You may have never thought of it in this way, but we fast everyday  - from the time we go to sleep each night until the time we wake up each morning. Some may fast longer, by not eating a "mid-night snack" or perhaps skipping break-fast. But everyone of us fasts for at least a few hours each day.

Our bodies use this time to "clean house". They expend the energy, that we aren’t having to devote to other activities, to clean as much junk and waste out as possible. While you are sleeping, your body is busy sweeping and de-junking the "house" you live in. In the morning it’ll be ready for all that "trash" to be taken out.

The best way you can do that is with pure water. If we don’t get the pure water in to flush the "trash" out, and we shift gears using our energies to go about our daily business, all that trash will just get scattered about the house again - I mean reabsorbed into our body’s cells. 

In this month’s Me and My House musings newsletter I expanded on this need for drinking plenty of pure water further, but here I want to talk about what we can do to break our fast, to help our body continue this process.

The best way we can continue to transport the "old piled up junk" out of our bodies, (after we’ve drank at least one big glass of water, preferably with fresh lemon juice in it,) while still providing nourishment and energy that we need for the day, is to eat (or drink!) fresh fruit. Fresh fruits are very cleansing, and will help that process of cleaning our bodies.

In Good for You - Naturally! we recommend fresh fruit all morning, and possibly even into lunch - nothing but fresh fruit. Your first fresh fruit of the day can ideally come in the form of fresh, raw fruit juice, that is juice that you have extracted from fresh, whole, raw fruits. This will provide many nutrients that your body needs in a concentrated form, and help your body continue to "clean house", as well as provide energy to get you going for the day, and not start using your energy for the day in digesting food.

This is the best break-fast you can have.

Try it! Your body will LOVE it!

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This recipe fits under the “comfort foods” category. It isn’t a living food, It isn’t a junk food. It’s just part of the 15-25% cooked, wholefoods category that can be included, if we are relatively healthy, for our “comfort” if we so desire. It’s a Soup again. We serve this with a large raw veggie tray, and usually a few graham crackers.

Anyhow, here’s our recipe:

1 qt. tomato juice - Heat 3 cups, reserve 1 cup in a shaker.

In the shaker add with the 1 cup tomato juice, and shake well:

1/4 c. whole wheat flour
1/4 c. honey
1/2 t. salt

When tomato juice in the pan comes to a boil, whisk in the contents of the shaker. Cook over medium heat until thickened, stirring often.

Sitr in 1 Tbl. real butter.

Serve.

If you have 48 oz. canned tomato juice, just increase the other ingredient by half. (3/8 c. flour and honey, 3/4 t. salt, 1.5 Tbl. butter)

Enjoy!