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Work with what you have and make drinking green juice affordable ...
Making freshly pressed juices can get pretty pricey, especially when you're buying organic. In our house, all the food we buy is organic so you can imagine our grocery bill. But when you add to the mix freshly pressed juices, the bill gets even bigger! When my husband and I went on a 3-day juice fast recently, we went through a week's worth of groceries in under 2 days! I remember thinking to myself, "What if the kids wanted to juice along with us?" As of now, we make freshly pressed juices regularly in our home, but no one drinks large amounts of juice on a consistent basis. I try to make green juice a few times a week and when I do, I'll make a large pitcher and myself, my husband and the kids will share it. I am finding lately that my 8-year old son will come along and down the entire thing in only minutes! If I had to make the same amount of juice for all 4 of my kids, our grocery bill would skyrocket!
So I made the above videos to show you how simple and easy it can be to make cheap and affordable freshly pressed juices. Here are some points to remember in keeping a budget ...
So I made the above videos to show you how simple and easy it can be to make cheap and affordable freshly pressed juices. Here are some points to remember in keeping a budget ...
Use cheap ingredients. I generally rely heavily on celery as my base for most of my green juices. Celery is relatively affordable when compared to other organic vegetables, you can get it all year round and it has a lovely, savoury flavour. Buy what's cheap at your grocer's and work with that.
Keep it simple. When you make your drinks overly complicated, you're forced to stock up on numerous and often very expensive ingredients. Skip the exotic stuff and buy what's growing locally. Forget about putting 10 ingredients in a drink and keep it to no more than 3. I find the best tasting juices are the simpler ones. For example, the classic celery, apple, lemon, parsley juice.
Use what you have in your fridge. I make sure to use every last morsel of food in our fridge before I go grocery-shopping. Often, people buy food when there is still perfectly good food in their refrigerator and then that food is never used, until eventually, it has to be thrown out. I'll juice almost anything and have learned that some of the most surprising drinks are those that were made with minimal or least expected ingredients!
Buy what's on sale. Look for deals. Offer to buy a bushel of oranges and ask for a discount. If the item has a red ticket on it that's usually a good sign. I will always choose what's cheaper and have found that this does not affect the dishes that I make and serve my family at meal time in any negative way.
Buy local food when possible. It is always cheaper to buy local food as you are not having to pay for the long distance food has to travel before it gets to the grocery store.
So, there are ways to drink freshly pressed juices regularly and not break the bank. Think wisely and make a celery, apple, parsley juice over a fennel, cilantro, kale juice.
Peace.
Keep it simple. When you make your drinks overly complicated, you're forced to stock up on numerous and often very expensive ingredients. Skip the exotic stuff and buy what's growing locally. Forget about putting 10 ingredients in a drink and keep it to no more than 3. I find the best tasting juices are the simpler ones. For example, the classic celery, apple, lemon, parsley juice.
Use what you have in your fridge. I make sure to use every last morsel of food in our fridge before I go grocery-shopping. Often, people buy food when there is still perfectly good food in their refrigerator and then that food is never used, until eventually, it has to be thrown out. I'll juice almost anything and have learned that some of the most surprising drinks are those that were made with minimal or least expected ingredients!
Buy what's on sale. Look for deals. Offer to buy a bushel of oranges and ask for a discount. If the item has a red ticket on it that's usually a good sign. I will always choose what's cheaper and have found that this does not affect the dishes that I make and serve my family at meal time in any negative way.
Buy local food when possible. It is always cheaper to buy local food as you are not having to pay for the long distance food has to travel before it gets to the grocery store.
So, there are ways to drink freshly pressed juices regularly and not break the bank. Think wisely and make a celery, apple, parsley juice over a fennel, cilantro, kale juice.
Peace.
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