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For lunch we made the bloody mary mix like the other night but added a bit to it to make 2 full quarts
so todays bloody mary was 6 tomatoes, 6 stalks of celery, 6 carrots, 3 small red peppers, 2 small orange peppers. 1 jalapeno, some parsley, about 9 leaves of basil. and this produced a little spicier version than the other night and we got 2 quarts and another 8 oz out of it so total 72oz. we each drank about 16 oz each at first then about an hour or two later drank the other 16oz each we had left. Of course in case anyone is wondering the seeds and ribs are removed before juicing the jalapeno and peppers. This recipe is of course even better once I added in the hot sauce and shook it up...ALSO a great interesting not is that once you add the hot sauce into the juice it dissapates all the foam in the glass and turns it into liquid. go figure! which i like to see.
I added hot sauce to mine and she added tobasco but still some good stuff.
so we each have had one 20oz juice for breakfast and for lunch basically had 32oz each but it was split into 2 16oz servings. with 3 juices in us and abunch of water we will have about 16-20 oz each for a dinner juice and I will make a small juice to put in the fridge for snacking in the night time!
let you know what dinner is soonest
Lunch prep and completion pics below
Ray

Cost $7.50
produced:
72oz or 4*16oz servings PLUS and extra cup of 8oz that we drank a a taster glass
hot sauce added later

heres todays 6 tomato Bloody Mary Juice Complete
Cost $7.50
produced:72oz or 4*16oz servings PLUS and extra cup of 8oz that we drank a a taster glass
hot sauce added later

For dinner on the end of my day three and her day two we made a juice called Sunkissed Juice with 2 beets, 5 carrots, 4 oranges, handful of spinach and about 2' of ginger. The total cost for this amount for us was $3.40 and it produced 32 oz of juice. As you will see from the pic below the pile of spinach is lacking but that was the last of what we had and no kale either...today we stock up on those items. After tasting the drink I dont think it would matter if you added a whole bunch of kale and or spinach as the beets are pretty powerful and help cover up too much green taste. So when making this one next time I will use about 3 to 4 times what you see in the picture, maybe 2 handfuls of spinach and 2 leaves of kale. ONE thing I dint do and should have is cut the outside off of the beets to reduce the earthy like taste....Im not sure if it had a super earthy taste it was more in the scent of it and that played trick on my taste buds.
Overall she really liked this one and wants me to add it to the list of the ones she likes most...me on the other hand thought is was about a 3 of 5 stars and will definately use some other beet based recipes we have and see how they come out. the beets are powerful..oh and can stain your shirt with one drip so be careful with those ones!
So to wrap up day 3 for me and 2 for her we each had 24 oz of morning glory juice, each had 32oz of bloody mary juice and each had 16oz of sun kissed juice. Total juice for the day per person 72oz. Total cost for the day per person was only $8.20. definately under the budgeted daily amount. Showing that if you could do this for $9 per person per day the cost would only be $63 for the week per sperson. Most people spend $35 a week at starbucks andanother $25-40 feeding themselves lunch at work every day...im just saying.

Not everyone has access to cheaper fruits and veggies but thik if you look for the right farmers market and/or even the right farmer you can do this for the same prices as we are or even less if you find the right farmer...and I know some of you live right next to a farm and never thought to ask them if they sell fruits and veggies....but ill bet you asked them how much for a cow, lamb, chicken or goat..and then probably asked em how much will it be if you just section off the meat for me and ill pick it up, but never once asked how much for a box of tomatoes..hahah...anyhow food for thought on this sunday where farmers markes are abundant..some even go right to the edge of their farm on sunday and open up their own little farmers market sale right there on the highway.

Today beginning day 4 and had some cramping in my thigh muscle this morning and feel my back and other muscles a little achey, but had my lemon water and feeling better. will have morning glory today and post it up for all to see. Shes beginning day three and had some dreams about food and then some about juicing as well..go figure! She definately is saying shes hungry and had her lemon water then she was feeling better. She definately is saying her body is achy has been hungry but the juices have kept her strong.
Breakfast time....
Below are pics of the Prep of last nights dinner albeit lacking in the spinach and/or kale dept it was still heathy and hit the spot.
Talk soon
Ray

Sun Kissed juice Completed
Cost $340 for 32oz ( 2 *16 oz servings )
Best Served Over Ice

Hi PattiRob,
Glad you are enjoying all my posts and pics along this juice journey. Good to know there other couples out there juice fasting together, it does seem to make it easier if someone else in the house is participating and gives you someone to talk to that can relate with what your going thru-all the shopping and stocking for two sure does make for interesting trips to the store as well!
Yes I love all the tomato based juices and definately will have to make something similar to his salsa creation and I think ill call it 'Spicy Mexican Salsa Fiesta Juice' haha....kind of just rolls of the tounge!
We definately have cilantro and jalapenos on hand and will use them alot, but definately have to pick up some habaneros tomorrow as well...that should kick things up a notch for sure, thanks for the suggestion. I think the tomato based ones are my favorites because when you add the spices it feels like your eating something more substantial than a glass of juice!
We will attempt to make a butternut Squash recipe for lunch today that was adapted from sputnick here on joj..they named it nicks fall special and were all raving about it, so im gonna double up the amounts and maybe tweak it a bit and see how it comes out. Will post the pics and share the results as well.
Cant wait for dinner though -of course it will be a tomato based juice - Gazpacho -I will adapt a recipe from a few suggestions that i have read about, should be good stuff. She actually wants me to heat hers up tonight so she can eat it like a soup, which i think will be perfect so stay tuned!
talk soonest
best regards
Ray

Morning Glory Prep
Day 4 Breakfast
Cost$6.40
produced 52 oz or 26oz for each of us to drink

Sunday lunch on my day four and her day three we tried "Nicks Fall Special" a butternut squash recipe. We used A whole butternut suash(peeled and then cut in half to remove the seeds-then cut into smaller pcs that would fit into the juicer, also used 4 apples ( 2 red and two golen delicious) I had read somewhare that you should use any apples BUT Green or granny smith with squash and or pumkin recipes) also used 5 carrots. Making the total cost for this recipe $6.25 and it produced 48oz. we each drank a 16oz serving and saved the remaining pint or 16oz to snack on during the midnight hours.
we added cinnamon powder to the top of the drink and it was delicious and very very sweet tasing. We quickly learned to add the cinnamon powder into the mason jars and shake it up there so it mixed well, as the cinnamon we put on the top of the drink kind of caked there and didnt really mix too well with the drink. Now for me I like sweet but this was extra sweet...perhaps the use of granny smith apples would change that or the addition of ginger? but overall a great snack type drink for sure- dont think I will make that one as a meal drink as it doesnt have any greens in it. Oh but Kari my wife told me to add this one to the list of drinks she really loves....ithink if it had whipped cream on top she would have really loved it but sorry no whipped cream today!!
Pics below of this prep and completion.
Ray

Nicks fall special butternut squash Complete
Produced 48oz or 3 pint/16oz servings
Cost $6.25
Butternut squash of that size around here was a big portion of the cost at $3.75
Perhaps this is the time of year to replace the squash with pumpkin
as we did get asimilar size mini pumpkin for $1.98 at walmart
it being halloween time and all.

Gazpacho Prep
Cost $7.75
Produced 82 OZ or 2 quarts and a pint

Monday day 5 for me and 4 for her, we had jolt juice for brakfast 4 apples. 2 cucumbers, 2 oranges, 1 lemon, 1 handfull of spinach and 2 kale stalks. The cost for this was $4.50 ans it produced 40oz or 2* 20oz servings. I have come to love this juce and all of Donnies recipes. Breakfast delicious.

We made it thru the day with each of us drinking 16oz of the gazpacho for lunch. When we got home we were both hungry and we made a pick me up drink to carry us to dinner called orange green julius, a recipe I saw online somewhere and of course I added some stuff to it to make a larger batch. We used 2 orange peppers, 2 oranges, 9 carrots, 2 handfulls of spinach and 1" ginger. The cost for this one was $3.35 and it made 30oz or almost a whole quart. This drink was ok but not my cup of tea,but still healthy. Will try maybe next time too add more ginger, possibly a lemon or even an apple? just guessing.

Then with our bellies full of juice and water we went to weigh in - not the best time to do it but we wanted to see and were a little dissapointed in seeing mine at 258 LBS and hers at 127 Lbs- still a loss for my five days of 6lbs but that was lost in the first two days. Understanding the weight loss will fluctuate we came to the conclusion that us sneaking in caffinated and sugary iced tea was not helping the situation any...so felling a bit down on seeing this we made ourselves one last glass of sugary caffinated tea and threw the sugar out. With the promise we will not ingest any more sugars to each other..THEN we made the fatal mistake of throwing some vodka into our drinks to drown our sorrows and then a bit more and then a bit more...it turnned into aregular happy hour for us, but we promised each other not to add vodka and or sugar to our drinks anymore after this time and went on with the plan of which all natural coconut water we will get, because trying to stick to decaf tea and sweet and low just wasnt cutting it -as we were still finding the need to cheat- so no more tea AND oh by the way kids dont try drinking the vodka into day 5 on a juice fast because the room will be spinning sooner than you think and you will have headaches all night long too!

Sooooo we picked ourselves back up mentally and made a nice batch or what we now call V14 due to the 14 ingredients in it and went to bed, but yes was up every hour to use the restroom getting rid of the tea vodka and 32 oz of juice we each had for dinner! So no dont drink liquor when you have no food in you its not a good idea on many levels. But we are up and sticking with it beginning my day 6 and her day 5!

Dinner on day 5 what we now call V14 was made with 2 handfulls of spinach, bunch of cilantro, 2 cucumbers, 5 carrots, 7 stalks of celery, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 lime, 1 red onion, 1 zuchini, 1 small yellow pepper, 2 small red peppers, 7 tomatoes, 4-5 leaves of basil and 1 jalapeno. This produced 3 full quarts and we tasted this one immediately without the addition of any spices AND WOW it was really amazing you could really taste all those flavors on there-thats when we came up with the name V14 because immediately upon tasing you thought of V8 but this was so fresh so vibrant-just amazing! we each had 32oz or one quart HEATED and we shared the extra quart with a freind who drank it in what seemed to be one sip! Of course I still added some Cayenne pepper and a little hot sauce to mine! That heated juice with the spices is just amazing...that said we were still feeling the vodka abit more than we would have liked and headed to bed shortly thereafter with vows to keep on keeping on and we will not go near the scale for at least 3-4 more days!

I hope everyone is staying strong..stronger than we were..., we will pick ourselves back up from a dissapoingting day yesterday and move on...what I said was hey at least we didnt break down and try to eat a burger or something...so all in all it wasnt that bad of a day...well sorta!
we will keep at this until we reach our desired weights and no sugar vodka or iced tea is gonna stop us!
Ray

Day 5 breakfast
JOLT JUICE complete
Cost $4.50
produced 40oz or 2* 20oz servings