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Create a family friendly St Patrick’s Day tradition and ‘go green’ with healthy, green juices to mark the celebrations.
Loaded with leafy green vegetables (plus other fruit and veg), it’s easy to create a green juice flavour bomb with high levels of antioxidants, essential vitamins and nutrients. Drinking fresh juice is also considered one of the fastest ways to deliver goodness to the body, and a great way to sneak extra veggies into the daily diet of kids and adults alike.
It’s no secret that by getting kids involved in the kitchen, they will be exposed to a greater variety of foods and will be more open to consuming healthy options. Use calendar events like St Patrick’s Day to encourage children to invent a signature juice for the whole family to try.
For those looking for inspiration, Lara Hibble from MOD Appliances has crafted three St Patrick’s Day juice recipes that are easy to make from the comfort of home using a MOD Cold Press Juicer. This process of juicing removes insoluble fibre from produce while retaining all-important antioxidants, essential vitamins and nutrients.
Spinach & Apple Juice
There are many benefits to adding spinach to your juice since it’s packed with vitamins and minerals necessary for your body to function optimally. Adding spinach to your favourite juice recipe is a smart and affordable choice. It is even easy to grow at home!
Ingredients:
1 handful of spinach
½ knob of fresh ginger
1 green apple, cut into wedges 2 stalks of celery, cut into 1cm pieces
½ lemon, peeled
1 handful of mint leaves
- Set up your MOD Cold Press for juicing (see the juicing handbook for more detailed instructions);
- Slowly feed the produce down the chute;
- Serve the juice with a couple of ice cubes.
Kale Clean
Kale is a green, leafy vegetable which has many health benefits such as strengthening the body’s immune system, outer body and bones. Antioxidants found in kale can help slow the ageing process by preventing free radical cells damaging the skin. Kale is a great source of Vitamin A which can promote healthy and glowing skin, hair and nails.
Ingredients:
6 kale leaves, woody stalks removed & chopped
2 lebanese cucumbers, sliced lengthways 1 apple, cut into wedges
½ lemon, peeled
- Set up your MOD Cold Press for juicing (see the juicing handbook for more detailed instructions);
- Slowly feed the produce down the chute;
- Serve the juice with a couple of ice cubes.
Green Clean
Help boost the family’s source of nutrients and plant compounds to support heart health, digestion and immunity with a kale and celery combination.
Ingredients:
1 bunch of kale, woody stalk removed & leaves chopped
1 handful of parsley
1 cucumber, cut lengthways
2 celery stalks, cut into 1cm pieces
1 green apple, cut into wedges
1 handful of mint leaves
- Set up your MOD Cold Press for juicing (see the juicing handbook for more detailed instructions);
- Slowly feed the produce down the chute;
- Serve the juice with a couple of ice cubes.
Make St Patrick’s Day the date when the whole family embraces all things green and juices their way to a range of health benefits in a fun and tasty way.
For more about slow juicing and recipe ideas, visit modappliances.com
