The Cheap and Easy Way To Make Green Juice
by Jamie Abrams
I started green juicing nearly a year ago. Up until that point I had been a green smoothie queen. I loved them (still do) but, I was finding that I was feeling really heavy after my morning helping. My skin was reflecting this to me as well through pussy pimples and acne outbreaks. Not really what a girl wants when she is nearly thirty!
Finally, I knew I had to break my love affair with my green smoothies and move to something that served my body better. Drum roll please…..GREEN JUICES.
Getting Hooked on Green Juice
We already know how fabulous fresh fruit and vegetables are for our bodies. But, as soon as we liquidize these babies they become even more potent and powerful, especially greens. The five biggest benefits of greens are their chlorophyll content, trace minerals, vegetable protein, enzymes and alkalizing abilities. All these formidable effects are enhanced when we put them into the easily absorbable form of juice.
Like many people starting on their juicing journey I kitted myself out with one of the best masticating juicers on the market. If you are like me and maybe a lot of others who have these diamond studded juicers you probably tired easily of all the fiddly cleaning of bits and pieces. Any one juice could require using up to thirteen parts!!! Who has time for this?
Not wanting to forfeit my daily prescription of green juice I got resourceful. I first heard Sergei Boutenko and then the Rainosheks suggesting to people to use their blenders and nut milk/ sprout bags to make juices and by doing this you without doubt half the set- up and clean-up time.
If you would like to give this a go try the following with or without little hands helping:
Green Juice Bod-A-Bing-Ba-Da-BOOM Juice
Ingredients:
- 1 cucumber
- 3 stalks celery
- 1 small pineapple or 1⁄2 large 1 apple
- 2 carrots with their tops bundle of spinach bundle of rainbow chard sprinkle of watercress
Directions:
Chop the following up into chunks your blender can manage. Add enough water to cover your blender blades (1⁄4 -1⁄2 cup usually does the trick). Place ingredients in the blender as listed above. By placing the high water content items at the bottom you are more likely to have an easier blending experience. Turn on your blender. Poof. You have thick muck. Place your nut milk bag inside a jug or bowl, pour half the blender contents into it and get squeezing. Ring out all the juice from the bag. Place pulp into compost and repeat again or until your blender is empty.
Magic! You have a smooth, delicious green juice in minutes! Did I mention how sparkly you look now?
Tips for Moms:
For those with little people about, have your munchkin place the ingredients in the blender, turn the blender on and allow them to help you squeeze the juice out. My little guy’s hands are like lightening when ringing out the juice. It always tastes so much more gorgeous when he has added his energy to it. Plus he loves to drink it with me!
More Juice Recipes to Get You Going:
Unless otherwise stated, for all these recipes, just juice and drink!
Lovely Bones
by Angela Elliot
Ingredients:
- 2 apples
- 5 kale leaves
- 1 handful parsley 1 celery stalk 1⁄4 lemon
- 1 inch ginger root
Clean Out!
by Angela Elliot
Ingredients:
- 2 granny smith apples 1 bunch dandelion greens 1 handful parsley
1⁄4 lemon
Calcium Power
Ingredients:
- 1 apple
- 1 handful spinach
- 5 carrots
- 2 celery stalks Handful of dandelion greens 1 small handful parsley
- 1 tomato
- Add cayenne to taste
I’m Gorgeous!
Ingredients:
- 2 apples
- 3 fresh pineapple spears
- 1 1⁄2 cucumber
Liver Love
by Angela Stokes-Monarch
Makes about 1 quart/ 32 oz/ 4 cups
Ingredients:
- 2 beets
- 2 handfuls of greens of your choice
- 2 cucumbers
- 2 small fennel bulbs
- 1 lemon/lime, peeled
- 2 inch chunk fresh ginger
Directions:
Run all the ingredients through your juicer, strain juice through a nut–milk bag and serve immediately.
Personal Note from Angela
I like to use whatever kind of greens I have available for this recipe – lettuce, spinach, kale, chard etc. The beet and citrus together help make the flavour appealing, whatever greens are used.
Benefits to the body:
Let the powerful beet juice get to work at scrubbing your liver clean.
Green Drink Delight
Need a great, healthy pick-me-up? Want to build your blood? This refreshing drink will do just that! It provides lots of vital magnesium-rich chlorophyll, vitamins, and minerals.
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup chopped fresh edible wild young green herbs of choice (chickweed, miner’s lettuce, plantain, young dandelion leaves, young yellow dock leaves, purslane, and Lamb’s-quarter are good choices)
- ¼ cup fresh pineapple or apple juice
- ¼ cup water
Place all ingredients in a blender. Blend on high speed until pureed. Strain through a strainer, pressing all liquid out of herbs. Enjoy!
Reference: Healing Tonics by Jeanine Pollak
Momma Said, “Eat Your Veggies” Juice
Ingredients:
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2 big handfuls of spinach
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½ cup parsley, chopped
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1 rib of celery
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1 thumb of ginger, skin peeled
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1 lemon
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1 medium cucumber
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4 apples
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Ice cubes (optional)
Directions:
In a juicer, place all ingredients except optional ice cubes in a juicer until juiced. Serve in your favorite wine goblet or other favorite glass of choice. If desired, add ice cubes for a refreshing cold beverage.
Ready to Try a Short Juice Cleanse?
If you’d like to try a Gentle Juice Cleanse to detoxify your body, improve your mood, health, energy and take a few years off your face in the process, pack your re-usable grocery bags and head to the nearest produce section. But before you do, sign up for our 10-day kickstart course to guide you through everything you need to know and do to be successful with a gentle juice cleanse!
Here’s to your health!