Four Kid Friendly Juice Recipes

Four kid-friendly fruit and veg juices.

Juicing is massive right now. Juice bars are cropping up all over the country, local shops are now stocking juice drinks and my social media feeds are full of people embarking on juice-only diets. I have to admit I first got into juicing a few years ago when I drank only fruit and veg juice for three days in order to lose a few pounds for an event. Looking back now it was ridiculous. I didn’t need to lose any weight (I’d pay good money to have that pre-baby body back again!) and surviving on only juice for three days whilst I was working 11 hour days and exercising was quite frankly stupid.

Thankfully I ditched the faddy diet quickly but my fondness of juicing has remained. Fast forward a few years I am already on my second juicer (this Philips Whole Fruit Juicer*). I try to use it a couple of times a week and lately have been introducing my little fussy eater to more and more ambitious fruit and vegetable juice concoctions.

She was quite resistant at first but now will drink small amounts of most juices that I make. Juicing should not be used as a replacement for fresh fruit and veg for kids, but it is a great way to get some extra nutrients into them, especially from produce that they may otherwise refuse to eat.

Here are some of my tips for introducing kids to juicing:

1. Get them involved in the process. Bring them to the supermarket or your local fruit and veg shop and get them excited about choosing your produce together. Juicers are not machines to be used by little people but encourage them to watch you juicing. They’ll be amazed to see the carrot going in and juice coming out!

2. Start with more fruit than veg juice. It will take their taste buds a little while to adjust to vegetable juice so introduce that slowly.

3. Add water to the juices if necessary.

4. My juicer makes quite smooth juices but you can always strain the juice to remove any little bits that your fussy eaters don’t like.

5. Fresh juice tastes best cold so be sure to chill it before you offer it to them.

6. Use pretty glasses and colourful straws to make the juice appear more enticing to little eyes.

The four juices I make the most for my fussy eater are:

1. Apple Lemonade

2. ABC Juice (apple, beetroot and carrot)

3. Kale & Pineapple

4. Carrot & Orange

The quantities are set out in the recipe below. I hope you and your fussy little eaters enjoy them!

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