Green Juices 

Green Juices are important for a light breakfast or extra boost of energy anytime.   They can be a mainstay of your every day eating.

Bashir (my husband) and I just watched the movie "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead".  A fantastic movie!  We were very inspired by the positive changes we saw as people moved toward health.  The movie focuses on the benefits of jucing.  

Bashir has always been supportive of my efforts toward health, but never actively interested in it for himself.  Well things are changing!  Because of the movie, he asked if we could do a juice feast.  I said of course!

  
Bashir committed to one day a week.  We started with that.  I wanted to go longer, but got bored of juice.  So, I did 8 days of mostly juices (3 quarts of juice) plus one raw meal each day and any fruit I wanted.  

I am really excited for the healing and cleansing benefits, and to do this together.  Please wish us good luck as we continue this!

I use a Hurom juicer to make my juice, but that is because I have a juicer that presses all the juice out completely.  If you have a cheaper juicer, or no juicer at all, consider a completely different technique:  make your juice in the blender, with a little water to get it started.  Then strain it through a nut milk bag.  The result will be a high quality, amazing juice.  Most folks who do juice feasting use this nut milk bag technique.  In the end, it seems faster and the clean up is much easier.

If you are new to juicing, start with making one quart (1 serving) of any of the variations below.  Initially you can do sweet fruit juices with veges.  As you get more into juicing and your palate changes, it is important to juice mostly vegetables.  The green leafy vegetables are the agents that are cancer fighting, sugar balancing and immune boosting.

The components of a basic vegetable juice would be: celery, cucumber and a green leafy vegetable plus a citrus like lemon or lime.

Here are some easy juice combos to get you started:

Apple Kale Juice

Yield: 2 - 2 ½ cups (2 servings)

• 5 apples
• 1 lemon
• 1 bunch kale

Juice everything together. No need to peel the lemon.

Sublime combinations:

• 1 cucumber / 3 stalks celery / 1 apple / 1 lemon / any of the following greens:  cilantro, kale, spinach and or parsley
• ½ pineapple / 3 handfuls spinach or other green / 1 peeled cucumber / 3 stalks celery / 2 apples / 1 lime
• 2 parts Apple / 1 part Celery / 1 part Kale / 1 part Beet and a little Ginger
• 3 parts Grapefruit / 2 parts apple / 1 part celery 
• 3 parts cucumber / 2 part celery / 2 part sunflower and/or buckwheat sprouts / 1 part lime + a small handful of mint leaves