I’m feeling a lot of pressure from this juicer giveaway – this isn’t going to be easy. I want to give a juicer to everyone! If you still want a chance to win my old juicer, you’ve got until tonight to leave a comment on yesterday’s post.

I’m still squealing with delight over foam-less juice. Foam didn’t really bother me before, but I think it looks much more appetizing with out it.

Today’s vegetable juice contained a large beet, a carrot, a cucumber, 1/2 head of romaine lettuce, an apple and a lemon. The apple gives it the perfect amount of sweetness.

I spotted this sticker at the bottom of the dishwasher this morning. It must have come off the juicer when it was washed yesterday.

I didn’t think the shoot looked that big though. Really? My hand can fit in there? I don’t believe it.

Well believe it. It fits. Took a bit of finger maneuvering but oh yeah, I got it in there. Guess I can still juice my hand with the new juicer after all.

Thank goodness I’ve never seen a sticker that says “Do Not Put Head In Microwave”. I have no question that my head would fit though. It’s pretty big. (Both my head and the microwave.)

After pushing the limits of my juicer’s safety features and wondering if a picture of my head on the rotating plate of the microwave would be funny, I busted out the crock pot to get a jump start on dinner.

Who wants refried beans?

3 cups of dried pinto beans, sorted and rinsed (I’m using a combo of pinto, red and pink beans today because I only had a quarter bag of pintos)
8 cups of water
1/4 c diced jalapeno peppers (I used jarred)
1 or 2 gloves of garlic
1 – 2 Tbsp cumin
1 Tbsp chili powder
dash of salt

The crock pot is set to high, I’ll stir it occassionally and and will probably move it to low in about 4 – 5 hours to be mashed once they soften up. I think we’ll do burritos for dinner tonight!

For breakfast today I crossed chia pudding with fruit cereal to make breakfast pudding.

Two diced bananas, a tsp of unsweetened cocoa powder, a tablespoon or so of chia seeds with unsweetened chocolate almond milk. Stirred together and placed in the fridge for about 20 minutes so the chia seeds could do their gel thang.

Check it out! The spoon stands right up! The wonder of chia seed gel.

This was ok. I sort of wish I’d have mashed the banana because I felt like I was transported via time machine to a picnic in the 80′s eating that weird jello dessert with chunks of fruit in it. Not the best, but I do think this has some potential.

I feel like I’ve had a bunch of time this morning. What’s up with that? Oh yeah, no work out! Geez man, look at all the things I could do with my time if I didn’t run most mornings! That probably explains though why I haven’t juiced my hand yet. Running keeps me out of trouble.