Day #5

Sunday, Day 5.

I’d said I would experiment with juicing for five days.

Today’s juice was an EPIC FAIL!

Looks beautiful, right?  I’d decided to use up all the rest of the kale since I was getting tired of it and had just bought some new produce at the store.

I added two new things to try: a beet and a small piece of ginger (you can see it there at the bottom-center of the bowl).

Beet juice comes out looking very, VERY dark:

This is just the one beet! So dark, and quite juicy!  I had high hopes when I saw this. . . . then I tasted it. OH YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY BEET!  It tasted like sharp, beety dirt. That’s the only way I can think to describe it.  I’ve never really liked beets, but had always had the canned ones forced on me as a child.

I thought maybe the  real, natural ones are better?

No.

They are not better.

They are gross.

But I powered through thinking that the apples, carrots, orange and ginger that I was adding would SURELY cut the taste.

It did not!

Soooo disappointed by this one. You could taste a slight hint of the ginger but it was drowned out by the nasty dirt taste of the beet.

It made about 24 oz. of juice. I think I drank about 4 oz.

Then, I did something I’ve not done yet in these last 5 days of juicing. . .

I threw it out.

I just couldn’t drink it.

You should have seen the look on Paul’s face when he smelled the juice!  I think he said something like:

“Oh sweet Lord, that’s nasty!”

Yep, that sums it up!