Day 2

Day 2, Sunday, June 12^th, 2001

Breakfast: We started our day off right with a wonderful fruit salad. I have made a point to make our fruit salads the night before to give us more variety. In the past, we ate a lot of fruit salads from fresh fruit, but I would make one big salad at the beginning of the week and we would eat it daily for breakfast which does not lend to a lot of variety. By the end of the week some weeks we would both be tired of having the same ole fruit salad.  Here is another pic. 

Snack: We were out and about visiting family and took a snack with us consisting of a shared pear, grapes, and carrots. The family members we were visiting are very supportive and offered us watermelon and bing cherries. This was the perfect amount and I was finished with my lunch. My husband wanted a bit more food, so I made a juice when we arrived home.

Juice: We wanted a small pick me up juice, so I prepared a juice consisting of: three peaches, one apple, one pear, one piece of ginger (about an inch long), one stalk of celery, and one wedge (1/4) of pineapple. The ginger made the juice slightly spicy but again it was really tasty. It was probably the best juice I had made to date. 

Dinner: We have read that many people heat their juice and serve it in bowls as soup. One must be mindful not to overheat the soup or juice as the nutrition may be cooked out.  This gave me a wonderful idea. I place several mushrooms and two cloves of garlic in a sauce pan with three skirts of extra virgin olive oil (most juicing regiments state that olive oil is okay when sparingly used) and sautéed them lightly and then I added the tomato juice I made. The goal was to make a slightly meaty soup. The tomato mixture itself would be smooth because of the juicer, but the mushrooms and garlic would provide the meaty chewy taste that we often associate with being full and satisfied. The juice itself was less than spectacular. I must admit, we should have stopped at one onion versus adding two.

Snack: We finished the night off with a cup of white tea with a tablespoon of sour wood local honey. I think we are really beginning to fall in love with our sour wood honey purchased locally. The white tea is nice and subtle and is probably helping to curve my cup a coffee a day craving. I really have not craved coffee, but I think the tea might have helped as well.

Overall: We had another good day. We were full and physically satisfied most of the day as far as food was concerned. The tomato juice/soup left a lot to be desired but again this is a learning process and growing process as well. We planned for our outing and was properly prepared (with snacks) to satiate any hunger that arrived (and to keep us from missing a meal). We are still surprised at the amount of energy we have had. I did have a brief headache this evening, I think as a result of not having coffee for two days but I think the white tea really helped.