I love apple-carrot, sometimes with ginger. I also love orange and grapefruit juice mixed together. My favorite is the Dr Oz green juice. I get it at the Whole Foods juice bar near my house. It has:

2 cups spinach
2 cups cucumber
1 head of celery (I use Kale instead - I don't like the bitterness celery gives it)
1/2 inch or teaspoon ginger root
1 bunch parsley
2 apples (might need more depending on your "green" tolerance!)
1 Lemon

Try adding some lemons to your juices. I find they really brighten them up but make sure you peel them first as the peels can make it bitter.

I have a nice juicer but I barely use it cause I hate cleaning it up but I really should use it more. Fresh juice is soooo beneficial and healing, especially green juice.

Oh yeah, parsley and orange juice is fabulous together! Very refreshing.

Growing up, we always had fresh orange with breakfast.

Mother had the glass one with the handle on it.

I wasn't thinking about a citrus juicer, although I do love fresh orange juice.

Thanks for the ideas, Chi! I whined about cleaning my juicer, but now that I've been doing it for a week I'm getting used to it. It's not so bad--or at least it wasn't until I forgot to put the filter in this morning. Big difference!

I use my juicer for citrus if I'm already dirtying it with other veggies and fruits. Just takes a little while cause you have to peel it but the segments juice well! Honestly I usually just buy orange juice because I don't have the patience to juice a bunch of oranges. Orange-pomegranate is very nice.

I usually run my green juices through a nut milk bag after it goes through the juicer since mine always leaves a tiny bit of pulp and I can't stand pulp.

I've been wondering about juicing. Since you get fiber when you eat the whole fruit, wouldn't that be healthier than juicing?

Well, if you're talking about eating an apple vs. juicing one, then i'd agree that the whole fruit would be a better choice. But one of the main benefits of juicing is the sheer quantity differences. You can consume a whole lot more produce by juicing. I could never eat a pound of spinach, a pound of kale, a head of celery, 6 carrots and 3 apples for breakfast but I can drink a glass of their juice and get all the vitamins and nutrients.

Wow, you use that much? I guess it gets pretty expensive? So it's sort of concentrated nutrition, pack more vitamins into a serving.

That's how I look at it. And yes it uses a lot of produce and can get expensive, especially if you're using organic but the health rewards are pretty remarkable. Though I don't think it would be any more than one of the large fast food breakfasts, honestly. Maybe about $6 for 32 oz.

I'd recommend the documentary "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" to anyone interested in juicing for health. You can literally see several transformations before your eyes and it's very inspiring. I think it's still on Netflix streaming.

That is precisely why I've been wondering about juicing, because we watched that documentary. :o) The health transformations were quite remarkable.

If you have a Whole Foods with a juice bar near you, that can be a great way to try it out if you don't have a juicer. They make it fresh when you order. I often get my green juice there because it's organic, way more convenient and probably not that much more expensive than making it myself. It's about $5.95 where I live (Southern CA).

I only have a citrus juicer......and put it to good use.
I have a huge lemon tree which bears all year long and my neighbor has an orange tree and tangerine tree.
I had a juicer long ago but hated cleaning it.
I have a Vitamix and can puree things to almost the same texture as juicing but not quite.

Chi, we live in the boondocks, so no Whole Foods Market. The next one is over an hour's drive. We did have a Wild Oats where we used to live and I liked their Wheat Grass shots and other juice products.

I have the juiceman juicer, I hardly ever use it anymore. My favorite was just carrot & apple juice.

I never heard of that documentary, but I just added it to my Netflix instant queue. Thanks!

No, I don't. But I use my Vita Mix for making smoothies... a whole lot more, than I ever used the juicer. No stuff to toss. I like that.

Moni

No, only a Blender. Fine to make Gazpacho & Strawberry Dacquiris when both are in season, like now.

One of my greatest fears is being ill or having a condition where I would have to drink my diet. So no I do not now and hopefully never will juice. I eat a balanced diet that includes plenty of fruits and veggies.

I prefer to eat my calories. I do love orange juice and for a time I eliminated it from my diet completely because I was afraid I would over indulge. But now I am able to stick to a 4-6 oz. serving a day during the summer months. During naval orange season I eat those instead.

Just curious about it? For those that juice how much of your daily intake is juice and how much is other food?

Well, juicing isn't the same as having to blend your meals. :) It's also not encouraged as a meal replacement unless you're doing a specialty fasting, but that's an entirely different scenario. Juice doesn't have any fat or much protein or fiber or any of the other components to balanced meals so I don't know anyone who uses it to substitute for other food, unless fasting as mentioned above.

I like to juice after work, drink it, work out and then eat dinner. It goes straight to the bloodstream and gives me awesome energy and helps me stay disciplined at dinner. Sometimes I buy a green juice in the morning for breakfast but I usually have them blend in protein powder to make it a little more substantial. But that's not very often as I get hungry in the mornings and want more.

I did a juice fast last year where I had nothing but juice. I only lasted a week since I never lost the hunger pains and it got to be too much for me, but it was pretty remarkable how good I felt and how much it cleared out my bad cravings. All I wanted was fruits and vegetables.

I also believe the optimal human diet should be all plant-based and mostly fruits and veggies, with whole grains and legumes rounding it out. So juicing helps me hit that goal, because I think the vast majority of people don't consume nearly enough produce, even people who claim to eat healthy.

I use to my Magic Bullet to make our green smoothie - a banana, 1/4 cup pineapple juice and approx. 6 cups or so of spinach, some kale and crushed ice. You could add some avocado to really make it creamy and add some fat. We will have this as a meal with some roasted sweet potato at lunches. You could add some chia seeds too after blending.

I came across this article in Frugivore mag, this lady only eats raw vegan and has done so for 30 years. Grows her own veggies for eating and juicing, and drinks rain water. She looks fantastic.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fountain of Youth

Raw vegan has amazing health benefits but I find it really difficult to stick with long term. I've tried it and I strive for it but I've never made it more than a few weeks before I eat something cooked. But even a week showed me a profound difference. I had SO much energy, and it was clean energy, not jittery. I was able to stay more focused at work and didn't feel sluggish after meals. My skin cleared up and I dropped 10 pounds in a week and I didn't gain it back afterward.

I think the role of nutrition in our society is horribly downplayed. I'm not particularly religious but I believe the earth is intelligently designed to support all life to not only survive but thrive and if we use it as we should, a lot of the rampant diseases and health problems would disappear. Look at scurvy, which killed so many people and is caused by a deficiency of a vitamin that is contained in so many fruits and vegetables. It's a deadly situation that can easily be treated by eating oranges. And I don't think it's limited to just one health condition.

These things exist to nourish our bodies and protect them from damage and disease and most people don't eat nearly enough. I know some people where their only vegetables of the day is the lettuce on their cheeseburger and they wonder why they have so many health problems. Juicing is an awesome way to consume many times more produce than you would eat whole.

Petra, that was so interesting! I enjoyed the video . . . she not only looks fantastic, but she sounds great too.

Yes, she sounds - and looks - decades younger. I don't know if I could handle such a strict diet, like Chi wrote, it must be really difficult. But apparently, she enjoys it, or she wouldn't have done it for so long.

I have one up on the shelf you put half an orange on it and turn it on
Forgot I had it have to get it down

Never...but I would consider it if I ran across a deal on a juicer. :0)

I have a friend who is 83 and has significantly more energy than I (I'm 69). I spend enough time with her to be certain of this. I have fibromyalgia and she doesn't, but still....

She juices every morning. Here are some of the things she's told me she puts in her juicer (not necessarily all at the same time):

broccoli
kale
carrots
sweet potato
ginger root
beet
core of a pineapple
apples

After the juice is made, she might add raisins, nutritional yeast, turmeric, and yogurt or kefir.

Another friend (this one considerably younger than I), also juices every morning, always in the following combination:

romaine
apples
lemon (skin removed)
beets
ginger root

Like Chi83, I drink my juice mostly as a snack. I really enjoy it.