In this time of uncertainty and chaos, its more important than ever to stay healthy and get the crucial vitamins we need for optimal health and immunity. Every day I receive emails from numerous places trying to sell supplements, and expensive immune support products. I personally have never been a high supplement type of person, and have always questioned why take the pill, when you can eat or drink food for better results? Yes, farmers dont turn the fields like they used to, and the food you buy now is not as nutritionally dense as 50 years ago, but there are ways to get super charged produce, for optimal health. Hands down, I think the most important thing anyone can do is join a CSA or support local farms. Even living in New Jersey for many years, where winter effects growing, I had an amazing CSA (Black Radish Farms) where I could get awesome produce for 5 months out of the year. Those 5 months are way better than no months! Now, living in San Antonio, where growing all year is possible, it is even easier to find great CSA’s (I personally belong to Johnson’s Backyard Garden) and local vendors that grow super charged produce with the local energy. When you stick to the mind set, I am going to eat to live, and reach my nutritional goals, instead of, I will eat and make up for what I am missing with a pill, we acknowledge the power we have to give our bodies what it needs, without buying all the extras.

This is my go to breakfast almost every day, made with almost all local, farm fresh, CSA produce. It not only fills me up, it gives me great energy, and I can literally feel the nutrients pouring through my body as I drink it. Now, it is not a pretty thing to look at, but either is a horse pill vitamin. It also tastes amazing, which to me, is a super win.

Recipe:

3-4 carrot, scrubbed with skin (Mine run small, so if large, you can do 2)

2 stalks celery, scrubbed,

1/4 beet, scrubbed, with skin (beets range in size, I would say this is tennis ball size)

1/2 apple, with skin

3-4 large piece kale, with stalk

thumb size piece ginger, scrubbed, skin on

1/4 lemon, with skin

2 in. cucumber, with skin

big pinch turmeric (I have been using powder, but this would be great adding fresh to the juicer!)

dash cayenne pepper

dash pink Himalayan sea salt