Green Drink
Drink two glasses of Green Drink each day. Make one cup of green juice from any green vegetables. Suggested vegetables include beet tops, spinach, parsley, zucchini, kale, cucumbers, green leafy lettuce, dandelion leaves, collard greens and wheatgrass.

Add to your Green Drink mixture, an equal part of a mild tasting juice like carrot, apple, tomato or pineapple.
This drink has been traditionally as an aid for digestion. It is high chlorophyll, which is said to help detoxify the body and cleanse the blood.

Some greens are hard to buy, so I have limited avenues for adding greens. Spinach and wheatgrass seem to be the mildest. Beet tops, and dandelion leaves are more tart and don’t add anything, at least to my palate.

If you are just starting out and want to really try the “green” thing, start with the health food store and try the “green drinks”. You can get them dry and you add water or you can buy them in containers like orange juice and apple juice. That is how I experiment. I buy a juice and if I like it, I make my own at home. I look at the ingredients and juice until it tastes like I want it. It is kinda like figuring out the “secret sauce” on fast food hamburgers.

***I will caution you at first. If you have not been eating the “recommended” daily allowances of vegetables, you may find that your stools are looser and pass through more quickly. I have not had one problem with diarrhea but you will find that you have more than one bowel movement a day. It has helped tremendously since I started taking iron pills.

Also, when drinking these “concoctions” you have to take into consideration that they are thick. Don’t drink too fast, learn to savor and enjoy them. Drinking them too fast and you may have a rough tough swallowing it all at once.

Don’t juice too much at a time. After a couple of days…the juice does not taste as fresh as it should and the longer it stay in a container…the more you lose in nutrition. I make a pint every two days and it is working out just great.

- posted by Shar @ 12:22 AM