Juicing at Home Saves Our Planet One Drink at a Time

The smallest acts create the biggest impact. By making juice at home, you're taking a stand against excessive food packaging. My latest episode shows how easy it is with just a compact juicer and fresh ingredients. What small changes are you making for our planet?

Fresh homemade juicing offers a delicious way to eliminate food packaging waste while also enjoying nutrient-rich beverages. This simple approach uses minimal equipment and basic ingredients to create flavorful juices that replace store-bought options in plastic containers or cartons.

• My go-to recipe combines apples, blood oranges, lemon/lime, fresh ginger, and turmeric
• The Dash juicer ($80) provides powerful juicing capability in a compact size
• You must wash the apple, lemon and or limes.  To prepare the apple for juicing, cut that in half. Flat sides down. Cut that in half so you have four 1/4s and cut across so you have nice size chunks to juice.  I put all the ingredients I'll be working with in a mixing bowl. No need to peel lemons, limes, ginger or turmeric.  The lemon and or lime I simply cut in half or 1/4s and a knob or two of the ginger and Turmeric. 
• Process yields almost a quart of juice that can be strained or enjoyed with pulp
• Other excellent combinations include carrot-apple-ginger and beet-based juices

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Transcript

Introduction to Home Juicing

Speaker 1 0:00

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

Simple Juice Recipe Ingredients

Speaker 1 0:45

. 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

Juicer Equipment Recommendations

Speaker 1 1:30

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

Step-by-Step Juicing Process

Speaker 1 2:42

organic yogurt in . It's a quart and I make about just less than a quart .

Speaker 1 2:52

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 3:56

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 .

Closing Thoughts and Call to Action

Speaker 1 4:40

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 .