It can often be extremely difficult to make sure that your family is getting the proper nutrition, especially when you have kids who are fussy eaters and absolutely refuse to eat their vegetables. You can try to hide the vegetables in with other food, but many times kids notice this and refuse to eat their meals. This can be extremely frustrating, but there are ways that you can get around it. Most kids do love a lot of different fruits, and you can combine fruits and vegetables to make delicious juices that your kids will love.

Masking the Vegetable Flavor

When you mix fruit juice with vegetable juice, the strong flavors of the fruits will overpower the vegetables, so all you will taste is the fruit juice. This is great when you have kids who hate vegetables. You can make them delicious, healthy fruit and vegetable juices, and they will never have any idea that they are getting their vegetables with every drink they take. Some great combinations you can try are orange/carrot, apple broccoli, or pineapple/turnip.

You can always get creative and try all kinds of new combinations, so you can always have something different to keep your kids from getting bored with the same old juice every day. You can also use wheat grass, which is extremely nutritious and loaded with antioxidants. There are many different juicers available that can juice not only fruit and vegetables, but leafy greens such as wheat grass, too.

Letting Them Pitch In

If you are brave, you can let your kids know what you are doing, and let them in on the process. Kids love to help out in the kitchen, and they feel very proud to eat or drink the things they have created. There are many juicers available that are extremely easy to use, and even younger children can use them, as long as they are supervised. Let them choose which fruits and vegetables they want to use, and help them use the machine until you are sure that they can do it without any help from you at all. This in itself is a great accomplishment, and one that will make your kids want to make and drink their own juices. While they are making their juices, it is a great time to teach them about nutrition, and why they need to have fruits and vegetables in their diets.

Have you ever thought about the raisins you eat? Where do they come from? Raisins are just one of many different types of food that are actually dehydrated forms of other food. Raisins are dehydrated grapes. Dehydration is a process that has been around for thousands of years, since biblical times. This is an excellent way to preserve food. Dehydrated food is much easier to store than canned food because they are in much smaller packaging.

The Health Benefits of Dehydrating Food

Not only is dehydrated food much easier to store than canned food, it is a lot healthier, too. Canned food is cooked, and as soon as you cook any food, you take away many of the nutrients that it contains. Dehydrating food preserves all of the nutrients, so the food is still as healthy after dehydration as it was when it was fresh. You can buy food that is dehydrated, but can you always be sure that the food was fresh at the time of dehydration?

When you use one of the many different models of food dehydrators that are available, you can make your own dehydrated food right at home, ensuring that your dehydrated food always come from fresh sources. And this is often a lot less expensive than buying food already dehydrated, because you are doing the work yourself, which isn’t really much work at all, especially when you use a food dehydrator such as the Excalibur 3900.

The Lexen Healthy Chef is a four-in-one meal maker, which allows you to dehydrate food, steam food, cook rice, and even make your own yogurt. When you have this machine in your kitchen, it eliminates the need for many other kitchen gadgets, saving you a lot of money and counter/cupboard space.

Making Healthy Treats with a Dehydrator

If you are like millions of people all over the world, you love to snack on tasty treats that often aren’t the healthiest for you. There are many delicious treats that you can make with food dehydrators.

If you like dried fruits, you can dehydrate apples, pineapples, grapes, cranberries and more, and when you add your dried fruits to nuts, you will have a delicious trail mix that is great to munch on. Or, you can even make your own tasty beef jerky, which will help eliminate cravings for both salty and chewy treats, without all of the chemicals and other additives that go into commercially prepared jerky. You don’t have to limit yourself to beef, either.

Get creative, and try using poultry and pork to make delicious jerky that your whole family will love to snack on. And this is a healthy treat, too, because meat is loaded with protein, and the dehydration ensures that the nutrients are all left intact.

If you love yogurt, but don’t love the high prices that you can pay for it at supermarkets, not to mention all of the extra ingredients that are often seen in commercially products, you should think about making your own. Yes, you can make your own yogurt at home, and all of the ingredients will be fresh and healthy. Imagine eating fresh yogurt every day that is loaded with delicious berries and other fruits. If you want to be even more health conscious, and support your community, you can use fresh, locally grown fruits and other ingredients for the freshest, healthiest yogurt possible.

Making Your Own Yogurt Is Easy When You Have the Right Equipment

It is really easy to make your own yogurt, as long as you have the proper equipment. There are now yogurt machines available that are inexpensive and easy to use, such as the Euro Cuisine YM260 – 2 Quart Yogurt Maker with Built-in Timer. You can now have all kinds of yogurt, in any flavor you wish, and it only takes a few hours to make enough to last for an entire week. With the Euro Cuisine, you can make as much as two quarts of yogurt at a time, in just six to eight hours. And it’s not like you have to stand there the entire time. You can add your fresh ingredients, and let the machine do all the work. Come back in a little while and enjoy a bowl of yogurt. And the Euro Cuisine only weighs eight pounds, making it lightweight and easy to store when you are not using it. For a really tasty treat, freeze some of the yogurt you make (making sure to add sticks for easier eating), and enjoy a delicious frozen yogurt any time.

Yogurt for Good Nutrition

Yogurt is a tasty treat that many people enjoy eating. And, yogurt is loaded with all kinds of vitamins and nutrients that we all need to be healthy. When you make your own yogurt using the Euro Cuisine, you can make it with the freshest of ingredients, so you know that it is the healthiest yogurt possible, even healthier than the stuff you buy in stores. Because the ingredients you use are all fresh, you are getting the most nutritional value from them, and what better way to get your vitamins and other nutrients than by eating something delicious? Some of the nutrients you will receive from your home-made yogurt include calcium, vitamin C (from the fruits you use), potassium, niacin, and a whole lot more.

It is a well known fact that fruits and vegetables are loaded with nutrients that we all need, and it is essential that we have them in our diets. When it comes to fruits, there are all kinds that we love to eat. But, this is not exactly the same with vegetables. In fact, it is not just children who don’t like eating their vegetables. There are thousands and thousands of people who just don’t like them, and therefore are not getting everything they need from their diets. One way to overcome this is to drink juices that are a combination of fruits and vegetables. Believe it or not, the fruits will mask the taste of the vegetables, so all you will taste is delicious fruit juice. Now, you can find all kinds of fruit and vegetable cocktails at your local supermarket for a pretty hefty price. Or you can get yourself a juicer and make all kinds of delicious fruit and vegetable combinations that even your kids will love.

What Type of Juicer Is Best for Your Juicing Needs?

As far as the types of juicers that are available, you have plenty of options. You can get juicers that only make wheatgrass juice and juice from other leafy greens, or you can get juicers that make juices from all sorts of fruits and vegetables. In fact, there are even juicers available that can be used to make pasta and sauces, so you can even have a complete meal ready in no time at all, and made from all healthy, fresh ingredients.

Another thing to think about when you are choosing a juicer is whether you want an electric or a manual model. If you want to do as little work as possible, an electric model may be the one for you. But remember that one of these can often be bulky and heavy, so you will want to have a permanent place for it, rather than storing it and having to bring it out every time you need to make juice. Check the specifications of the models you look at to see how large they are and how much they weigh. Or you may be looking for a manual juicer, one that is portable and light weight, and can even be taken with you on vacation or on camping trips where there is no access to electricity. With a manual juicer, you will always be able to have homemade juice made with the freshest of ingredients.

There are many health benefits to drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juice, and when you make your own from fresh ingredients, you know you are getting all of the nutrients you need to get healthy, one glass of juice at a time

A big Howdy from me…and my partners in crime here at 877MyJuicer.com.

We had so much fun giving away a FREE Lexen Healthy Juicer that we decided we had to keep the fun up by doing another contest this week.  Yup – here we go again. Same rules apply as last time, but we added an extra twist so you can earn extra entries (read below).

Rule 1: All you have to do is leave a comment on this blog posting about what you would do with the juice if you won!

Rule 2: There is no rule 2.

Here are the other ways to gain an extra!

• Sign up for our Newletter (worth 1 extra entry…tell us you did in your comment so we can verify)
• Tweet this giveaway on your Twitter account (worth 1 extra entry…leave me the link where you did so and we can add your extra entry)
• Share this on Facebook (worth 2 extra entries!  Let us know you did!)

Want to know more about this awesome juicer? Here ya go: http://www.877myjuicer.com/wheatgrass-juicer-healthy-juicer-electric-by-lexen-products.html’

Can’t wait to see if you won?  Enter the contest – if you win we will REFUND you the full price PLUS an extra $20 just for going the distance..

Good luck everyone!

Yours very Juicely,

Juicy Josh

www.877MyJuicer.com

Hey, I gotta say – I am quite impressed with all of the awesome entries that were received.  Really.  Hearing from all of you on a more personal level was awesome – hearing the stories of better health, awareness, personal struggles and more.  The entries were incredibly moving. I only wish we could give away more on this round! So – how did we select the winner?  Well, after two hours of tedious printing and cutting of each entrants post – I had the boss-man pick a piece of paper out of a blender.  Ya, we figured what more fitting way to do it versus a hat.

But wait…there is still light at the end of the tunnel!  I was able to convince (after lots of groveling, begging and the such..not really, the 877MyJuicer folks are pretty cool here) to give away another juice next week!

Don’t enter yet – more will come on this so check back on the blog for official entry!

So – I bet you are waiting in anticipation on who the lucky winner is.  Was it you?  Wait for it…wait for it…..

SO!  Here was the drawing process (we took photos for proof…and because it was fun):

1)  Showing off the printed off entries

2)  Me, doin’ tha mix

3)  Jason doin’ tha mix!

3)  Aint that a purdy BlendTec?

4)  Ah-Ha!  The lucky winner

5)   Congrats Kelly O’Sullivan on winning the Healthy Juicer Electric!!!!

Here is Kelly O’Sullivan’s Entry:

There are all kinds of things we can do to get healthy and stay in shape, including getting plenty of exercise and rest, and of course, eating a healthy, well-balanced diet. Often, we do not get all of the nutrition we need from our diets, for many reasons, including not having time to cook, or having to eat on the run. One good way to get plenty of nutrition quickly and easily is to have a healthy glass of wheatgrass juice, which is easy when you use the Healthy Juicer – Manual Wheatgrass Juicer by Lexen Products.

Easy to Use and Easy to Clean

The Healthy Juicer is not only a wheatgrass juicer. You can make all kinds of different delicious juice from many fruits and vegetables. This is great for people who do not like the taste of vegetables or wheatgrass, because these juices can be masked by the many tasty fruits you use to make your juices. Plus, when you combine fruits and vegetables, you are getting even more nutritional value. The Healthy Juicer is really easy to use, and instead of grinding the fruits and vegetables, it crushes them, to extract the most juice possible. There is less heat build-up with this juicer than with other juicers, so using the Healthy Juicer doesn’t destroy certain enzymes and other nutrients.

The Healthy Juicer – Manual Wheatgrass Juicer is also really easy to set up and clean. It only takes a couple of minutes to take the whole juicer apart, and the parts clean easily with a little bit of warm, soapy water. When you are juicing, all of the pulp and other waste is expelled, so the machine is not clogged up, making it more difficult to clean.

The Manual Wheatgrass Juicer Is Great for Traveling, Too

One of the best ways to kill a healthy diet is by going on vacation. Often, when we are away, we throw caution to the wind, and eat out the entire time. This is all right if you are eating healthy foods, but more often than not, the food we eat on vacation is not healthy, especially when we take advantage of low-priced meals at fast food restaurants, which a lot of us do while away. Whenever possible, it is a good idea to bring along your own food. It doesn’t take up much space to have a cooler with some healthy foods it in it, and of course, healthy, fresh juice. You can make sure that your juice is always fresh, even while on vacation, with the Healthy Juicer – Manual Wheatgrass Juicer. Because it is so portable and lightweight, this juicer can be taken with you just about anywhere. And, since it needs no electricity, this is the ideal juicer to take on camping trips, too.