Juicing again!

I actually started fresh 'n' raw last April, but after my motivating symptoms - mainly a lump where nobody wants to find a lump -- subsided, I gradually started making more & more exceptions until I was back on the "SAD" and had gained back 10 of the 15 lbs that originally dropped off when I started.  In the interval, my kombucha has died -- and I suspect the cultured vegies have, too -- and stuff had piled up around the neglected juicer.  Had to tackle the kitchen chaos for a couple days just to have room to prepare food.

Now, with a path cleared to the juicer and sinks empty so I can wash up afterwards, I kicked off my new season of juicing with apple-carrot-celery-parsnip with mint leaves, lime wedge, and ginger knuckle. Lovely! Took it with me to work and sipped all morning yesterday, munched apple, grapes, almonds for lunch, big dinner salad of romaine & minny minny other vegies.  (There's a possibility here for a parody of the song "Cocaine" -- "When you wanna eat raw, with your carrots you'll gnaw....romaine")

Wakened this morning to the season's first snow.  Normally a source of elation, but when it's so cold out there - and chilly in here - I seriously want hot food in me.  How do other raw foodies deal with winter?  My old standby, miso soup -- spinach, grated carrot, diced bell pepper, little green onion, grated ginger added to miso dissolved in warm, not boiling, water. No hotter than body temperature, vegies still crunchy, a wee splash of nama shoyu... comfort food for sure!