Day 6: A WORD ABOUT THE COST OF JUICING $$$ from Wednesday, August 28, 2013

I am really really happy with my juicing so far. I have had some intermittent detoxing going on which is pretty yucky and intense but I will spare you the details. Trust me, you don't want to know;o) I have lost 17 lbs in 6 days. It's kinda freaky to think I would be lucky to lose that much in two months on a standard diet. Harmoni has lost 17 and Gini has lost 16:):) 

I wanted to be totally honest in case anyone reading this is thinking of doing a juice fast... It isn't cheap. I have been looking into juicers and I will definitely be upgrading my juicer since I think a better quality juicer that will net more juice from the produce will pay for itself in no time. I went to the store yesterday and spent $80 on about 3 days worth of produce. Now, bear in mind, I am preparing juice for 4 people here. I definitely wasted some produce the first few days since we were finding out what things we each liked and didn't like. I definitely need to go for produce every 2 or 3 days since I can't afford spoilage. I will definitely be looking into kitchen storage options that keep produce fresh longer. We never bought much produce before (yes, our diet was THAT bad) so I don't have much in the way of produce storage gadgets. Most of our food before was in the freezer or in boxes and cans on the shelf. So this is really a HUGE change around here. Of course, I used to spend anywhere from $20 to $60 per week on fast food so I can't complain too much.

On the bright side, I spend less time cleaning the kitchen and we produce a lot less garbage.  If you compost your pulp or use it in recipes, you wouldn't produce much garbage at all. I clean up the juicer and rinse our glasses after we have each juice which takes maybe 10 minutes. Tops. Piece of cake. Meal prep is really quick too but since we were living off of convenience foods, it was pretty quick before too. I really have NO desire to bring that junk back into my house or my family's lives. I can't wait to learn how to use things like quinoa and tofu. But for now, I LOVE my juice!!!