Smoozie Weekend ~ Anyone Up For It?

[xPIXIEx]

Thanks for starting the smoozie weekend. It was great. I think I'm going to do it again in a few days.

[Revvell]

You're welcome! Glad you joined in. Seems a few are going to continue on ~ myself as well. Just purchased a HUGE bag of greens plus dandelion greens; a bunch of bananas and a variety of fruit so, I'm continuing to smooze along.

It is so amazing how you learn to listen to what your body is trying to tell you. Thank you for this thread Revvell.

I still had a big smoothie this morning and boy is it ever delicious!

Water, ice, cashew kreme, lots of banana, vanilla, cacao and raspberries. Yum! (watch me lick my lips )

Sue.

[Revvell]

Excellent! Glad you got enough out of it to do it again. :)

Thanks for starting the smoozie weekend. It was great. I think I'm going to do it again in a few days.

[streetsurfer]

I continued on with the smoozies and salads, and then yesterday was a water fast. I actually had done smoothie and salad on thanksgiving so it was like I was in for four days. I need to get more kale, but picked enough mustard greens and lettuces out of my garden to get me through a few more days of this, so I will continue on again. I just need to decide how long to fast. I'd like to do one day as a weekly thing. I think I could benefit from that greatly. This also kept me motivated to work out more. I did until yesterdays fast. It was mostly speedbag and balance work with a little calisthenics thrown in.

What I have been doing with the smoothies is to make a double batch and seperate it into halves before adding the iced goods. Makes it easier while all the ingredients are out, cleaning the processor, etc. Then when the second drink is wanted, (it is already in a bullet jar with lid) just add some frozen apple bits that were prepared ahead also. I chop up a few apples and pour a lemon, lime, or an oranges juice over them in a baggie and freeze.

Thanks for the encouragement to do this Revvell, and all the others. It has certainly helped me feel well.

[xPIXIEx]

Excellent! Glad you got enough out of it to do it again. :)

I sure did. Raw is really doing my body good. No cramping from IBS in the last 10 days I've been doing raw. And this smoozie weekened was just what I needed. I'm definitely going to continue on with the smoothies now that I've gotten in the groove. Gotta have my daily green smoothie now!

[katchmoleen]

Hi, everyone, day 2 for me. I worked the early shift this morning and packed up two big bottles of smoothie to take with me. The first one was apples, cranberries, spinach, ginger and cinnamon. Delicious! The second one was kale and bananas.

In my crockpot, I have some sweet potato soup warming up on the "warm" setting. I am so glad to have found out about this. It is COLD here, we got snow this morning, and I am tired and aching from my run yesterday, so warm soup sounds so good. I made it up from what I had on hand and it has sweet potatoes, onion, zucchini, nutritional yeast, and seasonings. It is pretty good.

[Green_Woman]

I have an eensy weensy crock pot... you can warm soups in that without cooking?? Mine is the mini-variety... used to use it to cook beans/rice before I figured out both of those were giving me major allergies to LIFE as well as headaches... :)

[katchmoleen]

Mine is a 1.5 quart one that I just bought at Target for $10. It has a WARM setting. yu can' use low or hi, that will cook the food. But warm gets it nice and.....warm. I am testing my small one right now. In 1.25 hours it got it to 100 degrees. My big one (the soup is in that one) takes 2 hours to get to 100.

[Revvell]

I sure did. Raw is really doing my body good. No cramping from IBS in the last 10 days I've been doing raw.

That is waaaaay cool!

[bumbleberry]

Glad you've been smoozing and moving along with us, streetsurfer. :) I'm still picking a few things from my garden as well. It's a bit of a downer to go from those to the store greens that ya gotta pay for (especially the ones that are wilted and abused-looking!). But it's nice to have a break from all that work in the garden.

I felt so good after my 20 minute rebounding session last night (which was after 2 hours of yoga). Laying there, I felt my whole body tingling and alive. And I'm finally starting to feel better in the morning as well. I'm hoping this will start giving me more energy so I can do more because, right now, I'm not getting much else done. For the next 2 weekends, I'll have time to cut down on the 2 1/4 hours/day of exercise because I'll be in a 10am - 5pm retreat. I'll just do as much as I can. Continuity is more important than all-or-nothing.

I was going to put a persimmon in my smoothie today but it tasted so good by itself that I ate it as it was. It seemed the flavour would be lost in a smoothie. My smoothies have been too bland lately. I found some purple grapes in the freezer this morning that made a yummy one (along with the oranges, banana, and greens).

[bumbleberry]

Revell, does your book have recipes for savory smoothies as well as fruity ones? I am wanting to do Gabriel Cousens' phase one for awhile in January, and that means no sweet fruit. I get tired of the tomato avocado but need some ideas!

I have Victoria Boutenko's Green Smoothie Revolution from the library. It has a whole chapterful of interesting-looking savory green smoothie/soup recipes, most of which have no fruit at all. Some of the recipes from the book are on the raw family website. (Would love to get your smoozie book as well, Rev, but that will have to wait till I have more pennies.)

I'd like to try a fruitless green smoothie feast sometime, to see how it feels. But, for now, I'm just gathering up my courage to try my first savory smoothie.

[RawKnitster]

Had a 2 smoothie day. I also made a jar of chia seed pudding. (The ingredients in the pudding would make a fine smoothie.) I may not eat it tonight, (I'm kidding) but after grazing off-smoothie late last night I want to have a little something special ready in case I find myself in the kitchen searching. I'm counting today as a successful smoothie day. :)

That is 3 out of 4 successfull days for me. I'm calling it a good weekend. Will continue on, but from here it is one day at a time.

[Lara]

yes it's one day at a time AND I'm loving it.
I'm still detoxing BIG TIME. Runny nose, sneezing, pimples (I never get acne), lethargic, energized, happy, sad, all the extremes of detox. So I'm going to continue with my smoozie fest this week, me thinks.
I just drank 2/3 of a Vitamix full of green smoothie. Salad for lunch, perhaps.
then smoothie for dinner.
If you have any recommendations for moving this detox along as quickly and healthfully as possible that have worked for you, please share. I will also do a search here on this forum for that info.
Peace out,
Lara