Recipe: Cucumber-Celery Juice
November 17, 2013
Ever since I got sick the other week, I said to myself that I should start eating healthy. I know it’s going to be super hard because I love junk food, I love fried food, and I love oily & spicy food.
I came across a lot of articles about juicing. The articles state that juicing will help detox and will definitely help us achieve a good health. I kept that in mind. Good thing I bought myself a juicer from months ago due to a sale in the malls. So there goes my chance to finally use it.
It won’t be easy considering how lazy I am in preparing juices. I mean it’s really time-consuming and effort-consuming getting the juicer from the cabinet, cleaning the fruits/vegetables, cutting them, preparing them, then lastly, cleaning everything up.
However, I thought this will be for my health. I’m not getting any younger and I’ve been getting sick often. I have to do something to fix it or else I’ll be doomed.
So there, I plan to do this slowly… so baby steps. I’m going to prepare juices every sunday. So today, I made myself a Cucumber and Celery juice. I love cucumber! It’s very refreshing especially if juiced. There are a lot of recipes online about cucumber juice but they have soooo many ingredients. I tried to find something that is easier to prepare. I stumbled across Shine on Raw and found an easy cucumber-celery recipe.
I also researched if it’s okay to include the celery leaves into the juice. Apparently, we can add them! I was a bit wary how the juice would taste like. Luckily for me, it tasted good (not to green as everyone thought).
- 1 cucumber
- 5 stalks of celery
- clean the cucumber and celery stalks using water & vegetable brush.
- put cucumber into the juicer using low power.
- put celery stalks into the juice using high power.
- serve with ice & enjoy!
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Most of the nutrients of the cucumber is in the skin so I didn’t remove them. Celery leaves can be included in the drink as well so I put everything in the juicer. Verdict? very good! I drank 1 liter of this juice as a meal replacement. I’m planning to do this once a week for now. Let’s see if I can sustain this 🙂
Cheers for a healthy life!
