Jen my second thought was about you travelling up there.


Joss

My first thought was RESCUE the FRUIT! But they have much more important things to take care of up there right now. It looks like our single delivery of durian from up north may be it! I really feel for the grower.

Cheers,
Sheryl

Martin spoke to the durian grower who said he'll have no durian for 10 years, all of his crops, trees and everything else he was growing was decimated.  When you actually think of the time it takes to grow these beauties the realization of what a gut wrenching blow it must be for the grower.  It's almost surreal that we were gorging ourselves only the other week and looking forward to the next order and now...no more.

The banana crop will recover relatively quickly. Its the large tree crops that will take years for new crops to grow. If the avocado trees were blown over it might take up to 15 years to get those industries backon track. 

I wonder how the nut trees fared?

Joss

Neet,

My gs today was the blender packed full of baby spinach, a small handful of spearmint, 2 x frozen bananas and 2 peaches.

Gorgeous green goodness.  And, much the same as most days!  I shall mourn the passing of fantastic peaches - this summer has been outstanding!

Yesterday I had a great gs.  Blender full of lettuce (I think, it might have been baby spinach), and a big handful of chinese broccoli leaves (not the whole bunch this time  ), a mango, some bananas and a peach.

I could taste/smell the chlorophyll, which made me happy, and didn't knock the socks off me like last time.  I'm now buying chinese broccoli weekly, because it is such a powerful green.  I've just got to work out how to use the stalks raw.  Perhaps just in a salad or something, finely sliced.

miss g

I seem to be low in iron at the moment and I am now making gs as dark leafy greens are one of the best sources of iron as are sesame seeds.

This book I am reading at the moment outlines the interdependence of that minerals have with each other. A depletion in one can cause another mineral not to be used and any residue can then act as a toxic overload on the body.

Its a really great read and something completely new to me.


Joss

aloha my gs friends...i made a pure dream of a gs today,something a little different..

juiced 5 divine apples
1/2 a purple onion
1 cucumber
added in my bananas
good handful of grapes with pips
loads of kale,lettuce,parsley(with stalks-no probs miss g's)
water
wow,it was kind of dense in texture,but it was pure liquid fuel...my gs buddies loved it,as did i...mmm immediate fuel..and hydration.

hubbs has bought a massive fruit bowl for me..now i am 173cm tall,with long arms,the only way i can describe the size of this bowl,i put my arms out straight and then widen somewhat like i am going to put my arms out wide for a big hug,this is kind of the size of this bowl,and it's really deep,with fluted edges,and frosted glass around the edges,but clear everywhere else,it is big enough to be a large large fish bowl...but perfect as my fruit bowl...

must go and put my new box of squishy ripe bananas into the freeze...