Juice Recipe: Carrot-Apple

This juice has become not only my favorite but it has spread to the whole family as well. Ok, minus Peter.  He only likes the cantaloupe juice so far.

The carrot-apple juice is very easy to like. It is super sweet and tasty.  I juice mine with one apple, 1/2 lb. of carrots and a thumb-size fresh ginger root.  The result is HEAVEN!

Joshua likes his with a little less of ginger while Robert and Christine just drink theirs with two apples and without the ginger root.

I googled the health benefit of carrot and I think it is by far the best vegetable for juicing.  Our skin is softer and in general have more energy.  Try it, you may like it, too.

I am not including the benefit finding here as it is so much easier for you to just type in "carrot" and get all the details.  I am only reporting my personal result from this recipe.

 Simple ingredients: 1/2 lb of carrots, one apple and a thumb-size ginger root.

Carrot goodness. Drink to better health!

Wait!  What do I do with the pulp? Well, that's another post. :)

Juice Recipe: Mean Green

Mean Green was the first juice recipe I was introduced to when I watched Joe Cross's documentary film "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead!"

After I decided to take on the JTH project, I knew I have to get my taste palates a good "tongue wash" by thinking vegetable cold soup instead of sweet fruit juice.  Many of the juicing recipe ingredients involve vegetable, so I thought the sooner I get used to the idea of a soup taste instead of the fruit taste, the easier for me to drink them.

I was quite surprised when I juiced up the Mean Green recipe to find that it does not taste as "awful" as I thought it would be (provided I had switched the green apples to Gala apples). Because I am not tackling this project cold turkey style, I give myself plenty of time to adjust to he vegetable taste and also to slowly reduce the serving size of my meals.  Honestly, it has not been easy to eat a correct serving of food after indulging myself with it for so long. But I know the reward with be worth it so I will press on!

Here is the recipe I found on his site (there are more).  Try it, it really makes you feel healthy drinking it!

Mean Green
1 bulk of Kale
4 stalks of celery
1 cucumber
2 granny smith apples
1/2 lemon
Ginger root (thumb sized)

 My breakfast - followed by a "second breakfast" with protein/fiber breakfast items in the correct serving size. :)

Drink to health!