Isaac’s Healthy Fruit Smoothie

My nephew Isaac gave me this fabulous   recipe for me to try, because he likes to stay healthy throughout the week.  It consist of freshly squeezed orange juice, freshly squeezed apple juice, and banana.  This is fabulous because you can make this everyday or make it once a week and drink it throughout the week.

Serving Size: 4

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Money Savings: $5.00

Approximate calories per servings: 373 on a 10oz glass

Ingredients:

2 apples

3 oranges

1 banana

2-3 cups of cubed ice

Tools:

Blender

Juicer

Directions:

Juice the apples and oranges

Put ice, apple and orange juice and the banana in blender. 

Blend it smooth (until you don't hear the ice being crushed) and 

Enjoy!

Healthy Papaya Smoothie

I don’t know why, but I believe that papayas are in season at least by my neck of the woods, because papayas are less expensive now than at any other time.  Papayas have antioxidants besides when very ripe they are very sweet and tasteful.  Ether way it is wonderful to enjoy a delicious papaya shake.  All you need is milk, a very ripe papaya and some kind of sweetener, (a touch of cinnamon) and waa la! Enjoy.  It is easy to prepare and delightful in taste.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Money Savings: $3.00
Approximate calories per servings: 343 on a 10oz glass

Ingredients:
1 ½ cup of papaya
16oz (skim)milk
Sweeten to your taste
2 tbs. ground flax seed
16 ice cubes
Pinch cinnamon powder


Preparation:
Blend together papaya, milk, sugar, and flax seed. Then pour into a glass place 4 ice cubes and cinnamon.

Tip:
You can take agave instead of sugar or artificial sweetener.

Morir Soñando (Die Dreaming)

Morir Soñando or translated into English is die dreaming. This is a non alcoholic drink that comes from the Dominican Republic . A Dominican friend of mine showed me this recipe. It is very easy to prepare and it a delight to drink this shake. It tastes smooth, rich, full, soft and sweet. This drink is so delicious it taste just like its name to die dreaming.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Money Savings: $8.00
Ingredients: 2 cups of Orange Juice
 ½ cup sugar
2 cups of evaporated milk
2 cups of regular milk
3 cups of Ice cubes
Directions:
Take the orange juice, the sugar, the evaporated milk, regular milk and ice cubs and put everything in a blender on slow for about 2-3 minutes.

Watermelon Juice

My mother has a way of preparing juices, they are simple, but with a great taste. This watermelon Juice is sweet, and refreshing specially for the hot summery months. It has a sparkly, zesty taste the seltzer water and the lime gives a bit acidy flavor to it. The sweetness of the watermelon takes on such a cool, stimulating taste to any dry mouth.
　
Serving Size: 10
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Money Savings: $5.25

Ingredients:
8 cups non-seeded watermelon divided
1 cup of water, divided
1/3 cups sugar, divided
¼ cup fresh lime juice
1 liter of seltzer water, chilled

Directions:
Combine half the watermelon, half the water and half the sugar in a blender and puree it. Pour through a coarse strainer into a large container. Repeat with the remaining watermelon, water, and sugar. Stir in lime juice. Refrigerate until well chilled. Before serving pour in the seltzer water.

Tips:
This is great for get-togethers.

Flax seed Cold Tea

Flax seed tea is another recipe I learned from my mother. I heard of flaxseed when I was a child but never knew it as “Flax seed” I knew it as “Linaza” which is the Spanish word for flax seed. I would hear of linaza or flax seed from my mom and her friends talk about when people were sick from the stomach as a home made remedy like other teas. My mom also would tell me that she was forced to drink this flax seed tea about 3 times a week to prevent stomach health problems. About a year ago I began to drink this tea wonderful everyday for weight loss benefits; again not even knowing the rest of the health benefits that this miraculous tea does. I like to prepare my tea thick with lime. It taste like thick lime water.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation time: 2 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Money Saving: $3.00
To double serving size use ½ cup of flax seed and 10 cups of water and lime to taste.
To decrease servings size use 2 tbsp of flax seed and 2 cups of water lime to taste.

Ingredients:
1/3 cup of flax seed
4 cups of water
Lime juice to taste
strainer

Directions:
On medium heat in a small cooking pot mix in the flax seed and the 4 cups of water. Bring to boil until it starts getting thick. Stir it occasionally. After it been boiling for about 5 minutes turn the heat off and set-a-side to let cool once it’s cool pour through a strainer into a container Dispose the seed and add the lime to taste put into refrigerator for about 16 hrs then drink cold.
TIPS:
If you want to take this divine drink for other purposes instead of weight loss you may like it with sugar, honey or any other sugar substitute.