A Green Morning

After eating way to much over christmas its time to get back into healthy eating. This year it seems to be all be about the Juices. Every magazine i've been reading has featured an array of different styles of juices/smoothies that you can try at home. With that in mind i decided to try it out for myself.

I went out and bought a smoothie/juice maker. The one i purchased was called: Breville blend active. Its easy, simple and cheap (£20 from Currys).

It is also designed so that you can easily take your juices to the gym, for a run, or just outdoors. The bottles are versatile you can even just use them to put water in if you want. Its also so easy to clean, so there is no chance of you spending hours trying to get all the juice out. Overall I would definitely recommend it.

The first juice that I decided to try was the well known green smoothie. It's full of nutrients and is a great healthy alternative in the morning.

Ingredients:
1  green apple- I peeled the skin off which i found made the consistency less thick
1 lime- roll it before squeezing it, as this will enable you to get most of the juice out
Handful of spinach
Mint - a small bunch of leaves
Small cucumber- I cut off the skin on this too
Small segment of diced Ginger
I also put around 150ml of cold water in, in order to make it more of a juice than a smoothie. However if you have a juicer then there is no need for this.

If you want to make it a bit sweeter you could put in some
-kiwi
-pineapple
-banana
but it's up to you!

Once they are all in the juicer, blend away! If the consistency is too thick for you and you've blended it enough, you can just strain it using a strainer but this will take some of the nutrients out. But it's up to you!

The end result is a green looking juice. Believe me it tastes better than it looks. They are easy and simple to make, but it is a bit of trial and error in finding your perfect recipe.

Enjoy!
love
the average brown eyed girl
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