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Comments (23)So my wormies can eat better, I have been spurned on to eat better for myself too. The rest of this post is just about juicing not worms. Omega VRT 350 HD has been my tool of choice. I chose it last week because it is very quiet and slow. I wanted to get the nutrition from greens such as kale, collards, chard, spinach, turnip, wheat grass, and beet. To this I might add something for added neutral flavor and liquid volume such as those long cucumbers, cauliflower, lettuce of all types, daikon radish and celery. To this juice I might add something sweet such as carrot or apple. To brighten the flavor I add one lemon or lime and a tiny bit of fresh ginger or garlic. I have made separate juices from pomegranit, green melon, grapefruit, a tiny bit of mango and apple. Still need to try bok choi, cabbage, cantaloupe, orange, pineapple, watermelon, grapes, cherries, wheat grass, pumpkin, butternut squash, zucchini squash, yellow squash, onion and any other thing I can find in produce. Bananas (frozen), strawberries, blueberries, raspberries all frozen work good for smoothies that are made in a blender with addition of yogurt, or milk, or almond milk, etc. Or with out the liquid for "ice cream". (I think the Champion is supposed to do this excellently, the Omega not so good). I also have but have not used in a long while an inexpensive squeezie juicer similar to the one pictured above for oranges and grapefruits. I will have to get it out again. Luckily when buying produce in bulk, organic if at all possible, it comes in cardboard boxes. Am I doing this right? Anything juice wise I should be adding to this for the wormies? My juicer has a steep learning curve. I spent about 10 hours watching youtubes on specifically how to use this juicer. If I had not I would have had difficulties with it. It needs items such as kale, celery or apples cut up into small pieces. People who want to put a few whole kale leafs in then the whole celery bunch in and then a whole apple might prefer to select a different style of juicer. This post was edited by equinoxequinox on Thu, Jan 24, 13 at 3:59...See MoreDo you have a juicer?
Comments (10)What kinds of foods are you interested in juicing? If you want to do a lot of leafy greens then get a masticating juicer. Centrifugal is better for hard veggies and fruits. There are ways to wrap the leafy greens certain ways and around foods so they'll juice better but I've only tried a few times and haven't found it to work well. I bought the Breville 700 Watt juicer and returned it. It has a high rating with 1900 some reviews but the mesh basket does NOT come completely clean (I always wash by hand immediately after using and never use a dishwasher). It comes with a good bristle brush and after even soaking and scrubbing, after it's dry, you could still see tiny pieces of carrot around the bottom. It would be great if they would've bothered to put thought into the design of the mesh basket. I now own a L'Equip mini and like it. The shoot is smaller so some things need cut but that wasn't a big deal to me. It's fast to use and I find it easy to clean. I get the same amount of juice from the L'Equip as I did the Breville. My second choice centrifugal juicer was the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth. I did consider spending more money and going with a masticating Omega juicer but the bad reviews were just really bad. So bad that I couldn't bring myself to part with $300+. I also wanted to be sure I was going to even like juicing. I also saw over and over how they take a lot longer to juice. On the plus side, you end up with saw dust dry pulp but that wasn't important to me. I couldn't squeeze any juice from the leftovers of either machine. I even tried to juice them again just to see and got nothing. I only use mine once a day at breakfast (haven't used it much lately) and mainly use veggies with the occasional apple thrown in. I like it. I read somewhere where someone suggested saving the pulp in icecube trays (depends what you're juicing) and throwing them in smoothies later or adding them to make stock....See MoreAcid Reflux/Heartburn; symptoms and remedies? (long)
Comments (47)Wow, I was searching for something else and came across this old thread. Since I have had some experience I thought I'd drop in with my own particular solution... I think it will work for most people though. Drink "green juice"... its simply concentrated fresh veggies. Mainly greens like lettuce, spinach, dandelions, beet greens, etc stuff like that run through a juicer... NOT a Blender, blenders leave all the roughage in, which dilutes the flavors and bulks up and is just plain too much extra to drink. Root veggies are okay to add as well, especially carrots and beets. Cabbage related veggies are too strong flavor-wise and will render the juice very unpleasant to drink, mushroom will make it taste like the forest floor. Fruits will make it more palatable but do add a lot of sugar in the form of fructose its so best to limit that. Drink just a cup of green juice at least once a day and within a week or two, no more acid attacks, ever! If I fall off the wagon (stop drinking it daily) in about a month the night-time acid issues resume. I've been doing this for almost twenty years now, the pattern/connection is un-mistakeable. Additional benefits from drinking green juice... sleep more soundly, blood pressure normalized after the first several months, bowle movements are quite regular within 20 minutes after having my morning green juice. And I'm not the only one... my wife and several friends also drink green juice with similar results. My conclusion is we (meaning everyone) just aren't getting enough of what freshly consumed vegetables supply (likely high concentrations of minerals in highly absorbable forms) into our diets... so fix the diet and you'll likely fix a number of physical health issues. Its not a magic potion, its not a drug to instantly treat symptoms.... Rather green juice is real nutrition and so it will take time to work, it needs to be a lifestyle change, if you treat it as a fad it will have no lasting results. Peace, I'm outta here......See MoreThe best thing in my kitchen is...
Comments (57)This thread is totally fascinating to me, because it highlights the fact that what you value most in kitchen items is so heavily dependent on who you are as a cook. For example, if someone gave me a rice cooker, it would end up on a shelf in a closet somewhere, because I've been making rice the same way for thirty years and it turns out exactly the way I want it to, every time. On the other hand, I'd be lost without my mandolin slicer and my OXO garlic chopper, because those save me a ton of time. I rarely use my pretty santoku knife, but couldn't live without my 5" Wusthof Classic serrated. Some people use their food processors to grate everything, while others prefer the control of an old-fashioned box grater. I think if you're a newlywed or just setting up your first "grownup" kitchen, it's probably best to stick with the basics until you develop your own cooking personality. A basic set of the best knives you can afford, plastic and glass mixing bowls in graduated sizes for prep and mixing, a good selection of sturdy spatulas/wooden spoons/whisks, a couple of basic half-sheet and quarter-sheet pans with lips on all edges, at least two cutting boards, a good set of pots and pans with well-fitted lids including a few non-stick, measuring cups/spoons, a few glass baking dishes, a sieve that adjusts to fit over your sink, and a decent hand mixer should get anyone started. Oh - and a decent vegetable peeler! If I had to narrow the things in my kitchen down to the single most critical item, I'd have to say that would be my whetstone. It's not an expensive or glamorous item, but if you don't keep your knives sharp, everything you do in the kitchen is more difficult and frustrating than it needs to be. And those electric sharpeners usually do more damage than good to an expensive knife....See More
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoShare_oh, these days I feed the pulp to the chickens. They love it. The only fruit I use in my juice is lemon, and I catch it as it comes out of the juicer and remove it because chickens aren't supposed to have citrus. Before we had chickens I used to compost the pulp.
One of my close friends is 89 years old and has the same model juicer. She mixes the pulp and juice together and heats it up with various additions (turmeric is one) to make it like a soup. This doesn't appeal to me at all, but to each his (or her) own. To me, the biggest advantage of juicing is the sheer quantity of vegetables it enables me to consume. Almost all the vegetables' nutrients are in the juice; I get fiber from other sources.
I have chronic Lyme and fibromyalgia, and juicing makes the biggest difference in my energy levels. Because of that, I'm a faithful juicer. Without that motivation I'd probably follow my natural inclination to procrastinate. :-)
Not visible in this photo are the bags of spinach and kale.
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