Ok, I've been wanting to get into juicing for a while now. I always allowed the "I don't have a juicer" line to be my excuse. Excuses no more P---chaw! KSL'd it and I am picking up my Jack le' Lane power juicer, (a-la someone's lost ambition,) bright and early tomorrow morning. (You can use a blender if you don't have a juicer.)
I have challenged my boot camp women to an introductory 3-day juicing challenge.
I would like everyone to participate in this. Come on, you can give up dairy, bread, and meat and processed GUNK for 3 days can't you?
We all havea lot of toxins in our body, yes including me, despite my relatively healthy diet and high actvitiy levels. I'm sure 3 days in not going to even scratch the surface at ridding my body, or your body of toxins, but it's a start. Let me know how this goes for you. Let me know how you feel. Can you do a week long cleanse? Have you done cleanses in the past? Do you have a favorite juicing recipe you would like me to feature?
Drink this juice daily for vibrant health. It contains
vitamins and minerals that are restorative and support the body in
re-generating healthy cells. Serves 1
Ingredients:
4 medium carrots
1 large beet
3 stalks of celery
2 large kale leaves
1 inch piece ginger
Preparation:
Wash the carrots and cut into 3 inch pieces.
Wash and peel the beet and cut into 2 inch slices.
Wash the celery and kale and slice into smaler pieces.
Process the carrot, beet, kale, ginger and celery with your juicer.
~ drink within 10 minutes to gain the optimal benefits from this
juice and to avoid oxidation and loss of vital nutrients and enzymes.
Classic Carrot Juice
This classic carrot juice is naturally sweet. This juice is good for your digestion, eyes, skin and hair. An excellent source of beta-carotene.
Serves 1
Ingredients:
8 medium carrots
Preparation:
Wash the carrots and cut into 3 inch pieces. Process with your favorite juicer
Ingredients:
6 Kale Leaves
1 Cucumber
4 Celery Stalks
2 Green Apples
1/2 Lemon
1 piece of ginger
Mean Green Juice #2
Ingredients:
handful spinach
3 stalks of kale
2 golden delicious apples
small handful parsley
1 lemon
1 cucumber
Raw tomato juice is a great source of lycopene, which is well known for its cancer preventing properties. Combined with other vegetables, this juice is high in potasium, iron, phosphorus, niacin, sodium, thiamin, sulphur, vitamin C, vitamin A, magnesium and calcium.
Ingredients:
2 medium carrots
1 small beet
10 sprigs of parsley
2 tomatoes
2 stalks of celery
1 clove of garlic
1/2 onion, small
Preparation:
Wash and peel the carrots and beet, and cut into 2 inch pieces.
Wash the parsley, tomatoes and celery and slice into 2 inch slices.
Peel the garlic and onion and cut the onion into smaller pieces
Process the tomatoes, carrot, beet, parsley, celery, garlic and onion with your juicing machine.
This is a very energizing drink. It strengthens and fortifies the
blood. Serves 1
Ingredients:
4 medium carrots
1 large beet
Preparation:
Wash the carrots and cut into 3 inch pieces.
Wash and peel the beet and cut into 2 inch slices.
Process the carrot and beet with your juicer.
~ drink within 10 minutes to gain the optimal benefits from this
juice and to avoid oxidation and loss of vital nutrients and enzymes.
This is a very warming and energizing drink. It strengthens and fortifies the blood and improves circulation. Serves 1
Ingredients:
4 medium carrots
1 large beet
1 inch piece of fresh ginger
Preparation:
Wash the carrots and cut into 3 inch pieces.
Wash and peel the beet and cut into 2 inch slices.
Process the carrot, ginger and beet with your juicer.
~ drink within 10 minutes to gain the optimal benefits from this
juice and to avoid oxidation and loss of vital nutrients and
enzymes.
This is a very energizing juice that supplies the body with valuable nutrients that supports the body in detoxifying.
Ingredients:
4 medium carrots
1 large beet
10 sprigs of parsley
4 inch piece of cucumber
Preparation:
Wash the carrots and cut into 3 inch pieces.
Wash and peel the beet and cut into 2 inch slices.
Wash the parsley and cucumber and slice.
Process the carrot, beet, parsley, and cucumber with your juicing machine.
Ingredients:
2 stalks celery
1/2 cucumber
1/2 apple
1/2 lemon
small piece ginger
1/2 green chard leaf
bunch cilantro
5 kale leaves
handful spinach
Mean Green Juice #4
Ingredients:
1/2 pear
1/2 green apple
handful spinach
handful parsley
2 celery stalks
1/2 cucumber
small piece ginger
slice of papaya
Prep time: 15 min Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients:
6 medium organic apples
1/2 small organic lemon
1 inch piece of fresh
organic ginger
Directions:
Wash the apples and cut into 2 inch slices. Discard the
cores.
Leave the apple skins on your apples because the skins contain
a high percentage of antioxidants and flavanoids, which are fantastic for your cardiovascular system. Your juice may be cloudy in colour but it will be highly nutritious and just as tasty too!
Wash and slice the lemon in half. Peel the lemon from the rind and remove any seeds.
Process the apple slices, lemon and ginger with your juicer.
Watermelon seed is a natural diuretic and is a stimulant particularily in underactive kidneys. This juice can asssist in cleansing and purifying the kidneys and bladder. Adding this juice to your diet can help prevent kidney stones.
Watermelon juice is high in lycopene which has cancer preventing properties. It is also excellent for canker sores and helping to reduce tissue inflammation. Serves 1
Ingredients:
1 very small watermelon
1/2 lime
Preparation:
Wash the outside of the watermelon. Slice the watermelon into 1 inch strips. Leave the seeds in the melon and don't remove the rind. Peel the rind from the 1/2 lime.
Process the watermelon and lime with your juicer.
~ drink within 10 minutes to gain the optimal benefits from this
juice and to avoid oxidation and loss of vital nutrients and enzymes.
This juice is very rich in proteolytic enzymes.It contains high amounts of the enzymes papain and bromelain. This juice is very beneficial when there is a deficiency in the body's own production of pancreatic enzymes. An excellent source of carotene and vitamin C. This juicing recipe is very therapeutic for those with poor digestion. Papaya can quickly assist in restoring intestinal flora after illness or use of
antibiotics. Serves 2
Ingredients:
1/2 pineapple, small
1small papaya
1 small mango
Preparation:
1. Slice the pineapple in half lengthwise. With a pairing knife remove the outside skin and top of the pineapple. slice into 2 inch pieces.
2. Slice the papaya in half and remove the seeds with a spoon. Remove the skin of the papaya with a knife.
3. With the pairing knife, slice the mango into four sections and remove from the seed. Slice the fruit off the skin and add to the juicer first as the mango is the juiciest of the fruit and can tend to be messy. Add the pineapple and papaya to the juicer and then sit back and enjoy this very rich and exquisite tasting juice!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of spinach
- 1/2 cucumber
- 2 stalks of celery including leaves
- 3 carrots
- 1/2 apple
Wash all vegetables thoroughly, top the carrots, remove apple stem but don’t peel apple (the peel is full of flavonoid antioxidants), enjoy.
Ingredients:
-2 1/2 apples
- 1/2 cucumber
- 1″ of ginger
Remove apple stems and juice everything together. A favorite of ours!
Ginger has potent anti-inflammatory properties that can help some people reduce arthritis based joint pain. Evidence points to one of the antioxidants in ginger called gingerol. It helps to combat oxidative damage to joint cells.

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