This is a great recipe for people following the Alkaline diet.

It is rich in alkaline forming ingredients like cucumbers and lettuce.

The only adjustment I would make is to use a more dark leafy green, instead of iceberg lettuce.

Here is a list of better GREENS, that beat out iceberg lettuce for nutritional value.

• Romaine
• Spinach
• Mescalin mix
• Buttercrunch
• Limestone
• Mizuna
• Arugula
• Dandelion greens

I would love to hear about your favorite variety of lettuce, or salad recipe. Let us know in the comment box below.

What if there was an easy way to consume more vegetables without having to eat them all?

The vegetable blender smoothie to the rescue.

Organic Vegetable Smoothies

For beginners, you may want to add some fruit to the recipe to make it sweeter. Banana, pineapple, blueberries or apples are all good.

As your taste buds adapt, you can pump up the percentage of greens for maximum alkaline diet benefit. Most people could really benefit from having a lot more greens in their diet.

People sensitive to sugar, like diabetics, should go easy on the fruit, because even natural fruit can contain a good amount of sugar.

Another great way I have discovered to enhance my health and energy is to drink Iaso tea. I t helps clear out toxins on the inside of the body and keeps the digestive system  humming along nicely. It is a blend of 12 natural herbs.

I would love to hear about your smoothie recipes and smoothie drinking experiences. Please use the comment box to let us know.

Raw kale chips. You can make these with a blender if you don’t have a Vita-Mix.

I am always looking for ways to pump up the greens in my diet, and this is a great option.

Rene Oswald–Raw Food Recipe for Kale Chips

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBZ7q2bgRJM

One of the biggest challenges for people following an Alkaline Diet is what to eat for snacks.

Sometimes you just get the munchies in between meals and you need a healthy snack.

Here are a couple other healthy snack ideas:

• Have a bag of cut up vegetables in the frig at all times, so it is handy to grab.
• Almonds are a great portable snack.
• A bowl of fruit, but don’t go overboard, as we have written elsewhere about the sugar content of fruit. Too much of a good thing, just might be too much.
• A glass of powdered greens, with some rice protein.
• Any kind of dehydrated vegetables.

We would love to hear your healthy snack ideas. Please post in the comment box below.

A good way to detox the body is to  drink an organic, cleansing herbal tea. It acts as a very gentle colon cleanse and helps to remove toxins and undigested debris.

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With the addition of some fruit, you can end up with a great tasting drink, that even gets past the taste buds of kids.

Adding sprouts pumps up the nutritional value, as well as the enzymes, which are key to feeling energetic and healthy, at least in my experience.
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How to Make an Alfalfa Sprout Green Smoothie

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-9AatOWszE

Get your blender ready and add the following:

• Sprouts, alfalfa is good, or use clover, mung bean or bit of radish for some zest
• Greens, dark leafy greens are best. The more the merrier
• Some fruit to add flavor and sweetness.
• Enough water to blend it up to a good consistency.

In a perfect world, you would use lots of greens and just a little fruit for the highest density of nutrients, phytochemicals and antioxidants.  And the fewest calories. Too much fruit in a liquefied state can cause blood sugar problems for some people.

BUT… it has to taste good or no one will drink it. So strike a good balance, get your greens and sprouts in a glass, and drink up!

Another great pH balancing drink: organic, cleansing herbal tea. For a gentle colon cleanse and helps to remove toxins.

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I see a lot of juice and smoothie recipes and I am thinking, too much sweetness.

Diabetes runs in my family and I really struggled with hypoglycemia as a child, even though I did not have the faintest clue what hypoglycemia was back then.

Carrot, apple, and beet juices can all contain a good amount of sugar.

In juice form, the sugar can enter the bloodstream rapidly and spike the blood sugar in a sensitive person. That is why I like to have a greater percentage of greens in my juice.
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Of course the juice needs to taste good, or you just won’t drink it. And any freshly squeezed juice is way better than a candy bar or a soda any day. So strike your own balance. Some people need to start on the sweeter side, until the taste buds can adapt.

My taste buds are well adapted now to good amounts of kale, collards or other dark leafy greens in my juice or vegetable smoothies.

Here are the ingredients for the juice recipe in this video

• romaine lettuce
• papaya, great enzymes, seeds can be anti-parasitic
• cucumber
• green apple, do not include seeds, they contain cyanide
• fennel
• kale, very nutrient dense, all around great leafy green vegetable
• celery, good alkaline forming choice
• cilantro, good for clearing heavy metals
• carrot
• lemon
• top it off with a bit of garlic and ginger

One of my favorite ways to balance my pH is to drink an organic, cleansing herbal tea. It acts as a very gentle colon cleanse and helps to remove toxins from my body.

Disclaimer: Yes I do make money from the sale of this tea. If you would like to make money too, check out http://GetCleanInside.com

What are the basic categories of alkaline foods?

What about acid foods?

How do these combine in nature to create perfect pH balance?

David Wolfe Acid Alkaline PH Balance

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Organic Goji Berries

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Weight Loss Alkaline Herb Tea

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6LBGPdpGRw

Classification of Alkaline Foods

• Green leafy vegetables
• Some fruits
• Bone and bone marrow
• Dairy products, from raw, organic sources

Tip: You can absorb more nutrition out of green leaves, if fat is present. A good reason to use a quality salad dressing, like something containing olive oil. Also nuts and seeds make a good addition to a salad.

The seed and the leaf represent alkaline balance in nature. Seeds are acidic, while the leafy greens are alkaline. Imagine foraging in nature, eating a few greens and a few seeds.

What do you do if you eat too many acid foods? Eat some leafy greens or better yet green juice or smoothie.

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What about the acid foods

• Seeds
• Some fruits
• Roots, like potatoes
• Meat or muscle

David also gets into which parts of the body are acid and which alkaline. The liver, gallbladder, blood, urine, saliva and other parts of the body have different ranges of pH. The body should balance to neutral.

Most people end up in the acid range. Burger, fries and soda. Fries =  root, Beef = muscle, Bun =  seeds. Total acidic combo.

Conclusion – Get more greens! My favorite way is with the vegetable blender smoothie.