{"id":1304,"date":"2011-09-15T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2012-08-22T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:14:41","slug":"carrot-apple-juice-with-fresh-basil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Carrot Apple Juice with Fresh Basil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carrot<\/p>\n

I love carrots. All kinds. Crunchy orange ones from the garden. Diamond carats that glitter a mile away. Yup. All kinds of carrots are good in my books.<\/p>\n

My sister loves carrots too (the sparkly kind too\u2026we\u2019re so similar in our tastes) and she\u2019s always buying carrot juice. When we travel, which we\u2019re constantly doing, she\u2019s always salivating over the idea of carrot juice. I think she\u2019s cute. So we both end up buying the big (I mean BIG) container of juice to share. And then we realize it\u2019s not so cute when our skin turns orange. Darling, right?<\/p>\n

Haha, actually\u2026we just giggle over it\u2026because we just know a couple handsome Oompa Loompas out there will fall head over heels over us. Maybe even give us some sparkly carats?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I promise you that this amazing drink won\u2019t turn you orange. Unless you love it so much you keep drinking it every hour of the day for a week. I wanted it to be a little different than the traditional carrot\/apple juice so I added some fresh basil and it tastes so good! Just the little twist that it needed! Serves 2 (Naturally! My sister would flip if I didn’t make her some too!)<\/p>\n

Carrot Apple Juice with Fresh Basil<\/h2>\n
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  1. 6 organic carrots<\/li>\n
  2. 2 \u00bd apples<\/li>\n
  3. 2 knobs of fresh ginger<\/li>\n
  4. Handful of fresh, organic basil<\/li>\n
  5. 1 lemon, juiced<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Juice everything up in your juicer, except lemon. Stir in the lemon at the end. Pour into two glasses and garnish with fresh basil.<\/p>\n

    Use nice organic carrots for juicing! The skin is thin and that\u2019s where a lot of the chemicals\/pesticides of non-organic carrots are stored. If using commercial carrots, you may want to peel them.<\/p>\n

    \"Carrot<\/p>\n

    Even a little \u201corganic\u201d dirt on them\u2026fresh from our garden<\/a>. Mmmmm\u2026nothing like growing your own!<\/p>\n

    \"Carrot<\/p>\n

    \"Carrot<\/p>\n

    Today: <\/span>We\u2019re shopping all day long. Groceries, clothes shopping, and bazillion other things! We have an enormous trip coming up with the family band (I\u2019ll tell you about it soon!) so there\u2019s so much to think about and get before we leave.<\/p>\n

    Today\u2019s workout will be shopping. That\u2019s okay, right? After a day of walking a few miles worth of grocery stores, malls, and sidewalks I think it totally qualifies.<\/p>\n

    In other news. I NEED YOUR HELP! <\/strong>My next post will be a roundup of great, healthy after-school snacks and I would so loooooove <\/em>YOUR assistance! I want all your yummy ideas\u2026comment below, post your favourite snack on my new Facebook page<\/a>, or tweet me on Twitter<\/a>! Food Bloggers: You can contribute too\u2026just send me a link to one of your loveliest snacks\/treats that would be great for an after-school snack!<\/p>\n

    So come on, let me know all your favourite healthy snacks? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I love carrots. All kinds. Crunchy orange ones from the garden. Diamond carats that glitter a mile away. Yup. All kinds of carrots are good in my books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,1182,225,8,4],"tags":[349,350,1253,348,347,351,1251,1250,1252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}