Healthy Habit #3: Juicing, Part 2

As I fully admit - I’m a bit of a wellness junkie - antioxidants, healthy recipes, holistic therapies, you name it.  Sometimes it’s easy to jump on a trend - like eating 8 pistachios a day or meditating every morning and it’s just as easy to jump off the trend and on to the next thing - or worse yet, back to familiar, unhealthy habits. 

One healthy habit that I’ve been able to stick with is juicing.  Not only have I made this part of my routine, I find that I really crave these juices (and have been known to send my husband out for more bundles of kale & beets!) I seem to have more energy and feel better.  See my previous post on juicing for the basics.  Here I thought I’d share a couple of my favorite recipes.

Green Monster:

3-4 leaves of kale (with middle stem removed) [could use other dark leafy greens]

1 apple or pear

1 zucchini (small or half of a larger one)

1/2 cucumber

1-2 stalks of celery (juice this last as the strings get caught in the juicer blade)

Beet & Carrot Concoction:

1 beet quartered and peeled with tops and roots cut off

2 full-size carrots, tops cut off

1 apple or pear

quarter of lemon or lime without the rind