Someone is telling porky pies

When I became part of the club that no one asks to join, I was all ears to everything and anything that people had to offer. Lucky seems a bad way to describe it, but I was lucky to know a couple of individuals who had been through cancer and they imparted all of their experiences and knowledge. I soaked it up like a sponge! As far as I was concerned, there was no such thing as too much information about this journey I was embarking on, because I was outright clueless. Everyone knows cancer is a tough battle, everyone knows you get very sick from chemo but you don't know the ins and the outs. The what creams to use, what to eat, what will soothe pains etc.

Well along with a number of weird and wonderful suggestions made to me by the wonderful humans on the internet (my favorite being to not have chemo at all!), I was given this little gem by a number of people - JUICING.

My appetite varies throughout my chemo, my taste buds are playing a really fun joke on me where everything tastes like cardboard and to top things off I can never dam decide what I want to eat! So getting in all the vital veggies has proven at times a tad tricky. Hmm 'I wonder how I can get those veggies in easily' I hear you say, well my new blogging buddies, its juicing! At first it sounded like the most wonderful idea, waking up having a delicious detoxing green juice with all the stuff that is going to make my cancer shrink away in horror.... well, it wasn't the cancer shrinking in horror, it was me!! You see all these fit, health mad insta-beings drinking these green juices with a big old grin, I am calling baloney! Yes I said it, liars, the lot of them. 5 months into treatment and it is safe to say I have experimented with many a green goodness juice and not one of them hasn't tasted like I went to my back door, opened it up and started licking the ground. Not that I would know what that tastes like or anything....

I must confess I haven't been too forgiving with my juices, a typical Georgie juice contains:

• Carrot
• Spinach
• Broccoli 
• Red Pepper
• Celery
• Lemon
• Ginger - If I am feeling a tad exotic

*I use a Salter 600W Power Juicer which works really well, it is currently £26.24 on the Robert Dyas Website

*If your dog aptly named Piglet because she eats anything and doesn't want your juice, you know its bad! My food has never been safe being left unattended next to her!!

Top Tips:

• Beetroot is the devils' veg, avoid at all costs
• Having it in a fun glass or jar does not make it taste better, surprisingly 
• Adding lemon and green apples makes the juice far more enjoyable (if you can say that). For a truly delicious juice, sod the veggies just use fruits!
• Don't make faces on vegetables, they will become friends and therefore harder to sacrifice. But you still do... be warned

                                                                ** This is Colin **