Making Love in the Kitchen

This is the fourth or maybe fifth time I have done this cleanse and everytime I miss the same thing. Crunching! I miss chewing. The toughest is when I used to try out the eight or ten day juice fasts and then even when you start eating food, you have to ease yourself back on to the solids. I don’t know about you, but in the last three days, what I found the toughest on the Green Smoothie Cleanse was putting all these fresh, organic veggies into the blender without being able to crunch their goodness.

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As we move into Green Smoothie mode, we’re probably beginning to realize that when on the cleanse, there isn’t much difference between what we eat for breakfast compared to what we eat for dinner. Actually, in many cultures, there is no difference. Whoever decided that a bagel and orange juice was breakfast, well, he didn’t do us any favours.

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It is medicine season! Seriously. Now I don’t mean that it is time to line up at the doctor’s office for vaccines or prescriptions or any of that nonsense stuff. Dear me no. I am talking about all the goodies popping up from the earth, wild for the most part, that just might serve to heal our woes.

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Here she be. My super healing summer soup made with 95% local ingredients! I don’t care how hot it is, second only to a smoothie, there is nothing easier to make than a big pot of soup. I ate this for every meal for a good day and a half.

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While I was up at my cottage in early July, when it was a gazillion degrees outside, I decided it was the perfect conditions for a soup. Why? Because that day I had harvested a very special ingredient from the nearby woods which makes a soup extra powered healthy.

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Josh and I have a super nerdy nutritionist game that we play. It goes like this:
Josh: “Hey Megs, Would you like a cup of tea”.
Meghan: “ I sure would!”
J: “What kind?”
M: “You’ll do the right thing”.

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I love my Vitamix. In fact, I don’t know anyone who owns one who doesn’t love it. Not a day goes by that I don’t hear the sweet whirring of the greatest room-mate I may ever have. Now, because I love my Vitamix so much, and because I love it so much I got my mother to get one and at long last got my man to pick one up too, I wanted you to have one also.

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For someone who lives on fast food and beer, a Green Smoothie Cleanse would probably be torturous… for the first time. It might still be rough the second and third time too. But things would start to change. That garbage food would stop tasting very good. He might even start to notice how his energy levels are affected when he eats whole food versus unprocessed food. He might notice his skin look clearer, his eyes get brighter, his bathroom habits become more… um… regular. He might wake-up before noon and (gasp) want to be active!

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As generally healthy eating peeps (I give you the benefit of the doubt because you’re reading me), we are freaking ridiconculously crazified for kale chips. We really are.

We are all over these raw treats. Kale chips are awesome and we love the idea of drinking fresh veggie juices everyday and then taking all that pulp to make the most amazing raw crackers. Then, in our minds, we see ourselves munching on our home grown sprouts, while our liver sings us love songs and our intestines wave their celebratory fibre flags of victory.

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I have always associated jam with old men. Wait. I know this sounds gross, but for my entire childhood, the only person I knew who ate jam was my grandpa Gene. And it wasn’t even jam. It was marmalade. Orange marmalade on toast was my grandpa’s favourite. He used to tell us this joke all the time about a chicken and I can’t remember it but the punch line was “Look at the orange marmalade”- a play on “Look at the orange mama laid” but either way it never really made send to me.

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Summer life is in full swing and sometimes that can be none-too-much fun for those of us who prefer to avoid meat off a grill. Also not too fun for those of us who also prefer to avoid weird mystery ‘meat’ veggie burgers. Now… how about a veggie burger made with actual vegetables? There’s something new and fun!

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It is rare that I leave the city, unless it is to go up to my cottage, fly across the country or to another country. On a recent and rare adventure, I got in my car to visit a land far, far away (commonly known as the suburbs). Raspberries were calling my name. “Meghan! Come pick me!” They yelled.

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Basil and Mint are like brothers from different mothers. They are in season at the same time, they kind of look alike if you squint and taste oh, so amazing together. The one major difference, outside of taste, is that mint grows like a weed on speed and basil, well, I have a gift for killing plants and let’s just say basil isn’t tough enough to handle my developmentally disabled green thumb.

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Did that heading draw you in? Come on now, be honest? I am not going to even begin to understand our collective desire to be a heap of skin and bones. As I’ve said many a time, I would so much rather be chubby and just keep eating great food, and living the way I live.

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I can’t stop sipping. I can’t! Ever since I started experimenting with recipes for my new ebook Summer Sipping and testing out all the sweet treats my delicious readers sent in, I just can’t stop mixing goodies up in my blender and sipping the day away with these delightfully refreshing bevvies.

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