Juicing recipes ?

My recipe is:  1/2 beet, carrots, celery, collard greens, fresh ginger, white button mushrooms,  and an apple without the seeds.  Have fun.

Dear Tri,

Here's mine and my mom's recipie and the easiest way to prepare. 

3 organic carrots

2 small organic apples

2 large stalks organic celery

large handful of organic RED grapes

2 organic oranges

1 organic beet tops and all

1" piece of organic ginger

Preparation:  Retrieve all said beautiful colors from fridge and put in large colander for rinsing.  Sing "Oh what a beautiful morning" as you are cleaning these life-giving colorful wonderments of nature.  Put oranges on cutting board and take off most of peeling with a knife.  Cut beet in half (This will take a large knife!  They are tough little buggers).  Cut greens off top of beet. 

Put in juicer in this order:

apples (leave them whole if they fit, seeds are good)

oranges

celery

grapes

carrots

ginger

beet root

beet top

This will make approx. 32oz. of juice.  It is delicious.  You may also add the stalks of broccoli that you have saved, and the bottoms of califlower.  These make lots of juice.  I put my juice in a sealable safe plastic drinking bottle I got at Target.  I carry it around with me and try and consume within an hour or so.  From what I understand, it's important to drink quickly after juicing.  A la Votre Sante'!

Lisa

Apple, kale, broccoli, carrot- in sort of equal amounts- I love this combo- our juicer a Samson, Green Bison, gear juicer- leaves a lot of the fiber. The combo makes a beautiful emerald green drink- the sweetness of the apple/carrot cuts the bitter of the broccoli/kale.

I use organic apples and carrots only as these foods are on the "worst 10" list for pesticides- the broccoli and kale I feel okay about using conventional. You can look up the worst 10 list on line and use only organics of those vegs and fruits but save $ buying "conventional" for less risky produce- others on the bad list that come to mind are peaches, strawberries, potatoes, green beans, spinach...I buy only organic varieties of these. I don't imagine you'll be juicing many potatoes but you might want to bake some.

Sandi,

I can't get their web pages to copy over.  I don't even know if they sell a product on that site because I can never get out of the page I'm reading because it's so packed with info. Let's see if this one works:

 http://www.whfoods.com/

Has anyone been juicing for a few months and have notice teeth sensitivity? Read about this, and I notice I don't want cold things.(not even iced,I mean just a little cold)  Also real crunch things.  Anyone else notice this?

I also choose to blend and not juice.  Wanted the fiber to help process the natural carbo's. I also find I can blend about anything as long as I put a apple or red grapes to taste.

Flalady

Nope! I'm not taking either....

Flalady

Try a barlett pear instead of apple sometime!  Yummy!

 This morning: wad of spinach, several leaves of bok choi, barlett pear, cup of red grapes and 2 carrots.  This could be habit forming!

I keep it really simple and now need my daily fix:

romaine/celery/beets

sometimes I'll throw in some apple or carrot but rarely.

Reading all your recipes are making me hungry.

They sound great.

Thanks

mimi, where do you get your wheatgrass?  I haven't tried it yet but I learned of a place that offers it, so I'll give it a whirl.  I ran some broccoli through my juicer a few weeks ago, mixed with carrots and spinach.  I can handle a drink green from spinach, but broccoli just didn't float my boat.  Yesterday I added some cabbage to my carrot juice and it was ok, but not my favorite.  

My sweet tooth is a diehard.  But I do like the tart apples better than the red delicious.  In fact, I need to go get some more.  I received a pineapple last week and I'm planning to run that through the juicer also.  Love my juicer! 

I have a champion juicer.  It's probably 20 years old.  I used it a lot when I was first married.  Then it became readily available from the store, so I fell out of the habit.  I am so glad it still works, and it works very well. 

For those who juice apples, do you run the seeds through?  Or do you remove them prior to juicing?  I've been using granny smith apples and really like my apple juice these days.  It's the only juice so far that I can manage to drink my superfood mixed in and like it.   

I do not juice but blend, and I think the flavors probably work the same.  But I started with some good greens (kyle or spinach) and add a little more fruit that I should have to get use to the flavors.  After awhile I mixed more veggies in and cut back on the fruit.  I found certain fruits can cover a lot of stronger flavored veggies well.  Example:  Sweet apple, pear or bananas or even carrots.  I don't care for peppers so I don't use them.  I do use beets but they are a pretty strong flavor to start with also cucumbers. The more you do the more you can start to guess what the out come will taste like.  I now can just about blend anything and enjoy it.  Do remember to change your formula regularly to capture a lot of different vitamins.

Flalady

Althea,

The woman doing the demo when I bought my machine took the seeds out of the apple before using it. I asked her why since the machine could handle them. She told me that apple seeds contain a small amount of arsenic.