Jack LaLanne Juicers - Recipes With Kids in Mind
Author: Yuri // Category: Juicers, LaLanne, RecipesJack LaLanne Juicers are a great way to introduce the healthy benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables to your kids. Fruits like apples, red grapes, strawberries, pineapples, melons, and citrus are great for juicing and kids love the sweet taste. Now if you really want to get healthy and a little sneaky too, try incorporating vegetables into the sweet juices without announcing it to the kids. Vegetables like carrots, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, kale (broccoli and spinach), lime, and sweet potatoes are great additives and they don't change the sweet flavor of fruits.
Begin with flavors your children already love, add a few new ingredients that are good for them and later you can branch out into other more exotic ingredients that your children may not know but could learn to like in time or when blended well. The key to successfully introducing new flavors to children is by doing it in small steps and only one new flavor at a time. Sometimes too much can turn them away from trying new things at all. When introducing vegetables to your children whether in a juice or as part of a meal, you will quickly discover that sweet vegetables like sweet potatoes, sweet corn, and carrots go over much better than bland vegetables like peas or green beans.
Pine Apples
When shopping for ingredients to be juiced, stick to local grown fruits and vegetables because they are much fresher than items that are transported across from other parts of the country or items that are imported from other countries. When fresh ingredients are not in season, canned or frozen work just as well but make sure you thaw out all frozen ingredients before you place them in the juicer. Drain out the liquid from canned items because most of the liquid is full of sugar in the case of canned fruits like peaches or pineapples and full of starch in the case of vegetables like beans and potatoes.
Here are a few healthy kid friendly juicing recipe ideas:
Pineapple Sweet Surprise
1 fresh pineapple or 2 cans of pineapple (drained)
1 sweet potato
4 large oranges
Sweet Kiwi Medley
4 ripe pears
4 kiwi
2 small apples
Delicious Delight
3 carrots
2 small oranges
1 hand full of grapes (red or white)
1 medium apple
Recipes like these are great places to begin because they all tackle an unpopular ingredient. Sweet potatoes, kiwi, and carrots are typical flavors that children either never tried or don't like. These recipes take those flavors and blend or mask them with the wonderful sweetness of fruits. Your children will never know the difference. Use these recipes as a starting point and experiment with other ingredients you think your children will enjoy. Juicing success involves blending flavors you normally would not mix together and making them taste good. When some of my juices lack sweetness, I simply mix in a little store bought juice just to ensure I can win everyone over.
Jack LaLanne Power Juicers come with an easy to access pulp collector which yields wonderful amounts of pulp from the ingredients you have juiced. I use the pulp to make purees, soups, dips, and even muffins. The possibilities are endless and entirely up to you. I wish you many wonderful juicing experiences and may your power juicer change your life as much as it has changed mine and that of my family.
Jack LaLanne Juicers - Recipes With Kids in Mind
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