Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Juicing update

I tried juicing.  I am not sure it is for me.  I will try again next week.  I have taken a break.  Because I ran into a few problems.

I was juicing regularly.  I liked it.  I missed eating.  But I liked it.  I found some juices I liked.  It is not easy -- emotionally or all the clean-up required.

But the real problem came one day as I sat in my office and realized something wasn't right in my mouth.  Over the course of the day it got worse.  I finally realized I had ulcers all over the roof of my mouth.  So since it was a slow day at work I spent some time on the internet and attempted to diagnose the problem.  The end decision was that apparently too much pineapple can cause ulcers in some people. Apparently I am one of those people. 

So I had to take a break.  Every single one of my recipes involved pineapple.  It adds a little sweet.  So I took a break from juicing and waited for my mouth to heal.  It actually healed quickly.  Within about 5 days the ulcers were all gone.  And then I made a juice with pineapple -- just to test my self diagnosis.  Just one juice with just a little pineapple and the ulcers were back in an instant. 

I decided I could continue.  I would drop the pineapple but I would add some sweet with banana.  You can't actually juice a banana.  So after juicing the rest of the fruits and veggies I throw the juice into a blender with a banana and blend.

And then my blender broke.

So I am taking another juicing break.  My real blender (the one I was using was a little cheapy thing I bought about a year ago) is arriving on Saturday.  It has been in storage for about 2.5 years.  But now that I am settled my mom is bringing it all over to me. No need to buy a new one when my old one is on the way.

Monday I will try again.

Mean Mama

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