This sweet and tart green juice is a great way to start your morning! Made with spinach, citrus, and fruit, it's a great pick me up and delicious.

Green juice ingredients in a glass. — Sweet and Tart Green Juice.

This green juice is loaded with spinach, limes, lemons, bananas, apples, and pears with a touch of natural sweetener and water to blend it all together. It is my favorite go-to drink when I feel a little run down.

It has such a yummy taste and to me, it is not at all like other green juice recipes. I made this with the flavors I love and the ingredients that perk me up.

Most important though, it can be prepped ahead of time which is the only way I find time to drink these.

You can adjust this green juice to suit your taste but do not leave out the citrus and spinach part. This is the base of the drink and it pairs well with the other ingredients.

Green Juice Ingredients

Fresh Spinach
Bananas
Pears
Apples
Lemons
Limes
Grape nectar sweetener. If you prefer, you can use honey or make a honey simple syrup and store any extra in the fridge for other drinks.
Water

There is a lot of good stuff going on in this juice as you can see from the ingredients list. When I make this juice, it just makes sense to make a few of them ahead of time.

I do this with my Switchel hydrating drink too.

How To Make

This one is so simple. It is all about prep and then when you are ready to drink the juice, blending it in a high powered blender.

Prepare the fruit and veggies: You want to coarsely cut up the bananas and slice the pears and apples. Grab the spinach as well and cut the lemons in half.
Add ingredients to blender: Once the ingredients are prepped, you add everything to the blender and squeeze the citrus juice in. If you are preparing a big batch of this juice for the week, see below for how I store and prep for that.
Blend: When you are ready to have your drink, this is when you blend it in a blender. I prefer a Vitamix or any other high powered blender to get the juice nice and smooth.

Preparing this green juice ahead of time

Green juice ingredients in working jars with lids. — Juice is all prepped for the week. You can use any natural sweetener for this drink. I used grape nectar!

When I prep my ingredients ahead of time, I like to store the ingredients in working jars as seen in the picture. When it is time for me to make my juice, I just grab one from the refrigerator and dump it into my Vitamix blender.

I add a little nectar or honey and water and blitz away. They are super easy and this guarantees that I am going to drink them every day (because I am lazy sometimes).

Variations

You can make this into a green smoothie by adding some ice to the blender instead of water. I like the juice because I feel like it is less filling.

If you prefer smoothies then by all means make it that way! You can also freeze bags of the prepped fruit in the freezer and blend this all up to get a delicious thick smoothie if you don't want to add ice.

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