Day 10 – September Smoothie Challenge – Add Juice

I woke up bright and early on Day 10.  My mission: making fresh veggie juice. I’m combining my 2 smoothies a day with juicing to boost my weight loss efforts and increase my detox this month. I’m excited. I was really, really inspired after watching “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead“. It struck a cord with me.  If you haven’t seen it, it’s all about the power of juice fasting and eating nutrient rich foods.  You can watch it for Free online.  I had a smoothie with fresh carrot juice in it in the morning, fresh juice at work during the day and a smoothie for dinner.  I also had some healthy snacks.  I plan to add more juice this month.  Here are some recipes that incorporate fresh juice.

Today’s Recipes:

Green and Blue
Juice:  Put this in your juicer – This juice will be your base
6 carrots
6 celery stalks
2 apples
1 med to large cucumber

Smoothie ingredients:

• fresh veggie/apple juice you just made
• 2 bananas
• 1/cup of frozen blueberries
• 2 handfuls of cut, pre-washed kale
• Add 1/4 to 1/2 cups of water if needed.

Orangey Punchy Smoothie

• freshly squeezed orange juice,
• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• 1 ripe banana
• 1 cup frozen mango
• 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
• 1 tablespoon honey (optional)
• 1 cup of water

Carrot, Pineapple, Mango Smoothie

• 1 cup frozen mango
• 1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
• 1 cup plain soymilk
• 1/2 of freshly made carrot juice
• 1/2 cup of pineapple juice (no sugar added)
• 1 tsp honey