Pineapple Cleansing Juice

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The tropical, summer fruit pineapple is a favorite among many.  Not only is it sweet and juicy, it contains antioxidants and the enzyme bromelain, which helps to digest proteins.  Try this sweet and spicy cleansing drink.

Pineapple Cleansing Juice
1/4 pineapple
1 apple
1/2 beet
2 carrots
1/4 cup parsley
1/4 inch slice of fresh ginger

Wash all produce.  Remove top of pineapple, then remove the skin and core.  Cut remaining produce to fit in your juice extractor. Roll the parsley leaves into a ball to create density.  Juice and enjoy.

Bok Choy Juice Recipes

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Upon seeing this photo today of a giant bok choy I wondered if it would fit in my juicer machine chute!  Then I realized that I have never made juice with this amazing vegetable.  So I searched for a couple of recipes to try.

Stalks of Health Green Juice
1 apple
2 stalks of celery
4 stalks bok choy
handful spinach
small bunch parsley 

Wash fruits and vegetables, cut to size and put through your juicer.  

Bok Choy-Celery-Orange Pressed Juice
1 head bok choy, stalks separated and washed
5 celery stalks
1-2 large oranges, peeled and quartered 

Wash fruits and vegetables.  Put bok choy through juicer, one stalk at a time.  Add celery, then oranges through juicer.   Recipe from Green Lemonade.

Carrot Bok Choy Juice
5-7 carrots
1 head bok choy

Wash and separate stalks of bok choy.  Wash carrots (peel if not organic).  Put through juice extractor one at a time.  Pour into glass.

Green Juice Recipe #1

Green juices contain so many good nutrients such as chlorophyll, enzymes, vitamins, minerals and more.  Sometimes getting enough green foods into our diet is very difficult, but juicing allows us to mix lots of greens into a tasty meal or snack.  There are many great green juice recipes and I've decided to start posting some of them here.  No fancy names, just look for green juice recipe.  The numbers will correspond with the order I post them in.

Green Juice Recipe #1
1 cucumber
1 cup spinach or lettuce
2 apples
1/2 cup parsley
1 celery rib

Juice all and enjoy.

Basil Refresher Juicer Recipe

This juice recipe is adapted from Gweneth Paltrow's recipe on www.goop.com.  I've substituted lemon for the lime as I always have a lemon on hand.  Initially I thought the basil might be very strong and perhaps overpowering, but I must say that this drink was very well balanced and tasted very good.  This recipe doubles the original one because I found that it only made about 5-6 ounces.

Basil Refresher Juice
3/4-1 cup fresh basil
2 cucumbers
1 lemon (peeled.  white pith okay)
2 apples

Wash produce and cut into pieces that fill fit into your juicer.  Juice and enjoy.