LIQUID GOLD

You Are What You Eat
It is a famous saying, and it is so believable.  Indulging yourself with delicious rich food or fasting to death than you would take the consequences.  Good eating, and to be fit, healthy and well is the ideal.

Carrot and Celery Juice

Having fresh food, plenty of fruits and vegetables daily are essential, and taking good fat and protein is a must, we all know that.
New Diet for my family.
Here the story,  freshly fruit juice is prepared every day this week, sometimes twice a day.  Have we decided on the right things?  I do not know the answer, but I have started to have the fruit and vegetable juice or a combination of both since last month.
Here, they are the fresh juices what we have been having, I call it liquid gold, it is so precious.  The juices are pure liquid of the fruits and vegetable without added water.  Using our citrus harvest the mandarins to begin, a glass of mandarin juice is out of 10 fruits as they are tiny.  The celery Juice was a good idea, it is a change from the fruit juice.  Followed by mixing fruit and celery, and that was refreshing, we enjoy the fruit and veg combo.
You may be wondering what type of juicer do I use, to tell you the truth, I don't have a proper juice maker.  The mandarine juice is freshly juiced-done by hands. It is a small plastic juicer, which is easy to work with and easy to clean.  For other juices, mainly the mixed fruit juice or fruit and vegetable, I use the food processor.  First, crush the fruits until smooth, then transfer to fine cloth, to squeeze the juices to get the liquid out and strain it.  A rather long operation but it works very well.  Enjoy the juice straight away.  I don't believe in keeping the juices-fluids refrigerated. 

Mandarin Juice

Celery Juice

Apple and Cabbage Juice

Celery and Carrot Juice

Cauliflower and Green Apple Juice

To make the juice to have more flavour, add herbs and spices, such as turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, lemon rinds etc.

Carrot and Pineapple Juice with Ginger

Another vegetable combo is cabbage, cucumber and kale.  It is a great flavour juice, and the colour is very green, the taste is pungent.  We had this mixture once, but the family was not too keen.

The classic fruit juice is orange juice.  You need three small navel oranges to make a small glass of orange juice.  It is enough for one serve.

Orange Juice

 Nowadays you could go to the supermarket to get fresh orange juice by doing it yourself, (a machine Juicer is provided), you would get truly fresh orange juice.  It is almost common practice - easily available at supermarkets in Europa.

Cabbage, Cucumber and Carrot Juice

More juices that I could do

- mandarin, pineapple and strawberry

- apple, pomelo, and orange 
- watermelon and cucumber, and strawberry

I was told that fruit juices contain lots of sugar, it can be fattening.  What we can have is a small serve every time, together with the healthy diet that suits you.

Spring is here, start planting vegetables, so you could make your fresh harvest to the table to make these liquid gold.

Green Spinach

Warrigal Green-Newzealand native spinach.

To plant the spinach in a hanging basket works well, spinach salad, baked spinach and cheese, spinach, carrot, and apple juice are in the menu right now in spring.  So Good!

Spinach, carrot and lime juice so refreshing.  YUM!

The Liquid Gold

Could we continue juicing? time we need, and the discipline to do it.  Just See! 

Having the liquid gold daily is good but remember don't forget this moto:

Eat Well, Exercise Well, Live Well.

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Susy