Friday!

I love Friday's! This morning I had my green smoothie I made it with frozen mango, pineapple, blueberries, strawberries, spinach, romaine lettuce, parsley, cilantro, collard greens, coconut oil, water and Merlin's herbal magic.

I found the site it's www.merlinsherbalmagic.com . The ingredients are maca, marshmallow root, slippery elm, triphala, ashwaganda, astralgus root, burdock root, dong quai, fo-ti root, kelp powder, licorice root, milk thistle seed, pau d'arco, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto berries, shizandra berries, suam, wild yam root, anise seed, cinnamon, ginger, bilberry leaf, catsclaw, cayenne, dandelion root, gingko leaf, gota kola, irish moss, olive leaf, passion flower herb, vanilla orchid bean. Every part of the body is covered with this stuff it's all wild crafted and organic. I put about a tablespoon in my smoothie everyday. It is a superfood, baby. A 170 gram bag is about $26 and lasts me about 2 months, way worth the money. So check out the website if you have a minute.

Going out to lunch with my good friend Beth Seiler of Trader Joe's. I can't wait to hang out with her we have such a great time together laughing about silly stuff. Our friends from Portland Alex and Coleen are coming in this weekend and they are going to stay at Mc Menamin's downtown, that should be fun. We just got a huge dump of snow up at Mt Bachelor so the guys are up at the mountain, shredding some powder. I wanted to go today, but I will have to save it for Sunday I think, hopefully there will be more powder. I'm spoiled, it's pow pow or nothing for me, since I don't have a pass.

Everyday I am just trying to add in more raw food, instead of giving stuff up I've chosen to add more good stuff. Last night I made my family some pork, with boxed mashed potatoes, which I don't even normally buy as I know better, but I just grabbed what they had at the store. I don't eat meat so I didn't eat any of the pork, but I took like 3 bites of the mashed potatoes and my throat was starting to swell up on the inside. When that happens I know that there has to be MSG somewhere in the food. Well I grabbed the box, and put alternative names for MSG in the google search engine. I discovered that one of the ingredients in the potatoes was in fact MSG in one of it's many disguises. Well one thing led to another, as so often does when using the google search engine. I learned a lot about how the food manufacturerer's have learned how to hide the MSG so that they can get away with putting it into our food supply. That in turn led me to the "cheeseburger act" which I guess in 2005 our good buddy (facetious, of course) GW Loser, passed a bill saying that big food corporations cannot be sued. It's called the personal responsibility act or something to that effect. I am all for personal responsibility but I think that these corporations are poisoning us with there freak foods, and they should be held up to more ethical standards and held accountable. This kind of stuff really makes me mad at our government's lack of ethics! Well I guess that's enough ranting for today.

If you leave with one thing from all this, please remember that you need to be your own advocate for health, don't count on the fact that your government has your best interest at heart, because they simply don't.

Take Care,

Jen