Advice on buying a juicer

I was able to borrow a Jack Lalane Power Juicer which had been gathering dust on a friend's shelf.  My thoughts - this model is pretty easy to clean, but you need to clean it right away or it's a lot harder.  It takes up a lot of counter space which I don't like.  When we just do fruit juices - it doesn't make much sense to me.  My husband has been the one who has played with it - and we haven't done enough reading on what we should be trying to get into our body.  I'm in chemo - and then will have rads, so energy isn't my strongest suit - and the one thing I can most easily eat is veggies.  I don't mean to be negative on the juicer, because I really haven't done the investigation beyond having friends say this will be good for you.  I am lucky because I got to try before I had to buy.  The complaint I've heard it that some are a royal pain to clean.  Hope this helps.

Ruth

I just won a brand new Jack Lalane juicer at a silent auction at our church for $66 about a week ago.  Keep in mind I already had a juicer, an Oster brand, I believe.

I find both models take about 5-10 minutes to clean and wonder if this holds true for all juicers.  I keep thinking that while I'm cleaning the juicer, the juice I just made is losing nuttrients by the minute...

One thing I love about the Jack Lalane is that it takes 6 carrots to make a large glass of juice.  My old juicer took almost a full bag of carrots to get the same amount of juice.  I used to also have to strain the juice with my old juicer as I ended up with largish sized chunks of carrot and "sediment".  That was even after peeling the carrots first.  With Jack Lalane, I no longer have to peel the carrots and the juice is relatively smooth.  The juicer is also "quiet".  My old juicer was so loud I couldn't make juice in the morning as it would wake up the household.  Jack Lalane's juicer also came with recipes to use the "pulp" that's left over.  I think that must be where most of the fibre goes...?

I would recommend the Jack Lalane.  One benefit - it's so easy to use, my 9 year old daughter made her dad some apple juice and even knew how to clean it out afterwards.  All this from just watching me make juice.  Talk about ease of use - that's the best benefit of all.  Now if I can convince her to make me juice that would be a bonus. 

Cheryl in Toronto