Global Juice Feast Days 88-91!

I Love New Beginnings!

Juice Feast Day 88-91

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 2 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, spinach, romaine, kale, parsley, carrot, ginger and apple. I also made 2 quarts of orange and pineapple, and two quarts of …..GREEN SMOOTHIE!! Read on for details!

TOTAL JUICE: 4 QUARTS JUICE and 2 QUARTS green smoothie

Personal Journal:

Hello dear friends!

Wow, what a couple of days we have had!

On Day 88 we went into Tucson for chores and to meet with an attorney about my Green Card. After much debate, brainstorming, and checking in with gut feelings, we have decided (with the council of someone with 30 years experience in these things) that the best thing for us to do at this point is to move to Canada for a while.

Because of the time frame (I have to be out of this country very, very soon), we decided as well that it was time for me to break out of my Juice Feast! So the evening of Day 88 found me enjoying an amazing, yummy, green smoothie!

Early on Day 89 we started to pack up our darling little house, and today, Day 91, finds me sitting in an empty house, with just the bed and the computers left, and almost all the cleaning is done too! Tomorrow morning, Day 92, we will be pulling away from Patagonia with our truck loaded down with all of our books, headed North to B.C.!

It has really been a roller coaster these past few days, and a bit of a shock as we had planned on living here for at least a year longer. I wish I had more time to write, but we still have quite a bit to tie up before we leave tomorrow, so I will keep this quick….

GREEN SMOOTHIES??? Where are the prunes? After a long time coming, www.JuiceFeasting.com will soon be updating the Juice Feast Breaking protocol to green smoothies rather than prunes. Prunes have been used due to their BM prompting activities, and while they work wonderfully for this, often they work too well! This has left quite a few of our students with uncomfortable prune experiences, including bloating and gas, and poo-poria!!

So, keep your eyes open for the updated version of Feast Breaking! And for those of you about to break your Feasts tomorrow (!!!) here is a quick rundown:

Day 1 (Day 93): Drink all of your regular juices, and add in 1 quart of green smoothie. I made my first green smoothie with ½ quart orange/pineapple juice, ½ banana, ½ pound blueberries, 1 mango, and ½ pound spinach, and 8 soaked prunes. Blend really well, chew really well, soak in the bliss and gratitude of some solid food after an amazing Juice Feast! This is a celebration!!

Day 2: Drink all of your regular juices, and 1-2 quarts of green smoothie.

Day 3: Drink some juice, some smoothies, and add in some whole, fresh, juicy fruits and berries.

Day 4: Same as Day 3.

Day 5: Drink some juice, some smoothies, eat some fruit, and add in some non-fat salads.

Day 6: Same as day 5.

After Day 6 you can move into The Four Means To Get Your Greens! Enjoy!

Be sure to read the Feast Breaking Protocol, and simply replace prunes with Green Smoothies!

Because we have been madly packing, tying up all loose ends, preparing to move countries, all with very little time to do so, I did not get a chance to do a Feast Breaking video BUT we are still planning on creating one to be uploaded sometime after we arrive and get settled in Canada. So I apologize to those of you Juice Feasting with us on the Global Juice Feast that we will not be so involved with Feast Breaking as we would like to be. We are there with you in spirit! And we are so grateful to all of you who have joined us in juice, and so proud of all of us!

I can report that I feel AMAZING and WONDERFUL to be eating again! It took me about a day to accept the fact that going 92 Days would not be such a good idea for me, as it would have meant Feast Breaking on the road with a truck FULL of stuff. I wanted my stomach to be ready to eat normally again before heading off with our home packed in a tow-trailer, rather than trying to make juice while rushing up to get me across the border. But, once I started to eat again I felt so heavenly that the number of days really didn’t matter any more. I have had a truly transformative, exciting, joyful and powerful Juice Feast, and for that I am deeply grateful.

I am still fully enjoying making juice and drinking juice, and I look forward to having a very juicy diet from here on out! Today so far I have had 1 quart of GVJ, 1 quart of orange/pineapple, and a green smoothie with OJ, strawberries, mango, celery, and spinach. I am going to have a salad for lunch, and still have 2 quarts of juice for the rest of the day. I know it is not my salad day yet, but I have to get this stomach ready!

We are looking forward to hearing how everyone is doing post-Juice Feast once we arrive in B.C. and wish you all the best of smoothies and joyful moments! We will be leaving early tomorrow morning, and will check in again from Canada!

All of our love and blessings,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 87!

I Love Tumbleweed! (in my juices when it is young and green, before it dwarfs a bench!)

Juice Feast Day 87

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 3 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, spinach, romaine, dandelion greens, kale, parsley, cilantro, baby tumbleweed, carrot, ginger and apple. I also made 2 quarts of orange and pineapple, and one quart of watermelon, apple, lime, and ginger, and one quart of watermelon, apple, raspberry, and ginger (OUTSTANDINGLY GOOD AGAIN!)

TOTAL JUICE: 7 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Vitamineral Green, kelp, bee pollen, MSM and maca.

Also taken: Vitalzym, Max Stress B, coconut oil, DHA/Flax/Evening Primrose Oil, Internal Parasite Formula and water.

Personal Journal:

We just got in from a sunset walk through the fields, where we picked a huge bag of tumbleweed to be put in the dehydrator to later blend into green superfood powder!! I was asked recently what the nutritional benefits of adding young tumbleweed to juices is.

I found limited young tumbleweed nutritional information on line, but I also found this about eating the little green plants, also known as Salsola (I like that name!)

Salsola as food:

The leaves and shoots of many species are edible, especially when young and tender, and some are grown as vegetables, often used for salads, sushi, or as a garnish. The most commonly eaten European species is Salsola Soda known in Italy as Barba di Frate or Agretti. In Japan, S. komarovii is a crop of moderate importance, known locally as okahijiki (literally "land hijiki").

The seeds are also edible, although difficult to collect in quantity, and are sometimes ground into flour.

(From Wikipedia.com)

I like it that it is known as "land hijiki" in Japan, a kind of desert seaweed!

One thing I did find out is that tumbleweed is about 12% protein, which makes higher in protein, gram for gram, than meat!

As far as I am concerned, any plant that can survive and flourish in this arid land is full of life force and vitality, and I am thankful to the little salsolas for their tender greens shoots. When I was working at the Tree of Life, at this time of year there was always a bowl of salsola shoots on the lunch buffet table, to be added to salads. I also discovered several recipes for tumbleweed soups on line, and one person claimed that it makes a soup very similar to split pea soup. Might be worth a try to create a raw salsola soup!

Till tomorrow, may your juices and dreams be sweet!

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 86!

I Love Re-Bounding!

Juice Feast Day 86

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 3 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, spinach, romaine, dandelion greens, kale, parsley, cilantro, baby tumble weed, carrot, ginger and apple. I also made 2 quarts of orange and pineapple, and one quart of watermelon, apple, lime, and ginger (OUTSTANDINGLY GOOD!)

TOTAL JUICE: 6 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Vitamineral Green, kelp, bee pollen, MSM and maca.

Also taken: Vitalzym, ginger/lemon/honey tea, antioxidant extreme, Max Stress B, Internal Parasite Formula and water.

Personal Journal:

Well, I think we are finally 100% over the ill effects of that wild dust storm! When we were in town yesterday we spoke to several people who also got terrible allergies/flu from the dust, and Annie at the health food store even said that the store had been very quiet due to the windstorm! Finally after stiff legged days of post Grand Canyon hiking and then the dust flu I really got a good bounce on the re-bounder today. My cells love dancing!

I really can’t believe there are just six more days of Juice Feasting for me! WOOOOOOOOOWWWWZERS! What a trip it has been! I am in the twilight of my Juice Feast, the sunrise of the rest of my life! What a fabulous feeling, to feel so clean, healthy, and strong, I am so grateful! Enough exclamations???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ah! Ah! Ah! But I am so exclaimingly happy!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and so is David who is munching mangos beside me, working on a chapter)

LOVE!

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 85!

I Love Roses!
Juice Feast Day 85

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 3 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, spinach, romaine, dandelion greens, kale, baby garden greens, parsley, baby tumble weed, carrot and apple. I also made 2 quarts of orange and pineapple, and one quart of watermelon, apple, lemon, lime and orange.

TOTAL JUICE: 6 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Vitamineral Green, kelp, bee pollen, and maca.

Also taken: Vitalzym, MSM, ginger/lemon/honey tea, coconut oil, DHA/flax oil, antioxidant extreme, Max Stress B, Internal Parasite Formula and water.

Personal Journal:

Today we went for a wander in the Patagonia Community Garden and smelled the roses. Then we went for an afternoon stroll through the bird sanctuary, and loved the lushness...Arizona is full of surprises!

With LOVE!!

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 84!

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I Love Fresh Garden Greens!

Juice Feast Day 84

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 3 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, spinach, romaine, dandelion greens, kale, baby garden greens, parsley, baby tumble weed, carrot and apple. I also made 2 quarts of orange and pineapple.

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Vitamineral Green, kelp, bee pollen, spirulina and maca.

Also taken: Vitalzym, MSM, astragalus tea, coconut oil, DHA/flax oil, antioxidant extreme, Max Stress B, Internal Parasite Formula and water.

Personal Journal:

It rained last night and for much of today! Hooray! I felt better almost immediately with the rain last night, as soon as the dust settled. We talked to our neighbor today too, and she said that a lot of people in town got flu/cold like symptoms from the dust storm. I've never been in a dust storm, and I can say that I am very glad it is over!

Here is a little video my mom and I did on her last day here in AZ with us, me on Day 80, mom on Day 22! Enjoy!




With love,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 83!

I love rain (hoping for rain!)
Juice Feast Day 83

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 3 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, spinach, romaine, dandelion greens, kale, parsley, baby tumble weed, carrot and apple. I also made 2 quarts of orange and pineapple.

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Vitamineral Green, kelp, bee pollen, MSM and maca.

Also taken: Vitalzym, ginger/lemon/honey tea, antioxidant extreme, Max Stress B, Internal Parasite Formula and water.

Personal Journal:

Well, here I am on Day 83 feeling wrecked, with a nice long list of physical yucks including stinging, red eyes, runny nose, body ache, ear ache, sore throat, and headache. I don’t know if what I have is a full blown cold, flu, allergies, or all three. We are in the middle of a fierce wind storm here in southern AZ, and the sky is an odd grey-brown, filled with dust. You can see the dust blowing around the trees in little twisters, and I feel like my head is stuffed with dust. YUCK!! David is feeling it too, and we are both wishing for rain to wash it all away.

We are also quite suddenly finding ourselves dealing again with US immigration, who have denied my application for the visitor visa that I filed back in January, and in no nice terms have let me know that I am to leave the US by a certain, very soon date or I will be deported. As some of you may know, I was denied entry to the US after visiting Canada for Christmas, and then ten days later with the right paperwork was granted a 3 DAY VISA!!!, which I applied for an extension on, and have just been denied. At this point we are going to go ahead and apply for a Green Card, which we were avoiding doing because we are not yet sure where we want to settle down and we were hoping to avoid all the hassle and hoopala of doing so. The US border has just become a more and more unfriendly place since 9/11 though, and unless I want to risk being denied access to my husband’s country it looks like I need a Green Card. So, once I do apply for a Green Card, rather than needing to leave, I will not be allowed to leave the US until the process is finished, thank goodness…as long as I get to stay with David I will be happy!

Here’s to a deep, dustless sleep tonight, and a rainy day tomorrow!

With love to you all,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 82!

Juice Feast Day 82

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 3.5 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, spinach, romaine, dandelion greens, kale, parsley, baby tumble weed, carrot and apple. I also made 1 quart of orange and pineapple and 1 quart of grapefruit garlic.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Vitamineral Green, kelp, bee pollen and maca.

Also taken: Vitalzym, nettle tea, antioxidant extreme, Max Stress B, Internal Parasite Formula and water.

Personal Journal:

Hello Dear Friends!

WOW!! 82 Days on juice!!! I actually lost count while I have been away from blogging, and had to check in with Penni to see what day we are on! It has become such second nature at this point, making juice, drinking juice, juice, juice, juice!!

I am feeling fantastic (and so is David with lots of green smoothies) and strong, so excited about the next 10 days of juice and beyond….yes, I am looking forward to eating at this point. Very, very excited about it in fact.

David and I have had a magical week with my mom. She flew home yesterday, leaving us all in tears, and looking forward to when we will all live within driving/walking/biking distance from each other.

OK, here is a LOOOOONG entry on the past week of traveling juicyness.

We started out on Wednesday morning with two giant coolers full of produce, one little cooler full of juice, and a Rubbermaid full of juicing gear. My mom and I became the official juicers for the week, and we made a great team while David enjoyed a week of not making juice (and with all the juice making he has done over the years, including making juice for 4 people for 90 Days every morning by himself, I think he was happy to allow us to do so)

First we drove to the red rock oasis of Sedona, where we went on a stunning late afternoon hike on a trail that winds off of Schnebelley Hill road into the embrace of the iron rich red walls under the superman blue skies. Spring flowers were everywhere, and even the spiny, alien shapes of the desert cactus where pushing forth lush blossoms.

David and Katrina in Sedona
Katrina and Rineke in Sedona

We spent the night in an earth brown adobe style building that looks just all the other earthy building in that beautiful town, and woke up to MAKE JUICE!!

Rineke and Katrina making juice in Sedona
Hotel room juice making!

On the way out of Sedona, we stopped at Slide Rock State Park for a stroll up Oak Creek. I even went for a Day 76 chilly dip in the crystal clear water, leaving me feeling like a brand new being, refreshed, invigorated, so CLEAN and ALIVE!


David by Oak Creek, Sedona, AZ

Katrina and Rineke pause by the creek
Rineke and Katrina in the creek

David and Katrina and Humphry's Peak, the tallest point in Arizona

From Oak Creek it was a beautiful, meandering drive towards one of the most well visited places in the world (and rightly so) My mom began to cry upon her first glimpse of the Grand Canyon, and my breath was taken away yet again. Every time I see it, it is the same thrill that words cannot describe. Nature really is the grandest artist, her masterpieces taking us beyond time into the deep and beautiful experience of creation. We spent he rest of the afternoon wandering the rim, standing and drinking it in, gasping, and full of wonder.


Us at our first view point of the Grand Canyon

The next day my mom and I went on a mother/daughter hike, and we packed our packs with two quarts of water and two quarts of juice each and headed down the steep decent of the South Kaibab Trail. This was our practice Juice Feasting hike, and we hiked an hour down, first to Ohh-ah point, and then on to Cedar Point. Cedar point is a big red platform that juts out into the canyon like a giant arrow head, and when you are sitting on the tip you are looking directly across at another giant butte of red Supai Sandstone, looking like so many other formations in the canyon to be sacred temple ruins from a civilization long ago. I guess they are in a way, a vast canyon filled with temples to the majesty of time. We drank a juice while sitting on the point, watching time flow by, trying to imagine what time was like for the rocks on which we sat.
Katrina on Cedar Point

Rineke on Cedar Point

Me drinking my GVJ in the Grand Canyon

It took mom and I the same amount of time to zig-zag up the steep switch back riddled trail to the rim as it took us to get down to Cedar Point. We were happily surprised, and drank our second juice sitting on the rim before we headed back to the truck for more juice.

The next morning, Saturday, was warm and sunny, the warmest day yet, and we made our juice and headed off to hike down the Bright Angle Trail to Indian Gardens...perhaps as the canyons first ever Juice Feasting hikers. The 4.5 miles down were of course the easy part, and we fully enjoyed reaching the oasis of Indian Gardens where we drank our juice in the shade of the giant cottonwoods where the Havasupai Indians once grew their crops.

Cactus flower at Indian Gardens
Feeling that 100 degrees on the way back up!

David and I did the Bright Angel Trail in November, and we went all the way down to the river and back, despite warnings the whole way down “Do Not Attempt to Hike from the Rim to the River and Back in One Day!” The memory of the last 3 miles was making me a little wary of doing this hike on juice, as it is very step and hot, yet we found ourselves flying past people the whole way up! In fact, I found that hiking and juice is an amazing combination for me. There is no food to digest, and your energy source is hydrating and full of goodness. For the seven hour, 9 mile, 100 degree hike we each drank 3 quarts of juice. We also brought some sea salt because excessive sweating leads to sodium loss, and I munched on bee pollen. We arrived back at the rim feeling very happy, AND WE DID IT ON JUICE!!

We had more juice stashed in the truck which we gladly drank down, and then went to find ourselves a perch on the rim and sat to watch the unfolding of sunset for several hours until the sun finally melted down into the horizon after a dreamy display of shifting light, colors, and shapes in the canyon.The streaming sun light before sunset
After sunset

By the time we got back to our hotel and made some coconut water with spirulina, I had had 8 quarts of juice! A hiking girl does need her juice.

We spent Sunday morning viewing the canyon from the East rim, where views of the snaking river are much more frequent, and then said our goodbyes to the canyon.
A glimpse of the river

We arrived home that night, mom and I limping from the post-hike calf stiffness, happy as can be.

I am now a true believer in the power of juice not to just be used as a tool to transform illness, but also as an amazing source of nourishment for an already healthy body. I HIKED on juice, after close to 80 days on juice, and even after water fasting for 3 days, in 100 degree heat and up and down a 3,060 foot elevation (STEEP) I am impressed!!! And my mom did it too, at the age of 57, on juice, and kept up with her 30 year old daughter!! So in case you haven’t figured it out yet, juice rocks. We are thinking from now on we will always bring a quart or two of fresh juice along with us on hikes.

Enjoy your juice!!

With love,
Katrina and David