I branch out my explorations into the raw foods world, and am making more and more juice, I by chance made juice that tasted amazingly like a melted orange cremecicle. I was so surprised at how good it was, and especially at how all the flavors blended together to taste like orange cremecicle, especially since there were no oranges in it!
Here’s how I made it:
- 1 really ripe mango
- 2 plain old apples
- 5 carrots
- 1 small pinch of fresh parsley
Juice all the ingredients, stir well, and enjoy! You might wan to chill it for a while to ad to the cremecicle effect, or perhaps even freeze them and eat them as frozen fruit pops. This was a wonderful happy accident.
POWER BOOST
Drink this at least 15 minutes before eating.
1 tart organic apple, unpeeled, quartered and chopped
3-5 scrubbed, unpeeled organic carrots, chopped
2 clean stalks of organic kale, stems removed
Juice according to manufacturer’s directions for your juicer. Drink juice immediately. Yes, it is the color of your lawn, but it’s pleasant tasting, loaded with nutrients, and packed with power. You’ll see.
I am 3 weeks or so into being a raw food eater. Up until now, due to tight pockets, I’ve been using a cheapo “smoothie maker” (read: blender with a spout). I’ve been reasonably happy drinking smoothies, but today while cleaning, I came across a juicer that belongs to my roommate, so I took it out, cleaned up and made the recipe above. I was surprised at how much juice 1 apple, 3 stalks of kale, a 5 carrots amounted to, which was 1 large drinking glass worth (enough for 1 person). The taste is surprisingly nice, since the taste of the kale pulp in my previous smoothie attempts was ok, but I was 100% happy with it. When juiced though, the kale blends right in with everything else. The juice is surprisingly sweet but not overly so. All in all, I would rate this juice recipe a sold 3.5 out of 5 stars and will definitely make it again.
As for whether or not I feel any power from it…
[EDIT] YES! I felt juiced from the juice! I went for a 5 mile walk with my dog. Came back home, took my dog for a drive to Sandy Hook beach, and walked the length of the beach and back. All in all I guesstimate about 10 miles of walking! I won’t lie and say the juice had be running around like the bionic man, but I definitely do get a certain kind of buzz when drinking fresh juice, and my baseline energy was high enough to at least allow me to motivate myself to leave the house and be active. The rest might have been my own enthusiasm powering my burst of walking, but hey, I drank it and went walking for the whole day, came home, and felt just fine.