Fruit Smoothies and Eclipse

So my juicer came. Much earlier than expected. I have mixed feelings about it. I did a little research and found out that the top rated juicer is a Breville model that costs around $400.  I wasn’t ready to make that kind of commitment just yet, so I went with the Hamilton Beach that was supposed to be comparable in juicing capabilities and easy clean up and was only $80. But Sears had it on sale for $60. WooHoo! It does seem to work well and clean up was pretty easy but it just seemed like we were throwing away a lot of vitamins in the pulp. I tried a banana in it and got about 2 drops of juice and the rest was the stuff you’re supposed to throw away. I’ve come up with a fix. We were using my Magic Bullet, which I love and use for a lot of stuff including baby food, but the work on the Bullet seemed to be overtaxing its motor. So I decided I’m going to juice the greens then take the stuff you’re supposed to throw away and put it in the Bullet and add it to my juice. It’s thicker that way, more like a smoothie than juice but you don’t throw away all those vitamins. We’ve been drinking a lot of these fruit and veggie smoothies so we’ll see tomorrow what the scale thinks of all this. Either way I know my body likes it. My carpet needed cleaning pretty bad. It was starting to look disgusting. So my Saturday project was clean the carpet. I did! ALL DAY! I started at 11:30 worked through till 230 when I ran out of rug shampoo so I did a Home Depot run. I drank a smoothie and back to work at 4:30. I think I finished at around 8. Whew, that was a lot of work. The good news is…my rose carpet is back to being rose, not some muddy color and I feel ok. Yeah, I was tired last night and my feet hurt when I got up this morning. But I expected to feel sore and kind of wiped out today but I didn’t. I did decide to do the other room next week (we don’t want to push it here, remember I am 55, well for 1 more day anyway) but I felt good enough to run errands all day. I got a lot done and I’m feeling pretty good. Yup this veggie thing is going to work out just fine. I’ll let you know how the combo juicing and Magic Bulleting thing goes.

BTW we modified that trail mix recipe. Seems the dates make the nuts get a little soft and I like my nuts crunchy. So we bought dates but didn’t but them in the mix.

BTW 2 Did you see that awesome eclipse? Some guy was out in front of Target selling eclipse glasses so I bought 2. It was very cool!

Saturday – Exercise – 6 and a half hours shampooing the carpet!

• Breakfast – ½ a glass of smoothie and 1 cup of iced oolong tea.
• AM Snack – too busy shampooing
• Lunch – full glass fruit and veggie smoothie.
• PM Snack –trail mix
• Dinner –rice and veggies and a bowl of vegan ice cream.

Sunday – Exercise – Running errands all over town

• Breakfast – ½ a glass of smoothie and 1 cup of iced oolong tea.
• AM Snack – too busy running errands
• Lunch – leftover spaghetti.
• PM Snack –trail mix
• Dinner –1/2 a TJ’s vegan pizza.