Help to Spring Clean Your Diet
I’m a busy, working mom that is constantly juggling everything life throws my way. Especially at this time of the year when my son’s sports schedule is extra crazy and we have multiple family get-togethers, it can get quite difficult to squeeze in healthy meals when we are constantly in “go mode”. I was recently asked to review a variety of Juice Plus+ products, which have been a welcome addition to our hectic lifestyle and are providing me with a variety of choices to spring clean my diet.
Juice Plus+ is whole food based nutrition, including juice powder concentrates from 30 different fruits, vegetables and grains. Juice Plus+ helps bridge the gap between what you should eat and what you do eat every day. Juice Plus+ is made from quality ingredients carefully monitored to provide natural nutrients your body needs to be at its best.
Eating right is very important to me and each day I stress the importance of eating fruits and veggies to my son. I try to get as many healthy choices into that little growing body as I can, but it can be difficult and challenging at times. The current recommendation for a healthy diet is to fill half your plate at each meal with fruits and vegetables, which we try to do, but sometimes in our busier weeks, the planning doesn’t quite come to fruition. Most of us suffer from a daily fruit and vegetable consumption gap as a result. The Juice Plus+ products are the perfect way to ensure that gap is non-existent.
I’ve been trying out multiple products from the Juice Plus+ line – the Juice Plus+ Complete Shakes, the Complete Nutrition Bars and the JUICE PLUS+® Orchard, Garden, AND Vineyard Blend Chewables. Here’s the skinny on each of these products.
• Juice Plus+ Complete Shake Mix is a gluten-free, 100 % vegan protein rich drink mix that provides balanced nutrition in every scoop. It is much more nutritious than a typical protein shake with the benefit of whole food nutrition with ingredients like chickpeas, tofu, water-washed soy, pumpkin and pomegranate powders, as well as a blend of ancient grains.
The shakes are great for you and they also are really tasty. The drink mix is available in two delicious flavors – French Vanilla and Dutch Chocolate. I’ve been enjoying a vanilla shake in the morning instead of my usual, which is a latte and non-existent breakfast. I feel full and happy knowing I’m sneaking in all that good nutrition before 9 a.m.!
• Juice Plus+ Complete Nutrition Bars are the perfect little healthy snack to throw in your purse or bag before leaving the house each day. Juice Plus+ Complete Nutrition Bars are packed with protein and fiber to help replace empty calories with healthy ones while on-the-go. The bars come in two tasty flavors – Spiced Apple Raisin and Cranberry.
My favorite was the cranberry, which I’ve been enjoying during the afternoon at work when I hit that afternoon slump at my desk. I’ve also been putting them in my son’s backpack to enjoy at snack time at school. The bars are low-glycemic, gluten free, non-dairy and 100% vegan. MUCH better choice than a bag of M & M’s out of the vending machine.
• Juice Plus+ Orchard, Garden and Vineyard Blend Chewables provide added whole food based nutrition from 30 different fruits, vegetables, grains and berries in a great-tasting, soft chewable form. The chewables are made with two all-natural sweeteners ? tapioca syrup and organic cane syrup ? with no high-fructose corn syrup. There are no artificial flavors or artificial colors and the product is 100% vegetarian.
It’s important to note that Juice Plus+ products are not a not a substitute for eating fruits and vegetables, but are meant to help fill a void if you just aren’t getting enough in, when you know you should. These products are meant to support a healthy diet by offering a much wider variety of naturally occurring vitamins – along with other antioxidants and phytonutrients found in fruits and vegetables.
Disclaimer: Kristine has personally reviewed the product listed above. She has not received any monetary compensation for her review but did receive a free product to try out so she could evaluate and use it for her review. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ. Please read our official rules for giveaways before entering. Two Classy Chics is not responsible for shipment of this product.