Happy Easter 2011!

Photo was screen shot from PETA'S Easter E-Card

Happy Earth Day, 2011!

HAPPY EARTH DAY MY FELLOW READERS/BLOGGERS!!!

This wonderful holiday makes me feel chipper, even if it is raining all day. Last year on Earth day, I posted a blog about how I celebrated Earth day that year. I also made a pretty spiffy list about how I am helping to save our earth, and I am proud to say that list still stands this year, plus a little more!

In honor of Earth day this year, I decided to adopt an animal, or two. I received a wonderful email from Defenders of Wildlife talking about how the BP oil spill is still effecting our wildlife. The one year mark of the BP oil spill was last Wednesday, and organizations are still fighting to save sea turtles, dolphins and other wildlife impacted by this tragedy.

Because of this heartbreaking email, I decided to donate my money to help saving sea turtles and elephants. If you can even donate $10, please consider donating to help our wildlife! Every penny can help, it all adds up!

Have a wonderful and GREEN Earth Day everyone!

Make Juice...Green Juice that is!

As I mentioned in my last blog update, I've been making a lot of green juice lately since reading Kris Carr's new book Crazy Sexy Diet. I usually make juice 3 times a week, but Kris suggests everyday! I'm slowly trying to make juicing part of my daily ritual.


All of the veggies I used one day. One large cucumber (peeled because it wasn't organic), one green apple for a little sweetness, a few carrots, a few leaves of kale and collard greens. Usually I will add some broccoli stems but I ran out that day!
A quote from Kris' book: "Juicing helps to slow and even reverse the aging process. It reduces inflammation, cleanses the body, regulates the bowels, and can even help peel off extra pounds."


Chopped and ready for juicing!
The difference between green juices and green smoothies is during the juicing process, you are removing the plant fiber. That's it! So when you make a smoothie, you can add a few veggies, drink up and are pretty much full. With juicing, you can add one large cucumber, a bunch of kale, an apple, one full broccoli stem, 3 carrots, and a handful of sprouts and drink it all in one sitting! You are instantly giving your body all those vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.


Sammy and Meesha are my little veggie dogs. They LOVE when I juice because that means they get to munch on some carrots and kale stems!
Kris mentions cucumbers are a great base for juicing and I totally agree. Cucumbers are already 95% water so you're getting a lot out of one large cucumber. They are loaded with vitamin C and they don't have a strong taste which is perfect if you're not used to juicing. Honestly, the first time I tried green juice I almost gagged. My philosophy was add a bunch of veggies all together and it'll be awesome. SO WRONG! Taste is everything, if you're green juice tastes like shit you're obviously not going to want to drink it. I'd start with 3 veggies then work my way up.


The final product. I like to put the juice in a manly beer mug to give it a kick.
My personal advice is to start with adding 2 green apples instead of one when beginning. I'm so used to processed juices I buy at the grocery store that drinking plain vegetables was very hard for me at first. Adding more apples means more sweetness. Eventually your taste buds will start to get used to drinking natural juices and you wont have to add so much fruit.


Me and my yummy juice!
In conclusion, if you have a juicer, try juicing today! P.S - If you do try to juice, drink it all in one day. It's not from concentrate people, it won't last forever! I usually drink mine all at once but if I make more I save it for later. YAY JUICING!

Hello 2011...

Hello my fellow bloggers. It has been a good few months since I felt like blogging. LAME I KNOW. So much was going on and now that things have somewhat calmed down, I decided it's time to blog a little.

Back in January, I had the awesome opportunity to meet Kris Carr. She is the wonderful author of her newest book Crazy Sexy Diet! I LOVE this book! I haven't finished it just yet, but so far soooo good! She makes reading stuff about nutrition fun and exciting. I love how she words everything, especially when she called our kidneys cute. But anyway, she was on a book tour then and she came to a Borders pretty close to me, so Mom and I went to hear her speak. She was so inspirational, that even my mom went to work the next day telling all her friends about Kris and her book. I highly suggest you read her book.

Me meeting Kris Carr

Because of Kris, Mom and I have recently started incorporating more green juice into our diet. We aren't everyday juicers, but if I had to guess I would say I make green juice 3-4 times a week. As Kris says, adding anything good to your body is beneficial...even in the smallest amounts. I won't lie, the first time we juiced the taste was disgusting. Obviously we were noobs so we didn't really know what we were doing. Plus, if you're not used to it, it's not going to taste heavenly at first. We still had a lot of errors the next few times too, but I'm pretty sure I finally got it down. In my green juice, depending what I have at the time, I use kale, collard greens, spinach, green apples, carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, sprouts, and have even used dandelion and daikon. The trick for me is the green apples. Since I'm not used to drinking just veggies, adding 2 green apples gives it a sweet taste so it's not hard to drink at all. You should try it!

Kris Carr's signature on my book!

So that's my update for now. I'll be back soon, I promise ;)

Merry Christmas!

I PROMISE I will start blogging more often. I have so much to say and miss typing it all down over here.

With that, Merry Christmas to all of you!

Pumpkin Pie!!!

I've been uber busy, and I am sorry for my absence. Ever since I got a job, I've been too lazy to blog after or before work. How lame am I!

But I just haaaad to share this amazing recipe! I love fall, and I love pumpkin, and I love love love pumpkin pie. This vegan pumpkin pie recipe is so good, and it's VERY easy to make! My mom, a non-vegan, even says this is the best pumpkin pie she's ever tried.

The recipe calls for granulated sugar cane syrup, but I couldn't find any so I used regular sugar and it turned out awesome. I also didn't make the crust; a premade crust had to do and it also turned out awesome. So feel free to try that as well if you try this recipe!

Happy Halloween!

I love love LOVE this holiday! I hope everyone has an awesome Halloween! Here is a picture of the pumpkins me and Phil carved earlier this week. I am very proud of my ghost :) Phil isn't too into carving pumpkins, but he did it anyway to make me happy. What an awesome guy.