Friday FarmGirls@Heart...My Journey to Honest Food (Part 3)

What happens when you take a girl with a country-life-heart
and put her in the uber-suburbs of Chicago? Read on!

When you discover lumps and bumps in places where they shouldn't be, it has a way of re-ordering your life. The last 3 weeks have been at times anxious, and at other times very peaceful and settled. In the end, after 3 weeks of eating mostly raw and 95% vegan, the lumps are completely gone, and the Dr. who examined me said she couldn't feel anything at all. Praise the Lord! This is the second time in my life that I have gone through this sort of thing, and both times, the "raw food fast" was present while the lumps disappeared.

I am using the Hallelujah Diet as the basis of my personal plan. I know that some of you like "The Maker's Diet." I have read it, and, simply put, I choose Hallelujah. To each her own! I do modify Hallelujah to include a meat protein once or twice a week. My entire family does not do this diet with me, and I find that I feel good doing this modification anyway. The meat that I do eat is organic, and in the case of beef, it is also 100% grass-fed AND grass-finished. (I will discuss grass-finishing next week.) If I could not get this kind of beef, I wouldn't eat it. Period.

For those who've never "juiced" before, I thought I'd do a photo tour of my morning! I drink fresh carrot juice, and then add another veggie to it for extra flavor and healing power. Lately that has been kale.

Organic veggies are rinsed and trimmed (no need to peel them if they're organic):

Then they're fed into the Champion Juicer:

Juice goes through a screen and drips into my container, and pulp is pushed out the other end into my bowl:

Somebody watches eagerly:

Carrot pulp tastes sweet, and is a favorite treat!

Now I add Kale to the juicer:

Once all the juicing is finished, I strain the juice to remove any remaining pulp, so there is nothing but easily absorbable juice which requires no "digestion." This is to allow all the healthy nourishment of the vitamins and compounds to be completely absorbed into the bloodstream (we're not looking for fiber here...that comes later in the day):

I drink an 8 oz. glass right away, then I pour the rest into 8 oz. jelly jars...all the way to the very top, so no oxygen will be in there when the cap goes on (thus no oxidation to break down the vitamins and nutrient compounds):

Capped juice is stored in the fridge, and becomes my mid-afternoon snack:

Next, the clean-up begins! First, take apart the machine:

Next, wash the parts in cool water:

Wipe down the Champion:

Last, lubricate the rotating blade assembly (I use pure coconut butter...it doesn't get sticky like olive or vegetable oil does, and it smells nice!):

If I am uninterrupted and my countertop is clean and the sink is empty and roomy for me to work quickly, the whole process takes about 20 minutes. If family is around or my sink space is minimized, it'll take me about 30 minutes.

This is my typical lunch...the fiber in my diet does NOT come from juice...it comes from raw fruits and veggies:

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