Therapeutic Juice Drinks

OK juicin' Lucys i have some NEW Juice for your Joints!

Blood Sugar Balancer: helpful for diabetes and hypoglycemia
3 carrots
2 lettuce leaves
1 handful string beans
4 brussels sprouts
2 apples

Healthy Bone Tonic: Supplies calcium for maintenance of healthy bones
6 carrots
4 kale leaves
4 sprigs parsley
1/2 apple

Calming Nightcap
2 ribs celery
1 apple
3 carrots

Healthy Heart Cocktail
6 carrots
1/2 apple
1/2 inch slice fresh ginger

Enjoy and Juice It Up!

The Benefits of Pineapple

Pineapple has an enzyme called bromelain. It helps digest protein, which is good for those who like to eat a lot of meat and dairy products. Bromelain will also help reduce the swelling and pain in joints. I provided a few good concoctions for those who'd like to try it. When pineapples are on sale, these are some good one's to try. These recipes are ONE serving.

Pineapple/Celery(one of my favs actually)
2 ribs of celery
4 rings of pineapple

Pineapple/Grapefruit
1/2 grapefruit (must be peeled but leave as much of the white rind as you can b/c this has a lot of good stuff for you)
2 rings of pineapple

Pineapple/Strawberry/Apple
1 Red delicious apple( i use whatever i have)
2 rings of pineapple
6 strawberries

From Snowy Colorado, i leave you with an Aloha Juicers!

Welcome TuityFruity

Every morning I open THE JUICIN' LUCYS and when I read that a new Lucy has joined and sharing with us their experience about how great they feel I know this is a good thing we are doing.  Welcome Tuity.  Now, I have known Tuity for 30+ years and Tuity, daughter#3, has always been the one that has eaten all the right things(she never eats meat), exercised and taken care of herself faithfully over the years.  She always looks great.  Tuitys the one we have all envied with that gorgeous figure and nature girl look.   And now she is telling us how much better her body feels since she has been juicin' it up!  Talk about inspiration...Thanks Tuity!  What a good idea to freeze to mug.  You have opened a whole new world for us.  We can take our juice with us everywhere now.  When we get those awful hunger pains all we have to do is swig on the juice and kill the pain and get that burst of energy.   Tuity, you are always thinking!  Keep on sharing with us and keep those juicers runnin' Lucys.

Juicin for Change!

Hello Lucy's! My juicin' journey started on January 5th and I really can't believe what my body is experiencing. It's the craziest thing for me NOT to crave something sweet on a daily basis but i don't(really!). I have lost 3lbs and i feel more balanced and healthier than i have ever felt.
I juice(mixing all sorts together) in the morning and have a Kashi whole grain "plain" waffle with it. Then on my way to work at noon, i bring juice with me. Just rinse your bottle with water and put it in the freezer overnight-it will keep your juice cold a lot longer.
I keep healthy snacks at work such as almonds...and will eat these while drinking my juice. Honestly, i have never felt fuller after i finished my juice. Then for the evening, i always have a meal. So i juice at least 2 meals a day and it seems to have been really working for me.
Now that 4 weeks is approaching, my cravings for mac'n'cheese, etc. has lost all its appeal.
Thanks Lucy's for making me get my 14 year old juicer out(yep,the 1st gift given to me by my then boyfriend-now my hubby). Still juicin' strong and working like a champ!
I will be juicin like this forever! How can you not when you actually see and feel the difference almost immediately.

Juicin' with kids

As a mom and a preschool teacher, I want to make sure the kids in my care are getting healthy snacks. The other day, I took my juicer and fruits and veggies to school with me. Juicing would be our project! I wasn't sure how the kids would react or how open they would be to drinking their recipe. They LOVED being able to prepare the fruits and vegetables as well as pushing the button to start the juicer. They even enjoyed helping cleaning the parts. But here's the best part...they LOVED the juice!!! But we had to do more than just make juice and drink it. I wanted to make sure they got everything they could out of this experience. So first, they tasted a small piece of each item I brought and we made a graph of whether they liked the way it tasted. Then we juiced a small portion of that item and graphed whether they liked the taste of the juice. The only juice they didn't like was broccoli juice - they said it tasted sour. Finally we juiced all the fruit and veggies together. Although they said it looked "weird" because it was a brownish orange color, they loved the way it tasted! They drank what I gave them and asked for more. They even wanted to share the juice with kids from the other classes.
What we juiced: strawberry, blueberry, carrots, grapes, broccoli, apple, pear and nectarine.
Make sure you include children in your juicing. Allowing them to be part of the preparation and making the juice helps them want to be more involved. Remember kids love using kid-safe knives to help cut the fruit and veggies into pieces.