Juicing

According to my research, the latest trend among celebrity cancer survivors, like Lisa Ray and Cynthia Nixon, is juicing - turning green vegetables into a juice and drinking that.  And, of course, I want to do it like the celebrities do.

I've been thinking a lot about the merits of juicing.  It seems to me that it should be better to just eat the vegetables, because then you would get the fibre.  I can, however, see that it would be better to drink a vegetable juice than a coffee or lemonade or fruit juice.  Also, it could help to increase your vegetable intake, if you have a vegetable juice in addition to the normal vegetables you eat.

But I was curious how it would taste.  Since I'm not in Toronto where the trendy juice bars seem to be, I went to Booster Juice.  They only had one pure vegetable juice - spinach, carrots, celery, and parsley.  One size - $5.37.  And, well, it tasted better than I thought - but I had low expectations.  It tasted a lot like if you put a straw into a stick of celery and drink.  The taste of celery dominated.  It was okay but not great.  I only drink about a third of it as I didn't want to make myself ill.  It probably wouldn't have, but I didn't want to take any chances.

I would really like to develop a taste for it and be like Lisa Ray and be able to say it is my secret weapon to good health and beautiful skin.  Maybe I can develop a taste for it slowly, maybe going to Booster Juice with friends whom I could split the juice with.

In the meantime, I am going to stick with salads.  My new thing is making really big, over-the-top salads with local micro-greens and fruit and herbs.  And they taste so much better than the juice!  But the chopping takes a long time, and though I make large portions to save and eat throughout the day, they are probably losing nutrients since they are not freshly cut.

Also, I am driving my family crazy because the only food I seem to like to eat is chicken curry.  It is my comfort food - the Indian version of chicken noodle soup.  It tastes yummy and I feel like it has the magic Ayurvedic ingredients like turmeric, ginger, and cinnamon.  Plus, when my mother asked my specialist what I should eat, she said Indian food. 

I could eat it every day - with some breaks for various versions of spaghetti pomodoro - but how long do I have before my family kills me in my sleep?