After writing my last blog on "Coffee No more", I promised I would post some pictures on the actual juices. But today I was been a little devious in the process. My sweet child has a chronic stuffy nose, so I want to incorporate a little more green leafy veggies in her morning drink, hoping she wouldn't say "eww!!!" and ultimately helping her stay healthly....crossing my fingers...
So this is how I do it:
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| Oranges, grapefruit and lime all citrus flavors |
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| My three or four year old Juicer purchased from Costco |
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| Peel two oranges and cut into small pieces and juice, then add in the lime unpeeled and juice (the skin has a lot of nutritious value as well). Two oranges and lime will give you a little more than 1 tea cup of juice. |
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| Fresh orange juice with lime zest, seriously takes 5 minutes. The hardest part of this is washing up the juicer - but it's all worth it. |
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Okay now for the trial. So I told my 15 year old that I was adding her favorite vegetable into the mix and she didn't seem to happy. In fact she insisted that she was not going to drink vegetables. The problem is that I could have said nothing to her about the vegetable but the color would be a dead give away. So I opted to tell her in preparation. Well, as I started adding broccoli into the juicer, she cried out not the stalk mammy, just the top part, so that's what I did...wink wink. I included at least two bunches of broccoli, see above which was a good start for her. I did also add half of mango hoping to change the color, it didn't work, but it did give the juice a sweet taste. (BTW, mangoes are very difficult to juice, I had to open the juicer to get the pulp of the mango and added a teaspoon of water so that the mango juice could flow through the juicer).
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Final product ... First reaction as expected..."ewwww it's green - I can't drink that"
DID SHE DRINK IT....HELL YEAH!! |
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She finished all of it without a word.
So I think it was all good except it was green.
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For the two adults, I added two oranges, two grapefruit, 1 lime with zest, kale, cucumber, broccoli, a few asparagus stalks....as usual my biggest fan loved it very much.
ENJOY AND SHARE YOUR FAVORITE JUICE RECIPE!!
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