crush on the caboose

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We received a lot of love yesterday at the Winter Farmer's Market.  St. Patrick's Day made it a great day to be out.  Lots of good cheer, green stuff and as you can see above, STREET FOOD!  Our Raw Vegan Shamrock Shake was a huge hit.  But you don't have to take our word for it, just listen to the true Tweet we received from Jabbers19:

"I wish I could wake up every morning to one of your Shamrock Shakes!!!! Thank you !!"

Our response:

"If I'm open and you need a Shamrock Shake you come see me.  There will always be a Shamrock Shake in store for you!"

And it's true.  For the regular price of a smoothie or juice we can make up your own combination or you can request a former Feature.  

We're so glad everyone had a such a great day and enjoyed our drinks so much.  We sure love making them! 

Juicy Suzy

FUNdraising

              

So much fun was had on Saturday at the Whole Planet Foundation fundraiser at Whole Foods Park Royal.  I had no idea how incredibly excited and supportive all the Team Members at the store would be.  It was awesome!  I look forward to our return on Saturday March 24th.  Here's hoping for sunnier weather that day and doubling our sales!  We managed to raise $375 for Whole Planet's microcredit loans.  That's two women's lives that were changed, one juice and smoothie at a time!  

Juicy Suzy  

banana buckwheat

Someday I hope to put together a book of recipes.  In it you will find the Banana Buckwheat Smoothie.  I had this one for breakfast this morning.  It's super filling, sweet and delicious.  A great way to start the day.

Juicy Suzy

winter farmer's market 2012

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This Saturday is our first Market of 2012!  Please come out to Nat Bailey Stadium for the Winter Farmer's Market.  Stock your fridge with local produce and enjoy other delicious treats local vendors like the JUICE CABOOSE!!  We will be there rain or shine!  I will have my eye on the weather this week and will do my best to provide a well suited Smoothie of the Day to fuel you in whatever comes.

We have 3 other dates booked for the Winter Market until it wraps up in April.  Please check out the Juice Caboose schedule to confirm which Saturday's we will be there.    

See you there!

Juicy Suzy

in season - march

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I was just wondering what the first Smoothie of the Day will be this Saturday at the Winter Farmer's Market for the year 2012.  I decided to look up what's in season at this time of year.  I found this great little site, Daily Green that has each month and all year long lists among many other resources for green living.  Check out What's In Season for March.  

Don't be worried.  It won't be an artichoke smoothie I assure you.  At least not yet!

Juicy Suzy

juice caboose at whole foods park royal

Two good reasons to come out:

1.  All the money from sales is going to a non profit organization where all administrative fees are paid by the corporation of Whole Foods not the non profit Whole Planet Foundation and therefore 100% of money raised goes to alleviating poverty and continues to alleviate poverty.

2.  Whole Foods is taking a chance on a awesome local company that is strongly committed to the environment, community, small businesses and women!  

The goodness that goes around comes around!

Come drink some juice or smoothies on Saturday March 10th and 24th from 12 - 4 pm at Whole Foods Park Royal.

Juicy Suzy

cold remedy #2 (raw, vegan)

I tried out the "Cantaloupe Cold Cure" by David Wolfe found in his book The Sunfood Diet Success System.  I was hugely impressed with the effectiveness of this particular remedy.  For one, I didn't follow David's instructions to a T and it still seems to have worked.  Here is a general overview of the Cantaloupe Cold Cure:

-  Go to bed early

-  Do not eat anything until noon after waking

-  Eat an entire cantaloupe.  

-  Do not eat anything for the next 4 hours.

-  If symptoms persist drink 1/2 a quart daily of the 'Medicine' drink.

Here's where the true effectiveness came in for me.

David Wolfe's Medicine Drink

-  1 ripe red Jalopeno or orange Habanero

-  5 ribs of Bok Choy

-  10 Kale leaves  

Juiced.  

I added an apple to mine.  I was pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to handle the intensity of the pepper as I'm not a big pepper fan.  The drink wasn't overly delicious but it was better than Buckley's.  The first sip I didn't think I would be able to handle the rest of the drink but I slowed myself down, relaxed and drank the rest.  It wasn't as spicy as I had predicted.  A little while later... I felt great!  Really great! Revived great!  Conquer the world great!  I was so impressed.  For the rest of the day, I noticed that all my cold symptoms seemed to slowly be dissipating.  The sniffles left.  My sinuses cleared.  This truly was a cure which wasn't what I expected.  I had thought it would really just be a remedy and support healing but my symptoms just seemed to clear up. 

It reminded me of this quote from Friends (minus the sarcasm):

"Isn't that just kick-you-in-the-crotch, spit-on-your-neck, fantastic".

I will definitely be keeping this recipe for my old wives recipe book and pulling it out for all future flus and colds that come along. 

Juicy Suzy