Apple Beet Morning Treat!

Apple Beet Juice

Ingredients:
4 Gala Apples (large)
2 Beets

We have a Hurom Juicer and enjoy making fresh juice in the mornings.  It is a great way to get power packed nutrition to start your day.  It is nutritious as well as cleansing for your body.  Apples and beets are filled with antioxidants which prevent disease and feed your cells live active nutrition.

This made enough for our family of 5 to have 4 ounces each!  Yes, it does taste different from store bought.  But there is NO COMPARISON.  Store bought juice is mostly sugar, often with additives and dye, and contains limited fiber and no living nutrition - not to mention you have no idea from where that juice originated!! We do not buy juice in our home. Period.  This is the option for our kids.  It did take a little while for them to adjust to fresh juices, but after they adapted, they love it and ask for it!

Our kids are allowed to take different days to choose their own fruit and vegetable combination.  When they are involved in the process, they take ownership and begin to enjoy it.  As we make the juice, we talk about what is actually in the fruits and vegetables and what it is doing in their bodies when they drink it.  Kids minds are sharp enough to realize the benefits.  When given the good options to choose and the proper education, they begin to make these excellent choices on their own!

Is it always easy to get them to adapt to the healthier option?  NO!  Do we have some difficult conversations?  YES!  But I NEVER regret the investment and time it takes them to learn to enjoy the healthier option.