Day 4 - Kale, anyone???

Okay, so I'm totally into Natalia Rose's book The Raw Food Detox Diet. I found it at our local library, but might have to shop on Amazon for this one. It's SO terrific because it offers suggestions that someone other than a raw foodist could live with. This is the next step for us: Green Lemonade. We've already purchased our juicer. I picked one out online that was supposedly the best, but for $450 I decided we needed to make sure we could actually get this stuff past our gag reflex first. :P So, we've relied on the ever faithful Target once again. We now have a brand new Waring Pro Juice Extractor sittin' pretty on the kitchen counter. :) :) :) Hoping to run to the grocery store (or the "cold store", as my eldest puts it) tomorrow for these ingredients:

1 head romaine lettuce or celery

5 to 6 stalks kale (any type)

1 to 2 apples (as needed for sweetness - I recommend organic Fuji)

1 whole organic lemon (you don't have to peel it)

1 to 2 inches fresh ginger (optional)

This recipe is from Natalia's book, so I'll quote her from here. "If I were to tell you that there is something that you can drink that literally infuses your body with millions of enzymes, keeps your immune system strong year-round, offers unparalleled protection against osteoporosis, and tastes highly refreshing and filling, would you want some? It's called Green Lemonade, and I don't know a single successful raw foodist who does not drink some variation of this recipe as the foundation of their Raw Food Diet." Pretty convincing! Well, at least she sold us on the idea. :) She goes on to highly recommend drinking it on an empty stomach. This recipe is 1 serving. There you have it! This is our next step. So appreciative of the many comments I've received thus far. It's great to have proof that there is actually someone reading this stuff. Keep them coming! Also, super excited that we got our boys to eat raw spinach and avocado tonight with dinner. I made tacos and ended up putting the avocado in a mini food processor so they could be easily hidden. They are used to having lettuce in their tortilla wrap, so we decided against iceberg (ingredibly small amounts of nutritional value) and snuck in spinach instead. Hehehe....if they only knew. :)