Jamba Juice Power

I'm a big fan of Jamba Juice and would see this book offered in their juice bars and sometimes skim through it. After I moved and was no longer within walking distance from a Jamba Juice, I decided to purchase the book through an Amazon seller (the best, less expensive way to go). While there is nothing in this book that is revolutionary or "wow" producing, it offers easy smoothie (and some juice) recipes and a fun 21-day lifestyle changing plan.The first part gives basic nutritional information on fruits, veggies, and supplement boosts. It goes into what to shop for (low fat, green veggies--the usual stuff) and what vitamins and nutrients certain foods contain. Nothing new or surprising here except it warns not to eat more than a can of tuna per month due to mercury content. Per month? Is that correct?The parts of the book that are unique are the 21-day lifestyle program and the smoothie and juice recipes. The plan gives nutritional tips and meal recommendations (it promotes the 5-6 small meals a day idea), plus activities to do for body, mind, and spirit. The activities are simple and painless enough--taking a walk on your lunch break, dancing, soaking in a tub in Epsom salts, enjoying nature. The difficulty I had with it is that it recommends a different smoothie recipe and meals each day. These smoothies use different fruits, juices, sherbet flavors, or yogurt. You can't really stock up on all the fruits you need and use them every few days without them going bad unless you freeze them or only buy enough for one or two smoothies at a time (and who wants to go to the grocery every day). If I get, for example, blueberries and strawberries to combine with orange juice for the Orange Oomph smoothie, I want to make that smoothie each day until I use up the fruit. The same goes for the meals.The smoothies are tasty--although mine never come out as thick as Jamba Juices. I liked the recipes that contain sherbet rather than frozen yogurt as I make a smoothie in the morning and put in a refrigerator at work for 4-5 hours before drinking for lunch. The smoothies made with frozen yogurt do not look appealing after sitting in the fridge. Also, the dates did not chop up at all in my blender, so I stopped using the recipes that used them.Most of the recipes combine a cup of one fruit, a half cup of another, a cup of juice, a cup of sherbet and ice. You could easily make your own recipes that would be tasty, too. There are a few juice recipes (far more smoothies, though) so, if you want to follow the 21-day plan to a 'T', you'll need a juicer. If you're flexible and willing to substitute, a blender is probably sufficient. The book gives suggestions on which blender or juicer to buy.Jamba Power is a fun book and, if you get it for the affordable price from the Amazon sellers, it is worth it for the recipes. I don't think it is worth full-price though because the information and ideas are just basic stuff and tasty smoothies like the ones in this book can be made by experimenting with different fruits, juices, sherbets, and yogurt on your own.

I bought this book because I love Jamba Juice smoothies, but I don't really have one close to me. While I admit that there's only a couple recipes in this book that I've made, I love them. I'm glad I have this book on-hand.You can certainly make any combination of smoothy that you like, but it's great to have some yummy basics to start with.

I don't really care about this book. But I am keeping it because it does have great things in it. But it just wasn't what I had thought it was going to be. I was looking for the recipe for banana berry I didn't see it in the book.

I had read earlier reviews about the book being more of a "life style" book than a recipe book (there really are only about 40 smoothie recipes), but my biggest disappointment was that ALL of the recipes include either sherbet or frozen yogurt. For me a real smoothie is all fruit.

There's some very yummy recipes in this book, my fav is the orange dreamcycle. Most of the recipes I use cranberry apple subsitute, just because that's the juice I have..it's tastee!

The smoothies prepared from the recipes that ARE included are tasty. As for the motivational part, I didn't find it as enlightening as some other reviewer's. Lots of information on supplements and products that would be helpful for a novice.

Not too many of the regular/favorite recipes in here, but definitely some great healthy & tasty options for smoothie making.

my husband was so excited to get this book. We received it in a timely manner and he can't wait to start trying all of the recipes

good recipies but could go a bit more in depth on the business side.