The Aerie
Okay, it ain't worth it.
Trying to eat a bit more healthily, I have been checking out my lunch choices NutritionData.com. We have a Jamba Juice right next to my building, so I have inevitably wandered in there to try one of their smoothies. Checking out my selection online, I was happy to learn that my choice was moderately good for me - it just had too much sugar. A drop-down box offers "better choices," the top entry of which was carrot juice.
Never being one to settle for fourth place (except when graduating from high school), I decided today that I'd try the carrot juice.
It was not worth it.
Okay, so I did peg the little NutritionData graphic in the "healthy" category. Yay. But it was like drinking a carrot-flavored swamp! I mean to their credit, here is how they made the carrot juice: a fellow grabbed handfuls of peeled carrots out of a large bin, tossed them in a blender with some water, and set it on "high" for 30 seconds. So there wasn't a lot of question about the ingredients.
I'll continue to try to eat healthy, but I think that pure carrot juice is probably a bit more than I'm ready to do quite yet. Maybe it's like health-food hard-liquor, you have to work your way up to it...
Ugh!
Posted by Albatross at March 29, 2006 1:30 PM | TrackBackI loves me some carrot juice, but I've had it made well and had it made poorly. I've had terrible luck making it at home - Shawn would prefer it to be strained. I also prefer some ginger added to my carrot juice.
Posted by: B.D. at March 29, 2006 2:41 PM