Naked.

So lately I'm trying to be a bit more 'green' with my eating habits. Mentally, I know that it's the more nutritionally-sound choice, and I honestly feel different physically when I'm stuffing myself with fruits and veggies rather than chocolate chip cookies and, well, anything chocolate and baked.

In my own apartment where I handle the grocery shopping, I've done really well-- being at home is another story: Mom and Dad aren't subscribing to the green fad I'm in, and those Raisinets are awfully hard to resist-- and I've actually enjoyed making fresh salads in lieu of nuking a Lean Cuisine.

On Tuesdays, I'm on campus from 9-9 which makes this little experiment a bit more difficult. It's one thing to pack a sandwich for lunch; it's another to pack a day's worth of meals and snacks. So I'm trying out some pre-packaged routes: snack packs of baby carrots, string cheese, roasted almonds, and my latest find... Naked juice.

Naked juice is an all-natural, 100% juice smoothie with the motto, "Looks weird, tastes amazing." Pretty much the perfect summation of this new find. This 'blended juice smoothie' comes in a variety of flavors, but today my Naked juice is called 'green machine' and it is, in fact, green. Specifically, it's the color of green bean baby food. Sound delicious? Allow me to expand.

On the back, the ingredients are conveniently listed: 2 3/4 apples, 1/2 banana (sustainably grown and harvested), 1/3 kiwi, 1/3 mango, & a hint of pineapple. Oh, but that's not all! Other ingredients (called 'boosts') include broccoli, spinach, blue green algae, garlic (odorless, supposedly), barley grass, wheat grass, ginger, and parsley.

I don't know about you, but I feel healthier just reading that list. Maybe not exactly salivating over it, but healthier nonetheless. Truly, it's actually very good. Like, really good. I just wish I had finished it before I read the ingredients... now my palette is desperately trying to identify the parsley and blue green algae undertones (I learned that at the winery!). Yum.