Juicing

A full week into the juicing and I can no longer call it a real juice fast.  We had two invitations to dinner, so we blew it.  Well, not completely. We had lots of salad, veggies and fish on Saturday.  Sunday we ate what our hostess served, but much less than normal, having only seconds on salad.  Neither of us gained any weight back, so we aren't feeling too guilty. 
We do have some favorite juice recipes, but many of them I make up as I go along.  We seem to prefer the ones that have less carrot and more beets in them.  We have discovered that neither one of us is crazy about mango's, so I haven't used any more after the first couple of days.  And it's a huge pain to remove the seeds in them.  We need to try adding pomegranate seeds sometime.

The Mean Green Juice

6 Kale Leaves

4 Stalks Celery

1 Cucumber

2 Green Apples

1/2 Lemon, peeled

Ginger (1-inch)

Berry Carrot Juice

3.5 Carrots

1 Apple

1 Pear

1/2 Cup Strawberries

1/2 Cup Blueberries

Some favorite variations of these are:

This is the recipe to the left using beets instead of spinach

Few kale leaves
4 stalks celery
1 cucumber
1 green apple
1 Fuji apple
Couple handfuls of spinach
1/2 lemon, peeled
1 in. ginger

Another one would be all the ingredients above, except exchange the spinach for a beet (including the beet greens), as pictured here.

A mostly fruity one:

1 green apple
1 red apple
1 pear
2 stalks celery
2 carrots
A handful of any kind of berries
1/2 can chunk pineapple, crushed pineapple, in own juice OR
      1/2 cup fresh pineapple

I thoroughly wash all vegetables and fruits in my big tub sink--just water and a cup or so of white vinegar.  I have a fruit/veggie scrubber that I use on them too.  Remove seeds or root ends on some products as needed.  Don't need to remove peelings on most things, unless you are adding lemon/lime (the zest is too strong for us), or if you add a banana, you would want to remove the peelings.  I have found that my juicer does not like banana's too well.  Doesn't make but a few drops of juice, so most of it goes to waste.  Banana's work better in smoothies using your blender.  I double all of these recipes for the two of us, which is probably a given, but Terry drinks a couple ounces more than I do each time because he's a bigger person and I figure he probably needs it more. LOL
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