So the wife is on an 8 day juice cleanse. Apparently, there is some service that delivers various juices to your house daily. In the bag comes 7 or 8 different containers of liquids. There is an order and a time when you are to drink the juices. She will not eat any solid food for the next week. She found it on groupon and instead of costing something like 900 dollars for the pleasure of torturing herself, she is going to pay 200 bucks.
In an effort to show solidarity, I have brought the old juicer up from storage and am now doing a very modified version.
Last night, I skipped dinner and wine and made a broccoli, carrot, jalapeno, carrot and cucumber juice. It was not too bad. College has taught me how to consume liquids quickly. And this is a skill I happily utilized.
This morning, I also juiced some things. As shown above, I made a celery, carrot, apple, jalapeno and ginger juice. This was pretty delicious. Not to mention, the ginger is really a wonderful eye opener. It’s like having a clean and healthy caffeine running through my blood. It is pretty intense actually and I am enjoying it.
Has anyone had any experience juicing. I would love some healthy combinations. Right now, I see myself just juicing in the morning and missing the occasional supper when I am not feeling too hungry. Not to mention, I am joining a CSA this summer and this seems like a wonderful option to use all the vegetables I am giving.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
i too did a cleanse to support my husband cleanse, we did the lemonade cleanse. you can read about it on my blog the post “David’s Bread”
we too have a juicer, I would use it more if it were not so difficult to clean.
I will certainly read about your cleanse. I am doing a limited one as I have already eaten leftover pad thai so far today and planning on making a lobster tonight for dinner. But, if I can substitute a meal or two a day, by the end of the week, that will lead to some serious caloric reduction. I also started jogging every other day. This weekend I ran 3 miles in my quickest time to date. I am trying to run 12 miles a week.
My juicer is fairly easy to clean, just a few parts that all pop out pretty quickly. I guess if you compare it to cleaning pots and pans, the bowls, dishes and utensils, it could be an even “wash”.
Thanks for reaching out!
Daniel
Thanks for the like! Everything on here looks delicious!
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Daniel
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Awesome!
I love juices too–I agree about ginger-power, apple/beetroot/celery/ginger a firm favourite—but how I hate having to clean all the bits afterwards, so I more often think about it than actually do it, I certainly never do the cleansing thing, I could imagine spending a week in a place brimming with fruit and eating just that, but in the northwest of Ireland with a pretty busy life, I like to eat not cleanse, but I do eat nice things, home cooked everyday and not too much meat I suppose. Great blog !
I have one of those sprayer hoses on my sink which pretty much gets rid of everything. People speak about cleaning the machine, I must have an easy one. It does not really take too long for me. But, I spend about at least an hour in the kitchen everyday anyway.
You could also make juice for three days at a time and store it. So you are only cleaning a third of the time. This morning I threw in a whole bunch of different vegetables. I used beets, mustard greens, cucumber, ginger, celery, carrot and apple. It was disgusting but, I got it down and felt great instantly. Though, certainly not cleansing, I was eating eggplant parm a couple of hours later.
Thanks so much for stopping over, I really like your blog as well.
Daniel
We were in Jerusalem last Easter and bought a pomegranate and carrot juice on the street. It was RIDICULOUSLY good! We are thinking of buying a juicer when we move back to the states permanently. (ps thanks for visiting my blog!
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My pleasure. It can be one of those things that just collects dust or it can be a really useful tool. We also make sauces with our juicer. It’s a pretty neat thing. I would make sure whichever juicer you buy, it’s easy to clean.
Daniel
When we have a bigger kitchen, a juicer is high on my list of new things to fill it with (along with a dehydrator and lots more shapes and sizes of Staub cookware!). Here’s a link to our local raw food juice bar and restaurant. I really should go there more often, and perhaps blog about it! Happy juicing and thanks for all the awesome posts; I really love your blog!
http://www.cafebliss.ca/