Prep Time

Last week we were snowed in an pretty much bored with the internet and most of what was available on Netflix. That is until we came across Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. As we had been stuck at home for a week, not really eating poorly, but not great either, and just returning from a 3 mile hike to the store, and about to dive into a box of cookies, it wasnt my top choice of movies to watch. But it had come highly recommended so we did it. 

At the end of the movie, as with any movie of it's type, we were fully on board with this idea to drink just juice for 10 days. We logged onto Join the Reboot and got going on our quest. We both took the assessment and assessed into the Reboot Entry Program. This should make it a little easier, as we will both be eating the same thing. Here's a little more about this program:

"Our entry plan is a 15 day journey to wellness. In this plan, you can juice and blend produce as well as eat raw and cooked vegetables and fruits in any order or combination that suits your life. This program is intended for those who are brand new to eating a plant-based diet, those who have recently completed a juice fast or those who would like to participate in a Reboot, but don’t want to exclusively juice, for 5 days. In this program you can juice with eating for the entire time."

They recommend you wait a week before starting the reboot in order to clean out your fridge and prepare. During that week we continued to talk about how we were still feeling about it, told our friends and family what was coming for us and just mentally prepared ourselves as best we could. Most everyone thinks we're nuts. But we're used to that anyway. Mostly what I heard from people was "yeah, there's no way I could do that." Then I started to think, "Eh, you can do almost anything for 15 days." Then I started to compile a list of things you can't do in 15 days. For example: go without food, run a marathon, continually be ass raped in prison...you know, things like that. But drink juice and eat just fruits and veggies for 15 days? Yeah, I think I got that covered. 

Last night before I left the office I made up our grocery list of things we'd need to buy just based on the first 3 days of recipes. It was more things than I think I may have ever bought in a trip to the store before ever. There are 66 individual things on it. Rob said "um, WHAT?!??!"

We made the decision years ago, to buy as much organic as possible. And after watching Food, Inc. I decided all fresh produce with skin that is going into my body must be organic. Yes, it's that scary. That said, we decided to go to Central Market over Whole Foods. Hoping the price would be cheaper. Maybe, maybe not. It was going to be expensive no matter how we sliced it. But Central Market was on the way home and we know that store pretty well, so off we went. 

We got to the store and grabbed one of the smaller half carts. Stupid. 

About 1/4 of the way through the list, Rob went and got another normal sized cart. We filled it too. 

We bought things I'd never bought before, didn't even know what it looked like. Do you know what a Comice Pear is? Yeah, me either. Turns out it's just a pear. How about Arame Seaweed? Nope, no idea. Found it though. It's sold dried. You have to soak it. Also didn't know what Jicama was. I thought it looked similar to a zucchini. Nope, looks more like the love child of an apple and a white potato. 

Jicama Ladies and Gentlemen

The strangest, perhaps most comedic part is there we are standing in the grocery store, in front of the produce section, with the signs above saying things like "Jicama $2.49/lb" etc, and looking below that still had no idea what the hell we were looking at. So we Googled it. 

Then we picked up the remainder of our items and headed to the check out line. It was about 3 items in when the checker and the bagger started asking "so??? what's with all the produce?" We told them we were going on a juice fast. The girl bagging our groceries asked if we just watched "Fat, Sick.." and I told her we did. She said she had watched it last week during the snow on Netflix too. They asked us to let them know how it goes, so when we are out of food, we'll go back with an update. 

Rob and I always play this little "guess how much everything will cost" game as we check out with large purchases like this....We both thought somewhere around $200. That wouldve been lovely. Nope. Brace yourself people: $360. 

And remember, we only bought groceries to fulfill the recipes for the FIRST 3 DAYS! Driving home we just kept saying, "this will have to last more than 3 days.....it just has too." 

After we got it all home and cleaned out the fridge (oldest thing in there? expired in 2007!) reloaded the fridge, and then again said, "there is no way were eating all this food in 3 days!" The fridge is so full we cant fit anything else in it. 

The only thing left to do last night was finish off the box of cookies, drink the rest of my coffee, eat the buffalo meat we bought the week before, and polish off any leftovers that were going to be tempting. Sounds like a lot, but it really wasnt. 

Then we watched a few episodes of The X-Files and went to bed.