The Juicer!

I have a birthday coming up this week. I am turning 35 and I am feeling the creep of time upon me. In the new year I will have a 7 year old in the house, and I feel like she was just born yesterday. I feel like since having kids time has sped up. I am sure its just the effect of being a crazed modern day mom with always more on my to do list. All that aside, I decided to get myself an early birthday present, something I have wanted for a long while.

When I was a kid my own mom got on a crazy healthy kick at one point, where she started trying to sneak tofu into meals, and bought a juicer

Introducing my new best thing: my juicer. Growing up my mom had one, and in my early twenties when I stopped thinking of my mom as kooky and started seeing wisdom in some of her alternative ways, I wanted one. However my twenties were the years of my traveling the world and moving every year if I could. Somehow the high end juicer never synched with my nomadic lifestyle. Fast forward to now when I am worrying about getting old, very hunkered down with kids and a mortgage, and what better present could there be for a girl.

Inaugural Juice – Carrot, Apple, Celery

I have made two different juices a day over the weekend, just because it is so much fun and I want to keep trying different things. I had a bunch of oranges that were looking past their peak, so Saturday morning we made carrot and orange juice for breakfast. I also had a big bunch of prune plums my dad had brought from his farm, so we juiced those up. The plum was probably my least favorite so far, but still good.

Beet, Carrot, Apple Before Stirring

Beet, Carrot, Apple

Pineapple Cucumber

I had to run out in the snow this afternoon to get a few things for dinner and it occurred to me I better stock up for juicing supplies for the week now. At one point I looked down into the card and was stuck by all the colourful goodness and so had to take a picture of that too. I surely wouldn’t have the time to cook all this this week, but I can certainly juice it. As soon as I got home I made a nice pineapple strawberry juice for the girls and pineapple cucumber for me and the hubby. Delicious.

This really is my new best thing. I probably will tell everyone I talk to in the next week, because I am just so excited about it. I can hardly wait to get up and make my breakfast. I am thinking a nice carrot, apple, celery, beet and kale.