Day 27 of Juice Feasting - fermentation gone wrong...

Well, you might have guessed it by the title:  I went to retrieve the jars of cultured veggies that I had entrusted to my friend before going goat-sitting... and the fermentation went horribly wrong.  Yuk yuk yuk.  Even thought we had put them in the cellar, I left them there for too long (over a week) and they over fermented (read: got moldy and really stinky).  

We carried the three jars in a solemn procession to the compost pile outside and the little girls retreated hastily when it was time to take out the seals.  I was left alone to dump out the stinky contents.  

The oldest girl came to inspect the proceedings and decreed that underneath the top mold, the sauerkraut was just fine, thank you very much.  mmm.  Really?  I'm not convinced.  If there is mold on top and liquid throughout wouldn't the mold make its way down as well??  But hey, their choice.  The mum said she wasn't afraid of any bacteria, so I gave the content of one jar to them, declining politely to take any with me :o)  haha, I don't think so!  It's probably fine, but I've lived too long in North America, land of the ultra septic plastified food.  Can't deal with a little fermentation mold anymore!  They're from Russian, and probably much more pragmatic than I am.

I'm cleaning the jars thoroughly and will put boiling water in them before re-using them!  Tomorrow is the start of a new experiment.  This time, I'll put in green cabbage and a couple of carrots, the basic recipe.  The sugar in the carrots gets processed by the fermentation, so it's ok.

Today I had 1/2 l. of tomato juice, 1l of cucumber, almost 1 l. of celery, 1/4 l of chard mixed with some of the cucumber, celery and a dash of raw apple cider vinegar (yum) ... and that's all.  I'm not hungry today, strangely enough.  I already forced myself to have a liter of juice tonight so I'm going to stop there.  I still have 1l. of cabbage juice in the fridge.  Of course I also had all the superfoods, and the lemon/msm water.  I've been craving seaweed and salt, but not celery juice, so I'm guessing I'm needing those particular minerals.

I posted an invitation / playful dare on facebook to get people to come join me on the Juice Feast today:

"For all of you spiritual seekers out there: I invite you - no... I dare you to join me on the Juice Feast... I'm finding out that you haven't mastered yourself until you've mastered your food-related emotions! All the emotions that stay nicely suppressed by numbing foods are being liberated and let go at warp speed!! I'm in an amazing ride to personal freedom. Come join in the fun! I'll help you out, I promise!"

and one lady got quite offended, stating that she was a professionally trained wellness coach, and that detoxing could be really dangerous (which it can be if not done properly by the way).  I looked at her profile and she looks like she is 300 pounds - at least... I felt really sad for herself and for the people she is helping.  Sad that being right can become more important than being vitally alive.  You know what I mean?  The denial and justification system of our mind is unfortunately a very very powerful thing.  I'm on a merciless (or compassionate) hunt and release for all these places in my mind ;o)  Did a lot of that today, and now I feel emotionally exhausted from all the energy work.  

So off to bed it is, earlier than ever!  

Love and hugs to all.