Back at the beginning of January I said that one of my 2013  challenges was to juice more often and I’m here to report that in the past month I’ve done…okay. Like maybe a “C” if you were to grade me. Not an epic fail (like my goal of blogging once per week…) but definitely not a stellar job. I’ve juiced a few times a week for the past month, so there’s a TON of room for improvement. Our goal is to replace one meal a day with juice or a smoothie.

A few months ago Josh and I watched the popular documentary Fat Sick and Nearly Dead by Joe Cross on Netflix. If you haven’t seen it yet, GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW! It’ll shock you how well our bodies can heal themselves if given a half a chance and a good diet. Anyways, we were really encouraged by the film and purchased this Breville juicer shortly after seeing it. We’ve put it to good use so far and have really enjoyed coming up with new recipes to try. A lot of people will tell you to buy a more intense, masticating juicer ($$$), but we figured the base model would be a good start for us as we were starting at zero. Maybe one day we’ll graduate to a bigger, badder juicer, but right now little Brevvy is doing just fine!

Here are a few of our favorite juice recipes so far!

Green Lemonade

• 1/2 a pineapple
• 2-3 oranges
• 1-2 lemons
• 2 handfuls of spinach or kale

Dirty Orange

• 5 carrots
• 2 apples
• 1/2 pineapple
• 2 handfuls of spinach or kale

Beet-It

• 1 small beet
• 4 carrots
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 grapefruit
• 1 orange

Orange Beast

• 2 oranges
• 2 apples
• 4 carrots

We hope to increase our intake of fresh juice over the next month. Although it requires some commitment, juicing is so rewarding, healthy and delicious!

Have you jumped on the juicing bandwagon? What is your favorite combination?

Getting healthy,
Mrs. Edwards