Monday, February 6, 2012

juice!




This is my very first "real" post on my natural living blog. The first and most important, in my opinion! I got a juicer and I absolutely love it!!! I just have your basic Jack LaLanne juicer, I bought mine at Kohls. For the first few months I would just stop by Whole Foods and order different juices and talk to the people that worked at the juice counter to see what was the best veggies and fruits to start with. This sweet woman named Deana who works at the juice counter really helped me a lot starting out with juices.

*stick with fruits first, pineapple, apples, lemon, strawberries-good stuff like that!
*beets & carrots are sweeter so those are always good veggies to start out with!
*spinach doesn't have a taste when you juice or add in smoothies so go with that first!
*if you add a lemon in anything that tends to take over the juice and make it easier to handle

Every morning I make a juice and if I don't my day is done! I'm not kidding, if I don't drink a juice I really make unhealthy, bad decisions throughout the day. I don't eat as well, I don't feel as well, it's just an all-around bad thing! So, I just juice every day! I have definitely gotten my money's worth with this juicer! This is my typical juice every morning

3 granny smith apples
3 gala apples
1 whole lemon
a small piece of ginger
1 hand full of kale
2 hand fulls of spinach
4 celery stalks
4 carrots

I know this doesn't sound too appetizing, but I'm telling you you'll love it!! At first I kept it real simple, I bought a bunch of pineapple, apples, blueberries, strawberries and really kept it fruit-focused but I always added in a couple hand fulls of spinach because I promise you, you can't taste the spinach! After I grew used to the fruit-based juices I added in some carrots and you really can't taste much a difference with carrots added. I then added in celery and honestly I crave that celery taste in my juice, it definitely tends to over-power the juice so if celery is not your thing, then don't add it!! I personally love celery and I really have to have celery in every juice I make! You can't go wrong with a juice, I mean how could you eat all those fruits and veggies in one day without a juicer?? They are amazing and it will make you feel great!!

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