a {month of aroha} … | green

I will let you into a little secret as long as you promise not to tell my kids.

I HATE EATING VEGETABLES – there I said it. And it’s the honest truth, I really don’t like them, They are boring to eat, chomp chomp – I get sick of chewing lol…. they are annoying to prepare, and they are just blah to the taste in my opinion. I don’t believe they make my hair curl, I don’t believe they will put hairs on my chest (cos who wants that) or any of the other lies I was told to force me to eat them as a kid. But I do believe when organically grown – they are good for you , so I eat them. But given the choice – they would stay wilting in the refrigerator before I would be forced to throw their molding form out. Perhaps it’s not so much about the taste and perhaps it is more about preparing them, I’m a hateful, lazy cook.

So..

We are juicers in this house, all of us. Most nights we sit down to a pitcher/jug of green juice on the table and it is loved by all, even the 5 year old downs at least one full glass with the audible sound of yum afterward. And that’s good news to this mama. Of course I usually prepare other vegetables to go with the meal but I don’t worry too much if they are not all eaten because I know we are getting this good stuff in a glass.

I have a couple of favourite recipes I use but this is the standard one.

3 green apples and 1 golden delicious. (sometimes I just use 4 green)

2 stalks of celery (I hate the stuff usually but I’m okay with it in juice and I know how many awesome micro-nutrients it provides)

2 romaine hearts

1 cucumber

2 bunches of spinach

6 or so kale leaves

and half a lemon.

run it through the juicer and voila – it tastes a little like green lemonade. I makes about 4-5 glasses and when I see the ingredients piled up in my sink after I have washed everything – I know for darn sure there would be NO WAY I would sit down and eat all that green. But I crave green juice – I {aroha} the green in a glass.