This was my juice for Thursday, I only made one juice because Carl wanted coffee and I was in a different office. I had to use up a few ingredients as well.
Juice #44
Finished Juice. This was a good juice even though I drank it for both morning and lunch.
These were our juices from Wednesday. Sorry I was slacking at my blog posts during the week.
Breakfast Juice #42
Finished Juice. This was a great morning juice.
Rating: 6/10 for taste and visual
Lunch Juice #43
Finished juice. I liked this juice. I am getting to like beets more if they juiced. The lime adds a great kick to the juice.
These are our Tuesday Juices.
Breakfast Juice #40
Finished Juice. I liked this one with the peaches. Yum.
Rating: 7/10 for taste and visual
Lunch Juice #41
Finished Juice. This was a good refreshing juice for the afternoon.
Rating: 6/10 taste and visual
This are the Juices from Monday. It was the first juice of using the Hemp Protein. I like the protein so far; however it has a “gritty” taste to it. The serving size says it’s 4 tablespoons, that seemed to be a bit much with just our juices, it might be better if it were a smoothie. I also like the addition of plums.
Breakfast Juice #38
Finished Juice. I enjoyed this morning juice, only thing I would do different is less powder.
Rating: 6/10 for taste and visual
Lunch Juice #39
Finished Juice. I am beginning to like beets and I feel that the lime in the juice helps a lot.
Rating: 6/10 for taste and visual.
This was our typical weekend of running errands. I seriously feel we are always running errands. I must say with a Costco membership, we don’t run nearly as much. We have it down to a science that we can get through about 2 weeks with our fresh fruits and veggies for juicing. Which is helpful with budgeting and space for food- we don’t want to be wasteful.
On Thursday night, I decided I wanted to move my spices from the cupboard where they were messy and I couldn’t see what I all had, to one of my kitchen drawers. We cook a lot more and I have more spices that this seemed like a good idea. I spent Thursday night and some on Friday, searching on the internet and calling places to look for a “spice drawer” insert. I found beautiful wood ones that ranged from $30.00 to over $100.00, I was not looking to spend that much. I then found an plastic insert at Home Depot that I could cut down to fit in my drawer specifically. I really like my drawer and wish I would have done this sooner.
Spice Drawer
On Friday after work we ran to the Coop because I have been doing research on Hemp Protein. I am going to try this protein with my juices and future smoothies when I make those. lol I also bought a sample pack of Hemp Hearts which is similar to flax seed or chia seeds. Manitoba Harvest is the brand they had at the Coop. I wanted to get the Hemp oil, they were sold out of that. I got the Hemp Pro 50 and Hemp Hearts, I will let you know more of what I think when I try them this week. My mom has been helping me research more holistic ways to assist with my aches and pains and immune system. We have been looking at the oils, so at the Coop I got the wintergreen organic oil. I will update you on that once I try that.
On Saturday morning, we had to go to Target to get a new toaster, my 4 slice toaster kicked the bucket this week, I was bummed as we liked the toaster. (side note- Arie woke us up at 5:47am)While at target we had a couple other odds and ends to get. We have friends coming this weekend Fri, Sat and Sun and we are doing chicken and steak kabobs with sweet corn and some other veggie. I need to get MORE spices for the steak marinade. While at Target, I have been looking for a bigger citrus juicer, I have one small handled one but want a bigger one because it does not fit my Costco lemons very well, it makes a mess and the seeds go every where. So I found a nice citrus juicer at Target and I love it! 🙂 Great find!
Citrus Juicer
On Friday, I ran to the grocery store by work to browse, I needed to get out of the office. I grabbed a few spices and then I saw this Beer Can Chicken Rub that was already made and thought it would taste great. So on Saturday night, Carl and I made chicken thighs with the rub, steamed baby red potatoes and asparagus that was soaked in olive oil, fresh lemon juice (from my new citrus juicer) and salt and pepper on the grill. The chicken turned out fantastic with the rub, I tried finding it online for y’all but I can’t. 😦 It does have Dean Jacobs on the top of the tin. So when I googled that, I got excited because this company has a whole website of fun goodies for cooking! I think I might purchase some of the olive oils like the basil and rosemary infused ones. Yum! I re-googled the rub again and at least found a picture, even though it is amazon- Dean Jacobs Beer Can Chicken Rub.
Beer Can Chicken Rub
This stuff is fantastic!
Our delicious supper
I just wanted to share some of our fun kitchen finds this past week/end. I will have a few more fun blog posts coming up as I have a few things up my sleeve. I am looking into what is going to be be my fall/winter hobby! I’ve got it and it’s going to be a real honey! 🙂 Another side note- Arie had me up Sunday morning at 4:11am and then again at 6:13am, needless to say, I was up and ready to go for the day!
Happy Sunday!
-Blondie!
So Juice #34 and #35 were our Thursday Juices and Juice #36 and #37 were our juices for Friday. I did not take pictures of Friday juices as there were extremely similar to Thursday, I was using up my ingredients so I had room in the refrigerator for our Costco goodies.
Breakfast Juice #34 and #36
Finished Juice.
We enjoyed this juice, it was refreshing and it is a great way to use up ingredients.
Rating: 6/10 for taste and visual
Lunch Juice #35 and #37
Finished Juice.
This juice was very tart. I am guessing it is from the lemon. Carl described it as “stemy” that was from the collard greens and the kale. I wish I would have added blended banana, that would have tasted good I think.
Rating: 4/10 for taste and visual
Juices #36 and #37 were pretty much the same the quantity was a little off.
This week I decided to go a little bold this week and I have a few juices that are similar as I have to use up my fruit and veggies before we go back to Costco this weekend. I got BEETS! yes beets. I can’t stand beets in the flesh and whole, so I figured maybe I would tolerate them if their were juiced.
I made my list for Costco and we have quite list going. We also have to get a new toaster because our is broke. 😦 I am going to look into holistic oils and protein and report back to you all.
Breakfast Juice #32
Finished Juice.
This was a good morning juice, I liked the taste of the pineapple.
Rating: 6/10 for taste and visual
Lunch Juice #33
I added a few sprinkles of ginger and squeezes of lemon juice.
Finished Juice.
I was pleasantly surprised with this juice. I did not mind the beets. It did taste a little earthy and like dirt, but I got past that.
Rating: 5/10 for taste and 6/10 for visual ( I liked the color)
So we have this beautiful pineapple on the countertop and decided to cut that up for juices this week and finish up our fruit and veggies before we go on our bi-weekly trip to Costco. This juice was good this morning. I had a juice that my friend gave me to try for lunch today. I also had a yummy lettuce wrap for lunch.
Breakfast Juice #31
Finished Juice.
We had this juice for breakfast and it was a good mixture of pineapple and the other fruit. I do think the grapefruit over powered the juice just a tad. I would add oranges or an apple versus grapefruit.
Rating: 5/10 for taste and visual
Over the weekend we had went to see my sister and brother-in-law’s house and she was the one that said I should try juicing. I decided I should bring a juice for them to try. I am already at Juice #30, doesn’t feel like we have juiced that much already. We have been juicing just about 6 weeks and we juice breakfast-lunch/snack, Monday thru Friday. Sometimes we juiced on the weekends here and there.
Green Juice #30
(Arie says Hello!)
Finished Green Drink.
I thought this drink tasted ok as it was pretty leafy tasting. My sister and her husband liked it and said that it tasted sweet.
Rating: 5/10 for taste and visual
For Friday, I only did a morning juice because I had to finish my leftover crab pasta, which was delicious! I think I am addicted to that crab and will be buying more when they come around again. The juice was good, I think I missed having my afternoon one. This week was hard for juicing because I was on the go and then didn’t have a choice about drinking a juice for lunch or eating out for lunch as I was with some colleagues and did not want to be rude to turn down lunch. I also thought, what am I going to do, drink my juice on the park bench?! Real Cool-Not. haha
Breakfast Juice #29
Finished Juice. I am finding myself liking the peach taste in a morning drink. I did want to use up my grapefruit so I added that. But I like the peach taste.
Rating: 6/10 for taste and visual
I went to the farmers market this morning and I got more Kale, Collard Greens, and Beets. So brace yourself, I am going to try beets. I hear they are good in the juices gives it a spicy earthy flavor. I have never liked beets so a little nervous but I think I would rather drink them versus eating them. Can’t wait to share my juices with the beets! 🙂
Our weather this weekend is so crazy, our normal high this time of year is suppose to be 83 Degrees we are at 60 some Degrees and it is windy and rainy, feels like we should be going to the pumpkin patch! haha
Have a great weekend where ever you may be!
-Blondie!
Go Blondie! 