Juicer Recipes

I have chosen the following recipes to provide a full spectrum of phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals for my own 3-day juice detox.  Nothing here is set in stone so feel free to substitute ingredients.  Some products are linked to backup information about their health properties - just click each one to read. 

A blog provided by WilliamsSonoma offers 30 days of juice recipes; like the recipes found here many are adapted from Reboot your Life (Fat Sick and Nearly Dead movie), if you would like to find some substitutions.

“Orange” Morning Juice

         3 Carrots

         2 Apples

         1” Ginger

Mean Green Mid-Morning Juice

         1 Cucumber


         4 Celery stalks


         2 Apples


         6-8 leaves Kale

         6 sprigs Parsley


         1/2 Lemon


Purple Power Lunch-time Juice

         1 pear

         1 beet

         1 carrot

         1/2 cup red cabbage, coarse chop

         3 sprigs chard with stems

Almond Date Banana Mid-afternoon Smoothie

         3-4 Dates

         1-1/2 cup Unsweetened almond milk

         1 Cubed frozen banana

         ½ teaspoon cinnamon

Note: cube your bananas when you get home from the store and freeze them on a cookie sheet before transferring to a baggie.  These will be your ice cubes and will thicken your smoothie.  

Incorporate the ingredients for this smoothie using a standard household blender. 

Tomato Gazpacho Dinnertime Juice

         4 Plum Tomatoes


         1 lg Cucumber


         2 Celery stalks


         1 Red Bell Pepper


         1⁄4 sm Red Onion


         2 cups Cilantro, leaves and stems (or Parsley)

         2 cups spinach

         1 Lime

         ½ Jalapeno (optional)

Delicious Pineapple-Kiwi-Mint Dessert Juice

         1/4 large pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into cubes

         1 orange, peeled

         1 kiwifruit

         1 pear

         20 mint leaves

3-Day Juice Detox

Some call it a fast, but with all of these nutrient-dense and beneficial produce ingredients I feel it is more appropriately called a detox, or even a diet jumpstart.  I have chosen the following recipes to provide a full spectrum of phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals.  Recipes for the juices that I will be using can be found on the Juicer Recipes post.

I will personally follow this plan beginning on Friday thru Sunday.  Nothing here is set in stone so feel free to substitute ingredients.  Some ingredients are linked to backup information about their health properties.  

A blog provided by WilliamsSonoma offers 30 days of juice recipes; like the recipes found here many are adapted from Reboot your Life (Fat Sick and Nearly Dead movie). 

Friday is a great day to start this 3-day plan so you can have time over the weekend away from everyday temptations to detox.  Pamper yourself: Take naps, Epsom baths, get a facial.  Try these at-home spa ideas from Whole Living. Drink LOTS of water.  Stay away from caffeine, alcohol, and OTC medications.  Before you bathe or shower use a dry skin brush or loofah to assist in detox through the pores and skin.

For some additional tips on juicing read the Reboot Juicing tips by Stacy Kennedy MPH, RD, CSO, LDN - the nutritionist at Join the Reboot.

Days 1 through 3

Hot Water with a wedge of lemon and dash of cayenne

“Orange” Morning Juice

Large glass of water

Mean Green Mid-Morning Juice

8oz Water with 1oz Aloe Vera Juice

Purple Power Lunch-time Juice

  

8oz Water with 1 teaspoon Spirulina

Almond Date Banana Mid-afternoon Smoothie

Large glass of water

Tomato Gazpacho Dinnertime Juice

Large glass of water

Delicious Pineapple-Kiwi-Mint Dessert Juice

After this 3-day detox we will move into a DASH diet that includes juices and meals that are careful not to cause food insensitivities.

Click for a link to the ShoppingList for a 3-day juice detox

Any questions feel free to ask below.

Find me on Facebook: Lara McNeil on Nutrition and Food

And Twitter @LaraMcNeil

           

Shopping List for a 3-day juice detox

Here is the shopping list that I have created for a 3-day juice detox.

All the ingredients for 6 juices per day X 3 days:

Cayenne pepper

Cinnamon

3 Lemons

3 Limes

3 oranges

1 Large pineapple

3 kiwifruit

3 bananas

12 Apples – choose a sweet variety such as Golden Delicious or Honey Crisp

6 pears

3 beets

12 Carrots

6 Cucumbers


18 Celery stalks
 (about 2 bunches of hearts)

2 Large bunches Kale

6 cups spinach

1 Large bunch swiss chard with stems

1 small red cabbage

12 Plum Tomatoes


3 Red Bell Pepper


2 Jalapeno peppers

1 Small Red Onion


1 Large bunch mint

1 Large bunch Parsley


1 Large bunch Cilantro

3” Ginger root

12 Dates

1/2 gallon Unsweetened almond milk

Spirulina, powdered

Aloe Vera Juice

If anything “left-over” from the 3-days of juicing I will incorporate into the DASH diet menu items.

Any questions feel free to ask below.

Find me on Facebook: Lara McNeil on Nutrition and Food

And Twitter@LaraMcNeil

          

About Juicers

It’s all in the juicer – well, hopefully it is in your juice!  I started juicing with a WaringPro juicer that my father won at a golf outing.  It was just fine for the amount of time that I used it originally.  My juicer of preference now, after getting some experience, is a masticating juicer: the Omega 8006 model.  So, what’s the difference?  Centrifugal vs Masticating:

Centrifugal juicer

Centrifugal juicers are much faster then their masticating counterparts, they generally have larger shoots that require less cutting prep.  The downside: I have found that in the processing quite a bit of fruit and vegetable product is left behind. For me, this is not a terrible thing because I freeze this pulp in my stock bag and make vegetable stock out of it later.

Centrifugal juicers allow you to juice more product in less time through a larger shoot, but there is moist pulp left behind that could be in your glass.

If you are a beginner juicer something like the WaringPro may be the way to go because of the price point (about $70), and they work pretty well for things like apples and carrots – if you want to add softer/leafy items like kale or spinach you should alternate softer products and leafy greens with harder items like carrots into the shoot.

I have now invested in a masticating juicer, the Omega 8006.   This juicer has a price somewhere around $300.  I have seen it at Bed Bath & Beyond and if you want to make the investment look for one of the 20% off coupons in the mail or Sunday paper for a considerable break in price.

Masticating juicer

Now, why is this masticating juicer better?  First and foremost it does a much better job removing liquids from the product.  The extruded pulp is bone dry and there is virtually no waste in your fruits and vegetables.  So, you may be spending more for your juicer, but in the long run you will get more juice from the investment of fresh fruits and veggies.

The Omega is also MUCH easier to clean.  While it might take longer to juice your products: because the mechanism crushes the juice from the veggies rather then grating them (which is really what the centrifugal juicer does), it cleans up is a fraction of the time.

This masticating juicer also works very nicely with leafy greens and is wonderful for wheatgrass.  Additionally, you can use it to make your own nut butters and banana ice cream.   So it these features are appealing to you then this may be worth the investment.

The Omega is the juicer on my counter for everyday use and the one I will be using for my 3-day detox starting Friday.  Check back tomorrow for my juice plan and a shopping list.  Like “Lara McNeil on Nutrition and Food” on Facebook for updates and recipes as I progress.