Britt Brandon - The Everything Healthy Green Drinks Book: Includes Sweet Beets with Apples and Ginger Juice, Melon-Kale Morning Smoothie, Green Nectarine Juice, Sweet and Spicy Spinach Smoothie, Refreshing Raspberry

Avon, Massachusetts

For the loves of my life: my amazing husband, Jimmy, our beautiful daughters Lilly and Lonni, and our awesome son JD, who inspire me to live life to the fullest every day, and make me that much more passionate about living as healthy as I can and as long as I can so I can spend many more wonderful days with them.

While many people make concerted efforts to exercise daily, eat clean, and live healthy lifestyles, it can become difficult to maintain those healthy ideals when your daily menu gets stale or redundant. With everything that the average day includes, from work to household chores to daily errands, creating quick and easy green drinks that contain essential vitamins, nutrients, phytochemicals, and powerful antioxidants can be a true lifesaver.

The hundreds of creative recipes in this book are intended to save you from the repetitious, everyday smoothies, juices, and drinks youve become bored with and give you new and exciting ideas for fruits, vegetables, and other additions that can make your delicious, nutritious green drinks something you look forward to again!

The realization that the Standard American Diet, summed up fittingly with the acronym SAD, lacks a number of macronutrients, micronutrients, and vitamins has led a growing number of people to improve their diet and, therefore, their health. Any kind of deficiency in the essential dietary elements our bodies need to function and thrive is considered malnutrition, and a startling percentage of people are living with illnesses and diseases because they are malnourished. It is clear that consuming quality, clean, whole foods that provide the dietary essentials your body and brain need for optimal performance can change your life and improve your health.

While delving into a delicious apple, crunching on a cup of cabbage, and noshing on a handful of nuts may be easy ways to eat your favorite foods, you can consume a wider variety of fruits, vegetables, healthy liquids, etc. by choosing a delicious green drink. Whether youre home-bound or on the go, you can easily create green drinks like smoothies, juices, and shakes that pack a ton of vitamins and nutrients in tasty combinations. And since making these drinks doesnt require expensive ingredients, opting for these healthy produce-packed drinks may be easier than you think. While you could certainly shop for the most expensive, powerful machines on the market, inexpensive countertop blenders and juicers work perfectly for these recipes.

Youll even find yourself saving money and time, since planning and shopping for specific ingredients can be far more inexpensive and efficient than loading up on expensive varieties of vegetables, fruits, and additions you may not even use. And youll be pleasantly surprised by how quickly and easily you can prep, create, and clean up. The entire process can be as quick as a minute or two with planning and preparing ahead of time. Once you understand the process, youll quickly see that the time you spend planning your week, shopping, preparing the foods once theyre purchased, and actually creating the drinks is far less than it might seem at first. Best of all, youll quickly figure out the easiest way to prep, store, and plan, and the entire process will fit seamlessly into your lifestyle.

The most common fear that holds people back from trying a healthy venture (like creating green drinks) is the fear that theyll somehow mess up the process and have disastrous results. You can (and will!) surprise yourself with how easily you can create delicious drinks that not only taste great, but make you feel great, too! The recipes included in this book will provide you with hundreds of combinations you can use to satisfy every taste and craving you may have. Within these pages youll find the proper tips, recipes, and instructions to create delicious, nutritious green drinks that you can simply and easily add into your everyday life. Youll improve your life as a result.

Although the value of a diet rich in greens, fruits, and vegetables has been well known for quite some time, drinks of the green variety have not been common until just recently. With well-known health professionals like Dr. Oz praising and promoting green smoothies and juicing, sipping greens has gone from a mystifying or questionable notion to a widely accepted way of improving your health simply, easily, and deliciously. And lets not forget their plentiful benefits. Whether you find yourself trying to cure or calm an illness, lose weight, feel great, or live healthier, you may be surprised how easily green drinks will fit into your lifestyle and help you achieve your health goals.

A green drink can be described as a drink comprised of a number of ingredients, with some (if not all) being greens. Green smoothies, juices, and an assortment of other green concoctions can be created using a variety of delicious fruits and vegetables that, when combined, produce healthy green drinks. While there are many fruit and vegetable combinations that can target specific needs or areas of the body and brain, the main reason most people consume green drinks is to eat more vegetables and fruits on a daily basis.

If you can drink just one of the juices or smoothies in this book per day, youll find youll live a healthier and happier lifestyle as a result of this major nutritional shift in your daily life. Adding these green drinks into your average day doesnt require any extra time, money, or hassle. It takes only minutes to prepare, combine, and enjoy these green treats, and requires only the simplest of tools and the vegetables and fruits of your choosing. The entire process is easy to understand and fits with any scheduleno matter how hectic.

Green drinks have received ringing endorsements from Dr. Oz as well as celebrity chef Rachael Ray. TV host Montel Williams drinks them daily, and socialite Nicole Richie has also been spotted sipping green smoothies. From children to adults and pregnant women to raw-food enthusiasts, everyone seems to be including green drinks in their diets. Those who want to boost their metabolism and those who suffer from serious ailments can all benefit from green drinks. You can mix, match, and manipulate fruit and vegetable combinations to create any type of green drink that you want.

Juicing is a delicious way to replenish the bodys minerals and vitamins. Whether youre looking for a jumpstart in the morning, a healthy pre- or post-workout drink, or a way to satisfy a craving for a sweet or salty treat, juicing can be an ideal answer for almost any occasion.

The first written words on juicing are found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which date from before 150 B.C. to about 70 A.D. History shows that succulent fruits that were especially easy to find, such as lemons, oranges, and pomegranates, have been made into beverages by many different cultures for many years. Island cultures created nutritious drinks from tropical fruits. For example, in Peru, passion fruit was smashed and combined with water to produce a refreshing drink.