After a series of hiccups I experienced with my web hosting service provider. I emerge champion over the rough migration journey. Hurray! A big thanks to all my loyal readers for waiting patiently. Yes, I do have a couple of very nutritious kefir recipes to share with you, whether you are a Champion Juicer user or not. Raw food eaters will find these kefir recipes simply great. Give them a try this coming weekend.

Calcium Rich Kefir Cocktail with Champion Juicer

• 3 organic Kale leaves
• 4-5 carrots (Clean and peel. Remove green tops)
• 1 green apple (Remove skin and seeds)
• A handful of parsley
• 3/4 cup Kefir milk
• ice cubes (optional)

Extract the juice of the leafy vegetables using the Champion Juicer screen alternating with carrot strips and green apple segments. Champion Juicer is not very efficient when juicing small leafy vegetables especially wheat grass and pine leaves.

Mix kefir milk with the extracted juice and blend well.

Garden Salad Kefir Lunch Express with Champion Juicer

• 3 broccoli flowerets
• 4-5 carrots (Clean and peel. Remove green tops)
• 2 stalks celery
• 1/2 green pepper
• 1 clove garlic
• 3/4 cup Kefir milk
• ice cubes (optional)

Extract the juice of these vegetables using the Champion Juicer screen. Blend well with the Kefir milk to give yourself a full bodied raw lunch hour smoothies that is well balanced. The wide variety of vegetables provides the vital nutrients your body craves at noon. Those of you who prefer a lighter lunch will find this kefir recipe a gem. The powerful anti-oxidant found in this combination helps neutralizing free radicals too.

What’s next? Well, your guess is as good as mine, LOL. Stop guessing and come back to find out, will you?

Since my last posting, I have received requests from quite a few readers for some simpler Kefir recipe. I dug deep into my memory bank and I remember one Kefir recipe that all my girls love, before I pampered them recently with the more sophisticated Kefir recipe using Champion Juicer.

Here it is,

Apple Pie Kefir with Champion Juicer

• 3/4 cup chilled Kefir milk
• 1/4 cup apple sauce
• a squeeze of lime juice (for extra tang)
• a sprinkle of cinnamon powder (optional)

Mix well or blend all the above ingredients.

To make the apple sauce, you may use some green apples or red apples (for sweeter taste). Peel the apples and discard all seeds. Homogenize the apple segments using the Champion Juicer homogenized blank to get a nice textured raw apple sauce. Squeeze some lime juice into the apple sauce to slow down the oxidation process and of course for the extra tang. Those of you who has yet to own a Champion Juicer, you may buy the ready made apple sauce with no sugar added (it may not be raw though).

Watermelon Kefir with Champion Juicer

• 3 cups red watermelon chunks (discard the green rind but retain the white layer)
• 1/2 cup orange juice (discard peel and seeds but retain white pith)
• 2 cups chilled Kefir milk
• ice cubes (optional)
• mint leaves (for garnishing)

Extract the juice of watermelon and orange using Champion Juicer juicing screen. Blend all the ingredients well to get a foamy kefir drink that tastes very unique. You may feed some extra mint leaves into the feeding chamber of Champion Juice if you like its cooling effect in the tongue. Be creative and enjoy !

I will post some nutritious Kefir recipe later for those of you who are on the raw food diet. Do come back to grab them.

After I posted the Kefir Recipes with Champion Juicer #1, a reader wrote to me and told me about her Type 2 Diabetes condition. We were pondering on whether the raw food diet could actually help to reverse diabetes. I believe raw food diet is able to keep the blood sugar in good check without excessive medication but to be completely cured of diabetes and go back to the “eat as-you-like” type of diet, I think it’s not possible.

Juicing with Champion Juicer makes raw food diet easily achievable. Raw vegetable juice often helps to stabilize blood sugar levels, a vital factor in managing diabetes. Raw vegetable juices also have much less sugar than fruit juices and about 50% less calories.

When juicing with Champion Juicer, it is very important to use a wide variety of vegetables, in order to provide your body with all the vital and balanced nutrients. It will also give your body energy and access to the calories it needs to function at its best.

Experiment with carrot or a combination of carrot and parsley juice when a craving for sweet stuff hits you, and the juice jolt will give it a strong punch out before you even notice it.

The addition of Kefir milk into the raw juice therapy using Champion Juicer increases the values of the raw vegetable juice for diabetes control.

Here’s one simple but excellent recipe as a tea time energy booster in the afternoon.

Probiotic Energy Booster with Champion Juicer

• 1 cup carrot juice
• 1 cup tomato juice
• 1 cup of chilled Kefir
• Lemon slices for extra tang or garnishing

Extract the peeled carrots and firm tomatoes with Champion Juicer juicing screen. Feed carrot strips into the Champion Juicer feeding chamber alternating with segmented tomatoes. Fold Kefir into the juice mixture and blend well.

To enjoy a savory drink, you may add a pinch of Himalayan salt and a clove of raw garlic to the mixture. What a versatile recipe with Champion Juicer.

Stay close as I am going to whip out more Champion Juicer recipes, with the addition of the good old Kefir. Let’s celebrate a stronger immune system.

I have been having great fun with some juicer recipes involving Kefir milk. Kefir milk is an excellent source of probiotics. Regular consumption of Kefir milk balances your digestive system with friendly micro-organism. Researches show that a healthy intestinal micro flora helps to boost your immune system against all flu, cold, viruses and bacteria infections.

I figure out that if i combine Kefir milk with Champion Juicer’s raw fruit and vegetable juices, what I am going to get is an “all-in-one” nutritious drink, not only beneficial to our body, but delicious too. So, do give these “Day & Night” recipes a try.

Champion Juicer’s Kefir Breakfast Pick-Me-Up

• 1/2 cup frozen berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries or blackberries)
• 1 frozen banana
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 3/4 cup Kefir milk
• 3 tablespoon instant oat (optional)
• raw honey (optional)
• ice cubes (optional)

Extract the orange juice with Champion Juicer’s juicing screen.

Homogenize the frozen berries and banana using Champion Juicer’s homogenize blank.

Combine all ingredients and shake well or you may blend with a blender.

Champion Juicer’s Tropical Kefir Dream

• 1/4 cup pineapple juice
• 2 frozen bananas
• 1/2 cup Kefir milk
• 1/4 cup coconut milk Kefir
• ice cubes (optional)

Extract the pineapple juice with Champion Juicer’s juicing screen.

Homogenize the frozen bananas using Champion Juicer’s homogenize blank.

Combine all ingredients and shake well or you may blend with a blender.

These Champion Juicer’s  juicer recipes make you beneficial anti-flu juice as well.

Happy juicing and kefiring.

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I am in the mood for some healthy, nutrient packed cool summer treats this week. Frozen desserts need not be loaded with sugar content and calories if we care to make creative variations to its original recipe. This healthy fun popsicles recipe using the Champion Juicer  is so easy and you can even involve your young children. Instill in them an awareness for healthy eating habits since young so that it becomes their way of life.

Champion Juicer’s Healthy Fun Popsicles (suitable for the lactose intolerant)

• 3.5 oz (100g) Strawberries
• 3.5 oz (100g) ripe Bananas, peeled
• 2.5 cups Kefir milk or yogurt
• 1/3 cup raw organic honey
• 1 cup warm water

Melt the raw organic honey in the warm water and let it cool down before you blend in the Kefir milk. Separate Kefir mixtures into 2 equal portions. Use Champion Juicer  blank to homogenize the strawberries and bananas separately. Rinse juicer parts by running cool water through the feeding chamber of Champion Juicer while it is operating.

In separate mixing bowls, add homogenized strawberries and bananas to each portion of Kefir mixture and blend well. Pour fruit mixtures into popsicle moulds of your choice and freeze till solid.

Be creative to form these  Champion Juicer’s Healthy Fun Popsicles into different shapes and sizes. It makes an ideal summer afternoon snacks or even an interesting finger dessert during your child’s birthday party.

I could not imagine what I would miss out in life without the Champion Juicer. After the Lemon Kefir Ice Cream, I experimented with an old fashioned Vanilla flavored Ice Cream which I think it’s nice. To it, I added banana to give a unique fragrance and creamy texture.

Banana is one of the most nutritious energy generating fruits on planet earth. It contains fiber, rich in potassium and high level of vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A, C, a full range of the B vitamins, Calcium, Riboflavin, Thiamine, Niacin,  Magnesium, traces of Iron, Zinc and Folic Acid are all found in varying amounts in one banana.

Again, I took out the regular milk and replaced it with the all time good and healthy Kefir milk and cream. You may use yogurt if you are not able to get kefir milk. You, the lactose intolerant, are going to love me for this recipe.

Champion Juicer’s Banana Kefir Ice Cream

• 1 quart (1 liter) Kefir milk or yogurt
• 2 cups Kefir cream
• 1/4 cups raw organic honey
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla
• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 ripe bananas, peeled

Homogenize the bananas with Champion Juicer. Whisk all ingredients to form a smooth mixture. Pour mixture into a freezing tray and freeze for 2 hours. Use a fork to scrape the mixture. Repeat this every 2 hours for a couple of times.

Leave the mixture to freeze till fully solid. Slice the solid into long strips. Feed through the Champion Juicer’s feeding chamber. Use Champion Juicer homogenize blank the same way you would for the sorbet.

Serve immediately or store in freezer container. This Champion Juicer ice cream recipe yields approximately 2 quarts of delicious ice cream.

Indulge yourself this summer with the joy of ice cream and goodness of Kefir.

What’s next ? Fun popsicles perhaps.

I do not know about you, being an advocate for healthy food, the thought of consuming a generous scoop of ice cream would overwhelm me with guilt. The plain truth is, I love ice cream !! The high sugar and diary content in the ice cream would make me frown but the sensation of having the smooth ice cream melt in the mouth is phenomenal. To some of you ice cream lovers who are unfortunately lactose intolerant, this presents itself to be a real pain in the neck.

I have an excellent news for you !! Champion juicer makes healthy ice cream ! That’s right, a healthy one, even for the lactose intolerant.

Kefir is a fermented milk product rich in its probiotics properties. It is a rich source of enzymes, vitamins B2, B12, A, D, K, essential minerals, proteins, lactic acid, folic acid, biotin and Tryptophan. Daily consumption of Kefir is beneficial to our digestive system and it helps to boost our immune system. Hence the replacement of regular milk with Kefir in this ice cream recipe will not only eliminate the allergic factors from the lactose intolerant but it also makes the nutrients in this Kefir Ice Cream easily assimilated.

Champion Juicer’s Lemon Kefir Ice Cream

• 2 1/2 cups kefir milk (or plain yogurt)
• 1/3 cup lemon juice (juice the lemon without the seeds, skin and pith)
• 2 tablespoon Lemon zest
• 1/2 cup thickened cream
• 2/3 cup honey (adjust the amount according to taste)

Juice the lemon segments with Champion Juicer to obtain 1/3 cup of lemon juice. Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and whisk until well blended.
Freeze the mixture till solid. Cut the frozen mixture into long strips to push through the feeding chamber of Champion Juicer. Use Champion Juicer homogenized blank for this process. Serve immediately or store the Lemon Kefir Ice Cream in an air tight container and keep in the freezer.

Makes approximately 1 quart (1 liter).

To get a smoother and creamier Lemon Kefir Ice Cream, see this golden tips.

Come back for more healthy ice cream recipes, frozen guiltless desserts and other cool summer treats for your indulgence.

I was trying out some really cool summer Champion Juicer recipes including a range of nice sorbet and sherbet recipes. I was about to share with you what fun Champion Juicer could bring in the summer for you and your family, but my thought  was somehow interrupted by the WHO’s declaration on a worldwide Swine Flu (A-H1N1 virus) pandemic on 11 June, 2009.

It disturbs me a little. What really perturbed me was not the Swine Flu but it was the manner the health officials dealt with it. The alarm raised cause a huge rush to release massive funding from many nations of the world into getting and stockpiling H1N1 Swine Flu vaccines. In fact, many pharmaceutical giants have had the vaccines ready in production weeks ahead of expectation as though they knew the declaration of a Swine Flu worldwide pandemic is inevitable.

What actually irks me is this, while every health authorities in the world is busy fire fighting, very few of them actually advise and educate their people to prevent it. They spoke unanimously on vaccines as the answer and anti-viral treatment being the next. Hygiene and other recommended measures are for avoidance. Little was spoken on how to boost your own immune system. You have the millions of battalion within you and yet they are sound asleep.

Raw fruit and vegetable juices made with Champion Juicer are richly packed with enzymes, nutrients, vitamins, minerals and phytochemical. They will provide life giving energy to your body cells and wake the sluggish immune soldiers up, to fight the battle of good health.

I am not saying that Champion Juicer is the only juicer that can do the job even though I am getting very good results from Champion juicer. Whatever juicer you may have, start getting your act together. Lower quality juice is better than no juice.

Start with simple recipes, start with the combination of the fruits and vegetables you like and ACT on it. Juicing is a quick way to feed your body with enzymes and nutrients at the cellular level, thus boosting your immune system to fight whatever viruses or bacteria that you may come in contact with. Why waste finance and effort to put off fire when it is at your absolute control to prevent the fire in the first place?

Let no FEAR rules you but let your Champion Juicer flowing with life giving raw fruit and vegetable juices.

Yes, I am still eager to share with you those really cool summer sorbet recipes made with Champion Juicer.

Stay connected.

I have some effective anti-flu juice recipes to help boost your immune system to weather through the flu season.

Champion Juicer Anti-flu Cocktail

• 4 Carrots
• 2 Cucumbers
• 1 Celery stalk
• 1 Lemon
• 1 Orange
• 1/2 Grapefruit

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Peel and discard the rinds and seeds of all the citrus fruits, keep the white pith as they are a good source of bioflavonoids. Peel carrots and cucumbers if they are not organically grown. Feed the cut pieces into the feeding chamber of Champion Juicer alternating hard vegetables with soft fruits. That will help Champion Juicer runs smoother and yields more  juices.

Champion Juicer Anti-flu Tonic

• 3 Green apples – peel and discard core
• 1 Lemon – peel and discard seeds but keep the white pith
• 1 Ginger – thumb size, peel and discard skin
• 1 Green Pepper – clean and discard seeds

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Push the cut pieces through the feeding chamber of Champion Juicer following the above sequence. Be sure to run some water through the Champion Juicer before you juice other fruits and vegetables so that the strong smell of the spicy ginger will be rinsed off.

Try them to feel the difference…

Looking at the daily negative news reporting of the global A(H1N1) virus pandemic (refer news extract below), it just dawned on me one thing: The one and only urgent measure you and I must take immediately is to strengthen our own Immune System. There is no better way, not vaccine, not drugs, nor any complicated bio-technologies. You and I need to get back to the “Basic” of Health. The total health of our Immune System depends on the well-being of our Gut, the digestive system.

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Drinking lots of raw, fresh fruit and vegetable juices is one of the most effective ways to clean up our Gut. Investing into a good juice extractor such as Champion Juicer is the way to go. Efficiency is what you and I want, good quality live juice is what you and I need. Due to the ability of Champion Juicer in extracting high yield and nutrient packed fruit and vegetable juices, you are going to get a quick boost in your immune system each time you drink these raw fresh fruit and vegetables juices.

The raw, fresh fruit and vegetable juices that Champion Juicer extracted is also rich in enzymes. With the cooked food, processed food diet that we ingest daily, our diet is seriously void of enzymes in particular digestive enzymes. If food could not be digested and broken down effectively, our bodies suffer malnutrition, even though we may be seemingly eating nutritious food.

Therefore, “Champion Juicer Makes Anti-flu Juices” is not an overstatement. Stay tune for more Champion Juicer Anti-flu juice recipes…..

News extract taken from Time Magazine – May 18, 2009

Schools Close As Spike in H1N1 Flu Cases Hits Japan