I just went out today and bought a new juicer, blender, and food processor. My main question is what should I be juicing?! I know you can juice just about anything, but what products are the easiest?
I juiced all the oranges in my house today, and the juice came out way different than I expected it to.. (much thicker) and I made an attempt to juice a bunch of kale that I had bought the other day. It worked (and smelt kinda bad), and I plan on putting that in a green smoothie tomorrow with some peaches and some apricots.
Also, which is considered "healthier", smoothies or juice?
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Thanks. As I was juicing the kale (and making a complete mess) I thought I was the only person in the world who would try something like that. :)
I just can't seem to find anything I'm really satisfied with. The kale was actual quite nauseating.. I guess you weren't joking in the slightest when you said it was an acquired taste...
I don't know. I'm sipping on a orange mango banana smoothie (that has a very small amount of spinach in it) and it doesn't seem right.. like it's missing something and I'm not sure what.
I just don't want to be wasting all this produce I'm buying because I can't make a good juice or smoothie, ya know? hah
I juice every day.... the same thing....its all i like 6 tomatoes 2 kale, slice of ginger 1/2 lemon 1scallion 1/2 cucumber handful of spinach add 1/2 tsp pink himalayan salt and some raw hot sauce.....my very own virgin mary or spicy v-7!!
Yeah I was not kidding. The only was I can get my niece to eat kale is by toasting it in the oven with some olive oil and salt (kale chips) she loves them, but I have a hard time "sneaking" them into some juice. I can juice kale by itself now, but when I first started, wow did I have to cover it up! Back in the day I used a lot of pineapple, lemon, and ginger. Carrots have a wonderful covering flavor as well. Try some Tomatoes, carrots, lemon, ginger, and apples with your Kale and see if you can get a flavorful balance.
Good luck
I love to juice kale, but it is an acquired taste, I have to have apples, lemons and perhaps some celery with it. The beauty of juicing is you can juice just about anything! As a poor student, I usually hit up the grocery store for all their "bad" produce and fruits, and some of it is good to eat as is, but if it's on its last leg into the juicer it goes! My juicer is kinda of like a crock pot for making raw goulash.
My recommendations: always get some greens in there: spinach, kale, mustard greens.....; Carrots and celery just seem to go with just about anything; apples and lemons to equalize the flavor a little.
Also, celery will "water it down" for you if you want more of a juice then a smoothie as will most fruits.
You can get a billion books on juices and smoothie from your library, and just play around with the things you like. You can never go wrong with fruit juices though. Apples and cranberries is cheap and delicious too.
Like I said all my leftovers go into the juicer, and then I use the left over pulp to dehydrate some "bread."
Good luck
I'm not sure I can get all organic ingredients. One, they're much more expensive where I am, and two, I don't think the store I go to has all organic produce. They have some.. a lot actually, and I usually buy what I can, but they don't have everything..
PS. I'm having a really hard time staying raw. I'll make it through the whole day 100% raw, but by the end of the day I usually end up eating something not raw.. Last night it was Oreos.. Any suggestions on how to stop this?!
Thanks! My boyfriend actually harvests honeybees (well, used to) so I've got a ton of honey just lying around that I know hasn't been heated.
And does anyone have a recipe of raweos, cause that would be pretty cool if I could give those a shot.
And yeah, I am all or nothing. My parents think this is very stupid, and I really can't de-raw my house.. when they buy most of the food. lol But I keep a section of the food cabinet to myself that has no junk food in it. :)
Today has been going good so far.. I gotta go to work though, and I work at a grocery store.. not too easy when you're cashing out cookies and ice cream.
I have a smoothie for breakfast every morning, and I pretty much follow this suggestion from "Running Raw" (
). I can't even taste the kale in this recipe, and I use a whole leaf!
Just an aside: PIXX mentioned nutmylk. I found that when I combined nutmylk with kale, I got a stomachache, but maybe that's just me.
To satisfy your cravings for non-raw treats, do more searches on this wonderful site and make lots of raw treats! I find that since I started snacking on delicious raw treats, the SAD versions don't even call my name any more - and that includes two of my favorite things: chocolate and ice cream!