juicing on the road. (never juiced before!)

[thevoyager]

hey everyone, so i'm 20 days into my 90 day(or forever!) raw challenge and am looking into juicing after seeing an inspirational video yesterday. i am completely uninformed about juicing so any information could help me.

is it difficult? how loud are juicers? are they easy to clean? are they heavy/what's a good one for travelling non-stop?

i have no idea, any information would be helpful. i live out of hotels.

[Veganforlife]

Probably your best bet would be a Tribest Personal Blender and make green smoothies or fruit smoothies. That way you have no pulp leftover. What would you do with that in a hotel room? Check this out:
http://www.alissacohen.com/shop/product.php?productid=17&cat=9&page=1
When I travel, I take my Vita-Mix, which is rather loud. This Tribest has intrigued me. Ah, maybe one day when I'm filthy rich I can afford all these toys.
Seriously, check this out.

[thevoyager]

thank you! that helps a lot. i think i may purchase that! looks like it works a lot like the magic bullet, no?

[vwinters]

http://www.healthyjuicer.com/graphics/homepage2/images/healthyjuicer-website-la-07.jpg

I have a champion juicer which does an excellent job on a lot of things, but it’s heavy and loud and hard to clean. I bought a manual juicer called the “Healthy Juicer” (http://www.healthyjuicer.com/pages/about.html) for wheatgrass this past fall. I grew some wheat grass and juiced it and it worked just fine. But I’ll tell you what I’ve been using this juicer for daily…orange juice. It makes excellent orange juice. I get a cup of juice from just two medium oranges. We usually have two or three cups of juice a day at my house so we peel, quarter, and juice 6-8 oranges every day. I have fibromyalgia and my partner has carpal tunnel and neither of us has any problem cranking the juicer for orange juice.
So here are my pro and cons.
Pro:
Quiet
Inexpensive
Well made
Light weight (could easily travel)
High yield citrus juicer
Juices celery better then the champion (the strings sometimes clog up the champion)
Juices grasses and greens better then the champion. (I’ve juiced wheat grass, barley grass, oat grass, lettuce, kale, spinach, collards, and bunches of mixed sprouts)
Makes great grape juice

Cons
I find it takes about as long to clean this as it does the champion
I find it takes about as long to set up and tear down as the champion
It takes longer to make juice
It doesn’t juice carrots as well as the champion – the yield is less – spits out chunks of carrots.
It has problems with apples – you have to use really crisp apples or it turns them into applesauce.
Beyond that, at my house we enjoy making orange juice and grapefruit juice with this thing. When I use the Champion juicer to make veggie juice the noise really gets to me. I react to it the same way I react when someone turns on a circular saw. It just grates on my nerves and I can’t wait for that sound to be over. This manual juicer is so peaceful and there is something so satisfying about seeing a bowl of oranges quietly turn into glasses of orange juice.

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[Veganforlife]

I have that same manual juicer for my wheatgrass! I love it.

[Veganforlife]

thank you! that helps a lot. i think i may purchase that! looks like it works a lot like the magic bullet, no?

I'm not familiar with the magic bullet. It looks like it would do what you want it to do. The manual juicer mentioned above, you have to anchor it onto a countertop. I really think the Tribest is what you're asking for.
And Green Smoothies - whoa - you talk about a complete meal! Yeah buddy! They are so easy.
2 cups filtered water
handful of organic greens (I like spinach, other use kale, a little parsley, the possibilities are endless)
fruit of your choice
banana
insides of an orange
blueberries
etc
etc
whip this up and you have a power drink that is already assimilated for easy digestion.
You should check out Victoria Boutenko's book, "Green for Life", lots of info on the power of Green Smoothies. Maybe a local library has it?

[thevoyager]

great, thanks. i am very into green drinks, for a while i was drinking the naked juice-green machine drinks and loved them, but they are slightly pastuerized so i want to make my own version. have watched some david wolfe stuff where he emphasized the power of greens as well. thanks everyone for the help!

[RebeccaI]

Hey there

If you decide to go with a Vitamix (they are a bit heavy) - you can get a backpack type accessory to pack it while you travel. My family and I travel pretty extensively in our RV in the summer and this is how I am planning to bring my "necessities" :D along~

Blessings~