Summer Squeeze Challenge

Make your own fresh juices from fruits and vegetables this summer season. It's an easy and sustainable way towards living a healthy lifestyle. By using a juicer, your not only making a healthier choice, but your also reducing waste. Eliminate plastic bottles and even reuse the extracted pulp. The pulp that is left behind is filled with fiber and be used in many ways to enrich your meals every day.


Ways to reuse pulp:

• Put pulp back into fruit juice for some extra nutrients
• Add fruit pulp to batters for a healthy boost to any baked good
• Substitute oils and butters by using vegetable and fruit pulp in recipes to cut calories
• Vegetable pulp can be added to sauces and soup bases to thicken
• Make a frozen treat by adding fruit pulps, juice and non fat plain yogurt together generating a Popsicle for any hot day

Remember to separate your fruit and vegetable pulp and keep in air-tight containers, preferably in the freezer.

Another benefit to "juicing it up" this summer is saving money. Fresh produce can be easily grown in the comfort of your home, or purchased every week at your local farmer's market. Can you imagine a refreshing drink without artificial ingredients, preservatives and no colors added? Yes, we sure can!

Community Seeds wants to challenge you this summer to pick some of your favorite fruits and vegetables, get juicin', and make that choice toward a healthier, more sustainable life.





Need some help getting started? Try a few of our favorites!
For a refreshing fruit drink try one of these combinations:

• 1 apple + 1 pear + 7 strawberries
• 2 carrots + 2 apples
• 2 pineapple spears + 1 orange (peeled) + 1 apple
• 7 strawberries + 1 orange + 1 mango

Try a homemade vegetable juice:

• 1 carrot + 1 celery stalk + 1/2 beet + handful of spinach + 2 small tomatoes + salt and pepper
• 1/2 half red bell pepper + 2 small tomatoes + 1/2 cucumber

Frozen Treats:

• 7 strawberries + 1 apple + strawberry pulp + 1/2 cup non-fat plain yogurt (Try Fage 0 % Greek yogurt)
• 3 oranges peeled + 1/2 lemon peeled + 1/4 cup of orange pulp
• Juice 7 strawberries + 3 tbs of strawberry pulp to ice cube trays and freeze - Add to any adult cocktail for a cool festive treat

For more tips, article, and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable you, visit us at http://www.communityseeds.com/