Ingredients

• 1 cup Alfalfa Sprouts
• 1 cup Sunflower Sprouts (chopped)
• 1 cup Broccoli Sprouts
• 1/4-1/2 cup Tahini
• If substituting use…
• 1/8-1/4 cup Olive Oil
• 1/2 clove Garlic
• 1/8-1/4 cup Tamari
• 1 Lemon, juiced or squeezed
• 1+cup Water (add for pulsing and consistency)

You’ve got choices! My recipes are yoga-endowed with flexibility. If you have sprouts, you can and should use them. Of all the varieties alfalfa, broccoli, and sunflower blend well and don’t overwhelm the taste.

If you don’t have any sprouts, you can use common vegetables such as kale and parsley. I prefer lacinato kale also known as Italian or Russian kale (I know its confusing). Then there is the more standard curly kale. If you can’t get kale, substitute with collard greens. They’re all part of the Brassica family that includes cabbage.

Cilantro is one of those love-or-hate vegetables. If you love it, use it like a spice in this recipe.

Here’s a quick and easy (but powerful) recipe to get your mornings rolling. It was submitted by Birit Trematore through our submit a recipe page.

Ingredients

• Fill your blender 3/4 full of chopped kale
• 1″ peeled chunk of ginger
• 1/2 a lemon with the yellow rind removed (but leave the white part)
• 1 cup organic apple juice
• a few ice cubes

Fill up to the top of the kale with good water. Blend until the kale is teeny tiny. Strain into a pitcher. Drink soon for maximum energy benefits!

This is sooo easy…everyone has time for it.

This recipe comes from our good friend Ross at energiseforlife.com and is taken from his Alkaline Diet Cook Book that he launched just last month.

It is a combination of the most alkalizing, energizing green foods, is packed full of chlorophyll from the green veggies and gives you a great energy boost!

Ingredients

• 2 sticks of celery
• 2 sticks of chard
• 1 large handful of baby spinach leaves
• 1 cucumber
• 6 lettuce leaves
• 1 broccoli head and stalk

Juice these all together and enjoy the energy buzz! Ross has heaps more alkaline recipes over at his Alkaline Diet Blog.

The sweet and sour of the raspberry and red apple balance the bold flavor of the calcium rich kale. So much so that your skull may distend, jump out of your skin, paint itself in vibrant colors, and dance until dawn…at least that’s what it feels like. You can check out the ingredients page to learn more about the health benefits. Although, I can’t image you’ll need any more incentive than the former.

Ingredients

• 1 red apple
• 1 cup of raspberries
• 1/8 honeydew melon
• 1 big leaf of kale (stem removed)
• 1 handful of mixed baby greens
• 1 lemon (juice)
• 1 banana
• 1 cup of water
• 1 1/2 cups of ice

Blend well. Get your face skull paint ready. Dance.

This isn’t like the crazy dude hanging out in the ally of your local bodega. That guy probably has a wicked urinary tract infection and is suffering from dehydration. Two conditions that cranberry and coconut water destroy (check the ingredients page to learn more about all the health benefits). As far as taste is concerned, it’s a sweet kick with lingering tart and spicy qualities…the drink that is…

Ingredients

• 1 cup of frozen cranberries
• 1 orange (peeled)
• 1 pear
• 1 lemon (juice)
• 2 leaves of collard greens
• 1 bunch of mixed baby greens
• 3-4 mint leaves
• 1 banana
• 1 cup of coconut water
• 1 cup of ice

Blend. Fill a thermos. Support your local crazy dude.

This is a tough one for a lot of blenders; the pomegranate seeds don’t blend very well unless you have a Vitamix, Blendtec or equivalent. Even with the heavy duty blenders you still get seed pieces but they’re very small and go down easy.

If you’re of the cheaper blender crowd or have a texture issue, just replace the seeds with fresh pomegranate juice or that POM Wonderful stuff (check the ingredients page to learn about all the health benefits).

Ingredients

• 6 strawberries
• 1 cup pomegranate seeds
• 1 apple
• 1 stalk of celery
• 1 peach
• 1 handful of red grapes
• 1 handful of fresh spinach
• 1 banana
• 1 cup water

Blend. Drink. Flex.

This was a bit of a banana crapshoot.

I had a bunch of fruits, veggies and juices leftover from previous green drinks so I threw them all into the blender and crossed my fingers. It came out tasting like what I only describe as a weird banana smoothie (check the ingredients page to learn about all the health benefits).

Ingredients

• 2 bananas
• 1 apple
• 1/2 lime
• 1/2 lemon
• 1/4 cucumber
• 1 bunch spinach
• 1 bunch kale
• 1 cup Trader Joe’s Soy Essential
• 1/2 cup Trader Joe’s Dixie Peach juice
• 1 cup water

Fortunately sometimes weird is good.

The all green green drink drink.

I wanted something purely green that didn’t taste like the remnants after a lawn face-plant. It worked; sweet, sour, bitter and even a little spicy (check the ingredients page to learn about all the health benefits).

Ingredients

• 1 bunch watercress
• 1 green apple
• 1 lime
• 1/4 cucumber
• 4 mint leaves
• 1 banana
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup ice

Blend and add more water as necessary.

Looking for a morning coffee alternative? Something that will still wake you up and give you a boost of energy?

This is perfect. Wheatgrass is pure pick-me-up; pure energy, and with all the vitamin C from the oranges, its everything you need to get up and going (check the ingredients page to learn about all the health benefits).

Ingredients

• 1 bunch wheatgrass
• 2 oranges (peeled)
• 1 banana
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup ice

The amount of grass I used is shown in the photo (3×3 sprout box). If you have a masticating juicer you can juice 2-4oz. and throw it into the blender. Otherwise you can do what I did and use the whole grass.

Enjoy your perfect coffee alternative.

It’s a beautiful sunny day. You’re driving down the highway with the windows down and nothing but green earth and blue sky on the horizon. You come upon the biggest strawberry field you have ever seen and pull over to steal a taste. Instead of plucking one juicy strawberry from the ground, you pull up the whole bush; fruit, leaves, roots, dirt. You put the whole thing in your mouth and start to chew.

It’s sweet, bitter, a little spicy and is exactly what this green drink tastes like (check the ingredients page to learn about all the health benefits).

Ingredients

• 3 strawberries
• 1 mango
• 1 kiwi
• 3 big basil leaves
• 2 big leaves of collard greens (remove stems)
• 1-1 1/2 cups of water

Enjoy.