Well it’s that time again Fruit and Juice Monday! How did you do last week? Did you stick to it for just one day? How did you feel?

Today I am honored to have Chef  Tina Jo Stephens who has created two videos just for Heal Yourself  Magazine for our Monday Fruit and Juice Day! The first video is on how to create Pineapple Mango Salsa and the second video is about juicers at the end of the last video you will be able to receive a FREE Pdf or audio file “Three Tips for Radiant Health”.

Coming later today an article by Chef  Tina Jo about “Juicing and Blending” so be on the look out for that new article.

Here are the videos:

Green Star Juicer-For More information click on the picture.

If you have any wonderful juicing recipes, questions or comments please add them to the bottom of this post.

We will do our best to answer your questions and if we cannot find them we will contact our experts Viveca Stone-Berry from Fatigue Be Gone and Chef Tina Jo Stephens from Splendor in the Raw.

Our goal is to have a whole community of  blogs juicing each Monday, baby steps is how you change your life and your health! So we are starting out with the Fruit and Juice Mondays so that we all can get into better health one baby step at a time!

All those who participate in our Monday Fruit and Juice day will be recognized on Adrenal Fatigue Be Gone and Heal Yourself  Magazine on our contributors page. We will have a graphic for all those who participate to add to their blogs as well. If you are interested please comment below and leave your blogs URL so we can contact you

Off to juice for the morning!

-Rebbekah White

P.S. I personally use the Jack LaLanne juicer, so like Tina Jo Stephens says if you already have a juicer use it You don’t need to run out and purchase a new one

You can view a video about the Jack LaLanne Juicer by going to this post:

http://healyourselftalk.com/magazine/fruit-juice-mondays-introduction

Below are a few  juicing recipes that will help you get started juicing.

I purchase organic fruits and vegetables so I know they are free from pestisides plus I buy local. With the pulp that is left over from my juicing I freeze it and add it to spaughetti sauces, muffins and more to give more added nutrition to my family.

I use the Jack LaLanne Juicer when I juice my fruits and vegetables so that is the one juicer I will recommend. Some of these recipes you can use a blender as well, just make sure it is a high grand blender so you don’t break your blades.

Berry Banana

1/2 banana, frozen
1/2 pear, cored
1/4 cup frozen blueberries or frozen mixed berries
1 1/4 cup water
1 tbsp. skim milk powder
1/8 tsp. cinnamon
* Process in a blender until smooth

Blood Booster

6 carrots
6 spinach leaves
½ cucumber
1 tomato or 2 stalks of celery
½ beet
4 springs of parsley
*Process through a juicer

Carrot Apple and Celery

6 carrots
1 apple (remove seeds first)
1 celery stalk
*Process through a juicer

Carrot Apple Juice

6 carrots
2 golden delicious apples
Juice in the order listed.
*Process through a juicer

BASIC GREEN SMOOTHIE

1 apple, chopped
1 pear, chopped
2 bananas, chopped
1 - 1/2 C kale
1 stalk celery
Water

Blend all ingredients. Add water to desired consistency.

BANANA-ROMAINE GREEN DRINK

4 bananas
1 to 1-1/2 C water (depending on desired consistency)
2 C romaine lettuce

Process bananas, romaine and 1 C water in the blender until smooth. Add more water if necessary to achieve the desired consistency.

****Next week I will post more recipes for you to try out. So tune in. To be sure you don’t miss any updates here on HY Magazine be sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter. You can sign up at the top of this page to the right.

Starting Monday July 13, 2009 will be our first Fruit & Juice Monday here on Heal Yourself Magazine. We are joining Viveca Stone-Berry from Adrenal Fatigue Be Gone in her weekly Fruit & Juice Mondays.

We invite everyone who is interested in joining us to post on their blog on Mondays about their Fruit and Juicing efforts. Here on HY Magazine I will be publishing recipes, tips, ideas and more on Mondays to give you a better resource for Fruit & Juice Mondays.

Along with this idea I will be doing more introducing of the Raw Food diet as well.

So many of us are sick and we don’t have to be!

I have had the priviledge to interview TOP experts in their fields on Heal Yourself  Talk Radio in the field of Raw Food Diets and whole food diets such as:

Raymond Francis-Author of  “Never Be Sick Again”

Chef  Tina Jo Stephens-From Splendor In The Raw

Gerard Kielty-The Health Scan

The above speakers all agree on one thing, getting back to eating raw foods. Viveca and I believe that just by adding in one day a week it will help more people to start revamping their diet habits. We are starting out in baby steps. While in the long run you will want to really change your diet, I am right there with you, I need to start out slow. It’s going to be hard to change 36 years of eating habits.

The more research I do the more I know I need to change what I am putting into my body. I will be posting about my own experiences as well as my kids and husband’s as well. Yes, my family is going to join me in at least one time on Monday drinking  fresh juice from our Jack LaLanne Juicer.

I purchase my Jack LaLanne Juicer about 8 months ago and did very well for about 2 weeks with juicing everyday, however I only juiced and as I have learned over the past few months you need to still eat as well. I am Polish and I LOVE my food. Not only was just juicing bad for my health and body BUT I loved food too much to stick to a strict just juicing diet.

So follow Viveca and myself each Monday as we post back and forth ideas, recipes and tips on juicing and adding more raw foods to our diets.

Should you like to participate please let us know in the comments section of either of our blogs, we are currently looking for others to join in the community and will be adding a button that you can place on your website stating that you are participating in the Fruit & Juice Mondays.

We will also be adding a page on our sites linking back to all participants so please let us know.

Feel free to add any comments below, add recipes that we will also add to our sites and any other suggestions.

To your health!

Rebbekah White

VIDEO FOR JACK LALANNE JUICER-This is what I use and I love it! I will be adding other products that I use along the way, my next appliance will be a dehydrator.

Order your own Jack LaLanne Juicer today!