Green drinks

I love starting the day with a green juice - and the ingredients vary all the time, depending on what's in the fridge and my mood!

I have 2 favourites that I made up, and they are very nice and green without tasting like you're drinking a spinach leaf! Studies have shown that including colours into your diet are vital to maintaining good health, and green is the first I get out of the way in a day... it is becoming easier and easier to do too. I now catch myself looking at the fresh produce at the farmer's market or the supermarket and getting hungry! It must be working... :)

Don't get too hung up on ingredients, I have a pile of books on green smoothies that I started out with and have progressed to designing my own... get creative!

Lean & Green

1/2 a cucumber
Handful of spinach
Handful of wheatgrass
1 cup green grapes
2 cups apple juice
ice

Blend together and drink immediately. You can blend your apples if you choose to, but if you like your drink a little smoother and less thick then use juice.

Green Sweetie

4 kiwi fruits, peeled
Handful of wheatgrass
Handful of spinach
1 banana
2 cups pear juice
ice

Yum! This one was really lovely and quite sweet. Again, feel free to experiment and switch up your ingredients to create new flavours and textures - these are my more palatable experiments (ask my husband and he'll tell you how hard some have been to drink! :))