutes, after peeling the lemon & cucumber and slicing up the apples. The mouth of my juicer is almost big enough for those apples, but it was easier to quarter them so they don’t get stuck.

 

The result was quite tasty! At first I thought I might have used too much lemon, but after drinking a bit more I really liked the sour taste. I’m not sure what kale tastes like on its own, but I didn’t mind it in the drink.

The Sour Cucumber

I would also like to point out that while I was prepping my juice ingredients, I threw a handful of french fries in the oven & grilled a sandwich for my future hubby. I was honestly not even tempted to cook the same for myself, although now- about an hour post juice-meal, I am definitely feeling hungry. I’m going to make a fruit juice in a little while, and will be eating dinner tonight.

This is going to be pretty hard, but the mixing-juicing-experimenting part is really fun!

 

The biggest downside is cooking and juicing simultaneously, cleaning up, and not having a dishwasher. :/



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