Juicy!

Meagan here, As moms, we all try to make healthy choices when we are pregnant and nursing. I try to make sure my toddler gets lots of fruits and veggies and we try not to let her have a lot of junk. As I mentioned in my intro, I’m semi “granola.” I love killing plants with my brown thumb and even had a nice garden last summer. As much as I would like to garden again this year, I just don’t see that happening with a toddler and a new baby  I’ve derailed… I have been juicing for a while and have recently watched the documentary “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead” and I LOVED IT! It got me even MORE excited about juicing. It talks a lot about juice fasts (which I plan to try after I’m done nursing). I also watched one called “Forks Over Knives,” and it really has changed the way I look at food (don’t watch it unless you are ready to give up meat and dairy). I am trying to find ways to cut back on the meat we eat in our house, and being married to a “meat and potatoes” man won’t make that easy. He and I have very different eating habits, and he is going to take some work. But with the girls being so young, I’m hoping it will be easier to teach them about making healthy choices now instead of waiting until they are older and have poor eating habits. My toddler has been helping me at the juicer and really gets excited about it! She asks for juice quite often, and I love giving her juice that doesn’t have added processed sugar and preservatives! This morning she helped me make some with 3 Oranges, 1 carrot, 2 white nectarines and a handful of raspberries… we both sucked it down! It was delicious! We also love Spinach, kale, celery, carrot, cucumber, kiwi and apple juice. It’s green and doesn’t look like it would taste good but it is wonderful! She calls it “Hulk juice” because it’s green and makes you strong like the Hulk. I have a glass of fresh juice in the morning with/for breakfast and usually at least one more glass with lunch or dinner. It’s nice knowing I’m passing nutrients on to the baby in my breast milk. Eventually, I want us to be at least a semi-meat-free home but that will take some time.