juices and smoothies

apple, celery and cucumber juice

Ingredients:

8 apples
1/2 cucumber
6 sticks celery

Directions: Juice all the ingredients. Pour into glasses. Makes approx. 1 pint.

carrot and mango juice

Ingredients:

8 medium size carrots, peeled or scrubbed
2 large ripe mangoes, peeled and stoned

Directions: Juice the carrots, followed by the mango. Pour into glasses. Makes approx. 1 pint.

carrot, apple and ginger juice

Ingredients:

8 apples, washed and chopped but not peeled
4 carrots, peeled or scrubbed
1 inch ginger root, peeled

Directions: Juice the apples, then the carrots and finally the ginger. Pour into glasses. Makes approx. 1 pint.

citrus smoothie

Ingredients:

4 pink grapefruit
2 lemons
2 limes

Directions: Halve and squeeze all the fruit juice into a blender. Blend to mix. Pour into glasses. Makes approx. 1 pint.

pineapple & lime smoothie

Ingredients:

1 large pineapple
juice and rind of 2 limes

Directions: Peel the pineapple and chop into chunks, place in your blender jug. Add the rind and juice of the limes. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses. Makes approx. 1 pint.

tropical smoothie

Ingredients:

1 pineapple
2 mangoes
4 passion fruit
2 papayas
200 ml apple juice
2 cm cube root ginger, peeled

Directions: Peel and stone the mango, halve the papaya and scoop out the seeds. Cut away the pineapple's rough skin, core and chop into pieces. (Eat the core as a treat). Add these to a food processor, followed by the passion fruit flesh, apple juice and ginger. Process until al the ingredients have blended. Sieve the juice into a large jug to remove the passion fruit seeds. Pour into glasses. Makes approx. 1 pint.

sesame and banana

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