I'd appreciate your suggestion/advice.. I don't eat many greens & figure juicing/drinking them is the only way I'm ever going to get anywhere near a balanced diet.
Just had a look a some machines & the choice is overwhelming/confusing, can you guys that have experience suggest some worth checking out? apparantly models that can deal with nuts/seeds as well is preferable (nothing over £200 please)
My wife just bought a juicer thing - the Nutri-Bullet, which she says does pretty much everything from seeds to nuts, veggies and fruits and ice. It comes with a recipe book and mixes to a juice, so no straining. It can do juices, smoothies and soups etc. It's very easy to clean too according to her. Takes about 30secs to a liquid. It's not too noisy either.
She got it for £55 from eBay and is happy with the results. There are various combinations of the machine with extras.
I eat animals and (solid) nuts and highly processed things with a bunch of chemicals that are labeled "food". I can ask in a little bit and find out what works best for what. We have a couple things that make whiney noises and turn solids into liquids. I usually try to stick to drinking water.
My wife just bought a juicer thing - the Nutri-Bullet, which she says does pretty much everything from seeds to nuts, veggies and fruits and ice. It comes with a recipe book and mixes to a juice, so no straining. It can do juices, smoothies and soups etc. It's very easy to clean too according to her. Takes about 30secs to a liquid. It's not too noisy either.
She got it for £55 from eBay and is happy with the results. There are various combinations of the machine with extras.
I can vouch for the Nutri-Bullet. It's powerful, easy on the wallet and it grinds your fruits/veggies to a pulp that is smooth enough to drink(nothing wasted).
Learn to love vegetables or at least find the ones you are ok with.
hell things like broccoli and cauliflower don't have much flavour anyway and touch of sauce does wonders, I personally use jalapeño sauce if I do use something (usually I don't). If you aren't going to eat them now I don't see what mashing them all together in a sludge is going to do.
I do not think one apparatus is going to do all that you want. A juicer can not mash nuts, and a blender can not juice (but make awesome smoothies, which a juicer can not).
The thing is sturdy, and it seems it will last my lifetime. It _says_ you should not put seeds into it, but it handles watermelon and appleseeds very well (although I always remove the twig of the apple), and most apples do not fit anyway, you need to cut them in half. Mango seeds however... do not put that into the juicer.
As for juice: remember that many vitamins/minerals stay in the pulp. You can, for example, juice carrots, then use the pulp to make carrot cake.
My fav: green grapes (sweet), carrots (not that sweet), apples/pears, pineapple (do not use the inner heart of the pineapple, it clogs the holes of the metallic filter and is hard to clean afterwards) sometimes, I add a kiwi, or some other fruit like pomegranate, celery, it really depends on what the market has. However, you can not juice everything... banana and to a lesser degree strawberries are a no-no.
A hard fruit to juice are oranges. You need to peel them first. You are better off with a specialised apparatus of 15 euro.
Sometimes I make tomato+cucumber (gazpacho), just remember to peal the cucumber or you get a unappetizing brown. But unless you make a large quantity, I use a staafmixer (click to see pic) as it is much, much, much easier to clean. And handles nuts.
cleaning: indeed, except for the filter, all is easy to clean. And all is light plastic, you can put in the dishwasher. However, the metallic filter... that is the crux... you spend a lot of time unclogging the holes. It did came with a special cleaning brush, where you clean the grid from the inside and outside, without trying to get water into the part that connects.
To make up for that fact, I make huge amounts of juice, then store them in glass bottles in the fridge. (but remember that vitamines degrade over time). And experiment with little amounts. Sometimes messing around, like adding fresh spinach (wash well, you do not want the sand in your juice) can turn it into green, but only if you do not have reds
And it looks like the metallic edition of the OpenPandora... I could not find pictures of all the components for you to see, should you be interested, I can post them. Wait, here is a video:
And the dark-side of juicing (not my text, but I agree with it):
Using these machines will make you FAT and causes digestive problems.
Pre-processing your food is the worst thing you can do to your food. Think about just a minute how un-natural this is. The machine is pre-digesting the food for you so your body doesn't have to making your body lazy and requiring less energy which means you will gain weight. Pre-processing the food allows you to consume more causing you to gain weight.
The machine destroys all of the fiber and breaks open all of the cells destroying the nutritional quality of the food. Normally the cells are broken open in you digestive system so the nutrients can be absorbed before they can react with other molecules and become useless.
If you don't believe this machine causes you to eat more and gain weight try the following experiment. Make a glass of juice with say with carrots. Count the number of carrots it takes to make a glass and then drink it? Do you feel full? Could you drink another glass?
Now try to eat the same number of carrots as it took to make the juice. You probably can't even eat half the number and you feel full thanks to all of the fiber. All of that fiber will help you next time you go to the bathroom and help "clean you out".
And because you are eating more, you will also get more chemicals, pesticides, etc ingested. Rotate what you eat!
Blending > juicing. When juicing stuff you chuck away a significant proportion of the nutrients.
If you blend things to a paste you might also destroy some nutrients, but at least everything that went in came out. I'm not sure I'd prefer pureed vegetables to the original things though, but maybe I'm just weird like that
But yeah, learning to cook a simple meal with potatoes and vegetables isn't hard, and if you can then go and eat it it's a bonus. You don't even really need to peel anything - I just take any eyes or bruises out of my potatoes and boil or steam them skin on. I also use hot sauce to liven up boring food (these days I make my own sauce, but I enjoy cooking so that's easy for me)
I'd appreciate your suggestion/advice.. I don't eat many greens & figure juicing/drinking them is the only way I'm ever going to get anywhere near a balanced diet.
Just had a look a some machines & the choice is overwhelming/confusing, can you guys that have experience suggest some worth checking out? apparantly models that can deal with nuts/seeds as well is preferable (nothing over £200 please)
Stay far away from blenders, Nutrabullets, or non-masticating type juicers. You'll be wasting your money with those since they don't extract almost all the juice and give you a heavy dose of bulk fiber. Yes, fiber is important in a diet but in actuality the average person doesn't require as much as the marketer's hype. It definitely helps with gut motility to a point, but too much cellulose/psyllium will stall inside causing all sorts of health problems like inflammation, small intestine malabsorption/bacterial overgrowth, immunity issues manifesting as acne or rash warnings, gastric reflux, etc.
--Remember it's not what you chew that's important but what the body utilizes that matters.--
So now the juicer you'd want is the Omega nc800 hds which is the machine I use almost every day. It's low speed and powerful and doesn't generate a lot of heat(which is what does destroy nutrients as well as oxidation). Also, make sure you exercise daily(not excessively) as well to keep everything moving along and to keep fat stores down. Life is movement and some fat on the body is necessary, but excess bodyfat means the person is basically a canister of stored toxins hobbling along. Fat cells store waste, chemicals, and the gunk the body hasn't expelled.
It's also the type of foods you juice that matter. Organic(if available) foods like ginger, garlic, watermelon, apples(limited amounts due to high fructose), pears, citrus, fresh pineapple, romaine and other types of lettuce, spring onions, celery, carrots, beets(on occasion), wheatgrass, cucumbers, broccoli(and any sulfur-rich vegetables), are good choices. Vegetable juice strained and fruit sweetened only enough as needed to be palatable. Steer clear of pomegranate, which is being heavily promoted as a health food, but like soy contains estrogenic compounds which you don't want circulating through the bloodstream in abundance.
The same careful attention to the other components of your diet should be observed. Consumption of meats as well should ideally be grassfed or wild caught. Processed foods which are anything that has been irradiated or has a long list of ingredients should be avoided. All nuts are difficult to digest and essentially little rocks scraping the tissue walls so eat them sparingly. Any and all grains including gluten free foodstuffs should be nixed. You aren't a cow so why eat like one?
Keep in mind variety in what you eat weekly and how you exercise daily are the keys to vibrant health so don't eat the same drab foods or workout the same intensity everyday. Take the time to do your own research and self educate as you are worth it.
I got a cheapish blender from some random shop on high road, I got it to make smoothies and because it had an attachment blade which was specifically for crushing nuts [ouch!] and ice.
It works perfectly well and so don't think you need spend much on one.
Also, perhaps consider some Miracle Berries.
Might be bit costly though in long run, but one of those and you'll probably be able to eat a bowl of broccoli no worries
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