who juicers ?

scouty said:

I do
Not near as much as I used to especially this time of year with all the fresh veggies.

My new favorite discovered last year is made with a blender and is so good!

I don't use exact measurements but:

cut up cleaned ripe tomato
2 inch chunk of peeled cucumber
1 1/2 inch sliver of green pepper
minced garlic
1 inch sliver of sweet onion (vidalia this time of year)
glop of red wine vinegar
glop of olive oil
sea salt and pepper to tast

Blend until all chopped up and drink it down. I actually make this as an appetizer in shot glassess and call it Gaspatcho shots.

I'm also into smoothies after my runs with different flavored greek yogurts as a base.

My favorite juice drink are carrot, celery, ginger, cabbage. I added beets when I was fighting the beast and will add it every once in a while.

Toasting all of you who made me smile today by mentioning my name along with my mentor, Emily!!! Just when the board really upset me, this showed up! I so needed it, thanks my friends.

Healing thoughts to you all,
Lisa P.

i am going to try it
yummy

hugs,
pete

2bhealed said:

Of course!
Hi Pete,

It goes without saying that I juice every day. I lost my virginity many years ago when my sister, who was dying of Stage IV cancer of the small intestine, saw a JuiceMan infomercial and dragged me to his seminar. The rest, they say, is history.

My daily grind presently is:

1 lb carrots (at least)
lg wedge of cabbage (red or green)
2 lg kale leaves
4-5 romaine leaves
flax seeds

When I was healing my cancer, way back when, my concoction was:

1-2 lbs carrots
1 granny smith apple
handful parsley
handful spinach
1 celery stalk
small chunk ginger

sometimes added:

beets & greens
cukes

Always added:

green powder (kyo-green, Green Magma, Barleans Greens etc)
fractionated fruit pectin
flax seed

My juices never taste bad, ever. Why don't you experiment with the concoctions so they taste great? I enjoy (crave) my juice on the same level that coffee addicts enjoy their morning cup o' joe. (or latte) Seriously.

From what I've read, it's best to not combine the fruits with the veggies (exception is with apples).

I used to use a JuiceMan juicer (not the kind you buy at Target) and then post dx my mother bought me a Champion which is what I have used just about every day for the past 10 years.

Just to clarify--using a blender is not juicing. Juicing is extracting the juice (nutrients) from the fiber (pulp). The whole point to juicing is that extracting frees up the plethora of nutrients so the body does not have to do the work during digestion freeing up the system to focus on healing one's diseased organs.

I don't think I could blend 2 pounds of carrots plus all the other veggies and chew it down. But with juicing, you get the optimal amount of easy to assimilate nutrition.

But congrats to all the juicers on here. YAY!

Cheers to all!

peace, emily

Blending does not equal juicing. It has its place, but it's not the same thing.

awesome concoctions emily
another champion, and 10 years at that.
getting your bang for young buck.

i love the frothe on my juices, just like my old coffees. arh! i miss them less each day.

hugs,
pete

a blast from the past
i just was searching our archives for sea cucumber recipes and i thought this was a lovelly post that showed the juicing subculture is still there, also lots of great recipes.

membership of the colorectal juicing club is free, but you have to byo juicer.

hugs,
Pete

ps to all old, new and wanna be juicers.

marbleotis said:

Confused about juicing
Team - I am confused about (1) the benefits of juicing vs. just eating the fruits/vegetables in their normal state and (2) what juicer to buy as I see they are very expensive. If I am eating 4-5 servings of organic fruits/vegetables per day, is this enough?

good question
lots of benefits all round from a few extra juicers each day i think, i am averaging 2 a day, i make one juice as i am heading off to work, i have half, about 2 cups.

I then take 2 cups with a scoop of pea protein to work and have it a few hours later.

eating fuit and veg is a good start, mind you fuit is a double edged sword re sugar and everyone has a different opinion on how much and when.

sounds like you are eating more organic fuit and veg then me, so you am being pretty healthy.

my juicer, the champion is expensive, but it gets used alot, its pretty fast also, so its practical and easy to clean. so it suits me. if you find a professional veg juicer for a bargain price, then grab it.

hugs,
Pete