Blender vs. Juicer

Good morning! I'm a morning person and thankfully so because my boys wake up at 7:45 on the dot. Most people like to drink coffee first thing, but I like to make some juice out of fresh veggies and fruit. I feel everyone has gone through a juicing faze. They do it for a month, and talk about how amazing it makes them feel, but then they stop... because it is a huge pain in the ass. It's messy, it's loud, you have to cut or peel... it gives a ton of pulp and little juice.

I love the juice and how it makes me feel so I thought why not just blend it all together. I got my blender out and broke it on some frozen banana. "I need more POWER" so I put my husband on the task of researching a blender that can juice.  He came up with the health master. He ordered a refurbished one on Amazon and I love it.

Every morning I peel some citrus, peel some carrots, and throw in some frozen spinach and I have juice  with little waste. I make a large jug and it lasts all day. I have two cups for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have left a link to Montel Williams health master juicer so that you can check it out in more detail. I know his show sucks but his blender doesn't... nor does his body or skin he looks great. This juicer is 2 horse power! Its stronger then my garbage disposal and my disposal just ate a spoon the other day. Doesn't that blow your mind?! "It sure does!" says you.
http://www.myhealthmaster.com/
Hold the phone!
So here's an interesting update.....
We were watching the super bowl last night and my husband just sent me an article on Ray Lewis, who he thinks is a really scary guy. He was bragging about how this may be the toughest man he can think of and that he killed a man blah blah... and look how mean he looks, blah blah... and well it turns out he juices... and is a plant eater like us. Don't believe me, here is the article to prove it. Real men eat plants. Just saying....
http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/ray-lewis-at-37-good-juice-keeps-him-going-1.3927221

I like to add one lime, orange, banana, three strawberries, three carrots peeled, cucumber, a half cup of pineapple, a cup of frozen spinach,  a fingernail size of ginger root, a dash of cinnamon, some flax seed, 1 tsp bee pollen, two cups of water, and about three ice cubes. This will not taste very good at first, it's no "Naked" juice, because it's FRESH and has no added crap. I have learned to love it, because of it's secret boom.

OMG STOP THE BUS... just made the best tasting juice ever. 
Here's the recipe:
GREAT TASTING HEALTHY JUICE
Half a Frozen or not frozen Pineapple
 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 Orange
2 Apples cored not peeled
3 carrots peeled
2 cups frozen spinach
1 cup water

It's delightful. Anyway, back to what I was saying before I rudely interrupted myself.

You don't need to chop it up with this blender but I do it so  that I can fit it all in there.  As you can see I fill it to the top.

Look at that food porn. those yellow dots are bee pollen. I will talk about that later. Bee Pollen helps fight allergies and I get this from my bee man at Mill Creek Apiary. Its good stuff. 

And a minute later, I have a ton of juice. Now I just pour it into a pitcher put it in the fridge,  and drink it all day. Every time I drink a cup I get a buzz as if I have taken a shot of espresso. It's a natural energy booster, and poop plunger for the body. Stay near a bathroom when you first start doing this, it will clean you out, its full of fiber, and has lots of detox agents in it.

Now I just take the blender and run it under hot water and boom. DONE. No messy pulp, no scrubbing metal screens, it's simple and easy. I love it cause I'm lazy, and I don't like mess. I put all my orange peels and apple cores and bana peels in my compost container or I feed it to my chickens. I throw my citrus peels down the garbage disposal because it sharpens the blades and leaves a lovely clean scent.
No waste. I love it and hope you do to.

Look on the website for other recipes. I have made spinach and cheese omeletes, split green pea soup, tomato sauce, and frozen banana swirl. It can also make kick ass margaritas. It blends ice like a champ.
AND then.. we eat this for dinner. Eat well... be well.

Its what's for dinner. 

I took some of the bread I made that morning and pinched off small chunks and put them in the oven at 350 for  20 minutes... makes for some amazing croutons. 

Just a side note. I did not put spinach in this batch of juice because I wanted it to be more fruit then veg because we were going to have this for dinner. Hubby and I eat a very large salad packed with unsalted Pecans, walnuts, cranberries, flax seed, and avocado and then have some fruit juice to round it all out. For dessert I blend some frozen pineapple, banana, and silk coconut milk and freeze it for an amazing little healthy treat.

Here are some pictures of my green juice.

Juice made with Apples, lime ,carrots, spinach, cinnamon. Large bag of frozen spinach in background. 

Juice took 5 minutes to make, and takes seconds to clean with very hot water.

So easy and so good for you and lasts the whole day! 

Hope this was helpful.