Day 9 - Fridge Cleaning Time

There is NO room in our fridge, and that’s partly because it’s got stuff in it that we’ll never eat, especially if we change our dastardly-eating-ways.  I spent two hours cleaning it all out (30 minutes of which was assigned just to figuring out which pegholes the shelves were in before), washing down the shelves, hauling all the junk out to the compost pile, and reorganizing the contents (Husband now has his two shelves where things like eggs, milk, guacamole, sandwich meat, etc. are located).

The makings of a pleasant juice, minus the handfuls of spinach.

This morning I made a juice of three kiwi (kiwi’s?), the last of the little orange tomatoes (which, by the way, have a tendency to explode the millisecond you put them in the chute, long before you can get your hand or the plunger over them, seriously, I ended up squeezing them between the fingers of my hand covering the chute and little seeds still ended up on the cabinet door and in my hair), an overripe pear, the pineapple spears that looked as if they were about to make a run for it, a giant cucumber, a giant zucchini, 4 stalks of celery and about 8 cups of spinach.  I find spinach much easier to juice than kale and I may just give up on the kale altogether.  Kale is much easier to eat than to juice, so it may just become a part of our repertoire after juicing.

Aside: Have you ever eaten so much fresh pineapple that your taste buds are “burned” and you don’t taste things the same way you usually do?  Well I know I had pineapple in my juice today, but this started before that.  When I drink water, it tastes funny.  It tastes a lot different than it used to.  I wonder if it’s because of some ph balance in my mouth or body.  Maybe I’ll get used to it.