Less Coffee = More Juice?

I love coffee. But mint.com has been yelling at me lately for spending too much money in coffeeshops. So I'm taking a break. Not sure for how long. A week? A month? We'll see.

In the meantime, I thought I would experiment and see if drinking less coffee might result in drinking more juice? Instead of coffee first thing in the morning, I'm starting with a big glass of Odwalla orange juice. If I don't drink coffee (which usually means a vanilla latte or some sort of iced sugary deliciousness), I am also much less likely to go the pastry route and be inspired to go the produce route, as it turns out.

Today I whipped up a little concoction in my Breville juicer consisting of Swiss chard, asparagus, brussel sprouts, cucumber, parsnips, and red cabbage. While I love juicing because it helps me consume produce I wouldn't normally buy and prepare, I know it's good for you to actually eat the vegetable and not just drink the juice because eating roughage is like brushing the insides of your intestines clean. My answer to this is to eat a few bites of everything I juice. That means eating raw asparagus, parsnips, brussel sprouts etc too. And they are surprisingly tasty raw!

To complement the green-stuff-in-a-cup, I made a simple salad with greens, roma tomatoes, sunflower seeds, apple, balsamic, flaxseed, and brewer's yeast. Feels light, satisfying, and healthy and like it might make up for the obscene amounts of cheese I ate last night at Sara's darling garden party.