My mom cooked all my meals, packaged lunches and snacks for me to bring to work, and juiced for me. The juicing is probably the biggest deal in my mind. My mother and brother researched juicing and decided that my nice, new Breville juicer wasn't good enough for me. So Josh (my bro) sent me his Champion juicer, and my mom bought me a juice press. So let me explain the process of juicing to you now.
The Breville is a centrifuge juicer - you put something in, the blades shred it to a pulp, and the centrifugal spinning pulls the juice out and keeps the dry pulp in to dispose of later. Now the Champion has a single spinning blade where the veggie gets pulverized and then pushed out, pulp and all. You collect this pulp in a container (any container will do) with a cloth over it. Once the cloth fills up, you stop juicing and wrap up the cloth and squeeze out as much juice as possible before putting it into the juice press. The juice press is manual hand crank press that literally presses the juice out of the cloth (so the cloth is the strainer). The press has over 2 tons of pressure. And then start over again.
My mom was making 5-6 8oz servings of juice a day for me, all at once, and then packaging them up in these cute, little 8.75oz glass jars. Sidebar - did you know it's better to store food in glass than plastic tupperware? Anyone want my old tupperware? It takes approximately one hour every day to do this juicing, and then the clean up is a prolly another 30 minutes.
So my mom would do all this juicing every morning for me to be able to have fresh squeezed juice in the morning and a few glasses to take with me to work. And then she'd make me a fruit smoothie for breakfast and send me on my way to work with my lunchbox (actually it was usually two lunchbags filled with juice, alkaline water, snacks, and my lunch). Isn't she amazing???
My mom fell right back into the caregiver role and I fell right back into being the sick teenager laying on the couch asking her to bring me a spoon because I didn't want to get up. Boy, did I love it. And now she's gone and I have to do all this stuff for myself now. Pffft, growing up sucks.
I love you MoMMa!!!!!
Wow. This is amazing! I've always wondered about a better juicing process. I too have a juicer that just works as a centrifuge, and it's always bugged me that there's so much leftover pulp that's still pretty wet. I'm def going to look into a juice press. I'm thinking even without a nicer juicer, I could at least press out the pulp more. Wonder if a coffee press would work?.... You're inspiring! I have to ask, are you doing every single fruit and vegetable organic? Or just the extra "bad" ones? Also, are you mixing fruits and veggies together or doing different concoctions for different reasons? I'm thinking just any and all, all the time, would be great anyways. Love you!!!
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