Can't find organic? Then wash your veggies !

We know that commercially-grown fruits and vegetables are sprayed with pesticides and other chemicals. This is not something that we can avoid, as not all of us are blessed with easy access to organic or pesticide-free produce.
One very effective way I've found to remove these toxins from fruits and vegetables is to soak them in clean water with a mixture of a small capful of apple cider vinegar.
Vegetables tend to catch more of the pesticides. When preparing them, tear (not cut) them up from their bunch and soak them in this solution. In place of apple cider vinegar, you may use normal cooking vinegar and add some salt.
Soak it for about 10 minutes and you will start to notice the water smell. This means the pesticide has come off. Rinse the vegetables a couple more times and it's ready for juicing. Do the same thing for fruits.
Fruits and vegetables are already fully equipped with antioxidants and are super blood cleansers. Should the little toxins somehow find their way into your body, the amount of goodness from the juices will easily cancel out the toxins that are consumed at the same time.

Rotate fruit/vegetable juices intake for best results

To maintain and promote optimum health, our bodies need adequate amounts of the following:

Essential amino acids
Vitamins
Minerals
Enzymes
Essential fatty acids
Carbohydrates
Fiber
Water

We need all these sufficiently, constantly, and variedly in order to help accelerate and enhance the process of restoring nutrients to your nutrient-starved tissues.
When we regularly eat a mixed-variety of these fruits and vegetables, the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and all the abundance of health-building elements from these juices work together in a synergy. The results of these combinations on your health can be simply amazing!
While we may not get all the above-mentioned essentials from fruits/vegetables alone, there are some other healing foods that you may add to your dietary to ensure balance.
Some suggestions of other healing foods that you can add to your dietary:

Protein powder: I do not agree in getting protein from milk. Consider taking protein powder which contains glutamine, an amino acid which plays an important role in protein metabolism.

Cod liver or fish oil: The green vegetable juices that you drink is abundant with vitamin K which helps to "stick" the calcium to your bone matrix. But, in order for this to happen, you need some fats (from cod liver or fish oil) to assist with the vitamin K absorption.
Chlorella and spirulina: Fruits and vegetables contain very little or no vitamin B. You may add chlorella and/or spirulina in tablet/powder form as a supplement. These two algae have very high content of vitamin B.

Seeds and nuts: Many seeds and nuts contain protein and fat that is needed to fuel the body. They also contain important amino acids for the brain and the immune system. These can be eaten as they are, or ground and blended with your juices.

Celebration Recipes

Thanks to Fruity Squishey, she sent in a great idea. Let's sparkle in 2009 with some juice-tails!

Sparkling Tropical Fruit Juice

1 kiwi

1 orange, peeled and sectioned

1/2 mango, peeled and sliced

sparkling mineral water

Juice the fruit. Pour the juice in a fun glass and top off with sparkling water. Celebrate. 

Lemon Lime Ginger Ale

handful of grapes

1 apple

1/2 inch fresh ginger (give or take as you like)

1/2 lime

1/4 lemon

sparkling mineral water

Remove the grapes from the stem. Juice the apple and ginger together, then juice the rest of the fruit. Pour into fun glass and top off with sparkling water and serve over ice. Toast!

Gingered Apple Cider Toddy

1 inch piece ginger

3 apples

Juice and serve with some hot water and lemon. 

Cheers to 2009, Lucys! May we always feel great and look fabulous! 

New Juice

Mashin Mamma took 2 radishes, 3 stalks asparagus &  3 stalks celery, 1 cucumber, 2 carrots, 1 large leaf of kale, 1 kiwi, 1 apple, 1 orange, fist full crannberries, chunk of ginger, a thick slice of lemon and juiced for dinner.  Delicious and fulfilling.   Keep juicin' Lucys and be your best.  

MASHIN' MAMMA THE HOLIDAY LESSON CONTINUED

Mashin'  Mamma here to let you all know that I went back to my strict diet of juicing yesterday and today.   What a difference in the way I feel after getting the chemicals out of my body by juicing and limiting my intake of solid foods.   My body was totally exhausted from all the junk over the holidays.  Today I was full of energy again and got everyday chores accomphlished and more.   Lucys, take it from Mashin' Mamma, and you all know Mamma is right .  Stick to the juicin',  get the kids juicin,  the whole family and blog about it.  All you Lucys' out there Mashin' Mamma's age, just juice and take 20 years off yourself.  Feel great again, do something special for yourself and get your mojo goin' with the juice this new year.   New Year Eve I'll be toasting the New Year with a full glass of juice.  HAPPY NEW YEAR  Juicin' Lucys.