Over Christmas a friend was extolling a 10-day green smoothie diet he tried that made him feel so much better and lose a few pounds. He got the idea from watching the documentary
"Fat Sick and Nearly Dead", and since that had been sitting around on our Netflix Instant Queue for some time, we watched it. My parents coincidentally had a juicer sitting on their counter, but they wouldn't let me take it home to try for awhile. ha Like my friend, I feel like juicing is a little wasteful with all the pulp left over, but blending everything seemed like something I could try without having to get a new piece of equipment just to test it out.
Since I got back from the holidays and stepped on the scale to see a whopping 170 come up, I
thinkknow I need to do something. One of my three pairs of jeans I regularly wear no longer fits. And though this diet was touted more for its energy improvement effects, I need that AND to lose some weight.
So I hem-hawed around, making sure I had everything I needed.

That's a freezer shelf full of frozen organic spinach I already had from the CSA.
Then I decided I would try one before I committed to a full 10 days of these. My first had a lot of fruit (and I used milk) so it might be easy to drink.


It WAS pretty good.
Now to pull out the big guns...the Ronco built-in blender/mixer/whatever dealy...to blend up carrots, spinach, tomatoes, kohlrabi, with just water. It worked wonderfully and my smoothie (enough for breakfast and lunch) was in the frig.

Here goes...


Well, that didn't last long. I came home starving and insisting on pizza and TWO Cokes instead of the broiled chicken on the menu. My inner child is a brat!