Juicing

I'm not really a fan of juicing, its just sugar water. Sure it's full of nutrients but you lose all the fibre. You'd lose weight but probably because you're getting very few calories and you'll probably be left feeling pretty hungry.

Juice is sugar water with a few vitamins, but all the fiber and some other nutrients are taken out. It's a treat.

I drink smoothies, but they are also either treats or meal replacements because they have a lot of calories. Or I have a small portion as part of a meal. But even though they can be high calorie, you don't loose any fiber.

Yeah I agree with all of the above. Why remove the fiber from really healthy foods instead of just eating them?

Instead of juicing, how about turning those fruits and veggies into a smoothie? I love a good green smoothie in the morning!

You can place whole fruits and veggies into a Ninja or Vitamix (anything like them). It will pretty much pulverize the food into a drinkable liquid. You will still have all the nutrients as if you just ate the produce. These drinks would make a great snack or morning pick me up.

Nettabee wrote: »

Instead of juicing, how about turning those fruits and veggies into a smoothie? I love a good green smoothie in the morning!

that is juicing to me. i guess i should call it smoothing.

You're better off eating the veggies than juicing them, but if you can't bring yourself to eat vegetables, juice them instead but it's just basically a drink and won't fill you up and will still have a fair few calories.

I use my magic bullet sometimes, keeps all the fiber, I just bought spinach today, didn't see any fruit I wanted, so gonna puree the spinach with a container of yogurt. Not feeling well, so perfect when not up to chewing alot.

I'm sorry, but the idea of blending spinach and yogurt and then drinking it, made me the slightest bit queasy. Now I did eat both yogurt and spinach today: The yogurt by itself alongside some nice ripe strawberries. And then a spinach salad for dinner with some chicken, glazed walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette. To my mind, nothing replaces eating well-prepared, tasty and attractive food.

Every morning or later in the day I have an apple, raw baby carrots, raw tomato and raw spinach smoothie blended in my Vitamix. I do remove the core from the apple but otherwise it's all in there. I first blend the carrots with some water and add the quartered apple and blend a couple seconds then add the quartered tomato and keep all the seeds in it. Blend a couple more seconds and add a good size packed handful of spinach and ice then blend it all again. Yummy with all the fiber included.

Sometimes I change up and make a banana peanut butter smoothie with spinach added too. Sure it's green but it tastes great. I take 6 almonds soaked overnight in water and rinse them off then throw them whole with skin into the Vitamix. I add some water and blend until smooth with the result being homemade almond milk. Then I add frozen bananas and single ingredient peanut butter, I blend a few seconds and add a good packed handful of spinach and ice then blend again Another yummy with all the fiber included. I usually do this because my husband doesn't like the other smoothie too much and I want him to eat something before he goes to work so if he is willing I make one of these for him.