Poop from elk and poop from cows Live together in peace - I don't know hows!
Side-by-side underneath the pine trees, oh geez! Why can't we?
[Ebony and Ivory]
I started with poop, McCartney and Jackson, because if I told you I was going to talk about our green juice fast...well, how fast can a surfer click? Move your cursor away from the hyperlink. It's going to be fun. You'll love it. It might even get back to poop, who knows?
I blame Tessa, Evelyn, and Lynne. The gurus of good eating. The trio of try it! you'll like it! The Vegan Vagabonds. They linked to Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, and who can resist a good love story? By the way, that link takes you to Hulu where you can watch for free.
We're easily the most suggestible people living in a pine forest, so we made a plan to do it. Here we are, doing it. A vegetable/fruit juice "reboot."
We've been at it about 24 hours now, so here's our accumulated wisdom. Think of it as Alexandria before the fire:
- a little beet goes a long way
- cherry tomatoes are the garden's Houdini
- broccoli is more easy-going than you'd expect
The movie predicted that a conventional juice diet (that is, made from conventionally-grown produce) would cost ~$14/person/day, and organically-grown, double that. That seems high, but reboots don't come cheap.
Our first batch of produce = $53, a mixture of organic and conventional. It looks like we'll come in way under the projected cost for this purchase, since we'll still be working on this produce tomorrow, but it also turns out we can't drink as much juice as those guys did, either.
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| Half the smoothie |
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| The other half |
I'm not doing a daily progress report, because that implies I will talk about juice every day for ten days. It can't happen. There won't be enough waking hours to blog.
We were talking about this project with my cousin, Lori, and I reminisced about how we did juice fasts when I lived with her.
... you lived with us??
Yeah! For three months! You don't remember?
... you lived with us??
Right! It was 1979. You were vegetarian then.
... you lived with us??
Definitely! Jen was three, and Jon was a baby.
I remember I cleaned the whole apartment, and then a roach strolled out of the closet.
No, that was me.
And then she lent us her juicer.
This is all mostly an experiment, with the guidelines being 80% vegetables (mostly leafy)/20% fruits. After the initial juice batch (we call it the "beet batch"), we got comments:
- "not horrible!"
- "I don't want to vomit!"
What we've read indicates it gets even better than that, and so it did.
