Three Weeks on Blood Orange Juice ♥

It has been my very great pleasure to have done three weeks on mono Blood Orange juice.
The Blood Orange season is about complete, and I have my last few Beautiful Blood Oranges.
I am just so glad that I had the priviledge of three weeks on this amazing fruit.
It has been a very special time ♥
I have felt wonderful; clear and clean in mind and body, have played and worked with Beautiful Blood Orange energy, felt flexible and free, and felt a loving connection with the Wonderful World around me.
I found this time priceless, the season was so short and I was able to gain so much from it. I also felt very much in-tune with the time of year just because of the seasonability of this special fruit ♥
I guess on average I was juicing 24–26 Oranges per day, although this varied a bit due to their varying size.
I am very thankful and this time will stay with me always.
Much Love and Peaches,
from Anne XX ♥

Day Sweet Sixteen Mono Blood Orange Juice ♥

I thought this photo of a Blood Orange looked like a map of the world!
I am on Day 16 of Mono Blood Orange juice.
I am pretty excited because I have never been on a Mono Blood Orange juice diet before. I mostly lived off Blood Oranges in March 1995, when I was in Malta, but I did have some other fruits a few times during the month.
The Bloods have been of superb quality; some big, some small, some with marbled skin, some with orange skin — but all delicious.
The season will not be on for much longer, so I am delighted that I have been able to make the most of the very seasonal Blood Oranges ♥
They have taken my Orange juice experience to a whole new level.
I am consuming about 1.5 litres of juice per day.
My energy is great, I am finding my morning workout easier and more fun to do.
I am sleeping very well.
My flexibility is improved.
Life is good ♥

So I am eternally grateful to the Australian Blood Orange trees, and also to the Australian Blood Orange farmers.

Thank you for reading ♥
Love and Peaches,
from Anne XX♥

♥ Day 8 Blood Orange Juice ♥

Day 8 on Mono Blood Orange juice.
I must say that I find Blood Oranges to be one of the most striking of all fruits.
They are sometimes beautifully gradiated with colour; starting from orangey-yellow, through red, to purple.
Here is one I juiced (in my mouth ) today.
I felt it was just so Beautiful ♥ that I had to capture its Tequila Sunrise colours on my camera.

Such a Beautiful Fruit with such a beautiful taste. I do think that fruit lovers are blessed with the most divine looking food ♥

I have been juicing between 16–20 Oranges each day, this feels like a good amount for me at the moment.
I have had good energy, and feel very satisfied with the quality and ripeness of the lovely Bloods.



Cappi, my son, and I went out with our trolley today to find some more of these Beauties. We combined food hunting with exersise, sunshine, and homeschooling as we did mental maths and spelling on our walk; so some great mulitasking and we got to bring home some delicious fruit.

I feel very blessed and happy today ♥
Love and Peaches,
from Anne XX.

♥ 7 Days on Blood Orange Juice ♥

This is my seventh day on Blood Orange juice.
Blood Oranges are one of my favourites of all the fruits. There is something very special about their delicious, rich, Mulberry wine flavour, and they are not only beautiful to look at and a delight to eat, but they are full of goodness.
Bloods have up to twice the Vitamin C content of their more orangey cousins.
Their Australian season is short but deliciously sweet.
Blood Oranges can be a little hard to track down; supermarkets rarely stock them, it is usually fruit shops that are home to these litttle purple juice balls.

Blood Oranges make an excellent juice, just using a simple hand-juicer you can get so much juice out of them.

Bloods originated in Sicily, hundreds of years ago, and in 1995, I was fortunate to be in Malta in Sicilian Blood Orange season. Malta is a beautiful island and due too her proximity to Sicily there were bags of Sicilian Blood Oranges in every small grocery store.

I found out that the colour of the Blood Orange is caused by the colour pigment and antioxidant anthocyanin. Anthocyanins are also found in Mulberries and Raspberries, and that may be why, to me,  the Blood Orange has flavours of  Raspberries and Mulberries in it.

In contrast the colour pigment of the Cara Cara Navel Orange is not due to anthocyanin but to the antioxidant lycopene.

I usually eat mostly local fruit, but I make an exception for the Bloods, which come from the Southern part of Australia.
To get that really deep and tasty pigmentation, Bloods need to experience the cooler and drier nights. So whilst they will grow in Queensland, they will not develop the purply-red colour and taste.

So I give much thanks and gratitude to the trees and farmers of  Southern Australia for providing me with the truly delightful Blood Orange ♥ ♥ ♥

Love and Peaches and Beauty Days,
from Anne XX ♥

♥ Day 68 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day ♥ 68 ♥

Although, generally I believe that consuming a fruit in its whole unprocessed state is optimum, I do make an exception for Orange juice. This is the only fruit that I tend to juice, as opposed to consuming whole.

I accept that freshly squeezed Orange juice is processed to a degree, and that in doing so something is taken away from the whole fruit.

Having said that, this time on the Orange juice I have been more attracted to just cutting the Orange into four pieces and juicing in my mouth.

My electric Breville juicer, normally a vital part of my Orange Juice Diet, has not been used once. And because the Oranges are nice and ripe, it feels great to simply juice them in my mouth.

I would like to share an example of how although a substance may mimic another chemically, and may appear 'the same' on paper, there is a huge difference between a substance that occurs in natural raw food, and another that is laboratory made.

This fits in for me with the idea that we cannot really improve upon natural uncooked wholefood (which is wonderful and health-giving) when humans try to emulate its properties in the science lab.

This information is taken from http://www.whfoods.com/

"Consuming vitamin C supplements does not provide the same protective benefits as drinking a glass of orange juice, shows research by Italian researchers in the Division of Human Nutrition at the University of Milan, Italy (Guarnieri S, Riso P, et al., British Journal of Nutrition).

Seven healthy test subjects were given each of three drinks, two weeks apart: blood-orange juice containing 150 milligrams of vitamin C, fortified water containing 150 milligrams of vitamin C, and a sugar and water solution containing no vitamin C. Blood samples were collected immediately before the drink was consumed, then every hour for 8 hours, and finally 24 hours after consumption of each drink.
Blood samples were exposed to hydrogen peroxide, and free radical damage to DNA was evaluated at 3 and 24 hours. Only when orange juice was consumed was any protective effect seen. After drinking orange juice, DNA damage was 18% less after 3 hours, and 16% less after 24 hours. No protection against DNA damage was seen after consumption of the vitamin C fortified drink or the sugar drink. "


So, I believe, there is a world of difference in the effects of Vitamin C as contained in fresh Orange juice and Vitamin C that has been manufactured in a laboratory.
The best way, I feel, to get the nutrients and vitality we need, is from fresh raw ripe fruit (and veggies if desired).
Fresh fruit is imbued with life-force and energy and magic that simply cannot be manufactured in a factory.
It is in one way a simple way of eating, and yet in another contains so many wonderful energies that are so complex and developed that man cannot even begin to re-create them ♥


Fruity Fare ♥
Morning— 11 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.
Midday— 10 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.


Fruitful Exercise ♥
40 minutes fast walking
10 minutes leg exercises.

Have Happy and Wholesome Days ♥
Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Day 65 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day ♥ 65

Blood Oranges

In 1936, a child

in Hitler's Germany,
what did I know about the war in Spain?
Andalusia was a tango
on a wind-up gramophone,
Franco a hero's face in the paper.
No one told me about a poet
for whose sake I might have learned Spanish
bleeding to death on a barren hill.
All I knew of Spain
were those precious imported treats
we splurged on for Christmas.
I remember pulling the sections apart,
lining them up, sucking each one
slowly, so the red sweetness
would last and last -
while I was reading a poem
by a long-dead German poet
in which the woods stood safe
under the moon's milky eye
and the white fog in the meadows
aspired to become lighter than air.

Lisel Mueller

I must admit to a bit of a penchant for Blood Oranges, especially the really dark red ones from Sicily. I would have to say the juice from Sicilian Bloods is one of the most glorious drinks to have ever passed my lips ♥
At the moment Bloods are not in season in Australia and although the Blood Orange will grow in Queensland, because the Winter does not get very cold, the Bloods will not get such a deep red colour. So the very beautiful rich winey flavour that accompanies the deep rich colour needs a nice cold winter to develop.
Since starting my Orange juice diet, I have had Valencia juice for the vast majority of my daily juice, with just the odd Navel or Honey Murcott.
But as I find each individual fruit to have its own unique taste and flavour, I have never tired from the dear sweet Valencias ♥
I think that looking forward each day to my Orange juice, when the house has been filled with Durian, fresh Figs, Home-grown Mangoes, and local Lychees, is a good indication that the juice is still working for me and fulfilling my needs.
And I do feel very blessed to have had access to so many delightful Organic Oranges. The Organic aspect has been very important to me. It feels good to be consuming Organic fruit from both a health and an environmental perspective, and the Organic fruit feels very precious to me ♥

Fruity Fare ♥
Morning - 10 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth
Afternoon - 11 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥
40 minute workout.

Have Beautiful Days ♥
Love and Peaches
From Anne XX

Day 47 ♥ Mono Orange Juice.

Day 47 ♥

Cappi chose a great book the last time he went to the library.

It is called: 'The Digger's Club: The Australian Fruit and Vegetable Garden' by Clive Blazey and Jane Varkulevicius.

While it may be considered a little odd for a five year old to pick a fruit-growing book from the library, I guess a child raised on a natural diet is not your average library customer.

I was very grateful for Cappi's choice because this is an awesome book. Not only does it give lots of useful information on growing your own food, but it is really on the ball in regard to how Supermarkets and chemicals are greatly affecting our fruit quality and choices.

Here are a few of the paragraph titles:

Destroying Food Quality

showing how picking fruit unripe and treating fruit with chemicals vastly reduces its nutrient content and quality.

Ninety Percent of Fruit and Vegetable Cultivars Are Lost.

Shows how, for example, at the  turn of the 20th. Century there used to be three to four thousand Apple Varieties, but now they have been replaced by 4 or 5 main supermarket varieties. These supermarket varieties are always chosen for shelf life over flavour and quality.

The Tastiest Fruits Never reach Market.

Explains how important it is to rescue and grow the old heirloom varieties, rather than rely on the supermarket fruits that are selected for storage life.

Planting Fruit Instead of Flowers.

looks at how the fruit garden can be beautiful to look at as well as functional.

"Isn't a persimmon in autumn as exquisite as any magnolia in spring."

Quality of Life Begins at the Table.

This section looks at how people can become self-sufficient in food production and in doing so help rescue the precious heirloom fruits and vegetables.

A really great book, that is geared for Australian growers, in terms of specific advice for the different growing regions in Australia, but has got great information in it that is relevant to everyone who values great quality fresh produce.

We went to the beach today. It is so beautiful breathing the  fresh and vitalising briny air.

I did a fast walk from Cotton Tree beach to Alexandra Headlands and back, and it felt just wonderful.

I had the sea breezes in my lungs and the beautiful sun on my body ♥

As we were in the area, we went buying Figs from the best Fig grower we have found on the Sunshine Coast.

I looked at the plump and Jammy purple Figs, just starting to burst open (this grower is unusual in that they pick all their Figs perfectly ripe) but I was not quite ready to stop the Orange juice. The Figs have just come into season and will be around for the next two months.

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning—the juice from 3 conventional Oranges, juiced in a hand juicer.

Late Morning—a large cup of fresh squeezed non-organic Orange juice from a juice bar.

Afternoon—10 Organic Oranges, juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

40 minutes workout

40 minutes fast walking.

Wishing you all Beautiful Days and Top Quality fruit ♥

Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Day 34 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day 34.

In the morning I was sitting in the morning sunshine, having finished my morning workout, and enjoying feeling the sun as I juiced my Oranges.

We have a large nest of Southern Meat Ants who have made a mosaic covered nest near our mail box.
Despite being called Meat Ants, as you can see they also love the odd bit of Watermelon.

The funny thing is that they often latch on to the very end of my toes; they do not really bother with any other part of my body. Meat Ants do not have a poisonous sting, but they can give quite a nip with their pincers.


So there I was this morning with the Meat Ants noseying around the tops of my toes, and I felt very honoured to have these tiny creatures on my toes, as I sat juicing. It just felt so nice.


I am really appreciating music at the moment, I am loving having a dance to old 60's and 70's tunes, especially DISCO ♥


We went to Maleny today on the look out for Organic or Biodynamic Oranges,and found some nice ones.Maleny has a lovely energy about it, very friendly and laid back, and surrounded by beautiful countryside.

We had a look in a lovely shop that sold handmade wooden items and furniture.

They had the wildest four-poster bed made out of branches with yards of white gauzy material wrapped around the branches, it looked like the bed for a woodland Fairy Queen. There were also some pretty groovy hand-made woodern fruit bowls and tiny jewellery boxes with wee pull-out drawers made out of purple wood.

So if you have AU $5,000 to spare for an amazing bed or a more modest AU$150 diollars for a fruit bowl check out http://www.davidlinton.com.au/index.php
Me, I spent my money on Oranges ♥

The organic delivery still has not shown up, so I think they may be closed until after the New Year . I wandered around to their base, they are also in Maleny, but there was no sign of any activity, and the place looked very much in Holiday Mode.

I am very keen to try the local organic Valencias, as most of the Valencias come from Victoria at this time of year.
 
I measured my muscle mass today, and it is still about the same as when I started, so I am glad not to be losing muscle, only fat.
 
Fruity Fare ♥
Morning—500ml/16.9oz of conventional Orange juice, fresh squeezed and strained.
Early Afternoon—a large cup of freshly squeezed Orange juice from a juice bar in Maleny.
Late Afternoon—300ml/10.1oz organic Orange juice, fresh squeezed and strained.
 
Fruitful Exercise ♥
40 minute workout
20 minutes dancing.
 
Have Wonderful Days ♥
Love and Peaches XX.

Day 33 Mono Orange Juice.

Day 33 ♥

I am continuing to feel good on the juice, sleep is just wonderful, energy levels are good, flexibility is improved, lung capacity seems greater.

I noticed today though that the smell of other fruits was starting to attract me; I cut up some Apricots for Cappi and they smelt very good to me.

I do not think I have taken the Orange juice to conclusion though, but I am feeling that to take it to conclusion I would prefer being away from 'civilization', My weight, I feel, is quite acceptable now, but it can be challenging being at a lower weight among folk who do not understand what is going on.

If I was starting to feel weak or malnourished (which I am not) I would stop the diet. However, it is another matter to stop it because of other people's opinions, which happened with my extended juice diet in 1995.

For the moment I shall continue, because the juice I am having tastes like nectar and I adore it and it makes me feel very joyous, and energetic and free.

Today I hand juiced and then strained the juice. Because the Oranges are not as ripe as I feel they could be, I think that it may be better for my teeth to hand-juice and then strain the juice and drink from a glass.

It was interesting because doing that I actually measured how much juice I was consuming for the first time.

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning—375ml/12.7oz

Late Morning—250ml/8.5oz

Afternoon—375ml/12.7oz

I was using the same amount of Oranges that I usually do when I have three lots of juice per day, and more than when I have two lots of juice. My Oranges have been little ones.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

40 mins workout

20 mins Dancing

50 mins fast walking

Have Peachy days ♥

Love and Peace XX ♥ ♥

Day 32 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day 32.

What I have been noticing is that my lungs also seem 'freer' somehow, like my lung capacity is better, and I can get more air in when I breathe.

We went to the beach yesterday and it was a real pleasure to breathe in all that lovely fresh briney air.

We also went to see some people who have three two week old baby deer. The baby deer are being bottle-fed and were so tame that we could stroke them, they were so beautiful ♥

I am losing a bit more weight now, but I have only really lost fat, my muscle mass remains around the same as when I started, about 39kg/86lbs, it is just my fat percentage which has lowered. I am pleased about this as I do not really want to lose any muscle.

I am still waiting on my Orange Delivery, I am also waiting for a book I ordered from E-bay which is called, 'The Orange: Golden Joy'.

It is all about the history and uses of the Orange. I love the title!

I am finding it easy to do my usual exercise regime and I have plenty of physical energy ♥

I had a dream last night that I had forgotton I was on Orange Juice and I had eaten some Cantaloupe Melon and an Avocado. In the dream I really hoped I had not eaten these fruits because I still really wanted to still be on Oranges, but I could see the Cantaloupe skin and the Avocado skin so I knew that I had eaten them. In my dream I kept thinking 'How could I have broken it on Day 31, now I will have to start again!'. So maybe that is a sign from my subconscious to carry on with the Orange juice!

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning—8 biodynamic Oranges, juiced in the mouth

Midday—7 biodynamic Oranges, juiced in the mouth

Afternoon—9 biodynamic Oranges juiced in the mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

40 minutes workout

40 minutes walking

Have Wonderful days ♥

Love and Peaches XX.

Day 31

Day 31, and the rains continue, interspersed with beautiful Sunshine. So everything is just growing and growing in the garden.
The humid, balmy climate feels perfect with my Orange juice diet.
In the past most of my Orange juice diets have been done in Winter because Oranges are really a Winter crop. I do find however, that the warmer temperatures really go well with the Orange juice diet.
I am still waiting  (excitedly) for my delivery of Oranges. Because it is holiday time they may be delayed, so I may have to go on an Orange hunt tomorrow when most of the fruit shops reopen.
I have not been doing so much day-to-day searching simply because I had found a great source of Biodynamic Valencias that I could get in bulk.
Not having to think about what I am going to eat coupled with not having to go look for it has really freed up a lot of my time and energy, both physical and mental.
It is great to go looking for fruit, I love it! But it is also nice to take a rest from that for a bit too.
My energy has been great the last couple of days, and I am still enjoying my Orange juice.
My sleep continues to be great, I find that I need 6 or 7 hours to feel refreshed and well-rested.

Fruity Fare ♥
Morning-- 9 Biodynamic Oranges, juiced in mouth.
Early Afternoon-- 7 Biodynamic, 2 conventional Oranges, juiced in mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥
40 minutes workout
50 minutes dancing.

Have Beautiful days ♥
Love and Sweet Peaches XX.

Day 25 Mono Orange Juice

Day 25

I awoke this morning with plenty of energy, despite only having one meal of juice yesterday. I can see more and more that it is not just the amount of food or calories that determines energy but that other factors are important, such as the state of our intestines and our rate of assimilation and absorbtion. Also, I do feel that to some extent we can get energies from the air and sunlight and positive emotions such as love.

I have now switched to organic Oranges because at the moment they are the sweetest-tasting to me.

They burst with honeyed nectar into my mouth; I am enjoying juicing each one in my mouth as I really get to taste the individual flavour of each piece of fruit. Each Orange is unique!

I am still not attracted to any other fruit; this is very much how it was on my first long Orange juice diet back in 1995, I broke the diet due to concerns of family and friends but had no personal desire for any other fruit. And indeed the fruit that I broke my diet on tasted like ashes in my mouth after my beloved Oranges.

Fruity Fare:

Morning--The juice of 6 organic Valencia Oranges, juiced in my mouth.

Afternoon--The juice of 11 organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise:

40 minute workout

50 minutes fast walking.

Sunshine:

about 40 minutes, still a lot of clouds about.

Have Beauty Days XX

Day 24 Mono Orange juice ♥

Day 24,

We got big storms today, and so the computer was not happy, I was just a  bit late in rushing to unplug the computer, as the thunder started to crash about, with the result that the modem connection port was damaged. So until it is mended, hopefully soon, then my computer time is limited.

It was a good day because we got a visit from some other fruit lovers and had a big share of fruit (except me) But I am still very happy with my juice, and was not tempted by the Jackfruit, Japoticaba, Passionfruit and other lovely fruits on offer.

I am finding that I have a lot more 'thinking' time, because my daily fruit consumption takes up so little of my time.

I juice usually twice a day, although today, it was just once.

I have a good stock of Oranges, so food becomes less of a factor in my day-to-day life.

I just finished reading Dr. Frank McCoy's book, 'The Fast Way To Health'. It was just a great time to be reading it, and the cases he mentions gives me even greater faith in the amazing capacity of the human body to heal if it is given the appropriate conditions.

Fruity Fare ♥: 

Morning—12 Organic Valencias, juiced in mouth

Exercise ♥:

40 minute workout.

Love and Sweet Peaches XX ♥ ♥

The Pot of Gold

The rainbows here have been so amazing in the last few days, today we were on the bus travelling back from Maleny (an awesome alternative town in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland—where I always feel at home, and people are smiley and mellow) and there was this amazing rainbow across the valley.
I felt that I did indeed have the 'Pot of Gold' at the end of the Rainbow because I had bags of organic Oranges on the bus seat next to me!

We had a great Orange hunt; found Blood Navels and really delicious Organic Navels at the wholefood Co-op. The Organic Navels had won best in show at the recent Maleny Show, and they were indeed sweet as.

I have been having just so much energy today on the Oranges, I did my morning work out and the weights seemed lighter in my hands and I felt very flexible doing my sit-ups and crunches.

I am not sure how far I will ride this train, but I have a houseful of Oranges and I am definitely buzzing today.
I feel very happy too.


Love and Peaches XX

Breakfast—3 naturally-grown Mandarins, juiced in my mouth

Lunch—a large fresh squeezed Orange juice from a Juice Bar, the juice of 2 organic Blood Navels and 2 organic navels, juiced in my mouth.

Snackaroo—the juice of 3 Mandarins, juiced in my mouth

Tea—the juice of 5 organic Oranges, through the Breville Juicer, 2 organic Blood Navels and 2 organic Navels, juiced in my mouth.

Love and sweet Peaches XX

Here is one of the prize-winning Organic Navels.
Reminds me of a lunar landscape—Planet Orange.

Back On The Train Day 3

Back on the train, the local Oranges are so good that I am back on board and sharing my journey with a friend from www.iheartfruit.com

Having a simply Beauty Time.


Day 3
Still enamoured with the local beauty Oranges. They are just so good. Nice orange skin, with cute little ripeness marks on them. Tres Bon ♥

Breakfast—3 local Oranges juiced in my mouth, 5 local Oranges through the Breville Juicer.

Lunch—1 local Orange, juiced in the mouth, 4 local Oranges through the Breville Juicer.

Tea 4 local Oranges, through the Breville Juicer.

Feeling very blessed and excited. ♥ ♥ ♥
Love and Peaches XX.

Oh Bloody Good Juice!

One of the delights of Winter, for me, is the arrival of the Blood Oranges.Not too different on the outside from their cousins the Valencias, they hold a lush secret within.

The outside may be speckled with red or with red undertones; a little hint of what is to come.

Then cut or break into one and within is filled with deep red delights, more luscious than a ruby and filled with sweet life blood for us mortals.

The Blood Orange has more vitamin C than a standard orange and makes more juice than most other Oranges. It is a little juice bomb waiting to explode with flavour. When I lived in the Northern Hemisphere, I got beautiful Bloods from Sicily. The Scilians certainly know a thing or too about great fruit growing and I would go for their beautiful bloody oranges anyday in preference to their bloody Mafia.

Once I spent a month in Malta, close geographically, to Sicily and also a very beautiful island. Apart from two days, I spent the entire month living on Blood Orange juice. Now residing in the Southern Hemisphere, I appreciate that the Aussies have got their act together and are now growing some simply delightful Blood Oranges.

Do try them, a glass of Blood Orange juice looks so spectacular and always get comments such as "What's That!"

Build up your blood with Bloods. Leave the animal blood to the Vampire bats, go with the Fruitbats and drain the Blood Oranges dry!

Enjoy your Juicing,

Love from Anne XX.