I am very late to this party, but in a search of old threads,
this one on "juicing", which is a bit newer than the present thread, cross-referenced back to this thread as "
's definitive juicing thread." Plus, it was started by my old friend Pescifish, and I could use a dose of Pesci.
So.
A friend was telling me about a movie/video called something like "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead," and how it's kind of the reverse of the movie "Supersize Me." In "Supersize Me," as I understand it, a guy ate all the stuff on McDonald's menu for a month, and in that time he gained X amount of weight and had all sorts of other health consequences. This one is the opposite. Our protagonist starts out already morbidly obese, with diabetes and other complications, and finally decides to get his life together, so he decides to get a juicer and do nothing but juice for 60 days. And he loses all this weight, and his cholesterol gets better, and his diabetes goes away. Plus, he helps this other guy do the same thing. So my friend is all onto this juicing kick now. She is a little bit subject to woo, and I doubt I would ever go on a total juice fast, but I mentioned the conversation to another friend, and he just happened to have a little juicer he doesn't use. So he just gave it to me. Interestingly, it is the same kind (Juiceman Jr.) that Pesci talked about in the OP. I have used it a couple of times now, and I like it.
The other day I had a LOT of extra tomatoes, so I made a juice with:
about 6-7 tomatoes,
a wad of kale,
2 carrots,
1/4 red bell pepper,
1 orange,
1 apple,
1 lemon,
2 stalks celery,
and a couple of thin slices from a quartered pineapple.
It made an awful lot of juice, more than I could drink (about 1/2 gallon). But it worked quickly, amazingly so. The juice didn't taste like anything in particular, but it was pleasant enough.
Today I made more of a fruit juice with:
2 carrots
1 orange
2 lemons
1 Asian pear
1 sm box raspberries
and almost 1/4 pineapple
This made just over 2 cups of juice, which was a LOT to drink for me, but I thought it would be best to drink it while it was freshest. The most taste was lemon, but it was sweet enough with the carrots and other fruit.
So far I am liking it a lot.
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