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June 17 is National Eat Your Vegetables Day + Veggie Juice Recipes

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June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month, and June 17 is National Eat Your Vegetables Day! This day is the perfect opportunity to re-introduce a healthy portion of vegetables into your diet. No doubt about it, Eat Your Vegetables Day was created to promote a more healthy diet – for life!

On this day, it is encouraged to eat vegetables for every meal, and even for a snack.Better yet, try drinking your vegetables by juicing! National Eat Your Vegetables Day is the perfect opportunity to pick a few ripe tomatoes or some fresh basil leaves from the garden and create a juice with them. Encourage the whole family to eat (and drink!) a few extra vegetables on this day. June 17th is also Father’s Day, so show Dad how much you love and care for him by making him a “good-for-you” veggie juice that he will really enjoy!

Let children help create the juices and along the way, you tell your kids a little about the importance of vegetables for a long and healthy life. Add some fruit for the sweetness kids crave and create fun names for the drinks and you will have a veggie drinking family in no time!

Below are a few yummy and refreshing fresh juice recipes provided by Omega Juicers. Happy Juicing!

Omega’s Green Mixer Recipe (shown above)

½ cup of broccoli
1 carrot
1 green apple
½ cup of spinach
1 kiwi
½ inch of fresh ginger
½ lemon (peeled with most of the white rind still on)

Press through a juicer, stir to mix the flavors, serve, and enjoy!

Rhubarb Carrot Juice Recipe

8 Large Fresh Cleaned Carrots
1 Cup of Sliced Rhubarb
6-8 Fresh Basil leaves
1 Fresh Cut Lemon Wedge (Optional Garnish)

Juice together in the order given; stir the juice to mix the flavors.

Beet Sensation Juice Recipe

1 Small beetroot (the small ones are sweeter!)
2-3 Medium sized carrots
1 Stalk of celery
Fresh Parsley for garnish (optional)

Juice together in the order given; stir the juice to mix the flavors.

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