Blending question

[jevans]

I am a complete newbie to juicing and blending. I have purschased the Omega 8006 juicer and like it a lot.
As I get more involved with using raw foods, I was thinking about getting a good blender for smoothies and different things.

Many people use only a blender and of course you need a powerful blender to make it smooth.
But my question is if I own a good juicer and wanted to make smoothies does it make sense for me to juice my produce and then I could put the juice AND the pulp in an inexpensive blender to do the same job?
Or do I still need a $300 plus blender?
I know that the Vitamix and blendtechs are going to do so much more but if I was going to do just smoothies is my above example sufficient?

[Aleesha Sattva]

you could try but the reality is... a juicer doesn't mince up the pulp... it simply extracts the juice from it, so you'd have long stringy pulp in your smoothies, no different than if you just made it in the blender to begin with.

a vita mix will not only last you a lifetime... but it's sooooo worth the money. see if you can get a refurbished one or one off ebay!

[jevans]

you could try but the reality is... a juicer doesn't mince up the pulp... it simply extracts the juice from it, so you'd have long stringy pulp in your smoothies, no different than if you just made it in the blender to begin with.

a vita mix will not only last you a lifetime... but it's sooooo worth the money. see if you can get a refurbished one or one off ebay!

But wouldn't the blender "blend" up the pulp?

[Aleesha Sattva]

it would... but not to the same level as a vita mix.

honestly, go ahead and try it... make one by juicing and adding the pulp and another by just adding in the ingredients and see which is smoother.

cause we can only guess what your results will be. we don't have your juicer and we don't have your blender.

[jevans]

it would... but not to the same level as a vita mix.

honestly, go ahead and try it... make one by juicing and adding the pulp and another by just adding in the ingredients and see which is smoother.

cause we can only guess what your results will be. we don't have your juicer and we don't have your blender.

I don't own a blender. I am still researching them. I was curious that since I have the juicer, maybe I could go with a lesser expensive blender ($100-150) and get the same results as a vitamix only.

[Aleesha Sattva]

you won't get the results of a vita mix unless you use a vita mix (or blendtec) it just that simple. i know it seems weird to think that it makes THAT much of a difference... but it really really really really does.

i was going through a blender in a matter of months... burning out the motor. got my vitamix and it's amazing how different the smoothies and raw soups are... how SMOOTH they really are!

[changeisgood]

Hi,

I read on someone's website that if that is what you have, then do it that way.

Get a blender that has a food processor attachment.

For the blender, Chop your greens really small and it would work - just do a little at a time and be sure you have liquid in the mixer with it. - it does come out thicker, but I like it. You may enjoy it, it seems to fill me up for the whole morning.
Today I used collard greens with apple and other asst fruits and it tasted like a chunky applesauce.

In the past we've made pesto with a food processor, so as long as I chop up the heavier greens, it is working - just add liquid as I mentioned and only do a little at a time.
I can't afford a VitaMix right now with the economy the way it is - so I use my blender and am looking into a smoothie mixer blender type. Go online to Ebay or Costco.