Here are a few scenes from the final Sunday Cruise Night of the season, held tonight at the GO Station parking lot on Main Street in Milton. The Optimist Club of Milton, Milton Cruise Club, & Shoeless Joe’s would like to thank everybody for their excellent support this year; we’ll see you next Summer!!

If you can identify the year / model of any of these fantastic cars, please let me know via the comment option on the post – just tell me the picture number from the thumbnail, or the colour of car and if it’s a truck, car, etc. or the hood emblem.

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I’ve been starting my day, every day, for 30 days now, by making one of these delicious smoothies. The benefits are amazing:

1. With 9 glasses of water, plus another few from the ingredients, I take care of my minimum daily water intake, and
2. The spirulina and hemp seed give me some powerful nutrients that are not the easiest to get as an almost-vegetarian (I eat meat once a week, or less), and
3. I can’t think of a more refreshing, healthy way to feed my brain and my body to start my day, and
4. This amount of ‘food’ takes care of my breakfast and my mid/late morning snack.

So, here’s the ingredient list:

1/2 tsp of spirulina

1 tbsp of hemp seed

1 tbsp of sesame seed

1/4 Cup Dried Goji Berries

30 – 40 Fresh Blueberries

5 Big Fresh Strawberries

2 Cups Fresh Spinach

3 Full Stalks Celery

1/2 English Cucumber

2 Big Carrots

1 Peach

1 Nectarine

1 Apple

1/2 Grapefruit

1/2 Navel Orange

1/2 Kiwi

1 Banana

I put the first 4 ingredients in the blender with 1/2 of the water, the celery, spinach, carrots and cucmber then let it go until everything is smooth, then pour that mix into a huge pitcher, then I put in all the other ingredients, blend them, pour into the same pitcher, stir it together, then re-blend to ensure complete mixing.

Now, you might wonder what effect all this fruit has on my blood sugar, given that I am a Type-2 diabetic, and my answer is that it has a negligible effect – certainly less effect than a bowl of cereal, and also certainly less calories and sugar, yet way more energy-giving.

Just ask the people in my office – I am happy all day, walking around singing and full of energy. I’m ‘hopped-up’ on amazingly good nutrition, and I’m lovin’ it!

Calling all Raw Foodies, Vegetarians, and Vegans in Milton . . . . Come out, come out, wherever you are.

I’m just curious to learn as much as I can about these lifestyle options, as a way of naturally increasing my energy, boosting my whole family’s health, and generally feeling better and cleaner.

Are there local groups for people with these interests?

I have found some excellent resources online for learning, and will be compiling a page of links in the near future, which I’ll ask all of you to submit links to your favourite web sites, as well as info on any local resources. I’m finding it particularly challenging to find some food products without going down to The Organic Garage in Oakville.

If you have tried the newly-opened raw foods restaurant in Port Credit, http://raw-aura.com, I’d love to get your opinion on it. The web site for it makes the foold look particularly good.

So, talk to me please. Tell me where you buy your produce, any other supplies, etc.

Here’s something I was surprised to find, quite accidentally, I might add – the chain Booster Juice sells trays of wheatgrass in their stores, at a very reasonable price – $16 for enough to make about 16 x 1oz juice if drinking it straight. There’s one down at Trafalgar & Dundas, and the one I went to is in the mall-type-thing at Mississauga Road & Derry, right by my Mississauga office.

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