Should I buy a juicer?

I love juicing, but I wouldn't juice to cure my cancer.  However, I like to have a big green juice (with some apple and lemon to cut the green taste) daily - it's a great way to get a lot of nutrients.

LOVE my VitaMix blender. That thing could pulverize a cinder block.

The benefit of that, over a juicer, is that you get the whole fruit or vegetable included in the juice, retaining all the fiber that gets tossed out when using a juicer.

I have had a juicer for many years (mr Juiceman Jr.).   I rarely use it.  I was always amazed by how little juice I got out of the juicer and how much of the food is 'waste'.  I know that you can do something with the waste, i just never really found a good use for it.   A lot of that waste is fiber and nutrients that your body needs.   If i was going to get something new I would get a super powerful blender so I would have more fiber and less waste. 

I agree with Blessings Shayne, VitaMix is the best.  Juicing goes right to your blood.  The sugar spike is not slowed down by fiber, unless you juice only veges, in which case it's not as tasteful. Juiced carrots will give you a major sugar spike, as well as beets, etc.  VitaMix gives us the best of both worlds, precious fiber is what absorbs discarded estrogen in the colon, otherwise it's reabsorbed.  More expansive, but then you can make your own nut butters, ready warm soup, mix batter for homemade pastries, etc. etc. yum 

Gotta join the VitaMix fan club!  I bought it when it was a Today's Special Value on QVC.  I blame this monetary extravagance on post-surgery pain meds!  I have made peanut butter, almond butter, pesto, marinara sauce, hummus, salad dressing, and some pretty disguisting green slop ! I bought some hemp protein and have made one smoothie...will try it again if I can get a recipe that looks like it might actually be drinkable.  The advantage of this blender is it's amazing horsepower which will allow you to get all the fiber in fruits & veggies.

I first heard about the VitaMix here on BCO, and was waiting til there was a demo at Costco.

One day, there it was.

I dragged DH over and said "We need to listen to this."

Several delicious juice drinks, sorbets made from tomato, cabbage, veggies, and frozen condensed unsweetened apple cider concentrate, and  taco soups later, we were convinced. I mean, the guy just took all this raw stuff and threw it in the blender. The speed of the motor is SO fast everything is absolutely liquified. All the skin, seeds, pulp, etc, are liquified. It was amazing. If you want it chunkier, slow the speed down.

DH uses it to make his fruit smoothies, I've made some amazing "cream" veggie soups without a drop of cream, and now I use it for my Optifast shakes. Instead of an 8 oz lumpy, semi blended drink, I use extra water and ice and get a 32 oz. creamy, icy milkshake.

They're not cheap. So I highly recommend finding a Costco demo near you, so you can see for yourself what the possibilities are.

The Vitamix sort of washes itself. I don't think they recommend dishwashers but you don't have to anyway. Just put a drop of soap and warm water in and turn it on high. Most of the time, though, I just rinse with warm water and it comes clean.  Air dry.

Shayne, baby steps, those are very wise words  You're going in for your lumpectomy on Friday, good luck sister, my thoughts will be with you and I know you'll come out just fine. 

I love my vitamixer. Use it many times day. Got it during chemo.



I got mine at costco. Came with like three of the blending things(one for making grain into flour, and large and smaller container. Also came with a awesome knife.



My sister has blendtec and that one s great too. Think it may be cheaper

Shayne !!  so glad to see you back little sister !! (((((Hugs)))))   So glad to hear that your lumpec went well and that you got your Vitamix, youououo

Here's a few to get you started, chin chin 

http://livelighter.org/detox-drink-recipes/

http://healthyblenderrecipes.com/recipes/type/green_smoothies/

Mean Green Juice (original) this is the official recipe used by Joe Cross and Phil Staples according to the Reboot Program

6 Kale Leaves
1 Cucumber
4 Celery Stalks
2 Green Apples
1/2 Lemon
1 piece of ginger

Mean Green Juice #2
handful spinach
3 stalks of kale
2 golden delicious apples
small handful parsley
1 lemon
1 cucumber

Mean Green Juice #3
2 stalks celery
1/2 cucumber
1/2 apple
1/2 lemon
small piece ginger
1/2 green chard leaf
bunch cilantro
5 kale leaves
handful spinach

Mean Green Juice #4
1/2 pear
1/2 green apple
handful spinach
handful parsley
2 celery stalks
1/2 cucumber
small piece ginger
slice of papaya

http://www.smoothie-handbook.com/green-smoothie.html

I have to vote in favor of the professional type blender (vitamix or bendtec).  We have a Juiceman and rarely use it.  Too much work to clean.  Bought my wife a Blendtec for Christmas this year and it gets used several times a day.  Breakfast smoothies with fruit and veggies, soups made from cauliflower, squash, carrots and tomato.  Easy to clean, and you get the whole fruit or veggie, so nothing goes to waste and it fills you up.  Makes stuff hot or cold, and dips and sauces to make eating veggies more enjoyable without a lot of added calories from commercial dips.