Healthy Vending Machines!

What!?  Healthy Vending Machines?  Yes please!

Are you at work starving, again?  Do you dread the thought of going to the vending machine?  And when you get there, do you let out a stressful sigh at your choice of either cookies or a candy bar, knowing that you’ll have to stay at the gym and extra 2o minutes tonight to work off your mid-day snack?  I bet you are thinking your job is just enabling your unhealthy habits.  That’s about to change.

Sigh no more! Fresh Healthy Vending is a company that is taking the stress out of snacking choices.  They place vending machines carrying super healthy, organic and delicious snack items in businesses and schools all over the country.  Thankfully, this trend is now growing and it’s getting more popular by the day.

New Blog Layout

Hang tight everyone!  I am testing out new blog layouts today.  Sorry if you see it a little messy!

Learn How to Juice!!!

Want to juice but can't figure out where to start?  Learn the process of juicing fruits and vegetables below!

Disclaimer.  This will be a pretty long blog/article, but it's nothing compared reading a whole book or watching and hour and a half documentary (which I will site at the bottom). I will be breaking it up over the week to cover more related topics. 

Later this week I will go over:                                
Juicing in our everyday lives
Why we decided to juice.
Inspirations, problems.
Veggie vs. the Meat - Proteins
Juicing facts

 Since Tommy and I have been doing this new lifestyle, people are seeing our results and wondering how they too can do what we did.  And it's funny how this blog and everything related kind of accidentally happened.  Once we started juicing, everyone notices the change in us and began asking questions upon questions and we became almost like a walking billboard for HEY I'M JUICING VEGGIES!  I mean, everywhere we went, people stopped us and talked about it.  Even our hockey locker room discussions, which were usually sarcastic and perverted, were all about vegetables and the like.  So all that, lead to this.

I am trying to answer, in easy terms, HOW DO I JUICE!? And no, for those of you unfamiliar with juicing it is not the "performance enhancing" juicing we are talking about, however, I would have to say it does enhance your performance...  Tommy and I have gotten dozens of questions on how, what, when and so on, so I am going to do my best to put it into blog form.


THE EASY STEPS TO JUICING.

What the heck is Juicing?
Juicing is the art of taking fruits and vegetables and extracting the juices by putting them through a juicing machine.  Not to be confused with blending (like you here with a vitamix), as blending you are eating the whole fruit or veggie, pulp and all.  Juicing extracts all the juice from any fruit or veggie (except a banana - tried that a FAILED miserably).

OK OK...

SO the juicing blog post is turning out to be a really long one!  Hey, people wrote entire books and made documentaries on this and I am trying to compact it all into one blog.  I know many of you have been asking and I will get it up this weekend.  Plus, I am participating in the #shineonline blog contest - which is to blog at least 3 times a week for the next 100 days!!  GASP!  It's good if you like to read I suppose, not so good for my little fingers.  Anyways juicing will be up shortly with LOTS of information!  Sorry to keep you waiting!

Juicing!

For those of you who have been asking WHAT we juice and WHY we juice, by Friday, I will be posting our juicing story along with our current juice recipes.  Then as we go , we'll throw in a few more juice recipes that aren't as hard core as our starter juices.

HIKING!

OK, ok.  So we know not every body  has time or there's this or there's that.  But I can assure if you can get out just ONCE you'll be hooked.

We geared up at 7am, loading water, bananas and raw Spirulina bars in our backpack.  Of which I would like to mention, we got Columbia's backpack of the year (2 of them) at the Columbia Outlet for $30 a piece.  SUPER DEAL.  They are lightweight, bright colored, compactable tons of pockets and compartments - that all make sense with outdoor activity.  Even a handy water bottle holder at hands reach and a pocket inside to put a water bladder with hose.  Awesome.  But anyways...

Breakfast consisted of our veggie juice, mangos, cashews and bananas.  Oh and of course lots of water!

We Promote Hiking!

We hiked 2 miles near Phoenix, AZ on a pretty easy to moderate trail of hills and paths.  The fresh air was incredible and it was nice to have a good sweat.  MAKE TIME TO TRY AND HIKE!  Seriously folks.  There are tons of benefits of a good hike not to mention getting some sun and oxygen through your system.  We felt amazing after this hike and it only took us and hour and a half (with some water and picture breaks).  You will feel so good afterwards, it will inspire you to get up early and do it again the next week!