Comments on: Green Lemonade with a Twist

By: Lemonade with a twist | Leasembe

Lemonade with a twist | Leasembe — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:56:37 +0000

[...] Green Lemonade with a Twist « Happy FoodyGreen Lemonade with a Twist. We love juicing…but don't love the clean up. The Champion is great, but is a little heavy on clean up time, … [...]

By: What I’m Loving Right Now « Happy Foody

What I’m Loving Right Now « Happy Foody — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:20:21 +0000

[...] loving the green juice. I make it a game…to see how many greens I can juice and have it still taste yummy Yesterday [...]

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:11:26 +0000

I own a Breville Fountain Elite and a Vita-mix, and use each at least once a day – the blender, I admit, gets more action because the kids prefer thick, chocolate smoothies to green juice.I don’t eat exclusively raw, but am finding that a green apple lemon ginger juice is the ultimate if you want a very refreshing, delicious energy boost. I’m hooked.

By: emily

emily — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:59:53 +0000

Thank you so much for answering that question! I’ve been wondering which is better. If my juicer saves all the fiber pulp, do you know if there is something I can do with it? You know, to enhance my fiber intake? Last time (my first time making a green juice with my juicer) I just ate some of the pulp later because I hated to waste it… is that dumb? I was thinking about freezing it to use in a green smoothie later… are these dumb ideas? I’m new to this whole exciting world.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:18:15 +0000

I totally agree JRo, I have a blender and a vitamix, but the blender takes so long to clean I gave up with it. For the past few months I;ve been blending greens up with water and then straining with my nutmilk bag and it works a treat. There is very little waste of pulp and it only takes a few seconds to clean. I’m currently 18 weeks pregnant and was laughing at all the comments about not being able to stay raw during pregnancy. I was 100% raw before pregnant and reverted back to bread, chips, unhealthy cooked foods for the first 13 weeks before I was able to face raw again, nearly back to 100% now and loving it!

By: JRo

JRo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:29:43 +0000

I have heard that you can use a blender, then strain the fiber out using nut milk bags. A woman on another blog that I read did a 90+ day juice only ‘feast’ using only her blender and nut milk bags. I bought some, since it still takes me FOREVER to clean up my Breville. I will be trying them out tomorrow!

By: joan

joan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:22:20 +0000

I usually do smoothies but this post inspired me to get out the juicer. Plus my compost pile gets the leftover waste.

By: freshfloralart

freshfloralart — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:30:41 +0000

Beautiful Photo. Wish I had a lemon!
I appreciate the info. on juicing. We have a juicer but it is so difficult to clean! Since starting the green smoothies I haven’t juiced in a while, but I may have to consider occasional juicing.

By: Streuselmama

Streuselmama — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:40:36 +0000

Just to take the fiber vs. not question a bit further…if I have a vitamix, that basically creates a juice with the fiber included, right? So you could have the best of both worlds? If you have a vitamix, why also use a juicer? (I see you’re a vitamix affiliate, so I hope it’s OK to ask this – that I’m not putting you on the spot.) I was thinking of forgoing the juicer and just using the vitamix…but am wondering whether that’s really the best choice after all. This is all new for me, so I’d love to learn more – thanks!!

By: livelightly

livelightly — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:26:42 +0000

Hi Ali…
I don’t really take an extreme stance either way. I do think that there are benefits to both juicing and blending smoothies. If you are ONLY juicing and never getting fiber from any other source, then yes, it could be bad. But I tend to look at juicing as a “supplemental” nutritional source. You juice in ADDITION to your other foods…and use it as a sort of medicine.

Juicing offers the added benefit of “instant” assimilation in to the body. In your mom’s case, I would highly recommend juicing, and focusing on GREEN juices, not necessarily the sweeter juices with primarily apple/carrot, etc. The reason behind the green juices for cancer treatment:

*Green juices are highly alkaline…and disease cannot survive in an alkaline environment. They do LOVE an acid environment though…and 3 main acid forming foods are meat, dairy, coffee…

*Green juices have chlorophyll, which increases the flow of oxygen in our blood/body, which in turn, creates an aerobic environment where disease cannot thrive.

*Green juices enable you to eat A LOT more greens at one time than you normally would.

This list could go on and on…but you get the idea. Juicing has a purpose…and blending has a purpose. I think both should be incorporated in one’s diet.

Have you seen the movie “Crazy Sexy Cancer”? It’s EXCELLENT and Kris Carr, the producer and subject of the documentary has great extras on the DVD where she shows how to make her smoothies, juices, etc. Not to mention that it’s just a wonderful, spirit-lifting movie. I hope you can find it…it’s on Netflix and possibly at your local movie store.

xxoo,
sara