Anyone else into Juicing Now?

[dalimeindacoconut]

I don't have any experience with the champion all I know is I bought my $400 juicer 10 years ago (which is in storage) and I bought the Jack La Lanne's Power Juicer to get me by and it has Super Powers! It gives 30% more juice!

[buffalogal]

:) I have a Jack LaLanne and I love it!! I know there's some people who feel that centrifugals aren't as good as masticaters, but it was what I could afford and it was either that juice or no juice, so I'm thrilled with it. It does a great job, as far as I'm concerned!!! Glad you like it too!!! Enjoy it!!! (And use it alot!!!):)

[dalimeindacoconut]

Confession: I don't clean my juicer until the end of the day. That way I don't make it harder for myself. Everything has to be as easy as possible. Maybe that is why it doesn't take me alot of time. It is also relatively easy to clean. If I juice too much I just clean out the top and wait till the end of the day to clean out the rest.

Healing: I think the juicing is healing an issue I've been having with slight incontinence. I am not peeing as much which is surprising me. Maybe I had a bladder infection without knowing what it was really. I don't know. I just realized this the other day.

Not so much fasting anymore, but feel as though I want to go on a juice fast on and off in between raw food.

When I move I will be purchasing a commercial grade juicer. For now I've got my trusty little Jack La Lanne, now if I would just pick up those weights...which I am going to do right now because I wrote this.

Btw, doing psyllium husk while juicing. It really cleans you out after a while.

[nfracer]

I am interested in doing a juice fast too, but a little intimidated....maybe just "juice till dinner" and then have a fruit/veggie meal...Feel like I need to"clean house"...Also, I am going to be helping out some other people get started with juicing so thought if I led by example it will help us all! Anyway, just a couple FRUGAL tips about juicing....I save a lot of my pulp and reuse it in "breads" etc....For example (and I too have a Jack lalane) I will juce my non reuseable fruit parts first (apple cores, any peeld ie lime/lemon, sometimes celery cuz the pulp is stringy)....Then I juice the good stuff-carrots, apples, etc....I save the "pulp" and add whatever....If I want a sweet cracker I may add some coconut, agave, pureed bananas,cacoa nibs,,,,,whatever I feel like + a little flax meal...and some water if necessary...Then I mix it (by hand-squishy) and spread it out on teflex sheets and dehydrate.....After a few hours I flip it onto the mesh screens and continue to dehydrate it....I let it go for 24 hours for a bread or cracker or eat it later in the day as a veggie burger type thing...oh yeah, if I want it more like a "salty" bread or cracker I add those types of ingredients.....Bragg's aminoes, onions, chopped veggies, flax meal, etc... I usually eat some and freeze the rest.....just my way of re-using my own compost!!!!!! If you are strictly juicing you can make it and freeze it all....Just remember that dehydrated "breads" or crackers expand!!!! I tend to eat too much of it which is why I portion and freeze it!!!!! But pigging out on dehydrated raw breads beats pizza or other SAD foods any day and allows me to feel like I am not "missing out" on my old favorite foods....

I like carrot-apple-ginger juice and think I'll have some RIGHT NOW!

Oh yeah, if you don't have time or enough pulp each time you juice you can save it up for a few days in ziploc baggies and then make it....and of course a dehydrator is needed....

[dalimeindacoconut]

Those are fabulous ideas nfrancer. I will use them one day soon. Almost lost it about an hour ago. I juiced way too much garlic, onion, tomatoes, bell peppers and literally almost lost it. My stomach couldn't handle it. That was a first. Love your ideas! Juicing is a large part of my raw food adventure now. Juice fasted for about seven days and do believe I will continue once or twice a week as it just makes me feel good!

[Lavendula]

right now, so I have only juiced a few times in the last week or so. Hubby brought me fresh wheat grass home from Karyn's in the city. He'sa 5 STAR hubby, he goes over an hour out of his way, and even goes to whole foods for me. So I am starting back tomorrow,at least with the wheatgrass, that takes very little energy. I have to tweak my diet a bit, or I will starve, cuz I'm just not eating enough. I am trying to work on implementing some TCM principles in my raw diet, the two don't really go together. At least for me, with what I am trying to overcome, for where I live and for having gone so far into raw, without knowing how to transition into winter. I have added some roasted roots with curry and coconut oil, i just have too much at stake with my autoimmune issue right now.