I saw you at the Farmers Market on Sunday (eyeing the cookies!) (; AND then I saw you last night at ACME! We've never met, duh, but I have been a long time follower. I don't know why but I get all nervous/shy when I see a Tumblr IRL so I don't say hi. I enjoy reading your posts - you're very witty and even prettier IRL!
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greskoed
ha! That was definitely me! Jason and I love us some cookies and for some reason don’t feel quite as guilty if we split one. It didn’t matter on Sunday though since we couldn’t agree on a flavor and just got our own which I inhaled in 2.2 seconds. le sigh.
But next time, please, say hi! I loooove meeting blog peeps in real life. In fact, at Acme, I was with Suze and we were having dinner for the first time IRL. I also just ran into my twitter/blog pal Jessie on Saturday.
It was so great putting a real voice with their virtual voices. Fun times!
Though, if you show up at Cantina South tonight you might have some explainin’ to do. (kidding!)
With all these questions popping in about cleansing, I figured I’d share with you what I’ve been starting my mornings off with - and that is a nice big glass of green juice. It’s super energizing and tasty and I haven’t done a full-fledged cleanse in a few months, so this is a nice way to still incorporate freshly made juices.
Don’t let the color scare you off you’re a juicing newbie. Starting your day with this juice is incredibly refreshing. You will feel great!
I basically tweak my concoction to whatever I have in stock (which currently is what’s listed above). As long as you remember the apples and the lemon, you can’t really go wrong. The apples add a little sweetness and the lemon cuts the green nicely.
Drink up!
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Anonymous
Hi! I used the Three Day Cleanse which is by the makers of the Blueprint Cleanse. My full post is here.
It appears the search function does not work at all on this new site, so I need to figure that out. Anyone have any tips?
Hi Julie, I just bought the "3 Day Juice Cleanse" book and I'm going to do a juice cleanse at the end of the month. Do you have any helpful hints? Mostly I'm concerned about the juices going "bad"- I was planning on making all the juice for the day the night before, but I'm a little worried about the freshness of the juice. Did you make everything the day before or in the morning or right before you drank it? Also, do you have favorite juices that I should try out? Thanks!
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ishalltellyouall
Awesome! The 3 day cleanse is such a great way to reboot and get rid of the gunk in your body. You’ll feel great at the end of it, even though you may not feel so great during the middle!
Before you cleanse, you’ll probably be tempted to eat all the bad things that you won’t be eating while on the cleanse, but this is a bad idea. For 3-5 days before the cleanse, try to eat really clean - veggies, lean proteins,and reduce your caffeine and sugar intake (if you normally have two cups of coffee, just have one). Doing this will make your cleanse experience much, much easier since you’ll have less detox to go through.
The grapefruit, strawberry, mint juice is definitely my favorite and would be so perfect this time of year - strawberries are totes in season. And yes, I think you will be fine if you make your juices the night before each day of the cleanse. That’s what I did and they were tasty and wonderful. I just wouldn’t make all the juices for every day of the cleanse all at once because a) that is a lot of work! and b) by day 3, your juices will be decidedly much less ripe.
Good luck on your cleanse and give me a shout if you have any questions or concerns during it!
It’s so flippin cold in my office that I’m literally spending my lunch hour just standing in the sun.
Alternatively (and thanks to the wind blowing my skirt around), I could caption this photo, “Look ma! No legs!” (Taken with instagram)
It’s official. I’ve switched my blog hosting platform back to tumblr. For those interested in the history of my blog, it started out on tumblr and then I moved it to Wordpress in late 2010. Since I can’t ever seem to make up my mind about anything, I’m back to tumblr… hopefully for good. Yay!
This doesn’t mean much for you, dear readers, except that I’m hoping it will be easier for me to blog on the go.
I’m still working out some kinks like getting comments up and running and making sure everything from the old site transferred over. If you see anything that looks wonky, please, please email me: Julie@thedailyjulie.com. Thanks!
I mean, it’s not like I’m trying to workout or anything. (Taken with instagram)
When I was invited to be part of this month’s BlogHer Book Club* and the book was Lost and Found by Geneen Roth, I was hesitant to join (we’ll get to why in a moment), but money is such a taboo topic, especially among women, that my curiosity eventually got the best of me and I accepted a copy to read mostly because I wanted to read about Geneen’s own trials, tribulations and struggles with money and shopping. As a girl who pens a blog with a large focus on fashion you might guess that I like to shop! And I don’t just like to shop. I love it… sometimes to my own financial and psychological detriment. So yeah, there’s another person out there that loves shopping and wants to do it even though she shouldn’t? Tell me your story!
Read on for my full review.
Roth’s book starts the day she found out that she and her husband lost $1,000,000 (yep, one million – their entire retirement nest egg) by investing with Bernie Madoff. She explores why she couldn’t see this disaster coming and ultimately comes to the conclusion that what was true for her (and probably a lot of women) is that you just don’t want to think about your money so you entrust someone else to take care of it for you. As Roth continues to explore her relationship with money and how she is now forced to carefully analyze every purchase she makes, it felt like basically everything she wrote was plucked straight from my own experience. Every instance of how “buying things” and “stuff” created these secondary problems in her life was a total lightswitch flicking on inside my head. How many times have I (or perhaps you, dear reader) seen a dress or a pair of shoes or purse or cute hair band or makeup (etc, etc, etc) and angsted for days over whether or not to make the purchase/take the plunge/bite the bullet? As Roth writes, “When we are obsessed with anything – food, drugs, alcohol, making or spending money – the obsession takes on a life of its own and then defines how we spend our time, our energy, our resources.” Yes, yes and double yes! Why am I letting the pursuit of stuff dictate my life. It’s time to take it back, y’all!
Roth continues to reveal many insights such as this throughout the book and she engages the reader by sharing lots of personal details. Plus, I have to still feel a little sorry for her – the woman lost a million freakin’ dollars. But alas, life goes on and Roth picks up the pieces and presses on. While reading this book, I was worried I would come to feel guilty about my relationship with money but it was exactly the opposite. Roth described her (my?) feelings and attitude toward money in a way that I never could have. It was on point but also very nonjudgmental and revelatory.
While this book was a fairly quick and easy read, my only comment is that it got to be a little redundant. I felt it could have been easily been written as a long essay for a magazine rather than a full fledged novel and I still would have gotten the same takeaways.
But overall, if you have struggled with your relationship with money or are just interested in hearing the perspective of someone who lost a lot of it, I’d definitely recommend this book!
*I am compensated for my time to review this book, but all opinions have been and always will be my own.
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(It’s hard to make a dish like this look pretty but it tastes fab. trust)
I am by no means a vegetarian, vegan or raw foodist, but I totally appreciate the philosophy behind eating foods that whole, natural and low in sugar and dairy. While, I’ll never give up my morning coffee with cream (been there, tried that, failed miserably), I am trying to reduce the “bad” things I put in my body while increasing the “good” things. Bad means anything processed, high in bad fats or sugar and good means anything natural, whole and full of vitamins and minerals. And by “reduce”, I mean replace some traditional dishes with healthier alternatives and keep a focus on consuming mostly plants.
So, when I came across the book Eat Well, Eat Raw, I picked it up and immediately found a few recipes to try. My personal goal is to eating mostly raw for breakfast and lunch. We’ll just ignore the Combos I got from the vending machine yesterday at 2 pm, okay?. I’m still learning how much it takes to make me full when I’m eating vegetable noodles instead of regular noodles.
I really like that this book breaks it down by meals (like most cookbooks, I guess) but it also tells you in big bold letters what, if any, equipment you’d need to make a recipe. So, I skip right over the ones that require a dehydrator or spiralizer or mandoline because I have none of those. There’s still plenty to choose from though, so don’t worry your skinny little head.
For the past two days, I’ve been eating raw “fettuccine alfredo” for lunch. It uses a sauce recipe that came from the aforementioned book. Let me just tell you that when I made that alfredo sauce with nary a piece of cheese in site, I couldn’t believe how amazing it tasted. Like I was for sure thinking this was going to taste like turds and vomit, but it is aaaaaamazing! I even gave Jason a blind taste test and he of the “if there’s no meat, it’s not a meal” mindset even liked it. And what’s even better is that after I have a big bowl of my raw-ified version of fettuccine alfredo, I feel totally great and energized, not sleepy and bloated and guilty.
Read on for the recipe deets!
So, here’s what you do:
For the noodles (yield 2 servings)
- 3 zucchinis
- 8-10 asparagus stalks
- half a lemon
- sea salt
Using a vegetable peeler, shred the zucchini and asparagus stalks. You’ll shred the zucchini all the way around, stopping once you get to the seeds. For the asparagus, I found that laying it flat on a cutting board and shredding it until I could shred no more was the most effective. Next, toss your peeled veggie bits together and squeeze lemon juice over them and sprinkle with sea salt. Toss again and let them sit for about 20 minutes.
For the alfredo sauce (yield 1.5 cups - note, the book’s recipe yields 3 cups, but I thought that was way too much for little ole me)
- 1 cup of raw cashews that have been soaking in water for about 30 minutes
- 1/3 c. filtered water
- 1.5 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp cold pressed olive oil
- 0.5 tbsp brown rice miso
- 0.5 tbsp lemon juice (use that other half of the lemon from the noodles)
- sea salt
Add everything to a blender and blend until smooth. You’ll use about half of the sauce (so 3/4 c.) if you toss it with the noodles and you’ll have two servings. Use the other half to just eat straight up with a spoon or if you have shame (me, I have none) spread it on crackers or dip carrots into it or whatever you want, really.
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