Tantalizing Tart Juice

I just had a juice experiment turn out very yummy!
Ingredients:
Ginger root
1 medium to large jicama
2 fiji apples
1 green apple
2 large minneola tangelos
1 lemon

First I juiced the citrus with my citrus juicer, next I juiced the ginger, jicama, then apples. Threw it all in a large bowl to whisk and now I am slurping it down in my mason jars.

Zesty Coconut Thai Noodles

Today I had an amazing lunch! I made raw noodles with yellow summer sqaush and zucchini with my spiral slicer. Then I used raw coconut butter, juice from two lemons, grated fresh ginger and threw in a few shrimp. I cooked the shrimp and then poured it over my raw noodles, grabbed chopsticks and devoured it! Enjoy!

Sub This For That! Easter Edition

So tonight after a long eventful day, (well for me anyhow) I found myself sitting on the couch hearing the Easter candy calling my name from the kitchen.

So instead of giving in to temptation, I thought I would make a game of it. I now found myself with my hands on my head above my ears, sticking my tongue out while saying "nah, nah, boo, boo I WIN!" right in temptations face.

"What did I do?", you ask. Well, I sprang from the couch...haha as fast as my knee injury would let me. Which is about as fast as a nine month pregnant lady our a ninety year old lady (get the picture yet?). I got my hind-parts off the couch and checked my produce stash, the fridge, freezer and pantry. What was I looking for you might ask...well, I was looking for a yummy sweet healthier version of the Easter candy that was beckoning me OH so loudly from the kitchen.

So instead of eating starburst "fruit" candies I took two containers of organic blueberries (Thanks Rawfully Organic Co-op!), about eight large strawberries and some almond milk and threw them in my blender for a tantalizing treat.

Now, I find myself satisfied, full,happy and gloating over my low fat win.

Jenny - 2 points, Easter candy - 0. WINNING!

Orange You Glad God Made Fruit?

I am so grateful for fruit! Even Even knew a good thing when she saw it ;-).

I am battling quite a sinus infection and allergies. Houston has had an ozone warning for the last three to for days, possibly more; which makes things worse. So what did I do? I busted out my perfectly ripe citrus from Rawfully Organic Cooaperative and my citrus juicer and went to town!

Cheers to fresh vitamin C!

Adding Insult to Injury

Well, at the age of thirty I have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis...not a happy thing.  I have known my health was deteriorating for some time and that I needed to focus and lose weight, but due to my knee pain I always had a hard time sticking to any exercise regiment.  Now I have heard from my doctor, physical therapist, and orthopedic surgeon and one sweet medical secretary of the grandma type that I "must lose weight".  Do you notice the word choice there?  Not need, but rather I MUST lose weight.  


I now have been diagnosed with what I somehow already knew was there...well I knew something serious was wrong with my knee(s).  I am now having to cope with the the fact that I will no longer be able to run.  Running was always one of my favorite exercises which I have not been able to do for quite sometime.  Now I am told I need to learn to love swimming, cycling (already love it!) and yoga (love too!).  


Although, when I found out this news, I was really deflated, discouraged and almost sad.  It was almost as if all the things I had been ignoring and slightly nurturing about my health and well being all hit me at once.  What happened to the athlete in me?  I know she is still in there and dying to come out, but she has been defeated by so many things over the years.  My assignment right now is to find balance.  Physically I am supposed to find a balance with exercise as it helps OA, but if I you exercise too much it does the opposite.  So now, I am forced to listen to my body and pay attention to what it has been trying to tell me for years.  Perhaps having this diagnosis and hearing that I "must" lose weight from so many is the ultimatum I truly needed. I allowed myself to wallow for a day and then decided to move forward.  So hear is to moving forward and pressing onward!  Cheers!