Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana? Wait…I did…

Did you see my giveaway? I can’t believe I’m parting with 5 jars of TJ’s pumpkin butter.

ANYWAY.

It was so hard to wake up this morning.  I desperately need to get to bed before 10:30!  To add injury to insult Boot Camp sucked a big one this morning.  The class was too full and the teacher (who’s normally AWESOME) kinda sucked today :(.  Oh well, I did it!

When I got home, I had this:

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2 carrots, 1/2 of an apple, 4 leaves of kale, and a meyer lemon. It was tasty.

I promise I won’t post pictures of my juice every day but it’s just so FUN and novel right now.

Plus, I’ve been reading up on juicing and wanted to share the guidelines I’m following with you.  Since I’m trying to lose weight, I want to be smart about this and I think these will help.

1. Only drink 8 ounces of juice a day.

2. Only mix in 1/2 apple or lemon juice with my veggies.

3. Eat all my other fruits.

4. Only juice one root vegetable a day (they are more caloric).

5. Juice something green everyday.

6. Try to be as varied as possible (this one is hard since there are only so many veggies that will fit in my fridge!)

7. Only juice with organic produce and wash it well.

Today’s was so pretty in an unconventional way:

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I followed that up with another latte from Starbucks.  I WILL NOT be getting a latte tomorrow.  My goal is to get enough sleep tonight that I don’t need caffeine.  Good thing Wednesday is my “sleep in” day. 

Starbuck tip! I’ve been using my insulated cup that I showed you yesterday. And no matter what size you order, they fill it to the top!  Yesterday I ordered a grande and it was full.  Today I ordered a tall and it was full-it’s a 16 ounce cup! I just need to remember that I got 16 ounces of a latte and not 12 ounces.

Last Night

Last night I made “burritos” for dinner.  When I made the meat for the lasagna on Sunday night, I browned double the amount and then saved it for last nights tacos.  When I got home, I reheated it in a pan and added taco spices.  In addition to the meat, I heated up a can of refried beans, grated some cheese (for Lu and Shaun), cut up veggies, had salsa, yogurt (for me), and sour cream (for Shaun), some Casa Sanchez (a local company) organic corn chips and OF COURSE Tapatio!  All three of us had a very different but delicious dinner.

Mine:

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Lu’s-she ate almost all of this and a half a cucumber:

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(love that plate-thanks Jocelyn!) She used her chips as a spoon-it was so cute.

And, Shaun’s:

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(his is the ugliest!)

It was delish!

I finished off the night with my newest obsession.  I’ve heard about this a million times but have never tried it.  I was reading Gena’s blog and she actually had pictures that convinced me to give it a whirl (ah the power of pictures!). All you do is freeze a ripe banana and then throw it in the food processor for about 5 minutes.

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At first it makes my Cuisinart almost jump off the counter and it’s LOUD but it is SO worth it.  Thank goodness for a baby that sleeps well!  It tastes better than any soy ice cream I have ever tried and it’s only banana. No sugar, no artificial stuff-just banana!

Gena recommends topping it with a chocolate sauce made of 1 part cocoa powder to 2 parts agave.  I tried that the first night and found that I much preferred the plain banana.

I wonder how long until I burn out on this one? Any guesses?

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