More juicing. . .

I plan to keep up the juice.  I’ve come to a few conclusions:

1. I like it

2. I’m getting more produce than I could eat

3. It’s fun

4. It could become expensive if I’m not careful

5. It’s more filling and satisfying than I expected

6. It has changed my perspective on the food I do choose to chew

So, I went to Farm Fresh Sunday night to get some more produce.  Last week’s juicing totaled about $16.00 I think.

I spent $11.60 yesterday, I purchased:

3 cucumbers

1 lb. of collards

3 lbs. apples

5 lbs. of grapefruit (for only $1.99!)

10 oz. spinach

and (my favorite & funniest purchase) 0.03 lb. of ginger root.

Ginger is $4/lb.! That’s crazy!! Plus I’d never tried juicing it and didn’t want to waste the money. So I dug around the produce bin and found the smallest piece of ginger I could.  It was only 3/100 of a lb. When the cashier rang me up, she actually did a double-take: it was $0.12!  HA!

So, this morning I had some new produce to try. I juiced the entire bag of spinach (10 oz. raw). I was SO disappointed to see that those 10 oz. yielded only 4 oz. of juice!

Such a bummer! Added to that spinach was:

1 cucumber,

2 grapefruits,

4 Granny Smith apples,

1 small piece of ginger

 

Really, REALLY good! Totally made up for last night’s epic beet fail.  The grapefruit is very strong, so is the ginger and cucumber. I’m not sure that I really need to put ginger in a juice that has grapefruit. Either taste is plenty; together is a bit strong but I still liked it.  Cucumber with Granny Smith apple is really good too. I dumped out the small cup and juiced those 2 flavors together to taste. I really liked those two by themselves.

Once, I’d poured all the juice together, I had 40 oz.! Those grapefruits & cucumber really yield alot of juice.

By this point, I’d played around too much with the camera and the juicer. Someone was making a great deal of fuss, so I figured I’d better stop playing and go back to my new full-time job….Mommy-ing.

Who can resist that face!?