Aloe Vera and citrus

Hi there,

as you know, chubby lumpkins (me) is trying to drop a few lbs. How can I do this without strenuous exercise????? When you find out, please tell me. Thank you. Oh I need whatever it is to also tone my body.

My lovely friend Kim posted something about aloe and coconut water, someone told her it was good to drink. I was horrified that anyone would desecrate coconut water with that bitter thing. Ignorant as I was about the aloe plant. I know it’s good on burns (sunburn too) and good for the skin, because when I have the ingredients I whip up a batch of Shealoe and slather my skin in it (a combination of shea butter, aloe gel and whatever essential oils take my fancy)….I was also aware of people drinking “aloes” but i always knew it to be bitter, and used when people wanted to ..’purge’ or have an inner cleanse.

this stuff is the aloe (bitter aloes) —–> the green liquid slime found directly under the leaves. It’s some sort of laxative. We will not be using this today.

I learnt all about the plant here Aloe info

So after all the information gathering and boosting metabolism excitement, died down, I made this a blended drink of aloe vera, orange and grapefruit. I’ve seen recipes for just orange and aloe but I suppose you can put in what you like.

here goes, this will be picture heavy:

As you might see from my featured image, one leaf is looking a bit sad, well that what I cut this morning. Here’s what to do with it. firstly please excuse my very stained and well used cutting board. Get your aloe, place it on the cutting board, cut the spiny thorny things on the sides, like so please be careful, that green liquid is what we do not want in our drink. Discard the bits you cut off and slice through the center, like so ,when you’re done you will have this: . Next you want to get the aloe vera gel out without the bitter aloes so scoop with a spoon . And there you have it. Pop the clear stuff into the blender and grab your citrus (or whatever fruit/vegetable you’re using) peel

greedily gnaw off whatever is left in the peel

I’d advise you to greedily extract anything left. see greedy pic above.

we’re good to go. into the blender, and Robert is your mother’s brother (It’s a Brit thing, …Bob’s your uncle) and here we have it enjoy.