Day 1!!

So my husband (Ben) and I have spoken for awhile about doing a juice fast but just hadn't felt, before now, that the time was right. Well with us both enjoying the long holiday weekend we figured this would be the best time! We are doing a mix between Reboot with Joe and Juice Lovin Cleanse by The Belly Fit Club.

We started off our morning with hebal tea-I did peppermint and Ben did black cherry. We followed this up with (about 30min-an hour later) The Belly Fit Club's Master Cleanse Lemonade.

For breakfast Ben enjoyed carrot, apple, pineapple and ginger juice and I did Apples,Beets, sweet potato, lemon, cucumber, celery juice...it really is yummy!!

We had alot to do, including running to the farmers market for more supplies. The day unfortunately got away from us and we did chores around the house. Lunch time was upon us and we had enough supplies to make mean green juice for lunch. We had some more herbal tea as snacks and drank alot of water.

Well after we made the customary drop off of Cordelia to her Papa we made it to the farmers market...but by this time our will power was zero! So as soon as our cleanse started it was over sushi and donuts ensued!

These were bitter sweet.

Even though we didn't complete a 3 day "reboot"/"cleanse" we came away with some valuable information.  

• Prepare, prepare, prepare! We will definitely be making the trip to the farmers market before hand and even making up some juice ahead of time so we can sip on it throughout the day.
•  Don't do it over a holiday weekend. We were invited out for Easter dinner and the lure of ham, baked potatoes and dessert was too much for us to resist.

We haven't picked a future date just yet, but when we do I'll let you know how we get on!

Going Green-2013 Theme

So it has recently come to my attention that "Green" is really the theme for me in 2013.

• Eating green...enjoying green smoothies and juices 

• Looking after my green (money) with Dave Ramsey's financial peace university

• Greening the grid...through Viridian an affordable green energy supplier 

At the end of last year I watched the movie fat, sick and nearly dead.  I loved Joe Cross' humor and how down to earth he came across in the movie and really took to heart his message of food is our medicine. This started my journey into juicing which quickly turned into a love for plantpower (aka plant based nutrition) and all things natural and healthy.

Somehow this really got me thinking about the things that I am passionate about (outside of my religion and family) and I had to chuckle because they all had one thing in common....GREEN!

So here I am to share my passions with you!

Most recently I had the pleasure of volunteering alongside my fellow Independent Viridian associates at Pennington Park.

This was an eye opening experience to see how modern life is having an impact on our local ecosystem. We were informed that birds in the area are now starting to make there nests from bits of plastic as there is so much of it in there habitats. It was great to be able to do what we could in our time there but there was still so much more to be done.  With other local volunteers we were able to collect 2.5 tons (5,020 lbs) of litter and debris from along the shoreline of the Rancocas Creek. This included 17 tires, 22 barrels, and various bottles, cans and Styrofoam packaging. Here are a few photo's from my day.

This is what we were finding in the creek bed.

The dumpster! Yes, the barrels were pulled from the creek too!

One of the many hauls to that were taken to the dumpster

Trash bags filled with plastic bottles, food packaging and misc debris

Did I mention it started snowing when we were cleaning up!