My mom and I spent the weekend chatting nutrition and drinking green barley juice. It was a good weekend. The weekend began at dd’s. We chatted a bit of nutrition too. But it really all began for me almost a week before.
It happened early last week. The counter and sink were covered with that green, staining fine powder. Mr. 3yo dumped the last 10 or more servings of my BarleyLife. No chance to salvage. Counter was damp, as well as sink, making a couple of really big globs of green barley paste. It is a good thing the countertop is already green, and sink is stainless steel. But it was hard not to cry as it washed down the drain. I could have had a sink full of juice. I hate good food to go to waste (like the 10+ pounds of brown rice that had to be thrown away last month because it had bugs.)
I haven’t been drinking BarleyLife all that often lately. We’ve been doing really good making fresh juice daily, so I’ve only made the BarleyLife occasionally. Evidently I’ve been making it enough though that Mr. 3yo decided that day he could make his own. I knew we were heading out of town this weekend, and didn’t plan to take the juicer since I figured I had enough BarleyLife left to cover it. –Until Mr. 3yo. Oh well, we could take the juicer.
I ordered more BarleyLife, expecting it to be here when we got back. It actually arrived before we left. I went ahead and got Just Carrots and RediBeets too, (powdered carrot and beet juices,) even though I don’t use them as much. Then I hid them all from Mr. 3yo and told him mommy would make it when he wants some.
I placed a Wholefood Farmacy order too. The convenience would have been nice for the trip. But that order arrived late Friday afternoon – after we left early Friday afternoon. So instead, the children loaded the cooler with dried apples, apricots, and dates, raw almonds, cashews, pecans, and filberts, grapes and bananas. I packed a couple gallons distilled water. I figured there wasn’t any chance of a blizzard, but if there was, we’d be ready to be stranded!
Here’s this car packed with all the nutrition we need for a great weekend – and what do we do? Head to Chuck E Cheese’s. Who gets these ideas – or was it the kids? The pop was no temptation (not even at my daughter’s later when she offered Cherry 7-Up, my only real pop temptation). But I succumbed to pizza after my salad. Oh well, we had a great time visiting with dd and family.
The next day we went to my mom’s and she was happy to chat nutrition. She’s been taking liquid chlorophyll for a few months at the recommendation of my sister. (Her Dr. had put her on iron for low blood levels and she immediately quit it after my sister talked to her.) She just had her blood recheck, and her levels were back up and pronounced OK. Praise to God for His natural foods ways.
She also told me she wasn’t drinking her BarleyMax. She was excited to have it, and the Hallelujah Acres resources, but just couldn’t get into drinking the BarleyMax. I had her try the BarleyLife. She liked it better. She also tried the beet juice powder in her BarleyMax and said that would do the trick for her. She could drink it that way and would order some beet juice powder. I had also suggested stevia powder, but she hadn’t bought any of that yet, and I didn’t have any with me.
It was an encouragement to me to be in a situation where I could encourage my mom. Mom doesn’t make all healthy choices (but — neither do I – the pizza – oh, and the cherry cheesecake dd made for other dd’s 16th birthday while we were there, and the …) But mom is open and interested to learn. I was encouraged that she has my sister looking for a good used juicer for her.
I’m also glad she grabbed the onion. Mom always has plenty of onions. I was glad I’d stopped for some raw honey and some lemons at the store. I’m also glad (and hope she is too) that she learned my adaptation to grandma’s recipe.
Mostly I’m glad for a chance to sit down and chat with my mom – and with my grown dd. Chatting nutrition was just a bonus for my soul. And doing it over a glass of BarleyLife a bonus for my body.
