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 Juice of one pomegranate, juice enough oranges to fill a quart jar.

Nectar of the gods.

Both are in season and so they are both sweet and delicious.

Pomegranates and oranges both have lots of vitamin C, folate, calcium, magnesium, potassium, omega 6 and protein. Poms have vitamin K and oranges have lots of vitamin A.

See the way nature works – in season in the winter to help support your immune system – yay!

Nature rocks.

I never buy pineapple because I never can find ripened on the plant pineapples. The pineapples in the store, like many fruit, are picked early, thus unripe. Pineapples picked early and ripened “on the counter” instead of “on the vine” always burn my tongue. The first bite is ok but if I eat more, it burns my tongue.

When I lived in Costa Rica, the pineapple, picked so ripe and served, was like candy. Cotton candy! Unbelievable flavor. Unbelievably smooth and sweet. I guess I’ll have to go back if I ever want a good pineapple again.

But I bought a Del Monte Costa Rican pineapple at Sams Wholesale club the other day. I only bought it because it had a strong sweet scent – a good sign. And I though I’d take a chance. It actually was pretty good. Not as sweet and smooth as picked fresh and ripe, but it was ripe enough not to burn my tongue. I looked at the label and it said “Product of Costa Rica.” I realized it had been living and growing in the Costa Rican sun. And I thought that was nice since I too had lived in the Costa Rican sun.

So I cut it up and juiced almost the entire pineapple, with 1 head of romaine, and about 6 stalks of celery.

Juiced it, strained it in a nut milk bag – it made a whole quart. It was a beautiful bright yellow green and it tasted amazing, smooth and slightly sweet!

Costa Rican Sun Juice

3/4 pineapple with core
1 head romaine
6 stalks of celery
Cut top and sides off pineapple, juice, strain, enjoy.

PS: Masticating juicers like my Omega 8005 (with an auger) don’t do well with apples and pineapples. It gets too think and I have to keep cleaning the screen. But they juice great with a centrifugal juicer like a Breville or Jack LaLanne type juicer.

Have you seen the Iron Man movie yet? I rented it this weekend and thought it was great. Of course Robert Downey Jr is a cutie pie and now we know why – he drinks green juice! Or at least his character does – maybe that’s where the Iron Man gets his special powers!

You see my blog on my juicefeasting stopped at day 5.

I was blogging on the globalJuiceFeast.com site – I juiced for 35 days. I’ll eventually get all the blogs I posted over there – over here. Right now I am starting on MyFoodDiary.com to keep track of my raw food diet – its kind of fun and very interesting to input ingredients of my raw recipes and see the nutrient data on them. For example, I have been on a watermelon juice kick – MFD didn’t have the info on raw fresh watermelon juice, but I found it on line – and discovered it is full of potassium. 

Of course, since its a summer fruit and we need the potassium when we sweat. It also has lycopene a powerful antioxidant. All of your red fruits will have lycopene – tomatoes, pink grapefruit, persimmons, papaya.  

Remember to purchase the variety with seeds – they taste better and aren’t hybrids.

I still felt good when I woke up this morning. Though it took me a while to go to sleep. Had a lot of thoughts about the feast going through my head. I did notice that the ball of my thigh joint didn’t hurt. For some time where the thigh connects to the hip, that area has been a bit swollen and hurts to the touch. Didn’t ever hurt otherwise – just when you rubbed it. Anyway, no more. And also my hair quit falling out a week ago when I got back to more raw. That had been a problem before I went raw – and quit right away. In the past few months where I was eating more cooked food, my hair started falling out again.

Day 5 and it is starting to feel like routine now. Released another pound. Noticed a bit of mucus in my eyes today and had to blow my nose often. So yea on the toxins leaving the body!

Sitting at the computer working today I couldn’t get warm. I finally made me a cup of that ginger, lemon, honey tea that David and Katrina had on their video the other day. Yummm-meee. I added a dash of cayenne and a couple dashes of cinnamon. Oh it warmed me up and made me think of sitting by a warm Christmas fire!

I’m doing the daily 4 quarts, enema, MSM, and started some morning yoga today. I also add a dash of kelp and dulce to almost every green juice. And I drink rejuvelac everyday – love it. More fermenting on the counter right now. And I have some wheatgrass in its 5 day of growing. So pretty.

I really get a lot of inspiration from everyones postings and blogs and love the daily video from David and Katrina. Without anyone around me to share this exciting adventure with – this site is my support. I’ve mentioned it to friends and family and no one even pretended to be interested.

Evening – Inspirational Messages
Finally I had some real cravings – cravings just for food, something to chew on. Not any food in particular. But I made some hot tea and browsed these message boards and it passed. I jumped right on it when I felt that these were such strong feelings.

This also helped: I made some little business card size cards that have inspirational messages for me.
One of them says: “Cravings are only for the moment, my health is forever.”
And another: “Imagine how you will feel after accomplishing this juice feast!”

Go to http://www.studiojules.com/rawcards.html to download a PDF of some cards for you!They are 10 up on a page – print them, cut them out, tape them everywhere! I have some on the cupboard doors that I stare at when I am juicing. And one on my dashboard of my car!

I’m am happy that I had a weak moment, actually I can’t say “weak moment” since I think its only natural that the body is putting out these messages – it means that things are moving, changing, healing.

My dog and I had a really nice long walk in the park today – It was so beautiful out and some of the trees are starting to bud bright green leaves. When we returned, I finished a quart and about 30 minutes later I became extremely tired. I took a nap and slept for almost 4 hours hard. This is the 2nd time that has happened, I’m glad my office is at home and I had the time to take that rest. But now I am staying up late to get some work done!

The hot tea was really satisfying as I didn’t want to drink juice this late.

Oh, I made a quart of honey dew melon juice today – it was amazing! Almost too sweet to drink. Half a melon = 1 quart!