Juicer!

For my birthday my parents gave me a juicer. I had been wanting one because sometimes in the summer I end up with more veggies than I can cook with, and I wanted a way to consume them. Juice sounded like a great option! 

Here is the first juice I made! One carrot, one apple, one red potato, one stalk celery and one orange

Green juice! I really liked this one. A TON of Kale...like two medium mixing bowls full, 4 slices pineapple, 1/2 lemon and 1/2 large cucumber. Not bad! I am glad I consumed so much Kale today!

The juicer makes great juices and extracts all those nutrients from the fruit. However, there is a lot of waste! The pulp of the fruit basically all goes to waste. I know there is a lot of fiber in that part of the fruit, so I decided to try using the pulp to make smoothies in my magic bullet. Whitney from Whit Likes Fit actually gave me the idea! She has made some great green smoothie recipes, like this one here. The kale juice above gave me tons of green pulp so I saved it and decided to use it to make one of Whitney's recipes, but replace her spinach with my kale pulp.

I used:
about a cup of Kale pulp (used to be about 4 cups Kale before being juiced)
one banana
2 tablespoons almond butter
1 tablespoon flax seed
1 cup soy milk

This was pretty much the same as Whitney's recipe I mentioned above but I replaced her spinach with kale pulp and used a different milk. I was also out of yogurt so I skipped it and didn't notice. It was actually pretty good! I could pretty much only taste the banana and almond butter. It was a healthy way to start the day and I am sure I will be doing it again with all my kale pulp that I just can't handle letting go to waste!