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Juice Crew

June 10 - Juice crew

Awwww yeah! Juice Crew this morning! This is where I make a fresh juice with the kids while listening to old-school hip hop and teaching them breakdancing moves.  

Today's Every Color of the Rainbow juice had:

Delicious and nutritious  

  • Red watermelon  
  • a navel orange
  • Yellow frozen banana
  • Green pear
  • Blue(ish) blackberries  
  • Purple grapes

I kinda blew it, though, because there was this monster beet in the fridge I forgot to throw in. But anyway. 

This time I set up the juicer and let the kids do it all themselves, while I made vines and set them to Eric B. And Rakim's "Know the ledge".

wait a second... "Know the ledge"... "Knowledge"... Oh snap! I just got that, like 23 years later. Pretty deep, Rakim. 

Anyway, the kids took the juice and served them to their mom, with a homemade note.

And then we took a moment to toast each other on a delicious juice accomplished!

SELFGRADE: B. The juice was delicious, but how could I forget that giant beet? Inexcusable. And again, no breakdancing. At this rate they'll never get their 10,000 hours! And in the world they're going into it's serve or get served.

April 8 - Juice Crew

HYPOTHESIS: Kids will happily eat more fresh vegetables if you let them take part in juicing them.

Not pictured: blueberries added at the last moment

Not pictured: blueberries added at the last moment

PROCEDURE: Subjects were given chopped up fruits representing every color in the rainbow again... this time we used:

  • RED: Watermelon and strawberries
  • ORANGE: Baby Carrots
  • YELLOW: frozen bananas and fresh plum
  • GREEN: Beet greens
  • BLUE: Blueberries and Frozen blackberries
  • PURPLE: Beets

Subjects threw chunks into the juicer and ate some raw as they performed juicing. Older subject really enjoyed using press to push vegetable material down into the juicer.

RESULTS: a superdelicious and healthy juice the subjects loved. They drank three glasses each. Shot glasses, mind you, but still. A clear success, although I just realized I still have to clean the juicer.

Sorry no breakdancing today. Next time for sure.

Sorry no breakdancing today. Next time for sure.