Our Love of Juicing

Joel bought me a Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor
for my birthday in April of 2011, and we've been juicing all kinds of fruits and vegetables almost every day since then!  We've given our Breville quite a work out, and it is still as slick and powerful as the first time we used it.

I want to start today's post with a quote from a book by Dr. Bircher-Benner-- "The Essential Nature and Organization of Food Energy," published in 1936.

"Absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, takes place almost exclusively within the plants.  The organs of the plant are therefore, a kind of biological accumulation of light.  They are the basis of what we call food, whence animal and human bodies derive their substance and energy.  Nutritional energy may thus be termed organized sunlight energy.  Hence sunlight is the driving force of the cells of our body."

How fabulous is that?  We are eating sunlight when we eat raw fruits and vegetables, or drink their juice.  Joel and I juice mostly because we love eating healthy foods that heal our bodies, but we also love Starbucks drinks and cookies and deep dish pizza.  Our juicing balances our nutrition.  We drink a vegetable/fruit juice 3-4 days a week, year round. Every now and then we'll do a one week juice "fast" where we only drink juiced fruits and veggies for breakfast, lunch and dinner to "reboot" our bodies. Check out www.jointhereboot.com for lots of great ideas and recipes for juicing.

Here are our two favorite juicing recipes:

Mean Green
Serves 2
1 cucumber
1 bunch of kale
1 bunch of celery
3 green apples
1 inch chunk of raw ginger root
1 peeled lemon


Apple Carrot Ginger
Serves 2
5 apples
2 bags of carrots
1 inch chunk of raw ginger root

Do any of you juice?  What are your favorite recipes?  I'm always eager to try new ones!

I am not a professional heath care provider. My blog posts on health and nutrition are just my shared opinions and observations from my own life experiences.