Juice Recipe of the Day: Creamsicle Juice

Went last night to a preview event for my friend, Sheree Clark, Des Moines' "Hot Raw Food Chef". She will be on a show called "b. organic" this weekend on Iowa Public Television, coaching Michele Beschen (host of "b. organic") on what it means to be a raw food vegan and how to gradually introduce raw foods into your diet. One of the juices they made was what Sheree called "Creamsicle", and although it had a surprising ingredient, I decided to give it a try this morning. Here it is:


Creamsicle Juice
4-5 peeled, organic oranges
2-3 organic pears or apples
1 sweet potato


Juice in that order, then enjoy straight up or add to blender with ice to blend for a smoothie!


Now, I have never thought about juicing a sweet potato of all things, but it was REALLY VERY GOOD!


I use a Breville Ikon juicer, that I LOVE and HIGHLY RECOMMEND. It is quite an amazing juicer, as are all the Breville juicers.


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Turbo Charge Smoothie Recipe

In keeping with our mission for the week "More Raw Food!", I decided to try out this smoothie recipe I found on the Food Matters website. Here is the recipe:

• 1/4 cucumber
• 1 stick celery
• 1/2 small pineapple
• handful of spinach leaves
• 1/4 lime, peeled
• 4 Golden delicious apples
• 1/2 ripe avocado
• 1 heaped teaspoon of Spirulina powder
• Small handful of ice

Instructions: Juice the cucumber, celery, pineapple, spinach, lime and apples. Place juice and Spirulina in a blender with avocado and ice and blend for 45 seconds. Pour into a glass and enjoy! As per usual everything should be as fresh and organic as possible.
It is really, really yummy and I do feel like I have more energy than I typically would at this time of day!!! I do have a little more to drink, so hope the energy gets even better.


Here is a video that shows the making of this smoothie:


Watch this video of Jason Vale serving Jordan a Turbo Charge

Mission For The Week: More Raw Food!

Okay, ready for your healthy mission of the week? Then here it is:
Your challenge is to eat more than 50% of your food raw. Yep, it can be done!
Now, you may ask why in the world someone would want to do this. There are many reasons.

1. When you eat less than 50% of your food raw, your body considers the food as toxins and starts to attack, creating many unhealthy consequences.
2. Cooked food is void of life enhancing enzymes; raw food is full of them.
3. Protein is not nearly as absorbable cooked as it is raw.
4. Cooked food loses vitamins and minerals as opposed to eating raw.

These are just a few of the reasons. So, for this week, eat over 50% of your food in raw form. That can be adding more fruits and veggies to your meals, like in salads. It can be having more fresh juices (not the stuff from the bottle). You can find many resources online, but four of my most favorites are:

• http://www.roadinthefork.com/ 
• www.foodmatters.tv
• www.welikeitraw.com
• http://karmachow.blogspot.com/

Let me know what questions you have and how it is going. I'd love to hear feedback!

Don't forget, last weeks was to drink at least 1L. of water upon waking up; keep that up or start it now if you didn't last week!