I have known about juicing, but I am sure like most of you, somehow when I would think about juicing, carrot juice was what most often comes to mind. And don't get me wrong, I really do like carrot juice, but you can only drink so much!
Or I am sure I am not the only one that has set up the juicer and pulled out every kind of fruit and vegetable that was in my kitchen and sent some of all of them through the juicer at the same time, ending up with this orange/green colored, somewhat distasteful concoction, but telling yourself that it is good for you, you gulp down a glass full anyways but don't bother to take another glass of it.
But how about carrot apple ginger juice? Now that sounds more lively or how about carrot orange peach or maybe even mango! Or if it is blackberry season... blackberries beets and lime or lemon is pretty amazingly good! All fresh not additives!
After watching Fat, Sick and Neraly Dead. (great movie to check out on the life changing benefits of juicing! http://shop.rebootwithjoe.com/collections/movies) I had new resolve to do juicing.
But knowing that I could not just do carrot juice! And knowing that I would soon not be able to stomach the putting a little bit of everything into the same juice.
One way I have found to get a lot of different fruits and vegetables in (which of course is one of the main reasons you would be wanting to juice in the first place) is to sort your fruits and veggies out by color!
And being that I did only juice/very light (one meal a day) simple whole foods for 15 days, I would say it worked pretty good! (the 10 lbs lost at the end of the 15 days was pretty good too :)
Or I am sure I am not the only one that has set up the juicer and pulled out every kind of fruit and vegetable that was in my kitchen and sent some of all of them through the juicer at the same time, ending up with this orange/green colored, somewhat distasteful concoction, but telling yourself that it is good for you, you gulp down a glass full anyways but don't bother to take another glass of it.
But how about carrot apple ginger juice? Now that sounds more lively or how about carrot orange peach or maybe even mango! Or if it is blackberry season... blackberries beets and lime or lemon is pretty amazingly good! All fresh not additives!
After watching Fat, Sick and Neraly Dead. (great movie to check out on the life changing benefits of juicing! http://shop.rebootwithjoe.com/collections/movies) I had new resolve to do juicing.
But knowing that I could not just do carrot juice! And knowing that I would soon not be able to stomach the putting a little bit of everything into the same juice.
One way I have found to get a lot of different fruits and vegetables in (which of course is one of the main reasons you would be wanting to juice in the first place) is to sort your fruits and veggies out by color!
And being that I did only juice/very light (one meal a day) simple whole foods for 15 days, I would say it worked pretty good! (the 10 lbs lost at the end of the 15 days was pretty good too :)
Green Juice
Here I have all green colored fruits and veggies with a lemon thrown in for the fresh pick me up flavor it adds. This could have been a lime but I did not have one. I like to leave some of the lemon rine on. but if you leave it all on it will be pretty strong. Find as many ways that taste good to get lots of green & leafy veggies in! Apples parsley and lemon is another killer combo to try!
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Orange Juice
With this one I used carrots oranges nectarines and some celery. Celery is one of those veggies that in small amonts blends in and adds to the juice as celery makes quite a lot of juice.
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Red Juice
Beets are so great for you, just don't juice too many at once or they will make your mouth and throat have a dry feeling after you drink the juice. But mixing a few in with lots of other fruit or veggies goes great. This one had the beets, strawberries, oranges (again oranges are one of those that adds nice flavor and goes well with almost any combo) and spinach. If you have beets with the tops on them then you can use them rather than the spinach. But it is good to get lots of your dark greens in anyway you can. They blend in and taste very good with berries.
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So as you can see just from these three juice here in this post, you can have a lot of fun mixing and matching flavors when juicing! don't get stuck, there really is no end to the options! So try something new!
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