Happy Birthday Birgie! (Posted by Angie)

Hi Everyone,

Yes it was a nice day yesterday and Birgie I am glad that you are happy with your juicer. There is lots of information out there with regard to the nutritional and healing aspects of juicing and another benefit is the fun of discovering new tastes and knowing that it is natural goodness going straight to your cells! Have fun with it and enjoy! Go with your instinct too, not just what you read. Even very basic combinations like apples and carrots are yummy. I like to add beets sometimes as they are high in iron and sooo good for your blood! If you can get organic fruit and veggies its even better though costs a bit more. Organic is free of the chemicals and pesticides sprayed on our fruits and veggies to make them look nicer. Even No Frills carries organic veggies now which is awesome. The less chemicals we put in our body the healthier we will be. So adding a few cents to our food bill isn't such a high price to pay when you think of health and wellness really. Who can put a price on that!

Janine your cake was awesome!!!!!!! Honestly as I said I have never ever eaten a cake so yummy. If you can post the recipe that would be great! I think that I would like to make a special request for my 60th birthday for that cake ... hehe.

I am trying to make a conscious choice in some eliminations myself. I have learned there are 5 "white devils" and 5 "black devils" that are highly addictive in our diets and can cause problems.
The white devils are : Refined white Sugar, Processed Salt, Wheat Flour, white powdered chemicals eg... MSG, artifical sweeteners, and Dairy products. The 5 black devils are: Coffee, Tea, alcoholic beverages, chocolate (sorry Jess) and Black Pepper. Apparently Black pepper can be very addictive and may cause bladder and urethra (sp?) problems. Now I'm not going to jump off a cliff and elminate everything. Janine I hounour your decision to cut out Salt and Sugar. I recall Matt trying to eliminate Sugar at the beginning of our journey and he seemed really stoked on that. Its all an individual choice. I am going to choose two as well. Those being Coffee and Wheat products. Giving this a week I will try to keep those out of my life and move on to eliminate two more and let you know which ones next week adding two more as i go.

So nice to see you all yesterday and glad we had such a sunny day for your birthday celebration Birgie!

Love,
Angie