Heal-All Miracle Smoothie

This smoothie is a great heal-all. It contains ingredients that reduce inflammation, purify and cleanse the skin and liver, naturally boost our energy, improve the functioning of our immune system and help us de-stress. Best of all, it can be quickly made in the morning and super charge you for the rest of the day.

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Ingredients:
- 1 cup organic raspberries
- 1 ripe banana
- 2 cups leafy greens of your choice (choose from butter leaf, romaine, kale, baby greens, sprouts, etc.)
- 2 ribs celery
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- water & meat from 1 young thai coconut
- 3-4 inches ginger
- LOVE

Put all ingredients into a high speed blender and pulse blend for 30 seconds. Enjoy!

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Raw Vegan Beet Balls

Do you want a healthier alternative to the artery-clogging meat ball? This recipe, in my opinion, tastes BETTER than the conventional meat ball, and it is 100% raw and 100% healthy. There was actually a point where I made this recipe almost every second day because I couldn't get enough of them :)

They are relatively easy to make, all you need is a food processor or vita mix to help finely chop everything together. You can either dehydrate them, or put them into the oven on the lowest setting, or simply use them as is (they clump together pretty well).

Ingredients:

- 2 portabella mushrooms or 2 cups cremini or shittake mushrooms

- 1/2 head cauliflower

- 1 beet, peeled

- 1/4 cup shredded carrots

- 1 -2 tbsp. finely chopped leek

- 1/2 cup chopped tomato or a handful of cherry tomatoes

- 1/2 cup arugula

- 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon

- 1/2 tsp. cumin

- fresh basil (optional)

- 2-3 cloves garlic

Instructions:

1. Put cauliflower, beets, and carrot into food processor and pulse blend until you have fine pieces.

2. Put in the mushrooms and the rest of the ingredients and pulse blend to mix

3. Take the mixture and use your hands to form "beet balls"

4. Lay out on dehydrator sheets on your dehydrator and dehydrate for a couple hours to make them slightly firm. If you do not have a dehydrator, you can simply eat them as is, or you can put them in the oven at lowest setting for 15 minutes or so.

5. Serve with raw zucchini pasta. The recipe for this is HERE.

Fresh Summer Beet Salad

I love summer because all the fresh organic produce becomes available and nutrients are at their peak! Eating large salads at night is something I always look forward to because I have lots of fun seeing what I can come up with. I recently came up with this salad, motivated by the beets and their sweet, creamy texture. This salad is by far one of my favourites and I will definitely be making it again! Read on to find out how to make your own fresh summer beet salad :)

Ingredients:

- Any kind of leafy lettuce (I eat around 1-2 pounds of greens, so you can downsize as you please)

- 3-4 dill cucumbers sliced finely (any cucumber will work, I just love dills)

- 1 zucchini chopped into cubes

- 2 large tomatoes, chopped

- 1 cup sunflower sprouts

- 1 large beet, chopped into match sticks

- 1/2 avocado, diced into cubes

(I also added some herbs like dill, basil and cilantro! Just a few of each)

Toss around all the ingredients, and add a simple salad dressing like blended orange and dill, or a simple squirt of lemon, some cumin and hemp seed oil (a teaspoon or so). I normally don't put anything on my salads except some lemon and hemp seed oil every now and then. 

Summer Pineapple Refreshment

This drink is a wonderful refreshment for any time of the year - but it is especially great in the summer months when you feel the need to cool off and boost your body with plenty of antioxidants. Pineapple is a great anti-inflammatory (thanks to it's awesome bromelain components) and coconut helps replenish any electrolytes lost through sweating. Oranges are rich in vitamin C so they increase your body's immune defences, while mango supports the health of your skin with their abundant enzymes and vitamin's A & E.

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Ingredients:
- 2 cups ripe pineapple
- 1 cup young thai coconut water
- 1 cup freshly pressed orange juice
- 1 cup freshly chopped mango
- 1 - 2 cups fresh leafy greens like spinach, kale, or romaine (optional!)

Put ingredients into a blender, pulse blend for 15-30 seconds and enjoy!

Summer Fresh Apple Pie Smoothie

Apples are a great food to include in your diet, especially when mixed with wonderful spices like cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. This smoothie literally tastes like you are eating an apple pie! It is sweet and tart, and has NO refined sugar or added chemicals which you would normally spot in a store-bought apple pie. 

The benefits of apples are as below:

- Reduce bad cholesterol 

- Prevent Alzheimers disease

- Decrease you risk of diabetes

- Increase your body's endurance

- Protect against colon cancer

- Boosts your immune system

- Prevents cataracts

- Great for radiant skin

- Protect the heart 

- Reduce your risk of asthma

- Make your teeth whiter!

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Ingredients:
- 2 apples (granny smith or pink lady apples I prefer!)
- 1 banana
- 2 medjool dates, pitted
- 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup young thai coconut water (plus the coconut meat from the young coconut if you are using fresh)
- 1 cup spinach

Place all in a high speed blender, blend, and enjoy the benefits of this amazing smoothie!

Raw Zucchini and Hempseed Hummus

I love zucchini hummus because it is easily made without beans (which often cause me digestive distress), and it tastes just as wonderful. It is also much lighter, and doesn't make you tired (because the digestion required to digest zucchini's is much faster than that which is required to digest beans). Read on to find out how to make your own delicious zucchini hempseed hummus!

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Ingredients:

- 2 cups zucchini (you may leave skin on or off, depends on whether you want it more green or not)

- 1/4 cup hemp seeds

- 2-3 tbsp. raw tahini

- 1/4 cup finely chopped dill

- 2-3 garlic cloves, crushed

- 1/2 tsp. cumin

- Squeeze of fresh lemon juice (a couple tablespoons)

- 1 tbsp. hempseed oil

- Optional: cayenne, black pepper, salt

Place all ingredients into a food processor (or blender) and blend on high. If it is too liquidy, then add some more hemp seeds or more zucchini - if it is not wet enough, add some more lemon juice. Enjoy in lettuce wraps, or with vegetable sticks! Store any leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container. It should last 3-4 days. 

Luscious Kale Salad

This salad is one of my favourites to make. It takes around 10-15 minutes or so to whip up, and the end resulting is satisfyingly pleasing and warming to the soul. Read on to find out how to make this amazing kale salad! Kale is a power food, and provides your body with an array of key nutrients like iron, calcium and vitamin C!

Ingredients:

- 1 head of kale, cut into small pieces

- 1 lemon

- 1/2 ripe avocado

Take the above 3 ingredients and massage until the kale starts to feel soft and supple. To this, add:

- 1-2 zucchini, ribboned (using a potato or carrot peeler utensil)

- 4 radishes

- couple tablespoons thinly sliced red onion

- 1/2 cup shredded red cabbage

- 1/2 cup chopped cucumber

- 1/2 cup chopped red/yellow/orange pepper

- optional: dill, pomegranate, mushrooms

Get your hands into the salad and mix everything around and you have yourself an amazingly tasty salad! Enjoy!

Homemade V8 Juice Recipe

Did you know that a single 11.5 ounce can of V8 juice contains 690mg of sodium?! This will leave you feeling dehydrated and foggy-headed. V8 juices are highly processed, reconstituted "vegetable blends" which have completely lost their natural enzymes and bioavailability of nutrients. Instead, make this homemade V8 juice. It will leave you feeling refreshed, high energy, and ready to take on the day!

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Ingredients:
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 beet
- 1 bunch parsley
- 3-4 radishes
- 1 cucumber
- 4 stalks celery
- 1 cup spinach
- 1 red pepper
- 1-2 lemons (optional, for those who enjoy a bit of kick)

Juice the above ingredients and reap the amazing benefits of these 8 nutritive vegetables (aside from tomato which is technically a fruit!).

Rejuvenating Detox Smoothie

Green smoothies are a great way to help detox the organs in your body. This smoothie will help your kidneys, colon, liver and stomach and will facilitate in their proper functioning. We are able to improve our cleansing organs' abilities when we remove highly toxic foods like dairy, refined sugar, highly processed foods and heavy foods like meat, eggs, and wheat. With a detox we can give these organs a break, and will feel lighter, and able to think clearer.

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Ingredients:
- 4 stalks celery
- 1 long english cucumber
- 4 large leaves kale
- 1 green apple, chopped & de-seeded
- 1 lime, squeezed for juice
- water of 1 young thai coconut (about 1 cup; if you don't have coconut water, use regular water)
- 1 cup ripe pineapple

Put the celery, cucumber, kale, lime & coconut water into the blender, and blend high speed (this helps break down the greens better). Then, add the apple and pineapple, and blend for around 15-30 seconds. Enjoy!

Cravings Buster Citrus Blast

Boost your metabolism and banish cravings with this tangy Cravings Buster Citrus Blast! Cayenne and ginger help stimulate your digestive juices and rev up your metabolism to speed up fat burning. Their slightly spicy tones also prevent us from wanting fatty, salty, refined-sugary foods! 

Grapefruit is also a wonderful fruit which boosts the metabolism, and is high in vitamin C (just like orange and lemon) so this juice (or smoothie blend) will protect and help support your immune system! If you want, you may also add in some coconut water to the mix! 

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Ingredients:
- 2 Grapefruit
- 2 Oranges
- 1 Lemon
- 2 Pears
- 2-3 inches ginger root
- 1/8 - 1/4 tsp. cayenne powder

Juice the first 5 ingredients (or stick in a blender), and add cayenne pepper last. Mix well before serving! Bon Appetit!

Eczema Juice Detox Recipe

Eczema and other inflammatory skin conditions like psoriasis affect millions of individuals worldwide. These skin conditions are caused by a variety of things like a high-acid diet (lots of processed foods, junk foods, refined sugar, meat, dairy, wheat & eggs), stress, and the environment. Our skin is one of the body's main eliminatory organs, so it reflects how well (or how not-well) other organs in the body are functioning.

If your liver and kidneys are functioning well, then they can eliminate toxins efficiently. However, if these organs are backed up, then toxins will eliminate through other areas such as the skin. The first step to clearing up inflammatory skin conditions is to get back proper functioning of the liver, kidneys and gallbladder through a high-raw alkaline diet, incorporating lots of fresh raw pressed juices (such as the one below). All of the ingredients in this recipe help support the aforementioned organs, which will help clear up and detox your skin. 

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Ingredients:

- 4 large beets, peeled
- 5 large carrots,
- 6 stalks celery
- 1 bunch parsley
- 4 inches ginger
- 2 lemons

Juice the above ingredients and start healing your liver & kidneys! The result will be beautiful, radiant skin. Drink this every day, twice a day if needed.

Strawberry Cherry Creamy Dreamy Smoothie

Cherries are now in season so you should be eating them by the pound! 

The benefits are amazing, and include things such as:

- incredibly high in antioxidants which protect against cancer and heart disease

- relieves and prevents arthritis and gout due to their anti-inflammatory properties

- help to relieve migraines

- rich in melatonin to help regulate heart rhythms and circadian rhythms

- improve sleeping

- improve our memory

- high in beta carotene (19 times higher than blueberries and strawberries)

- reduces chance of developing colon cancer

- helps to lower cholesterol

- slows the aging process

- extremely effective diuretic

- boosts libido in men and women

If you want an amazing blender, I highly suggest you purchase a vitamix! It makes the smoothest, most creamiest smoothies, raw soups and sauces I have ever experienced! If you purchase a vitamix through Live Love Fruit, you will get FREE shipping and handling! Click HERE to purchase.

Ingredients:
- 2 cups pitted cherries (organic! conventional cherries are sprayed with lots of pesticides)
- 1 cup organic strawberries
- 1 young thai coconut (water and coconut meat included)
- 4 medjool dates, pitted
- 1 tsp vanilla bean

Put all the ingredients into a blender, and pulse blend for 30 seconds. Enjoy!

Build Your Own Refreshing Summer Smoothie

Summer is a time to freshen up your body and feed it with cooling foods that help lower blood pressure and body temperature. Build your own refreshing summer smoothie using these four easy steps!

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1. Add Fruit
You can add any kind of fruit you please. Summer time is the time of the freshest most ripest fruit, so it is essential that you eat a large variety (especially of the fruit that is local and in-season like nectarines, plums, peaches, mangos, cherries, grapes, melons and berries!)

2. Add Liquid
Add liquid; generally, any type of water, or you can add something for a little more electrolytes like some freshly pressed raw fruit juices or some coconut water. These will help replenish crucial electrolytes lost through sweating in the heat.

3. Power Up
This step is optional, however if you want to add a little more power to your smoothies you are free to add some medjool dates, or some vitamin and mineral rich raw chlorella powder. Kick it up a notch and up your antioxidant boost with some fresh raw acai berry powder, which you can purchase from Nativas Naturals.

4. Make It Cool
Cool down your system by turning your smoothie into a ice-cube slush, or simply blend watermelon by itself (watermelon smoothie anyone?) to help lower your blood pressure and cool down the body. Leafy greens are also great at cooling the body because they have high water content and are thus very easy to digest (and thus, the body does not heat as much to assimilate the digestive process).