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Dreamy Cold Pressed Green Juice Recipe

 

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Why, Hello!  What great timing you have – I've just finished making you an incredibly Dreamy, Fresh Pressed Green Juice!  Mornings are a sunny celebration of high vibe goodness when accompanied by this jar of cleansing, detoxifying deliciousness.  Don't forget to switch up your greens regularly.

Wishing you a beautiful day filled with happiness, joy & laughter 🙂

 

Recipe for Dreamy Cold Pressed Green Juice

Ingredients:

  • bunch of flat leaf parsley
  • large handful of fresh mint
  • kale stems (I save the stems from my kale salads for juicing. Of course you may use the leaves as well if you wish)
  • 6 stalks celery
  • 2 apples
  • 2 lemons
  • 1 or 2" piece fresh ginger root
  • fresh, raw coconut water

Method:

  1. Cut everything into pieces then feed into your juicer.  
  2. Top with a bit of fresh, raw coconut water, gently stir to incorporate.
  3. Enjoy that amazing Green Drink buzz that lasts for hours and hours!

 

All Love,

Juliane

 

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The Lean Green Express

 

 

 

The Lean Green Express is a delicious, Living superfood
green drink for those mornings we don't have 30 minutes to make a fresh juice.  This supercharged drink is so packed with powerful, energizing nutrition there's no need to
feel guilty when we can't make our fresh juice!  The Lean Green Express is
an anti-aging, longevity producing, beautifying, detoxifying high vibration
energy cocktail that takes all of 2 minutes to prepare!  Be amazing and
Live Beautifully my friends!

As always, leave your questions about this recipe, or
anything else, in the comments below.  I'm always happy to answer them
quickly and in significant depth.  Our comments section has tons of
really excellent, additional info thanks to all your fantastic, fun contributions!

 

All Love,

Juliane

 

 

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The Essential Ginger Berry Beet

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Essential Ginger Berry Beet Juice

 

This one's for you, Hovermale!  

The Essential Ginger Berry Beet is out of this world delish. It heads into the office with my gorgeous husband at least once a week.  A juice with this dark, ruby hue is clearly loaded with antioxidants.  Check out the powerhouse of bennies in this mouth watering concoction…

 

Beta-carotene filled, Kidney cleansing Carrots

Blood purifying Beets

Antioxidant laden Blackberries and Raspberries

Mineral and vitamin rich Green Apple

Cellulite zapping, collagen building, liver cleansing, Vitamin C filled Citrus

Metabolism accelerating Jalapeno (yes that's right)

Detoxifying Ginger Root

& Lauric Acid boasting Coconut Water

 

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Remember the words of Mahatma Gandhi, "Chew your juice and drink your food."  Digestion starts in the mouth with the enzymes in our saliva.  Don't waste this liquid gold by gulping it down in two seconds flat, 'cause believe me, it's so tasty you'll be tempted 🙂

 

**As for proper food combining, there is more leeway mixing fruits and veg when making a fiber-free juice.  That said, there are also those who advise against juicing fruits at all, due to the resulting insulin spike from the sugar in the fruit. (Note: the berries in this juice are in the acid category & extremely low in sugar.)  In my experience, I've found the cleaner my body has become (after doing lots of detoxification & commiting to a detoxifying lifestyle) the more freedom I now have with fruit as pertains to food combining, my response to eating more of it, etc.  If we want to be purists, we can leave out the berries and orange and take or leave the green apple as it's considered a neutral in the juicing arena (and it's still delicious this way!).  Frequently, however, when we first begin juicing, we need recipes which are sweeter tasting to satisfy our taste buds.  Eventually we benefit ourselves to enjoy and appreciate the juices which are lower in sugar so we don't cause sugar related health problems as a result of juicing.  For all these reasons, I've included mutliple ways to make this juice in the recipe below.  However you choose to make it, enjoy the fusion of micronutrients, enzymes and cleansing, beautifying, healthifying deliciousness!

 

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All in the Family, Right to Left: Amazing Greens, Essential Ginger Berry Beet, Epic Thai Baby Coconut Smoothie & Macaccino!

 

My hubby comes home to a spread of fresh, cold-pressed juices & smoothies daily.  Because I use a slow, masticating juicer, they retain their nutrients for 72 hours leaving them perfect the next day.  Right to Left: Amazing Greens (Recipe coming soon!), Essential Ginger Berry Beet, Epic Thai Baby Coconut Smoothie & Macaccino!

 

Recipe for Essential Ginger Berry Beet Juice (2, 32 oz Servings)

Ingredients (all organic):

  • 1 Lemon, peeled
  • 1 Lime, unpeeled
  • 1 small Orange, peeled (leave out if following a purist approach to proper food combining)
  • 1 Green Apple
  • Ginger, 1" knob or to taste
  • Jalapeno, (SO good) small slice to taste & depending on strength of your pepper
  • 8 carrots
  • 1/2 medium beet (If you haven't yet tried beets or haven't yet developed an affinity for them, use just a very small amount -perhaps 1/8 of a small beet- which will blend into the taste of the other ingredients so you don't taste it. From there, you may opt to gradually include a bit more as your palate adjusts to the earthier flavor)
  • 4 to 8 oz. blackberries (leave out if following a purist approach to proper food combining)
  • 4 to 8 oz. raspberries or strawberries (leave out if following a purist approach to proper food combining)
  • liquid stevia to taste
  • coconut water or purified water to thin out to desired consistency 

Method:

  1. Wash and cut ingredients into sizes small enough to feed into your juicer.
  2. Juice ingredients.
  3. Add coconut water to thin consistency to taste.
  4. Add liquid stevia to sweeten to taste.
  5. Enjoy!

 

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This is my submission to the Root Vegetable No Waste Food Challenge at Turquoise Lemons.

 

Do you juice?  Have you ever tried a juice feast?

 

Much Love

XO's

 

Juliane

 

 

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Visiting wine-making friends in Napa Valley. In front of 400 year old tree in front yard.

 

Coming soon!  Completing our adventures in Napa Valley: Dining at Bouchon, Meadowood & Auberge du Soleil plus 3 divine vineyards…

  

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Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice & My Raw Journey

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Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice


I've begun my Raw journey!  

Several years ago I began experimenting as a vegetarian purely out of love for animals.  One need only adore a pet of their own for that to turn into compassion for all animals.  That's what happened for me.  I became unable to hold dually in my conscience, that it's ok to eat one animal so long as I never knew it personally/it came from XYZ species, while simultaneously loving another animal as a member of my family.

I hold no judgement against meat eaters as it's woven into the fabric of our conditioning.  We're raised eating, wearing & using animal products in more ways than we probably realize.  Even despite my own internal conflicts over the issue, I've waffled back and forth between vegetarian/flexetarian over the years, rationalizing, since my husband was a carnivore, preparing a couple of meat dishes a week, though I'd use only humanely raised/organic products religiously.

Recently, however, after reading several fascinating nutrition books, I learned the amazing benefits of a raw foods vegetarian diet.  What we've been conditioned to believe our bodies require nutritionally in order to thrive is quite upside down.  A vegetarian/raw foods diet has been linked to a whole host of benefits including greater energy, radiant skin, reduced risk of disease and better digestion.  Research and real life experiences have also shown that a person can prevent a body's healthy cells from turning into malignant cancererous cells by consuming mostly a vegetarian, raw food diet of whole, organic foods!  

When I shared what I'd learned with Jim, I was thrilled when he decided he too wanted transition to a vegetarian, mostly Raw Vegan food diet.  The timing was perfect!  After just 2 weeks of phasing ourselves into this new lifestyle, we're already feeling and seeing the results.  Jim, for example, is experiencing a much higher level of performance during his boxing workouts!

Uncooking, or eating Raw involves a lot of new techniques and some new tools- though the investment is negligible compared to health related expenses down the road.  We'd already been making a delicious green smoothie daily for the past year (yes, we love it that much!) in our Vitamix, so we were off to a fab start.  My 1st two equipment investments so far on our Raw journey are my spiralizer, for making vegetable pasta, and a Juicer.  Love them both!

Originally, I'd planned to share my Raw Vegan recipe for Pasta Alfredo today, but I've received so many requests for this Power Green Juice that I decided to share it first.  Again, this is NOT the same recipe as the green smoothie I've shared previously.  Juicing is very different from blending as it immediately delivers a degree of enzymes/nutrition/benefits we'd never actually be able to consume in even one day.  Jim and I noticed after our first Power Green Juice we experienced an awesome sustained rush of energy, not unlike what follows a cup of coffee, just without the jitters and subsequent crash.

Please enjoy Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice.  I am thrilled about it, as until now, I've never been able to drink more than a few sips of green juice, from even the best juicing companies.  Sweet & Tangy Green Drink has a wonderful tang of ginger and lemon, sweetness from apples & zip from the fennel… and there's something about that fabulous sustained energy rush… it becomes addictive!  It's already one of our daily staples.

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 Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice

Recipe for Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice (Serves 2)

Ingredients:

  • 2 collard or kale leaves 
  • 3 romaine lettuce leaves
  • 2 handfuls parsley, about 1/2 bunch (or use spinach)
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1/2 fennel bulb (or 1/2 of top portion, ie. the fronds/stems. I get four batches out of 1 fennel this way.)
  • 3 stalks celery
  • 2 green apples, cored
  • 1 lemon, peeled (yellow skin removed)
  • 1 lime
  • 1 1/2" piece of fresh ginger root (I like a lot of ginger, you may want to try w/ a 1" piece first)
  • A couple squirts of Stevia to sweeten if necessary

Method:

  1. Juice and enjoy!

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Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice

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