Ever since doing the BluePrintCleanse this past winter, I’ve been dabbling in juice drinking.
While buying a juice while out is rather easy in NYC, it’s certainly not wallet friendly. In fact just last week I picked up the red BluePrintCleanse juice at Whole Foods for a mere $8.99. I wish I wasn’t foolish enough to spend that much money on a juice, but clearly my craving got the best of me.
After weeks of hunting out the nearest Bodega with a juice bar and justifying the hefty price tag, I knew I had to invest in a juicer. Luckily for me, Dori had a great juicer she was looking to sell. So, I didn’t have to invest that much money into a habit that may be short lived. Excited (and nervous I was going to blow a fuse in our apartment), I made my first concoction a sweet & zesty green juice and it was delicious!
Sweet & Zesty Green Juice
- Two Kale Stalks
- 3-4 small carrots (probably the equivalent of a large carrot)
- One Lemon
- One Apple (I prefer green ones)
- An inch of ginger
I’m totally a newbie when it comes to this, so I’d love to hear about your favorite juice concoctions. I also hope that I can learn to like celery, cucumbers and romaine but so far they are off my list.
So glad it worked out! Your juice sounds delicious. I think you should try cucumber because it is really good in juice, and it creates a lot of juice so it’s good for the wallet.
Hey Jess! I’m new this year to juicing too – I was always someone who stayed away from juicing before because of how it supposedly spikes your blood sugar. But I feel like that’s more w/ the fruit juices (and you picked a granny smith apple – great choice for blood sugar since it’s lower than sweet ones!) I was hesitant to buy a juicer because I figured I might use it a few times and then it gets stored away, never to be used again. Fortunately a few months later, I can tell you that I still use it a few times a week!
One of my favorite things to put in my juice is PARSLEY! Sounds weird, I know, but it’s great. I roll it up inside of a kale leaf. My juice this morning had one green apple, 1/3 small lemon with rind, handful of parsley, a few kale leaves, 1 stalk of celery, and 1/2 a cucumber.
I also like to do a little lime occasionally, w/ some green apple – makes it like limeade because the apple juice sweetens the citrus.
A friend told me to do daikon radish (which i love to eat) but after I tried juicing it I must have used to much because it was UNDRINKABLE. I had to throw the whole glass away, and wasted all those other veggies.
I also love to use just a little fresh ginger – it packs a crazy punch so start REALLY small!!!
Have fun juicing! 🙂
Thank you so much for the advice!
I also am guilty of purchasing the $8.99 BP cleanse juices and recently found juice at Terri NYC for $6.50… But I have also decided time to experiment and get a juicer, which one are you using? I am not looking to spend a ton in case its a short lived adventure but then again I have been hooked for a few months.
I didn’t even know about Terri. Thanks for the rec!
Every time I ask for good juice recipes, they always include apples! I can’t eat them 🙁 I need a good replacement. I love my juicer, but I know I’m not using it to its best ability.
Congrats on the great deal, btw! And, we all pay too much on food/drinks sometimes…I’m guilty too, and I’m CHEAP!
Can you eat pears? You could replace the apple with a pear.
Try using beets – same sweetness as apples.
I’ve been dying for a juicer! This just makes me want one more! 🙂
I haven’t had much luck with juicing. I’m dying to do another cleanse but I just can’t do the veggie ones. Any recs?
Hmm… I think with cooler cleanse you can customize your juice selection.
I need to get out my juicer. I haven’t used it in forever. thanks for the inspiration!
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