Drink your vegetables - Page 2

CurvyCurly · 04-14-2012, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by PRINCETON

I've been juicing veggies for years and occasionally will juice fruit.

I prefer the Kale, cucumber, and tomatoes veggie one. For the fruit one I blend in a array of about 5 types of berries.

Just wanted to remind everyone to
"Juice Responsibly" because your loading nutrients into the body at a very quick rate. Too much too fast can be poisonous.

Also, fruits contain a high amount of sugar. Don't do it a lot but learn to enjoy it as a treat every once in a while. Your body will thank you later.

PRINCETON

Thanks for mentioning this. That's why I do GREEN smoothies more often than the fruit ones because of the high sugar content of the mostly fruit ones. I'm also BIG on adding spinach to fruit smoothies to help balance the sugar because it's an excellent low carb veggie w/ lots of nutrients (like calcium) that has little affect on the taste.

scrills · 04-14-2012, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PRINCETON

I've been juicing veggies for years and occasionally will juice fruit.

I prefer the Kale, cucumber, and tomatoes veggie one. For the fruit one I blend in a array of about 5 types of berries.

Just wanted to remind everyone to
"Juice Responsibly" because your loading nutrients into the body at a very quick rate. Too much too fast can be poisonous.

Also, fruits contain a high amount of sugar. Don't do it a lot but learn to enjoy it as a treat every once in a while. Your body will thank you later.

PRINCETON

I add a little bit of green to every smoothie/juice. you can't even taste it and it makes me feel better :-)

scrills · 04-14-2012, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by rouquinne

do y'all use a blender or one of those juicer machines for these?

For juice, I use the Jack LaLanne. For smoothies, I use a stick blender (which I loooooooooove)

scrills · 04-14-2012, 12:18 PM

Goodies purchased from the market this morning. I also picked up some ground flax seed and some mason jars (to freeze and store)

Saria · 04-14-2012, 12:23 PM

You can use pulp in bread and muffins, or even some cookies.

http://leitesculinaria.com/632/recip...ast-bread.html

Carrot pulp in a rye black bread, for example.

spring1onu · 04-14-2012, 12:43 PM

I love my daily smoothie so much I just can't bring myself to try any other variations. I really should try something new, though.

milk
frozen mango
frozen sweet black cherries (I only use 3, they're potent)
1/2 banana
spinach
splash of water

Sometimes the only way I can talk myself into my workout is the promise of my smoothie afterword.

scrills · 04-14-2012, 05:05 PM

Watermelon and mint

Strawberry apple

Green

scrills · 04-14-2012, 05:08 PM

Pineapple, pear, mint

ABC - apple, beet, carrot

Carrot, apple, ginger

scrills · 04-14-2012, 05:14 PM

Carrot, spinach, apple

Apple and Orange

Cucumber and mint

Carrot, apple, celery, Kale

scrills · 04-14-2012, 05:15 PM

I filled 8 pints and 2 quarts. whew! (My juicer needed a break in the middle)

Now I'm on to the smoothies. I need chocolate/chocolate soy to make the one mentioned upthread. oh, and mangoes and peaches

would it be wrong I just used half a pack of hot chocolate

It weird, I love berries, but I don't like them in smoothies. They seem too overpowering

spring1onu · 04-14-2012, 08:25 PM

Scrills, that's awesome!!

greenjumper · 04-15-2012, 12:25 AM

Spinach in smoothies... I really had never thought of that before. Typed it into Google, and whaddayah know!

This recipe uses almond milk (I'll be sticking with soy, I'm allergic to almonds) and yogurt.
My Top Secret Diet Weapon | Iowa Girl Eats
Look at that color!
It seems a variation of the one LAwoman posted, which sounded super yummy as well!

I'll have to pick up some spinach tomorrow. I also have regular/vanilla soy milk in the fridge so hopefully I'll try her recipe instead of my usual chocolate one sometime tomorrow.

secret_karma · 04-15-2012, 04:52 AM

I love you guys! I was just online and on youtube last night looking up green smoothies. I've been juicing this past week but I want to try some smoothies this week.

I put a ton of stuff in my juice; probably way too much:
Kale
Spinach
Broccoli
Carrots
Cucumber
Celery
Tomato
Apple
Strawberries
Orange
Lemon
Ginger

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parislarue · 04-15-2012, 06:03 AM

Awesome thread, scrills thanks for the visuals!

rouquinne · 04-15-2012, 09:16 AM

great! yet ANOTHER reason to be envious of scrills!

not only is she an Organizing Goddess, now she's a Juicing Goddess too!

Ketchup · 04-15-2012, 10:55 AM

You ladies are putting my paltry berry smoothies to shame! I watch my sugar and carbs so can't indulge in bananas and most fruits.
Does anyone have any great spinach combos they would like to share?
I'm going to try some spinach/berry/tomato combo tomorrow.

✌📲

scrills · 04-15-2012, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by rouquinne

great! yet ANOTHER reason to be envious of scrills!

not only is she an Organizing Goddess, now she's a Juicing Goddess too!

Ha! Funny! I am the jack of all trades and the master of none

I have 3 bookcases left to assemble and no yogurt for my smoothies :-)

secret_karma · 04-15-2012, 12:28 PM

Why am I chewing this smoothie? It doesn't taste bad, but I guess my blender is not going to work. I'm going back to using the juicer

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curlylaura · 04-15-2012, 01:25 PM

Every smoothie I've ever made tasted of banana, I'm off work this week so I'm going to have a go at making smoothies and juices. Also, instead of spinach can kale be used? I'm spinach intolerant (seriously I am).

I don't have a juicer, will my blender do the same job?

scrills · 04-15-2012, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by secret_karma

Why am I chewing this smoothie? It doesn't taste bad, but I guess my blender is not going to work. I'm going back to using the juicer

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What did you make?

maybe you can try making it in smaller batches or running it thru a strainer.