Seven Great Juicing Recipes

These are some of my favorite juicing recipes that I continue to make over and over. I love to drink my juice cold, served over ice. Makes it taste better to me. It seems like once I start juicing my body begins to crave it everyday. It is a great way to get lots of fruits and veggies in at the start of the day. Especially for the kids! My kids love helping me juice and they also love to drink it. So when my boys are being picky eaters, and only eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches... I make them a glass of juice and feel much better about what they're consuming for the day!

Hope you enjoy these recipes as much as we do! Some of them I have created on my own and other recipes I have found online and slightly adjusted. For all of the recipes below you will run the ingredient through a juicer, according to the manufacturer's directions. 

Recipe: Serves 1
1 bundle of kale leaves, stems removed
-2 apples, cored and halved
-1/2 pineapple, cored and sliced
-1" ginger, peeled
-1/2 lemon

Recipe: Serves 1-2
-2 oranges, peeled and halved
-2 apples, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-2 carrots
-1/2 lemon

 Recipe: Serves 1-2
-1 large golden beet
-2 oranges, peeled and halved
-2 apples, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-2 carrots
-1/2" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1-2

-1 large beet, quartered

-2 carrots
-1 orange, peeled and halved
-1 apple, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-1/2" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1

-1 grapefruit, peeled and quartered

-3 carrots

-1" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1-2

-2 apples, cored and halved

-2 carrots

-2 celery stalks

-1/2 lemon

-1" ginger, peeled

-5 oz spinach

(Rise and Shine Juice recipe via Giada De Laurentiis)

Recipe: Serves 1-2

 -1 sweet potato, quartered

-4 stalks of celery

-5 carrots

-1 apple, cored and halved

-1/2 lemon

Beet Juice

 I came across this beet juice recipe At The Juicing Cafe. It is a great juice for the morning or afternoon packed with fruits and veggies. And it's really, really good!!!

• 2 beets
• 2 carrots
• 1 orange
• 1 apple
• 1-2 sticks celery
• 1/2" ginger root

 

Juicing Recipe

 So this is what I had for breakfast this morning...usually on Saturday mornings we make pancakes, but this morning we juiced instead. I found this recipe from My New Roots and she has lots of great juicing recipes and insight HERE! The flavor of this combination of juices was pretty good! It's just always hard for me to drink the whole glass...as I get about halfway through it gets harder and harder to drink! We have not committed to doing a juice fast, but are going to try to juice more often to get extra fruits and veggies in our diet.

We also purchased our first Bountiful Basket today! Bountiful Baskets is a Food Co-op that distributes produce baskets weekly. You can find more information on their website, HERE. The have many locations in different states and if you are looking for a good deal on lots of fruits and veggies then it might be for you. The only catch is that you do not know what you'll be getting in your basket. You can add on to you basket if you want more veggies, breads, fruit, ect. But each basket (you bring a laundry basket) is an assortment of vegetables and fruits.

 1 sweet potato, 4 stalks of celery, 5 carrots, 1 apple, and ½ lemon