Juicing! Orange Pineapple and Mean Green

If you can have love for a physical object, then it is safe to say I LOVE my juicer!

So far we've made two juices. The machine is really easy to use, super quiet, and clean up take me about 90 seconds.

Juice #1: Orange Pineapple 

 I bought the juicer primarily to juice leafy greens and veggies but I wanted to start out with something sweet. Also, I wanted to see how the juicer handled citrus and soft fruits. I used 3 oranges and 1/2 of a pineapple.

Making the juice took about 15 minutes total including prep, juicing, and clean up. The yield was somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 cups.

Sooooo tasty and so easy to make! I'd drag myself out of the bed early to make this juice. But, it does have a lot of sugar so this is a juice that will be a treat, not a staple.

Juice #2: Mean Green

Since I was dying to try a more "hardcore" juice we made a green juice next. I was very worried about how this juice would actually taste. I love vegetables. Like I really love them. There's not a single vegetable I hate and I can spend hours just talking about them. But I read some very unflattering reviews about green juices online while researching juicers.

For this juice we followed a basic Mean Green recipe that I found online-kale, celery, lemon, cucumber, ginger, green apples.

so much Kale!

The Carnivore was surprised by the juice yield from one leaf of kale. And I was amazing by it's wonderful bright green color.

We also developed a good system where I prep the veggies while he juices them. It made the juicing marginally faster but made it a team activity. I was glad he wanted to help since I think he still has a bit of sticker shock over the price of the juicer.

I'll add more ginger next time and less lemon. Overall I was surprised how sweet this juice was and how little I tasted the kale. I might add more kale and take only use one apple because I really love the taste of kale and all things cabbage.

The final juice is a bit darker because the celery I bought turned out to be terrible so we replace it with a few carrots.