Juice Feasting - Day 5 (Blog)

[Savage]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

Juice Feasting - Day 5

[Dan.Linehan]

I drank about a quart of orange / carrot / parsley / basil juice today. Pretty delicious stuff. Carrots and oranges are cheap too, organic carrots are only $0.99/lb.

Great to hear about the improved clarity!

[Claradonna]

Just wondering, if or why you don't have your maid or a (un) cook to do your shopping and prepare this daily?

Are you putting your own time into this because its in experimental phase?

If you continue on raw and juices, isn't it more time and energy efficient to delegate all of the shopping and daily preparation?

[Adrienne]

Those Juices look very yummy. I am going to try some of those combination.
The dreams sound awesome. If i was on the fence about trying it, that would push me over to doing it.

Adrienne

[MariaG]

This is a weird question, but what are you doing with all of the leftover fibrous matter from all your fruits and veggies? Are you composting? Is there anything left that's worthwhile for the non-feasting members of your family to eat?

It seems like with this much juicing you must have a HUGE pile of compost every day!

[Erin Pavlina]

I thought about the composting too. We don't know much about composting but our landscape is all rocks. What would we throw the pulp on?

[carenkh]

If you garden, or are interested in starting, vermicomposting might be a good way to go for you - you keep the compost in bins, with the worms, and you use the "worm juice". A book that's been recommended to me is Worms Eat My Garbage. I haven't personally done this, but am friends with several people who do -- it's really cool! And no big outdoor pile necessary.

You could also use a compost bin outside - my son's preschool used this for the leaves on the playground. It was a big drum that the kids turned every few days, and they'd put leaves and their usable lunch leftovers in it.

You could then set up a raised bed garden to use the compost!

[MariaG]

@Erin Pavlina - I 2nd the suggestion of vermicomposting. If you aren't interested in starting your own garden, you could always donate your compost to a community garden.

[Erin Pavlina]

We have a small area where my father in law planted veggies and some fruits. The only thing that grew were the green onions. Lots and lots... and lots of green onions. A girl can only eat so many of those, ya know? He also planted spinach, red leaf lettuce, zucchini, tomatoes, and strawberries, oh and cucumbers but none actually made it. Very sad.

so I suppose we could use it in there even though it's a pretty small area. Thanks for the suggestions.

[Dan.Linehan]

I read somewhere you could make cookies, cake or coleslaw using the pulp.

[bluedragon]

Steve, I'm curious if you discovered that the slow rotating juicer is worth it, considering the extra time it takes to make the juice - is the juice that much better than the one from the centrifugal one?
For me, the slow ones are also too expensive at this moment, so I'm in a dilemma whether I should make the effort or settle for a centrifugal one for now.
How do they compare when it comes to juicing hard vegetables like carrots or beetroot?

[Savage]

Originally Posted by bluedragon

Steve, I'm curious if you discovered that the slow rotating juicer is worth it, considering the extra time it takes to make the juice - is the juice that much better than the one from the centrifugal one?
For me, the slow ones are also too expensive at this moment, so I'm in a dilemma whether I should make the effort or settle for a centrifugal one for now.
How do they compare when it comes to juicing hard vegetables like carrots or beetroot?

The twin gear juicer is much better than my old centrifugal one. It gets a lot more juice out of the produce, so there isn't as much pulp. Also, the pulp is dry enough that I can't even squeeze an extra drop out of it.

The quality of the juice is better too because the twin gears don't heat the juice, so it doesn't oxidize as quickly. You can tell the difference in the color and taste of the juice, especially with apple juice.

Carrots and beets are among the easier foods to juice. You can juice the beet greens and carrot tops too.

[Marth]

Are you getting diarrhea from consuming only juice? Don't you need more fiber?

I read somewhere you could make cookies, cake or coleslaw using the pulp.

Happy Halloween, try out these pulp cookies?

[danas]

I dont have a juicer, but there are five juice shops on my street (and its not a long street), So this saves the mess. The organic shop on my street also makes juice, I can ask them to include any of the fruit and veg they sell in the store. For 1 gallon of organic Juice the price would also be 30$.
Every morning I go downstairs and get a juice.
I think Steve and Erin should come visit here. Its juice heaven.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by danas

I dont have a juicer, but there are five juice shops on my street (and its not a long street), So this saves the mess. The organic shop on my street also makes juice, I can ask them to include any of the fruit and veg they sell in the store. For 1 gallon of organic Juice the price would also be 30$.
Every morning I go downstairs and get a juice.
I think Steve and Erin should come visit here. Its juice heaven.

Visit where?

[danas]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

Visit where?

Tel Aviv- a bit far but worth the journey

[straysweeper]

I'm 240lbs right now, with ideal weight about 200. I've often thought about juicing as I'm not accustom to eating a lot of vegetables and even low variety of fruits. I'm enjoy Bolthouse Juices (Green Goodness, Blue Goodness, Perfectly Protien, and C-Boost). I'm thinking juicing would be simpler for me vs trying to eat 2500 cal worth of veggies and fruits a day. I'm impatient can't you tell? I'm big on eating, but usually due to watching tv and have it anchored to that activity, or lacking something better to do with my time.

[freddy]

You have a lot of people watching and hoping for your success, in all your experiments. Great job. I was wondering, would you use produce from local super market store, if you did not have a organic store available close to your location. And what one mixer would you suggest to buy for someone to get into doing this type of life style of eating.

[Shyone]

Hi Erin,

Does your family like gardening? For about 7 years, my family grew all our own fruits and vegetables. My dad also had honey bees, and chickens. We didn't have any salt, butter, or sugar in our house during that time. The only things my parents had to buy were beef and milk. Have you ever considered growing your own vegetables/fruits?

[Erin Pavlina]

Well we live in the desert and it's apparently hit and miss with the whole fruit and veggie garden thing. On the one hand, we are in a drought situation and are taught to keep with the desert landscaping instead of lush greenery. I told our gardener, however, that while we've got trees on the land that are providing shade, why not switch those out with trees that provide shade AND fruit? So he's going to plant at least one fruit tree when the time is right.

I don't garden, I don't like to touch the dirt (more of a cloud person myself), but I'm happy to have a garden on my property that someone else is tending.

[Fullcrum]

Erin, check this out. YouTube - Greening the Desert

It may teach all of us a thing or two about what's possible and what's not when it comes to desert farming.

[Erin Pavlina]

wow that was incredible. neato!