Just a little bit crazy

I'm taking 2 classes right now for my MSN. Both are generally worthless and the assignments don't have much to do with actual nursing. But that's generally what a lot of nursing school is like (hello, care plans). Anyway, one class is on public health nursing, and we have to pick a "public health topic" and make some kind of teaching plan and brochure to educate people about the topic. One of the stipulations is that it has to be something basically unrelated to areas in which we have experience. So instead of picking something directly related to babies or women's health like I would have otherwise, I had to look into other topics. As I had recently been looking into different chemicals in soaps and whatnot, I settled on a topic about pesticides and other toxins and how to avoid them. So I did a little bit of research and now essentially I've gone a bit mad (even a bit more so than I was before). It would appear that there's a lot of stuff out there that's really bad for you. As far as produce, the biggest offenders in the pesticide department are peaches and apples. Apples!! Everything I was taught previously was that strawberries were the worst, not my beloved apples and everything that goes along with them - juice, sauce, butter, pie, etc. So now I've resolved to not eat apple products if they're not organic. Well doing this research lead me down a very slippery slope, which culminated in me going to the health food store and buying organic everything, $150 later. And then I drank a smoothie the color of pond scum. I think they called it a green splash. My husband calls it crazy.

The green smoothie was actually pretty good, and I felt fantastic for the rest of the day. Even pulled a 16 hour shift. So I sought out my own jar of green stuff. Did a bit of research and decided on this one:


Field of Greens. It's essentially a bunch of dehydrated grass. Delicious, dehydrated grass, and grass juices! I settled on this one as it was organic, and didn't have all the "extras" that some other greens mixes have. Not quite ready to hop on board with chlorella and spirulina. I'll stick with plain grass for now.

Cheers!