Juices!

I have thrown myself into juices recently. Well...not really recently, actually it was like 3-4 years ago when I got my first juicer. Homemade juices are one of the best things that you can do yourself. And healthiest. The only pain in the ass is cleaning your juicer after you are done making the juice. Modern juicers are a bit easier to clean but still. 

The best thing to do is to clean the juicer right after you are done with juicing. This was you can clean it only with some water and fruit bits won't stick to juicer parts but will flush off easily. 

My favourite juice?

Well - its a mix. Its a mix of pineapple juice, orange juice and banana.Try it, its easy to make and these fruits are a match made in heaven. This is the best juice I had tasted so far and you only need a few everyday fruits. 

How much?

1 pineapple

2 oranges

1 banana

How to make it?

Cut the pineapple in half.

Juice on half and juice both oranges.

Put pineapple and orange juice in a blender.

Add the other half of pineapple and banana.

Blend.

You're done!

Enjoy!

Orange Apple Carrot Juice

How to make orange apple carrot juice?

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It's really easy :). But you do need a juicer to make natural juices. You could make juice also with a mixer but then they are much thicker and harder to drink. On the other hand if you use a mixer you use the whole fruit, if you use a juice you only get the juice. Then you have to figure out what to do with the dry parts...

OK, just peel the oranges, wash the apples and wash the carrots. I also use a potato peeler to peel the carrots.

Then just throw everything into a juicer and your juice is done.

A few tips:

1. Make a lot of juice! The biggest problem for me is to clean up the mess after making juice. So if you do it, do it proper. Make a gallon. The clean up is the same.
2. How much apples, how much oranges, how much carrots? I use something like 40% oranges, 35% apples, 25% carrots. 
3. Add some lemon juice at the end to prevent oxidation.

That's is, healthy and delicious orange apple carrot juice is done.

But there is no need to stop here. Once you have a juicer you can make all sorts of juices. You can either choose them by taste or by the benefits of drinking them. Here are a few pages the will tell you a few things about the benefits of drinking different juices... health benefits of aloe vera juice, another page with health benefits of aloe vera juice, then there is apple juice that also does many many good things to your body. Remember an apple a day keeps the doctor away? So these are the health benefits of apple juice. 

Oh..one more thing, it is not just fruits that you can use when making juices. You can also use vegetables! We already  used carrots in this recipes but there are many other fruits that you can use. So far I have tried broccoli, cucumbers, carrots, rhubarb. The next on the list are tomatoes. There are also quite a few health benefits of drinking tomato juice.

Uf...this juice post turned out to be much longer then intended :)

Anyway - make fruit and vegetable juices at home and take care!