We bought a juicer! If you haven’t watched the movie Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, I highly recommend that you watch it. It’s very fascinating! Basically this Australian dude comes to America to do a 60-day fast, and drink nothing but fresh juice the entire time. Along the way he meets a few people who also agree to do a juice fast, and the results were amazing! One guy lost over 100 lbs! Now, don’t for a second thing that Steve and I are going to eat drink nothing but juice. That’s just not going to happen. But we’re going to try to have at least one glass of fresh vegetable and fruit juice every day. Think of all the vitamins and minerals we’ll be getting that we aren’t right now. Tonight I made two different juices: one with some kale and 2 apples, and the other with 3 different kinds of fresh berries. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to see the kale one, because, let’s face it, kale is not very tasty. Luckily the apples added some sweetness to it, but the berry juice was much better! As we check Naturopress, juicing gets much better. And there were only 3 ingredients! blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries.
Here’s our beautiful, brand new juicer! Isn’t it pretty? There must be a lot of people juicing nowadays because everywhere we looked, all the Breville juicers were out of stock. We finally found this one, which was the more expensive model than the one we were looking at, on the actual Breville website. (This is not a paid advertisement by the way)
Normally I’m not a big blueberry fan, unless it’s in a muffin or bagel. I don’t know what it is. The texture? the taste? Anyway, blueberries are fine by me as long as they’re not in their natural shape! I think it’s that little open wrinkly part at the bottom that turns me off. Weird, I know.
I recently discovered my love for raspberries this past year, when I also discovered my love for Greek Yogurt. The two go together beautifully, and add some Splenda and you’ve got yourself a wonderful healthy snack! The only thing I don’t like about these cute little berries, is that they go bad really fast, so I always have to use them up within about 2 days of bringing them home from the grocery store.
No berry drink would be complete without my favorite type of berry, strawberries. Yum! I could eat this whole container EASILY in one sitting. In fact, I probably have before.
I started by adding a cup of blueberries to the juicer. Of course since I was pouring with one hand and taking this picture with the other, some of the blueberries jumped ship and had to be reinserted into the juicer.
This is what blueberry juice looks like! And yes, that whole cup of blueberries only made this much juice.
Next I added the raspberries….more jumping ship.
The strawberries I added by hand instead of pouring that cup in there. I don’t think that would have been very coordinated, because strawberries don’t “pour” like blueberries and raspberries do.
And walla!!! A beautiful, healthy, and tasty beverage that you don’t have to feel guilty about.
Unfortunately all that fruit only made one glass of juice, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers. 🙂
