Warm weather ends love affair with ginger.

It's perhaps not surprising that with the warm weather we've been having lately my taste buds have changed.

Ginger now tastes disgusting - after being totally addicted to it for months.

And the though of putting soaked dates in my smoothie to sweeten it makes me feel queasy:~

One day I made my favorite morning carrot, lemon and ginger juice, and added some left over broccoli stems and a couple to stalks of celery as I often do.

And the juice tasted nasty:(

At first I thought I'd either overdone the lemon, or that the broccoli was making it taste bitter, but began to suspect the ginger when I realized that I had no desire to put it in my lunch time smoothie.

So the next day I left the ginger out and bingo - delicious juice again:)

A Little Light Reading

I've just ordered "Quantum eating" by Tonya Zavasta - which I've been resisting for a while, but as Dave came home with a new Ian Banks the other day I decided it was time for a treat!

Green Smoothie Challenge Update

I'm still totally in love with green smoothies and fresh juices, and have at least one of each every day.

BUT I am struggling to eat lightly in the evenings.

I usually cook (and uncook ) for Dave and Joe in the evening.

And while I no longer feel particularly hungry I often find myself eating with them.

The truth is that I'm more frightened of all the raw emotions that I'm going have to deal with than I realized.

Why do I find the truth so scary, when deep down inside I really want to experience it?