THinking about buying a juicer to start juicing?!?

Get a blender instead and don't waste half the nutrients, the produce counts towards your nine servings a day - juice only counts once however much you drink.

We bought this one a few years ago...

http://www.powerjuicer.com

bought it from QVC outlet for £15!!

in my opinion the juice we make form this taste infinitely better then almost anything you can buy. save for a few good brands of juice.

One apple and orange normal size = 1 glass of juice.

iv made other combinatiosn using different fruit and veg and they are all generally very nice.


i dont know all the ins and outs of how good it is for you etc.... i.e what nutrients get blasted away etc... but as you out the fruit in whole , unpeeled ( except oranges) your getting all the possible juice out of it. so it has to be fairly respectable.

Hope this helps

Agree. I've used a juicer and a blender and for making something that's to be a 'meal' the blender is the better option. I have the juicer to make orange juice with the kids.. but really the majority of your fruits and veggies get wasted.. very little actually becomes juice. I've decided how much MORE I love my smoothie blender though rather that a traditional blender. It just has the spout at the bottom.. keeps the mess way down. Used my moms blender a few days ago and I was scooping smoothie off the counter. I usually do a mix of fruits. Lately I've mostly been using pineapple, orange, canned pumpkin, oatmeal, pears, mango, kale, ground flaxseed meal, almond milk and yogurt. I'd like to start adding more vegetables in there.. but for now these work well and a hunger fix.

Since last week, I have been juicing almost every day and replacing a meal with it. I was concerned about it not kepeing me full too but I have to say it does. Depeds on the ingredients added I think. Protein is usually what sustains us. So add a good amount of protein to whatever you want to juice. This morning, I added walnuts and made a Banana Apple Walnut Smoothie. I don't use a fancer juicer either. I add things to my blender and blend. YOu can add all types of things like almonds, peanut butter, flax seeds if you like them, pumpkin seeds and use different ingredients to enhance it like beets, raw collard greens, carrots, berries or whatever you want to add tomake it to your liking. I never thought I would use peanut butter in my juices, but over seven days in, I can say it is a great thing to have. I hve my juices mostly for breakfast and usually I am a snacker while I work., but I have not really had much of a craving until it is time for lunch.

I can be a little long winded so let me stop writing before it gets any longer. Hopefully this response helped. Happy juicing.

I hear people like juicers because they can use up their extra produce without having it go bad and have to throw it out.

Me too!!!

A caution for everyone..if you smoke do not do the carrot jucing..A study was done in England w/doing the carrot juicing to see how it affected people who smoked and cancer..well when the facts came out my brother called me and said stop doing the carrot juice..all the particpants got cancer.. they stopped the study immedi....so please do not do the carrot juice when jucing..you can Google and see the facts from this study..the effects of smoking and increasing A vitamin.....i have since stopped smoking..One year and 3 months...but still not wanting to do the carrot juice....but i have heard many good experiences from people who juice...but i always choose the blender to get the much needed fiber in my diet...

I recently decided to juice and bought, on Amazon, a Hamilton Beach, highly rated, about $50. I chose free shipping and got it 3 days later. I am not overly fond of veggies, and feel by juicing I'm getting a lot of nutrients I'd otherwise miss. I don't use juice to fill me up!

I bought the Breville from Amazon and the next day started doing a juice cleanse ( as seen in fat sick and nearly dead). The first 3 days were a struggle but since then I have felt fantastic. A lot of my "health problems" seemed to vanish over night. I am now on day 8 and have lost 7 lbs. I plan on doing this for 15 days and then juicing once per day after that point. I have been very pleased with how I feel. It is nice to feel rested when I wake up in the morning. Also- it is expensive, so only buy fruits and veggies you know you will eat so you don't waste money. It costs about 14 bucks per day, but I figured I eat about the same in price anyways, especially if I go out to eat.

Good luck!!

I LOVE my juicer. I have the Jack Lalanne power juicer and could not be happier with it. When I juice, not only do I feel great but my skin and hair improves too. Juices are rich in nutrients and filling. Downside? Kind of a pain to clean without a dishwasher and can be a little expensive, as it takes a lot of fruit and veggies to make one glass of juice, but the benefits definitely out way. Try it!

i have the Nutribullet and man that thing is amazing!!!!

I have one sitting in my cabinet collecting dust, if you'd like to buy it. It's a lot cheaper just to buy juice ready-made.

we bought one, and would love to use it more, but for the amount of juice you get from most fruits makes it too expensive per glass of juice, but the biggest pit fall it the amount of cleaning time every time you use it .. so make sure whichever one you pick its easy to clean. ours breaks into about 5 parts and some bits are a real pain to clean ...

I think I have the same one and it's an absolute pain to clean. All those tiny little holes? And the filters that you have to buy for it don't help at all. I have to use a vegetable brush to clean them out and they're still clogged.

Juicing is not meant to replace meals. Juicing does it work at the cellular level in our bodies. I am working with a personal trainer and asked him about juicing and this is how he explained it. Juicing gives you all those micro nutrients that gets directly into our cells and that is where the magic happens as far as health, vitality and energy. When you feed the body on the cellular levels everything improves. I juice once in the AM. I make 40 oz of juice and put it in 8 oz mason jars and have a serving 5 times through out the day. The improvements are too many to even mention but everything from fuel for my workouts to my skin, hair and nails.

I make a green juice using cucumber, kale, spinach, celery, romaine,broccoli and half an apple. I keep the green content very high and keep the sugar content very low. I could not eat this many vegetables in a day. I would be eating all day long continuously not to mention the bathroom end of things.

Another note on the benefits of juicing, my sister was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma (incurable) in November. She read Chris Karr's book, Crazy Sexy Diet. The title makes you think that the girl doing the writing might have been a stripper or something but quite the contrary, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and change her prognosis all through her diet and one of her strongest weapons was juicing. My sister had never juiced a day in her life. She followed the green juice recipe for 6 weeks and had another round of tests that was going to determine if she was going to have to start a chemo treatment. Her tumors had not grown and their metabolic activity had diminished by half. The only changes she made in her diet was that she started juicing, ate more dark green vegetables, cut way back on dairy and red meat. Her doctor told her that all those things had an effect but that he felt the juicing probably had the greatest benefits as those nutrients are used on a cellular level.

Not trying to give hoscience here just an experience that I know about first hand and I know that I feel 150 times better on a day that I drink my juice than a day that I don't (which those don't happen anymore).

Juicing is an investment in me. I did my research and purchased a slow auger juicer the Omega Vert. The omega uses an extraction process that does not make the juice get hot so therefore you get juice with the active enzymes intact and that is what you need. I read that some juicers (centrifugal) work in a way that heats the juice up and that you don't want to get the full benefit of the nutrients. My juicer was $347 at Bed Bath & Beyond and I had one of their 20% off coupons. The really good juicers never go on sale. I got mine for about $275. Omega gives a 10 year warranty on their products.

YMMV but for me juicing is an important part of my plan.

Juicing is not meant to replace meals. Juicing does it work at the cellular level in our bodies. I am working with a personal trainer and asked him about juicing and this is how he explained it. Juicing gives you all those micro nutrients that gets directly into our cells and that is where the magic happens as far as health, vitality and energy. When you feed the body on the cellular levels everything improves. I juice once in the AM. I make 40 oz of juice and put it in 8 oz mason jars and have a serving 5 times through out the day. The improvements are too many to even mention but everything from fuel for my workouts to my skin, hair and nails.

I make a green juice using cucumber, kale, spinach, celery, romaine,broccoli and half an apple. I keep the green content very high and keep the sugar content very low. I could not eat this many vegetables in a day. I would be eating all day long continuously not to mention the bathroom end of things.

Another note on the benefits of juicing, my sister was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma (incurable) in November. She read Chris Karr's book, Crazy Sexy Diet. The title makes you think that the girl doing the writing might have been a stripper or something but quite the contrary, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and change her prognosis all through her diet and one of her strongest weapons was juicing. My sister had never juiced a day in her life. She followed the green juice recipe for 6 weeks and had another round of tests that was going to determine if she was going to have to start a chemo treatment. Her tumors had not grown and their metabolic activity had diminished by half. The only changes she made in her diet was that she started juicing, ate more dark green vegetables, cut way back on dairy and red meat. Her doctor told her that all those things had an effect but that he felt the juicing probably had the greatest benefits as those nutrients are used on a cellular level.

Not trying to give hoscience here just an experience that I know about first hand and I know that I feel 150 times better on a day that I drink my juice than a day that I don't (which those don't happen anymore).

Juicing is an investment in me. I did my research and purchased a slow auger juicer the Omega Vert. The omega uses an extraction process that does not make the juice get hot so therefore you get juice with the active enzymes intact and that is what you need. I read that some juicers (centrifugal) work in a way that heats the juice up and that you don't want to get the full benefit of the nutrients. My juicer was $347 at Bed Bath & Beyond and I had one of their 20% off coupons. The really good juicers never go on sale. I got mine for about $275. Omega gives a 10 year warranty on their products.

YMMV but for me juicing is an important part of my plan.

Amen!