Juicing: Transform Your Health

Juicing offers many life enhancing health benefits including a faster, more effective way to absorb immune boosting nutrients naturally found in fruits and vegetables. It provides a way to access digestive enzymes typically locked away in the fiber matrix of whole fruits and vegetables.

For Christmas, My Billy gifted me an attachment for my Kitchen-Aid. He takes good care of me. If you don't have a fancy Kitchen-Aid....no worries. They have juicers starting at $25 on the interweb. HERE I've been pleased with how great I feel now that I'm juicing. I have two 'go to' recipes I use. The one I'm sharing today is my morning juice.

You can juice ahead. I usually make three days worth and store in the fridge. If your making ahead, store in mason jars. Fill to the tippy top and screw on top. Filling it to the top keeps the air out. I wouldn't recommend doing more than three days at a time.

I'm not the only one on the Morgan Family Farm juicing. Meet Sunshine. She is the precious baby I am now mothering. She lost her momma and I'm juicing her.....I mean bottle feeding her.

She got her name because we found her on a sunshiny day in January. My Billy and I have a good cop, bad cop relationship with her. It's because I have the mother's touch, she lets me feed her without wresting her to the ground.

I certainly needed the extra vitamin boost I've been getting from juicing during this time. Our corals weren't set up for babies. I carried big pallets to cover holes, like a champ and wasn't even sore the next day.

My body thanks me for being kind to it. Let's get to the juicing.

Morning Essence

What You'll Need:

4 - 6 Medium Size Carrots (without the tops)

4 Stalks of Celery

1 Macintosh or any Yellow Apple

1 Lemon Unpeeled

Juice according to your juicers directions. Look at what you'll be doing to help your body. It will thank you.

The Queen Bee Says, "Start each day with a grateful heart."

Buzz, Buzz

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