Showing posts with label natural diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural diet. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Smoothie Recipe: Lime and Mint

This refreshing Smoothie Recipe is full of fresh lime and mint.  All of the great flavor of cocktail without all of alcohol and  that pesky sugar.  The perfect start to healthy new year!

After all of the holiday sweets and treats it is time for a sugar detox!  Now let’s not get crazy.  I’m not totally off my sugar high.  But I do plan on drinking more smoothies and eating less M&M’s.  Baby Steps.

The lime and mint combination tastes clean and energizing. This Mojito Smoothie Recipe is unbelievably refreshing!
Mojitos were one of my favorite cocktails.  And now this is one of my favorite smoothie flavors. This smoothie will give you nice breathe too. Bonus! Fresh mint is the star. Creamy coconut and tangy lime bring a little tropical flavor to this pool-side drink.

Ingredients

- 2 Cups Ice
- 1 Cup Plain Coconut Milk
- 2 Small Limes - Juiced
- Handful of Fresh Mint (approx 15 leaves)
- 1-2 Tb Honey*


Smoothie Recipe, Lime and Mint

Instructions

- Blend all ingredients.
- Serve & Enjoy!

Notes

* Use your sweetener of choice. I prefer using honey or Truvia.
* Servings: 1-2

So obviously, eating healthier is one of my 2014 goals.  Along with learning to play acoustic guitar and spending a lot less time on social media!

What are your 2014 goals/resolutions?

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

3 Days Fruit Juice Effectual Detox

Many studies that prove that this detox program is very powerful to bring health to the body, as well as to the mind. Benefits they provide is very much. Surely all that is desired by all people. Detox programs are varied kinds, one of which is the 3 days detox with fruits, primarily juiced fruit. It is no doubt if the fruit has healing effects to provide a healthy life.

In a detox program with this fruit, many benefits are achieved, which is more radiant looking skin, brain focus better, and the body becomes noticeably more refreshed than usual. In addition, with the fruit detox can also remove toxins derived from MSG / Monosodium Glutamate, the remnants of the deposition of pharmaceutical drugs, to exhaust fumes that have a devastating effect for the body.

3 days detox with fruit can also be done with a simple and simple, does not require a complicated activity. The fruit is used as a means to detox too often found anywhere.

Not just any juice you drink juice. The juice must be pre-arranged with the provisions of and in accordance with the advice of health practitioners. The juice must be pure juice, with no artificial sweeteners, such as sugar, cream, yogurt, milk, atapun Krimmer. For sweetener can be substituted with lemon juice or lime water. Try to drink the juice for one type of fruit each time to make the juice.

There are some pieces that are advised to be used as a medium in a 3 days detox. Apples, oranges, mango, pear, and lemon is a fruit that is quite right. These fruits contain plenty of water. Because the water content that is big enough role in the detox program.


3 Day Fruit Juice Effectual Detox

In the days during detox with fruit juice is recommended to drink every waking until bedtime. Which is just totally consumed juice, without intake, other than clear water. Consumption of pure water to keep the body do not undergo excessive dehydration.

Effect obtained when starting with a 3 day juice detox this is dizzy and weak. It is reasonable because the body does not get the intake of carbohydrates and other foods. But that's where the test. The body begins the process of adaptation to the diet.

The days of weak and dizzy subsequent effects will undoubtedly begin to decrease because the body has adapted properly. Nutrients are obtained from fruit juice will begin to be channeled into the body. Interspersed with clear water which is processed into urine the toxins in the body will be wasted.

May be useful to start a healthy lifestyle.

Mint Mojito Smoothie Recipe

Three days deep into daylight savings, those! Have you kaput made known your kilt, Ray Bans, deck furniture, and margarita glasses? One superfluous hour of daylight and already I’m fantasizing in this area laying on the beach with my snorkel mask on and cocktail in-hand. Except by “laying,” I mean “riding,” by “beach,” I mean “mountain bike,” by “snorkel mask,” I mean “helmet,” and by “cocktail,” I mean “water bottle.” So in effect, I’m equipped for summer, I dunno in this area you’uns.

If you be inflicted with a strong link with your blender, there’s a distinguished opportunity you’ve dabbled into the cocktail fusion smoothie. Fresh herbs, zesty, creamy island flavors all up in your smoothie stash? Sonofabeehive, let’s blend a mocktail smoothie! It’s a cocktail that’s not a cocktail since it’s alcohol-less (virgin)…and it comes in the form of a smoothie (breakfast). The smoothie that’s undergoing an identity predicament (seeking therapy). The cocktail with the intention of has made it through both the 12-step curriculum AND all the Weight Watchers meetings (what a champ). Okay, I’m made.

Anyhoo, while I was rising smoothie recipes for my cookery book, Delicious Probiotic Drinks, I had a fine ol’ calculate experimenting with everything from mocktail smoothies to the Chocolate Beetroot Smoothie to the Superfood Green Smoothie, from the window to the wall…

And since I’m OBSESSED with coconut milk in all its creamy coconut-y magnificence, lone of the recipes I built-in in my tome is this exact Mint Mojito Smoothie. The lime, the coconut, the banana, mint…It’ll hang with you on the beach (it’s lazy)…or in your fill up bottle (it’s versatile). If you aspire, you can deposit alcohol in it (encouraged).
Mint Mojito Smoothie Recipe
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Ingredients

- 2 bananas, overripe and frozen
- 12 mint leaves, fresh
- 1/2 cup plain kefir
- 1/2 cup coconut milk, full fat from the can
- 1/2 cup almond milk
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon agave syrup

Directions

- Add all ingredients to a high-powered blender, and blend until smooth. Enjoy!

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