Day 21 of Partial Reboot

Sunday, July 1st, marked Day 21 of our Partial Reboot experience! We're still calling it that for now, because we aren't necessarily following all the Reboot with Food rules, but we are following a set of our own adapted rules that we can improve upon once we're ready to.

These rules are as follows:
1. Swap 2 meals plus one snack with a Juice or Smoothie, totaling 3 per day.
2. All other foods must stick to a plant-based diet; no meat, no dairy, no processed junk.
3. Snacks must be as close to nature as we can manage: veggies, fruits, nuts, hummus (no tahini if we can find it), guacamole, flax wraps, popcorn (kettle is as naughty as we'll go), and Bee likes to eat dates with breakfast.
4. We allow cheats about once per week. So if someone makes dinner for us with cheese or meat, we aren't going to insult anybody. We just eat it, enjoy it, and move on with life!


Breakfast: Orange Shmorange

Lunch: stir-fried summer squash and broccoli with cashews and tofu

Snack: leftover Juice, apple, flax wrap, celery with kalamata hummus

Dinner: we are assuming some sort of a Juice or a Smoothie, because we haven't broken any meal rules... We must have been too tired to even take a picture!

Day 20 of Partial Reboot

Saturday, June 30th, marked Day 20 of our Partial Reboot experience! We're still calling it that for now, because we aren't necessarily following all the Reboot with Food rules, but we are following a set of our own adapted rules that we can improve upon once we're ready to.

These rules are as follows:
1. Swap 2 meals plus one snack with a Juice or Smoothie, totaling 3 per day.
2. All other foods must stick to a plant-based diet; no meat, no dairy, no processed junk.
3. Snacks must be as close to nature as we can manage: veggies, fruits, nuts, hummus (no tahini if we can find it), guacamole, flax wraps, popcorn (kettle is as naughty as we'll go), and Bee likes to eat dates with breakfast.
4. We allow cheats about once per week. So if someone makes dinner for us with cheese or meat, we aren't going to insult anybody. We just eat it, enjoy it, and move on with life!


Breakfast: Bee made two flavors for the day, and we took the leftovers to work.

This turned out to be WAY too tangy for not only Owl,
but for Bee as well!

Orange Shmorange, with zucchini added.

For here, or to-go?

 Lunch: some sort of veggie stir-fry at work

Snack: one of the above juices! Plus an apple, a wrap and some nuts.

Dinner: we are fairly certain that the below zucchini, given to Bee by her Aunt Pat, was slaughtered for the this meal. However, we have no pictorial evidence of said slaughter.

Death of a zucchini.

Day 19 of Partial Reboot

Friday, June 29th, marked Day 19 of our Partial Reboot experience! We're still calling it that for now, because we aren't necessarily following all the Reboot with Food rules, but we are following a set of our own adapted rules that we can improve upon once we're ready to.

These rules are as follows:
1. Swap 2 meals plus one snack with a Juice or Smoothie, totaling 3 per day.
2. All other foods must stick to a plant-based diet; no meat, no dairy, no processed junk.
3. Snacks must be as close to nature as we can manage: veggies, fruits, nuts, hummus (no tahini if we can find it), guacamole, flax wraps, popcorn (kettle is as naughty as we'll go), and Bee likes to eat dates with breakfast.
4. We allow cheats about once per week. So if someone makes dinner for us with cheese or meat, we aren't going to insult anybody. We just eat it, enjoy it, and move on with life!


Well, it's been a busy week, and we both have been too tired to blog every night, so details of our daily meals are a bit foggy. We'll just have to do our best to remember!

Breakfast: Orange Shmorange!

Lunch: sensible salads at Panera, no meat or dairy, and we split one piece of bread!

Snack: leftover Orange Shmorange, probably an apple or some nuts

Dinner: the following Smoothie, which is Greenia Colada, but instead of frozen pineapple we swapped it for frozen mixed berries. It tasted... a little weird. So that's a no-go, for next time.

Day 18 of Partial Reboot!

Thursday marked Day 18 of our Partial Reboot experience! We're still calling it that for now, because we aren't necessarily following all the Reboot with Food rules, but we are following a set of our own adapted rules that we can improve upon once we're ready to.

These rules are as follows:
1. Swap 2 meals plus one snack with a Juice or Smoothie, totaling 3 per day.
2. All other foods must stick to a plant-based diet; no meat, no dairy, no processed junk.
3. Snacks must be as close to nature as we can manage: veggies, fruits, nuts, hummus (no tahini if we can find it), guacamole, flax wraps, popcorn (kettle is as naughty as we'll go), and Bee likes to eat dates with breakfast.
4. We allow cheats about once per week. So if someone makes dinner for us with cheese or meat, we aren't going to insult anybody. We just eat it, enjoy it, and move on with life!


We did very well today! We managed to make all 3 meals, (plus one snack) a Juice or a Smoothie! We just paired the lunch and dinner Juices with hummus and veggie wraps (small ones) for more sustenance. We had our other snacks as usual, and we're feeling good.

Bee's headaches and eczema are back this week, so we're wondering if it's hormonal, stress, or the fact that she snuck some chocolate. Twice.


Anyway, here's what we had today. For breakfast:

Orange Shmorange, plus cucumbers and a golden beet!

oh! and this apple, too

looks so purdy :)

A bit of a twist to Orange Shmorange!

For lunch:

It looks like Ecto Cooler!

Nice Green Juice (instead of Mean Green!)

Yields 1.5 Qts.

a bunch of Kale

2 Zucchinis

5 Kiwis

2 Green Apples

a bunch of Spinach

(if too sour, toss in some grapes or carrots!)

Annnnd for dinner:

Greenia Colada, but with mangoes instead of pineapple!
(and we decided to skip the purple kale)

LOVE the color combination!

Day 17 of Partial Reboot

Wednesday marked Day 17 of our Partial Reboot experience! We're still calling it that for now, because we aren't necessarily following all the Reboot with Food rules, but we are following a set of our own adapted rules that we can improve upon once we're ready to.

These rules are as follows:
1. Swap 2 meals plus one snack with a Juice or Smoothie, totaling 3 per day.
2. All other foods must stick to a plant-based diet; no meat, no dairy, no processed junk.
3. Snacks must be as close to nature as we can manage: veggies, fruits, nuts, hummus (no tahini if we can find it), guacamole, flax wraps, popcorn (kettle is as naughty as we'll go)
4. We allow cheats about once per week. So if someone makes dinner for us with cheese or meat, we aren't going to insult anybody. We just eat it, enjoy it, and move on with life!

Tuesday we had attempted a day of Juice Fasting, but that backfired at the end of the night. But that's okay, because we nearly made it, so we know that we'll be able to do it next time!

We Juiced for breakfast, snack, and dinner, and had veggies and tofu for lunch...

Orange Shmorange, with zucchini added, lessons the sweetness 

and makes a bigger batch of Juice!

Berry Green Juice

Yields 1 Qt.

Zucchini

2 Green Apples

lots of Kale (forgot how much!)

2 cups Spinach

1.5 cups Blueberries

1.5 cups Black Grapes

Day 16: Our First Juice Fast Test!

Today is "Day 16" of our Partial Reboot juicing experience, however, today we have decided to try out a day of Juice Fasting!


Breakfast was the adapted version of "Orange Shmorange," the ever tasty "Sunset Over the Trees."

For lunch, we had:

hmmm, is this enough? Maybe we should add...

...a green apple! Yes, but is that enough? Let's add...

...a zucchini!

Peaches 'n Greens

Yields 1 Qt. (plus about 1 cup extra)

2 White Nectarines

2 Peaches

5 Kiwis

1 Zucchini

2 cups Kale

LOADS of Spinach! (4 cups is our guess)

And we got hungry again, so we cheated with a Greenia Colada Smoothie for our snack instead of a juice. We made our own coconut milk this time, because last time the coconut was rotten and moldy and we couldn't use it.

Coconut meats plus coconut water, and a cup of HOT water.

  

blend until smooth...

put into juicer...

here come the coconut milk!

1 Coconut = about 16 oz. Coconut Milk

It's so WHITE!

Blend milk with the other ingredients...

...oooh, pretty!

Wait, there's MORE! Free bra included!

Bee has had a headache since about 3:00pm. There are multiple factors that could be the cause, not just the Juice Fast. She is also very irritable today, also not necessarily due to the fasting. It could very likely be due to hormonal... issues. And problems with other human beings. And lack of chocolate to fix them.


And we haven't yet decided on dinner. But we will, because it is around that time right now! The fasting isn't fun so far, only because we know we have kettle corn popcorn to eat, and some nice salad leftovers... So we'll post the rest of the day in a few hours and see what happens next!


***UPDATE***


So we ate real food for dinner.


We got to a point where we could probably have made it through and gone to bed, but then we realized now wasn't the time for a juice fast because we had a leftover salad that needed to be eaten, plus hummus and other things that were just going to go to waste...


...and we were hungry.


But don't worry, we paired it with a Juice! :D

Day 15 of Partial Reboot

Monday was "Day 15" of our Partial Reboot juicing experience! We're doing our best (key word is BEST here) to swap 2 major meals a day with Juice fresh from our Omega Vert juicer. We're now allowing only a (mostly) vegan, or "clean" meal for our other major meal, staying away from too many fats or calories, or processed food. We're still eating healthy snacks, as close to nature as we can possibly get them. Little by little, we're whittling away the junk!

For breakfast we did a little adaptation to Orange Shmorange, and swapped the oranges for fresh pineapple instead!

With the greens... and then without the greens.

Bee likes to call this...

Sunset Over the Trees

Yields 1.5 Qt.

1/2 Cantaloupe

1/2 Pineapple

about 10 organic Carrots

a few leaves of Kale

3 cups of Spinach

This one tasted great, too! Another new favorite!

Bee got an idea inspired by the coconut sitting on the table, to try a new kind of Smoothie. Only the coconut was moldy inside, but luckily we have coconut milk in stock!

Only partially processed...

Liquids first, then solids, then frozen things!

*whirrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

SOOOOO pretty!

Greenia Colada

Yields 1 Qt. plus 1 cup

3 cups Coconut Milk

2 frozen Bananas

8oz. frozen Pineapple

2 cups Spinach

WOW! It tasted FABULOUS! The frozen bananas and pineapples made the drink cold and frothy. What a treat! Though there is a bit of fat due to the coconut, and a little sugar added in the coconut milk, it still was a lot healthier than anything else we would have eaten before!