Hi, my friends, Thanks for joining me again for another episode of Recipes for Survival, mindful Meals and Sustainable Living. Today I'm going to talk about juicing. I'm not talking green vegetable smoothies, I'm just talking any kind of juice that you would like, so that you can avoid buying juice in carton or a plastic bottle. Allow me to digress for a minute, because there's a severe thunder, lightning and rainstorm that started about 10 minutes ago. Just as I started recording this, I was like oh, I hope I get some good thunder sound in here, we'll see. Undersound in here, We'll see. And back to juicing. So the juice that I make is very simple Apple, blood, orange, lemon and or lime, fresh ginger and turmeric. That's it. You want to wash all your fruit, whatever you choose to use. The bottom line is I really think it's important to do anything we can to eliminate food packaging waste being a little disruptive, and I think this is a great way. When I decided I wanted to do juicing, I searched smallest, mightiest juicer and I got my juicer. It's a Dash juicer. I got it from Bed Bath Beyond, probably pre-COVID, but today, in advance, in preparation for this podcast, I searched again smallest, mightiest juicer and mine is still there. You can get it now at Williams-Sonoma and it's $80. I can see that Amazon has one for $44. You do what you wish, but what I wish is that you start making some fruit juice for yourself rather than buying it in a container or a plastic bottle. When you get the juicer it has or mine, the one I use that I'm familiar with comes with two cups One that goes in the front of the juicer that collects the peel and skin and refuge of the juicing, and I pour the juice into a quart jar that I have that I absolutely love. I got this fabulous organic yogurt in. It's a quart and I make about just less than a quart.
Speaker 1:For this batch I definitely strained the juice with a fine strainer because it was very pulpy, but other batches I've not strained it and that's it. So again, I use apple. You wash it really well, cut it in half, put the flat side down, cut the half in half so that you have quarters and then you cut across so that you have a good chunk. You put all the fruit that you're going to press and juice into a big mixing bowl and I probably use about three very large apples. You'll see the ones that I get from Imperfect Food. And then I get a bag of blood oranges that are spectacular. Those I definitely cut the peel off of the oranges very quick, not supreming them. And then, whether I have lemon or lime, I do not peel a lemon or a lime.
Speaker 1:Same with the ginger. I just put a piece of ginger and a good knob skin on, and same for the turmeric a good knob skin on and same for the turmeric. I'm telling you it's a lifesaver, that is a absolute nutritional wonder spice ingredient and that's it. If anybody has a good vegetable smoothie or vegetable drink that they love, I would love to know what it is. I just haven't done that myself. I know carrot apple ginger is wonderful. People absolutely love it. Beets are great in juice Beets and apple ginger is wonderful. I'm definitely going to try beets because I do like them.
Speaker 1:I hope you're all eating well and thank you for joining me for this podcast. If you have any questions, I'll definitely have a link to the juicer that I use and a couple other things, I hope, in the show notes. Thanks very much, justin. Signing off. If you enjoy this podcast, will you please share it with friends, maybe leave a comment or some stars, or however, you do that Subscribing would be wonderful. I promise I'm going to try and be consistent. I hope you are all eating well, clean and with as little food packaging waste as possible. Thanks very much. Talk to you soon.