About a year ago, I bought a juicer. To be honest, at the time I wasn’t really sure if I would ever use it. I was looking for a way to keep us healthy through flu season and was hoping I could trick my kids into consuming mass amounts of vegetables in juice form since they aren’t always great about consuming them in food form. Most tricks like that don’t work on my kids though. My youngest can sense a vegetable from a mile away.
I ended up using the juicer more than I initially thought I would. I definitely noticed a difference in how often my kids got sick when I was juicing for them (in addition to trying my best to get them to eat healthy foods). This juice is bright green, which my kids think is kinda cool. They LOVE putting the fruits and veggies into the juicer because they think the way the juice and solids come out is hilarious (put your frame of mind in boy humor and you’ll know what I mean). Much like other meals, if they make the juice, they drink the juice! Win, win! This Green Gorilla Juice is one they are happy to drink – and I’m happy to serve.
Green Gorilla Juice
Ingredients
1 broccoli stem (only the stem – no florets), sliced in half
1 cucumber, quartered
2 kale leaves, torn into pieces
2 pears, quartered
2 apples, quartered
1 lemon, peeled and halved
16 oz Pineapple Juice
Instructions
Feed the broccoli, cucumber, kale, apples, pears, and lemon through the juicer. Pour the juice into a pitcher and fill with 100% pineapple juice (my pitcher takes about 16 oz pineapple juice to fill to the top). Chill and serve.
Notes
You could juice a pineapple, but I personally hate cutting fresh pineapple, so I take the shortcut of using store bought pineapple juice. I buy the R.W. Knudsen Organic 100% pineapple juice for this recipe.