Food For Life

Keeping the immune system in good health is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves. Especially around this time of year when everyone seems to be catching a cold! We're back to the Green Kitchen Stories blog for some extra healthy juicing ideas to keep our systems healthy and happy! 

Superfruit Smoothie:

What you will need:

1 cup of frozen blueberries

1 cup of frozen raspberries

2 peeled kiwi

2 peeled oranges

oat milk

1 tsp of cinnamon

1/2 tsp of cardamom

1 tbs of linseed oil

Put the fruit in a blender and cover with oat milk. Add the spices and oil and blend. Garnish with cinnamon.

Immune Boosting Grapefruit Juice:

What you will need: 

6-8 mint leaves

1 red grapefruit

2 handfulls of strawberries

1 small fresh piece of ginger

1/2 tbs of vanilla powder

ice cubes

Blend everything together in a juicer or blender. If you use a blender, muddle the mint leaves first.

Kale, Apple and Lemon Juice:

What you will need:
5 small organic apples
1/2 of a lemon peeled
1 inch of fresh Ginger
2 cups of fresh Kale, thick stems removed
ice cubes

Add all of the ingredients in a juice machine and blend on the highest speed. Taste it, and if it is too tart, add more apples, if it is too sweet add more ginger and lemon. Serve cold.

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Food For Life

Week three of the Food For Life posts have brought us to one of our favorite blogs;  Affairs Of Living. A must follow for healthy lifestyle ideas, clean recipes and additional resources around the internet that will help you in your journey to a cleaner, healthier lifestyle.

Today we want to talk about juicing and smoothies. Yes, you hear correctly; veggies and fruit and and blenders galore. You will feel so healthy and accomplished after incorporating these (extremely simple) recipes into your dietary routine, you won't know what to do with yourself!  

Blueberry Soaked Oatmeal Smoothie:

What you will need:

- 1/4 cup of gluten free steel cut oats, soaked for 6-12 hours in 1/12 cups of water and 1 tsp of raw cider vinegar, raw coconut vinegar, whey or lemon juice

- 1 cup of frozen blueberries

- 2 tbs of Hemp seeds (you can substitute any other nut or seed if you don't care for Hemp seeds)

- 1 cup of filtered water

- 1 tbs of finely ground flax seed or chai seed

- 2 tsp of flax oil or hemp oil

- plain or vanilla stevia liquid, to taste

Soak the steel cut oats with 1 1/2 cups of water and acidic ingredient of our choice in a bowl for 6-12 hours. drain and rinse very well. 

Place the soaked oats and all other ingredients into a blender and blend on high until smooth and sweeten with stevia to taste. 

Avocado Shamrock Shake:

What you will need: 

- 1 Avocado

- 1 cup of packed spinach

- 1 cup of non dairy milk 

- 2 tbs of fresh mint leaves

- 1/12 cups of ice

- 1/2 - 3/4 tsp of peppermint extract/flavoring to taste

- 20-25 drops of stevia liquid. You can also use dates, agave, honey, brown sugar or brown rice syrup instead. 

Place all ingredients in a blender, pulse, then blend on high until smooth. Adjust mint and sweetness levels to taste. 

*pictures and recipes courtesy of Affairsofliving.com

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