Daily Greens 4-Day Cleanse: Jump Start Your Health, Reset Your Energy, and Look and Feel Better than Ever! Hardcover – May 15, 2015

I first reviewed this book from the public library and it was so useful, I wanted to keep it as a reference book and “go to” for helping others on green juicing! Love this book as part of my own nutrition library!

I really, really enjoyed this book! I was inspired by the story of the author (in the preface). Specifically, how a diagnosis eventually led the author to create Daily Greens. Furthermore, I liked the simple and easy to make recipes in the book. The book easily deserves five stars and I would highly recommend it!

This is a very attractive hard cover book filled with recipes for juices, smoothies, soups and salads. There is a brief introductory chapter narrating the author's experience recovering from breast cancer and regaining health, which she largely attributes to her green juice regimen. But this is essentially a recipe book. I got a lot of new ideas and found the recipes very useful, if a bit repetitive. I am really glad to have this book as a reference. However, I do think you can find many recipes for green and other juices, smoothes, soups etc online so it is a luxury to have a book dedicated to this.A couple of other observations: the author says she has tried many juicers and prefers the Breville Juice Fountain. I have this product. This is not a review for the Breville Juice Fountain, but I will just comment that, while I agree with the author that the Breville is a great solid machine that makes juicing easy, even fun, it is also a big heavy unit --- it is either going to take up a lot of space on your counter or be a very heavy item to store away and take out every time you use it. Also, it does come apart easily for cleaning, but the mesh strainer requires several minutes of careful scrubbing every time you use it. It is not a trivial clean up job.Also, the focus of the book is on green -- kale, spinach, celery, cucumbers -- which I accept, but I do think that a more balanced approach would be welcome. There are four recipes that use carrots but the author states that carrots contain a lot of sugar and so she doesn't use them that much. No mention of beets at all. So, "Daily Greens" is great as far as it goes, but it does not really offer complete coverage of the array of nutritious produce that you can use for juices and smoothies.All in all, a very pleasing and useful compendium of recipes, but with a few caveats.

I just received my new Daily Greens 4-day Cleanse book and it is beautifully laid out! It is chalked full of fun easy recipes for every meal. I also the fact that there's a cleanse for New Year's, spring, summer and fall. Shopping grocery list too...AWESOME! Can't wait to start my Spring cleanse.

While the stories behind it are genuine and authentic, (illness of her and her sister), reason I was drawn to book, the premise seems done and done again. Granted this is a few years old. The good is it is short, concise, focused, and doable. The author sells her product in supermarkets, but if you want to recreate them fresh and at less expense this is a guidebook or how-to. I also think some of the side effects of detox should be listed, and maybe adding taking activated charcoal. If you have any medications/supplements/heavy metal fillings in your body it is more than a health crisis. Your liver / kidneys /pancreas will be so overloaded getting rid of bad stuff, it is too much too fast. ( although to her credit, the recommendations are to wean yourself medications, some people do not). This book was recommended by an affiliate website so I went for it. Caveat: I have about 10 books on juicing.

Loved the book and loved the recipes. Felt so reshreshed and awake while doing this cleanse. I have continued to incorporate juices daily! And I lost 6lbs doing the cleanse!

Awesome plan, seems very doable. I'm waiting on my juicer then I'll begin. I love the authors inspiration!!

I'm delighted I decided to read the book description and a couple of reviews before deciding this book wasn't for me, which almost happened because of the "Daily Greens 4-Day Cleanse" title. I've heard of various fasts and cleansings, but never undertaken either, but then when I realized author Shauna Martin included recipes for smoothies, salads, and a few other dishes, I figured Daily Greens would be useful and helpful in any case. I especially appreciate the first part of the book where Shauna (whose diet is completely plant-based) explains some of the rationale behind cleansings and fasts. Interesting stuff, as are her lively descriptions of various mostly green super-foods such as the currently super-popular kale, the eternally green fave spinach, (not really green) ginger root, watercress, dandelion greens, cilantro, etc. This is about wisely eating seasonally, which means expending fewer $$$ while enjoying better tasting, more local, frequently organic, healthier fruits and veggies. All the recipes are simple, which adds to the book's appeal and utility. There also are several categorized shopping lists and an index.A lot of the full-color photography, the text, and page design conveys a verdant, green, growing, and alive sensibility! Besides greens of differing hues and intensities in the layout and design, some of the backgrounds are a lovely, appealing cantaloupe color. Gorgeous full-page photos, lovely smaller pics, too. As a graphic artist-designer and as a reader, I appreciate the open layout of the pages with lots of literal "white space" so it's not cluttered like a pennysaver ad. I also like that the hardbound book stays open on its own. However, as interesting and almost essential as the descriptions and commentary are, given that recipes are the main thing, why not format ingredients and how-to instructions in a larger font that's easy for anyone to read? Even the introductory text to each recipe is in larger type than the recipes themselves!Despite those reservations, I'm happy to own a copy of Daily Greens, with so many literally good enough to eat photographs, and especially knowing the recipes and ideas will entice me to shop and try some of Shauna Martin's smoothies and other creations.