Day # 4

Day 4: Saturday

Breakfast juice today was 7-8 leaves of kale, 2 Granny Smith apples and 3 carrots:

 This is the pulp that is left over in the machine after juicing.

Not bad…. I’m finding though that the kale kind of falls apart and you’re left with some shards of the curly leaf even in the juice. I’m eager to try a different kind of green (spinach? turnip?) instead but I’m making myself use up the kale I bought.

Dinner was an AMAZING pineapple-citrus juice. I had to share with Paul, but I could have drunk this juice for DAYS!

It was the remaining half of the pineapple, one grapefruit, two oranges and one Granny Smith apple. WOW!

Since I had Paul around, he took over  the camera while I juiced. This made more MUCH prettier pictures this time!

Ahhh, juice!

So gorgeous, it deserved a prettier glass…

…& a better back-drop!

This combination made about 40 oz. of juice—I’m learning that the juicier the fruit, the more juice you get (duh!).   I can’t say enough about this little experiment. I’m seeing that it really could be possible to do a fast of only juice. I don’t think you’d feel like you were fasting…except of course for missing the chewing of food.

The only cons I have so far would be:

1. The cost.  The produce I’ve purchased is under $20 and this has made 1-2 juices a day for 4 days so far. It’ll probably last me another day or so. But to do a fast, would mean no food at all, and more juice.

2. The clean-up. It is a bit of a pain to disassemble and wash the machine after every juice. I’m getting faster & more efficient the more I do it. And I guess that it’s really not any more than the prep, cook and clean up of a food meal.  It’s just new. Plus I am juicing AND eating, so I’m prepping and cleaning up from both food & juice, so maybe that’s why it seems like so much more work.