Drink Your Greens!
This is what I'm telling my kids. They're picky. One day they'll like a certain fruit or veggie and the next day...not so much. I was pretty surprised when they asked my husband to make them edamame today. Go girls!!
As they were eating their edamame, thoroughly enjoying popping the little beans out of the shells, I was in the kitchen prepping for and making green juices for today and tomorrow. (Yes, I am fully aware that the best nutritional benefit comes when juice is consumed within hours, if not immediately after making it. However, I figure it's still a better option tomorrow than some other things I could pull out of the fridge or pantry!) When I was finished juicing, two of my three girls asked for their own glass of juice. How could I not oblige? Heck yeah girls, you can have some green juice!!!
I gave them some of the Kale, Apple, Orange. Nearly as soon as I sat it down in front of them, I heard that super annoying noise that occurs when you sip through a straw into the bottom of an empty glass. Yeah. They inhaled that juice. They asked me if they could start bringing juice to school to have with their lunch. Again, HECK YES!! If I can get them to have a green juice-a-day, I'm ALL FOR IT. I'll happily make juices all the time if they will reap the nutritional benefits of that green goodness.
It took me an hour, but I got 4 x 24 ounce jars plus 3/4 jar (not pictured) for my husband plus the glass I gave to the girls. Not bad!! I used two small bags of baby spinach, one large bunch of kale, 5 oranges, 4 apples, 4 lemons, a small pre-cut container of pineapple, 6 mini cucumbers and a package of carrots.
The longest part of the process is washing and prepping the veggies. Because I have an Omega juicer, I have to chop everything smaller to fit it through the hole on the juicer. No worries...I know it's worth it.
The juice combinations I made today were:
- Kale, Apple, Orange
- Kale, Carrot, Cucumber, Lemon
- Spinach, Pineapple, Carrot
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| Prepped fruits & veggies (washed & cut) |
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| Washed kale, I juice the stems too. |
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| Washed and cut apples - 2 Gala, 2 Granny Smith |
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| R to L *Spinach, Pineapple, Carrot *Carrot, Kale, Lemon, Cucumber *Kale, Apple, Orange (x2) |
